GoGo Tomago

Go-Go Tomago (Leiko Tanaka) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, she first appeared in Sunfire & Big Hero 6 #1.

Go-Go Tomago
Go-Go Tomago.
Art by David Nakayama.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceSunfire & Big Hero 6 #1
(September 1998)
Created bySteven T. Seagle
Duncan Rouleau
In-story information
Alter egoLeiko Tanaka
SpeciesHuman
Team affiliationsBig Hero 6
Abilities
  • Battlesuit granting the ability to transform body into explosive ball of energy
  • Accomplished racer and stunt driver
  • Skilled motorcyclist

A re-imagined version of Go-Go appears in the 2014 Disney animated film Big Hero 6 and television series, voiced by Jamie Chung and in the video game Kingdom Hearts III. She is shown as an athletic adrenaline junkie who does not talk much. She possesses electromagnetic disks that can be used as skates and also has smaller disks within them that can be thrown as projectiles.

Publication history

Created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in their spare time while working on another project, GoGo Tomago was first intended to appear with the rest of Big Hero 6 in Alpha Flight #17 (December 1998). However, the team first appeared in their own self-titled three-issue miniseries by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Gus Vasquez, which due to scheduling issues, was published before Alpha Flight #17.[1][2] The character appeared with the team in a subsequent five-issue miniseries which was launched by Marvel Comics in September 2008.

Fictional character biography

Raised on the streets of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, young street urchin Leiko Tanaka fell in with the Shikei-otaku, one of the many youth-based motorcycle gangs (bōsōzoku) involved in Yakuza activities. At age 18, she was arrested during a botched robbery of the Kiyohara Industrial Complex and sentenced to a term of five years in Tochigi Prison. However, before serving her full sentence, engineers from Japan's Ministry of Defense came to her with a deal: secure an early release from prison in exchange for test piloting an experimental exosuit. Tanaka, who was chosen as a test subject based on her good behavior in prison and her high-speed motorcycling skills, accepted the government's terms and soon found herself in the "Go-Go Tomago" exosuit, named for the sphere-like shape the armor takes when propelling through the air at high velocities ("tomago" being a corruption of "tamago", the Japanese word for "egg").[3]

When the top-secret consortium of Japanese politicians and business entities known as the Giri was formed to recruit and train potential superhuman operatives for Big Hero 6, Go-Go Tomago was chosen to be a founding member of the team due to her proficiency with the exosuit and the belief that her fear of being sent back to prison would make it easy for the Giri to control her. Impulsive and hotheaded, Go-Go initially clashed with virtually every member of her new team. She refused to take orders from the team's initial field leader, Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada), and was jealous of teammate Honey Lemon (Aiko Miyazaki). However, once becoming acclimated to the team, her grudging respect for her teammates evolved into true kinship.[3]

Powers and abilities

The Go-Go Tomago battle suit is a voice-activated device that absorbs and amplifies kinetic energy, enabling its wearer to temporarily transubstantiate his or her body mass into thermochemical energy simply by uttering the trigger words "Go-Go Tomago." This transformation can be either partial or total. During a partial transformation, the wearer's body is surrounded by a half-inch thick thermochemical aura that grants the wearer limited invulnerability, flight and energy projection capabilities. During a total transformation, the wearer's entire body transubstantiates into a high-speed, high-impact spherical "powerball", which builds up greater speed and force with every additional ricochet impact while in motion. After a series of sufficiently numerous and forceful ricochets to build up power, the wearer can hurl him or herself into a given target with tremendous explosive impact. Go-Go Tomago is apparently unlimited by the amount of time that she can remain in the thermochemical powerball form, although her body becomes fatigued after extended periods of ricocheting at high speeds. She has been timed at speeds of up to 185 miles per hour. The Go-Go Tomago helmet is made entirely from carbon fiber and is extremely durable and lightweight.[3]

Go-Go Tomago is also a skilled motorcyclist and an accomplished racer and stunt driver. She also has several contacts in Japan's criminal underworld, as many of her former bōsōzoku associates are unaware that she secretly serves as a member of Japan's premiere super-hero team.[3]

Reception

Accolades
  • In 2020, Scary Mommy included Go-Go Tomago in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[4]
  • In 2020, CBR.com ranked Go-Go Tomago 6th in their "Marvel Comics: Ranking Every Member Of Big Hero 6 From Weakest To Most Powerful" list.[5]

In other media

Disney version
Go Go Tomago
Big Hero 6 character
Walt Disney Animation Studios re-imagining of Go Go Tomago
First appearanceBig Hero 6 (2014)
Created byDon Hall
Chris Williams
Voiced byJamie Chung
In-universe information
NicknameSpeed Queen (by Karmi)[6]
GenderFemale
OccupationMechanical Engineering Student
AffiliationBig Hero 6

Film

In the film adaptation, GoGo, renamed as Go Go Tomago, appears in the 2014 Disney animated film Big Hero 6,[7] voiced by Jamie Chung.[8] In the film, Go Go is depicted as a tough, athletic, and stoic adrenaline junkie who is developing electromagnetic wheel axles at the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology. Co-director Don Hall said "She's definitely a woman of few words...We looked at bicycle messengers as inspiration for her character."[8][9][10][11][12] Her name is a nickname that was thought of by Fred with her real name, which is never said in the film, being something "non threatening",[13] with Chung settling on Ethel due to it being a reference to ethanol.[14] This version of Go Go studies electromagnets and has a tough and competitive personality, although she does show a softer and caring side and sticks up for her team, specifically Hiro whom she feels close to. She also has a habit of chewing and popping gum and will remove it from her mouth and place it somewhere when she gets more active. Go Go wears a yellow armored suit that was built by Hiro with large electromagnetic disks that can be used as inline skates and contain smaller disks that can be thrown as projectiles.

Television

Go Go appears in Big Hero 6: The Series with Chung reprising the role.[15][16] In the first episode, "Baymax Returns", Go Go is the most reluctant to return to fighting crime, but changes her mind by then, mostly so as to keep her friends out of trouble.[17] Go Go is shown to be almost incapable of giving optimistic insight until "Big Roommates" when Honey Lemon became disillusioned with her outlook and she was forced to prep her.[18] She also finds pleasure in beating up anything with Fred's face on it.[19] Despite her adrenaline junkie lifestyle, Go Go will head into the woods to go bird watching from time to time and refuses to have anyone go with her.[20] In the season 2 finale, she graduates SFIT.[21] In season 3, thanks to the effort of Wendy Wower, Go Go realizes that she loves teaching children about science as she finds the experience fun, as long as she is wearing a disguise.[22]

Video games

Go Go appears as a playable character in Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay.[23]

Go Go Tomago appears as a limited-time unlockable playable character in the world building video game Disney Magic Kingdoms.[24]

In Kingdom Hearts III Go Go makes an appearance along with the rest of Big Hero 6 as a supporting character in the San Fransokyo world, with Jamie Chung reprising her role.[25]

References
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  2. "Big Hero 6 banks on a huggable robot to draw in audiences". Archived from the original on 2018-12-16. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  3. Big Hero 6 #1 (2008)
  4. "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic". Scary Mommy. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  5. Avina, Anthony (2020-01-26). "Marvel Comics: Ranking Every Member Of Big Hero 6 From Weakest To Most Powerful". CBR. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  6. Juwono, Ben (director); Jenny Jaffe (writer) (August 18, 2018). "Fan Friction". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 1. Episode 15. Disney XD.
  7. "Disney Gives Marvel Fans First Look at Big Hero 6 Animated Film". IGN. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  8. Sneider, Jeff (April 28, 2014). "Disney's 'Big Hero 6' Adds Maya Rudolph to Top-Secret Voice Cast (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  9. Truitt, Brian (July 13, 2014). "Meet the saviors of San Fransokyo in 'Big Hero 6'". USA Today. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  10. Yamato, Jen (July 14, 2014). "Maya Rudolph, James Cromwell, More Join Disney's Marvel Animation 'Big Hero 6′". Deadline. Retrieved September 5, 2014.
  11. "Jamie Chung Next to Not Be Announced for 'Big Hero 6′". Stitch Kingdom. April 28, 2014. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  12. "GoGo" (PDF). xprizechallenge.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
  13. Chung, Jamie [@jamiechung1] (November 3, 2014). "@DisneyAnimation @brandiscollywog GOGO's would be Ethel. or Marge. or Patty. Something non threatening. #AskBigHero6" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. Chung, Jamie [@jamiechung1] (November 3, 2014). "@jjplagac @DisneyAnimation @genirodriguez @ChrisWi25757871 gogo's real name would be Ethel #AskBigHero6" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  15. Petski, Denise (March 3, 2016). "'Miranda's Rights': Jamie Chung & John Gabriel Join NBC Legal Soap". Deadline. Chung recurs as Mulan in Once Upon A Time and will next reprise her Big Hero 6 voice role of Go Go in Big Hero 6: The Series for Disney XD.
  16. "'Big Hero 6': Maya Rudolph & More Reprise Roles for Disney XD Animated Series". Deadline. November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  17. Heneveld, Stephen and Ben Juwono (director); Sharon Flynn and Paiman Kalayen (writer) (November 20, 2017). "Baymax Returns". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 1. Episode 1. Disney XD.
  18. Good, Kathleen (director); Jeff Poliquin (writer) (June 9, 2018). "Big Roommates 2". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 1. Episode 3. Disney XD.
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  20. Heneveld, Stephen (director); Sharon Flynn (writer) (June 16, 2018). "Muirahara Woods". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 1. Episode 6. Disney XD.
  21. Heneveld, Stephen and Kenji Ono (director); Han-Yee Ling, Jenny Jaffe, Jeff Poliquin (writer) (February 8, 2020). "Legacies". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 2. Episode 24. Disney XD.
  22. Heneveld, Stephen (director); Paiman Kalayeh (writer) (November 2, 2020). "Go Go the Woweroo". Big Hero 6: The Series. Season 3. Episode 6B. Disney XD.
  23. Sanchez, Miranda (2014-09-12). "Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay Coming to 3DS and DS". IGN. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  24. Disney Magic Kingdoms (Gameloft) (July 5, 2018). "Update 21: Big Hero 6 | Livestream". YouTube.
  25. Trumbore, David (September 10, 2018). "New 'Kingdom Hearts III' Trailer Calls in the Big (Hero 6) Guns". Collider. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
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