Mechadama (real name Olivia Vega) is a character from IDW's Big Hero 6: The Series. She is a former supervillain armed with photon-based speed abilities.
Background[]
Olivia was a student at San Fransokyo Institute of Technology. At the university, Olivia came to admire the prodigious work of Go Go that she started following Go Go around. However, Olivia was soon forced to drop out to care for her aging abuela (grandmother). Even though she took a job at the local scrapyard to make ends meet, the healthcare costs were too expensive for Olivia to afford. After seeing the Big Hero 6 member "Speedster" with technology similar to Go Go's, Olivia was determined to defend Go Go's work. With the technology she salvaged from the scrapyard, Olivia created a super-suit, and as Mechadama, she used her powers to commit robberies in order to collect supplies for her abuela.
She was able to evade Big Hero 6 for some time without even meeting the team face-to-face due to her high-speed, but she was added to their villain database.
Appearance[]
Olivia is a female human with Hispanic roots. She has tanned skin, long black hair, and black eyes with thick eyebrows and lips. She is shown to wear her hair into a ponytail.
In her supervillain costume, Olivia wears a black fabric-like bodysuit with gray circles on the elbows and thighs and silver armor for the chest, wrists, and boots. Her head is encased inside a translucent dome-shaped helmet with digital visor-like eyes that can change expression. She wears a blue disc on her back which she can use as a unicycle to move faster.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Advanced engineering skills: Olivia is highly skilled in mechanical engineering from studying Go Go's work. She was able to create machines from scrap technology that could help her reach high velocities as Mechadama.
With her suit, Olivia achieves photon-enhanced powers.
- Enhanced speed: Mechadama can create photon bursts that allow her to accelerate to great speeds while riding on her disc. These energized sprints allow her to match and even surpass the high speed of Go Go's suit.
- Enhanced agility: Mechadama can quickly change her form in rapid response. At one point, she was able to safely leap to a rooftop from the street in spite of moving in haste.
- Enhanced reflexes: Mechadama can react and maneuver faster than a human, which made it difficult for Big Hero 6 to initially catch her.
- Photon generation: Mechadama's suit is designed to emit photon beams. Depending on how she releases the energy, Mechadama can create photon blasts through her hands or she can emit the energy through her boots which powers her photon disc. The energy released from her hands is potent enough to upheave an entire truck, and can push Baymax flying toward her at mach speeds into the a spiraling opposite direction. A critical factor to this ability is that she can only release energy from either her hands or boots, but not both at once.
Equipment[]
The Mechadama suit was created by Olivia who modeled it after Go Go's engineering projects and her super-suit.
- Photon disc: Mechadama carries this disc as her weapon and mode of transport. The disc can adhere to the surface of a target and release a buildup of energy before magnetically returning to Mechadama, creating a huge explosion. When needed to move around, Mechadama skates on the disc like a scooter, enabling her to achieve superhuman speeds. The disc is rechargeable and is powered by the photon energy emitted by the boots of Mechadama's suit.
History[]
One day, Mechadama attacks a truck containing supply items. Big Hero 6 quickly arrive, marking the first time they actually face the villain, and Go Go comments that she tried similar light technology before engaging in a fight with her. Mechadama manages to defeat the team with her photon abilities, and Baymax notices she is becoming agitated. It is then that she escapes by using her unicycle skate and Go Go tries to pursue her, but is able to out-run her even though Go Go managed to take one of her discs. This causes Go Go to become frustrated as she had never met anyone faster than her.
The next day, Go Go started to push her friends away as she took the fight too personally and wanted to solve it on her own, being distressed about the fact that Mechadama probably figured how to succeed where she failed by powering her skates with photon energy. Meanwhile, the rest of Big Hero 6 examined Mechadama's technology and figured a plan to stop her. That night, they surround Mechadama at Night Market Square and call Go Go to assist them.
Go Go arrives just in time to pin Mechadama down and knock her out, then Honey Lemon explains that the photon energy in Mechadama's feet made her accelerate and be faster than Go Go—but the skates themselves didn't use photon energy, and that the team kept her running so that she'd fall off if she attempted to blast them with her hand photons because she couldn't use both feet and hands at the same time. Go Go apologizes to her teammates, and soon notices that Mechadama's helmet fell off, recognizing her as a student from SFIT named Olivia Vega.
Some days later, Go Go visits Olivia at the San Fransokyo Jail where Olivia mentions she hadn't seen her in nearly two years, but Go Go comments that she "saw her in the news" and noticed the copied technology used by her, so she went to talk to Olivia's grandmother to know why she left SFIT. After talking about it, Go Go tells her that despite everything she talked with Professor Granville, who made an agreement with the truck companies to make Olivia pay for the stolen items so that they would drop charges and she could return to SFIT under a scholarship. Olivia is thankful but asks why she'd do that for her, to which Go Go responds that she admires the improvements made to her own tech, and due to her genius, she belongs at school instead of jail, but only needed some help with it.
Etymology[]
- Olivia: Olivia is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word oliva, meaning "olive". It has been in use in England since the 13th century and other English-speaking countries.
- Vega: Vega is a topographical Spanish name that means "dweller in the meadow" or "one who lives on a plain," from the Spanish word vega, meaning "meadow", "valley", or "fertile lowland". As a surname, Vega can refer for someone from one of any of the many places in the world named Vega or La Vega.
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