Thursday, January 26, 2017

Big Hero Six creator credits

I've just seen the 2014 animated film Big Hero Six which was very - extremely rather quite very - loosely based on the obscure Marvel Comics characters who had previously starred in two of their own comic book mini-series along with a number of minor appearances here and there. The film kept most of the names (Baymax & Honey Lemon were the only two whose names remained intact) but moved them from Japan to the USA, making the team's very name a weird artifact of the comics. Further, they altered a team of 5 Japanese heroes (+1 robot) to a team of 1 Japanese-American & 4 Americans of various ethnicities (+1 robot). For those of us who know the comics it's really distracting to see how off-model the film is. After all, I was one of the 5,000 people who bought that Claremont/Nakayama mini-series in 2008!

Anyway, here are the creators whose efforts were represented on screen. Check out my list of creator credits for links to the other Marvel films & TV shows I've covered.

Steven T. Seagle: co-creator of Hiro, a 13 year old Japanese boy who is a super-genius and serves in the super hero team Big Hero 6; Baymax, an artificial lifeform used by Hiro to help him cope with a loss in the family, becomes part of Big Hero 6; Gogo, an Asian woman in a combat uniform which travels at high speed; Honey Lemon, a blonde-haired woman who carries a purse which is filled with a seemingly-unlimited supply of gadgets (Sunfire & Big Hero Six #1, 1998)

Duncan Rouleau: co-creator of Hiro, a 13 year old Japanese boy who is a super-genius and serves in the super hero team Big Hero 6; Baymax, an artificial lifeform used by Hiro to help him cope with a loss in the family, becomes part of Big Hero 6; Gogo, an Asian woman in a combat uniform which travels at high speed; Honey Lemon, a blonde-haired woman who carries a purse which is filled with a seemingly-unlimited supply of gadgets (Sunfire & Big Hero Six #1, 1998)

Chris Claremont: co-creator of Baymax in a warrior robot form; Wasabi, a member of Big Hero Six who generates energy blades from his hands; Fred, a member of Big Hero Six who goes into battle in the form of a giant monster (Big Hero Six #1, 2008); Hiro wearing a suit of protective armor (Big Hero Six #3, 2009)

David Nakayama: co-creator of Baymax in a warrior robot form; Wasabi, a member of Big Hero Six who generates energy blades from his hands; Fred, a member of Big Hero Six who goes into battle in the form of a giant monster (Big Hero Six #1, 2008); Hiro wearing a suit of protective armor (Big Hero Six #3, 2009)

Marv Wolfman: co-creator of Torpedo, a super hero garbed in blue and equipped with miniature turbines on his wrists (Daredevil #126, 1975)

Bob Brown: co-creator of Torpedo, a super hero garbed in blue and equipped with miniature turbines on his wrists (Daredevil #126, 1975)

Gene Colan: co-creator of Black Talon, a super-criminal and voodoo practitioner garbed as a rooster (Strange Tales #172, 1974)

Len Wein: co-creator of Black Talon, a super-criminal and voodoo practitioner garbed as a rooster (Strange Tales #172, 1974)

Bob Budiansky: co-creator of Sleepwalker, a green-skinned super hero clad in blue & purple (Sleepwalker #1, 1991)

Bret Blevins: co-creator of Sleepwalker, a green-skinned super hero clad in blue & purple (Sleepwalker #1, 1991)

Marie Severin: co-creator of Orka, an Atlantean super-villain garbed in white & blue (Sub-Mariner #23, 1970)

Roy Thomas: co-creator of Orka, an Atlantean super-villain garbed in white & blue (Sub-Mariner #23, 1970)

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