Trivia / Big Hero 6: The Series

• Acting for Two:
  • Scott Adsit voices Baymax, Joe (the owner of the eponymous Joe's Diner), and also Mr. O'Hare in "Obake Yashiki".
  • Genesis Rodriguez voices Honey Lemon and the Bunny Shuttle from "A Friendly Face".
  • Diedrich Bader voices both Bluff Dunder and Felony Carl.
  • Jenifer Lewis voices both Professor Granville, and Sara, the manager of Noodle Burger.
  • Even if they don't share the screen together, in "The Impatient Patient", both Jaq and Dr. Sheila are voiced by Kerri Kenney-Silver.
  • Kari Wahlgren voices most of the kid characters that appear in "Small Hiro One", Dr. Lily in "City of Monsters" before voicing regular character Hyper-Potamus in Season 3.
  • Mara Wilson voices both Liv Amara and her clone Di Amara, who impersonates since "Big Problem".
  • Yama's thugs have multiple voice actors, such as Andy Richter (Globby), Khary Payton (Wasabi), Scott Adsit (Baymax), David Shaughnessy (Heathcliff), and many more.
  • In the episode "Big Hero Battle", the boyband 4 2 Sing are formed by a pair of twins. Twins Dae and Hyun-Ki are both voiced by Nichkhun, and twins Kwang-Sun and Ye Joon are both voiced by Jae Park.
  • Jeanne Sakata, Lenore Shimamoto's voice actress in the first season, comes back in Season 3 to voice Mayor Saito.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Unlike in Kim Possible, Christy Carlson Romano and Will Friedle play villains instead of heroes. Inversely, John DiMaggio plays an ally of the heroes instead of being a villain, and meanwhile, Nicole Sullivan plays another villain.
  • Zehra Fazal once again voices a character who is technically a robot superhero(ine).
  • Will Friedle plays a high-tech supervillain in the not-too-distant future. Sound almost familiar...
  • Not the first time Andrew Scott plays a creepy stalker antagonist.
  • Jane Lynch once again plays a hammy sarcastic antagonist named Sue.
  • Fred Tatasciore is known for voicing characters with monster characteristics, and is also known for voicing the Hulk in Marvel animation. Here, he voices Orso Knox, a business man turned into a monster against his will.
• Adored by the Network:
  • The show was renewed for a Season 2 before Season 1 even premiered. Apparently, since the same thing happened to Star Wars Rebels and their staff later explained that the entire show was greenlit and reports of season renewals are merely for press, and this also happened with Tangled: The Series, which all but confirms that same goes for Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 3 would also be greenlit before Season 2 aired.
  • The movie was simulcast on both Disney XD and Disney Channel on its premiere day. Impressive.
  • Despite being Screwed by the Network later on, Disney XD did show some love toward the end by airing a 23-hour marathon of the show from February 14 to February 15, 2021 leading up to the series finale (this seems to be a common practice recently as Disney XD has been doing such marathons with Star vs. the Forces of Evil and DuckTales (2017) for leading up to their series finales).
• Author's Saving Throw: For those who felt that Krei's depiction in Season 1 as a typical Corrupt Corporate Executive was out-of-character for how he was depicted in the movie, Word of God has confirmed that Season 2 gives him Character Development and Hidden Depths, which so far appears to be true.
• Character Outlives Actor: Boss Awesome appears in "The Fate of the Roommates", "Supersonic Sue", and "Major Blast" after Stan Lee's death, with the last of these only using two archival lines.
• Channel Hop:
  • Despite being based on a Marvel property, it has been confirmed that the upcoming comics based on the film and TV show will be published by IDW Publishing instead of Marvel. (This is not helped by the fact that the team the film and the TV show continuation is based on are currently in Comic-Book Limbo; their most recent appearance in the main Marvel continuity was in 2012, when they appeared in Spider-Man storyline Ends of the Earth).
  • The series itself also ran on Disney Channel, instead of Disney XD when it was originally announced.
  • An odd variation happens from episodes starting with "Hiro The Villain". Episodes premiere first on Disney XD, and then on Disney Channel eight days later. The show would play this straight later and officially air new episodes exclusively on Disney XD for the third and final season.
• Colbert Bump: It became one for Kingdom Hearts III, which would be released some months after the show began.
• Creator Backlash: 2D animator Louise Gregersen has stated that while she enjoyed working on the show, she can't say the same about the work conditions.
• Creator's Favorite: In an interview, Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle claim that Noodle Burger Boy is the crew's favorite villain, so much that his many appearances since Season 1 led to him becoming the new Big Bad of Season 3.
• The Danza: Megan's second middle name, Isabella is the first name of her voice actress, Isabella Gomez.
• Dawson Casting: All of the returning actors from the film are still voicing teenagers and college students despite being at least in their 20s-30s. Among the new actors, we have 45-year-old Khary Payton as Wasabi and 31-year-old Brooks Whelan as Fred. The closest in age to their characters is 17-year-old Hayley Tju as Karmi and 18-year-old Sophie Reynolds as Juniper.
  • Also Kari Wahlgren voice almost all of the kid characters, despite being in her 40's.
  • Ryan Potter and Daniel Henney still voices their characters as a young child and teen respectively.
• Development Hell: The IDW tie-in comics were supposed to have come out in July 2018, but were repeatedly delayed and pushed back until they finally came out over a year later, November 2019.
• Dueling Shows: With Marvel's Spider-Man, another Marvel show on Disney XD focusing on teen geniuses attending a school for gifted students. For an added bonus, Stan Lee appears in both.
• Executive Meddling: According to Bob Schooley, the reason for Season 3 having eleven-minute episodes is the network wanting to focus more on comedy. As a result, a storyline focusing on Karmi had to be scrapped.
• Fake Brit:
  • British-American Obake is voiced by the Irish Andrew Scott.
  • We have Jeff Bennett, an American, using a British accent for Baron von Steamer.
• He Also Did:
  • In addition to Kim Possible and the shows mentioned on the main page, Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle have also worked on The Penguins of Madagascar , Monsters vs. Aliens series, and the Tinker Bell & the Legend of the Neverbeast movie.
  • The Pilot Movie "Baymax Returns" as well as several other episodes, were written by Sharon Flynn and Kaiman Palayeh. The former has written for All Hail King Julien while the latter has written for Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.
  • Jose Lopez, the character designer, is the same character designer for Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015). He also served as one of the many concept designers for My Little Pony: The Movie (2017).
• In Memoriam: The episode "Supersonic Sue" is dedicated to Stan Lee.
• Milestone Celebration: The pilot movie was released on November 20, 2017, the same month as the movie's 3 year anniversary.
• The Other Darrin:
  • The TV series features Khary Payton taking over the role of Wasabi and Brooks Wheelan as Fred. The latter was likely due to T.J. Miller being busy with The Emoji Movie. While Miller did reprise Fred in Kingdom Hearts III (though Payton still replaced Damon Wayans Jr. as Wasabi), it seems like that will be his final reprise due to Miller becoming a magnet for controversy in late 2018.
  • The entire French cast was replaced, moving to Belgium.
  • Likewise, the show's Arabic cast was replaced due to being recorded in Jordan, instead of Lebanon as it was in the movie.
  • Hiro and Wasabi's voice actors were replaced in the Hungarian dub.
  • The Polish dub replaced Hiro's, Baymax's and Fred's voice actors. Also, after Jerzy Dominik, who originally voiced Bluff Dunder in Polish dub, died in September 2019, his character is voiced by Zbigniew Suszyński starting from episode City of Monsters – Part Two.
• Out of Order:
  • In the United Kingdom, the order of "Fred's Bro-Tillion" and "Issue 188" was reversed. Also, "Steamer's Revenge", in which the team salvages Wasabi's car from the bay and upgrades it for this birthday, appears to take place before "Big Hero 7", which featured Wasabi's car, salvaged and souped up with no explanation, despite airing two episodes after it.
  • As the episode "Hardlight" ended, Globby and Big Hero 6 had fugitive status. However, the next episode, "The Present", had them being able to move around without worry.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Christy Carlson Romano and Will Friedle, who played the main heroes from Kim Possible, this time lend their voices to villains; Obake's robotic daughter Trina and Hardlight respectively.
  • Similarly to the previous example, John DiMaggio, who voiced Dr. Drakken, the closest thing Kim Possible had for a Big Bad, now voices an ally of the heroes this time; Roddy Blair, an Old Friend of Boss Awesome.
  • Mara Wilson, who was known for playing Kid Hero Matilda, this time portrays a Disney Big Bad as of Season 2.
  • Sean Giambrone voicing a jerk like Richardson Mole is quite a surprise since he's known for playing Nice Guys like Jeff, Benny, and Ron Stoppable.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There's a certain image frequently circulated around social media that shows the aroace flag in Hiro's room. The image, taken from "The Impatient Patient", is fake. The actual episode shows no such flag.
• Posthumous Credit: All of Fred's dad/Boss Awesome's appearances in Season 2 were recorded before his death, which happened before Season 2 was broadcasted. "Supersonic Sue" is dedicated to him.
• Production Posse:
  • From Kim Possible. Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley are the creators and executive producers of both shows, and the cast features Christy Carlson Romano (Kim and Trina), Will Friedle (Ron and Ian/Hardlight), Patton Oswalt (Professor Dementor and Mr. Sparkles), Nestor Carbonell (Señor Senior Jr. and Chief Cruz), John DiMaggio (Dr. Drakken and Roddy Blair) and Nicole Sullivan (Shego and Hangry Panda).
  • This also features various crew members from The Penguins of Madagascar such as creators and executive producers Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, and voice actors Jeff Bennett, John DiMaggio, Kevin Michael Richardson, Andy Richter, and Nicole Sullivan.
  • Composer Adam Berry, who's previously worked with Schooley and Mc Corkle on "Kim Possible'' (aswell as all their other projects) composes the music for the series.
• Recycled Script: "Aunt Cass Goes Out" has a subplot suspiciously similar to the DuckTales (2017) episode "Beware the B.U.D.D.Y. System," released the same year, by the same company: a corrupt tech billionaire creates a robot that he wants to sell quickly, without taking any safety measures for the robot's morality. The robot turns evil and the heroes have to stop it. Both robots are even referred to as "BUDDY"!
• Recycled: The Series: To Big Hero 6.
• Refitted for Sequel:
  • Yama was supposed to work with Yokai in early concepts for the movie, but ends up irrelevant by the time the plot truly starts. For the series, he's a henchman of Obake early on before gradually being phased out.
  • One of the villains to debut on the show is Mr. Sparkles, who was created for the movie (a poster◊ showing his original design can still be seen in Hiro's room in the film) before being dropped.
  • The series also seem to use elements from the movie's concept art. Such as GoGo's hypercycle◊ and Honey Lemon's upgraded canon purse with a bunny head◊.
  • The concept of a villain team was toyed with before ultimately being scrapped in the original movie. This idea was revisited with both Obake's team of hired guns and Liv Amara's monsters.
  • The Mad Jacks appear to be based on the deleted movie villains the Bonsai Bombers.
• Renewed Before Premiere: The show was renewed before the first season started airing.
• Schedule Slip:
  • The pilot movie aired on November 20, 2017, while the regular series started overseas on March 1, 2018, over 3 months later. The US premiere date was June 9, 2018, almost seven months later.
  • The bomb format of Season 2 caused the show to have large gaps in between the sets of episodes. The first ten episodes aired during a two-week period ending on May 17th, 2019, and then took a four-month break. The next eight aired during a two-week period ending on September 11th, 2019, and then another four-month break happened. The final seven episodes went back to a once-a-week format in January of 2020 and finished on February 8th. The only exception was the episode "The Present", which served as a Christmas Episode separate from the rest of the scheduling.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • The first warning sign was the aforementioned Schedule Slip, which resulted in the series airing on Disney Channel despite having premiered on Disney XD. By Summer 2018, the schedule changes had solely affected this and the other animated shows, for which reruns were being slashed out in favor of Disney Channel playing reruns of most of the kidcoms. Both Big Hero 6: The Series and Tangled: The Series were placed on weekends with an earlier time for new episodes, with the former only having reruns on Disney XD.
  • In addition to the network forcing the crew to make the third season more comical as mentioned above, the third season is also less than half the length of the first two at only ten episodes.
• Short Run in Peru: The show started airing episodes regularly in places like France, the UK, and Australia on March 1 and March 3, 2018 , all before the US did on June 9. Likewise, the shorts come out in the US on May 31, months after the other shorts did on other countries.
• Voices in One Room: Averted in this case. According to this interview with Khary Payton, voice of Wasabi, the cast usually doesn't record together due to busy schedules. It's understandable here given that most of the cast is more known for on-camera work, so it would be a bit hard to get together. This is actually a common occurrence with three of voice director Lisa Schaffer's other projects, such as Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible, and Miles from Tomorrowland.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Man of Action Studios wanted to create a cartoon, due to having created the team, but were told by Disney that they already had plans for the characters in a feature film. Big Hero 6 did end up being a TV series, but Man of Action doesn't have any creative involvement, only being credited for creating the team.
  • Mark and Bob had a choice of making the show CGI-animated, but chose not to due to limitations they had experienced with their previous CGI cartoons like the Monsters vs. Aliens animated series.
  • Bob Schooley posted old notes about the series which seems to indicate that "City Of Monsters" would've been a 3 part episode. Additionally, Karmi moving away at the end would've been followed up with an arc in season 3 where she returned, but because the network wanted the season to focus more on comedy, the story was scrapped.

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