Big Hero 6
When the Japanese government wanted a team of state-sanctioned super heroes at their disposal, a top-secret consortium of politicians and business entities known as the Giri was formed to recruit and train potential superhuman operatives for "Big Hero 6." Despite reservations by some members of the Giri, Silver Samurai, a freelance ronin and former bodyguard of the terrorist Viper, was appointed as field commander. Secret agent Honey Lemon, inventor of the nanotechnology-based Power Purse from which she could 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. The Machiavellian bureaucrat known only as Mr. Oshima was appointed as the Girl's spokesperson and coordinated Big Hero 6's activities.
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FIRST APPEARANCE: Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1 (1998)
Government scientists next identified 13-year-old boy genius Hiro Takachiho as a potential operative. Unimpressed with the Silver Samurai, Hiro declined joining the team until his mother was kidnapped by the Everwraith, the astral embodiment of all those killed in the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Joined by Baymax, a synthetic bodyguard capable of synthforming into a dragon which was created by Hiro using the brain engrams of his dead father. Hiro reluctantly joined forces with Big Hero 6 to prevent Everwraith from slaughtering millions in downtown Tokyo. During the battle, Big Hero 6 was joined by Sunfire, Japan's premiere super hero and a mutant with the ability to superheat matter into plasma, who was instrumental in the Everwraith's defeat.
Soon after, Big Hero 6 moved their headquarters from the Giri Office Building to Japan's Cool World Amusement Park, where they were attacked by X the Unknowable, a monster born from a child's drawings that could transform its atomic structure into any form and shape. With the help of Alpha Flight; Big Hero 6 destroyed X the Unknowable in the fires of Mount Fuji. Afterwards, Big Hero 6 continued to protect Japan from all threats, such as when the team rescued Tokyo residents from a freak blizzard caused by the Crimson Cowl and the Masters of Evil.
Eventually, Sunfire left Big Hero 6 so that he could work at Charles Xavier's X-Corporation office in Mumbai, India. His spot on the team was filled by Sunpyre, a young woman with similar solar-based powers who was pulled into this reality through the Power Purse and came to worship Honey Lemon as her own personal god. Similarly, after Silver Samurai was seemingly slain in an altercation with the assassin Elektra in Iraq, his spot on the team was filled by the enigmatic Ebon Samurai. With the two most experienced members of Big Hero 6 gone, Hiro became the team's new leader.
Most recently, the members of Big Hero 6 fell victim to a mind-control device implanted within Baymax. Traveling to Canada, the mind-controlled super heroes attacked a new incarnation of Alpha Flight at a national park. After a brief battle, the mind-control device was short-circuited and the two teams parted as friends. Big Hero 6 returned to Japan to seek out the parties responsible for their mind-control. Although both Sunfire and Silver Samurai have since returned to Japan, their future with Big Hero 6 remains uncertain.
- Base of Operations: Cool World Amusement Park, Japan, formerly, the Girl Office Building, Japan
- Affiliation: Alpha Flight, X-Men
- Founder(s): Japanese Government
- Status: Active
Baymax, Go-Go Tomago, Hiro Takachiho, Honey Lemon, Wasabi-No GInger, Silver Samurai, Sunpyre, Ebon Samurai, Sunfire
- Formed as a Japanese government sanctioned super team to counter emerging superhuman threats in Tokyo (Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1, 1998)
- First assembled under Sunfire’s leadership to oppose the Silver Samurai and other destabilizing forces in Japan (Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1–3, 1998)
- Engaged the mutant villain Eclipse, testing the team’s cohesion and Japan’s role in global superhuman politics (Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #2, 1998)
- Survived internal fractures and member turnover, redefining the team beyond Sunfire’s direct control (Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #3, 1998)
- Rebranded and expanded as Japan’s official super team, solidifying Big Hero 6 as a standing national defense force (Big Hero 6 #1–5, 2008)
