Set in the streets of Futuristic San Fransokyo, Big Hero 6 is an imaginative, fun and heart
filled movie loosely based on the comic produced by Marvel.
With lots of action, the story and characters aren’t afraid to dive into the emotional
stuff.
But who’s the nicest person in San Fransokyo?
Who’s the biggest baddie?
How does everyone else stack up on the moral spectrum?
I’m Kyle with WickedBinge and this is Big Hero 6: Good to Evil
As usual we’ll be starting our list off with the purest characters and working our
way down.
These are The Good.
Our gold medal for most good should come to no surprise.
We have Baymax, everyone’s favorite inflatable healthcare companion who captivated us all
with his marshmallow-like appearance and hug ability.
Who also loves the ‘hairy baby’ mochi; His only goal is to help the sick and injured…
After tadashi’s death he is not equipped to assist in grieving yet he finds ways he
can help...
Viewing hiro as his patient, the only thing he wants to do is improve hiro’s emotional
state.
The only time we’re shown any type of malice from Baymax is when Hiro removed his healthcare
chip.
We’ll give him a pass for this since he had no control over his actions at the time.
While retrieving Abigail Callaghan, he saves hiro from a large piece of debri which nearly
crushed him but in turn damaging Baymax’s thrusters.
In the last minutes of Baymax’s screen time we see the ultimate act of sacrifice Baymax
carries out to save not only hiro but Abigail as well and let’s be honest as soon as you
heard those last words from him.
“are you satisfied with your care?” you ugly cried.
The silver medal for good goes to Cass.
She’s Hiro and Tadashi’s aunt who owns The Lucky Cat Café…
She’s a hardworking, feisty gal who protects her nephews like they were her own.
Topped off with good morals she definitely isn't afraid to let her mischievous nephews
know they need to be taken down a few notches when it comes to getting out of line…
This is seen when bailing tadashi and hiro out of jail, dragging them out of the building
by their ears.
All while scolding them about how she raised them for 10 years.
But really all she wants is what’s best for them.
She’s a strong character, raising two boys on her own, running a business on top of everything.
We’re adding Tadashi next…
One of San Fransokyo institute’s brightest students, and hiro’s protective older brother.
Tadashi is also like a father figure to hiro, as we see this right before hiro gets the
ever loving crap beat out of him by Yama’s goons, Tadashi shows up to rescue him.
After losing both his parents when hiro was only 3, Tadashi took on a lot of responsibility
looking after him.
He's always on the go keeping his younger brother out of trouble.
He created Baymax out of pure concern for other people and their health needs and he
puts the needs of others before his own.
This is recognized in his last scene where he ran into a burning building to help someone.
For the limited time he was on screen he’s been shown to be an intelligent, kind, patient
person (Baymax had 86 tests) who puts everyone’s needs before his own.
He’s just a really great guy After Tadashi, we have Fred’s Dad.
While we don’t see him until the end of the movie, Fred accidentally discovers his
dad is in fact a superhero.
When his dad shows up we see he shares his son’s questionable hygiene…
With an embrace to Fred its shown he is a caring, loving father ( who may be gone quite
a bit to the ‘family island) We soon learn why he’s gone so often and he is more than
happy to share his secret with his son…
Which sort of explains Fred’s obsession with super-heros and superpowers.
Honey Lemon is next; She has the most positive energy out of everyone…
And she may have some mad scientist qualities to her as well...
But she wouldn’t hurt anyone purposely.
It’s shown she is hesitant at first to become a super hero because of her pacifist mindset…
Honey is shown to be a compassionate person: Sending hiro a video to check to see how he
is doing, giving Cass a drink, and convincing hiro not to push them away when baymax contacted
them.
What separates honey lemon from the rest of the group is she finds Baymax’s healthcare
chip during the struggle to keep baymax from injuring anyone and quickly puts it back in.
Her love and passion for chemistry aids her in fights as she views everything with a glass
half full attitude.
We’re tossing Fred in next.
Everyone’s favorite ultimate fanboy and mascot; he’s a kind and goofy person with
an enthusiastic personality with the energy to match.
This shows when it’s revealed he came up with the nicknames for everyone in the group.
He holds an extreme imagination and questionable hygiene.
While it is soon revealed Fred is filthy (pun intended) rich, he doesn’t rub it in anyone’s
face.
All he wants is to have a good time so when hiro suggests becoming superheros he is more
than happy to jump onboard; Using his double sign spin is one heck of a creative turn!
to Fred it’s all a dream come true.
During honey lemon’s video message, he jumps in to say “hiro if I could only have one
superpower right now it’d be to crawl this camera and give you a big hug” Seriously
we all need a friend like Fred at some point in our lives.
Right after Gogo we have the main character of the film: Hiro.
While he may be a prodigy graduating high school at 13, he can be brash, impulsive,
and a little bit reckless (though what teenager isn’t?)
Leading him to illegal bot fights in which Tadashi bails him out.
In the beginning of the movie he pretends to be an innocent little kid who has no idea
what he’s doing in the bot fight…
While in the next round it clearly shows he knew exactly what he was doing the whole time
just to hustle Yama out of his money.
Not to mention he gets caught by the police, is thrown in jail and when he is bailed out,
he soon looks for another bot-fight to rush off to.
Later on in the movie he shows a lot of growth while also going face to face with the man
responsible for his brother’s death.
At first he attempts to destroy Callaghan, but soon he realizes revenge is not the way
to properly grieve someone.
This leads him to show compassion towards Callaghan, trying to convince the man not
to take revenge…
Wasabi is next and while he comes off as a nervous and slightly neurotic character, next
to gogo, wasabi is the voice of reason.
In the beginning, he states Fred’s ideas for inventions are not real science; He’s
also the voice of the audience throughout the film in questioning hiros idea of becoming
super heroes, His heroics become clear when in the fight against Callahan he quickly fights
off the incoming attacks.
He is extremely cautious of people being around his laser induced plasma invention, stopping
hiro at the right time before he walked right into it (which could have been a real dark
turn).
Now we have Gogo...
She’s Probably the most independent character...
While she may come off as abrasive when we first meet her, the first thing she says to
hiro is “welcome to the nerd lab” She says what she means and means what she says,
calling hiro out for being nervous before his turn in the expo.
She lives for the fast life, which we see when taking the wheel of wasabi’s car, navigating
through the streets of san Fransokyo like it’s second nature to her risking everything
to get the gang out of danger.
Gogo would go to great lengths to protect her friends, when they first encounter Callaghan
on the deserted island gogo is the first one to jump into action.
She shows her caring side to hiro, after he shows remorse for what he did and how he lashed
out at the gang, she embraces him and reassures him they’re going to catch Callaghan next
time.
With the good characters out of the way…
We now enter the neutral territory.
These characters fall in The Grey Area.
Heathcliff is Fred’s butler and may only have a small role in the film but his presence
lets everyone know that Fred is always pulling some crazy antics as it doesn’t faze him
whatsoever.
Not even when Fred and his friends use their powers on him during everyone’s first test
run.
He only sips his tea or butters a scone in response to it all.
Plus admit it…
When he was the first one besides hiro to get a fist bump we were all jealous.
Now Sergeant Gerson is next.
He is the most neutral out of everyone as his presence doesn’t really influence the
story in a positive or negative way.
He’s the guard in the police station when hiro tries to explain the situation after
being attacked by Callaghan.
It’s clear he thinks it’s only a waste of time and doesn’t take anything hiro is
saying seriously.
Even less when Baymax enters low battery mode; But when Baymax started taping himself up,
sergeant Gerson slides Baymax the roll of the tape.
Abigail Callaghan is Professor Callaghan’s daughter.
Not much is really known about Abigail other than she is a test pilot for krei tech.
She was involved in an accident resulting in her being lost in another world for so
long.
From what we can tell from her small presence in the movie, she is witty and she loves her
job and her father dearly.
Now we have Alistair Kre.
Although he was tricky to place, he is in this spot because he is responsible for Abigail
disappearing into the machine (who was thought to be dead for so long) Even though he showed
remorse when expressing to Callaghan the incident was only an accident.
This might be true, it still stands to show krei was warned about the dangers of sending
Abigail into the machine.
Nevertheless refusing to listen to reason, Alistair tells his employees to go ahead with
the test.
It earned him questionable looks from the other scientists.
“But rules don’t apply to a man like Krei” really Fred wasn’t wrong with this statement.
And with the Grey Area complete, we move into the darker side of the moral spectrum.
These are The Bad and The Evil.
Starting with the Thugs - These guys show up right at the beginning of the film.
While we may only see them for a few minutes as they follow Yama’s orders at the drop
of a hat.
They’re willing to beat up hiro (again who’s only a 14-year-old kid) for hustling Yama
during the bot fight.
They also can be seen chasing Tadashi and hiro down the ally still determined to beat
the ever-loving crap out of them.
Yama takes the silver medal for most evil.
He’s a ruthless crime boss in san Fransokyo.
While only having a few minutes of screen time in the beginning, it’s clear his goal
was to wipe out any competition in the bot fights with “little Yama”.
While at first he only verbally harasses hiro by calling him 'zero'.
This, of course, shows his character: he’s arrogant and a pretty sore loser.
He orders his thugs to beat the ever-loving crap out of hiro for hustling him; And Hiro’s
still just a kid... but Yama doesn’t care.
Yama planned to keep hiro's bot after hiro escaped with Tadashi, making everyone wonder
if 'little Yama' is actually yama's Robert Callaghan (or Yokai) gets the gold
medal for most evil.
When we first meet him in the film, he’s shown to be a respected professor who, along
with Tadashi, convinces hiro to apply at the institute.
At the time, this seems to be sincere…
Trying to talk hiro into not selling his microbots to krei tech.
Which we think he does out of general concern.
He may have grieving issues (at some point is understandable), however, his goal was
later revealed to majorly injure (or kill) anyone who discovers his plans.
This guy left Tadashi to die in a fire, he stole hiro's invention to use it to his advantage...
In revenge against krei.
And when putting his plan into action; tried to kill his former students (more than once)...
Trying to crush them with the microbots at the docks;
At one point, he did use the microbots to throw a massive piece of debris at the gang
when they discovered the old security footage.
Turning his back to them.
the ones who truly respected and looked up to him and enjoyed having someone as brilliant
as him as their professor.
(yeah, this guy is pretty awful) But what do you think?
Who's the most evil character in Big Hero 6?
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