Big Hero 6 (comics)
| Big Hero 6 | |
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Cover to Sunfire and Big Hero 6 #1. Featured are Sunfire in the center, along with (clockwise) Silver Samurai, GoGo Tomago, Honey Lemon, Hiro Takachiho, and Baymax.
Art by Gus Vasquez. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1 (September 1998) |
| Created by |
Steven T. Seagle (writer) Duncan Rouleau (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Cool World Amusement Park in Japan |
| Member(s) |
Hiro Takachiho Honey Lemon GoGo Tomago Baymax Wasabi-No-Ginger Fred Ebon Samurai Silver Samurai Sunfire Sunpyre |
Big Hero 6 is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Walt Disney Animation Studios produced an animated film inspired by the characters and released it on November 7, 2014.
Created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, Big Hero 6 was first intended to appear in Alpha Flight vol. 2 #17 (December 1998). Instead, the team appeared in their own self-titled, three-issue miniseries by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Gus Vasquez. However, due to scheduling complications, the miniseries was published prior to Alpha Flight #17.
The team also appears in a subsequent five-issue miniseries, which was launched by Marvel Comics in September 2008.
In the original comics, the Japanese government needed a team of state-sanctioned superheroes, so they consulted the "Giri," a top-secret consortium of politicians and business entities. The Giri was formed to recruit and train potential individuals for "Big Hero 6," a team of superhuman operatives. Despite reservations by some members of the Giri, Silver Samurai, a freelance ronin and former bodyguard of the terrorist Viper, was appointed as the team's field commander. Secret agent Honey Lemon, inventor of the nanotechnology-based Power Purse from which she can access any object, also agreed to join the team. The tough-talking GoGo Tomago, able to transubstantiate her body into a fiery force blast by uttering her code name, was released from prison on the condition that she serve on the team. Finally, the Machiavellian bureaucrat known only as Mr. Oshima is appointed as the Giri's spokesperson and coordinates the team's activities.
Government scientists then identified 13-year-old boy genius Hiro Takachiho as a potential operative. Unimpressed with the Silver Samurai, Hiro declines joining the team until his mother is kidnapped by the Everwraith, the astral embodiment of all those killed in the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiro creates Baymax, a synthetic bodyguard capable of transforming into a dragon, using the brain engrams of his dead father. With Baymax, Hiro reluctantly joins forces with the Big Hero 6 to prevent the Everwraith from slaughtering millions in downtown Tokyo. During the battle, Big Hero 6 is joined by Sunfire, Japan's premier superhero, who is a mutant with the ability to heat matter into plasma. Sunfire becomes instrumental in the Everwraith's defeat.
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