| “ | Sorry, I was totally in love with you once, but... after I left SFIT, I realized I like someone else now. He... doesn't know. | ” |
Karmi is a character introduced in Big Hero 6: The Series. She is a teenage bio-tech adept, and a fan of Big Hero 6 who likes to write self-insert fan-fiction stories involving the heroes and herself. Before she was "attracted" to "Captain Cutie" (Hiro's alter-ego), but now she harbors a crush on Hiro in general ("Genius Boy" as she sometimes calls him).
Background[]
Karmi is a bio-tech student who was admitted at the prestigious San Fransokyo Institute of Technology around the age of 16[1] due to her advanced skills, making her the youngest enrollee at the time—though she didn't have any friends and had issues socializing because of it. After the events of Big Hero 6 took place, the former dean of SFIT Robert Callaghan was arrested and replaced with Professor Granville, who quickly noticed Karmi's lack of social skills. At the same time, 14-year-old Hiro Hamada joined SFIT and took Karmi's place as the youngest student in the school. Granville recognized the similarities between both teens and saw the opportunity to try getting Hiro to befriend Karmi—even though neither of them were interested and had a rough start as rivals instead which grew into a beautiful friendship and blossomed into love, since they both fully trust each other and support each other. Karmi also has intense admiration for Hiro, since he never gives up and puts everyone first, just like Tadashi.
Personality[]
Karmi's personality has changed over time due to the experiences and situations she has found herself in: Initially she was mostly introverted, studious but also annoying at times, and took great pride in attending college at a young age. On the outside, she appeared to be unfriendly with most people, but deep down, Karmi showed to be compassionate and kind to others, especially those in need. Karmi also has an obsessive relationship with the things she likes: with her virus samples, she used to react negatively if they were hurt or destroyed.
With Hiro, she tended to be particularly rude to him and enjoyed seeing him in embarrassing situations, but ironically, she also fell in love with Hiro's superhero identity. At first, this worried Hiro, who believed that Karmi was secretly in love with him and knew his secret identity, although later he realized that she was ignorant of the truth and did not know that the superhero was him. On the other hand, Hiro also constantly crossed paths with Karmi as his alter-ego, which showed a completely different side of her than the one Hiro already knew due to her acting excited and happy to see him. Also, despite calling Hiro "ignorant of science" at some point, Karmi was genuinely impressed by his robotics skills, which ultimately motivated her to learn some programming herself.
Due to Karmi's obsession with Big Hero 6, she started writing fan-fiction stories about the hero team in which she was a character as well, giving each member a nickname of her own and writing herself as the girlfriend of Captain Cutie (Hiro). Her stories gained enough popularity for them to eventually become an animated webtoon with millions of views. This made her become nicer to people in general, as she now had a fanbase that would ask her for autographs and pictures.
Upon meeting "Liv Amara", Karmi formed her first genuine friendship with her as they shared a love for bio-tech, to the point she gave Karmi an internship at Sycorax and trusted her more than any other of her workers. Yet Karmi flaunted this and every other advantage she had to Hiro, who in response tried to one-up her in any way possible. Eventually, Hiro started learning more about shady things happening at Sycorax, so he constantly sought Karmi for help and started working together more often, although Karmi initially believed this was only out of jealousy. By the time of the events of "City of Monsters", Karmi and Hiro had become friendlier to each other, but it was then that San Fransokyo was attacked by monsters and Karmi herself was mutated into one, so Karmi's parents were too worried for her safety and decided to move away immediately as things were becoming too dangerous, giving her no time to say goodbye to Hiro or explain it to him, which made him very, very sad.
After she moved away from San Fransokyo, Karmi started to lose interest in Captain Cutie as her crush, instead realizing that she developed romantic feelings towards Hiro as she even watched on her laptop how Hiro gave a speech honoring his deceased brother, accepting his brother's graduation diploma at SFIT.
Appearance[]
Karmi is an adolescent girl with olive-tan skin, long brown hair, and is a little taller than Hiro, although the two are close in age. She ties her hair back in a ponytail and wears a cream turtleneck, an orange skirt over black capri leggings, and black Mary Jane shoes. For accessories, Karmi wears red earrings and two red and yellow bracelets on her left wrist. She is occasionally seen with a satchel or backpack.
As an exclusive outfit in "Big Problem", she wears a blue dress and shoes with a blue hair tie.
As a mutant, Karmi is a gaunt green-plated creature with long limbs, hands, and feet. Her fingers and toes are reduced to four on each limb, and her legs are reshaped into a digitigrade structure, with the toes behind her feet. She gains sharp translucent green spines on her back and forearms, while her hair becomes a mass of dark-green tentacles similar to an octopus. Her face has angular features, especially with her ears, teeth, and eye shape, thick arched eyebrows, and a three-grooved overbite maw. She possesses slit green eyes with black sclera.
As a superhero in her fanfic (albeit chibi form), Karmi wears a two-tone navy blue dress with thin light green stripes, black cuffs and a dark blue cape attached behind her shoulders, black goggles, dark blue earrings, black leggings with navy blue knees outlined in light green, and navy blue boots with light green insides and black soles and toes.
Powers and Abilities[]
Equipment[]
- Hardlight Gauntlet: Karmi was inspired by Hiro to learn programming, and eventually created a gauntlet based off the villain Hardlight's gauntlet weapon. Like the original, it can make constructs of solid light as well as take control over constructs that it didn't originally make.
History[]
Season 1[]
Karmi was first seen very briefly in "Baymax Returns" when Professor Granville and Hiro Hamada leave Tadashi Hamada's lab.
In "Issue 188", Granville introduces Hiro to Karmi as a means of improving Karmi's social skills by disguising it as her trying to help Hiro. Granville tells Hiro that for a week, both teens would have to socialize and give her a journal of their experience. At first, Karmi made it seem like she was excited but in reality disliked it, treating Hiro with disdain and annoyance unless Granville was around. However, Hiro discovered that Karmi had a crush on his superhero identity when he saw her drawing him in her textbook, only for Karmi to slam her book shut and angrily storm off. During the fight between Big Hero 6 and High Voltage, Karmi witnessed the event among the crowd (snapping photos of superhero Hiro with her smartphone). She was nearly crushed by a falling street lamp until Hiro (in his alter ego) saved her. While recovering, Karmi giddily snapped a photo of her savior with her smartphone.
Next day at the Institute's cafeteria Hiro tried to talk to Karmi about not revealing his identity but, fortunately, Karmi did not realize Hiro's secret and failed to see the resemblance between her crush and Hiro. Instead, she thought Hiro would tell her that he had a crush on her, but reacted in disgust. By Friday, both met with Granville and Hiro actually thanked her for helping him learn how to socialize. Karmi is shocked by how Hiro did not report Granville on her behavior and again assumed Hiro is crushing on her—which Hiro denied—before she saw the news of Big Hero 6 stopping High Voltage and the photo of superhero Hiro on her smartphone.
Sometime after, Karmi and Hiro had developed a slight rivalry. In "Failure Mode", Granville had given her class three weeks to work on a seismic project, where they would create scale buildings with methods to survive earthquakes. Karmi's building increased its plasticity under pressure and withstood 8.5 on the Richter scale before breaking, and Granville allowed her to make a new version for next week. Meanwhile, Hiro showed his rushed project that failed quickly, then Karmi shot photos of him and later sent it to people to ridicule him. Fred received the photo and showed it to Hiro. Later, Hiro showed up in class with nothing for the project and tossed his notepad, accidentally causing a chain reaction that ruined the rest of the class' projects. Karmi (and some other students) took embarrassing photos of Hiro again and she later showed her new project to Granville, who was motivating Hiro to do his project, although Karmi enjoyed hearing Hiro claim he was simply not good at it. Finally, when Hiro showed his new and improved model, Karmi was ready with her smartphone for another failure, but Hiro's project turned out to be outstanding and Granville praised him. Karmi was shocked and disgusted, and this time Hiro snapped a photo of her reaction as payback.
Karmi made a brief appearance in the short "Baymax and Hiro". Hiro had given Baymax a Boost Charge chip that made the robot act fast and erratic. Seeing Baymax over-feeding Hiro, Karmi smirked and silently took a photo of it. However, Baymax accidentally made Hiro choke but quickly made him spit out the food while she stared with a concerned expression.
In "The Impatient Patient", at the SFIT cafeteria, Karmi was standing in line behind Hiro to grab a fruit. Hiro touched an apple but decided to grab an orange instead, and so Karmi began lecturing him saying that he had left lots of microbes on the apple, also telling him that it was cold and flu season. Hiro then sniffed and Karmi stopped talking, dropping her food and then slowly backed away from him.
In "Small Hiro One". Karmi, like almost every other student, was present at SFIT for Dr. Trevor Trengrove's special appearance. While Hiro and his friends discussed about Trengrove, Karmi confidently claimed she would be the one Trengrove would select to work with, making Hiro doubt her claim. Trengrove then appeared, taking selfies with students. He signed Hiro's copy of his own thesis that originally belonged to Tadashi, but Trengrove mistakenly signed it with the name "Kiro", to which Karmi mocked Hiro for this. Professor Granville then ordered the students to form a line to be granted entry into Trengrove's workshop and handed Karmi a wristband. She, however, did not allow Hiro, who stood behind Karmi in line, because Trengrove had imposed a strict rule of not allowing anyone under 16 years to enter. Karmi once more mocked Hiro, who was sent with Wendy Wower instead, whose audience consisted of younger children.
Inside the workshop, Honey Lemon was about to take a selfie with Wasabi and Go Go when Karmi appeared in the background and tried to tell them she did not want to be in the photo. Before Karmi could finish her sentence, Honey snapped the photo, on which Karmi appeared with a funny expression. Honey Lemon added a dog filter to the photo and sent it to Hiro, who noticed Karmi and saved the photo. During Dr. Trengrove's presentation, Karmi asked him how he would select the students to work with him. Trevor responded by asking what her major was, to which Karmi replied "bio-tech". Trengrove then informed Karmi that all bio-tech majors would receive free ice cream and told her to get one. Karmi left the room but got kicked out as she immediately realized the door was locked from the outside and this was a trick to kick her out. Still, Karmi got the ice cream, which she ate angrily. Hiro saw her through a periscope from the nearby museum he was sent to, and wondered why she was outside.
Later, Hiro plotted to sneak into Trevor's workshop by getting Wendy Wower and the children to explore around. Karmi noticed Baymax passing by and walked over to mock Hiro yet again. Hiro asked what she was doing outside, to which Karmi replied by claiming she was just taking a break. A creepy little boy, however, showed up behind them and informed Hiro she was lying, then somehow disappeared behind her. Karmi then admitted that she was kicked out by Trengrove, to which Hiro apologized, and both of them exchanged smiles, only to react in disgust a few seconds later.
Hiro then entered the workshop to find out that Trengrove was being blackmailed by Yama who held a flash drive with information on Trengrove. Hiro and Big Hero 6 went off to stop Yama, his thugs, and his robot, and upon defeating them, returned to the SFIT to return the drive to Trengrove. Karmi was singing a song to Wower's group of children, and upon seeing Hiro arriving in his armor, she stared at him in shock. Hiro acted nice by addressing her by her name, but also telling her to be nicer to people "like that genius kid at [her] school" (referring to himself in his civilian alter ego). Karmi, however, only felt excited that her crush knew her name.
Karmi was attending class in "Kentucky Kaiju" when Hiro walked in with super-strength abilities. He accidentally started destroying things and inadvertently tossed a chair at Karmi. When Karmi interrogated him, Hiro claimed that the chair just "slipped," but Karmi quickly objected and told other students to back her up. Professor Granville calmed the class down and asked Karmi if she was all right, to which Karmi replied that she would. Later at the cafeteria, Hiro crushed a ketchup bottle with his enhanced strength, causing it to splatter all over the place, including Karmi. Karmi approached to nag him, but Hiro accidentally broke the table in his attempt to get a tissue for her to clean up, and an annoyed Karmi stormed off.
Karmi started writing her own stories about Big Hero 6 that grew popular among SFIT students in "Fan Friction", albeit giving the team her own "superhero names" and depicting Hiro (whom she calls "Captain Cutie") as her lover. When Hiro ran into her at SFIT, he was embarrassed about her fan-fictions and asked her not to make stories of real people, but Karmi told him he shouldn't care as other people were enjoying them.
Eventually, Obake, who was obtaining as many information on the team as possible, also found out about the fan-fictions. He had released Momakase from prison, and when the team tracked her down to a SecuriTech building, Momakase was chased by Go Go, who utilized one of the moves that Karmi thought up in her story, which ended up working. Fred and Honey Lemon also tried one of the moves in which Fred heated up water and Honey froze it, but the result was slightly different than what the story made it seem.
However, Hiro was bothered by the stories but was also unable to tell Karmi to stop writing them, and grew annoyed at how people shipped his hero-self with Karmi. He later realized he could use his hero persona to make it seem as if everything she had written is true (including their aliases). Hiro practiced what he will tell her with his friends by making them wear a Karmi headband, but before he got the chance to do it, Momakase had kidnapped Karmi in order to lure Big Hero 6 into a trap because she believed Karmi is Captain Cutie's girlfriend.
The team flew to Akuma Island to save Karmi before the place was blown up, but Momakase trapped all of them in a special cell that countered their attacks before escaping. Unknown to anyone, Hiro had created an Overdrive Mode chip using an idea taken from one of the chapters of Karmi's fanfic. Big Hero 6 and Karmi broke free and escape in time, then fell in an iceberg created by Honey Lemon and Fred. Hiro decided not to be mean and be thankful that her ideas saved the team, and Karmi is flattered to the point she hugged Hiro.
Karmi then ended her fanfiction with her joining Big Hero 6 (thus becoming Big Hero 7) and kissing Hiro. Fred tweaked the story for Hiro by telling him they got married but then reveals the real ending, which made Hiro even more embarrassed.
In "Big Problem", upon hearing an announcement that biologist Liv Amara would visit SFIT, Karmi was excited since Amara was her idol because she was also a bio-tech genius.
Granville told Hiro's gang that Amara wanted to meet Hiro and Baymax, which made Hiro brag about this to Karmi. However, Amara became disinterested upon finding out that Hiro did not build Baymax, so Karmi quickly introduced herself and showed Amara her extra-dermal nano-receptors, which impressed Amara, who invited Karmi to her new biotech building, much to Hiro's shock. Little did Karmi know that Amara was in fact a genetic clone of the real Liv.
Hiro couldn't tolerate being rejected over Karmi and became jealous of her, then built a machine of his own to try impressing Amara. While Karmi and Amara were eating and chatting at the cafeteria, Hiro approached them with his "temperature gradient device", but both ladies pointed out that it was just a huge thermometer. Realizing this, Hiro walked away in disappointment.
Later, at the SFIT gala held for Amara, she credited Karmi for being the reason she was building her new facility. Soon, the event was interrupted by Big Hero 6 fighting Orso Knox, a man who was supposed to attend the gala but was somehow transformed into a beast. Knox approached Amara and attempted to attack her, but Karmi used her nano-receptors to subdue Knox. Amara also revealed that Karmi's project was getting funded for her way of thinking, which also shocked Hiro, who nevertheless greeted her so as to not sound suspicious.
Karmi then told Captain Cutie that she loved him "too" after he simply greeted her, which made Hiro embarrassed and tried to leave, though he crashed into Baymax and fell down.
Finally, in the Season 1 finale "Countdown to Catastrophe", Karmi showed Amara her final project for the semester at the SFIT's Open House Expo, which was inserting an electric circuit inside a rose and making it glow. Alistair Krei laughed at their joke of calling it a new meaning for "flower power", causing both ladies to look at him awkwardly since he started laughing with them randomly.
Season 2[]
By the time of "Internabout", Karmi had become Amara's new intern at Sycorax, dedicating herself to biotechnology with her own laboratory. Throughout the episode, Karmi found out that Hiro became the new intern of Alistair Krei at Krei Tech, which Hiro gained out of being jealous of Karmi for her internship. Karmi later saw Hiro and Baymax carrying a cow suit, a shirt, and a mochaccino, making her laugh.
In "Prey Date", Hiro and Fred visited Karmi in her lab at SFIT. Hiro used reverse psychology to convince Karmi to learn the status of Orso Knox. He succeeded, but not before Fred accidentally triggered the sprinkler system, destroying all of her cultures.
After a reminder text from Hiro the next day, Karmi went to Amara's office and offered her help on the Knox case, but Amara said that she already had a team working on it. Karmi returned downstairs to see Hiro, Fred, and Baymax in the lobby, shooing them away to her lab upon seeing Amara walking down the stairs.
In the lab, Hiro hacked into Knox's file, and Karmi (with the help of Baymax) diagnosed his problem as overexpression of various mutated gene sequences. Hiro asked if she could cure him, which she affirmed, but she didn't have access to Sub Level 9, where Knox was residing.
With a little bit more hacking from Hiro, the group took an elevator down to Sub Level 9 and started exploring the level before finding Knox's cell. Karmi started working on a nearby console on Knox, but they were interrupted by the arrival of a disappointed Amara, who nearly fired her before she noticed that Karmi's trial was a success. After Amara led Fred back to the elevator, Karmi tried to get Hiro to leave, but the attempt was thwarted when Knox's cell security became disabled, resulting in the building's lockdown.
Karmi, Hiro, and Baymax spend the next few minutes escaping a feral Knox, finally taking residence in a side room. After Knox left, Hiro overrode the protocol at Karmi's objection, stating that it was there for a reason. Hiro told Karmi to wait in the room before he and Baymax went off to get Knox back into his cell. Undeterred, Karmi continued her work on making a cure for Knox.
After the lockdown ended and Knox kidnapped Hiro, Karmi, carrying a bunch of equipment, ran up to Amara and the other members of Big Hero 6. She pleaded to have more time to try to make a cure, but Amara silenced her.
After Knox was taken back to Sycorax, Karmi squealed in delight when she realized "Captain Cutie" (and the rest of Big Hero 6) was with her in the lab. She told him that she would cure Knox, which "Captain Cutie" replied that he knew she would. Karmi then asked about Hiro and if he was hurt. Go Go came up to say that her friend was fine, but Karmi, stammering, denied any friendship with Hiro, claiming that she barely knew him.
Later, Hiro approached Karmi in the SFIT cafeteria to ask her about Knox and her cure. She told him that it was not really "her" cure, but a property of the Sycorax team. Hiro responded that Knox should thank the "Sycorax team", to which they smile at each other.
In "Nega-Globby", Karmi assisted Honey Lemon on creating a cure to turn Globby back into a human. Karmi offered advice on how to slow down the cells' regeneration as well as offering to come back tomorrow, dodging an enthusiastic hug from Honey Lemon.
Karmi returned the next day, waking Honey Lemon from her slumber in the lab. They arrived at the same realization that it would be better to neutralize the chemicals instead of extracting them. They were interrupted by Hiro and Baymax, who scoffed at the thought of Honey Lemon's notion that they were "bio-besties". Karmi retorted by stating that she and Honey Lemon made a major scientific breakthrough and asked Hiro if he did anything lately. Hiro tried to respond, but she said that it was rhetorical.
Hiro dragged off Baymax in frustration, and an annoyed Karmi blew a raspberry in their direction. Honey Lemon remarked to her how nice he acted and that the two might get along because of how similar they were. Karmi categorically denied it but was saved by Honey Lemon's discovery that their experiment worked. Honey Lemon then pulled Karmi into a hug, tightening it when the latter claimed that she was really not a hugger.
Later, Karmi joined the rest of the gang with Globby in the lab as they tried to restore his human form. The solution didn't take effect at first, causing Karmi to second-guess their formula calculations. She was later seen in the background when a now-human Dibs reveled in returning to his normal self.
In "Something Fluffy", she angrily accosted Hiro in the SFIT cafeteria after his accusations that Amara knew more than she was letting on about the city's monster attacks. After explaining his reasoning, the scene cuts to the Robotics Lab, where Baymax played a video to the rest of the gang (with Hiro and Karmi in chibi form) that she called him names like "stupid loser" and "jealous little-", before Hiro cut him off.
Later, outside Granville's office, Hiro and Baymax ran into Karmi after the Mayoi craze became widespread through the city. She flatly denied that Sycorax had anything to do with them, even stating that she was almost starting to feel bad for him and his paranoia.
After the Mayoi started growing in size, Hiro, Honey Lemon, and Baymax went to Karmi's lab to try to ask her for help. Karmi begrudgingly agreed, and she diagnosed from the Mayoi's fur that they were more plant-like than mammalian, the combination of sunlight and regular food causing the abnormal growth. The Mayoi that Honey Lemon brought to her lab began growing uncontrollably, trapping them in her lab.
Karmi later arrived with Amara and Chris at the battle between Big Hero 6 and Mr. Sparkles, who had taken responsibility for the monster attacks. She helped the team turn the Mayoi back to their infantile stage using a cure that Amara "made", and, along with the crowd, hailed Amara as a savior.
In "Write Turn Here", she was in class with Hiro, where Professor Granville asked her to read an excerpt from her creative writing assignment. She narrated a fight between Big Hero 6 and Momakase where she comes in to save the day. However, she was interrupted by Hiro mid-story, who claimed that her writing was full of problems. Karmi mocked Hiro by telling him to enjoy staring at a blank computer screen all night. The rest of the episode consists of her only appearing in her chibi form, her voice being dubbed over in Hiro's attempts at writing a story by everyone else (Hiro, Honey Lemon, Go Go, Baymax, Wasabi, and Fred, in that order).
In "City of Monsters, Part 1", Amara had entrusted Karmi with a project involving a special kind of parasites called parasynths that were attacking an unknown patient's biological systems. Karmi asked who the patient was, but Amara did not disclose, simply stating it was just protocol to keep the patient's identity confidential.
The next day, a frustrated Karmi came to a realization that robotics could help with the project, telling Amara and Chris that molecular robots could keep the parasynths from swarming while the cure could work on the body. She, however, sheepishly admitted that she was not an expert, but claimed she could study quickly, showing Amara the "Beginning Robotics" program on her tablet.
In an attempt to gather materials for her project, Karmi went to the Robotics Lab late at night. She was interrupted by Hiro and Baymax, who had entered to pick up one of the robot's armor pieces. An incredulous Hiro tried to find out what she was doing, but Karmi refused to tell him. She said that she was considering asking him for help before reiterating that he was "the worst" before storming off to her lab.
A little later, Karmi was in her lab, still having trouble with her project. Hiro, after seeing a video from Baymax that highlighted cooperation between Tadashi and Lily (a physician who assisted with his healthcare matrix), entered her lab and offered his help, which she happily accepted.
The two went to Hiro's lab to concoct a solution. Hiro suggested nanobots—nano-version of his microbots—but creating them led to a new problem: they were too small for a human eye to see. The two teenagers then went back to Karmi's lab, where they used a microscope and a neurotransmitter to establish a link to Hiro's brain; however, the connection broke when Karmi poured water over them. They surmised that the liquid is breaking the wireless link, but Karmi had a way to solve that problem as she punched him in the arm. Karmi showed Hiro her project from SFIT's Open House Expo: inserting circuitry into organic material. She sprayed the organic substance onto the nanobots with an intent that the membrane made would allow them to survive inside the body. They ran the test again and succeeded, culminating in the two celebrating and Karmi hugging Hiro. Embarrassed, the two separated, but marveled at each other's individual contributions. She apologized to Hiro about Tadashi, telling him she always admired him and his work. Hiro replied that he didn't do it alone, and they shared another awkward moment before Go Go informed him that Wendy Wower had been kidnapped by Mr. Sparkles. Karmi watched Hiro making his way out of the lab, running into a closed door in the process. After he left, she shook her head and smiled, only saying one word: "Weirdo."
Karmi went to Sycorax to inform Amara about the breakthrough she had with Hiro, which Amara praised her on. Amara informed her intern that she was due for a promotion, or as the former called it, an "upgrade". A distressed Karmi later called Hiro, informing him that she escaped to SFIT to hide from Amara after the latter turned on her. He and Baymax arrived at SFIT, and after fighting off Bessie, Hiro found Karmi hiding in her lab. Hiro consoled her, reminding her of what a great team they were, and Karmi took his hand.
However, the feeling was short-lived: Amara activated the biochip she earlier injected into Karmi's body, causing her to mutate into a monster. Now under Amara's control, she seized Hiro and the nanobots, taking them to Sycorax.
For the majority of "City of Monsters, Part 2", the mutated Karmi remained under the control of Amara, who revealed herself as Di (Diane), a genetic clone of the real Liv Amara. Di threatened Hiro into curing Liv, who had been infected with parasynths, and after successfully eliminating the deadly parasites, he pleaded with Di to call off her monsters and cure Karmi. Instead, Di unleashed Karmi to attack Hiro after he escaped her attempt to mutate him. Hiro tried escaping after Baymax got disabled by Chris (now in his mutated form), but Karmi grabbed him. Hiro pleaded for her to fight Di's control, telling her she was the smartest person he knew, his friend, and that he cared about her. From Hiro's plea, Karmi regained some of her conscience so that she resisted Di's command to eat him, so Di sent Chris to finish the job. In an effort to protect Hiro, Karmi pushed him aside before fighting Chris, whose enhanced muscles enabled him to overpower her and pin her down.
Just as Hiro was about to be transformed from Di's transdermal patch she had just placed on him, Liv awakened from her comatose state and used Di's phone to strip Chris of his enhancements. With Chris depowered into an average adult male, Karmi then proceeded to beat him into unconsciousness before Liv reversed the effect of Karmi's biochip. Restored to normal and totally spent, Karmi collapsed, prompting Hiro to rush over to catch her in his arms.
Following the arrests of Di and Chris, Hiro walked to Karmi's lab to check on her but found everything boxed up and the lights turned off. He learned from Professor Granville that Karmi's parents had taken her away from the city as well as from SFIT, fearing for her safety. Hiro was saddened that he didn't get to say goodbye.
Sometime later, Karmi wrote another Big Hero 6 fanfiction based on recent events, in which she portrayed herself as coming to Captain Cutie's rescue. Hiro happily read Karmi's latest fanfiction, in which she revealed her superheroine alias of "Lab Lady".
Though not appearing physically, a picture of Karmi (as well as a photo of her in her mutated state) appeared on Megan's conspiracy board in "Hiro the Villain".
Karmi had a brief cameo at the end of "Legacies", where she watched Hiro speak about Tadashi during a graduation ceremony at SFIT on her laptop, smiling in support.
Season 3[]
In "The Hyper-Potamus Pizza-Party-Torium", Karmi is among the potential candidates list made by Fred to replace Go Go, Honey Lemon, and Wasabi on the team, as he and Hiro feared they'd move away from town soon.
In "Big Chibi 6", Fred and the team watch one of Karmi's episodes of her Big Chibi 6 webtoon. Hiro becomes shocked to learn that her fan-fiction is a cartoon now because people will get the wrong idea about her and Captain Cutie, but mentions he's glad that she's doing OK, causing Fred and Wasabi to tease him. Meanwhile at Krei Tech, Ian also watches the cartoon and tells to himself that it's time for his villanous alias of Hardlight to return, as he just had an idea for a "new game" inspired by the webtoon.
Due to Big Chibi 6's popularity, an autograph signing with Karmi was arranged at Richardson Mole's comic book shop for the next day. Karmi video calls Hiro through Baymax to give him the good news that she'll return to San Fransokyo for a day, but Hiro acts all nervous and pretends he is busy so he may not be able to attend the signing. Still, Baymax reveals that he will be free, so Karmi tells him she'll see him there—which upsets Hiro as he facepalms once the call ends. Aunt Cass noticed the ongoing call and began questioning Hiro about Karmi and if she was his ex-girlfriend, since Cass believed that Megan Cruz was the one Hiro liked; Hiro simply became embarrassed and left to avoid talking about it.
The next day, Hiro and friends arrived at Richardson's Rare Comics. Seeing that the line was too long, Hiro tried to use this as an excuse to bail out until Fred stopped him and gave all of his friends VIP passes, then going directly to the front of the line with Hiro. Fred excitedly told Karmi he was a big fan and had several theories about the cartoon while Hiro covered his face with a comic book, but Richardson Mole quickly kicked Fred out because his VIP passes had a fine print stating that "no Fredericksons were allowed" specifically to torment him. Due to this, Hiro was next in line and started acting nervous again as Karmi gave him a talking "Captain Cutie" toy. Karmi tells Hiro that she's sorry she's been out of touch since things have been crazy ever since she left, but the brief conversation is interrupted by Hardlight, who also claims to be a big fan of Karmi as he creates holographic, evil versions of Big Hero 6 in Chibi form, claiming he was inspired by her webtoon to create them. Karmi says she has no idea who Hardlight is because she was not in town when Hardlight first appeared, so Hardlight says it's fair enough. Hiro tries to defend Karmi, but Hardlight uses his powers to toss him back and then leaves the store to cause trouble in the streets with the chibi clones.
Hiro and friends gear up and fight against Hardlight and their clones, until Hardlight creates multiple clones of Chibi Hiro to keep distracting them. Karmi comes out of the store and tells the team to let her handle them. Hiro refuses as he claims it's too dangerous, but Karmi insists as she reaches for a gauntlet in her backpack that is similar to Hardlight's. Hardlight orders the army of Hiros to attack her, but Karmi uses the gauntlet to shoot hologram hearts at the Chibi Hiros, thus making them help her instead. This upsets Hardlight, who claims that is not part of the "game script", but Karmi tells him he's wrong and she learned how useful programming can be from "someone" during her last few weeks at SFIT, although she says "his name is not important". The Chibi Hiros proceed to beat up Hardlight while Big Hero 6 and Karmi watch—until Honey Lemon suggests they should help him once his gauntlet is taken off. Hiro then uses Hardlight's gauntlet to destroy all the holograms, and Hardlight is arrested while his identity as Ian is revealed.
After Hardlight is gone, "Captain Cutie" talks with Karmi and tells her that her idea was genius. Karmi says she got the idea from her webtoon's first episode, and Hiro comments that he knows it's the one where they defeat Baron Von Steamer with his own clone. Hearing this makes Karmi happy, but both quickly become awkwardly silent, looking shyly at each other as they get closer to seemingly share a kiss, until Karmi hesitates and decides not to do it; telling "Captain Cutie" that even though she once used to love him, she no longer does because she started to like someone else ever since she left SFIT, although the "other person" doesn't know it yet. Despite not mentioning a name, Hiro blushes as he's certain that she's talking about his civilian identity, so he simply advises her to actually tell it to "whoever he is". Karmi thanks him for understanding and both share a friendly hug, then Karmi walks away as Hiro stares happily at her. Once Karmi leaves, Honey Lemon startles Hiro by saying how she "knew" they'd fall in love someday, but Hiro is annoyed by this and leaves as well. Baymax whispers to Honey Lemon reminding her about Megan being Hiro's other love interest, but Honey shushes him and tells him to let her enjoy the moment for now.
Trivia[]
- While her character doesn't specifically exist in the Marvel Comics, another character similar to her does. Marys Iosama was the daughter of a renowned scientist who the Big Hero 6 team were sent to protect along with her father from a supervillain who possessed people to commit her crimes. She was presented as a recurring supporter of the team, and was also shown to have a close friendship with Hiro Takachiho, as they both had a mutual love for technology.
- As part of their former rivalry, Karmi and Hiro used to take embarrassing photos and videos of each other.
- Karmi can play the ukulele.
- Originally for "City of Monsters", Karmi was going to have a new boyfriend named "Flammarion", but the idea went unused[3].
- The name "Flammarion" was instead used for Fred as his middle name, and his mother's maiden name.
- Karmi originally had an arc in Season 3 that would've focus on her return, but it was later scrapped.
Appearances[]
| Big Hero 6: The Series - Shorts | |||
| Baymax and... | |||
| 1. "Baymax and Fred": | Absent | 4. "Baymax and Hiro": | Appears |
| 2. "Baymax and Go Go": | Absent | 5. "Baymax and Mochi": | Absent |
| 3. "Baymax and Wasabi": | Absent | 6. "Baymax and Honey Lemon": | Absent |
| Baymax Dreams | |||
| 1. "Baymax Dreams of Evil Sheep": | Absent | 4. "Baymax Dreams of Mochizilla:": | Pictured |
| 2. "Baymax Dreams of Bed Bugs": | Absent | 5. "Baymax Dreams of Too Many Freds": | Pictured |
| 3. "Baymax Dreams of Too Many Baymaxes": | Absent | 6. "Baymax Dreams of Fred's Glitch": | Absent |
| Big Chibi 6 | |||
| 1. "Making Popcorn": | Absent | 7. "Love Letters": | Appears |
| 2. "Mochi No!": | Absent | 8. "Super Charged": | Absent |
| 3. "Save Mochi": | Appears | 9. "Low Battery": | Absent |
| 4. "Noodle Song": | Absent | 10. "Road Trip": | Absent |
| 5. "Snoring": | Absent | 11. "Super Driver": | Appears |
| 6. "Gumball Trouble": | Absent | 12. "Brunch Rush": | Absent |
| Baymax and Mochi | |||
| 1. "Flowers and Butterflies": | Absent | 3. "Messy Room": | Absent |
| 2. "Mochi and his Toy": | Absent | ||
| Big Hero 6: The Series - Season 1 | |||
| 1-2. "Baymax Returns": | Background | 13. "Small Hiro One": | Appears |
| 3. "Issue 188": | Appears | 14. "Kentucky Kaiju": | Appears |
| 4. "Big Roommates 2": | Absent | 15. "Rivalry Weak": | Absent |
| 5. "Fred's Bro-Tillion": | Absent | 16. "Fan Friction": | Appears |
| 6. "Food Fight": | Absent | 17. "Mini-Max": | Absent |
| 7. "Muirahara Woods": | Absent | 18. "Big Hero 7": | Absent |
| 8. "Failure Mode": | Appears | 19. "Big Problem": | Appears |
| 9. "Aunt Cass Goes Out": | Absent | 20. "Steamer's Revenge": | Absent |
| 10. "The Impatient Patient": | Appears | 21. "The Bot-Fighter": | Absent |
| 11. "Mr. Sparkles Loses His Sparkle": | Absent | 22. "Obake Yashiki": | Absent |
| 12. "Killer App": | Absent | 23-25. "Countdown to Catastrophe": | Appears |
| Big Hero 6: The Series - Season 2 | |||
| 1. "Internabout": | Appears | 14. "Mini-Maximum Trouble": | Absent |
| 2. "Seventh Wheel": | Absent | 15. "El Fuego": | Absent |
| 3. "Prey Date": | Appears | 16. "The Globby Within": | Absent |
| 4. "Something's Fishy": | Absent | 17. "Hardlight": | Absent |
| 5. "Nega-Globby": | Appears | 18. "The Present": | Absent |
| 6. "The Fate of the Roommates": | Absent | 19. "Hiro The Villain": | Pictured |
| 7. "Muira-Horror!": | Absent | 20. "Portal Enemy": | Absent |
| 8. "Something Fluffy": | Appears | 21. "Fred the Fugitive": | Absent |
| 9. "Supersonic Sue": | Absent | 22. "Major Blast": | Absent |
| 10. "Lie Detector": | Absent | 23. "Fear Not": | Absent |
| 11. "Write Turn Here": | Appears | 24-25. "Legacies": | Appears |
| 12-13. "City of Monsters": | Appears | ||
| Big Hero 6: The Series - Season 3 | |||
| 1. "The Hyper-Potamus Pizza-Party-Torium": | Pictured | 6A. "Big Hero Battle": | Absent |
| 6B. "Go Go the Woweroo": | Absent | ||
| 2A. "Mayor for a Day": | Absent | 7A. "The New Nega-Globby": | Absent |
| 2B. "The Dog Craze of Summer": | Absent | 7B. "De-Based": | Absent |
| 3A. "Trading Chips": | Absent | 8A. "The MiSFIT": | Absent |
| 3B. "Mini Noodle Burger Max": | Absent | 8B. "Return to Sycorax": | Absent |
| 4A. "A Friendly Face": | Absent | 9A. "A Fresh Sparkles": | Absent |
| 4B. "Big Chibi 6": | Appears | 9B. "Noodle Burger Ploy": | Absent |
| 5A. "Cobra and Mongoose": | Absent | 10A. "Krei-oke Night": | Absent |
| 5B. "Better Off Fred": | Absent | 10B. "The Mascot Upshot": | Absent |
Gallery[]
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An Image Gallery is available for Karmi.
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References[]
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