Alistair Krei

### Friends

Hiro Hamada, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Wasabi, Fred Frederickson, Go Go Tomago, Cass Hamada, Abigail Callaghan, Judy, Ian

### Enemies

Robert Callaghan, Globby, Momakase, Mad Jacks, Mel Meyer, High Voltage

### Likes

Technology, science, money, sushi, Cass, origami, the woods

### Dislikes

Disaster, missed opportunities, Di Amara, not being remembered

## Character's Bio

### Nicknames

KreiMr. Krei

Mr. Creep (by Richardson)

### Deathdate

28th September 2015 (Trapped & Disappearances)

### Cause of Death

Assassination by gunshot wound in an abdomen (Trapped & Disappearances)

## Physical Apearance

### Status

AliveDeceased (Trapped & Disappearances)

**Alistair Krei** is one of Big Hero 6 characters. He is a pioneer entrepreneur, tech guru and the CEO of Krei Tech Industries.

## Early Life

Krei is a high-profile person from a very wealthy family. In "Aunt Cass Goes Out", it is stated he even practiced origami with dollars since there were always plenty lying around, but his father never let him fold anything bigger than $50 bills. He attended boarding school in his youth and during each summer when he was home, his parents sent him to Fire Scout Camp. As he did not have many friends and mistreated the few he had, he also would never celebrate Christmas, and instead he would spend his time alone in the woods learning about forest survival. Krei later attended San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and graduated as a distinguished alumnus. Professor Callaghan claimed he ignored sound science and cut corners to get where he currently is.

Years later, Krei established Krei Tech Industries, a global technology company. Krei Tech funded the Silent Sparrow project, a tele-transportation experiment. In the test, Krei ignored the security warnings and turned on the portals, which made it go wrong and caused the portals to suck everything inside them, including the test's pilot. Following this, Akuma Island, where the test took place, was left deserted and Robert Callaghan sought revenge against Krei for this, since the pilot was his daughter, thus plotting his vengeance behind the scenes.

## Appearances

### *Big Hero 6*

Krei first appears at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology convention, where he was conversing with a young inventor about his invention before noticing Hiro's Microbots. He quickly takes interest and attempts to have Hiro sell him the Microbots, but Callaghan intervenes, claiming that Krei only uses science for selfish reasons and subtly manipulates Hiro into refusing Krei's offer. He then leaves, angry and disappointed. Shortly afterward, the showcase hall catches fire, resulting in the deaths of Hiro's brother Tadashi and apparently Callaghan.

Later, while Hiro is tracking down Yokai in the abandoned warehouse and after surviving a car chase from the masked man, he shows his friends a symbol of a bird in a circle which he noticed plastered on a map on the wall of an abandoned warehouse where Yokai had been multiplying the microbots. Hiro shows this symbol to the team after they narrowly escape the car chase. This makes Fred believe that Krei is really Yokai, though everyone else dismisses this idea as it would bring Krei negative attention and be too risky for his public image.

Hiro and the team head off to an island off the coast where Baymax tracks Yokai's location (having scanned Yokai's body) which turns out to be an abandoned Krei lab. As the team explores the lab, they discover an old computer with the same bird symbol Hiro had seen earlier. It then demonstrates a video of Krei performing a demonstration of a portal that can be used to teleport. He first uses the general's hat as an example, which was a success and next tried the same thing on a human being, who in this case was Abigail. One of Krei's scientists revealed that a "slight irregularity" had appeared in the portal's containment field, but he dismissed this and had the scientists proceed. Unfortunately, the experiment failed as the portal began to malfunction and suck everything in with it. Krei was then forced to shut his experiment down and abandon the lab under quarantine. This incident would also later earn him the wrath of Callaghan, as it was presumed that his daughter Abigail, who was the test subject, had died and he blamed Krei as the latter had proceeded with the experiment despite knowing that there were malfunctions, thus indirectly "killing" her. This made Hiro and the team believe Krei became Yokai in an attempt to steal back his research.

However, when they unmask Yokai, they are shocked to see that he is actually Callaghan, who had used Hiro's microbots to survive the fire and left Tadashi (who had entered the building to save him) to die. After he escapes and Baymax calms down Hiro, who had burst into anger and tears after learning that Callaghan did not have remorse for causing Tadashi's demise, the team watches the rest of the uncovered video recordings to get some answers, realizing that the test subject was Abigail, who was Callaghan's daughter and that Callghan was seeking revenge against Krei for the accident.

Callaghan attacks Krei during his latest ceremony as he reveals his plans to take away everything precious from Krei after he caused the accident that took away his daughter. Krei begs for mercy, saying it was an accident and that he will give Callaghan anything he wants. However, this only angers Callaghan as he states that he wants his daughter back. The Big Hero 6 intercepts Callaghan and attempts to reason with him, acknowledging his loss and how his daughter would not approve of his actions. Callaghan expresses regret for a moment, but Krei's cowardice causes Callaghan to resume his plans and pins Krei to a wall while he battles the Big Hero 6. Krei is soon freed from the wall, but the portal remains active. According to Krei, the portal's container field is failing which means that the portal will destroy itself. Before they move away from the portal, Baymax detects Abigail, alive but in hypersleep. When Hiro opts to go save her, Krei objects, worried that Hiro won't make it back as the portal is destabilizing. However, Hiro assures him by telling him that "someone has to help". Krei then watches as Hiro and Baymax enter the portal to retrieve Abigail and Hiro comes back with Abigail safe at hand.

After police and paramedics arrive to care for Abigail and arrest Callaghan, Krei is seen talking with the police about the incident and catches a glimpse of Abigail being wheeled towards a waiting ambulance.

Krei is last seen in the film's credits, where he opens a showcase hall in honor of Tadashi, apparently in consideration for the young man's sacrifice.

### *Big Hero 6: The Series*

Alistair Krei returns in the series as a major character. He remains the most powerful man in San Fransokyo, and is often in the midst of testing or promoting a new invention made by his company. Though the ending of the film implied that the incident with Callaghan may have humbled Krei a bit, this is not the case—Krei is every bit as arrogant and careless with technology as he has always been. His position of power, access to technology, and somewhat underhanded way of treating others makes him a recurring target to various villains, most of whom serve the mysterious Obake. He is repeatedly rescued, however, by Big Hero 6. The relationship between Krei and the team is explored throughout the series, and most interactions seem to suggest that they barely tolerate one another. Krei has shown a level of gratitude for the heroes by agreeing to keep their identities a secret, but even this is not concrete; in "Aunt Cass Goes Out", Krei threatened to expose their identities should they refuse to help work out a kink in one of his latest inventions. Unbeknownst to Krei, his actions throughout the first season would go on to play a vital role in the grand schemes of Obake.

In season 2, Alistair Krei was shown to be an expert wilderness survivalist in "Muira-Horror!", having been in a scout troop as a kid. When confronted by the mutated Ned Ludd, who had been transformed into the Hibagon by Di Amara, it is his skills that help him, Go Go, and Hiro to escape serious harm by the monster, as he knew the best ways to hide from danger and the trails through the forest. Additionally, after Go Go had twisted her ankle, Krei constructed a brace for her ankle out of vines and twigs that allowed her to walk again.

## Official Description

*San Fransokyo Institute of Technology's most illustrious alumn and owner of the biggest technology company in the world, Krei Tech, is always on the hunt for the next big thing. Krei attends the showcase at San Fransokyo Tech and is overwhelmingly impressed by Hiro's ingenuity.*

## Personality

Alistar Krei is a somewhat morally complex man. As a businessman, he's always on the hunt for something new and uses his wealth and intelligence to create amazing inventions that would earn him money. He even had connections with the government and would often sell some of his bigger inventions to them. However, as Callaghan stated during his introduction, Krei's business practices are somewhat questionable; he has been known to cut corners and ignore sound science in order to achieve his goals. This was demonstrated when he was warned that the transportation portal was malfunctioning but proceeded to test it with Abigail as the test subject, only to have the machine fail.

It can be assumed that as a businessman, what mattered most to him was making money by being profitable and taking risks with his inventions (some of which were unstable) without understanding the consequences of his actions. He seems to be the kind of person that is not usually rejected and not very receptive to it, as shown when Hiro rejected Krei's offer to buy his Microbots, he was clearly disappointed, somewhat bitterly saying that he thought Hiro was smarter than that before coldly handing back the Microbot he took. He also seemed to think that money was the answer to everything, as he continued to bombard Hiro with buying his invention, saying he would give him more money than any fourteen-year-old could imagine.

However, despite all of this, he did not seem necessarily evil as he did not seem to mean any actual harm towards Abigail and never committed any actual felons towards anyone―he just simply never considered the consequences of his actions. Though he did state during his toast to his company that there were a few setbacks, it is unknown whether or not he was actually referring to Abigail at all or possibly other people harmed by his inventions. He seemed cowardly as he openly feared Yokai and stated that he would be willing to do anything for him, but Yokai wanted his revenge. He is also shown to take pride in his company, having built it from scratch through hard work over the years.

Krei has many personality traits, both positive and negative. They have helped him reach and keep his high position. Appearing to the public as a confident, intelligent and affluent man who tries to improve people's lives, he hides some of his real and darker personality traits: Being cowardly, arrogant, ignorant, and pretentious; guided by his self-interest, as said by Callaghan.

Being a billionaire, Krei uses his money to influence people and obtain his goals. He constantly tries to obtain the best technology for his business. When he cannot get what he wants, he tries other methods, some of which are morally or legally questionable, such as ripping off people's ideas, blackmailing, or ignoring the rules to get things done faster. This has reflected in his own company, having a record of releasing its products too soon and Callaghan trying to get revenge for the experiment that made him lose his daughter.

After the formation of Big Hero 6, he has used them for his goals as well, getting to the point of threatening to reveal their identities if they do not help him. Thanks to them, he has managed to incarcerate people that have taken advantage of him and his company like Momakase, who was confronted by Big Hero 6, but Krei took the credit for her arrest since she had stolen from his company; as well as Mel Meyer, getting the man imprisoned for trying to get an invention back from him, despite Krei being guilty of his actions as he broke his promise of using his technology for fun things only, and then making his drones attack him.

He has little regard for his adversaries. Most of the time, he has managed to get away with his plans and not get caught over his shady business deals but has suffered some material losses as well.

Krei also constantly forgets the names of the people closer to him, such as calling Fred "Ted" or Ian "Ethan", and completely forgetting his own assistant's name.

Despite his amoral traits, Krei is not truly malicious in that he does not mean to hurt anyone. Rather, he does not consider the consequences of his actions or put any effort into improving the conditions of his business. Mr. Krei is also shown to have a softer side to himself when he helps Hiro and Go Go escape from a mutated Ned Ludd using his vast knowledge of nature he was not shown to have before.

## Physical Appearance

Krei had fair complexion, dark blond hair, blue eyes and wears a blue blazer which, in the film, is more detailed and shows thin, vertical white stripes. He is rarely seen wearing other types of clothing unless he is on vacation. Krei also has a pretty well-built body, just as shown in "Food Fight".

In the fanfic, Trapped & Disappearances, while meeting the Prime Minister of UK, Krei wears deep blue jacket, white shirt, red-violet necktie with golden tie clip, black trousers and shoes.

## Fanfics

Trapped & Disappearances

Krei was first appeared in the fanfic. In Chapter 10: The Assassination of Alistair Krei, on 28th September 2015, he arrives on England from San Fransokyo to meet Harry McNicholas, the Prime Minister of UK at the Palace of Westminster in London. Later, he was assassinated by gunshot wound on an abdomen, the police and the Prime Minister's bodyguards finds an unidentified criminal who shot him in the first place. He was rushing to the Homerton University Hospital with a terrible gunshot wound on his abdomen, and later he dies after the incident.