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  • @mediamementosofficial
    @mediamementosofficial 10 месяцев назад +10

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    • @KGKSkull
      @KGKSkull 10 месяцев назад +5

      I think my favorite thing with Gantu, was the multiple times that he indulged in or asked if certain sandwiches were available from 625, I don’t know why but I just love it, it shows that gantu has a bit of a heart in that massive body

  • @BroadwellElectrics
    @BroadwellElectrics 10 месяцев назад +68

    Gantu deserved a redemption arc. If Stitch can get one, Gantu should do. I feel bad for the big guy.

    • @supersmashbro596
      @supersmashbro596 10 месяцев назад +9

      i mean he got his job back at the end of leroy and stitch.
      tbh i think the only reason why lilo and stitch havent tried helping gantu before then is due to his pride.
      he believes only he should dig himself out of the hole he's gotten in, no one else should help him. especially a blue, six-armed abomination and his best friend a stange earth-girl that put him there in the first place.

    • @racheljackson4428
      @racheljackson4428 10 месяцев назад +3

      me too. Gantu is like Cedric the Sorcerer from Sofia the First. he too wants to be respected as a great guy but when he met Sofia for the first time, his Morals changed.

    • @DannyConeHeadOnceLer
      @DannyConeHeadOnceLer 10 месяцев назад +2

      Indeed, he's always trying to do what's right

    • @jamestolbert1856
      @jamestolbert1856 2 месяца назад

      He did. In the tv show movie

  • @DrewtheStew1999
    @DrewtheStew1999 10 месяцев назад +127

    Poor Gantu. We praise Maleficent when she does terrible things, but we attack Gantu for begrudgingly doing more minor things. Life is unfair.

    • @MatthewJamesKalasky
      @MatthewJamesKalasky 10 месяцев назад +12

      " Life is unfair."
      You see, I shall never be king, and you?

  • @witcherstudios9351
    @witcherstudios9351 10 месяцев назад +48

    King Candy was one of my favorite Disney villains. Yeah, he started the trend of twist villains for the sake of twists, but at least in his case the twist isn’t that he was evil. The twist was that he was turbo, and the audience knew he was evil all along.

    • @TheVTable
      @TheVTable 10 месяцев назад +13

      Yeah, Even before that reveal, King Candy had a sinister vibe to him

  • @Zarpalarpa
    @Zarpalarpa 10 месяцев назад +42

    The series rule seems to be that Gantu can’t win unless it’s in someone else’s terms. Like you said, they only let him be a good guy when he surrenders to his enemies when that was always who he was.

  • @WolfmanArt
    @WolfmanArt 10 месяцев назад +17

    Gantu was doing his job in the film, and doing the same thing in the series.
    He reminds me of Team Rocket from Pokemon, they're antagonist but not true villians
    Favorite villians: Claude Frollo, Shere Kahn, Scar, Gaston, Dr. Facilier and Hades

  • @Esgles
    @Esgles 10 месяцев назад +13

    I’m glad you didn’t talk about the anime. The creators of that undid Reuben and Gantu’s redemption and separated Lilo and Stitch. Leroy and Stitch is where the franchise ended for me and many others

  • @swagkirby3449
    @swagkirby3449 10 месяцев назад +26

    Also, despite being a gigantic physical powerhouse, he was violently suplexed by Suga Mama, a tiny old woman

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 10 месяцев назад +8

      Never underestimate the power level of tiny old black ladies. Strong as an ox.

  • @masterplay148
    @masterplay148 10 месяцев назад +16

    Captain gantu always deserved a redemption arc. Nice to see someone talk about gantu.

  • @rafaelbrites3607
    @rafaelbrites3607 10 месяцев назад +20

    modern writters disney need to watch lilo and stich to learn how to write sympathetic villians like gantu.

    • @greenhat8978
      @greenhat8978 10 месяцев назад +3

      Knowing modern writers they just see a male patriarchy character needs to be put in his place.

  • @magnetoonproductions9541
    @magnetoonproductions9541 10 месяцев назад +58

    In the finale, Gantu saw the light, helped save the world, accepted Reuben as his dearest friend and was given his old position back as captain. By the way, that anime doesn’t count and isn’t canon because it wasn’t made by Disney or the original creative team.
    It was really the executive meddling behind the show that was holding the show back from any serialized content or permanent character development. If it wasn’t for the interference, we could’ve gotten more complex stories with the characters, seen more experiments, and Gantu could’ve even had a redemption arc in time for Leroy and Stitch.

    • @jaggerguth4391
      @jaggerguth4391 10 месяцев назад +3

      Oh great, It's that "Dun, Dun, Dun" The Network Fault again.

    • @AlexMartinez-gv7hy
      @AlexMartinez-gv7hy 10 месяцев назад +2

      Wrong time and era

  • @JacobFiveash
    @JacobFiveash 10 месяцев назад +16

    Gantu is one my favorite Lilo and Stitch characters. I’m so glad you talked about him.

  • @scarletivy2271
    @scarletivy2271 10 месяцев назад +9

    When I rewatched lilo and stitch a few years ago, I realized Gantu wasn't evil. He was just doing his job. Yeah his actions weren't the best but like you said he never wanted to hurt someone. He was one of my favorite characters in the movies and the tv show. Im glad he got happy ending.

  • @AtlasBlizzard
    @AtlasBlizzard 9 месяцев назад +4

    I've always loved Gantu, he's my favorite Lilo & Stich character and it's great to see him getting appreciation. He really got the short end of the stick in the narrative. Guy just wants to do his job, and escape his sucky situation. He might just be the most sympathetic Disney 'antagonist'.

  • @tyrannosaurusallen3703
    @tyrannosaurusallen3703 10 месяцев назад +47

    Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten…except Gantu.

    • @billbryant6227
      @billbryant6227 10 месяцев назад +7

      This.

    • @AtlasBlizzard
      @AtlasBlizzard 9 месяцев назад +3

      That's honestly so infuriating. Gantu needed an Ohana just as much as everyone else, but they never found it in their hearts to extend that to him.

    • @AtomicGolem
      @AtomicGolem 9 месяцев назад

      :(

  • @ivanbluecool
    @ivanbluecool 10 месяцев назад +15

    Man just doing his job but his boss is a hamster

  • @Esgles
    @Esgles 10 месяцев назад +8

    Great video. Though to defend Lilo and Stitch, there were rare instances when they did try to reach out to him in Lilo And Stitch the series like in Splodyhead but Gantu just brushed the duo off. He needed to want to reform by himself, which is what happened in Leroy and Stitch.
    You can’t totally let Gantu off the hook either because as shown in the alternate future in the episode Skip, without Lilo and Stitch to stop him, Gantu had no issues with sending all the experiments to Hamsterviel and ruling earth while Hamsterviel ruled the universe.
    So yes, Lilo and Stitch should have reached out to Gantu more but, Gantu also had to want to change. Thankfully that happened in Leroy and Stitch. :)

  • @jaggerguth4391
    @jaggerguth4391 10 месяцев назад +12

    It's a wonder why Captain Gantu was not considered a villain from the Kingdom Hearts franchise.

  • @donaldcass9678
    @donaldcass9678 10 месяцев назад +10

    You know we never saw Gantu's reaction to Sititch being allowed to stay on earth

  • @ashleightompkins3200
    @ashleightompkins3200 10 месяцев назад +15

    Gantu isn't so much a villain as he is an antagonist. He's the one preventing the protagonists from achieving their goal. He's kind of like the Shredder in the OG TMNT cartoon, the one voiced by James Avery

    • @jaggerguth4391
      @jaggerguth4391 10 месяцев назад +4

      But unlike Gantu, Shredder is well-aware he's evil and relent to it.

    • @orangeslash1667
      @orangeslash1667 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@jaggerguth4391 The funny thing is that Gantu is voiced by Kevin Micheal Richardson, who voiced Shredder in the 2012 TMNT show.

  • @CJBStudios
    @CJBStudios 10 месяцев назад +10

    Well this is something I didn’t expect from Character Quest, but here we are. In fact, when I saw the title of this video, it reminded me of Issac Carlson’s video about Gantu that he did on his channel.

    • @lydiajulianprower8356
      @lydiajulianprower8356 10 месяцев назад +1

      I found it a pleasant surprise! I've been watching the series on Disney+ as of late.

  • @detectivewobbuffet2778
    @detectivewobbuffet2778 10 месяцев назад +8

    I guess the reason why Lilo and Stitch never tried talking thinghs up with Gantu is becouse he never let them. Gantu hated them since they costed him his job and so he saw them as nothing but pests and that sentiment grow with each defeat. Talking thinghs up with them didn’t cross his mind becouse he thought it was a worthless waste of time.

  • @maurycyoseka1057
    @maurycyoseka1057 10 месяцев назад +4

    I always liked Gantu for his aquatic apperance, his black aura, his fighter ship, how big he is, how Kevin Richardson did well with his voice compare to the rest of the characters he voiced, and his polish voice actor Pavel Szczesny.

  • @leopardnosepaws
    @leopardnosepaws 10 месяцев назад +5

    Yes! More love for Gantu❤

  • @alteregobro4826
    @alteregobro4826 10 месяцев назад +6

    poor gantu

  • @baileymaloney3595
    @baileymaloney3595 10 месяцев назад +4

    Given that I saw Lilo and Stitch and the series itself, I can see why Gantu is not necessarily a villain, but more of a guy who plays as the villain because he had no choice.
    As for my favorite Disney villain, it is a two-way tie with Maleficent and Judge Claude Frollo from Sleeing Beauty and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

  • @supersmashbro596
    @supersmashbro596 10 месяцев назад +3

    i mean he literally was only trying to chase a dangerous scientist and his even more dangerous creation (that both turned out to have reformed), and only joined hamsterviel just because he's been out of a job and needed work. and his attitude towards jumba and stitch is entirely justified to a point because they cost him his job, though they both reformed.
    i'm happy him and reuben ended up with a happy ending though.
    i think the only reason why gantu doesnt try to reach out to lilo or stitch for help is because of pride. he's way too prideful to ask anyone for help. he doesn't want anyone to dig him out of the mess hes made: he wants to do it himself. problem is, every attempt made just winds up another failure.

  • @Phantomphan613
    @Phantomphan613 10 месяцев назад +15

    Preach! I feel so justified in having him as my favorite character in all media now.
    Honestly, I think one of the most tragic times is in Felix. Gantu did literally nothing wrong in that episode. He didn't foist the experiment onto Lilo and Stitch, he just let Felix go and he found the "heroes" on his own
    Then, at the end of the episode, he had all the hard work he did cleaning his ship undone and for what?

  • @alexallen9640
    @alexallen9640 10 месяцев назад +2

    Interesting video and perspective 🙂👍

  • @HispanicToddendale
    @HispanicToddendale 10 месяцев назад +9

    #JusticeForGantu

  • @ArendAlphaEagle
    @ArendAlphaEagle 9 месяцев назад +2

    It kinda reminds of Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb. He's a self-proclaimed evil scientist who creates crazy inators and devices in order to take over the Tri-State Area, but deep inside, he's just a guy with a poor childhood. He has a deep paternal love and pride for his daughter Vanessa, and he's pretty amicable to his nemesis Perry the Platypus to the point that he sometimes considers Perry his best friend. He also doesn't mean to harm the main kids (Phineas, Ferb, Candace, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, etc) and can be pretty amicable to them as well. And he finds destroying the Tri-State Area or taking over the _entire_ world too ridiculous, and is not really interested in being a supervillain like his colleagues at LOVEMUFFIN. Letting him switch over to the good side in "Last Day of Summer", the original series finale, is a nice gesture (though I think this is going to be retconned in the upcoming revival seasons, sadly).
    It's also interesting that they brought Doofenshmirtz back in Season 2 of Milo Murphy's Law as a supporting character, in which he attempts to do good guy stuff to prepare for his destiny as the inventor of time travel. Problem is that he's also bad at being a good guy, and comes off as rather annoying to some characters; still, it's nice that this arc of Doof as a good guy is (or at least was) being continued.

  • @kelsey1467
    @kelsey1467 10 месяцев назад +3

    you know even though gantu and lilo were on opposite sides i always like he respected her more than myrtle ever did but thats just me

  • @eerieeric834
    @eerieeric834 10 месяцев назад +5

    Talk about tragic character

  • @lexycocoa9979
    @lexycocoa9979 9 месяцев назад +2

    Well technically Jumba and Pleakley we're on punishment that's they never got to go home. And I do feel bad for Ganto, he's just doing his job.

  • @puffythedestroyer8878
    @puffythedestroyer8878 9 месяцев назад +1

    " Look carefully at the "I really wish I weren't here right now!" button."

  • @sweetoil2952
    @sweetoil2952 10 месяцев назад +1

    Diddy Kong Racing and Stardew Valley music in the video. Absolute W.
    Loved hearing this perspective on Gantu! I never really thought about it before, but I did have the sense that he’s not a flat-out bad guy for a long time

  • @anthonythomas305
    @anthonythomas305 10 месяцев назад +2

    Gantu is a cool character in Lilo & Stitch

  • @Lordpower963
    @Lordpower963 10 месяцев назад +1

    I like that you use footage of Prince John from Robin Hood when you mention thievery, we agree that taxation is theft

  • @rodundarrIV
    @rodundarrIV 10 месяцев назад +1

    At least Lilo and Stitch understand that he was only doing his job, as mentioned in Splodyhead.

  • @georgerobertson7010
    @georgerobertson7010 10 месяцев назад +2

    My favourite Disney villain is Scar from the lion king

  • @aidanhever3369
    @aidanhever3369 10 месяцев назад +3

    It didn't help that he didn't appear in the Once Upon a Studio special.

  • @Wojti2000Zapasowe
    @Wojti2000Zapasowe 2 месяца назад +1

    Maybe unrelated to the video, but Hamsterviel had one of the weirdest name translations in Poland. At first, he was translated as "Lord Chomikwader" which literally means "Lord Hamster Vader", sadly they replaced it with "Doktor Chomikville" later on, which is basically Hamsterviel.

  • @carlintaylor3229
    @carlintaylor3229 6 месяцев назад +1

    My dad really loved lilo and stitch when we saw it in the theater in 2002 bought it for us on VHS when it came out along with dragon ball on ps2 even the spin off show was actually good and funny ❤❤

  • @GarrisonMorton
    @GarrisonMorton 9 месяцев назад +1

    In the Japanese version Gantu is voiced by the guy who voiced Jet Black in the original Japanese dub of Cowboy Bebop.

  • @DevonLeSuer
    @DevonLeSuer 7 месяцев назад +1

    I just NOW noticed he didn't show up in the Once Upon a Studio short! Did anyone else notice?

  • @DarkcIoud1111.
    @DarkcIoud1111. 7 месяцев назад +1

    A lot of people hate their jobs, but will still do it until something better comes along. Gantu was relieved of command at the end of the movie, which I admit was unfair. However you can't convince me that a highly decorated officer couldn't find any job aside from a convicted criminal. Doing that probably would do more to hurt his reputation than almost anything else. Lilo and Stitch also can't just stand around and let him capture the experiments either because he is actively working for the bad guy. What happened to Gantu was unfair, but he also decided to join up with the bad guy instead of working hard and starting over from the ground up.

  • @nicolafone776
    @nicolafone776 8 дней назад

    Ever since I saw Gantu for the first time (when I was a child) I looked at him as a very serious captain who was just doing his job.
    But when I saw the entire Lilo & Stitch saga, I gradually felt more and more sorry for him.

  • @albertrobinson4576
    @albertrobinson4576 10 месяцев назад +2

    I need to watch the movie and show again. I didn’t remember any of this stuff. Glad he got a happy ending, but it was a bit too late imo.

  • @asimplethievingbat5978
    @asimplethievingbat5978 10 месяцев назад +2

    As far as favorite villain goes. My answer is and always will be Hades

  • @usuallyangry
    @usuallyangry 10 месяцев назад +4

    "Gantu did eventually get a happy ending!"
    Ahahaha, yeah...the newest anime in China had Gantu get fired offscreen, now he's back to the experiment hunting job he hates and all the suffering it entails.

    • @christianvalentincota5452
      @christianvalentincota5452 10 месяцев назад +4

      Good things that anime is non canon

    • @orangeslash1667
      @orangeslash1667 10 месяцев назад

      @@christianvalentincota5452 It goes to show how much of an impact Lilo and Stitch had.

    • @christianvalentincota5452
      @christianvalentincota5452 10 месяцев назад

      @@orangeslash1667 yeah it's huge Japan too and makes me mad that the other experiments have merch there and not in the US

    • @orangeslash1667
      @orangeslash1667 10 месяцев назад

      @@christianvalentincota5452 Fun Fact: Lilo and Stitch was made because Disney films released at that time were too expensive, so they needed one that wasn't. Disney may have been on to something because unlike Atlantis and Treasure Planet, Lilo and Stich was a failure.

    • @AtomicGolem
      @AtomicGolem 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@christianvalentincota5452 oh, thank Christ.

  • @smarmalade5938
    @smarmalade5938 10 месяцев назад +2

    LMAOOOO DONT THINK I DONT RECOGNIZE THE TWISTED WONDERLAND SPRITE IN THE THUMBNAIL

  • @blueberrypitbull87
    @blueberrypitbull87 10 месяцев назад +1

    Can you do a Complete History of Jungle Emperor/Kimba the White Lion video? I saw you did Speed Racer so I feel Kimba is another vintage anime that needs a video.

  • @Yellowguy0619
    @Yellowguy0619 10 месяцев назад +4

    Would this make Gantu an anti-villain?

  • @PsychoticEevee
    @PsychoticEevee 10 месяцев назад +5

    Didn't Gantu try selling Lilo to a zoo in Stitch! The Movie? Where's that fit into this?

    • @tyrannosaurusallen3703
      @tyrannosaurusallen3703 10 месяцев назад +4

      Probably a mix between revenge and not wanting her to die. Hamsterviel implied he wanted her dead. This was the most humane option without letting her win.

    • @devinpaul9026
      @devinpaul9026 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@tyrannosaurusallen3703 Yes, revenge-- that most HEROIC of motivations!

    • @tyrannosaurusallen3703
      @tyrannosaurusallen3703 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@devinpaul9026 It’s like what the video says. Gantu’s ego being bruised is his biggest weakness.

    • @devinpaul9026
      @devinpaul9026 10 месяцев назад +1

      In the first movie he fully intended to shoot an incompacitated Stitch square in the head in a blind rage over what amounted to a child's prank. A particularly FUCKED UP child, but ultimately harmless in the moment. One would assume he'd been properly TRAINED at some point, so where the hell was that at, exactly?

    • @tyrannosaurusallen3703
      @tyrannosaurusallen3703 10 месяцев назад

      @@devinpaul9026 To be fair, Stitch is an illegal genetic experiment that the galactic council wanted to dispose of.

  • @HundredPercentPlayer
    @HundredPercentPlayer 10 месяцев назад +1

    Somehow got here on second 1

  • @nevaehhamilton3493
    @nevaehhamilton3493 10 месяцев назад +5

    Gantu is a DILF, prove me wrong

    • @AtomicGolem
      @AtomicGolem 9 месяцев назад

      Well, funny that you say that... because I can't.

  • @cofagrigusfan24
    @cofagrigusfan24 10 месяцев назад +2

    i think i spotted an error in the story
    i am pretty sure that Lilo & Stitch do not know about Gantu's past and feelings
    everytime he talks about them, he is with 625/Reuben and almost nobody else
    there have been moments where there was some sort of truce between the 3, but that was because it was christmas, a hostile experiment, memory loss or trickery
    never a moment of "hey let's just sit down and talk"
    also after Gantu failed his Hämsterviel job due to L&S, he does start seeing them as nuisances, and why would this giant with anger problems, listen to the 2 troublemakers?

    • @billbryant6227
      @billbryant6227 10 месяцев назад +1

      Maybe for the heart to heart stuff, but they see him complain and vent a lot. They also befriend experiments who have done and acted worse.

  • @PaddyMesser2006
    @PaddyMesser2006 10 месяцев назад +1

    Was wondering what was up with the original upload freezing

  • @anthonykolb8083
    @anthonykolb8083 10 месяцев назад

    Oggie boogie is my favorite

  • @nicholassims9837
    @nicholassims9837 9 месяцев назад

    I woder what ColinLookBack will say when he talks about L&S villains

  • @seanhorace925
    @seanhorace925 10 месяцев назад

    How many of you consider those anime’s non-canon? Cause even I myself don’t.

  • @ThePinkDragon
    @ThePinkDragon 10 месяцев назад

    he kidnapped Lilo

    • @ThePinkDragon
      @ThePinkDragon 10 месяцев назад

      i would love to see his redeemtion

  • @il-ma.le.
    @il-ma.le. 10 месяцев назад

    Don't know, the staff hated Gantu at this point, or simply didn't care.

  • @devinpaul9026
    @devinpaul9026 10 месяцев назад +4

    Not exactly "in name only". Shit hand or not, he IS fully a villain by the end of the first movie. Lore gets a bit "involved" after that and I have little experience with what happens after-- but first movie, he's NOT a good dude.

  • @spinsbum
    @spinsbum 10 месяцев назад +1

    Here before 200k views 👇

  • @ClownJunky2004
    @ClownJunky2004 10 месяцев назад

    @LovelyLivelyV, remind me to pester you with character thirst traps when I make my deep dives ☺️

    • @LovelyLivelyV
      @LovelyLivelyV 10 месяцев назад

      Queenie I swear if you start sending me Gantu stuff-

  • @brandonelizondo7018
    @brandonelizondo7018 8 месяцев назад

    He was still selfish

  • @sasamichan
    @sasamichan 10 месяцев назад

    there are a lot of people who get villainized with out a chance for forgiveness. Most of these happen in real life. I think we could justify almost any one if we wanted to.. The topic really could go off in to some wild directions. Even directions that could make people hate you.
    I wonder what we would get if we applied it to just Disney? or to just a hand full of major studios?
    Like for example, The Lizard from Spiderman. What happens if he gets his way? We all become Lizards. Is that really so evil? I mean we're all still alive. How is a plan we don't die from "Evil"?
    I think any one who does what they do to better our lives, help there family, as pay back for there own suffering, because they believe it was the right thing in there minds, because it'll solve all our problems, because they are lonely those people aren't necessarily villains.
    Heros fight to keep things as they are right now. Villains fight for change. Maybe there some who deserve a chance?
    its interesting to think about.
    Any how, on the hero side, Real life is full of people who fight against YOUR oppression only to force YOU to live under THERE laws and to crush OTHERS who don't fit THERE idea of "Good" If judging others by there color,, race, gender, occupation, faith, membership to a group is wrong when OTHERS do it it has to be wrong when YOU do it. and if you have a REASON why what you say is "good" and why what others say is "Evil" please explain it. a lot of so called "Good people" never explain there reasons.
    Verry few people act out of the enjoyment of destroying and seeing others suffer. Most people do what the truly believe is right, is justified or is the only way they know how.