With its latest release, Disney is daring to go where almost no other big budget animated movie has gone before: Big Hero 6, which opens in theaters on Nov. 7, puts diversity on the front lines, not only breaking, but destroying racial and gender stereotypes in the process. Should the masses head to see it, the pay-off will be enormous. But the biggest potential boon here isn't financial; it's the moral victory.

Big Hero 6, inspired by Marvel Comics' superhero team of the same name, directors Chris Williams and Don Hall aim to eradicate commonplace portrayals in a fictional Utopia: the futuristic town of San Fransokyo, a mash-up of Tokyo and San Francisco. "This [film] gave us a perfect opportunity to create a diverse cast," Hall told BuzzFeed News. "When you look outside your window, you go to any city anywhere in America — the world for that matter — and it's a diverse world. Our films should reflect that. So very early on, we decided that we were going to have a lot of diversity in this film, and the main characters were going to be a mash-up as well, because this is a mash-up of Disney and Marvel. It's a mash-up of Eastern and Western culture."

It's also a world where the brightest kids in the school are people of color and the team mascot is the white student. At the center of Big Hero Six is smartypants Hiro Hamada, a biracial (Japanese and white) student who would rather hoodwink goons in seedy after-hours joints and take part in gambling illegally in a robot-fighting racquet than go to school and learn.

"One of the things that I am proud of is the fact that we do have this very diverse cast. In one sense, we don't make a big deal out of it. The characters are certainly not defined in any way by their race and I'm very proud of that," Williams told BuzzFeed News. "Ryan Potter, who voices Hiro, at one point, he said to us that what he loves about the film is that everybody's gonna see themselves up there. I'm really proud of that."