Momakase

###  Friends:

Obake (status unknown), her followers, Globby (formerly), Noodle Burger Boy (formerly), Yama (betrayed), Mad Jacks (unknown; possibly formerly), Di Amara (formerly), Chris (formerly), High Voltage (formerly), Hiro Hamada (occasionally ally)

### Enemies:

Big Hiro Six, Yama, San Fransokyo Police, Professor Granville, Aunt Cass, Alaister Krei, Karmi, Hiro Hamada (occasional enemy)

## Physical Appearance

### Species:

* Human
	+ Mutated Human (briefly; formerly)

### Eye Color:

* Fern Green
* Feline Green (mutated, formerly)

###  Skin Color:

FairGray (mutated; formerly)

**Momakase** is a professional thief and sushi chef that appears in *Big Hero 6: The Series* as a recurring villain.

## Background

Momakase's family inherited a pair of Daishō swords throughout generations until her family was threatened by gangsters, forcing her father to give the swords to them in return for the clan's safety. This marked Momakase's personality and made her determined to not let anyone push her around ever again.

Aside from making a name for herself as a professional sushi chef, Momakase also became an extremely dangerous thief, who uses special graphene blades as weapons. One of her signature "moves" is slicing most things in the scene after her heists so that when someone goes to investigate, they see the things fall apart. In the shady district of Good Luck Alley, Momakase also ran an underground cooking competition called "Food Fight" where chefs from around the city compete in extreme cooking challenges. She also became a known thief, even being on Mr. Frederickson's criminal data, famous for being extremely dangerous and highly skilled with blades

## Personality

Being a professional thief, she is very analytical and precise in executing her plans. Momakase is proud of her reputation as the best sushi chef around, and does not take kindly to those who doubt her skills or rival her. Thus, because of her love of winning, she is arrogant and condescending, treating others as beneath her and will fly into a fit of rage if she loses.

Momakase is also backstabbing and greedy for when she stole the second half of the anti-gravitational device for Yama, she betrayed him and took the device to sell for an even higher profit. Also a result of her arrogance, Momakase is very particular of how her sushi is eaten and gets annoyed when people don't prepare or eat it properly.

One of her signature "moves" is slicing most things in the scene after her heists so that when someone goes to investigate, they see the things fall apart.

Upon escaping from prison following her defeat by Big Hero 6, she learned their identities thanks to Obake, also joining forces with him to take revenge against the superhero team and remained loyal to him, despite his wicked plan involving to blow up the city.

In spite of her typical backstabbing and ruthless nature, Momakase is shown to have a sense of gratitude and thankfulness, helping Big Hero 6 escape from the police as thanks for Hiro helping her retrieve her family's lost swords and aiding him in fighting Noodle Burger Boy, a former comrade, in gratitude for how he had helped her. She also appears to have struck a slight friendship with Hiro, referring to him slightly-affectionately as "partner" before drawing the police away.

She is also shown to have a sentimental side, spending the better part of her life trying to recover her families swords purely for their sentimental value, even describing them as more valuable to her than anything in the world. She also appears to have a deep love for her family, which she is apparently the last off, describing the swords as being her last connection to her clan, which is the reason she endlessly searching for them.

## Appearance

Momakase has a slender figure, fair skin, red lips, and green eyes. She has long black hair with blue streaks, tied back, and wears a black-and-blue, short-sleeved chef-style uniform. When she is on a heist, she wears her hair spiked up, and dresses in a black-and-blue ninja-style jumpsuit along with a blue eye mask.

After she was mutated by Di Amara, her eyes became slit with yellow sclera and gained the ability to pronounce sharp graphene-claws from her hands. She progressively mutated into a feline-like form, which involved her skin turning gray, her hair and eyebrows greatly extending to resemble a mane, developing thick lining around her eyes, and growing sharp canine teeth.

## Powers and Abilities

Momakase possesses many skills common amongst Japanese ninjas, as well as some typical ninja weapons.

* **Master Acrobat:** She can leap across buildings and do flips with ease.
* **Cooking skills:** As one of the best chefs in San Fransokyo (or the best according to her), she undoubtedly possesses amazing cooking skills. She also used this skill to complete her heist job by disguising as a chef to infiltrate Krei's office.
* **Sword Mastery:** She uses a set of graphene knives and katana as weapons, skilled enough to throw them with precision at people or things, usually in a non-fatal way. The unique feature of graphene being extremely sharp makes this even more dangerous.

As a mutant, Momakase briefly gained new abilities:

* **Retractable Claws:** After being mutated by Di's biochip, Momakase could extend her fingernails into claws with the same properties as her graphene blades. She lost this ability when her biochip was deactivated by Bessie in "City of Monsters, Part 2".

### Equipment

* **Graphene knives:** Momakase's choice of weapons are graphene-bladed knives, which she uses for both cooking and combat. She has different types of knives, and they can slice through solid objects in an instant, and are so thin they can only be seen from a side angle not to mention even gradiently translucent to a certain degree. She used a wired knife to break into Krei's office. Since the *Food Fight* rules force the loser to lend their knives to the winner, Aunt Cass is supposed to own the ones she used for cooking now. However, they are not seen in Cass's knife collection from previous wins or anywhere else, so it's unknown if she got them or not. Momakase got another set when she was broken out of prison thanks to Obake.
* Jumpsuit: During her heists, Momokase dresses in black-and-blue ninja-style jumpsuit. The jumpsuit includes a belt from which her graphene blades hang from.
* **Graphene katanas:** She used one while trying to retrieve the second half of the gravitational disruptor. However, Hiro took it and used it against her. She leaves it at Krei's office but later obtains more.
* **Smoke bomb:** Used after her encounter with Hiro, Baymax and Wasabi to escape unseen.
* **Poisonous fish:** Used to incapacitate Krei and Yama. She claimed the poison is not from the fish itself but added by herself.
* **Graphene shard:** Obake gave it to her in order to escape prison and join forces with him.
* **Invisibility mask:** Made by Hiro using Flexible Display Technology to help Momakase steal from Yama's safe after Hiro was blackmailed by Momakase.
* **Daishō swords:** These antique blades were Momakase's family heirloom. As she has not utilized them in combat (presumably because of her intimacy with the blades), it is unknown what their capabilities are.

## History

Momakase first appears in "Food Fight" where Yama hires her to steal a prototype gravitational disruptor from Alistair Krei, which she does by infiltrating Krei Tech as Krei's personal chef in order to poison him and leverage Krei for the antidote. She only steals half of the device, since the other half his hidden somewhere else in Krei's office. After getting Yama to agree to double her fee, she steals the other half of the device, but instead of handing it over to Yama, she decides to sell it on the black market to the highest bidder. After poisoning Yama and sending him home, she heads down to the Food Fight arena to challenge Cass. Momakase tries everything to make Cass lose, but all her efforts to cheat backfire. When she notices Big Hero 6 in her office, she engages them in a fight after presenting her dish to the judges. She also traps Cass in a net, so she cannot get her dish to the judges before the time runs out. Soon, she accidentally triggers the disruptor when she knocks it out of Wasabi's hand, creating an anti-gravity field that inadvertently freed Cass. As Momakase tackled Baymax through the window pane, she is angered to hear Cass had bested her and quickly forgot about Big Hero 6 to attack Cass, only to get caught in her own net just as Hiro disabled the anti-gravity field. She is later arrested for her crimes.

In "Fan Friction", Momakase is freed from prison by Obake, who proposes an alliance for the common goal of eliminating Big Hero 6. A vengeful Momakase accepts. She is sent to create an elaborate trap inside Krei's abandoned facility on Akuma Island, which is scheduled to be destroyed that same night. Momakase kidnaps Hiro's "girlfriend", Karmi, to lure the team to the island where they end up imprisoned, as planned. Momakase then leaves them to die as the facility nears demolition and reports her apparent success to Obake, though her ally stated he expects Hiro to come up with a solution to their predicament.

In "Countdown to Catastrophe", Obake's plot nears completion. Momakase is sent out with Globby and Noodle Burger Boy (both of whom she shows distaste for) to distract Big Hero 6, while Obake retrieves an Energy Amplifier created by Hiro. Afterward, they regroup in Obake's lair, where the latter attempts to coerce Hiro into joining their side. It is in this moment that Momakase and Globby learn of Obake's true intentions—destroy San Fransokyo and all who inhabit it, to create a bigger and better "paradise". Unlike Globby, however, Momakase shows no hesitation in such a scheme. She keeps watch outside of Hiro's prison cell after the boy genius refused to cooperate. She is confronted by Globby, who has had a change of heart and looks to help Big Hero 6 defeat Obake. The two briefly battle, but Globby manages to pin Momakase to a wall.

When she is found by Obake, Momakase informs him of Globby's betrayal. Furious, Obake orders Momakase to bring Hiro back. When Momakase questions why Hiro is worth the hassle, Obake states that the boy genius needs his guidance. She finds Wasabi and Go Go Tomago in Fish Town and demands that they hand over Hiro. Wasabi retaliates and the two rivals engage in a final battle against one another. In during which, Momakase manages to cut off some of Wasabi's dreads. Before she can kill him, however, Momakase is defeated and apprehended by Go Go.

In "Seventh Wheel", Momakase discreetly breaks out of prison and forms an alliance with Di Amara (at the time pretending to be Liv Amara), CEO of Sycorax. As per their deal, Momakase is given a chip that mutates her body to include sharp canines and claws made of the same material as her graphene blades. She uses this new form to battle and subsequently escapes Big Hero 6, all the while Liv's involvement remains confidential.

Momakase appears again City of Monsters, having gained control of her new form. She serves as Mr. Sparkles's muscle alongside the mutated Orso Knox against Big Hero 6 over custody of Wendy Wower. Momakase has a rematch with Wasabi and, despite the latter equipped with upgraded weapons, makes short work of him. When Baymax enters Overdrive Mode, Momakase is at first confident of victory, but since Baymax's battery life is longer this time, he proves to be an even match. Baymax does succumb to low power mode, though not before sending Momakase flying with a powerful sword strike, where she is saved and escorted by the Mayoi back to Di. When Di berates the monsters for their failures, Momakase, whose former employer had a similar problem with Big Hero 6, provides her the team leader's identity—Hiro Hamada—and suggests isolating him from the rest right before Di ushers her and the other mutants away due to Karmi's arrival.

Momakase then invades the alleys of San Fransokyo. When Honey Lemon appears, Momakase ambushes and starts swiping relentlessly at the heroine who protects herself in a bunny-shaped shield. Honey soon lures Momakase to Night Market Square with Mr. Sparkles, Knox, High Voltage, and Bessie; Momakase uses the opportunity to stab Bessie, thus releasing a large electromagnetic blast that shuts down all of Big Hero 6's armors. A little later, Ned Ludd (who was informed about Bessie by Mini-Max) arrives and successfully tames Bessie into rejoining his side. Momakase then receives a blast from Bessie that deactivates her biochip and reverses her mutation. Upon noticing that she has lost her graphene claws, she slams her fists on the street in frustration.

Momakase would later escape from prison and find her way to Hiro's garage in "Hiro The Villain", recruiting him for a personal mission under the threat of releasing their identities to Chief Cruz and the public. Later, she explains what the plan is: breaking into Yama's lair while not being detected from his infrared security cameras and stealing something from him. Two days later, she and Hiro use the Flexible Display Technology he brought as well as his sonic gloves to storm his headquarters. In Yama's office, he finds what she was looking for: two Daishō swords that she would later explain to Hiro outside were family heirlooms, traded away in exchange for her family's protection from gangsters. After a brief skirmish with Yama himself, she and Hiro fight the rest of the team who have arrived on the scene.

After Hiro explains the situation, the police arrive looking for Big Hero 6. Momakase, grateful for Hiro's assistance, leads them away so that the team can escape.

A hologram version of Momakase was accidentally chosen by Fred as his opponent when he was testing out the secret base's training room in "Major Blast".

In "The Hyper-Potamus Pizza-Party-Torium", Big Hero 6 train to have better performance as a team, using simulated versions of enemies they had faced before, including Momakase.

In "Big Hero Battle", Momakase sneaks into the San Fransokyo Museum of Art to steal a restored version of the *City Rising* painting for an unknown purpose. The new "superhero" boy band team 4 2 Sing arrive to try stopping her since they started a competition against Big Hero 6. While 4 2 Sing only dance, Wasabi enters and actually fights her, winning and trapping her under a sculpture. However, 4 2 Sing gets the credit for Momakase's arrest instead of Wasabi or Big Hero 6. Momokase escapes prison soon after, however.

In "The Mascot Upshot", Noodle Burger Boy. Hangry Panda, Crushroom and Hyper-Potamus "adopt" Momakase as her new sister after Mini-Max goes undercover to become part of their family, but the mascots know he's trying to double-cross them. After Mini-Max takes the mascots to the Noodle Burger factory to be ambushed by Big Hero 6, they reveal that they knew his plan all along, and Momakase jumps down to steal Big Hero 6's weapons. However, Hiro reveals that he secretly made a deal with Momakase, shocking everyone as she takes out Noodle Burger Boy's Obake chip, throwing it to Hiro and returns Big Hero 6's equipment, kicking them to the hero group and allowing them to defeat the rest of the bots, which Momakase witnesses. Hiro thanks Momakase and she responds that she owed him a favor but now they're even, then makes her exit, farewelling them until next time.

## Etymology

* **Omakase** - Momakase's name is based on the word. This is a Japanese phrase referring to a type of meal consisting of dishes selected by the chef in a restaurant.

## Trivia

* Momakase can be seen briefly in the series intro for all three seasons in a small hexagon when Hiro expands his hands. This makes her and Noodle Burger Boy to be the only two antagonists to appear in a small hexagon for all three intros.
* In her mutated form, Momakase bears a resemblance to the Marvel Comics character Lady Deathstrike.
* It is revealed in "City of Monsters" that Momakase knew about Big Hero 6's true identities, at least for Hiro.