Plumba

Plumba is the slash ship between Agent Pleakley and Dr. Jumba Jookiba from the Lilo & Stitch fandom.

Lilo & Stitch (2001)
When Jumba's experiment "626" escapes to Earth, the Grand Councilwoman requests an Earth expert. Pleakley arrives to her dissappointment and disagrees with gassing the planet, suggesting pacifistic methods instead, like having the experiment retrieved and arrested by its next of kin. The Councilwoman then takes Pleakley to the prison on the mothership, with Pleakley increasingly regretting his words. She introduces him to Jumba, who makes a terrifying first impression on Pleakley by laughing madly at him. The Councilwoman informs him that his experiment had escaped, telling him that Pleakley will help him retrieve it, promising him his freedom if he does. As the Councilwoman leaves the two of them to get to know each other, Jumba seems to intentionally worry Pleakley by asking him where his dangerous experiment found shelter.

On Hawaii, Jumba and Pleakley initially try to keep as low a cover as possible and Pleakley watches Jumba aim at the experiment with intention of stunning him and then capturing him. However, the experiment had been successfully adopted by a pair of human sisters, with "Stitch" using the younger one Lilo as a shield against Jumba's blasts without her noticing. Pleakley manages to yank Jumba's blaster upwards just in time, then snaps at him when he almost shot a little girl. Jumba is just as angry at Stitch and tries to charge him with the intention of tearing him apart himself. Pleakley avoids that as well by shoving him out of sight and telling him that part of their mission is to make sure that nobody sees them. Thus Jumba realizes that they'll need to blend in and keep watching Stitch while disguised as a married couple.

That evening at the Luau, where the older sister Nani works, Jumba and Pleakley continue to spy on Stitch with Pleakley disguising himself as a different woman. Jumba attempts to lure Stitch away from Lilo by attaching a piece of alien meat to a piece of string. The plan backfires when Stitch realizes what's going on and starts to chew on Pleakley's head in rage. Nani quickly grabs onto Stitch and yanks him from Pleakley's head, expressing concern for Pleakley's head being "swollen". Jumba reassures her, telling her that his "wife" is just ugly. This stunt however gets Nani fired from her job. Keeping watch on Stitch near the house where the sisters live, Jumba mocks Lilo's attempts to better Stitch, telling Pleakley that he wasn't programmed to be good. However, as he sees Pleakley trying on the wig that he was wearing in his disguise, he gets into a scuffle over it with him, wanting to wear it himself. Pleakley then gets stung by a mosquito and considers it a great honor, but he quickly realizes how much mosquito bites sting when an entire swarm attacks him. With nobody but Jumba around to bandage him, Jumba tells him that he actually pities Stitch, wondering how it must feel when he has no purpose, nor memories to turn to.

The next day, Jumba and Pleakley continue to follow the sisters around as Nani jumps from one job interview to the next. Incidentally, they actually manage to get Stitch to behave by having Jumba threaten him with a blaster every time he acts up. Though the Councilwoman pressures Pleakley into delivering Stitch quicker, telling him that he will lose his job if he doesn't give her a good update any time soon. Realizing that they will both go to prison if they fail, Jumba decides to take a more active role in Stitch's capture by ambushing him when he's surfing with Lilo, Nani and their friend David. However, as they pull Stitch underwater with the intent of making him fall unconcious, Lilo is pulled with him into the depths, leading to David to save both of them and help Nani carry them back to shore. Jumba and Pleakley get washed up on the cliffs later on and before they could even collect themselves, they get a call from the Councilwoman telling them that they are fired and that Captain Gantu will finish the job instead. Now that he doesn't have to abide by the law, Jumba realizes that he can finally capture Stitch "his" way, much to Pleakley's chagrin.

So they return to the household of the sisters and find Stitch all by himself, having left the sisters the night before. He tries to reason with Jumba, but he's still hung up on the idea that Stitch is nothing but a killer machine and Stitch runs back to the house right when Nani happened to leave Lilo alone for ten minutes for a job interview. Jumba directly attacks Stitch, barely caring that Lilo is with him, leading to Pleakley to check up on them. However, Lilo thinks of him as a threat as well and decides to call Cobra Bubbles, the social worker she trusts, telling him that aliens are trying to steal her dog. While Pleakley tries to diffuse the situation on the phone, Jumba continues to fight Stitch and they destroy most of the house's furniture in an attempt to capture Stitch. As Jumba and Stitch clog up one of Jumba's blasters leading for it to detonate and destroy the house completely, Pleakley quickly grabs Lilo and carries her to safety. As Nani comes back to deal with the mess, with Lilo running away to avoid being put into foster care, Gantu arrives and captures Stitch on the spot, not caring that Lilo is with him. Nani witnesses Lilo being abducted and asks Jumba and Pleakley if they can get her back. Jumba denies it, telling her that they only came here for Stitch, but both are quickly convinced by Stitch himself and Jumba reluctantly agrees to take Nani to Lilo with the spaceship the two of them came to Earth with.

After managing to rescue Lilo, Jumba and Pleakley hitch a ride with David after landing safely in the ocean. When the Grand Councilwoman arrives to take Stitch with her, Pleakley attempts to claim the success for himself, but the Councilwoman cuts him off and exiles Jumba and Pleakley on the spot. She pracitically tells them that exiling them on Earth is the nicest punishment she could think of for their incompetence. Even as she declares Stitch the legal property of Lilo does she not change her mind and tell her guard to not let these two board her ship. Neither Jumba nor Pleakley seem to mind being exiled, coming to enjoy living on Hawaii as they help the sisters rebuild their home along with the locals. They officially move in with them for having no other place to go and become secondary caretakers for Lilo, often babysitting her and Stitch when Nani is busy.

Fanon
Plumba has long joined the likes of Baleera and Timbaa in terms of practically gay couples in a Disney movie, with many noticing a pattern between all three of them in terms of personality dynamics and design languages. Many treat it as canon, since Pleakley is often playing the role of Jumba's wife in public, with Lilo referring to him as her "aunt" as opposed to referring to Jumba as "uncle". However, it isn't seen as het or non-binary since many accept that Pleakley identifies as male, simply being fond of playing the role of a woman and crossdressing in private.

On AO3, it is the third most popular ship for the franchise and the second most popular romantic ship, along with being the most popular ship for both characters.

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