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GoGo Tomago
Fictional character in the Marvel universe

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.

A re-imagined version of Go-Go appears in Big Hero 6 (2014), voiced by Jamie Chung. She is depicted as a stoic, athletic adrenaline junkie who wields electromagnetic discs and roller skates. Chung reprised the role in Big Hero 6: The Series and the video game Kingdom Hearts III.

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Publication history

Created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in their spare time while working on another project, GoGo Tomago was 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 #17.12 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 of 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.3
  • 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.4

In other media

Disney version

Film

Go Go Tomago appears in Big Hero 6 (2014),5 voiced by Jamie Chung.67 This version is a tough, athletic, and stoic adrenaline junkie and student of the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology who developed electromagnetic wheels. Co-director Don Hall said "She's definitely a woman of few words...We looked at bicycle messengers as inspiration for her character."89101112 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 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 Tomago appears in Big Hero 6: The Series, voiced again by Jamie Chung.1516

Video games

Other appearances

Go Go makes a cameo appearance in Once Upon a Studio.21

References

  1. "LaughingPlace.com » Movie Week: A Look Ahead To Big Hero 6". 26 March 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014. http://www.laughingplace.com/w/blogs/fanboy/2014/03/25/movie-week-a-look-ahead-to-big-hero-6/ ↩

  2. "Big Hero 6 banks on a huggable robot to draw in audiences". Archived from the original on December 16, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20181216081448/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/hero+banks+huggable+robot+draw+audiences/10350057/story.html ↩

  3. "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic". Scary Mommy. 29 November 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2022. https://www.scarymommy.com/marvel-female-characters ↩

  4. Avina, Anthony (January 26, 2020). "Marvel Comics: Ranking Every Member Of Big Hero 6 From Weakest To Most Powerful". CBR. Retrieved December 27, 2022. https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-ranked-big-hero-6-powerful/ ↩

  5. "Disney Gives Marvel Fans First Look at Big Hero 6 Animated Film". IGN. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 9 August 2013. https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/10/disney-gives-marvel-fans-first-look-at-big-hero-6-animated-film ↩

  6. 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. https://www.thewrap.com/disneys-big-hero-6-adds-maya-rudolph-top-secret-voice-cast-exclusive/ ↩

  7. "Go Go Tamaho Voices (Big Hero 6)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved April 4, 2025. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Big-Hero-6/Go-Go-Tomago/ ↩

  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. https://www.thewrap.com/disneys-big-hero-6-adds-maya-rudolph-top-secret-voice-cast-exclusive/ ↩

  9. Truitt, Brian (July 13, 2014). "Meet the saviors of San Fransokyo in 'Big Hero 6'". USA Today. Retrieved July 14, 2014. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/07/13/big-hero-6-character-reveal-exclusive/12535005/ ↩

  10. Yamato, Jen (July 14, 2014). "Maya Rudolph, James Cromwell, More Join Disney's Marvel Animation 'Big Hero 6′". Deadline. Retrieved September 5, 2014. https://deadline.com/2014/07/disney-big-hero-6-voice-cast-804122/ ↩

  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. https://web.archive.org/web/20140703031832/http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-jamie-chung-announced-big-hero-6-70660/ ↩

  12. "GoGo" (PDF). xprizechallenge.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20200925000822/https://thismoment-a.akamaihd.net/other/1410708483-2030.pdf ↩

  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. https://x.com/jamiechung1/status/529393752477929472 ↩

  14. Chung, Jamie [@jamiechung1] (November 3, 2014). "@jjplagac @DisneyAnimation @genirodriguez @ChrisWi25757871 gogo's real name would be Ethel #AskBigHero6" (Tweet) – via Twitter. https://x.com/jamiechung1/status/529330930645622784 ↩

  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. https://deadline.com/2016/03/mirandas-rights-jamie-chung-john-gabriel-nbc-legal-soap-1201713732/ ↩

  16. "'Big Hero 6': Maya Rudolph & More Reprise Roles for Disney XD Animated Series". Deadline. November 3, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016. https://deadline.com/2016/11/big-hero-6-maya-rudolph-jamie-chung-reprise-roles-disney-xd-animated-series-1201847587/ ↩

  17. Sanchez, Miranda (September 12, 2014). "Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay Coming to 3DS and DS". IGN. Retrieved December 27, 2022. https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/12/big-hero-6-battle-in-the-bay-coming-to-3ds-and-ds ↩

  18. Disney Magic Kingdoms (Gameloft) (July 5, 2018). "Update 21: Big Hero 6 | Livestream". YouTube. /wiki/Disney_Magic_Kingdoms ↩

  19. "Update 3.2.01-A Patch Notes". Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. July 16, 2021. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved January 19, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20210716151137/https://discourse.disneyheroesgame.com/t/update-3-2-01-a-patch-notes/1646632 ↩

  20. Trumbore, David (September 10, 2018). "New 'Kingdom Hearts III' Trailer Calls in the Big (Hero 6) Guns". Collider. Retrieved September 10, 2018. https://collider.com/new-kingdom-hearts-3-trailer/ ↩

  21. Reif, Alex (October 16, 2023). "Disney's "Once Upon a Studio" – List of Characters in Order of Appearance". Laughing Place. https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/disneys-once-upon-a-studio-list-of-characters-in-order-of-appearance/ ↩