After Fred is attacked, Big Hero 6 winds up on the trail of a Shakespeare-quoting monster.
Meanwhile, Hiro deals with a monster of the green-eyed kind when the founder of a biotech company takes a shine to Karmi.
Tropes in this episode:
- And This Is for...: As Fred bounces off the monster's head, "And this is for Mini-Max!"
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Just as Fred reaches an explosion in the comic book he's reading, his room shakes as the monster smashes into the wall.
- Chekhov's Gun: Karmi's "stickers" are what finally subdue the monster.
- Continuity Nod:
- Baymax knocks a test tube off a table and begins chasing it the same way he chased the soccer ball in the movie's teaser trailer.
- Liv looks through Baymax to look at his internal structure, just as Hiro did in the movie.
- Failed Attempt at Drama: When the group figures out that Knox is going to the gala at SFIT next.Hiro and Honey Lemon: S-Fit.
Fred: [at the same time] S-F-I-T. [Notices what the others said] I mean, S-Fit. - Green-Eyed Monster: Hiro spends most of the episode denying that he's jealous that Liv Amara hit it off with Karmi after coming to SFIT to see him and Baymax.
- Krei is jealous that Liv managed to woo an elusive investor away from him (though unbeknownst to him, said investor did visit him as scheduled, but not in the way he expected).
- Insistent Terminology: Hiro invents a "Temperature Gradient Device", and insists on calling it that, even after Liv and Karmi point out he's basically made a cabinet-sized thermometer.
- Innocuously Important Episode: The episode plants the seeds for the first arc of Season 2, with its emphasis on Orso Knox being mutated, and Sycorax (Liv Amara's company) taking center stage.
- It's Been Done: Hiro tries to impress Liv with a large device that can measure temperature. As Karmi and Liv point out, he's merely made a larger, more complicated thermometer.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: The monster looks like a cross between a whale, a dinosaur and a human.
- Motor Mouth: Karmi is so excited that Liv Amara is visiting SFIT that she falls into this, prompting Baymax to remind her to breathe.
- No-Sell:
- Mini-Max tries to attack a monster several dozen times his size. The monster simply grabs him and tosses him aside.
- Later, Krei sics his Buddy Guards on the monster. It eats one and throws the other out the window.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: GoGo and Wasabi notice Granville acting "very un-Granville". Hiro asks what they mean, and Granville slides into the room, grinning like a schoolgirl.
- Ship Tease:
- Krei seems to be in denial about having feelings for Amara, enviously complaining about her to Hiro while also admitting that she's smart and pretty. Amara also stops to wave at him, which he returns.
- We also get another Hiro/Karmi bit.
Hiro: (Using his "hero" voice) You know, Karmi, you did a super job out there.
Karmi: IloveyoutooCaptainCutie.
Hiro: What?
Karmi: What?
(Hiro's visor fogs up) - Shoo Out the Clowns: When the monster attacks, it puts Mini-Max out of commission and he has to spend the rest of the episode recharging.
- Shout-Out: The monster quotes Shakespeare's The Tempest. Amara's company, Sycorax, is named after the story's villain.
- Skewed Priorities: Fred's mom enters his room after the monster attacks to find it completely trashed with a giant hole in the wall...and is only concerned that Fred's not dressed for dinner.
- Speaks in Shout-Outs: The monster can only say quotes from The Tempest. This is how Honey Lemon is able to deduce that the monster is in fact Orso Knox, a known Shakespeare buff.
- Squee:
- Professor Granville, of all people, when preparing for Liv's visit to SFIT.
- Karmi as well, as Liv is her idol and is in the same field of biotechnology as her.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Fred and Krei describe the monster as looking like somebody put "a whale, a dinosaur, and some hair in a blender, poured it into a human-shaped ice cube tray, froze it, then let it thaw just a little".
- Stubborn Hair: When Granville combs Hiro's hair in preparation for Liv's visit, it goes back to it's usual messy style after a few seconds.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: After Karmi puts a bunch of her tranquilizer stickers on Knox, he faints, but he starts regaining consciousness soon after, so she puts on several more to make sure he stays asleep.
- The Unreveal: It is never revealed how Knox turned into a monster. Liv Amara's company being named after the witch who gave birth to a monster in "The Tempest", however, certainly raises some suspicions.
- Was Once a Man: At first the monster appears to be after Orso Knox, who was invited to the Fredricksons' dinner and was going to meet Krei when the monster attacks both locations. When they realize that the monster is quoting from Shakespeare, whom Orso Knox admires, it becomes apparent that the monster is Knox, still following his schedule, with the gala for Liv being his next appointment.
