While certain films described in a somewhat idealized way—all-bad stepfamilies
being replaced by an either all-good royal spouse (in Cinderella) or all-good royal parents (Rapunzel in Tangled), some films such as Lilo and Stitch demonstrated
how diverse individuals with forgivable flaws (e.g., headstrong child plus temperamental elder sister plus destruction prone genetically engineered alien “pet”) can live together and
form a non-traditional family (or ‘ohana) that transcends blood relations and even planetary boundaries.