99 Fun Facts About Big Hero 6

Baymax's simple face in Big Hero 6 was inspired by which object, seen on a trip to Japan?

A bell. Director Don Hall said there was something peaceful and calming about the bells he saw there, so the robot was given the same plain face.

Don Hall found the Big Hero 6 comic in a Marvel database while directing which Disney film?

Winnie the Pooh. Hall had never heard of the comic and says he simply liked its title, yet it was the idea he pitched to John Lasseter in 2011.

Big Hero 6 had its world premiere as the opening title of which October 2014 event?

Tokyo International Film Festival. Big Hero 6 opened its 27th edition, and the directors said their research trips to the city had informed every detail of the film.

Big Hero 6 opened the same weekend as which space epic and beat it to number one?

Interstellar. Both films cost about $165 million, and Big Hero 6 trailed on opening day before winning the weekend with $56.2 million.

In Big Hero 6, which gesture does Hiro teach Baymax after training him to fight?

A fist bump. Hiro explains that people do it when they are pumped up, and Baymax files it in his caregiving matrix and later tries one on Fred's butler, Heathcliff.

The Lucky Cat Café in Big Hero 6 was modeled on a Victorian house in which San Francisco neighborhood?

Haight-Ashbury. Disney's artists stretched and exaggerated a real corner house there, then added a lucky-cat figurine, Japanese signage and cherry blossom trees.

Baymax's inflatable body in Big Hero 6 was inspired by a research trip to which university's robotics lab?

Carnegie Mellon. Researcher Chris Atkeson showed Don Hall an inflatable vinyl robot arm meant for nursing work, and Hall later said, "He had me at vinyl."

Big Hero 6 won the Best Animated Feature Oscar over which Golden Globe winner?

How to Train Your Dragon 2. Three weeks before Oscar night it had also taken the top prize at the Annie Awards, with six wins to Big Hero 6's one, before the Academy went the other way.

In Big Hero 6, how does Baymax behave when his battery runs low?

As if he were drunk. With his power fading he turns giddy and incoherent, and Hiro has to sneak him past Aunt Cass to reach his charger.

What is the name of the futuristic city where Big Hero 6 is set?

San Fransokyo. In the filmmakers' backstory, never stated in the film, Japanese immigrants helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.

What is the name of the Hamada family's cat in Big Hero 6?

Mochi. In Big Hero 6: The Series the Japanese bobtail becomes an internet celebrity after Honey Lemon posts a video of him slow clapping.

Who voices Hiro Hamada?

Ryan Potter. Like Hiro he is half-Japanese, and Don Hall said the teenage actor was so likeable that he took the edge off the character's snark.

Which 30 Rock actor voices Baymax?

Scott Adsit. The filmmakers cast a wide net, and Chris Williams said Adsit's timing let real emotion poke through without breaking the rules of Baymax being a robot.

In Big Hero 6, what must a patient say before Baymax will deactivate?

I am satisfied with my care. At the climax Hiro has to say it himself, reluctantly, so that Baymax can stay behind in the collapsing portal.

How does Hiro spend his time at the start of Big Hero 6?

Competing in illegal underground bot fights. He hustles an undefeated gangster named Yama, and his brother Tadashi has to swoop in on a moped before the thugs reach him.

In Big Hero 6, what does Hiro invent to impress the university showcase?

Neural-controlled microbots. Tech mogul Alistair Krei offers to buy them on the spot, but Professor Callaghan persuades Hiro to turn him down.

In Big Hero 6, how does Hiro's older brother Tadashi die?

In a fire at the showcase. Tadashi runs back inside to rescue his professor, telling Hiro that someone has to help, moments before the hall explodes.

In Big Hero 6, who is behind the kabuki mask of the villain Yokai?

Professor Callaghan. The team had suspected tech mogul Alistair Krei, but Callaghan had faked his own death, using Hiro's stolen invention as a shield.

In Big Hero 6, where is the abandoned laboratory the team investigates?

On a remote island. Akuma Island housed Krei Tech's teleportation project, which was shut down after a test pilot vanished into its unstable portal.

In Big Hero 6, how did Wasabi get his nickname?

He spilled it on his shirt. It happened just once, as Wasabi keeps protesting, but Fred hands out the group's nicknames and this one stuck.

Alan Tudyk voices which character in Big Hero 6?

Alistair Krei. Tudyk had won an Annie Award for voicing King Candy, and Disney Animation kept calling him back: Big Hero 6 was his third of its films in a row.

Which actress voices Aunt Cass, Hiro and Tadashi's guardian, in Big Hero 6?

Maya Rudolph. She returned for the Disney+ series Baymax!, whose first episode has the robot running Cass's café after she sprains her ankle.

Which actor voiced Fred in Big Hero 6 but was replaced by Brooks Wheelan in the TV series?

T.J. Miller. Co-director Chris Williams called him a real student of comedy, and said his layered performance made Fred a richer character than anyone expected.

Jamie Chung voices which character in Big Hero 6?

Go Go Tomago. Don Hall wanted a woman of few words, a laconic Clint Eastwood type, and the team looked at bicycle messengers for inspiration.

Which actor voices Wasabi in Big Hero 6?

Damon Wayans Jr. Chris Williams called the rule-loving Wasabi the most normal of the group, the voice of the audience who points out that what they are doing is crazy.

Which actress voices Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6 and in its Latin American Spanish dub?

Genesis Rodriguez. When Honey Lemon first appears she is listening to a song by José Luis Rodríguez, the Venezuelan singer who is the actress's father.

In Big Hero 6, how does Tadashi make Hiro yelp so that Baymax switches on?

Rips duct tape off his arm. Baymax is programmed to wake at a sound of distress, so a single yelp of pain inflates him for his first demonstration.

Stan Lee's cameo in Big Hero 6 casts him as whose father?

Fred's. After the credits Fred stumbles on a hidden room of superhero gear, and his father walks in to say that the two of them have a lot to talk about.

Which band wrote and recorded the original song 'Immortals' for Big Hero 6?

Fall Out Boy. Disney asked the band for a song for the sequence where the students become superheroes, and Pete Wentz said the story lined up with how the band saw the world.

Henry Jackman, who scored Big Hero 6, had earlier written the music for which Disney film of 2012?

Wreck-It Ralph. For Big Hero 6, Jackman spent about a week at the piano writing one big, old-fashioned theme, then recorded the score with a 77-piece orchestra.

What was the name of the new rendering system Disney built for Big Hero 6?

Hyperion. It traces billions of bouncing rays of light per frame, and Disney had to assemble a supercomputer of more than 2,300 Linux workstations just to run it.

In Big Hero 6, what does Hiro remove from Baymax to turn him on the unmasked villain?

His healthcare chip. Left with only his combat programming, Baymax becomes a ruthless weapon until Hiro's friends step in and slot the chip back.

In Big Hero 6, which three words does Baymax say before showing Hiro videos of his late brother?

Tadashi is here. Baymax then plays his own test footage, and watching his brother keep trying to build a robot that helps people pulls Hiro back from revenge.

Which animated short accompanied Big Hero 6 in theaters?

Feast. A stray dog named Winston is raised on his owner's junk food, then gives it all up to reunite the man with his girlfriend, thanks to a single sprig of parsley.

In Big Hero 6, how does Baymax memorably describe Hiro's cat?

Hairy baby. He says it twice while cradling the cat with his battery almost flat, as Hiro struggles to smuggle him upstairs unnoticed.

In Big Hero 6, what is Fred's actual role at the university?

School mascot. Fred is no scientist, just a comic-book fan who twirls a sign in a costume, and he never mentions that his family is enormously rich.

In Big Hero 6, what is Go Go Tomago's blunt two-word catchphrase?

Woman up. She flips the old 'man up' on her teammates, and the full line is blunter still: "Stop whining, woman up."

Big Hero 6: The Series opened on Disney XD in November 2017 with a 43-minute episode titled what?

Baymax Returns. Hiro rebuilds the robot's body but skips the final diagnostic, and the empty skeleton runs wild across the city and into the hands of a gangster.

Which Sherlock actor voices the villain Obake in Big Hero 6: The Series?

Andrew Scott. Obake was once Professor Granville's prodigy, until a lab accident damaged the part of his brain that tells right from wrong.

In the original Marvel comics, whose brain patterns did Hiro use to program Baymax?

His late father's. The comic-book Baymax is a bodyguard who carries the thoughts and feelings of Hiro's dead father, a secret the boy keeps from his mother.

The Big Hero 6 comic's creators went on to form Man of Action, the group behind which Cartoon Network hit?

Ben 10. Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau dreamed up Big Hero 6 in their spare time in 1998, and the film's credits give Man of Action a full card for it.

Which X-Men villain was an original member of the comic-book Big Hero 6?

Silver Samurai. He was the original team's field commander, but neither he nor the mutant Sunfire reached the screen, because Fox then held the film rights to X-Men characters.

In the original Marvel comics, what could Baymax transform into?

A dragon. Co-creator Duncan Rouleau reasoned that a robot designed by a boy would look a lot like Godzilla, so the comic's Baymax was a fearsome bodyguard.

In the Marvel comics, what is Fred's superhero nickname?

Fredzilla. In the comics he really can turn into a giant Godzilla-like lizard, while the film's Fred has to settle for a fire-breathing monster suit.

In the Marvel comics, Wasabi-No-Ginger fights with swords and energy knives, but what is his trained profession?

Chef. In the comics he shapes his Qi energy into knives; the film kept the blades but turned him into a cautious science student who works with lasers.

In Big Hero 6, what does Baymax diagnose after scanning the moody Hiro for injuries?

Puberty. Baymax finds no injury at all, and the verdict only makes a mortified Hiro try harder to shut him down.

In Big Hero 6, what does Baymax hand Hiro after treating him for the first time?

A lollipop. It is Hiro's reward for being a good patient, and in the spin-off series Baymax! a stray cat the robot has just treated steals his lollipop and walks off.

In Big Hero 6, how does Tadashi help a stuck Hiro find an idea for the showcase?

Shakes him upside down. Tadashi tells him to look for a new angle, and from down there Hiro's eye falls on one of his old inventions and the big idea arrives.

Unlike the CGI film, Big Hero 6: The Series was made in which style?

Hand-drawn 2D animation. The look changed but the voices mostly did not: most of the film's cast returned for the series, with only two of the six heroes recast.

In Big Hero 6, what does Go Go Tomago's supersuit let her skate on?

Maglev discs. Hiro borrows the idea from the magnetic-levitation bike she had been developing, and she can snap the discs off and throw them like blades.

Baymax!, the 2022 Disney+ spin-off of Big Hero 6, was the first TV series produced by which studio?

Walt Disney Animation Studios. Spin-offs of its films had usually gone to Disney's television arm, so the feature crew had to adapt to telling stories in short episodes.

Big Hero 6's post-credits scene was added late after the crew saw which Marvel Studios movie?

Guardians of the Galaxy. Don Hall admitted they had simply forgotten about a tag scene until they watched audiences sit waiting for one, and work on theirs began that August.

Which video game includes a world based on Big Hero 6 that continues the story past the film's ending?

Kingdom Hearts III. Its villains recover the first Baymax, the body left behind in the portal, and turn it into a dark double that the rebuilt robot has to fight.

Big Hero 6: The Series was created by the duo behind which earlier Disney animated show?

Kim Possible. Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley picked the story up straight after the film, with Hiro starting at the university and a rebuilt Baymax at his side.

In Big Hero 6, which martial art does Hiro load into Baymax to prepare him for a fight?

Karate. Hiro downloads the moves and builds carbon-fiber armor around them, because a robot made of soft vinyl cannot land a blow on its own.

For the South Korean release of Big Hero 6, what was Hiro Hamada's name changed to?

Hero Armada. The release played down the characters' Japanese heritage, so Tadashi became Teddy, and the title lost its 6 so that nobody would take it for a sequel.

In Big Hero 6, the towers of which real bridge are restyled as Japanese torii?

Golden Gate Bridge. The torii-style towers stayed in even for the South Korean release, which otherwise toned down many of the film's Japanese touches.

The tie-in game Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay was released for which platforms?

Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS. Set after the film, the brawler lets you play as Hiro, Go Go, Wasabi or Fred, yet Baymax himself only turns up to lend support.

Which Disney park opened a spinning ride called The Happy Ride with Baymax in 2020?

Tokyo Disneyland. The ride was due to open in April 2020, but the park closed for the pandemic first, and guests had to wait until late September for their spin.

Before Baymax had a design, Big Hero 6 artist Lisa Keene proposed that the robot should be what?

Huggable was Lisa Keene's one-word brief, and the team found a way to meet it after seeing a soft robot arm in a university lab.

A director picked the obscure comic Big Hero 6 from a Marvel database because he liked what?

Its title was the whole attraction: he had never heard of the comic, and Disney wanted an obscure property that it could freely reinvent.

Once activated in Big Hero 6, Baymax cannot switch himself off until his patient tells him what?

They are satisfied with care: only that assurance sends Baymax back to his idle state, which is why a confused Hiro has to say it to end their first meeting.

What does Hiro Hamada find clenched in Baymax's rocket fist at the end of Big Hero 6?

Tadashi's original chip, holding Baymax's whole caring personality, was saved in the fist that pushed Hiro out of the collapsing portal.

Despite its comic-book roots, Big Hero 6 was deliberately kept out of which shared film franchise?

Marvel Cinematic Universe ties were ruled out early, so the heroes live in a stand-alone world despite being the first Marvel characters in a Disney animated film.

The winged armor that Hiro Hamada builds for Baymax's superhero form is mainly which color?

Red plating, trimmed with purple, replaced a dull-green prototype that Hiro first built so Baymax could practice karate.

Aunt Cass raises Hiro and Tadashi Hamada in the flat above which coffee shop that she owns?

Lucky Cat Café is the bakery and coffee shop Cass runs on the ground floor, and she raises her two nephews in the family home upstairs after their parents died.

Which habit does Go Go Tomago keep up all through Big Hero 6, stopping only when danger arrives?

Chewing bubble gum is her trademark, and in the final battle she sticks the gum to her helmet before spinning her way out of a trap.

Which weapons does Wasabi wield from his forearms in Big Hero 6?

Plasma blades suit the team's most cautious member oddly well: Wasabi's student project was laser-induced plasma, and the blades retract into his suit.

Which item of Tadashi Hamada's, lettered with a local team's name, does Hiro keep as a memento?

His baseball cap, lettered for the city's Ninjas team, slips from Tadashi's head just before he is lost, and Hiro retrieves it.

Tadashi Hamada races in to rescue Hiro from a gangster's thugs early in Big Hero 6 on which vehicle?

A moped carries both brothers away from the gangster Yama's men, though the getaway ends with the pair under arrest anyway.

Go Go Tomago's student project in Big Hero 6 fits electromagnetic wheels to which vehicle?

A bicycle with magnetically suspended wheels is her quest for speed, and Hiro turns the same discs into her skates, shields and throwing weapons.

Hiro Hamada and Baymax make a cameo appearance in which 2018 animated feature?

Ralph Breaks the Internet gives the pair a brief appearance, and Baymax's regular voice actor returned to record it.

The Disney+ series Baymax! swaps superhero action for stories modeled on which television genre?

Medical procedurals were what its creator loved watching as a child, so each episode sends Baymax to treat a reluctant patient somewhere in the city.

Big Hero 6: The Series broke from the computer-animated film by using which production method?

Hand-drawn animation was the creators' choice even though they were offered CGI, after hitting its limits on an earlier Monsters vs. Aliens cartoon.

What is the name of Fred's unflappable family butler, who greets the team in Big Hero 6?

Heathcliff later picks up the heroes after an angry Hiro leaves them stranded, and the TV series reveals that he was once a secret agent nicknamed Mongoose.

Which Babe and L.A. Confidential actor voices Tadashi Hamada's robotics professor in Big Hero 6?

James Cromwell, Oscar-nominated as the farmer in Babe, plays the head of the university's robotics program and Tadashi's mentor.

Which material forms Baymax's soft white body, an idea taken from real soft-robotics research?

Vinyl won the director over the moment a researcher showed him a soft robotic arm that was meant to work as a gentle nurse's assistant.

Production designer Paul Felix compared the dense downtown of Big Hero 6's city to which 1982 film?

Blade Runner was his shorthand for the layered, dense commercial district, though he said the effect is confined to a few square blocks.

The makers of Big Hero 6 imagined its city rebuilt by Japanese immigrants after which disaster?

The 1906 earthquake is the turning point of that alternate history, which explains the city's blend of American streets and Japanese design but is never mentioned on screen.

Which 1980s rock anthem is heard briefly as an instrumental in Big Hero 6 but not on its soundtrack?

Eye of the Tiger, Survivor's theme from Rocky III, gets only a short instrumental burst in the film and does not appear on its soundtrack album.

Which fire-wielding former X-Man helped Marvel's original Big Hero 6 defeat the villain Everwraith?

Sunfire, a mutant who can fly and fire super-heated blasts, shared the billing when the team made its debut in Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1.

In Marvel's comics, Hiro gives Baymax a mind built from the brain patterns of which person?

His late father, Tomeo, died before the robot was finished, so the comic-book Baymax is bodyguard, friend and father figure in one.

In Big Hero 6: The Series, which robot does Hiro build to keep Fred out of trouble?

Mini-Max was meant as a babysitter, but Fred treats the tiny, overly heroic robot as his sidekick, and it later fights in its own dark blue armor.

Which long-serving X-Men writer co-created Wasabi-No-Ginger for Marvel's 2008 Big Hero 6 miniseries?

Chris Claremont, who wrote Uncanny X-Men for 16 years, created the character with artist David Nakayama and armed him with swords and knives of Qi energy.

Which eleven-year-old comic-shop owner is Fred's spoiled arch-nemesis in Big Hero 6: The Series?

Richardson Mole owns a whole arcade devoted to his grudge, with a Whac-A-Mole-style game as his favorite way to vent.

Krei Tech's doomed teleportation experiment in Big Hero 6 carried which bird-themed project name?

Silent Sparrow explains the red bird logo Hiro spots on the masked villain's machinery: the project was shut down after a test pilot vanished into its portal.

Which Pixar product was Disney's fallback if its own new software missed Big Hero 6's deadlines?

RenderMan stayed on the shelf: Disney's new system, begun in 2011, was ready in time and needed a supercomputing cluster spread over four data centers.

Honey Lemon's hero gadget in Big Hero 6 is a tiny chemistry lab disguised as which accessory?

A purse with a periodic-table touch screen fills capsules from its own strap with chemicals, making foam, ice or smoke on demand.

Which color is the armored super-suit that Hiro Hamada builds for Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6?

Pink makes Honey Lemon the odd one out: her teammates' suits use colors of the rainbow, from Go Go's yellow to Wasabi's green.

Fred pesters Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6 for a formula that would turn him into which creature?

A fire-breathing lizard was not real science, she told him, but Hiro later grants the wish with a flame-throwing monster suit.

Honey Lemon keeps up which phone habit in Big Hero 6, even as a masked villain first attacks?

Taking photos is her reflex everywhere: she gathers the friends for a group selfie before Hiro's big presentation and snaps the villain in awe.

Petty thief Dibs becomes which Big Hero 6: The Series villain after stealing Honey Lemon's gadget?

Globby was born when the stolen chemicals spilled over Dibs and fused a headband to his skull, though he later reforms and helps the heroes.

In Big Hero 6: The Series, Honey Lemon secretly takes classes at which kind of rival school?

An art college founded by her idol, the artist Lenore Shimamoto, is her secret because the two campuses are fierce rivals.

Honey Lemon's voice actress played her a second time in the Big Hero 6 dub made in which language?

Spanish, for the Latin American dub, came naturally: even in the English version she tends to say Hiro's name with a Spanish accent.

In Marvel's comics, Honey Lemon can produce almost any object thanks to a set of miniature what?

Wormholes link her to pocket universes, where she stores an arsenal of supplies shrunk to microscopic size with Pym Particles.

In Marvel's comics, the secret agent behind Honey Lemon took that code-name from her favorite what?

A TV show of the same name was her favorite, and the character as a whole winks at the magical-girl anime Cutie Honey.

What is Honey Lemon's real name in Marvel's comics, where she works as a government secret agent?

Aiko Miyazaki was a science graduate student when an intelligence agency recruited her, and she lobbied her bosses for a place on the new superhero team.

A director of Big Hero 6 pitched it in 2011, as one of five ideas, to which Disney animation chief?

John Lasseter heard five possible projects, and the one about an obscure superhero team struck a chord with him.

Fred's billionaire father once fought crime in Big Hero 6: The Series under which superhero name?

Boss Awesome settled down to raise his son, yet in old age he proves able to handle past foes such as Baron Von Steamer and Supersonic Sue.