Hiro Hamada

"You remind me of Tadashi and myself. If this fails, then... it'd be like I've lost something all over again." - **Hiro** to Léa in Beyond Worlds: Azul

## **OFFICIAL BIO**

*The once 14 year-old robotics prodigy has aged-up; at 17 **Hiro**'s now a collegian like his brother and best friends, with Baymax as his companion and sidekick. He doesn't like the idea of magic and its existence; although he couldn't explain why he would be in this universe. Fault of the time and space continuum? Dimension hopping? Impossible. - Character dossier*

## Biographical Information

### Other Name(s)

Cap(tain) (Chaotic) (by Léa), Lil' Bro (by Tadashi), Super Inggo (by Léa; Azul)

## Relationships

### Family

Unnamed parents (deceased), Cass Hamada (aunt, legal guardian), Tadashi Hamada (older brother, deceased), Mochi (pet), Baymax (companion)

### Friends

Léa Navarro, Cameron Mendes, Red Ordonia, Big Hero 6, Julian Navarro, Oliver Buenavista, Kenji Katagiri (frenemy)

### Enemies

Léa Navarro (formerly), Kenji Katagiri (frenemy), Robert Callaghan (BW), Martín Buenavista (Azul, formerly), Lia (Azul)

## Production Information

### Actor

Ryan Potter (actual), Austin Dy

**Hiro Hamada** (referred to with the middle name of **Takachiho**) is the 17-year-old main male protagonist of Beyond Worlds and the deuteragonist of its reboot's first installment, Beyond Worlds: Azul. The younger brother of Tadashi Hamada- Hiro is also the leader of the modern superhero team Big Hero 6, consisting of Baymax, Honey Lemon, Gogo, Wasabi, Fred, and himself. He's a college student in San Fransokyo Institute of Technology with a major in robotics and engineering alongside his friends and brother. Hiro meets Cameron Mendes, Red Ordonia, and Léa Navarro, developing a love-hate relationship with the latter.

**Austin Dy** is the voice of Hiro in the reels and animatics.

## **EARLY LIFE**

Hiro is born to unnamed parents on June 3, five years after his older brother Tadashi was born. Cass Hamada became the brothers' guardian when their parents died in unknown reasons, while Hiro was 3 and Tadashi was 8. Due to his superior intellect, he was skipping grade levels, not having a chance to socialize with kids his age and his classmates and eventually graduates high school at 13. Instead of applying for college, Hiro spent his time betting in Bot Fights which he considers to be "not illegal", meanwhile Tadashi says otherwise.

#### **Original**

Sometime after forming Big Hero 6, Hiro watched a movie with Léa Navarro in it, with Tadashi even teasing him she's his first fictional character crush, admiring her determination with finding her best friend's father and reunite them again, especially mesmerized with Léa's technical and hacking knowledge. A bit of Léa's interest rubs on him and he now believes in the idea of having multiple universes waiting to go through. As "stupid" as it might be, he tried to do whatever Léa's trying to do: find a portal to another world in hopes of succeeding and even meeting her.

## **PERSONALITY**

Hiro is known to have a cocky, awkward, and carefree personality, and he could also come off as reckless and sacrificing to others. He's considered to be a genius with his IQ canonically being 160 (sometimes even saying that he's smarter than Tadashi). Hiro had his fair share of bullying when he was only in primary school because of his intelligence. He claims that he already knows the things teachers teach him, leading him to stop attending classes when he graduated high school at 13 and turn to Bot Fighting. As a member and leader of Big Hero 6, he's shown to be protective of his loved ones, albeit not showing it directly. He tends to do things his own way and is very resourceful, shown multiple times that he can adapt with even the hardest situations he gets caught in.

Helping people is always Hiro's top priority- he prioritizes everyone else and often forgets to look after himself in the process. He's very selfless and caring towards others, which is why it was a surprise why he also hates how Léa acts around him; being snobby and rude even though he didn't do anything to her. This led to Hiro acting the same around Léa, which usually quickly escalates. Even if he and Léa bicker a lot, he seems inconsistent with hating her, just like what he says Léa does to him in return.

## **PHYSICAL APPEARANCE**

#### **BEYOND WORLDS & AZUL**

He has long messy black hair that reaches his nape, and his eyes are hazel brown in color, just like Tadashi's. He stands at about 5'6" as Léa mentioned in the reboot, meaning he grew 6 inches in the last 3 years since he was 14. Hiro also tends to wear sweatshirts and hoodies, sporting one over a red shirt and gray long-sleeves. Instead of his usual cargo capris though, he was given khaki pants with either a black or brown belt, and his shoes are black Converse high-tops with yellow shoelaces. He's mentioned to be wearing his blue SFIT hoodie sweatshirt, and in the last few chapters, Hiro loses both his zip-up jacket (as he gives it to Léa) and sweatshirt, wearing only his shirt over the gray long-sleeves.

## **GALLERY**

BW Season 1Hiro with LéaBW Season 2Hiro with Léa and RedAmarilloWedding showerAmarillo epilogue
## **TRIVIAS**

* Hiro's middle name, "Takachiho", is a reference to the Marvel character Hiro Hamada is based on, Hiro Takachiho.
* In the Beyond Worlds wiki page in the Chrysalis Wiki, Hiro's birth year is typed in to be 2003. This is a mistake, since Hiro would be 18 if that's the case. **Parker Trinh** mentions at one point that both Léa and Hiro would be 17 at the end of the story/series.
* As mentioned above, Hiro is mentioned to be wearing his SFIT sweatshirt in the 8th chapter. In the same chapter, Léa is described to be sporting the Caltech letterman jacket, which means the two coincidentally wear garments of their own school.
* **Stefen Sanchez**, one of the writers of Beyond Worlds, likes to imagine that Léa was taller than Hiro at some point, but Hiro hit puberty becoming taller than her.
	+ This is technically true since in the Big Hero 6 wiki, it states that Hiro's height is 152 cm, while when **Kath Aguinaldo** was 14, she was 153 cm in the profiles, making 14 year-old Kath literally only a centimeter taller than Hiro.
* In Amarillo, he's most likely to learn how to tie his hair into a short ponytail since his hair is mentioned to be growing at a fast rate, and he has no plans cutting it.
* Unlike his brother, Hiro hates wearing caps or hats. Even tough the reason for this is unknown, maybe it's because he hates getting his hair oily.
* In the original Beyond Worlds, Léa is Hiro's fictional character crush, and the others (especially Tadashi and/or Honey Lemon) knows about it. It's hinted that Hiro foreshadowed the readers that he recognizes Léa as early as chapter 2, which is their first meeting.
* Léa's dislocated shoulder is on her right as hinted by Hiro- with a bandaged hand- when he tried to shake hers.
	+ Hiro's right wrist was the one that's been broken, as it was mentioned that Léa couldn't shake his hand due to her shoulder being dislocated. This means that both of them are right handed.