YOKAI (Professor Robert Callaghan)
Played By: James Cromwell
Role: Big Bad, Mystery Warrior
PL 10 (163)
STRENGTH 2
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6
DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 8
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Athletics 2 (+4)
Deception 8 (+11)
Expertise (Science) 10 (+16)
Expertise (Spoilers) 4 (+12)
Insight 3 (+6)
Intimidation 3 (+6)
Investigation 2 (+5)
Perception 6 (+9)
Stealth 2 (+5)
Technology 10 (+16)
Advantages:
Inventor, Startle
Powers:
"Microbot-Controlling Headband" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [63]
"Microbot Spasm" Blast 9 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Burst +2, Selective) (45) -- (51)
- AE: "Microbot Ram" Blast 9 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Line +2) (36)
- AE: "Microbot Eruption" Blast 9 (Extras: Area- 60ft. Shapeable +2) (36)
- AE: "Microblast" Blast 9 (Feats: Accurate 4) (22)
- AE: "Pick Up Stuff" Move Object 8 (Feats: Precise) (17)
- AE: Microbot Snare 8 (Feats: Accurate 4) (28)
- AE: "Microbot Surge" Snare 7 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable) (28)
"Mentally-Created Microbot Forms" Create 7 (Feats: Precise) (Extras: Movable) (22)
Movement 6 (Wall-Crawling 2, Sure-Footed, Water-Walking 2, Safe Fall) (12)
Speed 5 (60 mph) (5)
"Deflection" Enhanced Defenses 5 (10)
Enhanced Advantages 5: Defensive Roll 5 (5)
-- (105 points)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Microbot Area Attacks +9 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Microbot Blast +11 (+9 Ranged Damage, DC 24)
Snare +11 (+8 Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Microbot Surge +7 Area (+7 Affliction, DC 17)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (+11 Microbots, DC 21), Parry +6 (+11 Microbots, DC 21), Toughness +3 (+8 D.Roll), Fortitude +5, Will +7
Complications:
Secret (Identity)
Enemy (Alistair Krei)- Krei's short-sighted, unsafe methods led to the disappearance of Callaghan's beloved daughter. He craves revenge, and the destruction of Krei's entire company.
Relationship (Tadashi, Hiro, Others)- Callaghan has numerous students under his care, and seems to care for them all.
Power Loss (Microbots)- The Microbots are versatile and numerous, but limited in number. Wind effects or anything that can deal with small objects in a hurry can separate them easily, slowly depowering Yokai's abilities.
Total: Abilities: 64 / Skills: 50--25 / Advantages: 2 / Powers: 63 / Defenses: 9 (163)
-Yokai (I am 99% certain he was never referred to this during the film even once) is the villain of
Big Hero 6, being a thieving sort who uses Hiro's Microbots to do some stuff. He looks cool as hell, has an army of Microbots that basically let him create anything he can think of instantaneously, and deal with an army of rookie heroes with ease.
-Okay, now that it's been quite a while since the movie came out, I can really go into his full history. Yes,
Big Hero 6 is one of MANY modern Disney movies that pulls the "Mystery Villain" trick, popping in a previously-positive figure as the surprise bad guy, in a big twist. This has been done so many times recently as to be a cliche- it didn't START with
Frozen (which actually had Elsa as the villain until shortly before they finalized the story- Idina Menzel even performed dialogue as a straight-up villainess), but ever since then, it seems that all the Disney Movies are required to have the villain do a dramatic reveal part-way through the story.
-In this film, we find that the kindly Professor Robert Callaghan, who had been a mentor to Tadashi, and then did the same to young Hiro, has been our villain all along. When he sees Hiro's great Microbots, he immediately gets the idea to steal them, allowing him a measure of revenge against the man he blames for killing his daughter- a businessman whose short-sighted safety measures got her lost in space. As his "cover" for the theft of the Microbots, he set off a fire and explosion that killed Tadashi in the film's early moments, shattering Hiro's life.
-When Callaghan is revealed (it really could have only been Callaghan or Tadashi-in-secret, so nobody would really be surprised- this was no "If only someone out there loved you" moment), Hiro is mortified and murderous, especially when Callaghan casually dismisses the death of Tadashi. Even though he'd never intended Tadashi to die, he just coldly points out "That was Tadashi's mistake!" for getting in the way. Callaghan devotes the rest of the film to murdering Alistair Krei (the aforementioned businessman), only defeated in the final moments, after Hiro rescues his daughter from suspended animation (which, tragically, means that all of Callaghan's actions, and the death of Tadashi, were entirely pointless).
-Needless to say he's got quite a bit of characterization during the film, and the Microbots give him a ton of cool powers that make him a very hard person to get to. PL 10 might not seem like much for the "Big Bad", but keep in mind that the Big Hero 6 are a pretty low-tier band of heroes (un-used to their powers), and that a concentrated effort by the team pretty much has him on the run (Murderous Baymax in particular nearly KILLS him). Yokai isn't so much obscenely powerful as he is VERSATILE- he has tons of Area Attacks at his disposal (everyone on the Big Hero 6 except Baymax is defense-shifted and vulnerable), has a good Snare, is hard to hit, and is extremely quick. A lot of the film is him tossing out Area Attacks and then fleeing.