Fibber, also known as Experiment 032, is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba and a character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is designed to detect lies; the more individuals lie, the more he buzzes, forcing entire populations to tell the truth. He was captured by Gantu, but was rescued in "Snafu".
Background
Personality
Fibber appears to be mute (except when buzzing at a lie) and sometimes blank, but he has displayed emotion on a few occasions. For example, in "Spike", when Pleakley came out wearing a makeshift suit of armor (to protect himself from Spike's spines), Fibber heavily frowned in bewilderment. However, when Pleakley managed to convince the other experiments in his E.A.R.W.A.X. group to attempt hugging therapy on each other, Fibber ended up shedding tears and "aww"-ing at the sight of Pleakley hugging Spike. His "aww" is the only time he made a verbal sound other than beeping (although this was drowned out by the other experiments around him also "aww"-ing).
Physical appearance
Fibber is a small orange experiment with small body, arms and legs, a very large head with a dark orange marking on the forehead that glows bright yellow whenever he beeps, little antennae, a little mouth with a purple tongue, a round crimson nose, black-blue eyes, and four ears.
Powers and abilities
Whenever he hears a lie, Fibber responds by emitting a loud buzzing sound and lights up the pattern on his forehead. The bigger the lie, the louder he beeps, and the brighter his marking glows.
It should be noted that truths and lies are a matter of perspective, as in what one believes to be true or false. Thus, it can be assumed that if someone spoke of something that they believed to be true (but is actually false), Fibber will most likely not react, since the "truth" is believed to be true by the individual who spoke it.
Appearances
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
Experiment 032 was the 32nd genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was designed to use his lie-detecting ability to force entire civilizations to only ever tell the truth. Based on Jumba's incorrect theory, this would result in a societal collapse. 032 and the other first 624 experiments were deactivated and smuggled to Earth by Jumba during his mission to capture Experiment 626.
All of the experiment pods were released and scattered across the island of Kauai.
At an unknown point after this, Experiment 032 was activated.
An estimated twelve hours after his activation, 032 was captured by Lilo and Stitch and taken back to their house. The former then tried to look up 032 on Jumba's computer. When Jumba himself revealed which experiment it was, Lilo claimed she knew all along, causing 032 to buzz loudly in reply. He buzzed again when Lilo lied to Nani about cleaning her room, making Stitch openly laugh at Lilo's dishonesty.
That night, while Stitch was forced to share his bed with 032, named Fibber, Pleakley received a call from his mother. She had been badgering her son about finding a soul mate, and even revealed that she'd found him a perfect bride on Plorgonar and made plans to bring him home to be married. Pleakley felt heartbroken, not wanting to leave his ʻohana forever, until Lilo and Jumba convinced him to lie his way out. So Pleakley called his mother back and fabricated his sham engagement, while Fibber kept buzzing.
Shortly after, Pleakley's relatives arrived at the Pelekais' house to witness his proposal to Nani, while the latter reluctantly posed as Pleakley's fiancée after Lilo forced her. Pleakley's charade led to a fake wedding that Nani turned down (Jumba later took her place by dressing up as a bride). Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch attempted to hide Fibber in all sorts of places to drown out his frequent buzzing caused by Pleakley lying to his family.
When Gantu returned from a spa weekend, he discovered Fibber's recent activation, which Experiment 625 deliberately neglected to notify him about. Gantu later crashed the phony ceremony to try and take Fibber but was foiled by Lilo and Stitch, although Gantu managed to divulge the experiment's lie-detecting nature in the process.
Pleakley eventually told his relatives the truth, and while Fibber buzzed at the false comments they made about Pleakley, they were able to accept the fact that he was happy living on Earth and didn't want to get married. However, as Pleakley's family prepared to depart, Gantu reappeared in his shuttle and captured Fibber. Regardless, Lilo decided to let Fibber stay with Gantu for now.
Back at Gantu's ship, Fibber buzzed when Gantu lied to Hämsterviel about his whereabouts, while Reuben befriended the lie-detecting experiment.
In "Spike", Fibber was one of the experiments in Pleakley's E.A.R.W.A.X. group. He buzzed during the therapy session whenever one of the other experiments lied (mainly Bonnie, when she lied about her being intelligent and falsely accused Clyde of their arrest). Earlier, Fibber buzzed when Pleakley denied that his antenna was prematurely orange and simply dyed green (as stated by Nosy). When the other experiments later began to cause chaos, Fibber watched nonchalantly while smiling.
In "Remmy", Fibber was one of the experiments in Lilo's dream.
In "Woops", Fibber was sent back to Gantu along with all of Hämsterviel's other captive experiments after Experiment 600 caused chaos and nearly blew Hämsterviel's cover to the prison guards.
Fibber reappeared in "Snafu", and was freed along with Gantu's other captive experiments by Lilo, Stitch, and several other experiments in a rescue mission.
The Origin of Stitch
Fibber was one of the experiments that were gliding on the screen, but he is 580 instead of 032.
Leroy & Stitch
The first 624 experiments, including Fibber, were rounded up by Leroy and taken to a stadium to be destroyed. However, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Reuben, and Gantu arrived before the experiments could be destroyed.
Fibber did not participate in the following battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones, instead choosing to retreat with the weaker experiments.
The Leroys soon gained the upper hand in the battle, but were defeated when Lilo, Stitch, Reuben, and several other experiments performed the song "Aloha ʻOe", which caused the Leroy army to shut down due to the original Leroy's fail-safe, during which Fibber can be seen around some of the Leroys as they started to shut down.
Gallery
Trivia
- Fibber was first revealed in a DVD bonus feature of Stitch! The Movie in the experiment gallery.
- Fibber was activated off-screen.
- In his debut, it is revealed that Fibber likes cookies, as he was seen raiding the cookie jar at one point.
- In "Spike", Fibber was seen at Pleakley's E.A.R.W.A.X. group, but Gantu captured him.
- In "Snafu", the captive Fibber did not buzz when Reuben lied about not being ticklish. Since the containers are oddly not soundproof, it is possible that Fibber wasn't paying attention. Arguably, Reuben may have simply been unaware that he was ticklish, and therefore not lying.
- Fibber is one of the few experiments to not have his one true place revealed.
- His number was also given to Hammerface in the English dub of Stitch!.
- Fibber's head appears in the online game Jumba's Lab.
References
- ↑ L&S Says Mahalo. TV Tome (December 14, 2004). Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved on May 27, 2018.
