10 Movie Characters Everyone Thought Were Secret Villains
1. Tadashi Hamada - Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6's villain is the Kabuki mask-wearing Yokai, and there were two obvious candidates for the person under the mask - overzealous tech guru Alistair Krei (Alan Tudyk), or protagonist Hiro's (Ryan Potter) older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney).
Given that Krei seems a bit too obvious and Tadashi supposedly died in a fire early in the film, the latter felt like an especially ripe candidate to be a classic Disney twist villain.
We know how much the House of Mouse loves both sibling rivalries and villains who mirror the hero, so why wouldn't Yokai be a secretly alive Tadashi?
But Tadashi did indeed die in the fire, with Yokai instead being revealed as Professor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell), who was also believed to have perished in the same fire.
Honestly, this is a rare case where what the audience thought was going to happen was actually more interesting than what did.