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"Baymax Returns" is the pilot episode for Big Hero 6: The Series. It premiered on November 20, 2017 as a one-hour television movie. In official sources, it is commonly referred to as a two-part episode (which is supported by the fact it has two production codes). Thus, it serves collectively as the first and second episodes of Season 1.

Synopsis[]

Set in the fictional city of San Fransokyo, 14-year-old tech genius Hiro begins school as the new prodigy at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology and sets off to rebuild Baymax. However, his overconfidence and penchant for taking shortcuts lead him and the newly minted Big Hero 6 team into trouble.

Plot[]

Big Hero 6 had disbanded following their victory against Callaghan and the loss of Baymax. Now Hiro finally prepares to attend San Fransokyo Institute of Technology with his friends Go Go Tomago, Wasabi, Honey Lemon, and Fred.

Waking up for his first day at SFIT, Hiro watches an old video of himself and his brother Tadashi where Tadashi helps him ride a bike. Still sad about his brother's death, Hiro stops the video and goes downstairs to meet his friends having breakfast while a report of their heroic actions is shown on the news; then Aunt Cass gives Hiro lunch before the group leaves. During the tour around campus, Hiro notices Tadashi's lab and reminisces about him and Baymax. Wasabi and the others remark they also miss Baymax and Tadashi, and show concern about Hiro's well-being, but Hiro assures them he is alright and promises to meet them later. Inside Tadashi's old lab, Hiro places Baymax's rocket fist, the only remnant of him left, on a table and gives it the "special" fist bump which Hiro and Baymax had invented. In doing so, the hand opens slightly, revealing Baymax's healthcare chip within the fist's palm, and soon also finds a notebook containing Tadashi's blueprints of Baymax. Ecstatic, Hiro realizes he can rebuild Baymax and immediately sets off to work on it. Before he can get started, however, Professor Granville, the school's new dean, enters the lab, informing him that private labs are restricted for upper classmates, and Hiro will have to earn it as Tadashi did. Hiro tries to argue, but Granville sends him off to class.

In the evening, Go Go, Honey Lemon, Wasabi and Fred regroup at his house. Fred attempts to convince the rest to continue their superhero career, although they disagree as they simply wish to resume their normal lives. Somewhere else in the city, Yama and his henchmen threaten a man named Dibs who owes him money, when he is interrupted with a call from his overseer, Obake, ordering him to obtain a peculiar sculpture from SFIT. Back at the institute, Hiro uploads Baymax's chip into a computer, reviving the robot's conscience, albeit confined to the computer. Hiro spends the next few days rebuilding the exoskeleton and simultaneously attending classes. When the exoskeleton is completed, Baymax advises Hiro to run the body through a week-long series of trials to ensure everything works properly; something that Tadashi had done. Hiro brushes the caution aside and boots up the exoskeleton. However, the exoskeleton malfunctions and escapes the lab. Meanwhile, Fred has finally convinced the others to suit up once more and patrol the San Fransokyo streets at night. They spot a runaway car and, believing it to be a danger, catch it, but it turns out to be a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital. Embarrassed and ashamed for causing trouble, the others ditch patrolling and head back to the institute.

Nearby, Hiro is chasing the exoskeleton until it runs into an alley where it is deactivated by Yama's goons. Yama catches Hiro, and remembering their bot-fight incident from some time prior, takes him to the top of his building to threaten him, in order to teach him a lesson. However, Yama discovers that Hiro is a student at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology when his ID starts hanging upside-down, so Yama makes a deal to give the exoskeleton back if Hiro can steal a peculiar sculpture in Granville's office. Enlisting Fred's aid, Hiro bypasses the lock and other security measures, and gains access to Granville's office, retrieving the sculpture and delivering it back to Yama. Yet, Yama betrays Hiro and has him and Fred incarcerated while he takes the sculpture to Obake. Meanwhile, at the lab, the others see Baymax in the computer and become happy that Baymax is back. They ask him where Hiro and Fred are; and upon being told they're at Yama's headquarters, go infiltrate the place to rescue them. Together, they defeat Yama's gang and escape with both the exoskeleton and the sculpture.

The group is upset with Hiro for rushing into danger, but Hiro redeems himself by revealing that he had taken back Granville's sculpture, carefully putting it back into its original place. After running the final tests and diagnostics, Hiro completes Baymax's new body and uploads his "consciousness" into it, thus Baymax is completely rebuilt. Meanwhile, Yama reveals to his thugs that he is constructing an army of exoskeleton Baymaxes from the information he obtained on Baymax's body while it was in his possession. Eventually, Obake contacts Yama once again by hacking an elevator in his building. Yama informs him about his failure so Obake releases the elevator to crash down, but Yama stops him to show him the Baymax army he built and assuring him he won't fail this time.

Later, Fred convinces Hiro to pursue the superhero lifestyle as Hiro builds a new Superhero Chip for Baymax—similar to the fighting move chip he had built for the original body, but this time preventing him from turning violent if the Healthcare chip is removed. Fred tells him he had come up with "Big Hero 6" as their official team name, falsely claiming that the rest loved the name. However, Granville walks into the lab and finds Hiro and Fred hiding from her, also seeing that Hiro finished building Baymax despite her objections. Due to this, she encourages Hiro to start focusing on Tadashi's path instead—unless he wanted to "end up like Fred". Hiro reflects on this and agrees with Granville, so he begins to focus entirely on his classes despite Fred's continued efforts to convince him again. Just as Fred gives up and goes out to patrol without the rest of his friends, the city is attacked by Yama's Baymax army. Hiro and the gang see innocents in jeopardy, and decide to don their suits once more to save the city. While the others hold the Baymaxes off, Hiro goes back to Tadashi's lab to complete Baymax's armor, admitting that he feels responsible for causing the mayhem since he did not run the body through the necessary trials to ensure it functioned properly. Yama and the Baymaxes infiltrate SFIT to steal back Granville's sculpture, revealing that the Baymaxes attacking the city were a distraction for the heroes. Hiro and Baymax are attacked by one of the doppelgängers and Baymax's vinyl body is ripped, but this gives Hiro an idea and sends him—pretending to be one of the clones—to take the sculpture, but the plan fails after Yama identifies Baymax as the original one. Yama has his robots hold Baymax down, but Hiro uses Baymax's rocket fist to punch Yama. In the process, the sculpture is chipped, revealing its ability to amplify any electric entity in the nearby vicinity to dangerous levels. It attaches to one of the Baymaxes, causing it to throw the original Baymax out the window before the clone itself explodes due to the overload of energy. Yama escapes with the sculpture, while Baymax is dangling from the building. Go Go, Honey, Wasabi, and Fred arrive in time to save Baymax from falling, and Hiro and Baymax properly suit up to join the others in tracking down Yama.

Yama takes the monorail, during which the sculpture burns through Yama's pocket and falls, sticking onto the incoming train that Aunt Cass is riding. The train's speed increases dramatically and is set to collide with the central station, but the team arrives at the speeding train, then Wasabi and Go Go promptly cut off the passenger car from the rest of the train, while Honey and Fred use an elastic concoction to slow it down. Baymax brings the train to a halt and Hiro removes the sculpture, but it then attaches to Baymax and overcharges his systems, causing Baymax to blast off into the sky, taking Hiro with him. Hiro reverses the polarity on his gloves to hurl the sculpture upward just before it explodes. However, Baymax's systems shut down and the two are sent falling down. Hiro hot-wires Baymax's systems and brings him back online in time to narrowly avoid impact with the ground. Back with the rest of his friends, they realize that Fred was right all along, because they saved many lives thanks to their team effort.

The next day, Professor Granville sees her office destroyed due to Yama's invasion just as Hiro walks in to tell her how he had been thinking about what she said about following Tadashi's path. He mentions that even though Tadashi is still his biggest inspiration, he isn't Tadashi, and instead will have to learn how to be himself. Due to this, Granville decides to allow Hiro to move into Tadashi's lab to continue his work, claiming that his legacy will help avoid some immature mistakes.

Inspired by Tadashi to help those in need, the six friends unanimously decide to continue their lives as superheroes, now officially under the name of "Big Hero 6". However—the newly reformed hero team also gained Obake's attention, as he begins to gather information on them, starting with their team name.

Cast[]

Character Notes Voice Actor
Baymax Scott Adsit
Hiro Hamada Ryan Potter
Fred Brooks Wheelan
Go Go Tomago Jamie Chung
Wasabi Khary Payton
Honey Lemon Genesis Rodriguez
Aunt Cass Maya Rudolph
Heathcliff David Shaughnessy
Professor Granville Debut Jenifer Lewis
Bluff Dunder Debut Diedrich Bader
Villains
Yama Paul Briggs
Yama's Thugs
Tank Top Khary Payton
Henchman #1 Diedrich Bader
Basketball Shirt Andy Richter
Henchman David Shaughnessy
Henchman #3
Baymax Clones Debut
Obake Debut Andrew Scott
Other
Tadashi Hamada Recording Daniel Henney
Dibs Debut Andy Richter
Mochi
Professor Callaghan Mentioned
Mr. Sparkles Cameo
Technical debut
Karmi Cameo
Technical debut
Kentucky Kaiju Toy
Background
Frantic Husband Diedrich Bader
Man
Pregnant Wife Jenifer Lewis
Computer Voice David Shaughnessy
Panicked Policeman

Trivia[]

  • This is the official, canon midquel to Big Hero 6 (2014), and pilot to Big Hero 6: The Series. It takes place during the film's epilogue, and because of this some of the scenes and quotes are taken right from the film and remade to fit the show's 2D style.
  • Despite being the premiere episode, the episode parts were the fourth and sixth to be produced[2].
  • Before receiving an official title, the episode parts were listed simply as "Pilot Pt. I" and "Pilot Pt. II"[2].
  • It's possible that an early/production title for this episode was "Tumble Fight", as this title was leaked in a now-deleted tweet by Jamie Chung indicating that it would be the first episode in the series; other unofficial, separate sources from late 2017 also mention the "Tumble Fight" episode with dates close or exact to the release of "Baymax Returns"[3][4], whereas no other episodes were released that year.
  • At the end of the film, Hiro wears a sweater with the SFIT logo when he discovers Baymax's chip, and only wears his red shirt when Baymax is finished; in "Baymax Returns" he is seen with his blue hoodie in both instances.

Errors[]

  • When Big Hero 6 have to stop the train, a man in a grey shirt can be seen inside it, yet he is also seen at the station running away when the same train is coming.
  • When Wasabi throws a rock at a bootlegged Baymax, his gloves are missing.
  • Just before Wasabi's adrenaline rush, Honey Lemon's hand and arm are bare.

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References[]


ve Episodes
Big Hero 6: The Series
Baymax!
"Cass" • "Kiko" • "Sofia" • "Mbita" • "Yachi" • "Baymax"
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