GoGo Tomago

Key takeaways

GoGo Tomago belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect GoGo Tomago to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of GoGo Tomago from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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), voice provided by Jamie Chung. She is depicted as a stoic, athletic adrenaline junkie who wields electromagnetic discs and roller skates. Chung reprised the role in the making of Big Hero 6: The Series and the video game Kingdom Hearts III.

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. 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"). 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.

In other media

Disney version

Film Go Go Tomago appears in Big Hero 6 (2014), voiced by Jamie Chung. 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." 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", with Chung settling on Ethel due to it being a reference to ethanol. 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.

Video games Go Go Tomago appears as a playable character in Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay. Go Go Tomago appears as a limited-time unlockable playable character in Disney Magic Kingdoms. Go Go Tomago appears as a playable character in Disney Heroes: Battle Mode. Go Go Tamago appears as a non-playable character in Kingdom Hearts III, voiced again by Jamie Chung.

Other appearances Go Go makes a cameo appearance in Once Upon a Studio.

References

External links GoGo Tomago at Marvel.com GoGo Tomago at Marvel Wiki

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with GoGo Tomago

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what GoGo Tomago claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to GoGo Tomago before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about GoGo Tomago ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of GoGo Tomago

In research: GoGo Tomago appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses GoGo Tomago in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: GoGo Tomago is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Big Hero 6 characters, Characters created by Steven T. Seagle, Comics characters introduced in 1998, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for GoGo Tomago outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study GoGo Tomago in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what GoGo Tomago means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain GoGo Tomago out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is GoGo Tomago in simple terms?

Go-Go Tomago (Leiko Tanaka) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Steven T.

Why does GoGo Tomago matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study GoGo Tomago?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on GoGo Tomago.