Characters / Big Hero 6: Krei Tech Industries

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Superheroes: Big Hero 6 | Allies
City of San Fransokyo: Family & Friends | San Fransokyo Institute of Technology | Krei Tech Industries | Civilians
Villains: Yokai | Obake | Good Luck Alley | Noodle Burger Boy's Team | Sycorax and Associates | Other Criminals

CEO

Alistair Krei

Alistair Krei

"With some development, your tech could be revolutionary. "'

Voiced by: Alan Tudyk
Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series

A technology industry businessman who tries to buy Hiro's microbots.

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• Accidental Misnaming: All the time. Krei refers to GoGo as "Gaga", calls his assistant "Joanie" instead of Judy, and "likes Ethan better" than Ian.
• Affably Evil: When he approaches Hiro with the offer to buy his microbot technology, Callaghan warns that he is only "guided by his own self-interest" and is known to "cut corners and ignore sound science". All statements that create the impression that despite Krei's polite and respectful demeanor, he is really a Corrupt Corporate Executive. In the context of the movie, this is subverted, because he's not actually evil, and the accident involving Callaghan's daughter during the portal experiment left Callaghan an Unreliable Expositor regarding Krei's character and motivations. However, this ends up being double subverted because the series shows that he is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, though he has a sense of decency.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Gives one to Hiro in "Aunt Cass Goes Out" and another sarcastic one in "Internabout". He gives a genuine one to him at the end of "Muira-Horror!".
• Asshole Victim: He's a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mel sneaked on him during his date with Aunt Cass, plus tied and gagged him before impersonating him to get his invention back.
• Bound and Gagged: By Mel in a restaurant bathroom so that he can impersonate him in "Aunt Cass Goes Out".
• Butt-Monkey: Whether he gets kidnapped by a villain or an invention of his backfires, karma always seems to get to him one way or another in the most hilarious way.
• Character Development: In the series, he's your typical arrogant CEO with questionable morals (albeit with slightly higher standards) and uses knowledge of Big Hero 6's true identities to take advantage of them. In Season 2, he comes to respect Hiro and co. and becomes a more valuable ally to them rather than just The Load.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive:
  • Alistair Krei appears to be one, being more focused on profit than standards, which combined with his interest in Hiro's microbots leads the team to believe he's Yokai. He's not, and appears to be a generally decent person under it all, especially since he's genuinely worried about Hiro and Baymax going into the portal. The only evidence shown of his alleged "cutting corners" amounts to his pushing forward with his portal demo with Abigail as the test pilot, despite a slight irregularity that emerges during the countdown to launch. Krei verifies that the irregularity is still well within established parameters and Abigail goes ahead with the demo willingly. That Krei decides to continue despite a potential risk is mostly due to the presence of a very imposing general, whose approval would determine whether Krei would get the backing to move the project ahead.
  • Comes up as Conversational Troping by Fred, who shows the gang various comics where corrupt businessmen are the main villains.
  • In the series, he is shown to be a downplayed example of this. He overlooks potential risks, rushes products out before they've been properly tested, and blackmails the heroes into fixing his malfunctioning inventions. "Big Roommates 2" reveals that he used footage from security cameras to figure out how to make a copy of Hiro's neurotransmitter and "improve" it so his version will be different enough from Hiro's to prevent a lawsuit. He is a Mean Boss to his assistant and to his intern, whom Krei tasks with ridiculously trivial errands and berates him for doing exactly what he (Krei) said because he supposedly meant something else. On the other hand, he is not outright evil, he has some standards and a share of Pet the Dog moments.
• Create Your Own Villain: Poor Krei is victim of this trope more than once. And it's not even on purpose!
  • First of all, ignoring the security breach during Operation Silent Sparrow causes the portal to malfunction and Abigail to get stuck inside the portal. Result: Callaghan, her angry vengeful father, thinks she died and becomes the villain Yokai to avenge her and destroy Krei.
  • Then, there's Mel Meyer, the creator of the Flexible Display technology. Krei uses his invention for purposes that Mel doesn't agree with, and gets kicked out and ignored as a result. Sure, he did steal Krei's identity and caused a lot of danger that night, but even Cass admits Mel had a reasonsable motive.
  • Finally, there's Ian, the Beleaguered Bureaucrat working for Krei, that Krei constantly belittles and purposefully calls him another name (Ethan) because "it sounds better". No wonder Ian became more confident committing crimes as Hardlight.
• Didn't Think This Through: In "The Impatient Patient". After the Mad Jacks' first kidnap attempt, he had the windows of his office upgraded to be indestructible. But (as his assistant points out) he neglected to do the same for any of the other windows in the building, allowing the Mad Jacks to break through the windows in the floor below and kidnap him anyway.
• Distressed Dude: Gets taken hostage in the climax of the movie. In the series, he gets captured pretty often by other supervillains.
• Dramatic Drop: Krei drops his champagne glass and runs when Yokai comes for him during his press conference in the movie's climax.
• Dumb Blond: He's blond and has Too Dumb to Live moments. Also, he can't remember his password (which is "password") and his tech is renowned garbage.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Despite being prone to "cut corners" and being a whiny jerk at times, "Big Hero 7" shows that Krei cares about his mother, as seeing High Voltage bicker reminded him to call her.
• Everyone Has Standards: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but while Abigail is being carried on a gurney, Alistair Krei is shown to be concerned over her, indicating he regrets indirectly causing what happened to her.
• Exact Words: At the end of "Internabout", after realizing he hasn't been treating Hiro properly as an intern, he promises to stop sending Hiro on errands (except for one last coffee... or espresso... or something...) and gives him his own lab. But he never said he'd make it a paid internship, as Hiro indicates in "Hardlight" that he's not paid at all (which is a detail that Krei apparently forgot).
• Fatal Flaw: Greed and impatience. He's so eager to make a profit as quickly as possible that he tends to cut corners, and rushes products out before they've been properly tested (which his assistant admits to the team in "Aunt Cass Goes Out").
• Finagle's Law: Things tend to go bad at the worst possible moment around him. Most notably, in the climax, Hiro's attempts to talk down Callaghan seem to be working, before Krei's frantic efforts to buy the vengeful scientist off cause him to visibly harden his resolve to take Revenge Before Reason.
• Freudian Excuse: His jerkassery appears to stem from his background of Parental Neglect.
• Friendless Background: In "Muira-Horror!", he reveals that when he attended camp as a kid, he preferred to venture into the wilderness instead of bonding with the other kids. He seems to have kept this trope to his adulthood, as he doesn't seem to have any friends either besides maybe Ned Ludd, his old golfing buddy. It's also mentioned in "The Present" that he was rather disliked among his peers in boarding school.
• Goofy Print Underwear: "Food Fight" has Momakase slicing about everything in his office with her graphene knives. Once Krei stands up after being paralyzed, his clothes fall in slices, revealing white boxers with red polka dots.
• Has a Type: So far, the series shows him as being attracted to Aunt Cass and possibly Liv Amara, who are both charismatic women who are used to being depending on themselves to achieve success.
• Hidden Depths: "Muira-Horror!" has Krei reveal that he's an adept survivalist due to his parents sending him off to camp as a child and preferring to be out in the wilderness while there.
  • His singing voice isn't half bad either, as revealed in "Krei-oke Night".
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Krei is pretty much an example of what would happen if Pacifica Northwest was never redeemed. Krei's parents sent him to a pretty distant boarding school and then to Fire Scouts camp whenever he was home. He had never celebrated Christmas before until the present day, animal crackers and chicken fingers are relatively new concepts, and he apparently wasn't allowed to "love anything that showed weakness", meaning he couldn't even have a pet rabbit. All this is Played for Laughs.
• Honorary Uncle: He's ready to have Hiro start calling him "Uncle Krei" if he gets married to Aunt Cass, which doesn't make it past the cutting room floor.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Krei made Trina the head of the Top Secret Robotics Division after a single meeting with her. Though to add on his cluelessness, she's also a Manipulative Bitch.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In "Internabout", when Noodle Burger Boy demands that he and Hiro fix him, Krei says that while he may run a tech company, his field is management, not tech. Fred also agrees with this.
• Informed Flaw: Callaghan states that he's an amoral Corrupt Corporate Executive who cuts corners. Krei has both the means and the motives to be one, which makes it easy to believe. However, the accident involving Callaghan's daughter during Krei's portal experiment has left Callaghan an Unreliable Expositor regarding Krei's character and motivations.
  • Callaghan's assessment is vindicated in "Big Roommates 2" when it's revealed Krei made a copy of Hiro's neurotransmitter and modified it so Hiro couldn't sue him.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Somehow looks like Alan Tudyk with an exaggerated nose.
• It's Probably Nothing: Reflected in Krei's decision to proceed with the portal test flight. Doubles as Disproportionate Retribution, because only a "slight irregularity" was detected and Krei himself verifies that it's still well within established parameters, yet the very second the pilot enters the portal they end up with a field breach, all communication is lost and one of the portals violently explodes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The cartoon shows that yes, he is a self-conceited Corrupt Corporate Executive, but only to some extent and he can be a Reasonable Authority Figure. His Character Development in Season 2 has him warm up to Hiro and Big Hero 6.
• Lonely at the Top: Heavily implied in the second season and a little bit in the third. Sure, he SAYS he doesn't mind that he doesn't have any friends, but...
• Lonely Rich Kid: He states that he was always sent to boarding school by his parents as a child and he had no friends either.
• Love at First Sight: Parodied with Aunt Cass. Their fling lasts one episode.
• Manchild: He's seen sucking his thumb in one occasion and acts like an excited toddler when he sees Santa (actually Baymax in disguise).
• Mean Boss:
  • In the series, at least one employee (Mel) has been disgruntled enough by his poor treatment of his workers, and he also straight-up mentions that his personal assistant (whose name he doesn't even know until later nor did he ever try to) isn't paid that much more than a paid intern.
  • In "Internabout", when Hiro works as an intern for him, he dismisses his attempts at doing anything tech-related, including an invention he'd been working on and instead relegates him to You, Get Me Coffee. In one gag, he also briefly insists on calling Hiro, "intern", while Hiro calls him "CEO". After Hiro rescues him from Noodle Burger Boy and Trina, he apologizes for treating him poorly (and acknowledges that his assistant is supposed to run his errands) and lets Hiro have a lab. Though apparently, it's still an unpaid internship as Hiro reminds him in "Hardlight".
• Named After Someone Famous: His last name is a homonym for Cray, as in Seymour Cray of Cray Computers fame.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Other than also looking like his voice actor, he somewhat resembles Michael Bay.
• Noodle Incident: In "Internabout", he has Hiro pick up his dry-cleaning, including a brown cow costume that he doesn't want him to ask about. He mentions over the phone with someone that he had to wear it for something.
  • Hiro later tells Megan the whole story of the noodle incident, but the only part the audience get to hear is it's something to do with Mother's Day. Since Krei is fond of his mother, it makes sense for him to make an affectionate, if unusual gesture like this.
• Not Now, Kid: After hiring Hiro as an intern, he pays no attention to his proposal for a mini-magnet device and instead relegates him to running errands. It also shows that he's been taking his connection to Hiro and Big Hero 6 for granted, considering that when he first met Hiro in the film, he was impressed by his microbots and tried to buy them from him.
• Parental Neglect: In "The Present", he mentions that he grew up in boarding school while his parents were off on business or vacation overseas and he's never even celebrated Christmas before, not even receiving any gifts.
• Pet the Dog:
  • A Blink-and-You-Miss-It, but as Krei is being asked questions by the police after Yokai's attack in the movie, Abigail is being taken to an ambulance by paramedics. If you look closely, you can see this glare shifting automatically to her, indicating he worries for her current well-being and probably feels guilty about what happened to her because of his actions.
  • The end credits of the movie show that he's the one unveiling the Tadashi Hamada Convention Hall at SFIT.
  • In the series, he is shown to be sincerely grateful for being rescued, though it is Downplayed due to his snarks and complaints.
  • He's actually a gentleman towards Aunt Cass during their date.
  • At the end of "Internabout", he's grateful towards Hiro for rescuing him from Noodle Burger Boy's Conveyor Belt o' Doom, apologizes for treating him poorly as an intern, and while he still wants him to get him coffee, he'll give him a lab this time after being impressed by the magnetic device he used to rescue him. Downplayed in that Hiro is still bound to him due to a contract, but Krei is making it worth his while now.
  • In "Muira-Horror!", after traveling through the Muira Woods with Hiro and GoGo and helping rescue Ned, he thanks Hiro for joining him and changes his mind about expanding Krei-Tech into the woods, jokingly reasoning that without the woods, future executives can't teach their interns about what they know about the woods. He tops it off with affectionately tousling Hiro's hair. Aww.
  • In "The Present", he graciously thanks Judy (and gets her name right!) after he successfully begs her to invite him to her family's Christmas dinner, and the postcards at the end show him enthusiastically greeting her nana.
• Playing Both Sides: He has zero problems with building increasingly powerful weapons for the police with the express purpose of capturing Big Hero 6, while knowingly employing a member of BH6 and making use of their help whenever's convenient - nor does anyone on Big Hero 6 really hold it against him. He does, however, never reveal what he knows about the group, even though he easily could have.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: As he himself admits, he runs a tech company, but his field is management, not tech. And it shows: he overlooks potential risks, rushes products out before they've been properly tested, and doesn't even listen to his subordinates' warnings. Thus he gets himself and everyone around him in all sorts of trouble time and again.
• Properly Paranoid: Lampshaded by his assistant in "The Impatient Patient", in which Krei replies:
  Krei: Hey, I was abducted [by the Mad Jacks]! It does things to you...
• Red Herring: Early in the movie, Fred uses his comic book knowledge to point out that Krei could be leading a double life as Yokai. It turns out that he is not the Big Bad but is inadvertently responsible for Yokai's creation and is actually the target of his vengeance. Additionally while he does have a similar build to Yokai, so does Callaghan.
• The Resenter: Quite possibly towards Liv Amara. It's more than justified in that Liv is brilliant and became a billionaire by 23, while it took Krei years to achieve the success he has now.
• Running Gag: Forgetting people's names.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Seems to be Krei's motto in the series.
• The Scrooge: Actually invoked by Judy when she compares him to the titular mean rich character.
• Secret-Keeper: Krei knows the identities of the six heroes who saved him, but he only reports Yokai to the police. This is how he repays the team for saving his life, and for rescuing Abigail. Subverted in the series, in which he threatens to reveal their identities if they don't do what he wants.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Due to being a CEO of his own company, he's always seen wearing a dark blue suit and tie outfit.
• Ship Tease:
  • With Aunt Cass in the series. They first meet in "Aunt Cass Goes Out" and end up having falling in love at first sight. It lasts until the end of the episode, as Aunt Cass learns that Krei is a jerkass and Corrupt Corporate Executive, so she rejects him.
  • With Liv Amara. He's jealous of her success at a young age and considers her a rival, and while at her party in her debut episode, he grumbles about how she's "beautiful, brilliant, and gorgeous" and doesn't see how any of those traits make her successful. Shortly after, Amara notices him while talking to other people and waves to him, and he, flustered, waves back. Later, in "Countdown to Catastrophe", he passes by Amara and Karmi geeking out together and awkwardly tries to enter the conversation by laughing with them after they share a joke. Seems to sink as of "Seventh Wheel", where they share a table at her dinner party and he once again blows his chances by being his typical self, which seems to turn her off.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Absent from all of the movie's trailers.
• Thin Chin of Sin: He has a pointy chin. Turns out to be a Double Subversion as he is not a villain, but in The Series, he is shown to be a Mean Boss and a downplayed example of Corrupt Corporate Executive.
• Too Clever by Half: He, or at least the people working for him, are smart enough to create some revolutionary technologies. However, he cuts corners on safety and often ends up causing disasters.
• Too Dumb to Live: When Hiro is trying to use a "Not So Different" Remark to convince Yokai to give up peacefully, Krei panics and chooses that moment to try to bribe Yokai into sparing him. Needless to say, this complicates things a lot.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: In the movie, Krei was portrayed as having a few "cut corners", but was still strictly professional and mature. The series turns him into a manchild prone to always making decisions on an impulse without thinking of the consequences.
• Troubled Fetal Position: Goes into this position quite often when he's scared. The first time he does it is in Big Roommates, while he's being carried up the side of a skyscraper on Globby's back.
• Unknown Rival: In "A Big Problem", Krei envies Amara and considers her a rival, but at her party, she kindly waves at him while talking to other guests, implying that she isn't aware of his jealousy and thinks that they're something along the lines of friends, though that may be because she knows him by reputation.
• Upper-Class Twit: He's rich and prone to quite stupid decisions that put him, his employees and Big Hero 6 in trouble.

Employees

Judy

Judy

Voiced by: Laura Silverman
Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series

Alistair Krei's assistant and right-hand woman.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Krei's assistant has dark hair and has an indifferent, stoic demeanor.

• Ascended Extra: Her personality is delved into more in the series.
• Beleaguered Assistant: She seems to be coping with it pretty well. Krei mentions in "Internabout" that her pay isn't much higher than a paid intern at his company and he hasn't bothered to learn her name until the end of the episode, and even then he has trouble remembering her name in subsequent episodes (although he has one or two moments where he does). That said, her limit is being forced to work on Christmas, to which she tries to hint to her boss that he's being unreasonable and begs Hiro to help convince him.
• Boyish Short Hair: Her hair's in a pixie cut.
• Deadpan Snarker: She can be sarcastic and critical of Krei's decisions.
• Death Glare: Downplayed. In the movie, she gives Hiro and Tadashi more of an annoyed disproving glare after Hiro refuses Krei's offer than a threatening one.
• The Dragon: A non-villainous example. She's the only one that Krei lets in on about his secrets, though she doesn't seem to like all of the secrecy.
• Everybody Has Standards: She puts up with most of Krei's antics except for him making her work on Christmas. She tries to hint (read: make obvious) to him that he's being a Scrooge and excuses herself to beg Hiro for help in convincing him to give her the day off.
• Fluffy Tamer: In "Return To Sycorax", after Big Hero 6 manages to capture the fast food monsters in the sub cells, Judy claims she "always wanted pets".
• Girl Friday: To Krei.
• Given Name Reveal: She's just known and credited as "Krei's Assistant" until "Internabout", where she tells Hiro that her name is Judy.
• Hey, You!: Krei hasn't even bothered learning or even remembering her name, Judy, and addresses to her as simply "Assistant".
• Invisible Parents: She says she spends Christmas with her nana, though it's unknown if her parents are still around.
• Lady in a Power Suit: Wears a grey suit and is Krei's collected, smart, and sarcastic assistant.
• Office Lady: Nothing else is known about her other than being Krei's low-payed Beleaguered Assistant.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. She shares her name with a minor character from "Big Roommates 2" that Dibs hit on.
• Only One Name: When her name is revealed to be Judy in Season 2, we have still yet to know her last name.
• Only Sane Employee: Except for Abigail Callaghan, Judy is the only one of Krei Tech's employees who is not completely wacky or evil. Or both. And she has to constantly deal with her boss being an idiot jerk.
• Only Sane Woman: Judy doesn't like Krei's secrecy tendencies and gives him more logical advices that of course Krei ignores most of the time.
• Sassy Secretary: Krei's assistant and secretary whose sassy comments are exclusively reserved for her boss.
• Satellite Character: She's only known as Krei's assistant, and when she appears, it's always alongside her boss. Though her personality is developed more than most cases.
• Servile Snarker: Goes along well with Krei's comedic narcissism.
• Stepford Snarker: Definitely copes with Krei's self-centrism and Mean Boss tendencies with sarcasm.
• The Stoic: As of the series, she smiles less often and is prone to more snarky moments towards Krei.
• Stoic Spectacles: Doesn't show much facial expression, even as she snarks at her boss.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's annoyed and sarcastic to Krei 101% of the time, yet she seems to care about him as she invites him over her nana's place when he says he has no family to spend Christmas with (though begrudgingly, but it still proves she doesn't despise him completely).
• Suddenly Voiced: She speaks in the series after being The Voiceless in the movie.
• The Voiceless: She did not speak until the series.
• When She Smiles: She usually has a deadpan, annoyed look on her face, but she often smiles genuinely, the best of all when Krei gives her Christmas vacation in "The Present".
• You Never Asked: No one knows her real name because they never asked. In "Internabout", when Hiro and Krei get into conversations with her, they're not sure what to call her by until she gives them her real name.
  Hiro: Oh! H-hi! Uh...
  Assistant: Judy. No one ever asks.
  [later]
  Krei: Thank you, um...
  Assistant: Judy.
  Krei: [clears throat] Really? Huh.

Abigail Callaghan *SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE*

Abigail Callaghan

"We've invited all these people. Might as well give'em a show!"

Voiced by: Katie Lowes
Appearances: Big Hero 6 | The Series (pictured)

Callaghan's daughter and the test pilot who was seemingly killed in a teleportation accident.

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• Ace Pilot: Implied to be one by how she was chosen to be the pilot for "Operation Silent Sparrow".
• Ambiguously Brown: Her appearance is based on Grace Park, a Korean-Canadian actress. Following this logic, Abigail would be at least half white from her father's side.
• The Cameo: In the Series, there is her picture on her father's jail cell's wall. She gets mentioned again and has a new photograph revealed in "Portal Enemy", where it's revealed the villainess Sirque's portal technology was stolen from Krei's Silent Sparrow Files.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite being a key character in Yokai's arc in the movie, she doesn't appear in the series, save from being mentioned by her father when he has visits in prison. Her current status after being taken to the hospital at the end of the movie is unknown.
• Daddy's Girl: She is implied to be very close to her father, with a piece of footage found by the team showing Callaghan mouthing to her "I'm so proud of you" before giving her a hug. Her apparent death causes him to turn to villainy.
• Damsel in Distress: Has her pod trapped in a portal and is left unconscious due to being in stasis. She gets saved by the main protagonists.
• Disney Death: She appears to have died in the botched portal teleportation, but it's revealed she wasn't killed—just cryogenically frozen or, in Baymax's words, "in hypersleep."
• Ethereal White Dress: She wears a white pilot suit. It symbolizes the innocence her father lost after she seemingly dies in the portal, as well as her Not Quite Dead nature.
• Former Teen Rebel: Participated in underground bot fighting when she was younger, according to her father.
• Human Popsicle: A variant. After the portal breaks, Abigail's pod has activated a state of cryo-sleep, probably to protect her. She's unconscious when found by Baymax and Hiro.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: In contrast to her father's Icy Blue Eyes.
• Meaningful Name: Her name means "father's joy," and losing her was her father's Start of Darkness.
• Missing Mom: No mention of her mother/Callaghan's wife.
• Morality Chain: Her apparent death caused her father to turn to villainy. When she's brought back by Hiro and revealed to be alive, Callaghan realizes all of his actions were for nothing.
• Nice Girl: In the brief scenes in which she appeared, Abigail seemed like a kind woman and daughter.
• Not Quite Dead: While everyone including her father believed her to be dead after Operation Silent Sparrow went awry, turns out Abigail was simply in cryo-sleep in her pod that was still floating in the abyss.
• Posthumous Character: Zig-Zagged in the movie. We don't know she's dead the first time Callaghan mentions her. Then, she appears to have died in a teleportation accident. Then, she turns out to be cryogenically frozen and stuck within the portal; Hiro and Baymax save her.
• Put on a Bus: Other than her picture on her father's prison cell's wall, she has yet to make another physical appearance in the series.
• Satellite Character: Downplayed. We know she's a Former Teen Rebel and a pilot at Krei Tech, but most of her characterization is related to her father and his Start of Darkness.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She only shows up in the latter half of the movie, but she is the indirect cause of the movie's major moments (her "death" causes her father's Start of Darkness which led him to steal Hiro's microbots, which led to Tadashi's death and the forming of Big Hero 6).
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Is a Former Teen Rebel and wears her hair in a short ponytail.
• Walking Spoiler: Her fate provides a major clue to Yokai's motives.

Mel Meyer

Dr. Mel Meyer

Voiced by: John Ross Bowie
Appearances: The Series (debut: "Aunt Cass Goes Out")

A scientist who invented the Flexible Display technology and sold it to Krei.

• Abhorrent Admirer: Seems to have an obvious crush on Aunt Cass, but she finds him weird and creepy.
• Alliterative Name: Mel Meyer.
• Anti-Villain: He doesn't seem to be a bad person. All he wanted was for Krei to stop using his technology for his own selfish desires.
• Brainy Brunette: A brown-haired scientist that created the Flexible Display technology.
• Butt-Monkey: Nothing goes right for him, not even his intended villainous scheme.
• Celebrity Impersonator: He impersonates his boss, famous Krei Tech CEO Alistair Krei, in order to gain the blue prints of his invention back.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Is a bit eccentric, by how he always mentions his love of surprise parties.
• Endearingly Dorky: Actually a pretty excitable guy who likes surprise parties. Although Cass finds him too weird for her taste.
• Epic Fail: His escape attempt, as his invisible cloak doesn't cover his feet and he's arrested not long after.
• Fun Personified: The sole reason he invented his Flexible Display technology is for "fun things", like surprise parties.
• Harmless Villain: While the antagonist of his debut episode, he's so pathetically funny he's no threat whatsoever. The real threat of the episode are the Buddy Guards.
• Invisibility: Thanks to his Flexible Display cloak. But it fails to cover his feet when he needs to escape and he ends up being arrested.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: A scientist working for Krei Tech who wears a white lab coat.
• Latex Perfection: The Flexible Display technology device can overlay an image over whatever it covers. Mel uses it to impersonate Krei.
• Laughably Evil: Despite Mel being the main villain of "Aunt Cass Goes Out", he's simply a bumbling scientist for whom nothing ever works in his favor.
• Nerd Glasses: A geeky scientist that wears large glasses.
• Not So Great Escape: Mel tries to get away using the invisibility cloak, but it fails to cover his feet.
• One-Shot Character: Only starred in "Aunt Cass Goes Out" and isn't seen or mentioned again since.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Despite not being a technical villain, Mel still broke the law and is imprisoned for his crimes by the end of the episode. Bob Schooley stated on Twitter he won't be coming back due to being incarcerated.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Mel wears glasses and he created the Flexible Display technology.
• Villain Has a Point: As Aunt Cass points out, Mel had the right to be angry at Krei for him using his invention for the wrong reasons.
• Villain of the Week: He's the main antagonist of "Aunt Cass Goes Out" and isn't seen again since. Justified since his actions caused him to be arrested and incarcerated.

Ian

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Inventions

Buddy Guards

Buddy Guards

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Dumpling form

A brand of drone robots created by Krei Tech that was made for safety purposes. A glitch in their systems causes them to go haywire and attack everything it sees. It eventually becomes Noodle Burger Boy's minions, and overall work for Obake through Season 1. In Season 2, they are used by the police.

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• Adorable Evil Minions: Once Noodle Burger Boy makes them turn into smiley-faces dumplings.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The ones built by Krei. The ones made by Obake, on the other hand, are working as intended.
• Attack Drone: While built as surveillance drones, they turn into this due to a factory defect and after Obake builds them for Noodle Burger Boy.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: After Fred dumps juice on one, it attacks the gang. It's because they have a factory defect that once triggered causes their friendly programming to go out the window and they try to neutralize everything they see.
• Cute Machines: Before their glitch, they're actually quite adorable. Then Noodle Burger Boy makes them turn into smiling dumplings.
• Cyber Cyclops: Are drones with only one eye.
• Eye Beams: They can shoot non-lethal lasers from their eye.
• Inescapable Net: Can trap threats into nets, or throw bolas to restrain them.
• Invisibility: They can turn invisible, which makes it impossible for the team to know when they'll strike.
• Killer Robot: Downplayed. While not designed to kill people, it was programmed to neutralize what they see as "threats". Thing is, after it glitches and once Obake takes control of them, they see everything as a threat. Especially Big Hero 6...
• Light Is Not Good: They're white-colored, but once they malfunction, they attack everything they see.
• Mecha-Mooks: Act as henchmen to Noodle Burger Boy, and overall to Obake, as seen in "Obake Yashiki" when they're building a machine for him, and are competent enough that Big Hero 6 always struggle against them.
  • Alistair Krei even have a bunch of them as part of his security system.
  • They are used by the police in season 2, and like always, are easy to destroy by criminals.
• Murderous Malfunctioning Machine: In "Aunt Cass Goes Out", they have a glitch in their system that once activated when in contact with water, turns the Buddy Guards aggressive and harmful towards anything it sees.
• No Water Proofing In The Future: Getting wet shorts out their threat assessment programming, causing them to attack everyone in sight. Krei had to be convinced to delay their sale until this was fixed.
• Out of Focus: The villain versions don't appear again in Season 2 due to its focus on Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke as opposed to pure technology.
• Punny Name: Their names is a pun between "buddy" and "bodyguard".
• Purple Is Powerful: After they turn evil, their secondary cyan lighting turns purple.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Once their programming goes haywire, their green eye turns red before they attack everything they can see.
• Shapeshifting: Thanks to Mel's Flexible Display technology, they can turn into about quite everything, from giant Krei heads to adorable dumplings.
• Surveillance Drone: Built to be this by Krei Tech.
• Wild Card: Depending on who has control of them and how their glitch is under control, the Buddy Guards can be as heroic as they can be antagonistic.

Buddy Guardians

Buddy Guardians

"The robot revolution is here. The age of humanity is over."

Voiced by: Eric Bauza
Appearances: The Series (cameo in "Fear Not", debuts in "Legacies")

The SFPD's new robots manufactured by Krei Tech, which are Bigger Is Better versions of the Buddy Guards. It's revealed that they were built by Trina in a secret robot department in Krei Tech, and they were given Obake's programming in order to create a robotic revolution.

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• Ax-Crazy: A given, considering they have chips with Obake's programming.
• Bigger Is Better: Contrary to the smaller and weaker Buddy Guards, the Buddy Guardians's stature, strength and gadgets are extremely effective in catching criminals as well as Big Hero 6 themselves, which is something the police couldn't do the whole season.
• Cyber Cyclops: Just like the Buddy Guards before them, they have only one eye.
• Evil Is Bigger: They are bigger and more efficient than the Buddy Guards, as well as being more malevolent too.
• Evil Sounds Deep: They have a low-pitched robotized voice, which makes them look even more menacing.
• Eye Beams: They shoot lasers from their eye, just like the Buddy Guards before them.
• Expy: The Buddy Guardians are clearly based on the ED-209 from Robocop.
• Flight: They have thrusters that allow them to fly.
• Gentle Giant: Post Heel–Face Turn, where they basically have Baymax's personality thanks to Tadashi's chips.
• Giant Equals Invincible: Their enormous height also comes with being fireproof to Fred's attacks and resistant to Wasabi's plasma blades, which makes them a tough match for Big Hero 6 and the hardest foe to date.
• Giant Mook: While they at first serve as this for the SFPD, they actually are Trina's own personal ones thanks to Obake's programming.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: While they are always antagonistic towards Big Hero 6, they were previously on the police's side before Obake's programming got activated by Trina and caused them to become dangerous to the population. Thankfully, Hiro uses Tadashi's programming in copies of Baymax's chips along with microbots to turn the Buddy Guardians friendly and benevolent.
• Heel–Face Turn: Thanks to Hiro and Tadashi's legacy through his chip.
• Killer Robot: With Obake's programming instead of the SFPD's, the Buddy Guardians are extremely dangerous and go on a rampage on Trina's orders. They are even programmed with a desire to destroy humanity!
  • Thankfully averted after Hiro turns them good.
• Light Is Not Good: They're white in color, yet are a threat to Big Hero 6 and the SFPD alike.
  • Light Is Good: After their Heel–Face Turn.
• Mecha-Mooks: They're bigger and better versions of the Buddy Guardians, and are the police's, and later Trina's, new weapons.
• Morality Chip: Hiro defeats the Buddy Guardians by having his Megabots replace their Obake chips with copies of Tadashi's original Baymax chip.
• Net Gun: Just like the Buddy Guardians, they are equipped with inescapable nets to trap criminals and heroes alike.
• Power Pincers: They have three-fingered pincers that they use to trap people in or break stuff with.
• Pulling Themselves Together: Able to easily swap limbs with each other. This allows one Guardian with a disabled lower half to take the legs of another Guardian with a disabled upper half to create one fully-functioning robot.
• Purple Is the New Black: The clincher to see if their programming has been corrupted is when their blue eye turns purple.
• Super-Strength: They can tear through metal as seen when they crumbled Baymax's rocket fist like it was paper.
• Techno Dystopia: Enforced into their programming as Trina's ultimate goal in "Legacies". Thankfully, Big Hero 6 intervenes before that can happen.
• Turned Against Their Masters: The Buddy Guardians get their Obake chips activated by Trina and turn evil, so Big Hero 6 and the police have to team up to take them down.
• Villainous Legacy: They were designed by Obake, and Trina used his programming to build an army of them to create a robotic revolution and destroy humanity in the process.

Bunny Shuttle

The Bunny Shuttle

Alistair Krei introducing Mayor Saito to the Bunny Shuttle.

Voiced by: Genesis Rodriguez
Appearances: The Series (debut: "A Friendly Face")

"People are amazing!"

A Krei Tech public transportation prototype, created with the goal to reduce traffic. When Mayor Saito initially refuses to fund Krei when she states the population are scared of Krei Tech vehicles (since it was used in Trina's Evil Plan from Season 2's finale), Hiro asks Honey Lemon's help. She then proposes to give it a "friendly face" so the population feels safe and in trust to use the shuttle.

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• Benevolent A.I.: Its main purpose is to drive the population around while maintaining a link of trust and "friendship" with them.
• Big Eyes, Little Eyes: Hiro designed it with big bead eyes, enforcing the idea of making it as friendly and cute as possible to the eyes of the population.
• Bigger on the Inside: One can only wonder how a giant public transportation bus with an onboard A.I. was able to fit in GoGo's tiny apartment.
• Black Bead Eyes: Pink bead eyes, anyway. They are large in size, which makes the shuttle look cuter and friendlier in appearance.
• Brain/Computer Interface: Hiro wires up a bunny ear headband neurotransmitter that can imprint Honey Lemon's positive attitude onto Krei's newly developed shuttle. She just needs to go around town being herself for the shuttle to learn how to emulate it. Later he rewires it to directly mirror her words so she can talk to the robot mascots through it without them knowing.
• Bunnies for Cuteness: Honey Lemon gets the idea to make the shuttle "friendly" by giving it bunny characteristics, from "bunny ears" on the roof to bunny-like features on its screen.
• Cute Machines: It's a bunny bus! With Honey Lemon's voice! Try to not find her cute! It's impossible.
• Fembot: A female sentient bus.
• For Happiness: Honey Lemon's motto, which she transmits to the shuttle's A.I.
• Green and Mean: Averted, then subverted. The bus has green bunny ears and highlights, but it designed to be positive, friendly and as non-menacing as possible. However, its own programming makes it Obliviously Evil when it voluntarily joins Noodle Burger Boy's evil mascot team for the only reason she finds the mascots friendly.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Similarly to Honey Lemon who inspired her, the bus' Fatal Flaw is to always see the best in people (and machines, too), which leads to her willingly join an Obviously Evil supervillain team of mascots.
• The Ingenue: A machine variant. The Bunny Shuttle is innocent and kind, which borderlines on naiveté.
• Naïve Everygirl: Giving it Honey Lemon's personality results to the shuttle develop this trait too; being so optimistic and positive it blinds you from obvious sources of threat (in that case, the evil mascots who asks her to join their team.)
• Nice Girl: A friendly machine who likes to befriend everyone she meets and spread positivity around.
• Obliviously Evil: When she innocently accepts to join a supervillain robot team.
• Pink Means Feminine: The bunny shuttle has a pink nose, mouth and eyes on its screen.
• Sentient Vehicle: Enforced in its design. The bunny shuttle is self-driven, and given a voice and personality to put the population at ease since the disaster of the Krei Tech garbage trucks (used by Trina as part of her plan to melt the city).
• Team Mom: A thing she gets from Honey Lemon's own personality. She helps people put aside their difference, even supervillains.
• Token Good Teammate: In the brief ten seconds she decided to join the evil mascots.
• TV Head Robot: Downplayed. It's a self-driven bus, but the place where a windshield would be is instead a black screen where there's a "face", who can also show more images (such as Honey Lemon's face, a peace sign, etc.)
• You Sound Familiar: Enforced. Hiro gave the shuttle Honey Lemon's voice (thus, the shuttle is voiced by Genesis Rodriguez), as Honey is the friendliest and positive person Hiro knows, which is perfect for what they look for in the "friendly-faced" shuttle.