Big Hero 6 (comics)

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Big Hero 6 is a

In 2014, Walt Disney Animation Studios produced the animated film Big Hero 6, inspired by the characters. In 2017, a television series based on the film, titled Big Hero 6: The Series, premiered. The characters also appeared in the video game Kingdom Hearts III in the San Fransokyo world.

Publication history

Created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, Big Hero 6 was first intended to appear in Alpha Flight #17 (Dec. 1998). Instead, the team appeared in their own self-titled, three-issue miniseries by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Gus Vasquez. However, due to scheduling complications, the miniseries was published prior to Alpha Flight #17.^[1][2]

The team appears in Alpha Flight #9 (Jan. 2005).

The team also appears in a subsequent five-issue miniseries, which was launched by Marvel Comics in September 2008.

Fictional team biography

In the original comics, the Japanese government needed a team of state-sanctioned superheroes, so they consulted the "Giri", a top-secret consortium of politicians and business entities. The Giri was formed to recruit and train potential individuals for "Big Hero 6", a team of superhuman operatives. Despite reservations by some members of the Giri,

Government scientists then identified 13-year-old boy genius Hiro Takachiho as a potential operative. Unimpressed with the Silver Samurai, Hiro declines joining the team until his mother is kidnapped by the Everwraith, the astral embodiment of all those killed in the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiro creates Baymax, a synthetic bodyguard capable of transforming into a dragon, using the brain engrams of his dead father. With Baymax, Hiro reluctantly joins forces with the Big Hero 6 to prevent the Everwraith from slaughtering millions in downtown Tokyo. During the battle, Big Hero 6 is joined by Sunfire, Japan's premier superhero, who is a mutant with the ability to heat matter into plasma. Sunfire becomes instrumental in the Everwraith's defeat.^[3]

Soon afterwards, Big Hero 6 moves their headquarters from the Giri office building to Japan's Cool World Amusement Park. Here they are attacked by X the Unknowable, a monster born from a child's drawings who is capable of transforming its atomic structure into any form and shape. With the help of the Canadian superhero team,

Later, the members of Big Hero 6 fall victim to a mind-control device implanted within Baymax. Traveling to Canada, the mind-controlled superheroes attack a new incarnation of Alpha Flight at a national park. After a brief battle, the mind-control device is short-circuited and the two teams part as friends. Big Hero 6 returns to Japan to seek out the parties responsible for their mind control.^{[volume & issue needed]}

During the "Ends of the Earth" storyline, Spider-Man calls upon Big Hero 6 to help him defeat Doctor Octopus. The team, now operating from the Giri Institute, confront Doctor Octopus' Octobots, which Dr. Octopus had sent to Japan. They subsequently confront their previous enemy, the Everwraith, and are victorious.^[4]

Team roster

Silver Samurai

Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada), the illegitimate son of Shingen Yashida, is a Japanese mutant with the power to charge almost anything, most notably his katana, with mutant energy (described as a tachyon field). This enables it to slice through any known substance except adamantium. He wears a suit of traditional samurai armor made of a silver metal, hence the name "Silver Samurai".

He was once the bodyguard for the international terrorist known as the

Silver Samurai later became the bodyguard of the Japanese prime minister, but was killed while defending his family from a ninja attack.[5]

Sunfire

Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) was a one-time member of the

GoGo Tomago (Leiko Tanaka) is known as the hothead of Big Hero 6. GoGo transforms her body into an explosive ball of energy, which can be projected at vast speeds.^{[volume & issue needed]}

Honey Lemon

Little is known of Honey Lemon's past or how she obtained the purse that gives her "superpowers".

Hiro Takachiho

Hiro Takachiho is the brilliant thirteen-year-old boy who created Baymax; after the departure of Silver Samurai and Sunfire, he becomes the leader of Big Hero 6.

Baymax

Baymax began his existence as a science project created by Hiro. He was originally designed to be a hydro-powered robotic synthformer, programmed to serve as Hiro's personal bodyguard, butler, and chauffeur. However, prior to the project's completion, Hiro's father died and the young inventor programmed Baymax's artificial intelligence using the brain engrams of his recently departed father. With the thoughts and emotions of Hiro's father, Baymax became much more than a robotic bodyguard. He also functions as Hiro's best friend and father figure and is by his side nearly every hour of every day. Baymax also feels a deep attachment to Hiro's mother; however, Hiro and Baymax decided it was not in their best interest to inform her that her departed husband's memories were used as the basis for Baymax's artificial intelligence.^[9]

Ebon Samurai

In his prior life, the Ebon Samurai (Kiochi Keishicho) was a Tokyo police officer who was slain by Silver Samurai during an attack by

A trained chef who uses various swords to fight. He can also give form to his Qi-Energy, usually materializing it as throwing knives that can paralyze opponents.^[9]

Fred

Nicknamed Fredzilla, he can transform into a Godzilla-like Kaiju and manifest a dinosaur-like aura.^[10]

Supporting characters

• Maemi Takachiho – Hiro's mother and the widow of the deceased Tomeo Takachiho. She is very much aware of Hiro's heroic adventures and simply wants him to have a normal childhood. She is unaware that Baymax's brain patterns are based on her husband's.^[13]
• Mr. Oshima – A member of the Giri who attempts to recruit Hiro into Big Hero 6.^[13]
• Furi Wamu – A Japanese Homeland Security agent and Big Hero 6's liaison. She wears an eye-patch due to an incident involving Badgal, but wears a prosthetic eye. She is constantly monitoring the heroes, making sure that they do not cause any trouble.^[9]
• Principal Miyazaki – Hiro's stern principal at the Tesuka Advanced Science Institute.^[9]
• Marys Iosama – A girl who is a genius in her own right. She bonds with Hiro and becomes his love interest.^[9]
• Dr. Keigi Iosama – Marys' brilliant father who is undercover.^[9]

Villains

• Everwraith – The first villain the team ever faced and the closest thing to an arch-nemesis. He is a spectral spirit that encompasses all of those who perished in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Like any ghost, he can fly and phase through walls, but he is also capable of becoming solid and fire energy blasts.^[13]
• X the Unknowable – A monster that was willed into reality by a comic book writer named Charles Bentley on his magic typewriter. The creature was initially destroyed once Bentley destroyed the machine,^[14] but it was brought back into existence by a boy named Tomi who was writing a surreal comic book about the creature. He supposedly turns into a human after sinking into a volcano and married a beautiful princess.^[15]
• Deadline (Dr. Kishi Oramosha) – A misguided scientist who created a doomsday device that would give everyone in the world a "deadline" before they would have to bring universal peace. He was stopped by Sunfire in his first appearance.^[16] He attempted to recreate his experiment, but was stopped by a new rendition of Big Hero 6.^[17]
• Badgal – A woman with a mysterious past who has the power of energy manipulation and the ability to create three separate personality constructs that she can control when they possess other people. She attempted to steal six crystal artifacts, but was stopped by the Big Hero 6 despite her attempts at possessing the members themselves.^[18]
  • Brute – Takes on the form of a giant muscle bound figure.
  • Whiplash – Takes on the form of a thin figure equipped with a whip.
  • Gunsmith – Takes on the form of an average figure equipped with two guns.

In other media

Film adaptation

The Big Hero 6 comics inspired and adapted into the 2014 Disney animated film of the same name.^[19] Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios rather than Marvel Studios,^[20] it retains some of the core themes and character concepts from the comics, but makes substantial changes and builds a new story around them.^[21] For example, the film's version of Baymax is a friendly robot originally designed to provide medical care, while in the comics he is a bodyguard.^[22] The film was released in the United States in November 2014,^[23][24] receiving critical acclaim.^[25][26] It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.^[27][28][29]

Television

The television series Big Hero 6: The Series premiered on Disney XD in November 2017. The series takes place immediately after the events of the 2014 film,^[30] and is created by Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, creators of Kim Possible and executive produced by McCorkle, Schooley and Nick Filippi.^[31] Another series based on Disney's film, Baymax!, was released on Disney+ in June 2022.^[32]

Video games

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The Disney version of Hiro and Baymax are playable in the game Disney Infinity 2.0. The main characters of the film are also playable characters in the game Disney Magic Kingdoms. The Disney version members of Big Hero 6 made their debut appearance in the Kingdom Hearts series in Kingdom Hearts III, essentially making them the first characters from Marvel Comics to appear in the series. The Disney version members of Big Hero 6 also appeared in the game Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay.

Theme park attractions

External links

• Big Hero 6 at Marvel.com