Headscratchers / Big Hero 6: The Series

• How did Lenore Shimamoto survive the Great Catastrophe? It's been a while since I've watched the finale, so I may be missing details, but this always bugged me. From what we see in the flashback, Lenore was inside the hidden laboratory when the star was produced. It looked like it was forming in front of her! Obake, at the very least, was in a room he designed to survive the star, Lenore had no such planning, and she was right in front of the danger. How did she manage to live?
  • Rewatching the finale, you don't actually see the full extent of the original Great Catastrophe. The most that's shown is Lenore activating the power of her invention and then looking on in horror as it starts to go wrong. She still might've had time to flee or take cover before the actual catastrophe. And for what it's worth, Obake also states that his take on her invention is much more powerful than the original, which may have increased her odds of survival.
• We know that San Fransokyo was named after the Japanese helping to rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. It makes sense since there was a lead-in for the renaming. However, what doesn't make sense is how more cities share San Fransokyo's culturally-mixed name, without any explanation given. Lyontreal is a little understandable since there's a large French population in Canada, but Austanbul? There aren't many Turkish immigrants in the U.S., and while there are some in Texas, they hardly have a big cultural mark like California's Japantowns. Did the Turkish somehow help to rebuild Austin after a flash flood?
• A late season 1 episode has Fred turned off from Noodle Burgers due to the Noodle Burger Boy's mascot turning evil. But in season 2 he goes straight back to Noodle Burgers even though NBB is still evil.
  • Maybe he just thought he just likes them too much to give them up. It happens in real life, people who love certain food items will try to give them up when learning the company producing it has done something unethical, but return to it when they start missing it too much.
• Sirque's portal tech is very vaguely explained, bringing up a lot of questions.
  • What happens to the balls that Sirque leaves behind on one side of the portal? Do they just lose their effects and become garbage, or can they be reused somehow? If they do, how does she collect them again?
  • How is it decided where the other side of the portal opens? Is there another set of balls there? Or is the target programmed into the original balls?
  • Where does she get a new set of balls for opening a new portal? Does she just have a near-unlimited number of them?
• The team does not know what floppy disks are. Hiro is understandable since he's significantly younger, but how would Honey Lemon, Wasabi, and Gogo not know about them?
  • The series is set immediately after the movie, which is implied to be some time in the 2030s based on 100 years of the bridge being opened, Even Aunt Cass is probably too young to remember floppies.
  • It's also worth noting that even in the 2010s plenty of teenagers are completely flummoxed by old-school techs like Floppy Disks or a VHS.
• Who did Supersonic Sue have a kid (or kids!) with? A one-night stand? The Dark Volt? Is Stu secretly adopted? His grandma's bowled him since he was little, so either his parents were perfectly fine letting their kid hang out with a supervillain (which would make a one-night stand or supervillain father more likely), or the parents are dead (which brings up more questions).
• Even though it would have spoiled the whole sentiment of family, wouldn't it have made more sense to return Noodle Burger Boy and his "sisters" to their original places of work after having them reprogrammed? If they still wished to be a family afterward, they might have been able to continue to be together after hours. Plus, wouldn't having four robot mascots from four different companies working in the Lucky Cat Cafe mean Aunt Cass would have four lawsuits on her hands?
  • In "A Fresh Sparkles", Sara stated that she and the company she was working for didn't want Piper anymore, claiming she was now bad for their reputation. So keeping that in mind, what makes you think that those other respective businesses wanted their food mascots back? Regardless if they were reprogrammed, how do you know for sure that they didn't agree and decided to let Cass keep Noodle Burger Boy, Hangry, and Crushroom after all the trouble they caused?
• How could Mayor Saito blame Allistair Krei for the events of "Legacies"? Trina Aiken was the one who built those Buddy Guardians, Krei just bought them for his company. On that note, wouldn't it make more sense to also stop trusting the police since they're the ones who commissioned and used those drones in the first place?
  • On one hand it is likely that legally Trina is not considered a sentient entity legally culpable for her schemes (it's fair to note that even Baymax and Mini Max are far more limited than Trina or even the Robot Mascots while under the influence of Obake's chip) meaning she may not have been considered a culprit as much as a tool, which raises the Fridge Horror that the reason that Trina doesn't return after season 2 is that she was probably deactivated.
  • On the other hand, it is unlikely Krei was legitimately blamed for "Legacies" because he is still present in the series and Krei Tech remains in business. Assuming that at least this part of "Return to Sycorax" is true, then Sycorax was shut down after Di Amara's arrest, and ultimately Di's attacks pale in comparison to what Trina planned to do, it is likely that if Krei and Krei Tech were being held accountable in any official capacity then Krei would be in prison and Krei Tech would've been shut down.
  • The mayor citing Legacies when rejecting Krei's proposal for the public transport deal seemed more about public perception of Krei vehicles since the public is, en masse at least, less likely to understand the nuances of Obake and Trina and just saw the Krei Tech stuff nearly kill them. The actual refusal is probably a mix of this and Krei Tech's products tending to either malfunction, be hijacked by criminals, or both and end up a threat to the city, while blame is probably officially ascribed to Bob Aken, the man who built Trina.
• Why was Crushroom called "Crushroom" even before she turned evil? It's not a very friendly name.