Food Fight (competition)

Food Fight was an underground cooking competition that appeared in Big Hero 6: The Series in the episode of the same name. It was a "dirty" chef competition formerly held in an obscure place of the city which also served as Momakase's hideout.

Background[]

It's unknown when Food Fight originally started or even if it's legal, but it had become popular enough for famous chefs like Bolton Gramercy to participate in it. Momakase had been the reigning champion of the competition until she was beaten by Aunt Cass.

Overview[]

The hideout is located in San Fransokyo, in Good Luck Alley, which, according to Hiro and Go Go, is a dangerous place of the city. Felony Carl worked as the bouncer along with another unnamed man. Once a fighter was allowed in, they stood in a platform that is raised into the cooking ring.

The Food Fights were always held at night. In every round, the competitors cooked a pre-determined dish within a time limit while utilizing unusual and rare ingredients or in some cases, doing the dish in a particular way, like being blindfolded. Being an extreme competition, cheating was enforced by the rules and thus the fighters could try to ruin their rival's food, slow them down or even trap them. Foul play being put into practice like this had been such a defining premise of the competition that Felony Carl even alluded the impossibility of winning without cheating on the part of the competitor. Upon finishing their dishes, the fighters presented them to three judges who tried both and determined the winner. Once the decision was made, the losing competitor lent their knives to the winner who apparently cannot refuse them as dictated by the competition's rules.

The events also had crowds witnessing but none of the spectators could intervene with the fighters or they were kicked out.

History[]

Aunt Cass believed Hiro had gotten into Bot Fighting again since he kept going out at night with excuses (when in reality, he was fighting crime with the rest of Big Hero 6) so she decided to go out and look for him. Grabbing a set of knives for her own safety and putting them inside her purse, she ended up in Good Luck Alley, where she found Felony Carl and an unnamed bouncer, asking them if the "fight" was in the place they were standing outside of.

The bouncer grabbed her bag and saw the knives, believing she was a fighter and affirming it was a "fight", then let her inside. Cass appeared in the cooking ring confused, greeted by Yum LaBouché. Her first fight was against Bolton Gramercy, who earlier that day had insulted her at Lucky Cat Café. Reluctant at first, Cass agreed to fight him but was still unfamiliar with the rules. Although Gramercy kept attempting to ruin her dish, Cass managed to defeat him without even cheating since Gramercy accidentally burnt his own bowl of food. Gramercy found himself forced to give Cass his knives that originally belonged to his nana. Cass said it was not necessary, but LaBouché told her it was the rules and so she had to take them. Felony Carl was amazed at the fact she did not cheat. Later, Cass was back at the Café and admired the knives.

Since Hiro kept going out, Cass decided to continue attending Food Fight without his knowledge; she managed to beat every fighter she faced and collected lots of knives, storing them at the Café. Hiro later noticed her unusual behavior: she overslept and opened the Café later than normal, but Cass said she just went out to the movies instead of telling him the truth.

Hiro and Baymax decided to follow her one night until she arrived at the place, and became worried when she saw her next opponent would be Momakase, a ninja thief that Big Hero 6 was trying to bring down. Hiro tried to warn his aunt about her, but he and Baymax were kicked out by Felony Carl and the other bouncer because they thought Hiro was messing with Aunt Cass. Regardless, Cass was confident that she would win. Hiro also called his team to arrive at the place and retrieve a gravity disruptor that Momakase had stolen previously. Momakase noticed when the heroes broke into her office and fought her guards, and so she finished her dish quickly and trapped Cass with a net so that she could not deliver her plate to the judges and she could take care of Big Hero 6 in the remaining competition time.

At the last moment, Cass managed to deliver her dish thanks to the gravity disruptor's effect that was accidentally turned on, and Momakase was trapped in the net instead. She was later arrested with charges from Alistair Krei, whom she had stolen the disruptor from.

Cass stopped attending the Food Fights ever since but kept all her previous knife sets. Still, she was kind enough to return Gramercy his nana's knives when he asked for them.

Following this, it appears that the competitions were halted, as shown in "Seventh Wheel" when Momakase had escaped jail once more and cooked for Di Amara at the hideout which was now empty. Di convinced Momakase to become an "investor" for Sycorax, to which she agreed, and then stole several expensive food items in order to arrange a fancy expensive dinner prepared by her as the "Mystery Chef" and inviting the rich society of San Fransokyo, including Fred and his mother.

After Big Hero 6 realize that Momakase is the thief, Professor Granville and the team discuss whether to raid the old hideout or not, as they think it may be too obvious for her to return there. However, Fred cluelessly tells them he is going to the same place with his mom for the expensive dinner, so after figuring out her plan, the team agrees to attack her by surprise at Granville's suggestion.

At the hideout, Momakase cooks but the heroes break in, although she easily outsmarts them and traps in a pantry with impenetrable walls, allowing her to go back and cook. When she receives the payment from the guests, she transfers the money to Di Amara's account and Di turns on a microchip which she had implanted into Momakase, giving her the ability to mutate into a monster with sharp graphene nails.

Soon, Professor Granville arrives in armor to help Big Hero 6 and after asking for Momakase, Krei remembers her as the chef who had poisoned him. While Momakase confronts Granville, the guests escape and Richardson Mole leaves Krei trapped inside the arena. Soon, the rest of the team joins in (except Baymax as his battery ran low) and wrecked the place while fighting Momakase and noticing her new abilities.

Eventually, Momakase is trapped by Hiro's Mini Magnets and Honey Lemon's ice chem-balls, but she becomes more monster-like and breaks free, escaping from the hideout while hissing at the team.

Trivia[]

The competition is a parody of popular cooking television shows such as MasterChef or Hell's Kitchen (of which the latter stars and was created by Gordon Ramsay, who in turn is parodied as the character Bolton Gramercy, voiced by Ramsay himself).
Momakase's graphene knives were not seen after her defeat in the "Food Fight" episode and were not visible in Cass's large knife collection, so it's unknown if she actually obtained them or not. However, in "Seventh Wheel" she has more graphene knives so it's possible that she didn't give them to her, despite being part of the rules.

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