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Yama
Mr. Yama
"Yama"
"Who's next? Who has the guts to step into the ring with Little Yama?"
A sleazy underground bot-fighter and the boss of a crime ring.
- Acrofatic: In "The Bot Fighter" episode of the series, the team finds footage of Yama taking samba dance lessons, and he's quite talented at it for someone who has the girth of a sumo wrestler.
- Arch-Nemesis: Appears to be Hiro's.
- Ascended Extra: He's a minor threat to Hiro, and quickly overshadowed by Hiro deciding to attend SFIT in the film. He's a recurring villain in the TV Series.
- Asian Rudeness: A smug and arrogant Japanese brute.
- Benevolent Boss: Despite being a Jerkass, he treats his thugs fairly well. If you exclude the one thug Yama used as a Human Shield.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": His jacket has the character for his name in Japanese, "山", written on the back.
- Butt-Monkey: From getting beat up by Megabot, to arrested and have him constantly pushed around and beated by Big Hero 6 and Momakase in the series, Yama clearly has no luck.
- The Chew Toy: Something frustrating always seem to happen to him whenever he's on screen. Since he's a bad guy, it's quite funny to watch.
- Creator Cameo: Voiced by the film's head story writer, who came back to voice him in the series.
- Demoted to Extra: Gradually loses importance over Season 1 and only appeared in one episode so far in Season 2.
- The Dragon: In the series premiere, he's Obake's main lackey. After his failure to retrieve Granville's paperweight, it appears that Yama no longer works for the villain.
- Evil Counterpart: Though not necessarily evil per se, he was created to be a sort of "what if" possibility for Hiro; namely, what he might wind up being like if he continues down the road of hustling back alley bot-battles.
- Evil Genius: Genius is a big term considering that Yama is prone to a few clueless moments, but he was able to build hundreds of copies of Baymax's exoskeleton most probably by memory.
- Evil Versus Evil: He and Momakase have history, and they're not eachother's favorites.
- Fat Bastard: He's as unpleasant as he is huge.
- Fat Comic Relief: A villainous example. Despite being a fairly dangerous thug, his Butt-Monkey status brings quite funny moments both in the movie and series.
- Fat Idiot: Downplayed. Yama is far from being a total imbecile (see Genius Bruiser and Evil Genius above), yet he still has some moments where he's easy to fool and is the butt of many jokes.
- Genius Bruiser: While he prefers to throw his own weight around, he is a bot fighter who likely created Little Yama. He also uses a robot army in the TV series to distract the police from his actual goal of stealing a valuable alloy from the dean's office.
- Harmless Freezing: On the receiving hand of Honey Lemon in the series' pilot.
- Hidden Depths: Who would've thought that a hardened criminal like Yama actually enjoys taking samba classes?
- High-Altitude Interrogation: Does this twice in the premiere, the second time to Hiro.
- Hypocrite: He dismisses Hiro's request for a rematch, saying that nobody likes a Sore Loser. After his bot is defeated, he and his goons decide to beat Hiro up.
- Jerkass: He is very condescending towards his opponents.
- Knuckle Cracking: Delivers the neck crack variant as he and Hiro face off prior to their first bot fight.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Gets arrested along with all of his thugs, everyone that showed up at the bot fight, and the Hamada brothers.
- Malicious Misnaming: He purposefully calls Hiro "Zero".
- Meaningful Name: "Yama" is Japanese for "mountain", which is a pretty apt description of him.
- Oh, Crap!: Has one when Obake calls him after Yama failed to retrieve an item for him.
- Only One Name: It's unknown whether "Yama" is his birth name, or a nickname derived from a surname like "Yamamoto" or "Yamasaki". "Yama" is also a surname in itself, which could also indicate he has a Last-Name Basis.
- Out of Focus: Over the course of Season 1, his role decreases in favor of the new antagonists introduced in the series, and he isn't part of Obake's inner circle by the finale. By Season 2, Liv Amara's picture replaces his in the intro.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: In the beginning of the movie, he's arrested with the rest of his goons. Though by the series, it's implied Obake might've released him from jail so he could work for him. He's arrested again in "The Fate of The Roommates" after being backstabbed by Mr. Sparkles.
- Smug Snake: He's an arrogant brute who believes he's the best bot-fighter around.
- Starter Villain: He's the first antagonist Hiro faces, both in the movie and in the series.
- Sumo Wrestling: His design is obviously inspired from sumo wrestlers (he definitely has the girth of one). Early concepts of the movie had Yama actually be a sumo wrestler that was Yokai's right-hand man and The Brute.
- This Cannot Be!: His reaction when Hiro's megabot annihilates his Little Yama bot.
- Villain Team-Up: He has joined forces with Obake in the early episodes of Season 1, and in Season 2, with Mr. Sparkles. Eventually subverted as in the end, the partnership broke because Status Quo Is God.
- Would Hurt a Child: Yama was about to have his thugs beat up a 14-year-old. In the series, it's implied that his High-Altitude Interrogation of Hiro was going to end via the street...
- Yakuza: Yama has partaken in such San Fransokyo criminal activities as illegal underground bot fighting, thievery, loansharking, and murder.
Yama's minions
Yama's Thugs
Yama's Thugs
Voiced by: Andy Richter ("Basketball Shirt"), Khary Payton ("Tank Top"), David Shaughnessy, Scott Adsit, Diedrich Bader
Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series
Yama's loyal henchmen that listen to his every order. Though Yama has a lot of people working for him, the ones pictured are his main right-hand men.Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series
- Badass Biker: A bunch of them chase Hiro with motorbikes in "Mini-Max".
- Badasses Wear Bandanas: One of Yama's main thugs wear one.
- Beard of Evil: Basketball Shirt and Tank Top have these.
- The Brute: All of them.
- The Chew Toy: Each time they're on screen, they get beaten in some way. Since they're bad guys, it's satisfying to watch.
- The Dragon: Are these to Yama.
- Human Shield: Yama uses one of his knocked-out thugs to protect himself from Honey Lemon's chem-balls in "Baymax Returns".
- Mooks: Yama's personal ones. In the series, they basically exist to get their asses kicked by Big Hero 6.
- No Name Given: We don't know their real names. Two of the henchmen trio are credited as "Basketball Shirt" and "Tank Top" in the series.
- Terrible Trio: While Yama has many mooks working for him, the ones pictured from the movie are his main henchmen.
- Undying Loyalty: To Yama. They follow his every orders.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: One of Yama's thugs wears a tank top.
- Static Stun Gun: One of them uses a taser tod on Baymax's exoskeleton in "Baymax Returns".
- Would Hurt a Child:
- Were about to beat up Hiro in the movie if not from Tadashi's intervention.
- Did not mind dropping Hiro off a building under Yama's orders in "Baymax Returns".
The Ringleader
"Beat it, kid. House rules: you gotta pay to play!
The ringleader in the bot-fighting ring and Yama's assistant.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Is a tough, scornful criminal with dark hair.
- Asian Rudeness: She appears to be Japanese, and is definitely condescending and rude to young botfighters like Hiro and Trina.
- Badass Fingersnap: Does this to order brutes working for Yama to kick botfighters (in that case, Hiro) out.
- Boots of Toughness: She wears leather high-heeled boots.
- The Bus Came Back: After briefly appearing in the movie's intro, she is brought back in "The Bot-fighter".
- Combat Commentator: Her job in the bot-fighting underground. Though she only comments before and after the fight, and never during.
- Composite Character: A meta exemple; her final movie character design has parts of the scrapped Fujitas: the physical appearance and the hair chopsticks of the green fujita, the blue fujita's eyepatch and the pink fujita's hair flower.
- The Dragon: To Yama.
- Dragon Lady: A tough, aloof Japanese woman who engages in San Fransokyo's criminal underworld and has a job as the botfights' ringleader.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Yama's antagonistic assistant with dark raven hair.
- Evil Eyebrows: Long, thin and dark arching eyebrows, who are even exaggerated in the series' more geometric style.
- Evil Is Hammy: Though it's part of her "ringleading" act.
- Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: She's got bright purple eyeshadow. Though it's more subtle in the movie and more prominent in the series.
- Eyepatch of Power: Wears a black eyepatch over her left eye. It's unknown if it's simply to look intimidating or due to an Eye Scream.
- Geisha: Her character design is inspired from this. Justified, since originally she was supposed to be in a trio of criminal geishas.
- Jerkass: She seems to be condescending towards younger bot-fighters, as she mocked Hiro with everyone else in the movie, and did the same treatment towards Trina.
- Lean and Mean: She's tall, slim and a criminal in the bot-fight underworld who serves as the ringleader.
- No Name Given: Credited as "Ringleader" in the movie, and "Yama's assistant" in the series.
- Prim and Proper Bun: How she styles her hair, though she isn't as "prim and proper".
- Purple Is the New Black: She's a villain and has magenta-purple lipstick, purple eyeshadow, wears purple shorts and has a purple flower in her hair.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: A Japanese woman with pale skin and black hair.
- Repulsive Ringmaster: A non-circus variant. She's a tough, condescending woman that is in charge of the illegal bot-fights in Good Luck Alley.
- Reused Character Design: A meta exemple. She was originally supposed to be part of "The Fujitas", a trio of criminal geisha sisters working for Yokai, where she had bangs instead (another geisha had the Eyepatch of Power). But as the movie's storyline changed in writing, The Fujitas were dropped and her design was used as a cameo for the ringleader in the final movie instead.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Wears an orange tank top.
- The Smurfette Principle: She's Yama's only female minion.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's a tall woman with long legs and is without a doubt beautiful.
Yama's robots
Little Yama
Little Yama
Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series
Yama's bot he uses in bot-fights competitions.
- Chainsaw Good: Little Yama has a circular saw that he uses to dismantle opponent bots.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Not only does he submits other robots to this, he receives one from Hiro's Megabot.
- Cyber Cyclops: Has only one eye.
- Dark Is Evil: Yama's bot, who belongs to an antagonist, is black.
- Mighty Glacier: Due to his large stature, it's easy for smaller robots like Megabot to defeat him since it takes more time for Yama to get to control him.
- One-Steve Limit: A variant. Yama seems to love giving robots his name, considering he also gave it to Mega Yama.
- Power Pincers: Little Yama has a thick metal pincer that he uses to pin opponents down while he saws them in pieces.
- Samurai: Probably as part of the Japanese-American culture from the franchise, Yama seems to have incorporate samurai armor parts into Little Yama's design (ex: his helmet heavily resembles a samurai's).
- Replacement Goldfish: Got destroyed by Hiro in the movie and rebuilt in "The Bot-Fighter"... only to be destroyed again.
- Unskilled, but Strong: It goes without saying that Little Yama is a powerful robot, but other than its strength, once the opponent is faster than he is, Yama has difficulty catching up.
Mega Yama
Mega Yama
Appearances: The Series
A giant robot who serves as a mook to Yama.
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: He can turn his head 180°. Justified, since he's a robot.
- All Your Powers Combined: Mega Yama has a plasma launcher built by Wasabi, a liquefied undestroyable armor made by Honey Lemon that resists her chemicals and a magnetic levitation system built by GoGo based off her mag-lev disks that permits him to move faster.
- Ax-Crazy: Craves destruction.
- The Brute: To Yama.
- Create Your Own Villain: Trevor Trengrove got Wasabi, Honey Lemon and GoGo to build Mega Yama without them knowing, since Yama blackmailed Trevor into helping him or he'd reveal to the world he stole Wendy Wower's thesis.
- Cyber Cyclops: Like Little Yama.
- Dark Is Evil: The pre-update Mega Yama, anyway.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: After being defeated by vinegar and baking soda thrown inside his blasters, Mega Yama implodes.
- Giant Mook: Serves as one to Yama.
- It Can Think: Contrary to Little Yama, who is controlled by Yama, Mega Yama is self-sentient.
- Killer Robot: Programmed by Yama to be this.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: He has a giant indestructible shield.
- Made of Iron: A literal case. Wasabi, GoGo and Honey unbeknownst to them built Mega-Yama to be impossible to destroy.
- Meaningful Name: "Mega" means "big".
- Mecha-Mook: A Giant Mook of Yama in the form of a mecha robot.
- Mini-Mecha: He's basically a bigger form of Little Yama. Yama is even riding on his back.
- One-Steve Limit: A variant. Yama seems to love giving robots his name, considering he also gave it to Little Yama.
- Real Men Wear Pink: Due to the gang unwillingly helping Yama through Trevor Trengrove build Mega Yama, Honey Lemon built her an indestructible armor that is pink. His color doesn't make him less dangerous.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his eye turns red, watch out.
- Samurai: Like Little Yama, Mega Yama has a samurai helmet.
