Big Hero 6

***Big Hero 6*** is a 2014 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Loosely based on the Marvel comics of the same name created by Man of Action, it is the 54th Disney animated feature film. The film was directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams and produced by Roy Conli, with a screenplay written by Jordan Roberts, Dan Gerson, and Robert L. Baird. The film stars the voices of Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., Genesis Rodriguez, James Cromwell, Maya Rudolph, and Alan Tudyk. The official Marvel universe for the animated franchise has been labeled Earth-14123. A television series, which continues the story of the film, aired from 2017 to 2021 on Disney Channel and Disney XD. Another series, *Baymax!*, is set to premiere in June 29, 2022 on Disney+.

## Plot

Robotics prodigy Hiro (Ryan Potter) lives in the city of San Fransokyo. Next to his older brother, Tadashi, Hiro's closest companion is Baymax (Scott Adsit), a robot whose sole purpose is to take care of people. When a devastating turn of events throws Hiro into the middle of a dangerous plot, he transforms Baymax and his other friends, Go Go Tamago (Jamie Chung), Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.), Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez) and Fred (T.J. Miller) into a band of high-tech heroes.

## Why It Deserves A Fistbump

1. The animation looks very fluid and amazing as well as the astonishing visual effects.
2. It keeps an acceptable grasp on its source material of the comic book by Marvel Comics, with changes that actually make sense such as Sunfire and Silver Samurai not being members because they are mutants and Disney didn't have the rights for X-Men characters at the time.
3. The characters are very likable, especially the main character, Hiro and Baymax. Many characters could also be good role models to children and teenagers.
4. The voice actors do very well as their characters and their talents aren't wasted.
5. Lots of funny moments and funny lines, such as when Baymax is on low battery, and Hiro tells him to tell Aunt Cass that they were at school the whole day and he says "We jumped out a window" and when he's in Hiro's room petting a cat and saying "Hairy.. baby! Hairy baby.."
6. The plot twists are very surprising, despite having cliché Disney twist villain (see BQ#3).
7. The action scenes are a hook to watch, especially with the climax between Callaghan and the main characters.
8. Lots of emotional and touching scenes, such as when Tadashi dies, and when Baymax shows Hiro a video about Tadashi testing Baymax.
9. The soundtrack and score by Henry Jackman are excellently dazzling, especially the song "Immortals" by Fall Out Boy, which is quite catchy.
10. The characters' costume designs are awesome and have great and creative superpowers to go along with them.
11. The scene where Hiro teaches Baymax what a fistbump is has become a popular moment in the film.
12. Stan Lee's cameo in the post credit scene is very shocking, where he voiced Fred's father.
13. San Fransokyo is an interesting idea and also has a creative design to it, mixing Japanese and Californian elements with a touch of futuristic technology.
14. Its message on being grateful for what you have is powerful.
15. **Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la!**

## Bad Qualities

1. Some errors; for some reason, Wasabi is a neat freak but his safety precautions against his laser device in the lab are very weak, considering that if someone walked through it they'd probably die instantly or easily lose a limb from carelessness. Additionally, in the warehouse Hiro is shown holding a broom but a little later it disappears and there's nothing to indicate he dropped it. It is also somewhat inconsistent on what types of items are being sucked into the portal.
2. Although nothing is really shown, the scene where Tadashi dies in the fire is possibly too intense for its target audience for the PG rating, even if Disney were not afraid to show them. Additionally, in one scene Hiro removes Baymax's medical chip and tries to make Baymax kill Callaghan, which causes him to go on a rampage. This scene could also potentially be unsettling, especially considering it's such a drastic change of character.
3. Yokai (though he is never preferred to as "Yokai", but officially nicknamed "Mr. Kabuki") was a weak villain despite having an emotional backstory and was a cliched Disney twist villain as considering his backstory, none of his actions makes any sense.
	* Speaking of which, he's a bad twist villain just like the villains in *Frozen* and *Zootopia*. But unlike those films, this twist villain is bad for a different reason. The film tried so hard to make you think the twist villain is Alistair Krei. But it puts so much emphasize on that fact that you know that it isn't true. So the only other suspects are Tadashi Hamada or Robert Callaghan. (Spoiler alert: It was the latter.)
	* And another issue with Callaghan being the mastermind: The film tries to give him the sympathetic background for his actions by how he lost his daughter to Allister's Krei portal, and wanted to get revenge on him and the company for the incident, but the way he reacts to the event makes it almost impossible for audiences to sympathize with him: Namely his revenge on Krei Labs involved using Hiro's microbots to recreate the portal, but using said portal destroy Krei's lab, instead of... y' know... **trying to see if his daughter was still alive**. Not only that, but his plan to suck up Krei Labs would have resulted in loads of building particles and debris being sucked into the portal which would make it nearly impossible for his daughter to be recused, or worse... she could have died! You'd think that as a professor of SFIT, he would have thought his plan through more thoroughly. He's a terrible father.

## Reception

*Big Hero 6* received generally positive reviews, upon its released. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 90% based on 226 reviews and an average rating of 7.30/10. The site's consensus states: "Agreeably entertaining and brilliantly animated, *Big Hero 6* is briskly-paced, action-packed, and often touching.". Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from top reviews from mainstream critics, has calculated a score of 74 based on 38 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

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## Trivia

* For the South Korean release of the film, it was retitled *Big Hero*, to avoid the impression of being a sequel, and edited to remove indications of the characters' Japanese origin. This is owing to the tense relations between Korea and Japan. For instance, the protagonist's name, Hiro Hamada, was changed to "Hero Armada", and Japanese-language signage onscreen was changed to English. Nonetheless, the film caused some online controversy in South Korea, because of small images resembling the Rising Sun Flag in the protagonist's room.
* *Big Hero 6* is the first Disney animated film to feature Marvel Comics characters, whose parent company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2009.
* Walt Disney Animation Studios created new software technology to produce the film's animated visuals.
* The post-credits scene was only added to the film in August 2014, late in production, after co-director Don Hall and his crew went to see Marvel Studios' *Guardians of the Galaxy*. He stated that "[i]t horrified us, that people were sat waiting for an end credits thing, because of the Marvel DNA. We didn't want people to leave the movie disappointed."
* This film is widely loved in Japan.
* It spawned a TV series of the same name in 2017-2021 on Disney XD, along with a spinoff Disney+ tv series titled *Baymax!*, focusing on the title character in 2022.
* The manga adaptation deviates much of the film where Tadashi's fate into getting killed in a fiery laboratory is replaced into going into one of Yokai's dimensional portals, Alistair Krei's exclusion, featuring new characters exclusive to said manga, Professor Callahan's expanded backstory, and much of Hiro's childhood.
* Despite its praise from comic book fans and the general public, the film has received criticism or a bad reputation due to the fact that at the 2015 Oscars, the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Film, beating the favorite and most beloved of 2014, *How to Train Your Dragon 2*, which has led many, mainly Disney critics, that the company steals the awards rather than letting other companies to win like Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, DreamWorks and Sony Pictures.
* Baymax originally looked a lot different. In fact, more concept art shows he was originally going to look identical to Tetsujin 28 (on the upper-left).
* Due to the design of the characters, the film has received different attacks from different users who have made a large number of pornographic drawings of the characters, especially on the pages of Rule 34, which increased with the arrival of his animated series, which has also been reflected in the creation of fanfictions, currently the character of GoGo Tomago has been one of the most attacked by these pages, being one of the most popular within the pages of Rule 34.
* Jamie Chung mentioned on twitter that GoGo's real name is Ethel.

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