Dr. Rupert "Jacques" von Hämsterviel is the main antagonist of the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is the arch-nemesis of Stitch, the boss of Gantu and Reuben, and the former partner and best friend of Jumba Jookiba.
He was voiced by Jeff Bennett, who also voiced Ozzy in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, the Brain-Eating Meteor in Grim & Evil and Father in Codename: Kids Next Door (when he is not dressed in shadow)
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He has made many sentient experiments with Jumba Jookiba presumably for the intent of taking over the galaxy with them. While Jumba showed he cared for them as a parental figure, Hämsterviel only saw them as means to an end (while evil) or ultimately a liability (once reformed).
- Even when they were working together, Hämsterviel was never really friends with Jumba, who recollects all he ever did was con, humiliate, and steal from him before ratting on him to the Galactic Federation, implying that he intended on betraying Jumba and taking the experiments for himself in the long run. Jumba brings this up when Hamsterviel attempts to persuade him to work with him again, and his subsequent actions prove that he was trying to manipulate him.
- While he was initially courteous and cordial with Gantu, being patient when the latter became defensive of him criticizing his failure to capture Stitch (Experiment 626), he mistreats and verbally abuses Gantu regularly for his failures, even when he makes at least some accomplishments; being nagging and impatient as Gantu sent him Amnesio (Experiment 303) and Hunkahunka (Experiment 323), threatening to fire him in the former instance, and his remarking of his capture of Angel (Experiment 624) as "miraculous" showing he had low faith in him. (Gantu and Reuben (Experiment 625) both enjoy coming up with names for him, but this is a byproduct of this abuse.) He has also fired him multiple times.
- He has Gantu capture Jumba with the intent of interrogating him on the whereabouts of the experiments and when he refuses to answer his questions, he has Gantu unleash Experiment 625 hoping that it would torture Jumba to the point of where he'll talk only for it to be revealed that the experiment was harmless and lazy and only has interest in making sandwiches.
- He then decides to hold Jumba for ransom, telling Pleakley on a phone that if he wants to see him alive again, he should bring him all of the experiments in due time at the location he tells them to meet him at.
- Upon capturing Lilo and Stitch with Gantu's help, he takes Stitch with him so that he could cut him in half in order to clone him while leaving Lilo at Gantu’s mercy (Gantu decides not to kill her, but he plans to trap her in a zoo), only for Sparky (Experiment 221) to disable the machine and save Stitch and capture Hämsterviel allowing Stitch to save Lilo and outsmart Gantu.
- After the experiments end up escaping and spread across all over Earth, he has Gantu try to get them back only for him to constantly fail at doing so.
- In "Skip", it's revealed that in the future he has taken over the world and successfully captured all past experiments.
- In “Shush”, he plans a mind control headband on Mertle’s head, and uses her as a weapon against Lilo and Stitch.
- In “Bad Stitch”, he turns Stitch from good back to evil.
- He breaks into Jumba’s lab and forces him to create another evil experiment, one like Stitch except evil this time and with a red color on his fur, Leroy, under the threat of having him be killed by having Gantu shoot him with his laser gun if he does not comply. To add insult to injury, he also forces Jumba to act like a jerk to Pleakley. Even Gantu is shown to be frightened by the resultant experiment.
- After Jumba has finished, when Stitch breaks into the lab, he has the experiment, whom he now named as Leroy, attack and capture him.
- Afterwards, he has Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley put into a small spaceship and sent it into a black hole with the intent of getting them vaporized to death quickly but painfully. And he wouldn’t let Pleakley return his rented van to the college.
- He then has Leroy disguise himself as Stitch to take over the ship Stitch was in charge of.
- He proceeds to make lots of clones of Leroy and uses them as an army to take over the galaxy as ruler.
- Meanwhile, he has Leroy capture all of the experiments and bring them to an arena on Earth.
- While he decided not to kill the Grand Councilwoman, he usurped her position and made her his servant.
- Upon capturing Lilo and Reuben, he tells the former that Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley had died (or so he thinks), before having Gantu imprison them in a cell before proceeding to fire him for failing to capture the experiments for 3 years while mocking him about it as well, even though Gantu had busted him out of prison. Incidentally, this plan would leave Reuben the last of his kind (aside from Leroy) as he planned to kill Jumba and Stitch as well.
- Upon arriving at the arena where the experiments are at with his spaceship, he tries to kill them all by trying to have his Leroy clones fire a giant laser cannon at them. Since the experiments are technically a species and a high number at that, by doing this, Hämsterviel is committing both attempted genocide and attempted mass murder at the same time.
- He also almost killed Mertle who was kidnapped alongside one of the experiment, and while she was a jerk, she didn't really deserve to die.
- When the cannon gets destroyed by Stitch, Lilo, Jumba, Pleakley, and a reformed Gantu, Hämsterviel unleashes his army of Leroy clones to make one last attempt to kill all of them and the experiments. And while he does seem disheartened when Leroy falls, one can argue that isn’t necessarily because he cared for him, but because his plan has failed.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is played for laughs too much to be Near Pure Evil or Pure Evil, due to his own incompetence, his threats and insults being treated as annoying rather than intimidating by more serious-minded individuals like Gantu and the Grand Councilwoman, him being mistaken for a gerbil and people constantly getting his name wrong.
Trivia[]
- He is one of three Lilo & Stitch villains to be Inconsistently Heinous. The others being Holio, Richter, and Frenchfry. Out of them, he is the only one who is not an experiment.
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