- According to art designer Scott Watanabe, the film takes place in a parallel universe. In this universe, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a group of Japanese immigrants used special mobile construction technology to rebuild it. The city was renamed "" and its Japanese expression in the animation is "" (pronounced).
- Although the film is based on the Marvel comics of the same name, huge changes have been made to the character's name, background, personality, and storyline.
- This film is the first Marvel adaptation film released by Disney Animation. However, this film and other Marvel live-action movies do not share the same universe setting.
- Disney's staff developed an internal system called "Denizen" to create more and more authentic people. Everyone at Disney Animation Studios can use this system, and employees use themselves as prototypes to make passers-by in animation. Among them, Disney executives and film producers also use this system to create more realistic characters. (Among them are the film’s producer Roy Conil, John Lasseter, Pixar and Disney Animation Studios President Ed Kamel, and Disney Animation President Andrew Milstein.)
- Two members of "Big Hero 6", "Silver Samurai" and "Sunfire" did not appear in the film. Because they were used by the characters in the "X-Men", the film copyright belongs to 20th Century Fox .
- In Fred's apartment, one can see a picture of Stan Lee, the master of Marvel comics. It is said that there is a clause in all Marvel film adaptation agreements to allow Stan Lee to appear in some form. And Stan Lee also voiced Fred's father in the film.
- The idea of combining San Francisco and Tokyo to create a new and wonderful city came from John Lasseter, the head of Disney Animation.
- Don Hall chose San Francisco instead of New York to "combine" with Tokyo because San Francisco is a small city, and New York's position in the Marvel universe is too important.
- In the scene of the university laboratory, "A113 plan" is written on a whiteboard. "A113" is the classroom number of the Animation Department of the California Academy of Arts. This set of numbers often appears in Pixar's animation works.
- The people who designed the old Kyoyama were inspired by the Japanese films "Akila", "Evil Boy" and Uesugi Tadhiro.
- "Xiaohong" in the film is the first protagonist of mixed race in Disney history. Ryan Porter, who dubbed him, is also a mixture of Japanese and white people.
- The shape of the robotic laboratory in the film refers to the works of well-known architects Santiago Calatrava, Renzo Piano, and Takamatsu Shinobu.
- Before Da Bai was designed to be expressionless, the original design was that he could only make five different facial expressions.
- Character designer Lorelay Bove revealed that the coat of "Shen Xing Yu Jie" was designed in yellow because her name Tomago means "egg" in Japanese.
- The name of the villain in the film, Yokai, means "ghost" in Japanese.
- It can be seen from the certificate hanging on the wall of Xiaohong's house that the names of Xiaohong and his brother Teddy are written in Chinese characters as "浜田飞吕 (pronounced)" and "浜田义 (pronounced)".
- In order to cater to South Korea, which has complex sentiments towards Japan, Disney has replaced or eliminated Japanese elements in the Korean version of the animation. For example, replace the protagonist’s and elder brother’s last name "Hamada (浜田)" with "Armada", the protagonist’s name "Hiro" with "Hero", the protagonist’s elder brother’s name "Tadashi" with "Teddy", and the English soundtrack is also dubbed The corresponding changes were made, and the Japanese kana in the film was also replaced with English or erased. Later, China also used the revised version of South Korea.
- The film hints at two unreleased Disney movies, one is Avengers 2: Age of Ultron (Shen Xingyu mentioned Baron Straker) and the other is Zootopia (called Animal Utopia at the time)
Big Hero 6 behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Honey Lemon: Oh, my gosh! You must be Hiro! I'VE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT YOU!
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Honey Lemon: No, don't push us away, Hiro. We're here for you.