Mai Su

Mai Su is the main protagonist of Next Gen.

## Appearance

Mai is 13 years old, 159cm tall, and is of chinese descent. She has short purple hair that she shaved on the right side herself. She typically dresses in a more alternative style.

## Personality

Mai is portrayed as an angry, rebellious teenager ever since Matthew Su her father, walked out on the family and then died when she was younger. She lives in the futuristic city of Grainland, China. Her mother, Molly Su, became obsessed over Q-Bots, which were household robots that people relied on for menial everyday tasks. Molly gradually started to neglect her daughter, which made Mai grow a hatred for robots.

## History

When Mai was little, her father Matthew walked out on the family due to an argument with Molly. Mai is shown to also lose him during her childhood and was bullied for being “weird”.

Molly and Mai travel to the IQ Robotics Tower to see the reveal event of a new Q-Bot, and Mai quickly gets bored, hijacking a drone to watch a football match. However, the drone breaks down and Mai is chased by security, and ends up falling into Dr Tanner Rice’s secret development room. She discovers he is building a new robot but that it isn’t ready. Dr Rice and his drone friend Alberto leave, and Mai accidentally activates the finishing process, completing 7723. When he activates he asks Mai her name, to which Mai calls him "Stupid Robot". Mai sarcastically asks him if they’re gonna “Hang out, become best buds, and share a deep and meaningful journey of discovery together”. She is then apprehended by security and taken to the Q-Bot Gen 6 reveal event, but goes home and forgets her backpack. 7723 has it, and when he cuts a police robot in half, he runs away. After a short chase, he falls off a broken bridge, and damages his memory drive. He also discovers his core systems.

At school, Mai wanted to play on the soccer field, as she thinks school is boring. While practicing she accidentally hits Ani in the face with her ball. She and Ani make up and become friends, but Mai is pushed away by Greenwood while they’re talking. Greenwood mocks her about her Dad, and Mai gets angry and kicks her ball in Greenwood’s face. Wanting to get back at Mai, Greenwood orders her robots to take her down. After they subdue Mai, Greenwood punches Mai in the face. Afterwards Mai walks home, alone against the world.

When she goes home, she says to Molly Su (her mum) sarcastically that she killed a man for his boots, but Molly is too engrossed in her new Gen 6 Q-Bot to care. After heating up a Ramen pot, which is also a robot, Mai gets so angry at all the technology around her that she storms off. Her mum realises and tries to comfort her, but ends up annoying Mai even more.

One day, Mai went too far - Even if she lied that she didn’t do anything when she just pushed ani, Mai wanted revenge back at Greenwood. She broke off Greenwood's robots, along with Project 7723, and when he trapped her in a cage, Mai wanted him to blast her, but realises her mistake and backs off after 7723 refused to do so because she was just a kid. After he freed Greenwood, she insults Mai, prompting her to charge at Greenwood in anger and hit Greenwood in the face and her hands with her bat. This causes Greenwood to cry and run off.

Mai needs to rescue her mother (Because Justin Pin kidnaps her) when she is rescuing her mother, she is with 7723. In a scene of the final battle, Ares is revealed to be the real bad guy. 7723 erases his good remembers, for activate new weapons, and in the end of the battle, 7723 died for destroying Ares and Justin Pin’s body was finally turned off. When 7723 is alive Justin Pin’s body was buried. After the war, she played football with Ani and her new friends.

## Relationships

### Molly Su

Mai has a somewhat strangled relationship with her mom, but they do get along throughout the movie, particularly after Molly was kidnapped by Justin Pin.

### Momo

Momo is Mai’s dog. They have a good relationship and Mai believes he is the only one who understands what she calls her “unfocused rage”.

### Greenwood

Greenwood and Mai were formerly enemies. They became friends after Mai saved her from the rampaging Q-Bots.

### 7723

Mai didn't really like 7723 at first as she called him stupid robot, however they became friends and get along very well through the movie.

## Trivia

* She is voiced by Charlyne Yi , who is also known as the voice of Ruby from Steven Universe and Chloe Park from We Bare Bears and The Chloe Park Show.