Big Hero 6 has to deal with Karmi making fan fiction about them, namely Hiro. Meanwhile, Obake recruits Momakase.
Tropes In This Episode:
- Affectionate Parody: The episode parodies fanfiction and its most common tropes, including
Shipping and Self-Insert Fic. However, Karmi is shown as a useful member of the team with some good ideas. While Hiro still doesn't like her fanfic by the end of the episode, he gives up trying to discourage her from writing it. - Animesque: Karmi's fanfics are depicted in a Super-Deformed style; one shot of Karmi and "Captain Cutie" looks like a panel from a Shoujo manga, and "Red Panda"'s Transformation Sequence is straight out of Sailor Moon.
- Ascended Fangirl: Karmi gets to be rescued by Hiro and Big Hero 6 and discovers they got some new ideas from her fanfics.
- Ascended Fanon: In-Universe with some of the ideas from Karmi's story. She's pretty happy to see the real life "Overdrive Mode" for Baymax.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Hiro spends a good portion of the episode making Surrogate Soliloquies to his friends where he tells Karmi to stop writing her fanfics about the team for various reasons without needing to give away his secret identity. But when he sees Karmi smiling at him after finding out he'd read her stories, all he can say is "As long as there's a Captain Cutie, there will always be justice!"
- Character Catchphrase: All of Karmi's Big Hero 6 members have one.
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Defictionalization: Someone has edited the Marvel disambiguation page for Hiro
to refer to him as Captain Cutie. - Everyone Has Standards: One of Hiro's ideas to stop Karmi from writing fanfiction is for "Captain Cutie" to tell her she's a bad writer. Even GoGo thinks that's too harsh.
- Giver of Lame Names: Karmi calls Honey Lemon's character "Tall Girl" and Hiro's "Captain Cutie".
- Height Angst: Honey's only objection to Karmi's fic is her codename being Tall Girl, "I'm really not that tall."
- I Have Your Wife: Momakase kidnaps Karmi because her fan fiction showed her as Hiro's (AKA "Captain Cutie's") girlfriend. Clearly, Momakase doesn't understand what fan fiction is, and Hiro did not react kindly to her calling Karmi his girlfriend.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: In-Universe, Fred is pretty sure Wasabi will end up being this.
Honey: "Honeyzilla?"
Fred: Oh, that's what we'd be called if there were people shipping us. I've got them for everyone on the team:
Gogosabi,
Fredsabi, Honeysabi... I'm banking on Wasabi being a fan favorite, I mean look at him, he's so cool!
- Life Imitates Art: In-Universe, the team gets inspired by Karmi’s fanfic to try out the tricks depicted. Even Hiro, who hates the fanfics, gives Baymax an Overdrive Mode like the one in the story.
- Mythology Gag: Baymax's overdrive mode makes him look like a reddish version of his original design. And of course, Baymax having any sort of battle transformation at all as opposed to just wearing power armor is also from the comics.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Karmi's fanfics make Momokase really believe that she is Hiro's girlfriend, and so she decides to kidnap her.
- Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: Hiro is mortified by Karmi’s Big Hero 6 fanfics, especially because they show him being in love with Karmi and is given the name Captain Cutie. Subverted with the others, who are more positive about it; Fred, in particular, loves them.
- Portmanteau Couple Name: Fred comes up with a number of In-Universe ones, including:
- Karmutie and Cutarmi for Karmi/Captain Cutie. (Karmutie wins out.)
- Momabake and Obakase for Momakase/Obake.
- Honeyzilla, Gogosabi, Honeysabi and Fredsabi for various combinations of himself and his teammates.
- Secret Identity Vocal Shift: Hiro has to do this while around Karmi. He tries to sound intimitating and heroic, but it comes off as dorky instead.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Hiro has to keep telling everyone Karmi is not his girlfriend.
- Ship Tease: This whole episode very much plays up the shipping between Hiro and Karmi.
- Shout-Out:
- The subject of the episode itself is making light fun of fanfiction, including Out of Character writing and self-inserts.
- The introduction for "Captain Cutie" is nearly a shot for shot copy of All Might's introduction in the My Hero Academia season 1 opening credits .
- "Red Panda"’s transformation sequence is straight out of Sailor Moon.
- Skewed Priorities: While Karmi is kidnapped along with the great heroes with a bomb about to explode, she is excited because Momakase refers to her as the girlfriend of "Captain Cutie".
- Surrogate Soliloquy: Hiro does several of these with all his teammates trying to figure out how to convince Karmi to stop writing her stories.
- Transformation Sequence: Red Panda, Karmi’s version of Baymax, has one when going into “Overdrive Mode”.
- Villain Team-Up: Obake frees Momakase so she can help him take Big Hero 6 down.
- Xanatos Gambit: Obake makes a cage specifically designed to counter the powers of Big Hero 6. Either Hiro is clever enough to get around it and proves himself worthy, an outcome Obake feels is more likely, or he isn't and Obake's plans go on unimpeded.
