Stitch at the start of the movie, imprisoned for being an abomination and torn away from the one person he’s familiar with just minutes after his creation. No reason for living but to be a menace to society, no experience or loved ones or even memories to visit. Rebuffs any attempt to find the decency in him by cursing out the entire council and is rightfully banished for being unstable and dangerous: I AM UNSTOPPABLE FORCE OF CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO DESTROY!!!!!!!  DEATH TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!

Stitch by the end of the movie, handcuffed yet complacent in his arrest as he understands that while he still qualifies as a monster in the council’s eyes, he himself knows that he is good and the time he’s spent free and everything he’s learned about a sense of belonging, family, love and his own identity has been worth anything that can possibly happen to him now. Says very quietly but clearly proud as he introduces Lilo and Nani:  This is my family. I found it all on my own. It’s little. And broken. But still good. Yeah. Still good.

me who has seen the movie 748 times but will never truly be over it: