Recap / Big Hero 6 The Series S 2 E 07 Muira Horror

Krei seeks to place a new campus in the woods where Ned Ludd lives, but Liv Amara has her own plans for Ludd and his meteor. Meanwhile, Honey Lemon and Wasabi watch the Lucky Cat Café while Fred, Mini-Max and Baymax track down a runaway Mochi.

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This episode includes examples of:

• Accidental Misnaming: Krei calls GoGo "GaGa" and his assistant Judy "Joanie", despite multiple corrections.
• Admiring the Abomination: In the middle of fighting the Hibagon, Fred stops to tell him what a big fan he is of the monster.
• Alternate Identity Amnesia: Ned had a fuzzy memory of what happened to him before the transformation, but after he had transformed, he couldn't remember anything.
• Anti-Advice: GoGo goes left when Krei says to go right, thinking he's always wrong. Turns out Krei is right this time, as she ends up falling into the river which he knew was there thanks to the color of the foliage.
• Answer Cut: Krei questions how much Ned Ludd could really have changed and then the scene cuts to Ned eating pine cones while watching squirrels fight in a hollowed out television.
• Artificial Human: Chris is confirmed to be one, with Liv implying that she thinks of him more as a pet than a person.
• Big Damn Heroes: Mochi is the one who takes down the Hibagon, scratching off the dermal patch which is responsible for Ned's transformation.
• Big "NO!": Ned yells “BESSIE NOOOOOOOOO!” when he discovers her missing from his treehouse.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Liv mutates Ned Ludd into an actual Hibagon to use as a distraction while she and Chris make off with Bessie.
• Blunt Metaphors Trauma
  Fred: It’ll be a piece of taco!
  Honey Lemon: Don’t you mean cake?
  Fred: I prefer tacos.
• Blunt "No": Hiro’s reaction when Krei tells him he’ll be coming to talk Ned Ludd into getting rid of Bessie so it won’t interfere with the reception on Krei’s newly bought land.
• Brick Joke: Krei mentioned early that he played golf with Ned, at the end of the episode Ned remembers Krei because he cheated at golf.
• Cell Phones Are Useless: Both Krei and Chris try to put in offers for the Muirahara land in the style of a Quick Draw with their cell phones, but find that neither of them are able to get service.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Mochi escapes from the cafe and ends up on the reins of the Golden Gate Bridge. When Hibagon corners Hiro, GoGo, and Krei there, Mochi jumps down to attack Hibagon and knocks off his mind control device, rescuing the trio.
• Companion Cube: Bessie is this for Ned - he speaks to the meteorite and treats it as his Only Friend.
• Covered in Mud: Krei, Hiro, and GoGo cover themselves in mud to mask their scent and avoid the Hibagon.
• Crazy-Prepared: Krei's contract has a clause for spontaneous camping trips, just so he can force Hiro to accompany him to find Ned Ludd. There's also a clause where Hiro must trust Krei. This seems to be a common clause, as Fred was fully aware of it.
• Continuity Nod: The device used to turn Ludd into the Hibagon is a dermal patch, the exact design Karmi used to sedate Orso Knox in "Big Problem".
• Do You Trust Me?: As the Habigon closes in on them, Krei asks this to Hiro and GoGo. Hiro says yes, but GoGo does not. Krei thanks him and says it’s a good thing he does because there’s also a “Trust me clause” in his contract.
  Krei: You should read those.
• Double Meaning: Krei asks Hiro how he is with “bugs”, and Hiro confidently says that he’s done his fair share of coding. Cut to the two of them in the woods as Hiro’s getting swarmed by flies.
• Drunk on Milk: Due to their low batteries, Baymax and Mini-Max act like a couple of tipsy drinking buddies when they get back to the café - slurring their words, giggling, and hanging all over each other.
• Forgot About His Powers: Fred is about to give up on searching for Mochi when he remembers that Baymax has scanning abilities. Fred questions why they didn’t run a scan before now and once Baymax finally does, they find Mochi sitting on a trash can right behind them.
• Friendless Background: Krei says he never made any friends at camp, so instead he spent all his time learning about nature.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: Krei makes a toast with “the good stuff” - sparkling lemonade, that is.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: The Hibagon has yellow, pupil-less eyes that seem to be burning. His mouth and claws also emit a yellow glow.
• Hey, You!: Krei calls his assistant Judy “Assistant” and refers to Hiro as “Intern”.
• Hidden Depths: Krei proves to be surprisingly knowledgeable about the woods, which he attributes to summers spent at camp.
• Horrible Camping Trip: Hiro and GoGo accompany Krei on a camping trip to help him convince Ned Ludd to take Bessie and leave Muirahara Woods so Krei can expand his business there. However, the trip goes horribly wrong when Ned turns into a real Habigon and GoGo gets hurt, leaving them stranded in the forest with only Krei’s fortuitous survival knowledge to help them.
• I Warned You: Said to GoGo by Krei when she falls in a river after he tells her she’s going the wrong way.
  Krei: Well, I hate to say "I told you so", but I told you so!
• Inevitable Waterfall: GoGo falls into a river that ends in a steep waterfall with lots of rocks at the bottom. Luckily Krei, of all people, is able to save her just in time…while calling her the wrong name, of course.
• Jabba Table Manners: When Fred is shoving a whole stack of pancakes into his mouth at the Lucky Cat Café, Mini-Max tells him he eats like an animal.
• Lightning Bruiser: The Hibagon is extremely strong (strong enough to catch Baymax's rocket fist), but also very fast and agile, moving around with enormous bounds and brachiating among trees.
• Moment Killer: When Krei calms down Ned and tells him that he's his old friend, Krei.
  Ned: Krei... I knew a fellow named Krei. Cheated at golf. [cut to an annoyed Krei]
• Morphic Resonance: The Hibagon has Ludd's long hair and beard as well as his lanky build.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hiro!: Hiro tells Liv exactly where to find the meteor when explaining why their cell phones won't work in the woods.
• No-Sell: Once again, Mini-Max tries to take on a monster and, once again, the monster just grabs him and tosses him aside.
• Non Sequitur, *Thud*: After being curb-stomped by Chris, Ned lets out this gem: “Out of nowhere, from above... handsome sky man, beautiful eyes.”
• Not in the Face!: Krei says this as the Hibagon is about to attack him.
  Krei: Please not in the face, it’s new!
• Off Bridge, onto Vehicle: Right when Fred, Mini-Max, and Baymax finally find Mochi, he jumps off a lamppost and onto a moving bus, leading the group to don their supersuits and chase after him.
• Outside Ride: The Habigon hitches a ride on top of a moving truck in order to follow Krei, Hiro, and GoGo in Krei’s SUV.
• Papa Wolf: Mochi big time. Once it seems like the transformed Ned has Hiro, GoGo, and Krei cornered on Torii Gate Bridge, Mochi jumps off the platform he was sitting on and goes on attack mode, ripping the transdermal patch off of the monster in the process.
  • Krei has a slightly smaller Papa Wolf moment a bit before this scene. After Krei reveals how he knew what he did about wilderness survival, the Hibagon comes back and Krei asks Hiro and GoGo if they trust him before running off.
    GoGo: To be clear, I didn't say I trusted him.
    • About ten seconds later, Krei comes back in the car and performs enough 360s to stir up a dust cloud heavy enough so that the transformed Ned couldn't see them, got Hiro and GoGo into the car, and drove off at high speed.
• Pet the Dog: The entire episode is one for Krei.
  • Krei holds Hiro and GoGo when it seems that they're cornered by Hibagon on the bridge.
  • Once he returns to normal, Krei comfortingly assures Ned that he's alright now and that he's with his "friend" Krei now.
  • At the end of the episode, Krei thanks Hiro and decides to not expand into the woods, jokingly(?) saying that without the woods, "how will tomorrow's executives impress their future interns with their survivalist know-how?" and tousles his hair.
• Portmanteau: The title is a combination of “horror” and “Muirahara” - the name of the forest Krei wants to expand into.
• Pressure Point: Chris hits several of these on Ned to make him pass out.
• Read the Fine Print: Apparently Hiro must have missed the “mandatory spontaneous camping trip” clause on the contract he signed to work for Krei.
  Fred: Spontaneous camping trip clause? Yeah, that’ll get you every time.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Mini-Max’s impression of Mochi consists of “Purr! Purr! In the name of all that is cute, purr!”
• Scout-Out: Krei knows so much about wilderness survival because he spent his summers at Fire Scout camp.
• Single Tear: Parodied. When Krei is relating his Friendless Background to Hiro, he ends it by saying "Single tear." without changing his expression.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Fred sends Hiro a text that says “Everything is fine and Mochi isn’t lost.” Obviously, this causes Hiro to worry.
• Sweet Tooth: Ned accepts Baymax's lollipop despite vehemently rejecting getting scanned by him, stating that he has a weakness for sweets.
• Transformation Sequence: When Ned Ludd turns into the Hibagon, and it appears to be a rather painful one at that.
• Tropey, Come Home: Mochi escapes the café, and much of the B plot is Fred and the Maxes tracking him down.
• Twisted Echo Cut: One is used to transition between Hiro escaping the Hibagon in the forest and Fred looking for Mochi in the city.
  Hiro: I think we lost -
  Fred: MOCHI!!!!

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