Shrink, also known as Experiment 001, is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba and a character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is Jumba's first experiment created with Hämsterviel and to be assigned a number. He is designed to shrink and/or enlarge objects. When he was created, Hämsterviel presumably christened him Shrink. After his creation, the press posted stuff about him in the papers, and it is said that the two scientists opened up a joke shop together and began working on Jumba's many other experiments.
Background and appearances[]
Experiment 001 was the first genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was designed to change the sizes of objects. He was apparently named Shrink by Hämsterviel before arriving on Earth. Eventually, 001 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.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series[]
At an unknown point, Shrink was presumably activated, captured, and rehabilitated by Lilo and Stitch.
Leroy & Stitch[]
Shrink appeared in a clipping on one of the walls of Jumba's lab along with several other pictures of his and Hämsterviel's early accomplishments. One clip showed a headline of "Idiot Scientist Actually Creates Something!" with Hämsterviel's enlarged bottom in Jumba's face. Despite their past 25 years of partnership, Jumba refused to work for Hämsterviel again when the latter offered, as he had been responsible for Jumba's arrest and imprisonment.
Later, the first 624 experiments, including Shrink, 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.
It is unknown whether or not Shrink participated in the following battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones.
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.
Stitch! anime[]
Shrink made an appearance in Season 2 of the Stitch! anime where he was sent by Hämsterviel to mess with Jumba and shrink Stitch. He manages to shrink Jumba, Stitch, and Tigerlily. It is also revealed that Shrink was abandoned at a young age and has a very willful and childlike behavior following an incident of being locked in a safe when he was younger. He shrinks objects using a green ray from his eyes and has the ability to levitate.
Shrink reappeared in a later episode, along with Squeak, Clip, Nosox, and Retro. After Stitch is reverted to his original programming by Retro, he goes on a rampage and ends up falling into a swimming pool along with Shrink's inactive pod. Shrink, seeing that Stitch is drowning, zaps him with his pink ray, causing Stitch to grow larger. Eventually, Stitch is turned to good again. Jumba arrives and asks why his experiments are running amok and mentions that Shrink may have been confused after being confined in his pod for a long time, before having Shrink restore Stitch back to his original size. Eventually, Shrink was dehydrated back into an experiment pod and locked in Jumba's vault. Eventually, Jumba grabbed his pod to help Stitch in his fight against Dark End, but Shrink wasn't one of the experiments that was activated.
Shrink also appeared in the special Stitch and the Planet of Sand.
Biology[]
Physical appearance[]
Shrink is a small purple experiment with a lavender lower jaw and chest, three tentacle-like legs, two stubby little arms, and two floppy antennae with two rings. He has the ability to levitate in order to move around.
Special abilities[]
Shrink can emit a green or pink ray from his eyes that will shrink an object or organism to a very small size. It has also been demonstrated that only the first zap shrinks the object; the second restores its size; and every other enlarges it. He is capable of levitation and/or flight.
Weaknesses[]
Shrink seems to be simple-minded and can easily be manipulated and confused. He can be easily controlled by anyone holding on to his antennae.
Trivia[]
- Shrink originally debuted in Leroy & Stitch; however, he only appeared as a background character and technically was not seen moving until his appearance in Stitch!.
- Shrink is one of the ten known experiments named by someone other than Lilo, the other nine being Gigi, Elastico, Yaarp, Hammerface, Heat, Thresher, Plasmoid, Morpholomew, and Leroy.
- It is implied that it was Hämsterviel who named him Shrink.
- It can also be said that Hämsterviel opened and closed Jumba's career of creating genetic experiments, having named the first and last experiment he funded (Shrink and Leroy, respectively).
- Shrink is technically the oldest of all the known experiments, having been the first experiment ever created.
- Shrink, Thresher, and Pix are the only known tripedal experiments.
- Shrink, Zap, Remmy, Cloudy, and Welko are the only known experiments that are always seen levitating.
- Phantasmo and Witch primarily levitate but often possess objects or living beings to move by other means. Tickle-Tummy is also able to levitate, but has been seen bouncing as well.
- Shrink is one of the few experiments to not have his one true place revealed.
- He is also one of the few experiments to not appear in the group photo at the end of Leroy & Stitch.
- Shrink's pod color is red in the Stitch! anime.
- In Shrink's first appearance in the anime, his size ray is green, but in his second appearance, it is pink.
- In the English dub of the anime episode "Experiment-A-Palooza", Squeak mentions that Shrink can shrink and enlarge things, and that both his and Shrink's names are misnomers.
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