Dark End is an alien experiment who appeared in the third season of the Stitch! anime as a minor antagonist. Dark End was created by Delia using similar genetic blueprints to that of Stitch and required Stitch's power cell to complete their creation, although a new power cell stolen from Jumba was ultimately used. It is because of this that Dark End does not fall into Jumba's numbering system. Delia made Dark End as a combatant in order to defeat Stitch.
This character's gender differs between dubs, being a female in the Japanese original and a male in the English dub. As a result, this article will use "they/them" pronouns for consistency purposes.
Background
Personality
Dark End has a rather unique personality. They have a polite, playful, and carefree attitude with a twisted sense of humor. They introduced themselves to Hämsterviel, Gantu, and Reuben and offered Hämsterviel a handshake, only to lift him off floor and shake him in the air. When they met Stitch, Dark End assumed he was really nice and apologized that they had to defeat him. Dark End is penchant when it comes to manners, as when Hämsterviel ordered them to fight Stitch, Dark End refused and requested him to say it again in a polite manner. Dark End is loyal to Delia and anyone who serves under her, but even Dark End expected Delia to exhibit manners, getting annoyed when she ordered them to do something, as Dark End claimed she could have asked nicely. Despite this, Dark End obeys Delia and follows her orders through.
Despite their politeness, Dark End is vicious, brutal, ruthless, cruel, and enjoys causing chaos and mischief. Their playful attitude comes off as mischievous, but they can also be sadistic; they take joy in taunting and humiliating their foes instead of finishing them off. Dark End wanted to keep tormenting Stitch after pulling him out of the fault that Dark End created, then shaking Stitch in the air. They are also sneaky and dishonest, as they offered Stitch to be friends and a handshake, only to electrocute and toss him in the air. Dark End has no qualms on attacking anyone who gets in their way, especially children, as they were willing to attack Yuna when she refused to hand Stitch over. They also fought and attacked some experiments, Hiroman, his soccer team, and Yuna's friends for getting in their way.
Dark End is confident in their abilities and comes off quite condescending to their foes, which they deem their actions futile. As Delia created them as a combatant, Dark End enjoys fighting and expects their foes to put up a challenge, lamenting about defeating Stitch easily to be a letdown. They then got excited when some experiments along with Yuna and Stitch's friends joined in. Dark End also has a low opinion on family and friends, deeming they and Stitch are just experiments to those, and believes when they do not need experiments anymore, they abandon them. Dark End even declares Stitch to be a failed experiment, indicating that Dark End holds themselves superior to Stitch and the other experiments.
Dark End's opinion on friends and their arrogance and failure to recognize the bonds that they forged caused them to underestimate Stitch, thus giving him the power to defeat Dark End.
Physical appearance
Dark End is a dark purple, rabbit-like experiment with purple claws, two gold earrings on their right ear, large ears similar to Delia, a small blond Mohawk, white fur on their belly, hands, and around their eyes, and a pink rabbit-like nose. In their second form, they extend a second pair of arms from their waist, two antennae from their head, and three spines or quills from their back, much like Stitch, and their hair changes color to lavender.
Powers and abilities
As aforementioned, Dark End is able to mutate into a second form with four arms, two long antennae, and three spines on their back. Their eyes can glow bright purple when doing so, and energy radiates off their body which can be fired off as purple energy blasts. They possess Stitch's abilities of enhanced strength, invulnerability, and fighting skills. They also possess other abilities, such as creating faults in the ground, flight, teleportation, and electricity. They are capable of speaking fluently.
Appearances
Stitch!
Delia began the creation of Dark End at the start of Season 3 of the Stitch! anime and continued working on him/her until the second-to-last episode. After he/she was created, Delia then invaded Earth and sent out Dark End to defeat Stitch. Dark End easily had Stitch on the ropes, even with the help of some of the other experiments. However, Stitch eventually defeated Dark End using a hidden power he had. Afterwards, Jumba caught Dark End in a container, and the Grand Councilwoman arrested Delia, Hämsterviel, Gantu and Reuben. Dark End has not been seen since.
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Trivia
- In the Japanese version, Dark End is a female, but in the English dub, Dark End is a male.
- Dark End is the second experiment that was not created by Jumba, as they were created by Delia. The first is Skunkuna who was created by Hämsterviel.
- Dark End serves as a foil to Stitch when it comes to family and friends. Unlike Stitch who values both concepts, Dark End believes individuals will abandon experiments once they do not need them anymore.
- The power cell used to create Stitch and Dark End befits how the two are different with their views on family and friendship. Stitch's powers are supercharged when he remembers the bonds he forged, yet Dark End doesn't value either of these concepts, and while they are loyal to Delia, they do not have a special bond, unlike Stitch has with his creator.
- Dark End could be considered an advanced genetic experiment, as they have no known weaknesses. Since they were created after the 629 experiments, Dark End is likely immune to Angel's song but not immune to the other experiments, as Dark End avoided Spike's spikes.
- Dark End has some similarities in character with Warracchi (a yokai): they both wreak havoc in one way or another, but at the same time, they do not like a rude attitude.
- Dark End is one of the few experiments that are actually villains, along with Zero, Chopsuey, 627, and Leroy and his clones, while all the other experiments were following their primary function.
