History Characters / PacificRim

Characters from the 2013 SummerBlockbuster ''Film/PacificRim'', its 2018 sequel ''Film/PacificRimUprising'', the anime ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', and the tie-in material (the comics ''[[ComicBook/PacificRimTalesFromYearZero Tales from Year Zero]]'', ''Tales from the Drift'', ''Pacific Rim: Amara'', ''[[{{Interquel}} Pacific Rim: Aftermath]]'', and the novel ''[[{{Interquel}} Pacific Rim: Ascension]]'').

Characters from the 2013 SummerBlockbuster ''Film/PacificRim'', its 2018 sequel ''Film/PacificRimUprising'', the anime ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack'', and the tie-in material (the comics ''[[{{Prequel}} Tales from Year Zero]]'', ''Tales from the Drift'', ''Pacific Rim: Amara'', ''[[{{Interquel}} Pacific Rim: Aftermath]]'', and the novel ''[[{{Interquel}} Pacific Rim: Ascension]]'').

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!!Humans

[[folder:General Human Tropes]]
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Just as the Jaegers have badass names, it's a given for the cast to have these as well.
* DoNotGoGentle: The Kaiju just move in under the assumption that humanity would surrender in the face of unwinnable odds. What they never anticipated was humanity working together to find a solution to kick their asses.
%%* HumansAreWarriors: As presented in the opening narration.
%%-->''They never considered we would rise to the challenge.''
* MassOhCrap: Standard reaction to Kaiju having the upper hand. Especially notable when Slattern (the first-ever Category 5) shows up in the first film and [[spoiler:the Mega-Kaiju forms in the second]].
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Humanity as a ''whole'' has to be this just to survive by the point the story properly begins.
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!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRim''
[[folder:Raleigh Becket]]
!!Raleigh Beckett
!!!Played by: Creator/CharlieHunnam, Creator/PaulMichaelWyers (young)
!!!Voiced by: Creator/IrwinDaayan (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/TomokazuSugita (Japanese)
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->''"When you're a pilot, you'll realize that when you're in combat, you make decisions. And you have to live with the consequences. That's all I'm trying to do."''

->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2016
->'''Strike Group:''' Anchorage Shatterdome (formerly), Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Gipsy Danger
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Tales From Year Zero''

One of the primary viewpoint characters. He piloted Gipsy Danger with his brother until they were defeated by Knifehead, heralding the end of the Jaeger age.
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* AmazonChaser: It's not explicitly romantic, but he's definitely taken with Mako after their spar and insists that she become his co-pilot. Considering that she won that fight crosses with DefeatMeansFriendship.
* BadassBoast: It's only part of the narration, but ''man'' is it a subtly awesome one.
--> "There are things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can win."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Raleigh is usually a very friendly guy who takes any insult or offense quietly, but when Chuck insults Mako, he throws the first punch and ''thrashes'' Chuck.
* BigNo: When Yancy is killed, Raleigh lets out an anguished scream of "No!".
* BrokenBird: A rare male example. Prior to Knifehead, Raleigh was an optimistic and carefree young man who believed he could take on the world and every Kaiju in it. By the time of the main storyline, his brother is dead, Gipsy Danger is decommissioned, the Ghost-Drifting presence of Yancy is still bouncing around inside his head, the Jaeger Program is about to be shut down, and the Wall of Life has failed in a truly spectacular fashion. Both physically and mentally, all of these occurrences have turned Raleigh into a [[ShellShockedVeteran shell of his former self]].
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Marshal Pentecost seeks him out to pilot the rebuilt Gipsy Danger, as he's the only Mark-3 pilot still alive.
* CharacterNarrator: He does the opening narration of the first film.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The reason for his absence in ''Uprising'' is never explained despite still being alive and well by the end of the first movie. ''The Black'' confirms that he had retired ever since.
* CombatPragmatist: Has a habit of using improvised weapons in his fights and switching up his fighting styles when his enemy starts to adapt -- possibly as a result of the Kaiju adapting to the tactics Jaegers were using. It's particularly evident in his fight with Chuck.
* ConfusionFu: Not in the most literal sense, but a remarkable aspect of Raleigh's piloting ability is his unconventional fighting style. Mako points out that he's "unpredictable" ([[ShowDontTell which is later shown to be accurate]]), and this is a major advantage when fighting an enemy that can learn its opponents' preferred attack style.
* CoveredWithScars: His ShirtlessScene reveals the many physical scars he retains from the fight with Knifehead.
* DeadSidekick: Inverted in that ''he'' seemed to be the sidekick to his older brother, Yancy. However, this was the main reason why he stopped being a Jaeger pilot. The neural link during his brother's death didn't help.
* DeathByAdaptation: While non-canon to the actual film, the novelization of ''Uprising'' states that he contracted a fatal cancer from exposure to radiation in the Anteverse and died less than a year after closing the Breach.
* {{Determinator}}:
** Seriously injured, his Jaeger heavily damaged, his brother very recently killed, and having just defeated a giant monster, Raleigh still finds the strength to walk Gipsy Danger back to shore on his own.
** By calculating the timeline, the Beckets sortied some time around 2 a.m. and engaged Knifehead soon after. By the time Raleigh makes it back to shore, it's already daylight, which means he had been soloing Gipsy for ''several hours'', when most pilots who attempt to even move a Jaeger on their own suffer severe seizures/aneurysms or collapse from the strain. The fight happened in FEBRUARY. In ALASKA. Think for a moment on how long the nights are.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Raleigh has dark blonde hair, and is one of the most heroic characters in the film.
* HeroicBSOD: Prior to the present timeline, Raleigh fell into a five-year rut due to his brother dying. It didn't help that they were still connected via neural drift when it happened, meaning he felt ''everything.'' When he talks about it with Mako, it's obvious that he still carries a lot of guilt about the incident.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Losing Yancy had quite an effect on him. Doesn't stop him from kicking all kinds of ass though.
* HotBlooded: Kept fairly down-to-earth because a live action [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon]] would definitely look silly, but when he gets into battle, Raleigh certainly gets shouty. This may be justified, as the inside of a Jaeger conn-pod seems to be pretty loud.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: It's unclear if Raleigh and Mako are a BattleCouple, LikeBrotherAndSister, or JustFriends. TheBigDamnKiss doesn't happen at the end, but there are ShipTease moments like Mako EatingTheEyeCandy of Raleigh's ShirtlessScene.[[note]]In the novelization, there's [[TheBigDamnKiss nothing implied about it]], but the events of the novelization do not take precedence over those of the film.[[/note]]
* {{Keet}}: Just compare him to his brother Yancy in his introductory scene. While Raleigh practically skips about their dorm at the announcement of a Kaiju attack, Yancy can barely keep his eyes open to do their SecretHandshake.
* TheLancer: To his brother Yancy during the prologue. He's goodhearted, but also impulsive and jokey.
* LastOfHisKind: The last surviving Mark-3 Jaeger pilot.
* MilitaryMaverick: Deconstructed. Most action films portray disobeying or contesting orders as a positive trait, but the opposite happens early on in the storyline when Raleigh and Yancy ignore Stacker's orders for them to stay in the Miracle Mile outside of Anchorage. Instead, they venture 10 miles out to sea in order to save a small fishing boat, which gave Knifehead the advantage of deeper water. Coupled with their cocky attitudes, this ultimately leads to Yancy's death and Gipsy Danger's destruction.
* MrFanservice: Raleigh has tons of scenes where Charlie Hunnam's impressive physique is on full display. Heck, his ''first'' scene has him shirtless.
* NiceGuy: Raleigh is usually friendly to people he interacts with, even if he has reason not to be.
** When they first meet, Mako makes a rude comment about him in Japanese while he is standing there. However, he only appears amused and later is Mako's biggest supporter for her to be his co-pilot.
** When [[InnocentlyInsensitive Newt]] cheerfully talks about Kaiju in front of him, Raleigh--despite having every reason to be mad, what with how Yancy died--only cautions Newt about his desire to [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor see a Kaiju up close.]]
** When Chuck outright calls Gipsy an "old rust bucket" to Raleigh's face, Herc visibly freezes ... but Raleigh simply goes on eating. It's not until Chuck starts insulting him--and later on, Mako--that Raleigh attempts to retaliate.
* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: Raleigh has scars from the battle of Anchorage on his body, and scars in his mind from having his brother Yancy torn out of the Drift.
* RedOniBlueOni:
** The excitable, upbeat Red to his brother Yancy's more levelheaded Blue.
** Again the Red to the impassive and stoic Mako. The supplementary notes indicate that he is the perfect match with her because of this -- he's impulsive and unpredictable, while she's the strategic perfectionist. Both their personalities complement each other's strengths and cover their weaknesses.
* RetiredBadass: Was the original co-pilot for Gipsy Danger but quit after his brother's death, only to be called back to duty by Pentecost when they are in desperate need for pilots.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Based on film and supplemental data, Raleigh is the only pilot to flat-out ''quit'' the Jaeger Program. All the other pilots were simply killed or reassigned (like Pentecost). Yes, Raleigh lost his brother, but so did many of the other pilots whose families, friends, and even co-pilots were killed by the Kaiju. It's the main reason why Chuck is so disgusted and hostile towards him.
* ShirtlessScene: Mako gets a glimpse of one across the hall when their doors (opposite each other) were simultaneously open.
* SmallStepsHero: Refuses to sacrifice a boat of ten people to save a city of one million (along with Yancy). Unfortunately, it also results in them venturing over 10 miles outside of the Miracle Mile, which gave Knifehead an enormous advantage in the deeper waters.
* UnlikelyHero: During his narration at the start of the film, he notes that he and his brother weren't the sort of people stereotyped to become Jaeger pilots -- an occupation that netted you guaranteed fame and fortune at the time. They weren't at the tops of their classes and they weren't the best of the best when it came to sports. What set them apart was their Drift compatibility.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's mentioned as a legendary Jaeger pilot a few times in ''Uprising'' - but there's no sign of him, and his holo isn't on the wall of the deceased in that film. In an [[https://collider.com/pacific-rim-2-what-happened-to-raleigh-becket-charlie-hunnam/ interview with director Steven DeKnight]], Charlie Hunnam was unable to come back to be in the movie due to prior commitments, and Raleigh was originally supposed to be killed off-screen. They filmed a scene explaining it, but it tested negatively with audiences, and, not wanting to lock themselves into anything, deliberately left things ambiguous in case Hunnam wanted to return for any possible sequels. In the ''Uprising'' novelization, Raleigh is described as having died from radiation poisoning, while conversely, in ''The Black'', the pilot files show that he retired.
* WhiteMaleLead: He is the protagonist in a multi-racial film; his boss is a black man, his partner is a Japanese woman, and some of his fellow pilots are Chinese men.
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[[folder:Mako Mori]]
!!Mako Mori
!!!Played by: Creator/RinkoKikuchi, Creator/ManaAshida (young)
!!!Voiced by: Christine Byrd (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/MegumiHayashibara (Japanese)

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->''"It's not obedience, Mr. Becket. It's respect."''

->'''Nationality:''' Japanese
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2021
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Gipsy Danger
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Tales from Year Zero'' | ''Tales from the Drift'' | ''Aftermath''[[note]]cameo[[/note]] | ''Uprising''

One of the primary viewpoint characters of the first film. Her family was killed in Onibaba's attack on Tokyo. Afterwards, she was adopted by [[spoiler: Stacker Pentecost, one of the pilots of the Jaeger that saved her life.]]
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* ActionGirl: She's a Jaeger pilot and the only candidate shown capable of keeping up with Raleigh.
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''ako '''M'''ori.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: ''Uprising'' reveals that she was this to Jake, her adoptive brother and Stacker's biological son, who did not think he could have measured up to her.
* AndThisIsFor: "For my family!" (''slash'')
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: She studied footage of Raleigh's fighting to be able to match him in combat. However, her analysis found that he is, in fact, unpredictable.
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler:''Uprising'' has her die early on in the Obsidian Fury attack, if only to serve as inspiration for Jake and the others.]]
* BadassAdorable: She's a badass who seems quite deferential to Pentecost and shy around Raleigh. Just check the puppy dog look she gives Pentecost when Raleigh asks to spar with her.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite her normally reserved demeanor, she's just as capable -- and just as ''confident'' about how capable she is -- as Raleigh. This is first hinted at by her attitude when she enters the ring with him; she puts her boots down neatly at the edge of the mat, then struts out in a manner not unlike Raleigh's swagger.
* BigGood: Serves this role in ''Uprising'' as the leader of the PPDC.
* BrokenBird: The combination of losing her parents and hometown to Onibaba resulted in Mako becoming a [[TheStoic stoic]] [[ThePerfectionist perfectionist]], which can be seen when she chases the RABIT during her initial Drift with Raleigh.
* BrutalHonesty: Despite her polite nature, she's willing to tell Raleigh he's not suitable for the final mission. She also has no problem with critiquing his performance in front of everyone, pointing out that he could have taken out all the other candidates two moves earlier.
* CoolBigSis: After being adopted by Stacker Pentecost, she became one to his biological son Jake, as seen in ''Uprising''.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: To Raleigh's protagonist in the first movie. Since their Drift partnership is an essential part of the first film, Mako's history and issues are given equal focus and she has a similarly large role in the plot. She also fills the NotLoveInterest role.
* DoomedHometown: Appropriately enough, Tokyo, which was destroyed in a childhood Kaiju attack.
* EatingTheEyeCandy:
** Realizes she's doing this while observing Raleigh's ShirtlessScene across the hall through their open doors. She quickly closes her own door in embarrassment ... [[CovertPervert then keeps watching through the peephole]].
** This interpretation of her actions is subverted in the novelization, where Raleigh deduces that Mako wasn't looking at him for his looks; she was looking at his scars, specifically the ones he got from his battle with Knifehead. Why she did this, he decides, is because she wants scars of her own.
* GeniusBruiser: She's the leader of Gipsy's restoration project, which requires no small amount of engineering and technical wizardry, and she can match Raleigh in a straight-up fight despite having a serious reach disadvantage and being 50 pounds lighter. Then there's when she actually pilots Gipsy Danger, and [[spoiler:her becoming a PPDC Marshal herself in ''Uprising'']].
* HappilyAdopted: Raleigh theorizes this to be her relationship with Pentecost. [[spoiler:He's right.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: Familiar with the Hansens' bulldog, Max, and is very affectionate with him.
* HeroicBSOD: She starts "chasing the RABIT" during their initial Drift, slipping into the trauma from [[spoiler: Onibaba's attack]]. She recovers, but not before [[spoiler: instinctively powering up Gipsy Danger's ArmCannon and nearly toasting the command centre.]]
* HeroWorshipper: To both Raleigh and Marshal Pentecost.
** She studied everything about Raleigh in the hopes that she would be his co-pilot.
** She has huge admiration for [[spoiler:Pentecost because [[IOweYouMyLife he saved her as a child]] and then raised her.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: It's unclear if Raleigh and Mako are a BattleCouple, LikeBrotherAndSister, or JustFriends. TheBigDamnKiss doesn't happen at the end, but there are ShipTease moments like Mako EatingTheEyeCandy of Raleigh's ShirtlessScene. [[labelnote:note]]In the novelization, there's [[TheBigDamnKiss nothing implied about it]], but the events of the novelization do not take precedence over those of the film.[[/labelnote]]
* MsFanservice: [[DefiedTrope Defied]] by del Toro, who wanted a female lead that wasn't a "sex kitten." The closest we got to fanservice with her is the tank top she wore during the sparring scene (which ''all'' the sparring participants were wearing). Other than that, she's always dressed practically.
* MulticoloredHair: WordOfGod says that she dyes her hair to match the coat she wore during the attack on Tokyo, as a reminder.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Narrowly averted - when she loses control of her memories and past traumatic experiences ("chasing the RABIT"), she nearly fries the entire Shatterdome with Gipsy's plasma cannon during her first Drift exercise.
* TheNotLoveInterest: She fills a "love interest" role to Raleigh in that she becomes his trusted partner and confidant. They help each other overcome their traumas while saving the world in the process. While not without light ShipTease moments, their relationship remains platonic.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mako loses both her parents in the attack by Onibaba, a monster whose name ("ogress grandmother") overtly ties it to the fiendish replacement-parents of folktales.
* ThePerfectionist: Del Toro describes Mako as "her own worst enemy" and "adversary" due to her constant need for perfection. Mako dislikes nothing more than to fail herself and those around her, which resulted in her socializing very little with others and having few friends, much like the equally young and short-tempered Chuck Hansen.
* PillarsOfMoralCharacter: A plot point. Raleigh, the American, can't understand why she obeys Pentecost's decisions when they are clearly wrong, and she disagrees with them. She replies that it's not about obedience, it's about ''respect''.
* RankUp: She's now Secretary-General of the PPDC by the sequel.
* RedOniBlueOni: The mostly-stoic Blue to Raleigh's Red. Her hair's even ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* ReiAyanamiExpy:
** While having a rather more well-adjusted and sociable personality and there's nothing artificial about her origin, she's the only Japanese character in the movie, is [[TheStoic stoic and reserved]], fiercely loyal to her adoptive father figure, and sports Rei's haircut as said above. It's even colored blue, though only at the tips. Popular fan consensus is that it's supposed to say, "We took ''some'' inspiration from Evangelion but didn't try to ape it".
** Explicitly invoked in the Japanese dub, where, instead of the actual actress playing her, she's voiced by the same person responsible for Rei -- Music/MegumiHayashibara. You can't get to be a bigger expy than that!
* RevengeBeforeReason: Pentecost even tells her that her desire to avenge her family is so strong that it makes her a liability in combat and in the Drift.
--> '''Marshal Stacker Pentecost:''' Vengeance is like an open wound. You cannot take that level of emotion into the Drift.
* SciFiBobHaircut: Her haircut is a neat bob with the tips dyed blue; fitting for the protagonist of a sci-fi movie. By the time of ''Uprising'' she's lost the bangs and the dip-dye but kept the bob haircut, making her look dignified and proper.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:She was the only survivor of a Kaiju attack in Japan when she was a child. Thankfully Pentecost, who was one of the Jaeger pilots that saved her life, adopted her.]]
* StuffedInTheFridge: [[spoiler:By shooting her helicopter down in ''Uprising'', Obsidian Fury condemns her, one of the prior film's main characters, to a crude, fiery death undeserving of a PPDC Marshal and former Jaeger pilot (of Gipsy Danger itself, no less). This is what motivates Jake further to rejoin the PPDC.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:She is rather suddenly killed off about third-ways into ''Uprising''.]]
* TwoferTokenMinority: She's the only woman in the main cast of the first film, and she's Asian too.
* WaifFu: Holds her own against [[spoiler:Raleigh]] despite lacking his bulk in muscle (she is quite wiry).
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: Mako strives for Stacker's approval out of deep respect for him, as much as she wants to be a Jaeger pilot to avenge her family.
* YamatoNadeshiko: A Japanese woman who is very soft-spoken and obedient, but still strong-willed and tough.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Mako has blue tips, befitting an Anime-inspired character. As del Toro says, she dyes it that way as a CallBack to the coat she was wearing the day Onibaba attacked Tokyo.
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[[folder:Stacker Pentecost]]
!!Marshal Stacker Pentecost
!!!Played by: Creator/IdrisElba
!!!Voiced by: Octavio Rojas (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/TesshoGenda (Japanese)

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->''"All I need to be to you and everybody else on this 'Dome is a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis fixed. Point.]] Your last man standing. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration, all I need is your compliance, and your fighting skills."''

->'''Nationality:''' British
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Coyote Tango, Striker Eureka
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Tales From Year Zero'' | ''Tales From the Drift'' | ''Aftermath''[[note]]cameo[[/note]] | ''Uprising''[[note]]flashbacks, photographs[[/note]]

Stacker Pentecost is a former British Royal Air Force and Jaeger pilot, a Marshal in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, and [[spoiler: the adoptive father of Mako Mori]]. He oversaw operations in the Hong Kong Shatterdome during the last days of the Kaiju War and eventually coordinated the final attack to retake the Breach in 2025. He piloted Coyote Tango with Tamsin Sevier until its 2021 decommission and official retirement. Along with Hercules Hansen, Stacker is a veteran of the Jaeger Program and one of the last survivors from the first-generation of [=PPDC=] pilots, although he no longer takes part in physical combat.
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* ActionDad: If you count Mako as his daughter. ''Film/PacificRimUprising'' is about his biological son.
* AffectionateNickname: "Stacks" to his partner Tamsin.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: A flashback in the comics reveal that he spent his final moments thinking of his son Jake. He apologizes for not being a better father and saying he loved him right before he died.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: He's respected by the entirety of the [=PPDC=] because of his badassery.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: With a name like "Stacker Pentecost", his being a badass was inevitable.
* BadassBaritone: Courtesy of Idris Elba's own smooth voice. It adds a lot of gravitas whenever he makes a RousingSpeech.
* BadassBoast: Stacker was good at delivering inspirational speeches, as pointed out several times in ''Uprising''.
** Before the final battle in the first movie, he delivers a rousing speach to the gathered Shatterdome personnel:
--->''Today, at the edge of our hope; at the end of our time ... we have chosen to believe in each other. Today, there's not a man or woman in here that shall stand alone. Today, we face the monsters that are at our door and bring the fight to them! Today, we are cancellin' the apocalypse!''
** ''Tales From Year Zero'' gives him another one.
---> ''In all our eons, we've seen continents frozen and the sun blotted by ash - and we're still here. A decade after K-Day and we're still here. I've never believed in the end times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.''
* BadassLongcoat: His uniform's foul weather overcoat. It even gets commented on for "looking sharp" by Raleigh.
* BadassMoustache: Even in flashbacks, he's depicted with a mustache almost as impressive as its owner. It carries over into the present day.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Although he still has a standard military haircut, Stacker is the leader for a few damn good reasons, and he's a FourStarBadass to boot.
* BigGood: By the time of the main storyline, he is the ''only'' bonafide leader standing between humanity and its destruction.
* BigShutUp: Gives one to Hermann when he keeps interrupting [[spoiler:Newt's exposition of his neural bridge experience with the Kaiju brain.]]
* TheChainsOfCommanding: Implied. There's basically only one full scene where he voluntarily shows any vulnerability in front of anyone, and he comes across as a man who's really, ''really'' tired.
* ConvenientTerminalIllness: He's suffering [[spoiler: severe radiation poisoning]] by the time of the movie. He's also part of the team that [[spoiler:detonates the nuke attached to his Jaeger to "clear a path" for Gipsy]].
* CynicismCatalyst: Supplementary materials reveal that his sister Luna was one of the fighter jet pilots who lost their lives in the first Kaiju attack, inspiring him to work on combating the Kaiju.
* DeadlyNosebleed: Not an obvious example of this trope at first, as it shows up alongside other characters frequently coming down with a PsychicNosebleed. See SecretlyDying.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Pentecost knows that humanity is on the brink. He isn't going to go down without fighting tooth and nail. Exemplified when he hits Raleigh with an ArmorPiercingQuestion:
-->''"Where would you rather die? Here, or in a Jaeger?"''
* {{Determinator}}: Alongside Raleigh, [[spoiler: he is one of only 'two'' pilots to have operated a Jaeger solo. For Pentecost, it was during the Battle of Tokyo, where he piloted his Jaeger through heavy combat after his co-pilot fell unconscious.]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "Mako, listen! You can finish this! I'll always be here for you. You can always find me in the Drift.]]
* AFatherToHisMen: During the meeting with the United Nations representatives, Stacker makes it very clear that he cares for the Jaeger pilots under his command, and that to dismantle the Jaeger program is not only an extremely bad decision, but also an insult to the very thing they fought to protect.
--> "I ''am'' aware. Those are ''my'' Rangers that die every time a Jaeger falls.
* FourStarBadass. Make it ''five'' star as a Marshal.
* GoodIsNotNice: Stacker Pentecost can be quite intimidating and harsh at times. In the beginning, he told the Becket brothers to ignore the fishing boat in distress to focus on the bigger problem. However, when he realized things were going to get worse, he told them to [[PetTheDog take the ship]] and clear out.
--> "[[TheNeedsOfTheMany You will not risk a city of one million people for a boat that carries ten]]."
* HeroicSacrifice: Both he and [[spoiler:Chuck blow themselves up while in Striker Eureka in order to clear a path for Gipsy Danger. This is a nested sacrifice, since he was already dying due to inadequate radiation shielding in the early Jaeger he used to pilot, and even going into the non-nuclear Striker was likely to kill him.]]
* IllBoy: [[spoiler: Piloting a Jaeger with a not-well-shielded reactor power plant ''solo'' for three hours put a huge strain on his health and he's SecretlyDying because of it.]]
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Shares such a moment with [[spoiler: Chuck before they self destruct Striker Eureka.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: One of the tallest characters and is also TheLeader of the PPDC.
* LargeHam: Stacker's speeches definitely count as this. And they're ''very'' justified since he's desperately trying to raise morale and convince his subordinates to make one last stand against the Kaiju and their creators. Amusingly, Newt remembers him first and foremost as "a great speechwriter" in the sequel.
* TheLastDance: With no other [[spoiler: pilots available, he co-pilots Striker Eureka with Chuck Hansen during the final battle even though the radiation poisoning will kill him.]]
* LonelyAtTheTop:
** As his opening quote shows, Pentecost is the model of a career soldier taken to its logical conclusion. By deliberately severing emotional ties to his fellow human beings (with the exception of a small few, notably Mako), he makes himself a ruthlessly efficient leader who is able to make heartless yet logical decisions (not saving innocents, not even allowing mourning periods for fallen soldiers) that allows humanity to better survive against the Kaiju invaders. However, it is hinted that this is at least partly a front he puts up for the benefit of all those serving under him, to give them the unwavering leader they require.
** Gets even sadder in the sequel, when it's revealed he had to kick his son, Jake, out of the program after he foolishly tried to pilot a Jaeger solo. God knows how he must have felt about that...
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Mako's mentor and father figure. He doesn't survive the final battle.]]
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Cites this principle in his argument that the Becket brothers fight Knifehead closer to shore, even if it puts the fishing boat at risk.
* NotSoStoic: Pentecost raises his voice three times: first to shut up Hermann after Newt drifts, then a short moment while chewing out Raleigh (before going back to his usual calm demeanor), and finally, raising his voice for the RousingSpeech.
* OldSoldier: He is the most experienced pilot (together with Herc Hansen), having piloted the early Mark I Jaegers. Not to mention he was in the military before joining the Jaeger Program.
* OverprotectiveDad: Anyone who's read the prequel comic will quickly realize that this is why he doesn't want [[spoiler: Mako piloting a Jaeger, particularly Gipsy Danger.]]
* PapaWolf: Stacker, towards Mako. He repeatedly dissuades her from piloting a Jaeger, not because he doesn't see her potential, but because he truly cares for her safety.
** Averted with his biological son, Jake, in the sequel. Jake even reminisces on how Stacker personally stripped him of his rank and kicked him out of the program when he tried to pilot a Jaeger on his own.
* ParentalFavoritism: If Stacker didn't outright favor Mako over Jake, he was certainly much closer to her and had a strained relationship with his son.
* ParentalSubstitute: Became this for [[spoiler: Mako after Tokyo. He adopted, raised, ''and'' trained her]]. The prequel comic shows he adored her.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Stern and intimidating, but is also more than willing to back Newt's ploy to [[spoiler: sync up with a Kaiju brain after it yields results (and after initial refusal)]], in fact being very gentle with him and talking him through what happened. Pentecost also praises [[spoiler: Mako and Raleigh's unorthodox tactics in handling Otachi and Leatherback.]]
* RedBaron: [[spoiler: Amara remembers him as "Badass Stacker" in ''Uprising''.]]
* RetiredBadass: Was once the Jaeger pilot for Coyote Tango. [[spoiler: He is also the only other person besides Raleigh to pilot a Jaeger solo. He comes out of retirement when Hercules is too injured to pilot Striker Eureka.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: His positional authority and commanding presence is quite intimidating when challenged.
-->'''Stacker:''' One, don't you ever touch me again. Two. ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Don't you ever touch me again.]]''
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:He is actually dying from radiation poisoning as evidenced by his constantly bleeding nose. Due to the Mark I Jaegers being hastily designed for combat, they were not fitted with internal radiation shields to protect the pilots from the nuclear cores powering the Jaegers. Thus Pentecost slowly became poisoned every time he fought. After he saves Mako in Tokyo, his condition worsens, due to his co-pilot (who was also sick) passing out from the strain. He kept this a secret from most in order to keep the morale of his men.]]
* SuddenlyShouting: Marshal Pentecost is usually tranquil, but he loses his cool when Raleigh tries to impose Mako on him.
-->"Do not let my calm demeanor fool you, ''Ranger!''"
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He and Chuck blow themselves up to take down two Kaiju so Gipsy Danger can seal the breach.]]
* TranquilFury: Not long after the SuddenlyShouting moment listed above, Raleigh tries to insist he put Mako back in a Jaeger, grabbing him as he leaves for the elevator and even bringing up the fact that [[spoiler: he now knows Pentecost rescued her as a child]]. Pentecost's reply is icy-cold but completely vicious:
--> ''One: don't you ever touch me again. Two: don't you EVER touch me again. Now, you have no idea who the hell I am, or where I've come from, and I'm not about to tell you my whole life story. All I need to be to you and everybody on this dome is a fixed point. The Last. Man. Standing. I do not need your sympathy or your admiration. All I need is your compliance and your fighting skills. And if I can't get that, then you can go back to the wall that I found you crawling on. Do I make myself clear?''
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: The second film implies this to have been his relationship with his son, Jake, who mentions he joined the PPDC in part to spend more time with him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hercules 'Herc' Hansen]]
!!Hercules "Herc" Hansen
!!!Played by: Creator/MaxMartini
!!!Voiced by: Martín Soto (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/ShuichiIkeda (Japanese)

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->''"Now we have a choice here! We either sit and wait, or we take those flare guns and do something really stupid!"''

->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Sydney Shatterdome (formerly), Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Lucky Seven, Striker Eureka
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'', ''Pacific Rim: The Black''

Hercules Hansen is the father of Chuck Hansen, a former Royal Australian Air Force pilot, and a veteran of the Jaeger Program. He was a PPDC Ranger and the pilot of both Lucky Seven (with his brother, Scott) and Striker Eureka (with Chuck). In the aftermath of Stacker Pentecost's death, he is promoted to the rank of Marshal, but resigns soon after.
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* ActionDad: He pilots Striker Eureka alongside his son and has been killing Kaiju since the very beginning of the program.
* AlliterativeName: '''H'''ercules '''H'''ansen.
* AwesomeAussie: Judging by his introduction with Raleigh, he is something of a LivingLegend in the Jaeger pilot community.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: And Herc actually lives up to such an intensely masculine and heroic name, too.
* BashBrothers: [[http://travisbeacham.tumblr.com/post/57911406057/jaegercon-jaegercon-interviews-travis-beacham According to screenwriter Travis Beacham]], Hercules' original partner was his brother, Scott Hansen. However, their partnership ended after Scott was discharged for an infraction that Herc witnessed in Scott's memory while they were in the Drift. [[SecretKeeper He never revealed]] [[NoodleIncident what the incident was]] to anyone else after Scott was fired, but it was apparently bad enough to almost cause them to lose control of their Jaeger ... while in combat.
* DadTheVeteran: Prior to K-Day and the Kaiju invasion, Herc was enlisted in the Australian Royal Air Force. After that, he joined the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and eventually became one of the longest serving (and surviving) Jaeger pilots. By the time of the film, Herc ''still'' pilots Striker Eureka alongside his young son, Chuck.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even after [[spoiler: his Jaeger is disabled by an EMP strike]], Herc convinces his son to come with him, [[spoiler: exit their Jaeger, and fire flares in Leatherback's eyes to buy time for Hong Kong. They succeed in ''REALLY'' pissing it off.]] And he survives that stunt!
* FourStarBadass: He's revealed to be a Marshal (the PPDC's equivalent to a general) like Pentecost but is still fighting on the front lines as a Jaeger pilot.
* HandsOffParenting: After Angela's death in Sydney and the rapid rise of the Kaiju, this essentially summed up Herc's parenting-style. And it has come back to bite him in the ass. ''Big time''. When Herc claims that he doesn't know who Chuck is anymore, his son says that Herc ''never'' knew who he was in the first place since Herc never spent any time with him.
-->'''Chuck''': After Mum died, I spent more time with these machines than I ever did with you. Now, the only reason you and I speak, old man, is because we're Drift-compatible.
* HeartbrokenBadass: By the end of the film, Herc has [[spoiler: outlived his son, his best friend, and his ''entire'' family. The last twenty minutes are obviously pure torture for Herc as he watches his only child make a HeroicSacrifice that had originally been planned for him, not the 21-year-old Chuck.]]
* HeroesLoveDogs: Herc dotes on Max almost as much as his son does, and [[spoiler: the bulldog is all he has left after Chuck's death.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:He returned to being a pilot by the time of the prologue battle in ''The Black'', participating in a large scale battle to buy time for an evacuation of central Australia. After his copilot died, he managed to solo pilot his Jaeger and take down the attacking Acidquill to and activate the Black Protocol.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Implied: his file lists him as MIA after his Heroic Sacrifice in ''The Black''.]]
* NiceGuy: He is a much more amicable man than his {{Jerkass}} son.
* NumberTwo: Always present with Pentecost during briefings and scientific meetings. By the end of the film and with [[spoiler: Pentecost's death by nuclear explosion, Herc is promoted to Number One as Marshal of the PPDC.]]
* OldSoldier: A contemporary of Pentecost. He is one of the last first-generation Jaeger pilots still in service. Or alive. And he served in the Royal Australian Air Force before K-Day as well.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After saving Chuck from Scissure's attack on Sydney as a young child, Herc later [[spoiler:loses his 21-year-old son by HeroicSacrifice and nuclear explosion in order to close the Breach. At that point, the Kaiju have officially taken Herc's entire family from him. And there is nothing he can do to stop it.]]
* ParentsAsPeople: Herc Hansen is a good man and is trying hard to be a good father, but him and Chuck suffer from poor communication and various other issues caused when Herc chose to save Chuck over his wife, which led to Chuck resenting his father.
* PutOnABus: ''The Black'' has his archived file say his status is MIA, following the events of Operation: Blackout's initiation.
* SadisticChoice: In the {{novelization}}, Herc only had enough time to find either his son or his wife before Sydney was nuked. He chose his son. They both hate themselves/each other for it.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: He and his son go against Pentecost's orders and engage Otachi when she and Leatherback are overpowering Crimson Typhoon at Hong Kong.
* SiblingYinYang: Compared to the heroic and law-abiding Herc, Travis Beacham described younger brother Scott as a consummate n’er-do-well, problem gambler, and aggressive Lothario. And while Herc was always able to keep his eye on the Kaijus and their threat to humanity, the fame and attention lavished on Jaeger pilots only further complicated Scott's worst qualities.
* WhatTheHellHero: He calls out Chuck several times for antagonizing Raleigh and Mako, and isn't at all pleased by his haughty attitude.
* YouAreInCommandNow: Takes up the [[spoiler:rank of Marshal after Pentecost's HeroicSacrifice.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chuck Hansen]]
!!Charles "Chuck" Hansen
!!!Played by: Creator/RobertKazinsky
!!!Voiced by: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/DaisukeNamikawa (Japanese)

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->''"Well, my father always said, if you have a shot, you take it. So let's do this."''

->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2019
->'''Strike Group:''' Sydney Shatterdome (formerly), Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Striker Eureka
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim''

Charles Hansen is the only son of Hercules and Angela Hansen. Chuck was ten-years-old when Sydney was attacked by Scissure, which resulted in the death of his mother. Following the authorization of the Jaeger Program, his father and uncle both enlisted in the Jaeger Academy in 2015. Chuck himself was “raised in a cockpit” by his father and on the principles of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. He later went on to become a PPDC Ranger and the pilot of Striker Eureka.
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* AntiHero: Specifically of the PragmaticHero variety. Chuck's first and foremost goal is always to protect humanity and the [=PPDC=], and he doesn't take kindly to anything or ''anyone'' that might endanger them.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Extremely confident in his abilities, and justly so. He has the [[HotBlooded temper]] to match, too.
* AwesomeAussie: He's the youngest pilot ever in the Jaeger Program, has a Kaiju kill count that's rivaled only by his equally-Australian father's, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking takes his English bulldog everywhere with him,]] including as the official decal on his tech team and Striker Eureka.
* BrokenAce: One of the youngest pilots with the highest kill count, but is extremely bad at communicating his feelings. He's also dealing with a double dose of DaddyIssues and SurvivorsGuilt with regards to his father choosing to save him over his mother. He's almost a textbook example of an emotionally stunted ChildSoldier who believes his only purpose in life is to live and die fighting the Kaiju. Not the healthiest mindset for a young, stressed out pilot.
-->'''Chuck''': After Mum died, I spent more time with these machines than I ever did with you.
* CelibateHero: According to production notes, he has never had a girlfriend. Instead, he focuses on being the best Jaeger pilot there is. Averted recently on Travis Beacham's tumblr by saying that Chuck wasn't a virgin.
* ChildSoldier: While most teenagers were in middle or high school, Chuck was training at the Jaeger Academy and piloting Striker Eureka before he could even apply for a driver's license. This probably explains a lot of his emotional issues as well.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Confidently telling the press that Mutavore was Striker's eleventh kill, establishing that he's a cocky hotshot.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Mako. Both of them are young and exceptionally talented [[ThePerfectionist perfectionists]] with [[DadTheVeteran war veteran fathers]] and suitably varying amounts of DaddyIssues, but Chuck is [[TheMcCoy emotional]] where Mako is [[TheSpock stoic]]. This plays into their interactions with Raleigh as well -- Mako openly admires Raleigh's unpredictability while Chuck expresses disdain for him.
** To Raleigh. Pre-Knifehead Raleigh is quite similar to Chuck, showing the same cockiness and eagerness to fight Kaiju. Had the fight with Knifehead gone better, we might be looking at two extremely similar people.
* GoodIsNotNice: Chuck may be doing everything in his power to protect and save humanity from the Kaiju, but don't expect him to not insult or sneer at the people around him, especially if he believes [[ThePerfectionist they're incompetent or just not worth his time.]]
-->'''Chuck''': You slow me down, I’m gonna drop you like a sack of Kaiju shit.
* HairTriggerTemper: Gets angry at the drop of a hat. Growing up as a prodigy in an extremely isolated environment probably didn't help his anger issues.
* HeroesLoveDogs: He has an English bulldog named Max. His jacket, Striker Eureka, and the tech crew's uniforms have custom decals modeled after his beloved pet.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Both he and Marshal Pentecost blow themselves up while in Striker Eureka in order to clear a path for Gipsy Danger.]]
* HotBlooded: Definitely applies outside the cockpit, where he's short-tempered, arrogant, and quick to take offense. Interestingly, the opposite seems to take place inside a Jaeger, possibly due to his life-long ranger training.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: For all his animosity with Raleigh and Mako, [[spoiler: he cheered them on when Gipsy Danger came to fight Leatherback]].
---> '''Chuck:''' Come on, Gipsy, kick his arse!!!
* ImprobableAge: Chuck was barely 16 when he was first deployed in Striker Eureka in 2019, and (according to the artbook) was enlisted in the Jaeger Academy in 2015 at the tender age of 12.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Said to [[spoiler:Marshal Pentecost right before their HeroicSacrifice.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Chuck Hansen comes dangerously close to this trope in light of his belligerent treatment of Raleigh, Mako, and just not being a particularly nice person in general, even if his criticisms about Raleigh (burned out) and Mako (too inexperienced) had some validity. However, he ultimately subverts it by [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight ignoring orders]] to help his fellow pilots when they're in need of assistance, openly doting on his beloved dog, and then [[spoiler: pulling a HeroicSacrifice at the movie's climax to save humanity.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite his egotism, he criticizes Raleigh and Mako not out of jealousy, but because he's actually concerned about their ability to do their jobs. And though Chuck's accusation that pilots like Raleigh are what got the Jaeger Program canceled are harsh, he's not completely wrong. Raleigh lost his brother and nearly got Gipsy Danger destroyed by refusing orders and engaging Knifehead 10 miles at sea rather than within the Miracle Mile as ordered -- it's easy to see how Chuck can hold Raleigh's [[MilitaryMaverick rockstar-esque, above the rules attitude]] in contempt. On top of that, by the time Raleigh rejoined the PPDC, almost every other Jaeger and their pilots, except the promoted Stacker Pentecost, has died in combat. From Chuck's point of view, Raleigh never learned from his mistakes, and on top of that, abandoned humanity's only effective line of defense to work on a Wall project that was just proven to be useless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He isn't a pleasing person to say the least. Raleigh openly stated that the only thing that holds him back for wanting to beat him up is due to his respect for Chuck's father. He is willing to insult Raleigh, Mako, and even his own father, but nonetheless cares about humanity's survival and doesn't hesitate to come to his fellow pilots' defense. Chuck is also extremely affectionate with his bulldog, Max.
* KnightInSourArmor: Chuck's heroic actions and genuine desire to save humankind would have qualified him as a straight hero if it weren't for his bad attitude that pisses off nearly everyone around him.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: For all of his jerkassness, Chuck, like his dad, says ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight and rushes in to try to save his teammates.
* ThePerfectionist: Chuck does not tolerate failure from anyone, including himself. And due to him being raised in a Shatterdome and around the Jaeger pilot lifestyle, Chuck has little to no social life or experience outside of the Defense Corps. He even expresses open disdain for pilots whom he feels could be a liability to the program.
* PetTheDog: Done literally and figuratively with his dog Max. Chuck is openly affectionate with the dog, showing that he's not entirely a jerk.
* TheRival: To Raleigh. It's implied in the novelization that Chuck once idolized the Becket brothers and Gipsy Danger, but Raleigh's desertion of the Jaeger Program led to him being distrusting and jaded against the other pilot.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Leaves his post to try to aid the Russian crew while they were getting hammered by Otachi. This makes him NotSoDifferent from Raleigh and his brother who did something similar to save the crew of a fishing boat. For all his talk, Chuck is ultimately just as unwilling to abandon a few people to their death for the sake of the many or the big picture, even when it's the logical thing to do.
* SurvivorGuilt: In the {{novelization}}, Chuck is very aware of his father's choice to save him instead of his mother. After all, he Drifts with him. And his father is very aware that his son would rather he had saved his mother.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: He and Pentecost blow themselves up to take down two Kaiju so Gipsy Danger can seal the Breach.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Although he tries to act tough and uncaring, it's pretty obvious to viewers that Chuck desperately seeks the approval and love of his father. Unfortunately, he seems to think that killing Kaiju and being the best Jaeger pilot ''ever'' is the only way to accomplish this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cheung, Jin, and Hu Wei]]
!!Cheung, Jin, and Hu Wei
!!!Played by: Charles, Lance, and Creator/MarkLuu

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->'''Nationality:''' Chinese
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Crimson Typhoon
->'''Appear in:''' ''Pacific Rim''

The Wei triplets are former street fighters who have fought the Kaiju several times and became local heroes in China. In 2015, they joined the Jaeger Academy to become Jaeger pilots. They are the PPDC Rangers assigned to Crimson Typhoon, the last Mark-4 Jaeger in existence.
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* BashBrothers: Of the identical male triplet variety. They've been defending the Chinese coastline for seven years, have the third highest Kaiju kill count in the Jaeger Program, and once lived as street fighters in the criminal underbelly of Hong Kong.
* DragonsUpTheYinYang: Chinese, and with a dragon as their personal sigil.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Wei Tang triplets have impressive records but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this film, as they're [[spoiler: offed before the climax.]]
* TheQuietOne: We don't hear them talk clearly outside of their Jaeger.
* RedIsHeroic: Their suits are patterned after their Jaeger, Crimson Typhoon. Even their tech teams and daily outfits appear to consist entirely of red and gold, too.
* ReformedCriminal: Before they were Jaeger pilots, the Wei triplets were street fighters in the Chinese underworld.
* SameSexTriplets: Together, they're known as the Wei Tang Triplets.
* SignatureMove: The Thundercloud Formation, courtesy of their Jaeger's buzzsaw hands.
* TwinTelepathy: As explained in the novelization, part of their Drift hangover. They are constantly passing a basketball between them without looking because of this.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn little about these characters before [[spoiler: they die in battle.]]
* TheWorfEffect: They are [[spoiler:killed by Otachi while in Crimson Typhoon.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky]]
!!Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky
!!!Played by: [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Robert Maillet]] and Creator/HeatherDoerksen

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->''"Let's get this bastard!"''

->'''Nationality:''' Russian
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Vladivostok Shatterdome (formerly), Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Cherno Alpha
->'''Appear in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Uprising''[[note]]Photographs[[/note]]

Lt. Sasha Kaidanovsky is the husband of fellow Lieutenant, Aleksis Kaidanovsky. Together, they defended Vladivostok, Russia from over half a dozen Kaiju attacks and successfully protected the Siberian Wall, which went unbreached by Kaiju for six years. They were both PPDC Rangers and co-pilots of Cherno Alpha, the last of the Mark-1 Jaeger series and the oldest Jaeger still active in combat.
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* ActionGirl: Not only is Aleksis renowned for her legendary strike missions and decade-long defense of the Russian line, but she's also the longest serving female pilot in the Jaeger Program. And she's on the right side of their Jaeger, which is generally where the more dominant or experienced pilot is positioned.
-->'''del Toro''': The dominant pilot is on the right side of the Jaeger.
* AlmightyJanitor: After holding the line against Kaiju for more than 7 years, they didn't get promoted above the rank of Lieutenant. Wartime promotions for field officers come much quicker: UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Soviet ace Ivan Kozhedub got promoted from Senior Sergeant to Lieutenant in 6 months and to deputy commander of his regiment before 3 years of service. Aleksandr Pokryshkin got promoted to Major after 2 years in combat.
* ArmsDealer: After Pentecost failed to gain additional funding from the UN for the [=PPDC=] and Jaeger Program, Sasha and Aleksis used their various connections to procure any weapon that Pentecost needed in his assault against the Breach and the continued defense of Hong Kong.
* BadassBaritone: Well, considering that Sasha ''is'' played by [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Robert Maillet]], it shouldn't be too surprising.
* BadassBeard: Sasha sports one of these, although he dyes the rest of his hair blond to match his wife's. There is also a subtle hint here: in some periods, beards were worn more exclusively by the clergy or men of the cassocks (as in the Soviet period, when they were a suggestion of the Tsarist fashions), while [[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia in modern times]] they have largely been adopted [[ChurchMilitant by devout Orthodox Russians]].
* BattleCouple: The two are married.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Neither of them speak much, preferring to observe those around them and then come to their own conclusions. However, Sasha and Aleksis are also the most stable Drift partners that the [=PPDC=] has ever produced and they continued to successfully pilot a Mark-1 Jaeger until the final days of the Kaiju War.
** TruthInTelevision: as noted in the MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong page, [[TheStoic calm and composure in front of danger]] are typical valued traits in modern (and not so modern) Russians.
** But as shown in the novelization, any disrespect towards [[ElectronicMusic Ukrainian hard house]] will be vocally unappreciated. Not that it stops the Wei triplets [[NoAccountingForTaste from complaining about it]].
* CoupleThemeNaming: Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky, both have first names that are diminutives of "Alexander" ("defending men"). Fitting for a BattleCouple who pilot a HumongousMecha.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Cockpit melting, right arm getting munched, but they sock Otachi two more times before Leatherback jumps them.]]
** Director Guillermo Del Toro also explains in the commentary that Cherno Alpha ''has no escape pods.'' Their fights have only one of two outcomes: 1. Cherno Alpha dead. 2. Kaiju dead.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Even when they're being drowned they're still trying to fight Leatherback.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Both have gender-neutral names, causing some confusion among the fanbase about which one is which. According to the credits, Sasha is the man and Aleksis is the woman. Aleksis can also faintly be heard calling 'Sasha' when she gestures to him in the cafeteria scene, but other sources switch their names.
* HappilyMarried: There's a moment in the cafeteria scene where Aleksis affectionately greets Sasha as he sits down next to her. They're also well-known for holding the record of the longest and most stable neural handshake in the Corps, lasting up to eighteen hours.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Kaidanovskys have impressive records but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this story.
* HuskyRusskie: Aleksis is portrayed by the rather tall 5'10 Creator/HeatherDoerksen, and Sasha by humongous 6'11 professional wrestler [[Wrestling/{{Kurrgan}} Robert Maillet]].
* ItsPersonal: When Otachi [[spoiler: murders Crimson Typhoon's pilots,]] Aleksis outright says "Let's get this bastrd!"
* TheJailer: Both Sasha and Aleksis worked as guards at an unspecified Russian prison before they were recruited into the Jaeger Program.
* MeaningfulName: Both Sasha and Aleksis are diminutives of the same Russian name: Aleksandr/a (which happens to mean "Defending men"). Despite how different they look, they're a united, complementary team.
** Both also happen to be {{Gender Blender Name}}s, which caused some confusion among the fans regarding who is who (not helped by the fact that some official sources contradicted one another in that regard).
* NervesOfSteel: They calmly and unhurriedly walk away when Gipsy Danger's plasma caster activates. ''When they are right in front of it at point blank range.''
* TheQuietOne: We don't hear them talk outside of their Jaeger, aside from Aleksis faintly calling Sasha over to her in the first cafeteria scene.
* RussianGuySuffersMost: [[spoiler: While Crimson Typhoon and Striker Eureka's pilots have a quick head crush and explosion respectively, Aleksis and Sasha are shown screaming and drowning as Leatherback tears Cherno apart.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:They both die by each other's sides on the battlefield.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: We learn little about these characters before [[spoiler:they die in battle.]]
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler: They are killed by Leatherback while in Cherno Alpha.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yancy Becket]]
!!Yancy Becket
!!!Played by: Creator/DiegoKlattenhoff
!!!Voiced by: Creator/ReneGarcia (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/HiroshiTsuchida (Japanese)

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->''"Hey, kid? Don't get cocky."''

->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2016
->'''Strike Group:''' Anchorage Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Gipsy Danger
->'''Appears in''': ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Tales from Year Zero''

Raleigh's brother, who is killed by Knifehead in the prologue.
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* CynicismCatalyst: His death threw Raleigh into a five-year rut. Justified as they were ''drifting'' at the time, meaning Raleigh was in Yancy's head as he was dying.
* DespairEventHorizon: As he was dying, which didn't help his Drift-linked brother's HeroicBSOD.
* JumpScare: His death; Knifehead just popped out of the water when they previously thought it dead.
* KilledMidSentence: "Raleigh, listen to me—"
* RedOniBlueOni: He was the blue to his brother's red and is shown scolding Raleigh for getting too cocky just before they're deployed against Knifehead.
* SacrificialLamb: Killed in the first twenty minutes of the movie to show how dangerous the Kaiju are getting.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: He was wearing a while pilot suit by the time he was killed.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Newton Geiszler]]
!!Dr. Newton "Newt" Geiszler
!!!Played by: Creator/CharlieDay
!!!Voiced by: Creator/VictorUgarte (Latin-American Spanish), Creator/ToruFuruya (Japanese)

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->''"Fortune favors the brave, dude."''

->'''Nationality:''' German
->'''Allegiance:''' The Precursors
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2016
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' None
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Uprising''

A scientist and a "Kaiju groupie," known for being a little disturbingly interested in the monsters trying to kill them all. He also has a crazy idea to try and drift with one of the few intact Kaiju brains they have.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: He is a Kaiju fanboy. His ''entire torso'' is covered in tattoos referencing them, even down to his wrists!
* AmbiguouslyBi: Newt is confirmed by WordOfGay to be in love with Gottlieb, and an extra feature from the first movie does not specify a preferred gender for his love interest. He also [[spoiler: treats part of a Kaiju brain, which he has nicknamed "Alice", like a romantic partner, but it's unclear if drifting with "Alice" is actually sexual, an addiction, or something the Precursors forced him to do]].
* AnythingThatMoves: His character profile in the "Drift Space" special feature states that his ideal love interest would be "Whoever will take him", apparently regardless of gender.
* AscendedFanboy:
** He is specifically called a "Kaiju groupie" and him being able to study Kaiju for a living is practically heaven. He nerdgasms when he gets to Hannibal Chau's Kaiju organ shop.
** He ascends even further in ''Uprising'' when [[spoiler: the Precursors choose ''him'' to help them destroy the world.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite his and Hermann's bickering, they really do seem to care about each other:
** Hermann panics when he finds Newt unconscious after [[spoiler: having drifted with a Kaiju.]]
** Later, he offers [[spoiler:to share the neural load with Newt when he drifts with Otachi's baby]]. Newt's response? "You'd do that for me? I--I mean, you'd do that ''with me''?" Hermann coyly responds that the world is hanging in the balance, so he doesn't have much choice.
** And finally, [[spoiler: when the Breach has been closed and everyone is celebrating,]] Hermann sidles close to Newt, who throws an enthusiastic arm over his shoulder in a hug.
** Ramped up in ''Uprising'': they're able to communicate their planned fight in an elevator with a single look, and Hermann, [[spoiler:despite hating PDA, embraces Newt.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Early in the first movie, he states that "unlike most people, I want to see [a Kaiju] alive and up close one day." He then spends much of the Hong Kong battle running in terror from Otachi, who's after him specifically.
--->'''Raleigh''': Trust me, ''[[LampshadeHanging you don't wanna]]''.
** He actually gets his wish in ''Uprising'' when [[spoiler:the composite Kaiju pauses briefly for him, before continuing on its way to Mt. Fuji. It's a wish only the Precursors could grant.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: His dynamic with Gottlieb in the first movie retroactively takes on this trope, with Charlie Day and ''Uprising'' director Steven S. [=DeKnight=] [[WordOfGay stating that Newt is in love with Gottlieb but in denial about it]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Of ''Uprising'', having been taken over by the Precursors.]]
* BlindWithoutEm:
** When Newt loses his glasses at the refugee bunker, he crawls helplessly across the floor trying to find them.
** Come ''Uprising'' ten years later, he can act without impediment when he takes his glasses off, implying he's gotten his sight fixed in the interim and continues wearing them only as a fashion accessory or out of habit.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: His continued drifting with a Kaiju brain led to him being possessed by the Precursors.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: If he wasn't such a competent Kaiju biologist, he'd probably get checked into a mental hospital due to his borderline-obsession with the things.
* TheCorruptible: [[spoiler:''Uprising'' reveals his Drifting with Kaiju brains made him [[FaceHeelTurn a pawn of the Precursors]].]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Joins the nefarious [[MegaCorp Shao Industries]] in the TimeSkip between the first film and ''Uprising''. [[spoiler:It's purely to set his true plan in motion.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: He's smart enough to puzzle out that drifting with the Kaiju hive mind can give him all the information he needs on them and their masters - but the fact that the connection is two way and they can not only figure out what he's doing but do something about it (in the shape of giant monsters sent to kill him specifically) seems to have escaped him.
* DirtyCoward: He's extremely brave in a lot of ways - but it's telling that he plays the "I'm a doctor" card to get in one of the shelters when he realizes Otachi is after him specifically.
* DreadfulMusician: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual DVD Special Features]], he is a horrible singer. Though like Charlie Day, he can play guitar and keyboard fairly well.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: [[spoiler:''Uprising'' reveals he now treats a ''salvaged Kaiju brain'' as a romantic partner.]]
* EyeScream: When he initially tries to drift with [[spoiler:a Kaiju brain, the neural load is too much for him and thus his left eye starts bleeding.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: His unhealthy obsession with the Kaiju left him BrainwashedAndCrazy in the interim between the first film and ''Uprising'', courtesy of the Precursors, until he became ''Uprising'''s BigBad.]]
* FallenHero: [[spoiler: He went from the guy to found a way to defeat the Precursors to being brainwashed into becoming their pawn.]]
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler: Subverted. There's a brief moment in Uprising when he manages to regain some control ... but only enough to tell Hermann that he isn't strong enough to fight back.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Strongly implied to have some sort of mental illness, most likely bipolar disorder, which would disqualify him from a career in piloting due to issues with Drift compatibility. Not that this stops him and Hermann from [[spoiler: mind-melding with a Kaiju and discovering information that saves the entire human race from extinction.]]
* InnocentlyInsensitive: He talks about how much he would ''love'' to see a Kaiju up close ... right in front of Kaiju trauma survivor Raleigh. Everyone else's looks of contempt or resignation in that scene really drive it home.
* InsufferableGenius: In the novelization, it is explicitly stated that he hates talking to people because they're not as intellectually gifted as he is to understand him.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: In ''Uprising'', he lives with a ''salvaged Kaiju brain'', and treats drifting with it like sex.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Call Me Newt".
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Hermann, though they almost never stop fighting over their approaches to the Kaiju. In the first film, his recording of his Drift experiment even includes a message for Hermann that basically just amounts to "Ha, I'm right, I told you so."
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Usurps the role of ''Uprising'''s BigBad from his boss, Liwen Shao. He tells Gottlieb he's been planning to "end the world" for ten years, activating Kaiju brains within the Jaeger drones Shao and him have worked so hard to prepare.]]
* MeaningfulName:
** Together with Gottlieb; their names are a ShoutOut to Isaac Newton and '''Gott'''fried '''Leib'''niz, who were at one point rivals over the discovery of calculus. (Initially the two scientists were planned to be one character with a mixture of their traits, named Newton Gottlieb.)
** As noted on the AerithAndBob page, in modern Germany, naming your kids after celebrities (from the Anglophone world) was a habit of the low-educated classes. This is a hint of him being quite the RagsToRiches case.
* MotorMouth: Often talks very quickly and very excitedly.
* NerdGlasses: Thick black ones for the resident Kaiju biologist. He actually provides the current page image for this trope.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** While his efforts to drift [[spoiler:into a Kaiju brain]] were ultimately helpful, it's also what [[spoiler:provokes the attack on Hong Kong by the Kaiju's masters. It ''may'' also have provided the information needed to tailor-make the Kaiju to counter the three "on-deck" Jaegers.]]
** Additionally, when [[spoiler:he realizes out loud that Otachi is coming for him, it results in the entire crowd in the bunker abandoning him in hopes of his death placating the Kaiju.]]
** His Kaiju obsession [[spoiler: and unhealthy Drifting habits make him an ideal pawn for the Precursors in ''Uprising''.]]
%%* NightmareFetishist: He really, ''really'' likes Kaiju...
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: His look, mannerisms, tone and general tendency to ''TALK LOUDLY'' are essentially one great big, loving tribute to Creator/JJAbrams.
* NoRespectGuy:
** Despite his brilliance, he's pretty much this for everyone (especially Gottleib) until he discovers the Precursors' control of the Kaiju via drifting with one of their brains - at which point Pentecost and Hermann start seeing him as a much more valuable member of the team.
** In ''Uprising'' his rant after [[spoiler: his reveal as the BigBad shows that Newt seeing himself as this was one of the ways the Precursors got their claws in his psyche after taking over his mind.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Newt spends most of the first half of the movie running off his mouth, being an arrogant twerp and butchering Mandarin. [[spoiler: After he reveals himself as TheQuisling, he admits that this was a deliberate strategy to avoid suspicion...and he says it in fluent Mandarin just to ram the point home.]]
* OhCrap: When he's marooned by Hannibal Chau on the streets of Hong Kong, Newt looks back and sees Otachi not only ripping its way through Hong Kong's skyline but doing so ''[[SuperPersistentPredator looking for him specifically]]''.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Downplayed. He's a biologist, and thinks Gottlieb's discipline is a field of theory and guesses. [[MacGyvering He is able to create a Drifting rig from random scraps, however]], and is able to oversee the construction of [[spoiler:Jaeger/Kaiju hybrids]] in ''Uprising''.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: When no one is entertaining his crazy-sounding proposal to [[spoiler: enter a neural drift with a Kaiju brain]], he just straps ''himself'' in. He lives, to everyone's surprise, with no apparent lasting damage.
* TheSmartGuy: Part of the team researching the Kaiju.
* StoryboardBody: Has tattoos depicting Kaiju covering his arms and (according to WordOfGod) the rest of his torso. This helps reinforce his AscendedFanboy status.
* ScienceFoils: Newt is an extremely experimental scientist who will put his own life and sanity on the line for the sake of his research, while Gottlieb is an analytical theoretician who takes pleasure in [[SitcomArchNemesis shooting down Newt's crackpot theories]]. Nevertheless, [[spoiler:they turn out to have been perfectly Drift Compatible all along]]. Furthermore, both mock each other's ideas (on Kaiju-drifting and Triple Events) to Stacker, but both are proven completely right by film's end.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Newt is introduced as a colleague and rival of Dr. Hermann Gottlieb -- with whom he is constantly bickering -- in the first film.
* TooDumbToLive: Announcing to a crowded shelter full of superstitious, frightened people that [[spoiler:the Kaiju is specifically hunting ''him''. Cue everyone backing away from him, making it very clear that they are fully prepared to sacrifice him to it to save their own skins]].
* TookALevelInBadass:
** After very nearly getting eaten by Otachi, he's suddenly ''much'' less intimidated by Hannibal Chau.
--->'''Newt''': Hey! Okay, guess who's back, you one-eyed bitch?! You owe me a Kaiju brain!
** In ''Uprising'', he helps Gottlieb subdue the guards in the elevator. [[spoiler:He later floors Gottlieb when he reveals his brainwashing by the Precursors.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: From a hyperactive scientist with an unhealthy appreciation for the Kaiju, to [[spoiler:an OmnicidalManiac. How the mighty have fallen.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Completely freaks out when the Mega-Kaiju is killed at the very last second, and starts ranting about there being a Plan B - at which point Nate [[NonActionBigBad knocks him out with a single punch]].]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: More vitriolic than most examples because Newt considers Gottlieb to be a stuffy rival for most of the film.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler: The Precursors suddenly speak through him when it's revealed they're possessing him.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Noticed how his role in ''Uprising'' resulted in many whited-out entries?
* TheXenophile: Harbors a deep and abiding appreciation for Kaiju, seeing them as monstrous masterpieces. Becomes a little more literal in ''Uprising'', where we see him treating a Kaiju brain as a ''lover''.
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[[folder:Hermann Gottlieb]]
!!Dr. Hermann Gottlieb
!!!Played by: Creator/BurnGorman

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->''"Numbers do not lie. Politics and poetry, promises, these are lies. Numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of God."''

->'''Nationality:''' German
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' None
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Uprising''

Newt's mathematician partner, who works on determining the exact limits of the Breach, and by extension the size and frequency of Kaiju attacks.
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* AllThereInTheManual: According to the artbook, he was at least born in Germany if not raised there, and is an expectant father. He is married to a model named Vanessa, according to writer Travis Beacham, although UnreliableCanon below outlines some contradictions.
** He also studied engineering and applied sciences in Berlin, so it seems fairly safe to assume he's spent many years, if not his entire life, in his mother country.
* BigShutUp: He's on the receiving end of one from Pentecost when he keeps interrupting [[spoiler:Newt's exposition of his neural bridge experience with the Kaiju brain.]]
* CombatPragmatist: When he and Newt have to fight their way out of an elevator filled with Shao security in ''Uprising'', he starts off by whacking one in the groin with his cane, then beats another three guys by himself using his cane as a makeshift bat.
* GeniusCripple: Uses a cane due to a bad leg and tends to shake heavily when excited. He's also distinctly hunched, though whether or not this is an aspect of his disability or just body language to telegraph his characterization is unclear.
* GermanicDepressives: Doesn't quite seem to know what to do with Newt's 'bro-handshake' at first, among other examples.
* HandicappedBadass:
** Has a limp, a hunch, twitches, and walks with a cane. He also refuses to take absolutely anyone's shit and helps save the day.
** He and Newt subdue a whole cadre of guards in an elevator in ''Uprising''. Of course, Gottlieb does the actual fighting.
* HerrDoktor: Being German and a scientist, he embodies certain features of this archetype.
* InsufferableGenius: Not insufferable, but sour and a bit of a pretentious know-it-all.
* JewishAndNerdy: According to writer Travis Beacham, he has Jewish ancestry but is non-practicing.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: With Newt. Though they almost never stop fighting over their approaches to the Kaiju, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther they really do seem to care about each other]]:
** Hermann panics when he finds Newt unconscious after [[spoiler:having drifted with a Kaiju.]]
** Later, he offers [[spoiler:to share the neural load with Newt when he drifts with Otachi's baby. Newt's response? "You'd do that for me? I--I mean, you'd do that ''with me''?" Hermann coyly responds that the world is hanging in the balance, so he doesn't have much choice.]]
** And finally, [[spoiler: when the Breach has been closed and everyone is celebrating,]] Hermann sidles close to Newt, who throws an enthusiastic arm over his shoulder in a hug.
** Ramped up in Uprising: [[spoiler: they're able to communicate their planned fight in an elevator with a single look, and despite stating a few seconds prior how much he hates PDA, he embraces Newt.]]
* MissionControl: He assumes this role for the FinalBattle in ''Uprising'' after the previous crew was wiped out in an attack on the Shatterdome.
* NonActionGuy: A noncombatant who walks with a cane; his contributions are of the scientific variety.
* NotSoAboveItAll: He's professional and stern ... except when it comes to Newt. ''Then'' he'll stoop to childish bickering and maintaining a highly counter-productive rivalry.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Downplayed. He's a physicist, and thinks Newton's field is disgusting and obsessive about the enemy. By the second film, however, he fills in on other disciplines due to Newt having left the PPDC in the interim.
* ProfessorGuineaPig: Nope, he's a theorist who thinks that Newt's ideas are batshit insane. He eventually trusts Newt enough to agree to [[spoiler: join him in a neural Drift with the Kaiju brain]].
* ScienceFoils: Newt is an extremely experimental scientist who will put his own life and sanity on the line for the sake of his research, while Gottlieb is an analytical theoretician who takes pleasure in [[SitcomArchNemesis shooting down Newt's crackpot theories]]. Nevertheless, [[spoiler:they turn out to have been perfectly Drift Compatible all along]].
* TheSmartGuy: Part of the team researching the Kaiju. His speciality is mathematics. Newton thinks it's just a bunch of intelligent-sounding guesses, but his math-backed predictions prove to be consistently right.
* ThisIsMySide: He'd like Newt to keep his Kaiju entrails on his ''own'' side of the room, thank you very much.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Dr. Newt Geiszler. Gets truly sad in the sequel: [[spoiler: even after Newt's reveal as the BigBad Hermann still stops him from getting shot by Liwen after realizing the Precursors are controlling him.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Uprising'' where he's willing to place himself in harm's way at Shao Industries to talk to Newt, beat up a lift full of guards, and personally stops Shao from enacting her plan. [[spoiler: Except it isn't her plan, it's Newt's.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: While a grumpy and abrasive scientist in the original movie, he becomes a friendlier person in ''Uprising''.
* UnreliableCanon: Travis Beacham says he has a wife, who is mentioned in the novelization, which is known for its inconsistencies. Hermann's actor says he isn't married and dislikes the idea of a wife, and Del Toro hasn't said anything at all about the wife. Now that Travis has left the franchise, it's unknown if his wife can even be counted as canon any more.
* TheUnreveal: We never do find out what happened to his leg.
* VitriolicBestBuds: More vitriolic than most examples because Gottlieb ''hates'' Newt for most of the film, and the two only reconcile when [[spoiler:Gottlieb offers to share the Drift with a Kaiju brain to take the neural strain off of Newt.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tendo Choi]]
!!Tendo Choi
!!!Played by: Creator/CliftonCollinsJr
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->''"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, brother."''

->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2016
->'''Strike Group:''' Anchorage Shatterdome (formerly), Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' None
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Tales from Year Zero''

The CIC commander for the Jaegers.
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* FanOfThePast: Dresses a little more old-fashioned and, in the novel, uses more old-school terms and slang.
* HappilyMarried: In the novelization, he hooked up with Alison after Raleigh left the service.
* MissionControl: His role in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is to help coordinate the Jaeger offensive from headquarters.
* MixedAncestry: According to Beacham, he has roots from "all over," describing him as having Chinese, Peruvian, and Filipino ancestry.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Is seen carrying four cups of coffee at the same time. Then again, he obviously needs it in a position as constantly stressful as his.
* ReformedCriminal: According to the data book, Del Toro figured he had a shady past before cleaning up.
* SharpDressedMan: Always seen wearing a polo and a button-down. He's also a fan of suspenders and bow ties.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hannibal Chau]]
!!Hannibal Chau
!!!Played by: Creator/RonPerlman

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->''"Where is my GODDAMN shoe?"''

->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Occupation:''' Black market dealer
->'''Appears in:''' ''Pacific Rim'' | ''Aftermath''

The black market Kaiju parts supplier, who harvests the corpses of the monsters and sells the parts. In order to gain some extra funds that the Jaeger program desperately needs, Stacker Pentecost makes a deal with him that he can exert claim over all the Kaijus that wander into Hong Kong.
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* AndStarring: Ron Perlman.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Very, ''very'' shrewd.
** Hearing that Newt wants a Kaiju brain, he's confused as to why anyone would ''want'' one. Thinking he won't like the answer, he keeps pushing Newt until he tells all.
** Upon learning that Newt [[spoiler:drifted with a Kaiju and needs a Kaiju brain for a second attempt]], he ''instantly'' realizes everything is about to go straight to hell - [[spoiler:as he knows Drifting is two-way. If Newt learned about the Kaiju, they learned about ''him'' - and they're coming for him]].
** He is able to correctly guess the cause and symptoms of [[spoiler:Otachi Junior's]] demise after having one look at him. [[spoiler: Well, off by a few seconds, but still right.]]
* AwesomeMcCoolName: {{Invoked}}. He chose his name for [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars his favorite historical figure]] and his ''second'' favorite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn.
* BlatantLies: He leaves Newt behind [[spoiler:running away from Otachi's baby, but as soon as the thing's 'dead,']] he reappears and starts monologuing about how he knew the thing was dead from the start. Newt's incredulous look really sells it.
* BrooklynRage: A tough, black-market dealer from Brooklyn who is over-the-top hammy.
* CoolShades: He has round, gold-rimmed shades that he [[SunglassesAtNight takes off only once]]. As it turns out he started using them after [[spoiler:a wound he received in a public shelter]], during a Kaiju attack.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Being devoured by Otachi Jr. is fatal in the novelization... less so in TheStinger.]]
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:He's swallowed whole by the Otachi Jr. It's a non-fatal example, thanks to TheStinger.]]
* EyeScream: His left eye was injured during the first and only time he ever went into a public Kaiju shelter.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: The first time he properly appears, the shot starts on his gold-plated shoes and pans up to his face.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Stacker gave him exclusive rights for scavenging Kaiju remains in some desperation, and he deals in their body parts. Apparently their bone powder is used for male enhancement.
* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: He has gold on his jewelry, his knife, his shoes, [[GoldTooth his teeth]], his glasses...
* GoldTooth: Several of his front teeth are gold dentures.
* HiddenDepths: He's apparently not a scientist but is roughly as knowledgeable about Kaiju as Newt is, and actually more in some areas.
* KnifeNut: He has a gold-plated ButterflyKnife, and one of the first things he does is shove the blade up Newt's nostril.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed at the end of the "Aftermath" comic. We don't actually see the moment of death though, just the FadeToBlack as he's shot.]]
* LargeHam: According to del Toro, he was originally going to be an actual Chinese guy -- but Ron Perlman was brought in precisely to make the character so over-the-top ridiculous that viewers would take the Kaiju more seriously by comparison.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Sacrifices one of his staff in "Aftermath", shooting through her to kill a [[ItMakesSenseInContext kaiju-worshipping ninja.]] At the story's conclusion, he's [[spoiler:killed by another of his employees, her wife-to-be.]]
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Loses his "goddamn shoe" [[spoiler:fighting his way out of the Kaiju that ate him]].
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Despite how much of a jerk he might be, he certainly dresses the part of a successful crime lord.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He is notable in that out of all the humans with an AwesomeMcCoolname, he is the only one deliberately using a pseudonym. Which makes sense, being a criminal and all.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: His motivation for dealing in Kaiju parts.
* RealityEnsues:
** [[spoiler:Cutting his way out of a Kaiju after being eaten by it was certainly good for a laugh in ''Pacfic Rim'' - but as detailed in SecretlyDying, there were a lot of consequences...]]
** "Aftermath" reveals the closing of the Breach has hammered his operations, as there's no more Kaiju coming through to harvest.
* SecretlyDying: In the ''Aftermath'' comic he has blue lines all over his body due to being coated in Kaiju Blue and his health is deteriorating.
* SesquipedalianSmith: Invoked -- he named himself after his favorite historical figure (Hannibal) and a restaurant he likes (the otherwise unremarkable name Chau). The result is the very catchy name "Hannibal Chau".
* TemptingFate: [[spoiler: You just ''had'' to stand in front of the "dead" baby Kaiju and say you knew it could only live about a minute outside the womb, didn't you?]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Wizened Man]]
!!The Wizened Man
!!!Played by: Creator/SantiagoSegura

->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Occupation:''' Black market dealer

Hannibal Chau's second-in-command. He is in charge of receiving visitors in his shop and leading the harvesting operations.
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* BaldOfEvil: Lacks all the hair on top, though in exchange he sports shaggy long hair on the back of the head.
* TheCameo: By Santiago Segura, Creator/GuillermoDelToro's close friend and usual collaborator. [[spoiler:Also implied to be a DeathByCameo.]]
* DashingHispanic: Subverted quite thoroughly. He talks with suavity and a heavy Spanish accent, but his appearance is certainly unattractive and much more creepy than dashing.
* FatBastard: Rather wide of waist, and presumably quite underhanded given that he works in a black market.
* HonestJohnsDealership: He evokes the mannerisms of the trope, addressing Newton with obnoxious cheekiness and telling him of his own experience while offering him the Kaiju harvested product. His facade, however, falls when the visitor reveals his motives.
* NoNameGiven: Neither the film nor the novelization give him a name; "Wizened Man" is how he is officially credited.
* OhCrap: Has a very intuitive one when [[spoiler:he discovers a baby Kaiju awakening in front of him.]]
* TooMuchInformation: Understandably, his note of himself taking the "male potency" Kaiju remedy creeps out Newton a bit, especially after a too expressive gesture to demonstrate it.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's not shown on-screen, but [[spoiler:he is presumibly killed by Otachi Jr. inside its mother.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:United Nations]]

The council of nations that provided funding to the Jaeger Program, and later the Wall that replaced it.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: To the extent that they view the Jaegers as merely a short-term solution and want a long-term one. It's just that their alternative to the Jaegers sucks.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The world council shelves the Jaeger project after the Kaiju start adapting, instead choosing to focus on the coastal wall project. When a Kaiju effortlessly destroys one such wall, riots ensue, and one bureaucrat ''still'' clings to the notion that the Wall will work in the flurry of news reports in the aftermath.
* TemptingFate: Indestructible walls. Yeah, that worked out ''great''.
* TooDumbToLive: While, technically, they survive their lethally stupid decisions, it is only because they are far ''far'' away from the consequences of those decisions. Eventually, their stupidity would have caught up with them.
** The "Suits" decide to scrap the Jaeger Program in favor of building "Kaiju proof walls". 5 minutes later, a Kaiju crashes through the wall in less than an hour. The Kaiju is only stopped by, surprise, surprise, a Jaeger.
** And with that incident, you'd think that the "Suits" would go back to thinking that Jaegers are a better option. '''''NOPE.''''' They say that the walls STILL show promise. Which leads to riots along the areas of the coastal walls. And when another Kaiju is shown to have very corrosive acid breath, and '''[[StoryBreakerPower WINGS]]''', it's essentially proven that the walls are not only useless, but a complete waste of time and resources to build. Consider how many Jaegers could have been built with the money and labor taken to wall the entire coastline of the Pacific Ocean. Then consider that even if they couldn't go through it, they could go around, being shown to be entirely capable of moving on land even early on. There's also a complete lack of any active defenses which allowed Mutavore nearly an hour of whaling on the Sydney wall to get through.
** Seeing how effective Jaeger weaponry is on the Kaiju and how easily Kaiju can shatter buildings, you'd think they'd arm the walls, right? No, still no signs of intelligence. The walls have no weapons of any sort. Even if it could resist a Kaiju attack, what stops the Kaiju from [[ZergRush rushing]] through or over the wall? If it had {{Wave Motion Gun}}s like the Jaegers' cannons, or just MoreDakka like the weapon defenses in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', it could be an effective form to contain the Kaiju, at least until the Jaegers come to the rescue. As it was, it's just a plain stupid fucking plan.

[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRimUprising''
[[folder:Jake Pentecost]]
!!Jake Pentecost
!!!Played by: Creator/JohnBoyega
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->''"I'm not a hero like my father was. He started out just like you. This is our time and we are earth’s last defense! So help me save the world!"''

->'''Nationality:''' British
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Gipsy Avenger
->'''Appears in:''' ''Aftermath'' | ''Uprising''


The biological son of Stacker Pentecost and adoptive brother of Mako Mori. He is the main protagonist of ''Uprising''.

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* BigBrotherMentor: Acts like this to Amara, especially [[spoiler: after Mako dies]].
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** To Raleigh Becket. Raleigh was said to be someone unexpected to be a Jaeger pilot, while Jake is not only one of its first pilots but also the son of one of the PPDC's top pilots and eventual leader. But after they left the PPDC, Raleigh returned when Stacker came to recruit him while Jake was forcefully recruited back after one too many troubles with the law. [[spoiler: Also, Raleigh managed to finish his fight with Knifehead and dragged Gipsy Danger back to land solo while Jake could barely make Gipsy Avenger stand]].
** Also to his father, Stacker. Jake was kicked out of the PPDC, while Stacker stayed as the Marshall until his last sortie in Striker. Jake is notorious for being a troublemaker, while Stacker is the epitome of a stern soldier. [[spoiler: And like above, Jake could barely make the Jaeger move two steps when he was trying to fly solo while Stacker managed to take on Onibaba for over three hours solo and win.]]
* IAmNotMyFather: Emphatically declares this at the beginning of ''Uprising'', disavowing Stacker's heroic reputation and making a name for himself as a smuggler. Later gets a MeaningfulEcho.
* TheLeader: He takes over as the field commander during the final battle of ''Uprising''.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Initially he and Amara were antagonistic towards each other before gradually thawing. By the end of the film they're teasing and ribbing each other.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: He's capable of giving one hell of a pep talk, just like his old man.
* MilitaryBrat: Deconstructed; his father was one of the greatest heroes of the Kaiju War, and Jake felt the constant pressure to live up to his example - eventually leading to his trying to pilot a Jaeger solo (as Stacker had). After this went terribly wrong, Jake recounts his father kicked him off the program personally, leading to him disappearing for years.
* OhCrap: When Obsidian Fury turns out to have two arms-mounted chainsaw blades against Gipsy Avenger's one.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Stacker's biological family went unmentioned in the first film, and ''Tales from the Drift'' only mentions his dead sister and father. His son is the protagonist of the second. Considering the circumstances for his leaving the Jaeger program, Stacker had good reason not to mention him.
* SweetTooth: He's a fan of Captain Crunch, Oreos, and ice cream sundaes.
* {{Troll}}:
** His only condition for co-piloting Gipsy with Nate - as Mako wants him with her for the Sydney ceremony - is that he be there to witness Nate's (likely horrified) reaction when Mako tells him.
** When Nate tries to talk with him in the kitchen, he sprays more whipped cream on his ice cream sundae, resulting in a very high tower of whipped cream and a very annoyed Nate.
* TheUnfavorite: Stacker personally kicked him out of the Jaeger program after a truly epic screw-up trying to solo-pilot a Jaeger. No wonder he went off the rails. A bit of FridgeBrilliance in hindsight - no wonder his existence was never even hinted at in the first one...
* VitriolicBestBuds: With both Amara and Nate initially, though by the film's end the vitriolic part has disappeared.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He joined the Jaeger program to be close to his father, maybe even drift with him eventually. Did not turn out so well.
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[[folder:Amara Namani]]
!!Amara Namani
!!!Played by: Creator/CaileeSpaeny
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->''"The Kaiju, they’re going to come back. I’m not going to be stuck waiting for someone else to come save my ass."''

->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Scrapper, Bracer Phoenix, Gipsy Avenger
->'''Appears in:''' ''Amara'' | ''Uprising''

A teenager who Jake meets while scavenging for Jaeger parts. Another main character of ''Uprising''.

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* AffectionateNickname: Jake calls her "Smally" on account of her being smaller than him, and indeed the other recruits.
* AscendedFangirl: She clearly idolizes the Jaegers, and becomes one of their pilots.
* BadassAdorable: She's plenty badass, especially for someone so young, but in her heart she's still a playful teenager. When she and Jake find themselves near Mt. Fuji's summit after the FinalBattle and she sees snow for the first time in her life, Amara immediately starts a snowball fight with Jake instead of giving a shit about the gigantic dead monster behind her. Her giant {{Squee}} moment described below is also pretty cute.
* BollywoodNerd: Subverted. Both her name and surname are curiously of Indian origin despite her official nationality being American (and her actress is ethnically Caucasian, as are the actors of Amara's parents). She hits the nerd aspect much more clearly, especially in regards with Jaegers and their technology.
* BrainyBrunette: Has dark hair and enough mechanical talent to build an undersized but still relatively huge mecha.
* CassandraTruth: She's convinced from the outset that the Kaijus ''will'' return some day, and it's a ForegoneConclusion that she's right, but nobody pays her fears much attention when she voices them.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Much like Mako Mori, she is a mechanical genius who can build and pilot Jaegers like a duck takes to water, but unlike Mako, who worked with cutting edge technology, Amara had to scrounge for all her tech and parts.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She not only saw the rest of her family die in the Insurrector rampage, but also witnessed the deaths of her second, adoptive family six years later in her prequel comic [[spoiler:and the second time, it was indirectly her fault - she stole the original Scrapper and took part in an illegal race. This caused a local gangster to take an interest in it, and wound up getting both her adoptive parents and her robot dog killed.]] It's why she put so much effort into building Scrapper: to never be as helpless again in case the Kaiju return, and to honor her adoptive family's memory.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: To protagonist Jake Pentecost in ''Uprising''.
* DisasterScavengers: Lives like this before meeting Jake.
* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Conscripted into the PPDC at the age of fifteen; events quickly escalate into her piloting a Jaeger at the climax.
* FireForgedFriends: Viktoriya can't stand her when they meet, but they eventually turn into this during the shit they must go through together. It's what enables them to [[spoiler:take control of Bracer Phoenix for the FinalBattle]].
* HeroesLoveDogs: Had her own robot dog named Twitch in the comics.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Develops this sort of relationship with Jake.
* LittleMissBadass: She survived on the streets alone for years, acquired the know-how and skills to build her own Jaeger from parts she stole from heavily guarded PPDC Jaeger graveyards, is a very capable pilot, and doesn't take shit from anyone. This girl has at least as much grit as any veteran Jaeger pilot seen so far despite still being a teenager.
* LittleMissSnarker: She can keep up with the best of them.
--> '''Amara''': Hold tight!\\
'''Jake''': That's what I'm doing!\\
'''Amara''': Then hold tighter!
* NewcomerSavesTheDay: Amara despairs over being the class rookie, but manages to be crucial to the FinalBattle by [[spoiler:first piloting Bracer Phoenix, then taking over for Nate in Gipsy Avenger when Bracer Phoenix is destroyed and Nate is injured. Together with Jake, they defeat the Mega Kaiju.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Her actress is only 5ft 2 inches tall, making her much smaller than her antagonist Viktoriya - but when she's pushed too far she [[CurbStompBattle easily beats]] the much taller Russian.
* RecruitingTheCriminal: She's arrested for her unauthorized Jaeger hijinks ... which lead to becoming a cadet in the PPDC.
* {{Squee}}: She can barely contain her excitement when she's brought to the Chinese Shatterdome and sees all the top-tier Jaegers from up close.
* TeenGenius: Only 15, yet smart enough to build her own Jaeger.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She's a tough teenager from a scrap dump who amusingly complains her PPDC test helmet smells bad. Somewhat of HypocriticalHumor, though, if one considers she was quite dirty when she was introduced and probably didn't have it easy to keep herself clean and smelling good everyday back in her den.
* WrenchWench: She's proficient enough to recognize where Obsidian Fury was manufactured.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: She pulls an amazing flying armbar transitioned into a wrist lock on Viktoriya when they throw down in the Shatterdome barracks.
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[[folder:Liwen Shao]]
!!Liwen Shao
!!!Played by: Creator/JingTian
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->'''Nationality:''' Chinese
->'''Occupation''': CEO of Shao Industries, Engineer
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Scrapper
->'''Appears in:''' ''Uprising''

The CEO of [[MegaCorp Shao Industries]], a leading producer of Jaeger technology for the private sector in ''Uprising''.
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* BadBoss: Newt certainly thinks so. [[spoiler:It's subverted in practice though, where it becomes obvious she's not bad per se, just incredibly driven and with a low tolerance for incompetence.]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Multiple times - she first rescues Gottlieb from Newt with a handgun, then figures out how to deactivate the Hybrid drones seconds before they kill Jake and the other main characters, shows up with a huge fleet of her company's resource-carrying helicopters just as it looks like the Jaegers are too badly damaged by the Shatterdome attack to stop the Kaiju, then by way of remotely piloting Scrapper using a drone not only delivers Gipsy Avenger a rocket but saves Jake and Amara when their ejection pod fails during the fight with the Mega Kaiju.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Comes off as one, where her remotely-piloted Jaeger project is viewed by the pilots as {{Job Stealing Robot}}s, and she is rather determined to get it approved in the midst of objections during her proposal. [[spoiler:When it's revealed that Obsidian Fury is controlled by a Kaiju brain and is manufactured by Shao, things get more suspicious. It's all subverted when we learn she's completely unaware of Newt's actions behind the scenes, and following the revelation she lends her aid and resources to support the remaining Jaeger forces.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's cold, haughty, refuses the marshal's handshake on arrival at the Shatterdome, and treats Newt like crap. Then it turns out [[spoiler:Newt has been using her company to turn her prized drones into Kaiju/Jaeger hybrids that reopen breaches and let Kaiju back onto Earth. After this disaster, she's much more helpful, sending her company's resources to rebuild the Jaegers for the final battle, being the first to twig how Mt. Fuji fits into the Precursors' plans and even pulling not one but two BigDamnHeroes moments with Scrapper.]]
* GoodAllAlong: Despite being set up as an obvious villain for most of the movie, [[spoiler:she turns out to have just been used by Newt and in fact helps save the world in the climax.]]
* HiddenDepths: While she is initially a cold CEO, she is shown to have hands-on engineering skills. In addition, [[spoiler:realizing she was tricked by Newt and that her company was used to kickstart the second Kaiju invasion thaws her considerably]].
* LightIsGood: Her first scene has her wearing a stark white dress that stands out, making her look imperious, cold, and intimidating. [[spoiler:It later reveals that she is not as heartless as she appears, even helping to save the world at the climax.]]
* PrimAndProperBun: Wears her hair in a neat bun to emphasize her no-nonsense nature. [[LettingHerHairDown It's loose]] by the climax, coinciding with [[DefrostingIceQueen her thawing]].
* RagsToRiches: According to the novelization she started off as a gifted hacker and engineer but was stricken with poverty. As an adult she is in charge of a MegaCorp.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: When we see her first, she refuses to shake hands with anyone and she acts cold and haughty. Towards the end, she [[spoiler:defrosts hugely, personally piloting Scrapper into battle and saving Jake and Amara from dying in the final act.]]
* TeenGenius: Much like Amara, as according to the novelization Shao earned a doctorate at the age of 19.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[spoiler:Newt is able to get away with creating a Jaeger/Kaiju Hybrid army behind her back largely because she clearly doesn't think highly of him or his abilities. As we see, that's all part of his ObfuscatingStupidity.]]
* UnwittingPawn: She had no idea that [[spoiler:Newt was using her company's resources to create an army for the Precursors]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Honestly believes her remote-controlled drone army is a superior option to the Jaeger program, as it eliminates the need to find drift-compatible pilots and cuts down on pilot losses in combat, and is perfectly okay with instantly making the previous generation of Jaegers (and their pilots) obsolete and replaceable overnight.
* WrenchWench: [[spoiler:Personally makes modifications to Scrapper, then remotely pilots it to the aid of Gipsy Avenger using one of her drones]]. Who would've thought a seemingly cold-hearted businesswoman like she was this capable?
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nate Lambert]]
!!Nathan "Nate" Lambert
!!!Played by: Creator/ScottEastwood
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->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Gipsy Avenger
->'''Appears in:''' ''Uprising''

An old friend of Jake from their academy days. He co-pilots Gipsy Avenger with Jake and trains Jaeger cadets.
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* DrillSergeantNasty: Zig-zagged. He's undoubtedly hard on the cadets and reminds Jake that the Kaiju War was going on while they were being trained - but it's pretty clear he cares about the cadets he's training (to the point of dismissing Amara and Victoria fistfighting in front of him as an irrelevance) because he genuinely views them as part of the Jaeger-pilot family and wants them to have the same chances he had.
* InformedAttractiveness: Jake comments about his handsomeness a couple of times, but Lambert, while definitely not ugly, is not exaggeratedly attractive compared to him or any other main character. If anything, this seems to be mostly Jake teasing him in a bromantic way.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Gets lampshaded by Jake joking about it being an implant.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Comes with being played by Scott Eastwood. Even Jake cops to finding him attractive and sexy at one point.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Initially him and Jake piloting Gipsy Avenger is very much this due to their lingering issues - but once [[spoiler:Obsidian Fury]] shows up they pretty quickly show why they were such a good team before Jake was kicked out.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Jake. There's a ''lot'' of tension between the two due to the circumstances of Jake's departure and return (as well as his interest in Jules) but when the chips are down he makes it clear he regards Jake as part of the Jaeger-pilot family. He even refers to him as "brother" in the finale.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Viktoriya Malikova]]
!!Viktoriya Malikova
!!!Played by: Creator/IvannaSakhno
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->'''Nationality:''' Russiam
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2035
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Bracer Phoenix, Guardian Bravo, Saber Athena
->'''Appears in:''' ''Ascension'' | ''Uprising''

A PPDC cadet who looks down on Amara.
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* AlphaBitch: Viktorya has this role among the cadets, and for what we see in her pilot scenes, she has the skill to back it up.
* BerserkButton: To Viktoriya, her full first name.
* BiggerIsBetter: Viktoriya seems to think so, as she dismissed Amara's homemade Jaeger as 'too small'.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She is initially cold and standoffish to Amara, but warms up to her as the film goes on.
* DumbMuscle: Viktoriya was mentioned to have failed the entrance test thrice, which implies she is bad at the academic aspect of the school even although she is shown to be a great pilot. For extra points, she also gets to pilot the MightyGlacier of the four Jaegers, a trope typically associated to this.
* HugeSchoolgirl: Viktorya is a full head taller than Amara despite being both at their teens, probably for HuskyRusskie reasons.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Viktoriya's appearance and nationality (a Russian with short blonde hair) and surly personality seem to deliberately invoke the Kaidanovskys. In ''Ascension'', [[spoiler:her grandmother tells her the Kaidanovskys were her parents, but it's later revealed that she was lying.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shatterdome Cadets]]
!!Shatterdome Cadets
!!!Played by: Creator/WesleyWong (Ou-Yang Jinhai), Creator/LilyJi (Meilin Gao), Creator/{{Mackenyu}} (Ryoichi), Creator/KaranBrar (Suresh), Creator/LeviMeaden (Ilya), Creator/RahartAdams (Tahima), Creator/ShyrleyRodriguez (Renata)
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->'''Nationality:''' Various
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2035
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Bracer Phoenix, Guardian Bravo, Saber Athena
->'''Appear in:''' ''Ascension'' | ''Uprising''

The class of PPDC cadets at the beginning of ''Uprising.''
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* ChildSoldiers: Jake refers to them as 'teenagers', and they fall into the cockpits during the climax of ''Uprising''.
* FamousAncestor: According to the ''Ascension'' novel Ou-Yang's parents piloted Shaolin Rogue.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Ou-Yang and Viktoriya are the main characters of the prequel novel ''Ascension''.
* MauveShirt: The ones given the most focus are [[DefrostingIceQueen Viktoriya]], Jinhai, and [[CowardlyLion Suresh]]. [[spoiler:Suresh doesn't survive the FinalBattle.]]
* MultinationalTeam: Implied. If the ethnicities of their actors are any indication, they come from all over the world, and the PPDC recruits from everywhere.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Some of the out-of-focus candidates disappear right before the final battle, but the novelization elaborates a bit more: [[spoiler:Tahima and Meilin were badly injured by debris and could not take part in the final battle, while Ilya survives his crash landing. Renata and Ryoichi, on the other hand, are described as feeling their Jaeger "die" around them after an attack by the Mega Kaiju, but it's not officially confirmed if they also died themselves (although it is heavily implied).]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jules Reyes]]
!!Julia "Jules" Reyes
!!!Played by: Creator/AdriaArjona
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->'''Nationality:''' Puerto Rican
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:'''
->'''Appears in:''' ''Uprising''

A J-Tech officer with the PPDC at the time of ''Uprising''.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Is this in ''Ascension'', teasing Nate after he compliments her mechanical skills and asks her where she's from that she "grew out of the side of a Jaeger, like parthenogenesis".
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To both Nate and Jake, both of whom she has light ShipTease with, but the movie doesn't show her relationship with either going anywhere.
* MissionControl: Steps up into the command room alongside Hermann in the climax of ''Uprising''.
* TomboyishPonytail: She keeps her hair up in a ponytail, and is a WrenchWench with the PPDC.
* WrenchWench: She mentions that she's with J-Tech, the PPDC division dedicated to the development and upkeep of Jaegers, and is seen helping repair Jaegers before the FinalBattle.

[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack''

[[folder:Ford and Brina Travis]]
!!!Voiced by: Jason Spisak and Alexandra [=MacDonald=]
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Hunter Vertigo
A husband and wife team who piloted Hunter Vertigo up to and during the Kaiju invasion of Australia.
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* BattleCouple: Husband and wife Jaeger pilots, and exceptionally good ones at that.
* DisappearedDad and MissingMom: Left their kids and several others in a safe oasis to attempt to get some rescue after The Black was enacted. They never returned.
* GenderEqualsBreed: Taylor is the spitting image of his dad, with medium brown hair and a lithe build, while Hayley looks exactly like her mom, with brilliant blonde hair and an even more slender figure. All four have the same piercing blue eyes.
* UncertainDoom: The last that we see of these two on-screen is them abandoning Hunter Vertigo. What happens afterward is still unknown.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Taylor Travis]]
!!!Voiced by: Calum Worthy (teenager), Cole Keriazakos (child)
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Atlas Destroyer
A teenaged Jaeger cadet tasked with looking after his little sister Hayley by their parents. After their hidden village, Shadow Basin, is destroyed by Copperhead, Taylor and his sister pilot the decommissioned Jaeger Atlas Destroyer to find out what happened to their parents.
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* AcePilot: Aced his early Jaeger pilot training. Then reveals only the ''written'' part. [[spoiler:Then, when he first drifts with Mei, she mentions he "sucked" at pilot training, indicating he's at the very least exaggerating his qualifications.]]
* ChildSoldiers: Taylor was training to be a Jaeger pilot since he was ten. Given that drift-compatible individuals are rare and the Kaiju are bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, the world needed all the [[HumongousMecha Jaeger]] pilots it could get.
* DressedInLayers: Taylor's civilian clothes ''somehow'' manage to fit under his form-fitting plugsuit while he pilots Atlas Destroyer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He starts off as the responsible sibling, being devoted to keeping Shadow Basin secure from outside threats and expressing anger and frustration towards his little sister neglecting her chores and putting the community at risk by sneaking out. Their positions are later reversed as Hayley becomes a much more mature individual, while Taylor begins taking extreme risks that almost get him killed -- like attacking Copperhead while influenced by Mei's bloodlust and ghost-drifting to pilot Atlas Destroyer solo.
* IncompletelyTrained: He never actually finished his training, having aced solely the written portion of the test. Still, better than nothing under the circumstances.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Influenced by Mei's memories while drifting with her, Taylor attacks Copperhead intending to get revenge for his slaughtered friends. It doesn't end well.
* SiblingTeam: Taylor most-frequently pilots Atlas Destroyer alongside his little sister Hayley.
* TransferableMemory: As a result of ghost drifting, Taylor winds up with some of Hercules Hansen's memories inserted into his head, unable to distinguish them from his own.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hayley Travis]]
!!!Voiced by: Gideon Adlon (teenager), Camryn Jones (child)
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Atlas Destroyer
Taylor's fourteen-year-old sister, who stumbles across Atlas Destroyer -- accidentally leading to the destruction of their hidden village at the claws of Copperhead.
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* BigBrotherWorship: As a child she adored Taylor and was devastated he wouldn't be coming home after completing his Jaeger cadet training, only cheering up when he promised to call home more often. As a teenager, their relationship has initially soured due to Taylor's overprotectiveness towards her.
* CompressedHair: Hayley's ponytail and bangs are nowhere to be seen when she's wearing her plugsuit's helmet.
* DressedInLayers: Hayley's civilian clothes ''somehow'' manage to fit under her form-fitting plugsuit while she pilots Atlas Destroyer.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She starts off as the foolish sibling, resenting her older brother's overprotectiveness and acting out by neglecting her chores, sneaking out of Shadow Basin to explore the surrounding wasteland, and stealing supplies. Accidentally getting her and her brothers' friends slaughtered by Copperhead causes her to mature rapidly, and their positions are reversed when they rescue the Boy and she starts fussing over him.
* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Hayley feels suffocated living in the hidden community of Shadow Basin. Taylor tells her that he promised to keep her safe, not entertained. She almost quotes this trope verbatim.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hayley's desire to leave their hidden village leads to her and her brother accidentally launching a Jaeger, getting the attention of a Kaiju which then finds the hideout and slaughters everybody except her and her brother. She's even more devastated when -- through drifting with her brother -- she learns that he subconsciously blames her for the tragedy.
* MyParentsAreDead: When Taylor refuses to leave the community until their parents come back for them, even though it's been five years since they heard anything from the outside world, Hayley bluntly tells him she believes that they're dead. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, she's proven to be right by the final episode]].
* NotSoDifferent: Mei initially refuses to let Hayley drift with her due to having been raised as a ChildSoldier by Shane, but upon being forced to do so she's taken aback by Hayley's memories of accidentally killing her friends. Hayley is unfazed by Mei's memories and afterwards remarks they're not so different from one another.
* PromotionToParent: She tries to take on the role of a big sister/mother-figure to the Boy, constantly fussing over him and worrying he'll get hurt or lost whenever he wanders off.
* {{Protectorate}}: Taylor promised his parents he'd look after his little sister Hayley. Five years later, however, the now teenaged Hayley finds his protectiveness overbearing and rebels against his strictness by neglecting her chores, sneaking out of the hidden village, and stealing supplies. This leads to Hayley trying to run away after a particularly nasty argument with Taylor, and stumbling into the long-buried Pan Pacific Defense Corps base where Atlas Destroyer is stored.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mei]]
!!!Voiced by: Victoria Grace
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Atlas Destroyer
An aloof young woman with a hidden warm side, initially working as a soldier for the post-apocalyptic gang Bogan.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Mei stops Rickter from killing Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy out of pragmatism more than anything; and is aloof and condescending towards them until Taylor takes the blame for the loss of Atlas Destroyer's arm. After drifting with Hayley, she comes to realize that she's NotSoDifferent from the girl she scornfully dismissed as a "princess" and starts thawing towards her as well.
* BloodKnight: Despite her outwardly stern exterior, it's revealed that Mei keeps a lot of rage and bloodlust bottled up inside her due to her upbringing as a child-soldier, though she's learned to control and compartmentalize her emotions. Taylor, on the other hand, is overwhelmed and recklessly attacks Copperhead to avenge Shadow Basin, resulting in one of Atlas Destroyer's arms getting ripped off and eaten.
* ChildSoldiers: Mei is revealed to have been taken in by Shane at a young age and raised to be his right-hand lieutenant. [[spoiler:It later transpires that Shane used his drift tech to MindRape her by feeding her false memories while suppressing her real ones.]]
* CoDragons: Prior to her defection, she was one of Shane's top enforcers alongside Rickter.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Mei was raised by Shane to be a ruthless soldier from a young age, [[spoiler:and had her memories scrambled by his drifting tech so that she doesn't know which are real or not]]. As such, she refuses to drift with Hayley and is reluctant to do so with Taylor, telling Shane her memories are no place for naive children.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mei has her EstablishingCharacterMoment killing a newt-like kaiju with an RPG and then stopping Rickter from shooting Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy in retribution for the kaiju having eaten two of their grunts. When Rickter snaps that the two dead mooks were her friends too, Mei brushes him off and quips that she can't take him seriously with them all over his face. She also takes to sarcastically calling Hayley a princess due to presuming her to have had a sheltered upbringing.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: Unlike Taylor and Hayley, Mei knows how to fight and as such often finds herself acting as Atlas Destroyer's backup copilot during combat situations, even though she's no more experienced at drifting than either of them.
* GetOut: Twice, towards Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy:
** Despite having developed a soft spot for the trio, she holds them at gunpoint to make them comply with Shane's order to leave Bogan.
** After [[spoiler:taking up residence in a café she remembered from her childhood, she takes potshots at Atlas Destroyer with a sniper rifle to get the trio's attention and spray-paints "GO AWAY" on a nearby wall. When they instead pay her a visit, she initially shows them to the door -- not wanting to risk the cafe being damaged in the event of a kaiju attack and possibly because she held a grudge over what happened to Joel -- before relenting, giving them some hot chocolate, and even dancing with them when the Boy activates the café's jukebox. However, the happy moment doesn't last as her PTSD is triggered and she boots them out]].
* HeelFaceTurn: Mei starts off as one of Shane's best soldiers -- a standoffish woman with a sarcastic sense of humor, but steadfastly loyal to her boss. However, her UndyingLoyalty to him [[spoiler:crumbles when Joel reveals Shane gaslit her and altered her memories, and reneged on his word to let Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy leave. The last straw comes Shane repays her stopping Atlas Destroyer from stepping on him by killing Joel with an exploding two-way radio]].
* HiddenDepths: Despite her efforts to appear stern and sarcastic, it turns out she's a pretty good dancer.
* IneffectualLoner: Mei, once she [[spoiler:turns on Shane's gang, strikes out on her own searching for the truth of her past; though she eventually ends up rejoining the siblings when Copperhead attacks them]].
* ItsPersonal: She stops Taylor from killing Rickter so that she can do so herself, coldly making it clear to her fellow lieutenant that this has been a long time coming.
* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Drifting with her causes Taylor to become focused on revenge against Copperhead to the exclusion of reason, and Mei has no choice but to follow along in order to drag him back into line. Subverted with Hayley, whose guilt over her actions resulting in the destruction of her home allows her to drift with Mei effortlessly.
* NotSoAboveItAll: When the Boy curiously [[spoiler:turns on the café's jukebox, Mei taps her foot to the music while Hayley and Taylor get up to dance. When Hayley drags her up with them, Mei begrudgingly obliges but quickly loosens up and starts enjoying herself -- playfully bumping hips with Hayley and the Boy, and genuinely smiling for the first time since she was a child]].
* NotSoDifferent: Mei initially refuses to let Hayley drift with her due to having been raised as a ChildSoldier by Shane, but upon being forced to do so she's taken aback by Hayley's memories of accidentally killing her friends. Hayley is unfazed by Mei's memories and afterwards remarks they're not so different from one another.
* NotSoStoic: Mei does her best to appear stern and standoffish, but she has a strong sense of justice and a deeply-suppressed warm side that occasionally shows through. She's visibly horrified when she learns Shane lied to her and ordered Rickter to kill Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy despite having given his word to let them live; teases Taylor over his reluctance to dance when the Boy activates a jukebox in the café where she takes up residence following her defection from Bogan, and can't help but tap her foot to the music. To her chagrin, Hayley drags her over to dance with them, leading to Mei letting down her walls and enjoying herself for a brief period.
* RegretfulTraitor: Even after learning that Shane gaslit her by scrambling her memories and sent Rickter to kill Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy, Mei decides to only help the trio reclaim Atlas Destroyer on the provision they take Joel with them. [[spoiler:Shane quickly deduces that she's helping them escape and makes it clear she will be severely punished, even after she saves him from being stepped on. Ultimately, she decides to leave and uses Atlas Destroyer to wipe out Bogan's fleet of vehicles to curtail being pursued... though when Joel is killed by Shane as a result of her betrayal Taylor fears she'll go back to Bogan due to feeling she has nowhere else to go]].
* RuggedScar: Mei sports a sizeable scar on her left cheek, the source of which is unknown but which marks her as a tough no-nonsense soldier.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: When Rickter angrily protests her apathy towards the deaths of his Riders, snapping that they were her friends too, Mei quips that she can't take him seriously with them all over his face.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Mei starts out as a cold, sarcastic, tough-as-nails soldier loyal to Shane, but has a deeply-buried warm side. [[spoiler:She begrudgingly betrays him after learning he messed with her memories to brainwash her and reneged on his word to let Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy go by sending Rickter to kill them. She helps the siblings escape, but strikes out on her own after Shane kills Joel in retaliation. After reuniting with the siblings, she initially demands they leave (implicitly blaming them for Joel's murder) but loosens up enough to share some hot chocolate and even dances with them for a little while before her PTSD is triggered and she shuts down again]].
* ThatLiarLies: When Joel reveals that Shane rewrote her memories to brainwash her, Mei furiously refuses to believe him and shouts that he's lying, pinning his neck to the wall with her arm. Finding out it's true and that Shane isn't the sort of man she believed him to be is what ultimately prompts her to leave Bogan.
* UndyingLoyalty: Joel describes her as being unshakably loyal to Shane, though she ultimately betrays him when she realizes how cruel he is and that he was gaslighting her. Even after defecting, she stops Atlas Destroyer from stepping on him... which she comes to regret as Shane pays back her mercy [[spoiler:by murdering Joel right in front of her]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: One of Mei's regained memories of her childhood involved her happily goofing off at a café, drumming on a table with chopsticks and stabbing them through her food instead of using them properly -- a stark contrast to the usually stern soldier she is as an adult.
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[[folder:Shane]]
!!!Voiced by: Andy [=McPhee=]
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
The main human antagonist of the show, and leader of a gang called Bogan.
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* BigBadEnsemble: With Copperhead for Season 1. Shane is the primary human antagonist, taking Taylor and Hayley prisoner in order to seize Atlas Destroyer for himself
* CrazyPrepared: As the leader of Bogan, damn right he is. He has a contingency plan in place for anyone attempting to betray him, by having everyone's radios rigged with a bomb. Joel learns this the hard way.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Invoked by Shane as part of his gaslighting of Mei. One of the memories Shane showed Mei while drifting with her was that he had a wife and daughter that died at Whitehorn. However, according to Joel, Shane never had a family of his own, which was why he took Mei as a child -- to act as a daughter that he never had -- and said wife and daughter were never his, but someone else's.
* TheDon: Of a sort, being the ruthless leader of a highly militarized BanditClan called Bogan, and he seeks to accrue even more power by procuring a Jaeger.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For someone as ruthless, cunning, and unlikeable as he is, he does genuinely care for Mei despite what he did to her, viewing her as the daughter he never had. Even when she turns on him, he makes an effort to get her back alive and only resorts to murder when he has no other option.
* EvilIsPetty: He uses an ExplosiveLeash in his radios to murder Joel in front of Mei, just because she abandoned him. His target was apparently Mei, but Joel picking up and making it clear Mei wouldn't respond forced Shane to make an example out of him instead.
* ExactWords: He tells Taylor, Hayley, and Boy in Episode to "Leave [Bogan] by sunup, or you're dead". Though he never says what will happen ''after'' they do, and orders Rickter to kill them as they leave.
* MindRape: Puts Mei on the receiving end of one to scramble her memories and implant false ones so she can't tell the real from the fake. He later gives Taylor one as well to get information from him, revealing Atlas Destroyer's existence.
* ProperlyParanoid: He refuses to let Taylor and Hayley anywhere near Atlas, especially together, because he'd have no way to stop them if they got inside (something Hayley herself intended to do at the first opportunity). He only reluctantly allows Taylor to pilot it with Mei when given no other option.
* TheSocialDarwinist: Shane espouses the view that the Black is a kill-or-be-killed world where only the strong can survive, and he intends to be the strongest there is by getting his own Jaeger.
* StupidEvil: He's [[BadBoss willing to waste his own men trying to find a Drift-compatible pilot, murders underlings when they fail to meet arbitrary deadlines]], pisses off the Sisters just because he felt slighted by their envoy, and would have rendered Atlas a useless hunk by killing Taylor and Hayley -- the only Drift-compatible pilots besides Mei he has access to (he seemingly never considers himself an option, unless he just isn't willing to risk himself) -- because Taylor made him waste half his supply of mines trying to fight Copperhead.
* UngratefulBastard: Although she defects from Bogan, Mei stops Atlas Destroyer from stepping on Shane. He repays this by murdering Joel by detonating Mei's walkie-talkie, while making it clear that he would have done the same to her had she been the one who answered. Whether or not he intends to hunt Mei down for her desertion is unkown.
* VenturousSmuggler: He and his BanditClan traffic kaiju eggs in exchange for -- among other things -- Jaeger power cells, while raiding the ruined cities of Australia for Pan Pacific Defense Corps vehicles and weapons.
* WouldHurtAChild: He definitely would. He took Mei from her family as a child, subjected her to a MindRape to hide her true memories, and raised her as a loyal ChildSoldier. He often puts Taylor, Hayley, and Boy at gunpoint, and reneges on his promise to let them go by sending Rickter to kill them once they leave Bogan.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rickter]]
!!!Voiced by: Leonardo Nam
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
One of the lieutenants of the post-apocalyptic gang Bogan, and the leader of the Riders -- the gang's motorcycle-riding thugs.
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* CoDragons: He and Mei are Shane's co-lieutenants, though there's friction between the two of them.
* EvilIsPetty: He attacks Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy when they attempt to sneak off during Shane's meeting with the Sisters' broker, which kicks off a firefight between the two groups.
* AFatherToHisMen: While he acknowledges that his Riders aren't the brightest bunch, unlike Shane he doesn't see them as cannon fodder and is livid if anything bad happens to them.
* ItsPersonal: He develops an intense grudge against Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy after the three accidentally get two of his men eaten by a newt-like Kaiju, and would have shot them on the spot had Mei not stopped him.
* OhCrap: He's left incredulous and terrified when he realizes Mei only stopped Taylor from killing him so that she could do so herself.
* WouldHurtAChild: He's all-too-happy to comply with Shane's order to kill the teenaged Taylor, fourteen-year-old Hayley, and apparently prepubescent Boy -- even grinning sadistically as he shoots the latter first.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joel Wyrick]]
!!!Voiced by: Vincent Piazza
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
Shane's resident Jaeger specialist, and a former member of the PPDC's J-Tech division.
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* TheAlcoholic: While a skilled Jaeger mechanic -- at least before his brain is fried -- he is introduced while heavily inebriated and often seen downing bottle after bottle of alcohol.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Joel thinks Shane won't be foolish enough to kill his only Jaeger technician, enough to be wasted most of the time. Unfortunately for him, he then loses that knowledge and realizes how screwed he is when Shane demands he complete a job he's no longer able to.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Episode 5 ends with his head being ''[[YourHeadASPlode completely blown off]]'' by Mei's radio, revealed to be rigged with a bomb.
* GoryDiscretionShot: All you see of Joel's death is a spray of blood and his twitching feet.
* HeelFaceTurn: He and Mei both defect from Bogan and go on the run with Taylor and Hayley. Joel, unfortunately, does not last long after his defection.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: His death serves as this, to show what happens when someone turns their back on Shane.
* MindRape: Rapid repeated drifts with numerous Riders lead to him having a seizure that scrambles his mind, erasing or overwriting huge chunks of knowledge -- making him a pro at throwing knives but hopelessly incompetent at the one thing he's supposed to be good at.
* OhCrap: When Mei points out that one of the new arrivals (Taylor) is a PPDC cadet, Joel realizes his UltimateJobSecurity isn't so ultimate, and decides to get to work instead of having another beer.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Not long after defecting from Bogan, he is later killed.
* TheSmartGuy: He initially serves this role in Bogan, quipping to Mei that he's indispensable due to being the only Jaeger technician left in Australia. Once his brain is scrambled by Drift backlash, he loses this role and becomes genuinely afraid for his life.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Has this as the only person in the Black who knows anything at all about Jaegers... until PPDC cadet Taylor enters the picture.
* YourHeadASplode: How he is killed.
[[/folder]]

!!!Comics-Only Characters
[[folder:Tamsin Sevier]]
!!Tamsin Sevier
[[quoteright:218:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tamsin_9.png]]
->'''Nationality:''' British
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Hong Kong Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Coyote Tango
->'''Appears in:''' ''Tales From Year Zero''

Tamsin Sevier was a British Royal Air Force pilot and friend to the Pentecost siblings. During the beginning of the Jaeger Program, she and Stacker were the pilots of the Mark-1 Jaeger Coyote Tango.
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* ActionSurvivor: She was among the pilots that fought Trespasser, the original Kaiju in San Francisco.
* AllThereInTheManual: She's vaguely mentioned in the film, but isn't name-dropped and doesn't make an appearance. What we know of her is from the prequel comic.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She was like family to Stacker, and they were close enough to be a combat-capable pilot pair.
* MeaningfulName: The name Sevier is similar to ''sievert'', which is a measure of [[spoiler:radiation exposure]].
* HeroicRROD: Blacked out prior to the battle with Onibaba, causing Stacker to pilot Coyote Tango solo. [[spoiler:They both got radiation poisoning from the poorly shielded reactor, and Tamsin ultimately died from cancer.]]
* IllGirl: Died of cancer prior to the film.
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies before the beginning of the film proper.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dr. Caitlin Lightcap]]
!!Dr. Caitlin Lightcap
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->'''Nationality:''' American
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:''' 2015
->'''Strike Group:''' Anchorage Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Brawler Yukon
->'''Appears in:''' ''Tales From Year Zero''

->''"This is everything we've been working for. It's time to show the world what we've got... it's time to give them hope."''

One of the scientists who helped invent the drift technology that made piloting a Jaeger possible. She also became one of the first Jaeger pilots with her husband.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Only appears in the prequel comic.
* BattleCouple: She first drifted with, and later married, the first successful Jaeger test pilot. They continued piloting Brawler Yukon for the duration of its service.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: From a shy scientist to not only creating the first Jaegers but being the first to slay a Kaiju.
* HotScientist: From what we see in the comics, Caitlin was a very pretty young scientist. She's also one of the Drift's main inventors, having figured out that a Jaeger needed not one, but two pilots.
* NerdGlasses: She wore a thick pair of glasses and was very intelligent.
* ThePowerOfLove: Was motivated to create and perfect the "Drift" interface by her love for Sergio D'onofrio.
* SignificantHaircut: Cuts her hair much shorter after picking up some of her co-pilot's confidence from Drifting. It also signifies her getting better from her mental illness.
* StudentTeacherRomance: Subverted. Despite being a grad student in a sexual relationship with the man who invented the Jaegers, it was loveless and the two break up after she starts drifting with Sergio D'onofrio.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Duc Jessop and Kaori Koyamada]]
!!Duc Jessop, Kaori Jessop (nee Koyamada)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jessups.png]]
->'''Nationality:''' Australian (Duc), Japanese (Kaori)
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:''' Tokyo Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Tacit Ronin
->'''Appear in:''' ''Tales from the Drift''

->''"Jessup and Jessup, reporting for duty."''

Co-pilots of Tacit Ronin and the focus of ''Tales from the Drift''.

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* BattleCouple: They eventually got married and piloted Tacit Ronin until their deaths.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Got off entirely on the wrong foot and were always fighting early in their partnership but had drift compatibility that was off the charts. They eventually worked it out and got married.
* HandicappedBadass: Duc used a cybernetic leg, but was a competent pilot.
* HeroicSacrifice: The Jessops were retired following Tacit Ronin's battle against the kaiju Itak, but suited up one last time in order to aid Victory Alpha against Ragnarok, knowing full well it would kill them.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Kaori was friendly towards Mako, likely due to their shared Japanese backgrounds. Mako was just a young child at the time of Kaori's retirement.
* LanguageBarrier: They started off unable to understand each other due to Duc speaking English and Kaori speaking Japanese. They learn to move past it in the Drift.
* SuicideMission: Went into their last fight against Ragnarok knowing they would die.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Beacham uses "Jessop", while the comic spells it "Jessup".

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Joshua Griffin]]

->'''Nationality:''' British
->'''Jaeger Academy Class:'''
->'''Strike Group:''' Moyulan Shatterdome
->'''Jaegers Piloted:''' Vulcan Spectre
->'''Appears in:''' ''Aftermath''

The right pilot of Vulcan Spectre and protagonist of ''Pacific Rim: Aftermath''.

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* CurbStompBattle: Suffers one at the hands of Mutavore. He gets a more personal one against a punk at the end of the first issue. He dishes one out to a punk in the middle of issue 1.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Joshua clearly misses the life of an idolized Jaeger pilot. At the moment he works for the Mech Czar, taking scrape from a Jaeger graveyard.
* GloryDays: Misses being a modern day god as a Jaeger pilot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Mech Czar]]
!!The Mech Czar

->'''Appears in:''' ''Aftermath''
A criminal that specializes in stealing and working with parts from destroyed Jaegers. Currently Joshua's boss.
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* RedRightHand: Her left arm is a mechanical claw.
* SamusIsAGirl: In the first issue we only hear her name. In the second we meet her and Mech Czarina would be more accurate.

[[/folder]]

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!!Jaegers

[[folder:General Jaeger Tropes]]
* ArmoredCoffins: Averted: most Jaegers have ejections systems. This is played straight with Cherno Alpha due to their Not-One-Step-Back style philosophy.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: ''All'' of them! Even the designation 'Jaeger,' which is the German word for "hunter".
* CripplingOverspecialization: The Jaegers are specifically designed to fight Kaiju, and would be [[AwesomeButImpractical hugely impractical for any purpose other than beating giant aquatic monsters to a pulp]].
** This becomes a particular problem in ''Film/PacificRimUprising''. [[spoiler:Obsidian Fury, being mostly mechanical save for the WetwareCPU, shrugs off almost everything Gipsy Avenger can throw at it, until Jake literally rips its heart out.]]
* DestructiveSavior: Whenever a Kaiju vs Jaeger fight breaks out in a city, the Jaeger pilots will not care about preserving the city in their duty to end the Kaiju threat; moreover, Jaegers such as Gipsy Danger have been known to use things like a freighter ship to club enemy Kaiju with. Normally, this would be easily justified since the Kaiju would be destroying the said city anyways (and other than Jaegers, the only other thing able to kill a Kaiju would be a nuke), but it's taken to ridiculous levels in ''Uprising'', where Jaegers have weapons or equipment specifically designed to magnetically gather a bunch of cars or other vehicles and fashion them into a makeshift mace, or when merely drawing weapons like Saber Athena doing a SwordDrag and slicing through nearby buildings with its twin swords, just [[RuleOfCool to look cool]].
* DwindlingParty: By the time the movie takes place in the 'present' time, there are only four remaining Jaegers left due to the Kaiju becoming more powerful and smarter about how they fight, and time between Kaiju attacks becoming too short for additional Jaegers to be built. [[spoiler: Their numbers drop even further during the film so that by the end, none are left.]]
** In ''Film/PacificRimUprising'', there are a lot more Jaegers - even police ones designed to deal with home-made "rogue Jaegers" - and the mil-spec ones are kept in multiple locations. [[spoiler:The survival rate isn't a lot better, although more of the pilots survive, at least.]]
* EurekaMoment: They were conceived by Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld after seeing his son playing with toy monsters and robots, realizing the potential of robotic countermeasures against the Kaiju in the process.
* GoodCounterpart: To the Kaiju. Further following this theme is the fact that both the Jaegers and the Kaiju are given classification schemes, and the fact that they require two brains to function. [[spoiler:Both are more or less the avatars of their respective species.]]
-->"To fight monsters, we created monsters."
* GoodOldFisticuffs: More often than not, Jaegers end up brawling with Kaiju, as most of their other weapons are either too cumbersome to be constantly used in close quarters combat or lack the same level of effectiveness. Some Jaegers are designed with this function in mind while others tend to improvise. There's also the fact that Kaiju blood, otherwise known as Kaiju Blue, is extremely toxic to Earth's environment.
* TheHeroDies: Jaegers are more often destroyed than decommissioned.
* HumongousMecha: Specifically designed to counter [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Attack Of The Fifty Foot]] {{Kaiju}}.
* LivingShip: It is subtly implied in the novelization that the Jaeger might be this due in part to the drift technology.
* MotionCaptureMecha: The later mecha are piloted in this fashion, albeit by [[{{Synchronization}} two people working together at once]]. An interesting real-life production subversion, as the actual Jaegers were not motion captured at all, as del Toro felt straight human motion wouldn't scale up to something the size of a Jaeger. The animators did take some inspiration from the movements of the actors on the physical cockpit set to characterize the Jaegers movements.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Most of the Jaegers are fairly humanoid, except Crimson Typhoon has ''three'' arms and digitgrade legs and Cherno Alpha has, in place of a normal head, something that looks like a nuclear cooling tower (which it more or less is; Cherno's reactor is mounted in the head and its cockpit is mounted in the chest, where most Jaegers are set up with the reverse).
** In the second movie, Scrapper is a homemade assemblage of scrap and salvage intended for a single pilot. As a result, it's ''way'' smaller than the military and police Jaegers, looks much less polished, and is outfitted with tools rather than weapons. On the bright side, it can curl into a ball.
* RealRobotGenre: One of the main reasons why Jaegers [[CripplingOverspecialization are not particularly practical against anything but Kaiju]] is because they cost ten times as much as a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and are very demanding machines to operate, requiring huge specialized facilities, thousands of support personnel, and an entire squadron of transport helicopters to carry them around.
* RedBaron: Each Jaeger had a title in the promotional material, and the released [[TheMerch NECA]] figures each have a tagline name.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Some of them are accounted for. Jaegers move quite slowly when compared to most other portrayals of HumongousMecha and are extremely maintenance intensive, with actions no more than a few hours long requiring several weeks of downtime. Nevertheless, some of the more insurmountable obstacles have to be excused by RuleOfCool.
** Simply lifting the arm of a 2,000 ton humanoid robot from its shoulder requires a level of torque equivalent to the output of several thousand Bugatti Veyrons. Combat maneuvers would not only require a greater amount of power, but also materials that are capable of withstanding G-forces equivalent to ten times their actual weight.
** To operate in the ocean, Jaegers would not only have to be heavily waterproofed (difficult, considering the sheer number of moving parts involved) but also receive regular treatment of all components against saltwater corrosion (also difficult). Moreover, they would also have to be capable of remaining stable while buffeted by strong underwater currents (very difficult), all the while moving in an environment that is three times denser than the Earth's atmosphere at around 16 fathoms, and up to ''one thousand times as dense'' around the Marianas Trench (downright impossible).
* SquareCubeLaw: The Jaegers and Kaiju alike play hell with this law; Jaegers for their size and constructed nature should not be able to function at the scale they do with any degree of finesse or dexterity. As mentioned above, just the effort of moving a Jaeger's arm upward at the shoulder would require torque that would tear apart the connections holding it together, without even getting into the stresses that it undergoes during active combat. Mostly [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by some level of technological advancement as well as RuleOfCool.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRim''[[note]]Also includes Jaegers fleshed out in the supplementary material to that film[[/note]]
[[folder:Gipsy Danger]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_gipsydanger.png]]
->'''Nationality:''' United States
->'''Classification:''' Mark-3
->'''Date of Launch:''' July 10th, 2017
->'''Pilots:''' Raleigh and Yancy Beckett[=/=]Mako Mori

Gipsy Danger is an American Mark-3 Jaeger. It was stationed at the Anchorage Shatterdome along with Brawler Yukon and Chrome Brutus until its closure in 2024. Despite being decommissioned and transported to Oblivion Bay in 2021, Gipsy Danger was later returned to the Anchorage Shatterdome to undergo major reconstruction and refurbishment under the supervision of Mako Mori and Tendo Choi in 2023. It is one of the oldest Jaegers still in active combat-duty service after Cherno Alpha and had a kill count of nine Kaiju prior to its destruction.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Her swords can cut straight through a kaiju with ease, which is seriously impressive considering how much punishment the monsters can otherwise take.
* ActionGirl: Feminine pronouns, plus a feminine shape to the other Jaegers, what with Striker Eureka being a male brawler, Crimson Typhoon an artful dodging basketball player, and Cherno Alpha a MightyGlacier.
* AmericaSavesTheDay: [[spoiler:It becomes the only surviving Jaeger left during its fight with Slattern, and gets sacrificed in order to destroy the Kaiju homeworld.]]
* AmericanRobot: The art book describes how Gipsy Danger was intended to be an all-American design but in a more subtle way than a red-white-and blue colossus in an Abe Lincoln Hat. Her riveted skin and pinup NoseArt are reminiscent of the heavy bombers from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, she has the slim hips and armored shoulders of a tailback, and when she charges up her plasma caster her posture -- shoulders back, gun hand shooting from the hip -- is intentionally similar to an old-west gunfighter.
* AnArmAndALeg: Her left arm is torn off during the prologue battle against Knifehead by the Kaiju's... knife head. After being rebuilt, she loses her right arm during the FinalBattle. Amusingly, the same pilot is controlling the arm that gets ripped off, even though they happen five years apart.
* ArmCannon: Armed with two [[PlasmaCannon plasma casters]] as standard armament.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: A [[WhipSword sword]] is mounted in each arm as a back-up weapon.
* {{Bookends}}: Of the AllThereInTheManual variety. [[spoiler:In ''Tales from Year Zero'', the initial simulated fight for Gipsy Danger was won via a point-blank range shot with the [[ChestBlaster Nuclear Vortex Turbine]]. The end of the film has Slattern slain the same way. Doubles as {{foreshadowing}}.]]
* ChestBlaster:
** The Nuclear Vortex Turbine located in the center of the chest is primarily designed to vent excess heat. However, it can also output enough thrust to slow a fall from several thousand feet in the air. [[spoiler: It is also powerful enough to kill [[FinalBoss Slattern]], the only Category 5 Kaiju ever fought.]]
** Gipsy Danger vents coolant from the ''side'' of its chest, and uses it as an improvised weapon to flash-freeze Otachi's tail.
* CombatPragmatist: The reason why despite being older and less powerful than other Jaegers, she has a lot of success in fighting Kaiju.
* DualWielding: Hypothetically possible, but ultimately averted; Gipsy Danger has a sword and a plasma caster housed in each forearm, but she only ever uses one of them at a time in the film.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: There are spinning wheels/duct fans installed in the cockpit of Gipsy Danger, obviously placed there for effect. Also Gipsy Danger's HeartLight is spinning.
* ExpressiveMask: Downplayed. Her actual faceplate doesn't change (and doesn't have a lot in the way of human expression to begin with), but the way it's shot and framed, combined with body language and the way the head itself moves, makes Gipsy surprisingly expressive. When Knifehead is tearing apart her left side, she looks like she's quaking in pain. When Otachi spits acid at her, she looks surprised and like she's thinking "okay, how the hell do I get out of this?" When being dropped from low orbit, she looks like she's thinking "oshitoshitoshitoshit." When she gets up from that landing, she looks like she's thinking "Oh God, that SUCKED." [[spoiler:When her reactor is ready to detonate in the Anteverse, she looks at the Precursors as if to say "You lose, bitch."]]
* GlassCannon: While overall a JackOfAllStats, Gipsy also mounts the most heavy weaponry, such as large blades and a devastating ChestBlaster.
* HandshakeSubstitute: Pounds her right fist into her left palm as part of combat preparation procedure, showing that the neural link between the pilots has been established.
* HeartLight: Sports a rotating and glowing heart piece.
* HeroesPreferSwords: The only Jaeger equipped with a long blade as a weapon.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Self-destructs in order to seal the portal.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: Powered by a nuclear reactor, which vents excess heat through a turbine mounted on its chest. [[spoiler:This proved to be an important plot point twice: it renders Gipsy Danger resistant to Leatherback's EMP ability and was later detonated (along with the rest of the Jaeger) to seal the rift.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Uses a freighter boat as a club against Otachi.
** Also uses a pair of storage containers as knuckle dusters, vents coolant to freeze its tail, and uses the exhaust from its chest-mounted turbine to blast a Kaiju to death. Seems this specific Jaeger has a knack for this.
** [[AllThereInTheManual In her first fight, prior to the events of the film]] she finished a Kaiju by pulling a steel cable off a crane and garroting it until it was decapitated.
* JackOfAllStats: Not as strong and tough as Cherno Alpha, nor as agile as Crimson Typhoon, nor as advanced as Striker Eureka, but still very well rounded.
* LastOfHisKind: The only remaining Mark-3 by the events of the film.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Gipsy Danger".
** Thought there is a track named "Gipsy Danger" in the soundtrack, it's never actually used in the movie. Her real leitmotif is a variation of the main theme (as befitting her status as central Jaeger), such as "Go Big or Go Extinct" which plays in her BigDamnHeroes moment when she engages Leatherback, or "No Pulse" which - despite the name - plays while Gipsy drags a freighter ship across a street and clubs Otachi with it.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Received several upgrades while being rebuilt, notably a WhipSword on each arm.
* NoseArt: Gipsy Danger sports a pin-up girl carrying a {{BFG}} on the right side of its chest when it is deployed at Anchorage.
* OlderIsBetter: Gipsy Danger's systems are shielded against its old-style nuclear reactor and less sophisticated than the top-of-the-line Striker Eureka, but this also makes it immune to an EMP burst that disables Striker.
* PrideBeforeAFall: At the height of the Jaeger program's success, one of Gipsy Danger's original pilots dies in the fight against Knifehead. After that, things started going downhill, with Kaiju attacks becoming more frequent and Jaegers being destroyed faster than they could be replaced.
* PrimaryColorChampion: Blue chassis, red stripes, and a yellow visor.
* RedBaron: NECA's tagline for Gipsy Danger is "The Steel Titan".
* RocketPunch: "Elbow Rockets" provide non-detachable variant that is more akin to a PowerFist.
* WeaponizedExhaust: The nuclear turbine can be frightfully effective if vented at a close-enough range.
* WhipSword: Her BladeBelowTheShoulder is this, presumably for ease of storage.
* YinYangBomb: When piloted by Raleigh and Mako. Raleigh is shown to be very inutitive and unorthodox, Mako is shown to be very observant and analytical. Together, they combine these traits to SherlockScan their opponents, adapting on a dime to counter their advantages and exploit their weak points.
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[[folder:Striker Eureka]]
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->'''Nationality:''' Australia
->'''Classification:''' Mark-5
->'''Date of Launch:''' November 2nd, 2019
->'''Pilots:''' Chuck and Hercules Hansen[=/=]Stacker Pentecost

Striker Eureka is an Australian Mark-V Jaeger designed to defend the coastline of Australia from the Kaiju during the Kaiju War. It was stationed at the Sydney Shatterdome along with Vulcan Specter until its closure in 2024, and had a kill count of eleven Kaiju prior to its destruction. Striker Eureka held the best overall stats of any Jaeger ever created by the PPDC.
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* AchillesHeel: Striker Eureka relies almost entirely on digital systems for operation[[note]]Gipsy Danger and Cherno Alpha run on [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear reactors]]; there is no explicit mention of what Striker Eureka utilizes for motive power except that it's "digital"[[/note]], [[spoiler: which makes it disproportionately vulnerable to Leatherback's EMP ability.]]
* AKindOfOne: The first and the last of the Mark-5 Jaegers ever built, until the sequel, that is.
* TheAce: The newest of the active Jaegers, with the highest kill count at 11.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: The fastest Jaeger, it has a chest plate that resembles the rear end of a sports car.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Is armed with a pair of short, retractable "Sting Blades" on each forearm, [[DualWielding which are usually wielded in tandem]]. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the art book]], they're constructed with heat-conducting nanotubes that [[HotBlade channel thermal energy, allowing them to more easily slice through Kaiju hides]] while simultaneously cauterizing their wounds, which helps reduce the amount of toxic blood spilled in the process.
* ChestBlaster: Has six missile launchers built into its chest and is activated by both her pilots flexing their pecs forward.
* CurbStompBattle: Delivered one to Mutavore, by far the most one-sided fight in the movie, Striker Eureka giving it a swift pummeling before killing it with its missiles.
** This was the case against Otachi too until Leatherback's EMP disabled it. Otachi didn't even get a hit in before being deadlifted and tossed.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Its nuclear package (which was intended to seal the rift) was detonated in order to provide a clear path to Gipsy Danger.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: It's by far the most powerful Jaeger.
* TheLancer: Becomes this to Gipsy Danger.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Striker Eureka".
* LightningBruiser: Fast, durable, and packs a punch (and is strong enough that it can hoist a Kaiju over its head and throw it); everything great about a Mark-5. Despite being the fastest of any of the unveiled Jaegers, it's easily a match in strength and durability to the MightyGlacier Russian Jaeger that out-masses it by 560 tons. That said, considering size and scale of the Jaegers, this isn't a massive difference in weight.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Striker Eureka is armed with multiple missile launchers in its chest [[http://www.comingsoon.net/imageGallery/Pacific_Rim/large/hr_Pacific_Rim_30.jpg which can result in this.]]
* RedBaron: NECA's tagline for Striker Eureka is "Scrapping Soldier".
* SuperPrototype: Was the only Mark-5 Jaeger built before the program was terminated.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Has a rather similar, albeit updated, design to the Mark-1 model Tacit Ronin, which occupied a similar narrative role to Striker in an early draft of the script.
* VerticalMechaFins: The fins on its back help with balance by reducing aerodynamic turbulence while moving.
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[[folder:Cherno Alpha]]
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->'''Nationality:''' Russia
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 25th, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky

Cherno Alpha is a Mark-1 Russian Jaeger. Piloted by Aleksis Kaidanovsky and her husband Sasha, Cherno Alpha is the last of the Mark-1 Jaeger series and the oldest Jaeger still active. It was assigned to the Vladivostok Shatterdome alongside Eden Assassin and Nova Hyperion, and had a kill count of six Kaiju prior to its destruction.
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* AchillesHeel: Though heavily armored, Cherno Alpha's reactor is still very much a vital system and presents a highly noticeable target.
* BadassNormal: Armed with little more than its fists, it held the line in Siberia for nearly seven years
* TheBigGuy: The largest and heaviest of the remaining active Jaegers, with a bulky appearance to match.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Shades of this: it's the last of the Mark I Jaegers, and visibly less advanced than the other three active ones. The Mark III's and V's look like something out of ''Star Trek'', with digital holographic displays, plasma cannons, etc. Cherno Alpha, in contrast, almost looks DieselPunk. The contrast is somewhat akin to the difference between all the gizmos in an F-22 Raptor jet, and a T-55 Russian tank smashing through a brick wall head-on. Cherno Alpha doesn't really have any gizmos, just the raw power of its steel fists...and it's nonetheless the longest-surviving Jaeger. It was heavier than any of the other Mark I's, and was really built to last.
* ChestBlaster: Cherno Alpha's nuclear-tower-looking head has two turbines under it, on CA's shoulders, that can spray incendiary fuel to roast enemies.
* CranialProcessingUnit: One of the only Jaegers to avert this. According to the [[http://apps.warnerbros.com/pacificrim/designer/us/ Jaeger Designer program]] and [[http://www.pacificrimmovie.net/wp-content/uploads/Pacific-Rim-Movie-Russian-Jaeger-Cherno-Alpha-700x984.jpg blueprints]] on the official website, Cherno Alpha's connpod is chest-mounted. The giant cylindrical "head" actually contains a nuclear reactor and fuel storage tanks, in essence acting as a decoy for any Kaiju trying to disable the Jaeger by destroying its head, although its twin lights beside its connpod do give it the appearance of a hunchback wearing a ''very'' large hat.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Even after being double teamed by two Category 4 Kaijus [[spoiler:and having its armor breached, Cherno Alpha kept on fighting until the very end.]]
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: Promotional material shows Alpha as equipped with flamethrowers and electric tesla coils, but it uses none of them in the film, relying only in its regular hydraulic fists. Averted in the novelization, in which both weapons are attempted on Otachi with several measures of success.
* HonorBeforeReason: WordOfGod states that this is the main reason why it has no escape pods. However, given the location of the conn pod deep inside the Jaeger's chest, it is possible that the escape pods were sacrificed in order to provide better protection to the pilots, potentially subverting this trope.
-->'''Guillermo Del Toro''': "We agreed that Cherno would have no escape pods. They win or die."
* HuskyRusskie: Cherno Alpha is the biggest, bulkiest, and most heavily armored Jaeger, with a head that bears a vague resemblance to a nuclear reactor's cooling tower. (This is no accident -- it actually ''is'' a reactor, intended to put out all the juice such a massive machine needs, while also incidentally resembling a head and possibly diverting attacks from the pilots, who were in the more-protected chest cavity. [[spoiler:In the end, it doesn't work.]])
* ILoveNuclearPower: As with many other early Jaeger marks, it is powered by a nuclear reactor.
* KillItWithFire: The "Incinerator Turbines" above each of its shoulders can shoot streams of incendiary fuel.
* LastOfHisKind: The last surviving Mark-1 Jaeger by the events of the film.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Has one of [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Russian Chanting]].
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler: Leatherback had to pound Cherno halfway to pieces before being able to reach in and destroy the conn pod. This is after it was already shot up with acid from Otachi and double teamed by both Kaiju.]]
* MightyGlacier: Much slower than its compatriots, but powerful, heavily armored and very well protected.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: One of the least humanoid Jaegers in the Hong Kong Shatterdome, is destroyed in its first on-screen outing.
* NonindicativeName: In the Russian dub its name is ''Cherniy Alfa'' [[note]]Черный Альфа[[/note]]. Translated this means "Black Alpha". While still [[AwesomeMcCoolname cool-sounding]] it's funny [[DontExplainTheJoke because Cherno is green]].
* PowerFist: Cherno Alpha's signature "Tesla Fists" are disproportionately large when compared to the rest of the Jaeger. Much like Gipsy Danger's "Elbow Rockets", they're equipped with hydraulic mechanisms that extend to add extra impetus to punches.
* RedBaron: NECA's tagline for Cherno Alpha is "Hammer Slammer".
* RasputinianDeath: Between having its reactor go critical, torn to pieces (one arm and a good portion of its head/chest), being ''lunged on by two kaijus'', the Cherno Alpha only stopped fighting when its Conn-pod was crushed, killing its pilots. By comparison, the Crimson Typhoon was killed with a single strike at its head (granted, said attack also killed its pilots).
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Defeated to show the power of the Kaiju duo.]]
* ShockAndAwe: As per their name, the fists are also equipped with tesla coils that discharge electricity upon impact.
* ShoulderCannon: Its vents are forward-facing and mounted on the shoulders, allowing it to [[WeaponizedExhaust spray enemies with flaming fuel]], but we never get to see it used.
* StoneWall: Can take a ton of punishment, but has rather few weapons systems when compared to other Jaegers. The lack of agility also hinders its ability to perform in close combat as well.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Is brought down by Leatherback after its armor is melted by Otachi's acid.]]
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: What little we see of it includes an elbow drop and a headlock on one of the Kaiju. Its status as the heaviest Jaeger certainly helps.
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[[folder:Crimson Typhoon]]
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->'''Nationality:''' China
->'''Classification:''' Mark-4
->'''Date of Launch:''' August 8th, 2018
->'''Pilots:''' Cheung, Jin, and Hu Wei

Crimson Typhoon is a Mark-4 Chinese Jaeger piloted by the Wei triplets. Constructed in Hong Kong Shatterdome, Crimson Typhoon is unique among the Jaegers due to it being piloted by three Rangers as opposed to the traditional two. It successfully defeated eight Kaiju.
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* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler: Its [[CranialProcessingUnit conn pod]] lacks the same level of protection as the other surviving Jaegers.]]
* ArmCannon: Its left arm features an advanced variant of Gipsy Danger's [[PlasmaCannon Plasma Caster]].
* ChainsawGood: The claw-like hands on each arm can spin like buzzsaws.
* CyberCyclops: Its head has a [[http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/pacific-rim-chinese-jaeger-crimson-typhoon.jpg one-eyed configuration]].
* FacelessEye: Much like the geth from ''Franchise/MassEffect'', it has a "flashlight" for a head.
* FragileSpeedster: Incredibly fast and agile, but poorly armored when compared to Cherno Alpha or Striker Eureka.
* GlassCannon: According to supplementary manuals, its plasma caster is the most powerful weapon among the four main Jaegers, but Crimson itself is also the least tough of them in armor and build terms.
* GradualGrinder: Uses a combat style that focuses on countering and gradually wearing its opponents down.
* LastOfHisKind: The only remaining Mark-4 by the events of the film.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Vaguely Asian Chanting]].
* KillItWithIce: It can vent coolant from its left arm in the video game.
* JetPack: Equipped with thrusters in the back that assist with movement, and can be used for short jumps. This ability was used in Crimson Typhoon's battle with Otachi to perform a half-reversed aerial flip.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: One of the least humanoid Jaegers in the Hong Kong Shatterdome, is destroyed in its first on-screen outing.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has three arms, with two sharing the right shoulder joint.
* OffWithHisHead: Decapitated [[spoiler:by Otachi.]]
* RedBaron: NECA's tagline for Crimson Typhoon is "Triple Threat".
* RedIsHeroic: Reflected in its name as well.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Defeated to show the power of the Kaiju duo.]]
* SignatureMove: The Thundercloud Formation, a defensive stance in which Crimson Typhoon activates the buzzsaws on each hand and proceeds to [[DeathOfAThousandCuts slash its opponent to pieces in a flurry of rotating blades]].
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Is defeated by Otachi when she crushes its head with her tail claw, killing the pilots.]]
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Pulls off a flying snapmare on Otachi after performing an aerial flip.
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[[folder:Coyote Tango]]
->'''Nationality:''' Japan
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 30th, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Stacker Pentecost and Tamsin Sevier[=/=]Gunnar and Vic Tunari

Coyote Tango is the second Mark-1 Japanese Jaeger after Tacit Ronin. It was one of the oldest Jaegers in active duty before its retirement from combat due to the massive damage caused by its confrontation with Onibaba and the Jaeger's own insufficient radiation shielding. It spent over a year in repairs, and had its radiation shielding improved. It was reintroduced to the war with a new set of pilots, who piloted it until Coyote Tango's destruction in 2022. Coyote Tango has a record of two Kaiju kills at the time of its destruction.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Stacker's copilot, Tamsim Sevier, is shown in ''Tales from Year Zero'' but not the film proper.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Swoops in to stop [[spoiler:Onibaba's rampage, saving Mako in the process.]]
** In the prequel comic ''Tales from the Drift'', it arrived to save Tacit Ronin when both of the latter's pilots were critically incapacitated.
* CurbStompBattle: The offscreen fight with [[spoiler:Onibaba]] doesn't last long. Though the entire scene is a reflection of how Mako remembers the events, and thus it may not be entirely correct. The fact that Coyote Tango sustained massive damage from the fight suggests that it wasn't ended quite that fast.
* FingerFirearms: By adjusting its hands, it can reveal a small-scale WaveMotionGun. While not used in the film, it's shown in the game as a primary weapon capable of creating a LaserBlade, and used in the FinishingMove, [[MoreDakka Maximum Release.]]
* GlassCannon: Has huge retractable cannons mounted on its shoulders, but is apparently the most lightly armored of the Jaegers.
* GratuitousEnglish: Its promotional stat-card title "Giant Japanese Techno-Tyrant" seems like it might have been done so to directly [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this.
* HeroicBuild: Very broad shoulders, very narrow waist. Fits its GlassCannon attributes.
* HeroicRROD: Tamsim Sevier blacked out prior to the fight with Onibaba, leaving Stacker to handle things solo. [[spoiler:It turns out that both Rangers were suffering from radiation poisoning from Coyote Tango's inadequately-shielded reactor. Both the Jaeger and its pilots were soon retired, but not before they contracted cancer. Coyote Tango's reactor shielding was improved and it received a new set of pilots later on.]]
* LaserBlade: The game of the movie shows that Coyote Tango has these equipped in both arms, under the name of the Anti-Matter Blade. Whether or not this is actually canon is unclear.
* RedBaron: NECA's tagline for Coyote Tango is "The Towering Tyrant".
* ShoulderCannon: Has two retractable "Mortar Cannons" on its back.
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[[folder:Lucky Seven]]

->'''Nationality:''' Australia
->'''Classification:''' Unknown
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2016
->'''Pilots:''' Scott and Hercules Hansen

Lucky Seven is the first Jaeger assignment given to former RAAF pilot, Hercules Hansen and younger brother, Scott, during the Jaeger Program's earliest tenure. In 2019, Lucky Seven teamed up with Gipsy Danger and Horizon Brave to fight a Category IV Kaiju in Manila. It successfully defeated at least two Kaiju. After Scott's ejection from the PPDC, Herc was reassigned to Striker Eureka with his son, Chuck. Lucky Seven was destroyed some time during the Kaiju War.
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* BashBrothers: Piloted by the original Australian brother-team, Scott and Herc Hansen.
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[[folder:Horizon Brave]]
->'''Nationality:''' China
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 22, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Lo Hin Shen and Xichi Po

Horizon Brave is a Mark-1 Jaeger and the first launched by the Chinese. It was among the first Jaegers constructed on Kodiak Island, Alaska when the Jaeger Program was greenlit by the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. In 2019, Horizon Brave teamed up with Gipsy Danger and Lucky Seven to fight a Category 4 Kaiju in Manila. It was saved from destruction by the other two Jaegers. Sometime prior to 2025, Horizon Brave was destroyed while trying to defend Lima from a Kaiju attack. Horizon Brave had a record of two Kaiju kills before its destruction in battle.
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* CyberCyclops: Sports a [[http://necaonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Horizon5-1300x.jpg single green eye]].
* KillItWithIce: The known specs indicate that its primary weapon systems rely on freezing the Kaiju.
* MechaMook: In the intro sequence, two Jaegers of this type are shown on an assembly line.
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[[folder:Brawler Yukon]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unaffiliated (Prototype)
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1 (Prototype)
->'''Date of Launch:''' April 23rd, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Adam Casey[=/=]Sergio D'onofrio and Caitlin Lightcap

Brawler Yukon is a Mark-1 prototype Jaeger. It fought against the Kaiju Karloff in Vancouver and is notable for being the first Jaeger deployed into actual combat against the Kaiju. It was destroyed by an unknown Kaiju later in the war. Karloff was not Brawler Yukon's only kill.
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* CurbStompBattle: Dished one out to Karloff.
* DynamicEntry: The Kaiju didn't see it coming ''at all''.
* DeathByFallingOver: Captain Adam Casey, the original test pilot, suffered this when he suffered a seizure and crashed Brawler Yukon (assuming the seizure itself didn't kill him).
* HeroicRROD: The neural load was too much for a single pilot, who would suffer seizures as a result.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Smaller than most, but it does the job.
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[[folder:Romeo Blue]]
->'''Nationality:''' United States
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 15th, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Bruce and Trevin Gage

Romeo Blue is the first Mark-1 American Jaeger launched against the Kaiju threat after the Canadian Brawler Yukon. It fought and killed the Kaiju Hardship in an unknown location early on in the war. Sometime prior to 2025, it was deployed in Seattle to prevent a Kaiju from destroying the city and the Jaeger was destroyed when the Kaiju tore off its arm and smashed through the Conn-Pod, killing the pilots in the process. Romeo Blue has a record of two Kaiju kills.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Shown on parade following a victory.
* GatlingGood: Armed with chest-mounted Gatling Cannons.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Used part of a broken bridge to bash Hardship in the face.
* MightyGlacier: Slow, but decently strong and armored.
* NiceShoes: Has sneakers designed after it.
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[[folder:Tacit Ronin]]
->'''Nationality:''' Japan
->'''Classification:''' Mark-1
->'''Date of Launch: ''' December 6th, 2015
->'''Pilots:''' Duc Jessop and Kaori Koyamada

Tacit Ronin is the first Mark-1 Japanese Jaeger. It was assigned to the Tokyo Shatterdome alongside Coyote Tango and Echo Saber, and had a kill count of three Kaiju prior to its destruction.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Has two "Fang Blades" on each of its arms, similar to Striker Eureka's sting blades.
* TheCameo: It appears briefly in the prologue, and its remains (mainly its head) can be seen during the UN meeting at the beginning of the movie.
* FragileSpeedster: Lightly armored. Unlike Coyote Tango, Tacit Ronin has enough agility to evade attacks while being strong enough to engage Kaiju at close range.
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[[folder:Nova Hyperion]]
->'''Nationality:''' South Korea
->'''Classification:''' Mark-4
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2018
->'''Pilots:''' Pang So-Yi and An Yuna

Nova Hyperion is a Mark-4 South Korean Jaeger that was stationed at the Vladivostok Shatterdome along with Cherno Alpha and Eden Assassin until its closure in 2024. At some point during the Kaiju War, Nova Hyperion was destroyed in combat.
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* ActionGirl: Competitive fencers. Potential Olympians. Kaiju attack survivors. Jaeger pilots. Oh yes.
* AmazonBrigade: Both of its pilots are female.
** They were also competing for spots on the South Korean Olympic team prior to a Kaiju attack on their homeland, which officially qualifies them as [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] before they even became Jaeger pilots.
* BaldOfAwesome: Its pilot, An Yuna.
* MasterSwordsman: Both of Nova's pilots competed in fencing at the Olympic level, so it's likely that they later employed those skills while piloting Nova Hyperion against the Kaiju.
* TheRival: Its pilots were this prior to the Jaeger Academy. So-Yi and Yuna were both competitive fencers who dreamed of participating in the Olympics. Their hatred for each other drove their rivalry and desire to win a spot on the team. However, in the middle of a match, the Kaiju Emergency Alert System sounded inside the arena, urging its occupants to escape before the Kaiju made landfall. During the escape, So-Yi slipped and hit her head on the floor, knocking herself out. As the Kaiju rose from the water and headed for the arena, Yuna turned back and saved So-Yi just in time from the Kaiju's attack. Their experience during the Kaiju attack presumably brought the two closer together and allowed them to put aside their differences to help one another and the world as Nova Hyperion's pilots.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: "The first kaiju Yuna has ever seen in her life is rising up from the water ahead like a mountain, and she’s running towards it, if you can believe that, running towards it and the almost empty arena in its path – to save a girl who twenty minutes ago she would’ve sworn to you she hated. Sometimes the best part of you just kinda wakes up like that."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vulcan Specter]]
->'''Nationality:''' Australia
->'''Classification:''' Mark-3
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2017
->'''Pilots:'''

Vulcan Specter is a Mark-3 Australian Jaeger. It was stationed at the Sydney Shatterdome along with Striker Eureka until its closure in 2024.
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* ArmCannon: Its finishing move against the unnamed twin headed Kaiju in ''Pacific Rim: Aftermath''.
* YouShallNotPass: Destroyed in the novelization by Mutavore while trying to prevent her attack on the Sydney wall.
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[[folder:Shaolin Rogue]]
->'''Nationality:''' China
->'''Classification:''' Mark-3
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2017
->'''Pilots:'''

Shaolin Rogue is a Mark-3 Chinese Jaeger. It was stationed at the Hong Kong Shatterdome along with Crimson Typhoon and Horizon Brave. At some point during the Kaiju War, Shaolin Rogue was destroyed in combat. The interqual novel Pacific Rim Ascension gives this Jaeger and its team some attention.
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* ADayInTheLimeLight: Shaloin Rogue and its crew get some attention in ''Pacific Rim Ascension'' due to its crew being Jinhai's parents.
* AllThereInTheManual: According to the novelization, some of its parts (specifically the parts needed for drifting) were salvaged by Newt to use for his first drift with a Kaiju.
* CoolBoat: Shaolin Rogue was built to excel more in sea battles than land. It could lay down and propel forward like a submarine and could carry more oxygen.
* EpicFlail: Her long range weapon consisting of a great ball and chain.
* StockNinjaWeaponry: Her other long range she wielded shuriken...explosive shuriken.
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[[folder:Mammoth Apostle]]
->'''Nationality:''' United States
->'''Classification:''' Mark-4
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2018
->'''Pilots:'''

Mammoth Apostle is a Mark-4 American Jaeger. It was stationed at the Los Angeles Shatterdome along with Romeo Blue. It was destroyed on October 4th 2024 when it and Striker Eureka fought a Kaiju in Kuching, Malaysia.
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* AllThereInTheManual: It is briefly mentioned in the novelization when Pentecost brings Newt & Gottlieb up to speed about Hannibal Chau by showing them a video of Chau and his men harvesting a downed Kaiju while PPDC workers are working on the wreckage of Mammoth Apostle in the background.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRimUprising''

[[folder:Gipsy Avenger]]
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->'''Nationality:''' United States
->'''Classification:''' Mark-6
->'''Date of Launch:''' January 12th, 2034
->'''Pilots:''' Jake Pentecost and Nate Lambert

Gipsy Avenger, named for the Jaeger which was sacrificed to close the Breach in 2025, is a Mark-6 American Jaeger. It was stationed at the Hong Kong Shatterdome.
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* TheAce: The pride of the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps Jaeger fleet.
* ActionGirl: Like her predecessor, it is also referred to with female pronouns, and arguably looks more feminine while still kicking tons of ass.
* ArmCannon: She has updated versions of the original's Plasma Cannons, and a new Gravity Sling weapon which manifests similarly.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Unlike her predecessor, Gipsy Avenger only has one Chainblade. [[spoiler:It ultimately salvages the twin [[ChainsawGood chainsaw blades]] used by Obsidian Fury to use for the final battle]].
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Unlike Gipsy Danger, its slow and almost-obsolete predecessor, Gipsy Avenger is fast and equipped with the most cutting-edge weapons.
* DeathFromAbove: [[spoiler: Flies into the air and drops down onto the Mega Kaiju like a meteor to kill it.]]
* HartmanHips: Has particularly shapely thighs for a giant robot.
* JackOfAllStats: Not as tough or hard-hitting as [[MightyGlacier Bracer Phoenix]], or as fast as [[FragileSpeedster Saber Athena]], or has the range of [[WhipItGood Guardian Bravo]], but solidly in between all of them.
* LegacyCharacter: Named for the original Gipsy Danger, shares a strong design lineage with her, and has Creator/EllenMcLain voicing her computer again.
* LightningBruiser: Dances and twirls around so fast it makes Striker Eureka look like a paraplegic.
* MeaningfulName: Is the second Gipsy after Danger. [[spoiler:Becomes literal when Mako Mori, one of the original Jaeger's pilots, is killed by a rogue Jaeger.]]
* MidSeasonUpgrade: [[spoiler:Is equipped with Obsidian Fury's plasma chainsaws before the final battle.]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bracer Phoenix]]
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->'''Nationality:''' China
->'''Classification:''' Mark-5
->'''Date of Launch:''' November 1st, 2025
->'''Pilots:''' Viktoriya Malikova, Ou-Yang Jinhai and Amara Namani

A Mark-5 Jaeger, Bracer Phoenix is a walking titan of a Jaeger, having defended the city of Shanghai for numerous years, earning the nickname "The Shanghai Shield".
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* TheBigGuy: It's the biggest and most heavily armed (with the expected trade-off of being the slowest and least maneuverable) of the four surviving Jaegers that take part in the final battle.
* ChestBlaster: Outfitted with Vortex Cannons, automatic cannons which can be pivoted to attack targets in front or behind it.
* EpicFlail: After the destruction of Titan Redeemer, Bracer Phoenix was outfitted with its flail, the M-19 Morningstar.
* GuyInBack: Bracer Phoenix is a three-man rig; the third pilot functions as a gunner and has their own control station.
* LightningBruiser: While it is the slowest of the Jaegers, it's still surprisingly fast for its size and able to easily keep up with the other Jaegers and Kaiju during battle.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: See the EpicFlail entry above.
* MightyGlacier: It's the slowest of the Jaegers stationed in Hong Kong, but it's built like a fortress, and hits like a meteor.
* MoreDakka: This Jaeger packs a ''lot'' of firepower -- no less than four massive guns are built into it, and all four can rapidly spew massive bullets at the enemy.
* SpentShellsShower: When Viktoriya opens up its massive guns, large bullets rapidly fall behind it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The oldest Jaeger in the film just happens to be the bulky MightyGlacier? Cherno Alpha and Bracer should compare notes.
* TopHeavyGuy: Its design evokes this, with bulky shoulders and a small head.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guardian Bravo]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guardian_bravo.jpg]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-6
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 15th, 2033
->'''Pilots:''' Ilya and Suresh Khuran

A Jaeger designed for ranged combat.
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* LongRangeFighter: Its specialty. Its weapons and thrusters are designed to allow him to keep distance from Kaijus and wound them from away.
* TopHeavyGuy: Very much like Bracer Phoenix, evidencing their similar weapon specifications.
* WhipItGood: Armed with Elec-16 Arc Whips, it can create lashes of pure energy.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Saber Athena]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saber_athena.jpg]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-6
->'''Date of Launch:''' December 20th, 2033
->'''Pilots:''' Meilin Gao and Ryiochi

The most advanced Jaeger to date, Saber Athena is acrobatic and deadly.
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* ActionGirl: Has a deliberate feminine design.
* DualWielding: The Ionic Twinblades are normally wielded in both hands.
* ElementalWeapon: Armed with [[ShockAndAwe Ionic Twinblades]], which can be [[BifurcatedWeapon combined]] to form one singular sword.
* FragileSpeedster: It's quick and acrobatic, with promotional materials describe her as the fastest Jaeger ever built, but can't take much damage. As such, she is destroyed in literally two blows.
* ImpossiblyGracefulGiant: Can perform ''flying kicks'' despite being a building-sized robot.
* KickChick: Employs fast kicks when it's not using its swords.
* SwordDrag: Does a variation during the final battle by pulling both her swords through the skyscrapers on her left and right while she charges the enemy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Titan Redeemer]]
[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/titan_redeemer.jpg]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-6
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown
->'''Pilots:''' Unknown

A Mark-6 Jaeger armed with a large morningstar.
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* EpicFlail: Its main weapon. After Redeemer is destroyed, the flail is grafted onto Bracer Phoenix.
* DoNotGoGentle: Even after losing a leg and being taken down, it manages to behead an enemy before being destroyed.
* TheGhost: Subverted, if barely, for one of its pilots, as he can be seen through a breach in the Jaeger's faceplate [[spoiler:just before it is crushed.]] Played straight for the other.
* HeroicSacrifice: Both for it and its unidentified pilots. [[spoiler:The hybrids are ignoring it after taking it out in their initial attack, presumably believing it to no longer be a threat. Once it reveals itself to still be operational with at least one pilot still alive and kills one of the attacking hybrids, this immediately attracts the attention of the second hybrid, which wastes no time stomping on its head to instantly kill the human pilot(s) inside.]]
* SacrificialLion: It's destroyed in the [[spoiler:attack of the drones]] to show how dangerous they are.
* UnknownCharacter: We know it has pilots, as they operate it during the [[spoiler:attack of the hybrids and actually die at it]], but we are never revealed their names.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Barely sees operational service on screen, and most of it is Amara piloting a simulated version of it during a training exercise. Its weapon even receives more screentime than it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Obsidian Fury]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/of.jpg]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Unknown
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown

A rogue Jaeger, and a deadly one at that, controlled by unknown forces.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Its whole upper section is spun 180 degrees by a blow from Gipsy Avenger. [[spoiler:This [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] its being driven by a Kaiju brain.]]
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Armed with two plasma {{chainsaw|Good}}s, which glow with a burning orange.
* ChestBlaster: Like Gipsy Danger, it can fire off blasts from its chest with lethal efficiency.
* {{Cyborg}}: [[spoiler:A Jaeger controlled by a Kaiju brain implanted into it.]]
* DarkIsEvil: Like the name says, Obsidian is black as night, and evil as they come.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: Is swiftly defeated by Gipsy Avenger in their rematch but its demise lead to the heroes discovering something much more sinister.]]
* DualWielding: Armed with two plasma swords that resembles chainsaws. [[spoiler: Gipsy Avenger is later equipped with these swords from the defeated remain of Obsidian Fury.]]
* EvilCounterpart: To Gipsy Danger, having a similar build and weaponry (dual swords and being able to fire from its ChestBlaster). Even its {{Leitmotif}} (also named "Obsidian Fury") sounds like a "darker/evil" counterpart of Gipsy Danger's "No Pulse" or "Go Big or Go Extinct". However, it is thoroughly ''not'' on the side of humanity. [[spoiler:It's also controlled by a Kaiju brain as opposed to two human pilots.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere: Appears out of nowhere in Sydney to attack the PPDC conference being held and [[spoiler: kill off Mako Mori.]]
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:It shoots down and kills Mako Mori after destroying the PPDC building in Sydney. It has the same intentions for the other Jaeger pilots.]]
* ImplacableMan: Shrugs off everything thrown at it by Gipsy Avenger until [[spoiler: a hole is ripped in it.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: The sequel starts off pretty light-hearted, with Jake meeting Amara and Scrapper's escape attempt from November Ajax and them being recruited into PPDC for training as Jaeger pilots. Then Obsidian Fury shows up, [[spoiler:kills off Mako Mori, and its status as a DiscOneFinalBoss means the worst is yet to come.]]
* LeanAndMean: Its waist is really thin along with its limbs in general and it is very mean.
* LightningBruiser: Move extremely agile and fluid for a Jaeger and well armed with a variety of weapons. [[spoiler: Its speed is achieved with Jaeger technology infused with organic Kaiju tissues.]]
* MacrossMissileMassacre: Can shoots multiple missiles from its shoulders. [[spoiler: This is how it managed to kill Mako Mori.]]
* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:Obsidian Fury's interior is a mix of Jaeger parts lined with Kaiju biomass.]]
* OutsideContextProblem: {{Downplayed}} as Rouge Jaegers were established, but they were so ramshackle that one advanced enough to match up to the flagship model Gipsy Avenger caught everyone off-guard.
* PredecessorVillain: It's implied that Obsidian Fury is a prototype for [[spoiler:Newt's army of Hybrid Drones that appear later in the film]].
* TacticalWithdrawal: Facing the immobile Gipsy Avenger, it wisely withdraws once it spots 3 other Jaegers approaching as reinforcement.
* WalkingArmory: Considering how sleek and smooth Obsidian is built it might as well be trenchcoat warfare as well. Most Jaegers have one to two weapons at most in addition to their fists. Obsidian Fury has missile pods in its shoulders, a particle cannon in its chest. At least one smaller particle cannon in its right wrist, smaller metal blades for extremely close melee in its left wrist. Oh and chainsaw swords in each arm along with devices that can jam communications along with being really strong and fast.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:"Scrapper"]]
->'''Nationality:''' United States
->'''Classification:''' None, unregistered
->'''Date of Launch:''' 2035
->'''Pilots:''' Amara Namani

In the aftermath of the Kaiju War, the poorer civilians have taken to scrounging detritus from decommissioned Jaegers, seeking to build their own. Small and lithe, Scrapper is a unique Jaeger, only requiring one single pilot.
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* BeTheBall: Can curl up into a ball and roll around.
* ButtMonkey: If it's on camera, expect something bad to happen to it. [[TookALevelInBadass Until the finale, of course.]]
* DavidVsGoliath: It's the David. All other Jaegers are Goliath.
* GiantScrapRobot: Being built from literal scrap metal, some car parts, rusty construction equipment, etc., it counts as this.
* MiniMecha: Only in comparison to the colossal "real" Jaegers. It stands at least two stories high, but barely reaches the shin of any other Jaeger.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Scrapper may be small, but it's not to be underestimated.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Gipsy Avenger, Guardian Bravo, Saber Athena, Bracer Phoenix... and Scrapper.
* SmokeOut: It's equipped with smoke canister launchers. Unfortunately, that's not a terribly effective deterrent against a skyscraper-sized mech that can see well above the cloud.
* SupportPartyMember: Out of necessity. Its small size means it doesn't stand a chance against ordinary Kaiju, but after a retrofit can help with emergency repairs of Jaegers in the field, and provide their pilots with a means of escape in the event of an escape pod failure.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Being a homemade Jaeger, Scrapper looks like a walking trash heap. But once you see it in action, you'll understand why Amara was recruited into the Jaeger Program.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:November Ajax]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-6
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown
->'''Pilots:''' Unknown

A Jaeger employed by the PPDC to apprehend Jaeger scavengers.
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* CyberCyclops: Has one big light/sensor in the middle of its face.
* DeadpanSnarker: Reacts vocally to Scrapper's attempts to confound it. After it subdues the tiny Jaeger, it comically pokes it to ensure its inactivity.
* KilledOffscreen: WordOfGod confirms that November Ajax was felled when the Shao Industries drones went berserk.
* ShockAndAwe: Carries a taser within one of its fists.
* SuperCop: It serves to enforce PPDC protocol. When we meet Ajax, it cites a specific line prohibiting unauthorized Jaegers that Scrapper is in violation of.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack''

[[folder:Atlas Destroyer]]
!!!Voiced by: Erica Lindbeck
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-3
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown (Presumably 2017 in line with other Mark 3's)
->'''Pilots:''' Hayley Travis, Taylor Travis, and Mei

A decommissioned Mark-3 Jaeger reassigned to training cadets and left behind when the Black was implemented; controlled by a female artificial intelligence called Loa.
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* AnArmAndALeg: Atlas' right arm is ripped off and eaten by Copperhead, hampering her already limited combat effectiveness.
* ArmCannon: Going by the holographic weapons display Loa projected, Atlas Destroyer originally had wrist-mounted missiles powerful enough to one-shot a Category IV Kaiju. [[spoiler:The new right arm Atlas receives from Apex -- originally belonging to the Mark IV Jaeger Chaos Nemesis -- comes with a blade-tipped saber chain fired from its palm which can either impale targets or saw through them using blades on the chain]].
* AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp: Her armament would certainly have made it easier for her to take on Copperhead. Justified, though, as she became a training Jaeger for the inexperienced cadets, before she was abandoned on Australia because of Operation Blackout.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: At least twenty years old by the time of the Black and reduced to training duties. Now bought back into full action.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Downplayed. She's still a giant mecha capable of punching, and later [[spoiler: grappling]], Kaiju, but in the past she was a fully armed battle Jaeger until she was decommissioned and reassigned to be a training Jaeger for Cadets.
* CasualDangerDialogue: {{Justified}} in her role as the AI of a training Jaeger, Loa encourages her pilots to act in calm, smooth voice even when they're seconds from total disaster.
-->'''Loa''': Kaiju impact in twenty seconds. Choose a course of a action, please.
* DeadpanSnarker: Loa -- Atlas Destroyer's AI -- possesses a wry sense of humor and is prone to making deadpan retorts.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Even a standard Mark-3 Jaeger would be overpowered in this setting, as evidenced by the initial simulation showing that Copperhead would have been felled in ''a single attack'' by her original armament. Having been stripped of her weapons, Atlas is instead put on the defensive against Kaiju it would have otherwise handily defeated. Atlas also lacks a nuclear reactor like other Mark-3 Jaegers, placing a limit on how long it can be run continuously and forcing a dangerous scavenger hunt for replacements when the cells run dry after the first battle with Copperhead.
* FreakOut: When scanning the derelict Horizon Brave, Loa suddenly starts acting like she's having a PTSD-induced flashback. When Taylor confronts her about what happened, she cagily downplays it as a glitch.
* LastOfHerKind: With Gypsy Danger long destroyed Atlas is both the last Mark 3 and the last known active Jaeger in Australia.
* PowerPincers: In Episode 6, [[spoiler:Atlas Destroyer gets a replacement arm from the Mark IV Jaeger Chaos Nemesis, which is heavily-armored but has limited dexterity due to its tripartite pincers]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hunter Vertigo]]
->'''Nationality:''' Unknown
->'''Classification:''' Mark-7
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown
->'''Pilots:''' Ford Travis, Brina Travis

The Jaeger piloted by Ford and Brina Travis.
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* ArmCannon: Wrist-mounted launchers capable of firing (apparently very low-yield) nuclear warheads.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Stops a bone spike from a kaiju from impaling them in this manner.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: When one of its Cryo Cannons is damaged by an Acidquill's tentacle, Brina rips it off their back and uses it to club the kaiju.
* CompositeCharacter: Has the general profile and color scheme of Striker Eureka, Gipsy Danger's central turbine core, and the shoulder cannons of Coyote Tango.
* NukeEm: The only known Jaeger equipped with nuclear weapons to use while brawling with kaiju.
* ShoulderCannon: Hunter Vertigo came equipped with shoulder-cannons capable of firing a FreezeRay.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Marauder Zeus]]
->'''Nationality:''' Australian
->'''Classification:''' Unknown
->'''Date of Launch:''' Unknown
->'''Pilots:''' Unknown

A Jaeger who, against orders, backed up Ford and Brina's attempt to rescue their kids during the evacuation.
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* ArmCannon: Has massive collapsible gatling guns on the back of each forearm.
* AwesomeAussie: If the accent of its (only speaking) pilot is anything to go by, Marauder Zeus is proudly keeping the tradition of Australian badassery alive and well.
* GatlingGood: Its main weapons are a pair of enormous gatling guns.
* GunsAkimbo: One gatling gun on each arm.
[[/folder]]

!!Kaiju

[[folder:General Kaiju Tropes]]
* AlienBlood: Blue, acidic, and highly reactive toxic blood. [[spoiler:The sequel reveals it explodes when it comes into contact with certain rare earth elements.]]
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Without getting into the obvious SquareCubeLaw problems, the given weights of all the Kaiju are unbelievably low. The Category V Slattern is stated to weigh around 6 750 tons while being 596 feet tall. For comparison, [[Film/Godzilla2014 Legendary's Godzilla]] is about 355 feet tall and was calculated to weigh approximately ''90 000 tons'' (if his volume was filled with water). The only way the kaiju could possibly be so light is if they were completely made of something like styrofoam.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Jaegers were specifically built to fight them at their level.
* BioweaponBeast: Despite their wildly varying appearances, all Kaiju share the same DNA due to having been engineered by the Precursors to facilitate their conquest of other dimensions, devouring the indigenous populace and/or terraforming the planet with their toxic blood.
* BizarreAlienBiology: They have extremely poisonous blood, they often have more limbs and/or eyes than Earthly animals, and they combine vertebrate and invertebrate traits. Much of their biology appears to be based on ammonia, or at least, thrives in an ammonia-based environment.
* {{Determinator}}: Even when sustaining numerous fatal injuries, they will absolutely not stop trying to cause as much destruction as possible before dying, in some cases not even a huge gaping chest wound or the loss of an appendage will stop them immediately.
* DidntSeeThatComing:
** They [[spoiler:and their creators]] clearly weren't expecting humanity to fight back to any useful effect, something humans theorize on. This is best shown when the first Jaeger ''utterly demolished'' its Kaiju opponent.
** On the other side, humanity didn't expect that the Kaiju [[spoiler:and their creators could think beyond animalistic behaviors and evolve to deal with the Jaegers.]]
** Humans certainly couldn't have been expecting Kaiju Blue when they decided to NukeEm in early attacks...
** [[spoiler:Jake and his comrades ''definitely'' don't expect the three Kaiju in Tokyo to merge into a singular Mega-Kaiju.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:There are beings on the other side of the portal responsible for creating and sending the Kaiju through the breach.]]
* ExtraEyes: Most, if not all, of the Kaiju have more than two eyes.
* TheHeavy: While they have wreaked havoc on Earth for many years, they are basically just attack dogs created by The Precursors, the true {{Big Bad}}s of the series.
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:They are all mentally connected to one another. Even the still living but damaged brain of a dead Kaiju is connected to the hive. Despite this, they all seem to have individual personalities, with Otachi and Slattern being noted to be more intelligent than the others.]]
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:It had been assumed that the Kaiju were acting on instinct, but nobody expected them to adapt to counter the Jaegers.]]
* {{Kaiju}}: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh.]]
* KillAllHumans: [[spoiler:This is why the Precursors sent the Kaiju through the Breach this time.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: "2500 Tons Of Awesome", which is shared by the Kaiju as a whole. The one exception is Slattern, as detailed in his entry.
* LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:They turn out to be genetically engineered attack dogs of a human-sized race from another universe. The humans don't realize that the emergence of bigger and tougher examples that can better fight the Jaegers is an arms race until the aliens have added projectile acid and EMP attacks and it's too late.]]
* MaleMightFemaleFinesse: The Kaiju that attack Hong Kong; Leatherback, a massive, hulking brawler, and Otachi, a more slender creature with faster attacks, and the ability to fly. Otachi is shown to be female when it turns out she's pregnant.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Quite a few Kaiju have a combination of different animal traits. [[spoiler:Considering the Precursors assembled them, it's not entirely surprising.]] The Kaiju generally evoke a single particular animal or mythical creature, such as Otachi resembling a dragon, Leatherback resembling a gorilla, Onibaba resembling a crab, and Slattern's multitude of tentacles evoking the legendary Kraken. The one exception is Mutavore, the Sydney Kaiju, who [[OurMonstersAreWeird has a strange, crescent shaped head, scissor-like tail fins, ''eyes on its chin, its mouth on its forehead, and a single crest-like wing on its back''.]] It SO does not resemble any familiar shape, possibly barring a bio-raptor from ''Film/PitchBlack''. Of course, there is also the possibility that it resembles a creature from the Precursors' or another conquered world, which they may have used to their advantage against [[YouShallNotPass Vulcan Specter and Echo Saber]].
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Subverted with three of the Kaiju (Scunner, Trespasser, and Knifehead), as they rarely use their smaller extra arms. Otachi, however, has a claw on her tail that she uses more than her actual arms.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The designations assigned by the PPDC are typically and understandably distasteful and terrifying.
* PeopleInRubberSuits: A featurette revealed that Guillermo and the character designers wanted to invoke this when designing the Kaiju as a homage. Basically, the Kaiju are all designed as if an actor would be able to fit into them like a rubber suit, hence why most of them are bipedal.
* ProportionatelyPonderousParasites: Isopod-like creatures the size of footballs live on the Kaiju. They actually die very quickly once exposed to Earth's atmosphere, to the point that the PPDC was never able to recover them alive, so they're not really a threat. Black market scavengers selling kaiju parts, however, figured out that they can be kept alive if you put them in an ammonia bath.
* SquareCubeLaw: The Kaiju and Jaegers alike play hell with this law; Kaiju shouldn't be able to ambulate without severe damage to their joints and whatever skin surfaces contact the ground alongside muscle tearing from the torque and stresses of combat, whereas flying Kaiju like Otachi would be far too heavy to take off even with a proportionate wingspan. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the ocean-dwelling Kaiju like Slattern, where we have examples of massive creatures on Earth right now that can maintain that size due to the ocean taking most of the stress off of their bodies, as well as by the RuleOfCool.
* TakingYouWithMe: Prior to the creation of the Jaegers, the only reliable way to take down a Kaiju was to hit it with a [[NukeEm nuclear weapon]]. Aside from the resulting collateral damage and fallout that would occur if deployed in a populated area, the issues with this are further compounded by the fact that Kaiju blood is toxic, and that the resultant overkill ends up spreading a large amount of that blood over a wide area.
* ThroatLight: Most Kaiju have bioluminescence coming from their mouth. [[spoiler:It signals an EMP in Leatherback's case.]]
* VolcanicVeins: A number of the Kaiju have glowing blue vein-like markings on their bodies.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRim''[[note]]Also includes Kaiju fleshed out in the supplementary material to that film[[/note]]
[[folder:Trespasser]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_tres.png]]
->'''Category:''' Unknown (pre-scale)
->'''Breach Date:''' August 10, 2013
->'''Target:''' San Francisco, USA

The very first Kaiju.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Its skull becomes a trophy on [[https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/966806_509314265801542_649845123_o.jpg public display.]]
* DeathOfAThousandCuts: How he was killed in the movie, after 6 days and 35 miles of tank and jet attacks.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The game shows Trespasser having a pair of smaller arms underneath the primary set.
* NukeEm: How he was ultimately defeated in the comic.
* StarterVillain: Only the first of many Kaiju.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Knifehead]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_knifehead.png]]
->'''Category:''' III\\
'''Breach Date:''' February 29, 2020
->'''Target:''' Anchorage, USA

The Kaiju that killed Yancy and crippled Gipsy Danger in the prologue. Though Raleigh managed to kill him, this attack heralded the apparent end of the Jaeger age, as the Kaiju were beginning to counter the robots.
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* EvilIsPetty: It took a detour from its main mission of attacking Anchorage to slaughter the crew of a passing fishing boat. Good thing Gipsy Danger was there.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Has a large, knife-like blade jutting out of its head.
* ExpendableClone: Newt's first drift shows [[spoiler:dozens of identical Knifeheads in pods, showing the one Gipsy fought was just one copy out of many]].
* HeroKiller: Kills Yancy Becket in the beginning of the film and destroys Gipsy Danger.
* ItCanThink: Mild example. Knifehead was the point when kaiju fight tactics upgraded, making it smart enough to ''play dead'' - something kaiju had never done before. This caught Gipsy Danger by complete surprise - given that kaiju can and ''do'' usually fight until they're hamburger.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the features of a shark, a turtle, and a dolphin.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has a smaller pair of arms under its larger primary set.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If Knifehead had just swum to Anchorage like planned, it could have slowed Gipsy Danger down for quite a while by causing their deviation to help the fishing boat turn into a dead end.
* NotQuiteDead: The initial encounter looks like a short CurbStompBattle, but then it bursts from the water looking barely worse for wear.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears onscreen for less than ten minutes, and manages to turn the tide of the war back in favor of the Kaiju.
* ThreateningShark: The featurette on Kaiju suggests he's meant to resemble a goblin shark. He swims like a shark would as well.
* TurtlePower: It has a shell-like body structure on its back.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Its fight with Gipsy Danger was the moment that asserted "Jaegers aren't invincible."
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mutavore]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_mutavore.png]]
->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' January 2, 2025
->'''Target:''' Sydney, Australia

The Kaiju that tears through the Life Wall in under an hour, proving the entire fortification worthless. Killed by Striker Eureka.
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* AdaptationalBadass: It's dodgy as to which came first, the novelization, based on an older script most likely or the movie release and so one. The film has her as a Category 4, but serves more as a mook, while the novelization has her tear through two Jaegers (Vulcan Specter and Echo Saber) before encountering Striker Eureka. Either way, she is there to show how powerful Striker Eureka is, and that the wall is useless against Kaiju.
* ExpendableClone: Along with Knifehead, there is a glimpse of at least two more Mutavores already assembled.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Her eyes are on her lower jaw instead of her upper jaw.
* MassOhCrap: Everybody pretty much had this when she simply rammed through the Coastal Wall meant to protect people from the Kaiju like it was nothing.
* {{Mook}}: Serves as grunt Kaiju in the Jaeger Combat Simulator online game.
* MultipleTailedBeast: She has a bifubricated tail, which can be used like a pair of scissors in the video game.
* SmallRoleBigImpact:
** Its smashing through the Sydney Wall is seen by Raleigh, confirming the anti-Kaiju barriers are useless in the end and leaving Raleigh open to rejoining the Jaeger program when Pentecost comes calling.
** According to Travis Beacham's Tumblr, the kaiju brain Newt drifts with to [[spoiler:discover the existence of the Precursors and their plans]] came from Mutavore.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Onibaba]]
->'''Category:''' II
->'''Breach Date:''' May 15, 2016
->'''Target:''' Tokyo, Japan

The kaiju that Mako encountered as a child. It is only seen in her dream sequence, in which it appears bigger than a Cat 2 should -- but then again, it is a memory seen through the eyes of a frightened child. Some UnreliableNarrator may be in play.
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* TheCameo: A simulation of Onibaba appears in the sequel in a training simulation for upcoming Jaeger pilots to fight against.
* CurbStompBattle: It evidently did not last long against Coyote Tango -- at least, that's how Mako remembers it.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The Novelization states that the Japanese mounted his skull on the side of Mt. Fuji as a warning to the Kaiju.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Looks [[http://oi44.tinypic.com/4iypfn.jpg eerily like a giant crustacean.]]
* MeaningfulName: Playing very much a nightmarish role in Mako's psyche, it can be said Onibaba(Demon Hag) can be said to represent her inner demons.
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Not apparent in its brief appearance in the first movie, but the sequel establish the Kaijus primary motive is not to destroy cities, but to reach Mount Fuji so that their AlienBlood can react with the minerals inside the mountain to create a chain reaction in the Earth crust that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Since Onibaba was the only Kaiju that managed to reach Tokyo, Japan of all the others, it could have destroyed the entire world. Good thing Stacker Pentecost was there to stop it, meaning he actually saved the Earth TWICE.]]
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Easily the least humanoid of the Kaiju seen in the film.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Chases a ten-year-old girl down the street and then tries multiple times to grab her out of the alley she's hiding in, despite being so big that just reaching down and grabbing her should outweigh the energy gained from eating her. This is presumably a trait of all the other Kaiju as well.
* YouKilledMyFather: He basically killed Mako's parents in his attack on Tokyo.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Otachi]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_otachi.png]]
->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' January 8, 2025
->'''Target:''' Hong Kong, China

One of the Kaiju that attacks Hong Kong during the movie. Has a powerful acid attack that can eat through metal, and is one of the few confirmed female Kaiju.
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* AcidAttack: She can spit blue HollywoodAcid that makes short work of any type of metal, which it uses to [[spoiler:help kill the Russian jaeger]].
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Has her tail frozen and [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] and her wing sliced off by Gipsy Danger.]]
* ArmorPiercingAttack: The corrosive substance she sprays from her mouth easily dissolved Cherno Alpha's heavy armor.
* BewareMyStingerTail: She has a claw on her tail, though it functions more like a third hand.
* BodyHorror: Her lower jaw splits in half. Also, the scene of [[spoiler: her infant bursting out of her womb]].
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: She has several eye-like organs on her nasal crest.
* ForceAndFinesse: Relatively speaking, in the team of her and Leatherback, she's the finesse while Leatherback is the force.
* GeniusBruiser: Otachi is a cunning and resourceful ambush predator, much like Leatherback (if not moreso).
* GiantFlyer: She vaguely resembles a giant bat [[spoiler:capable of lifting a giant robot of equivalent size.]] Uses its wings in one final attempt to destroy Gipsy, by taking it up into the stratosphere and planning on dropping it to its doom. It would have worked, if not for the fact that [[spoiler:Gipsy has a sword.]]
* HeroKiller: She destroys Crimson Typhoon and kills its pilots.
* HollywoodAcid: Her acid is corrosive enough to cripple Cherno Alpha and immediately liquify a small section of a building.
* IronicName: ''Otachi'' means "Big sword" in Japanese. [[spoiler:Just guess how Gipsy Danger kills her]].
* ItCanThink: One of the most intelligent and thus, among the most dangerous ever encountered. Otachi was directly responsible for the destruction of two Jaegers, specifically negating their strengths and taking full advantage of their weaknesses. She also very nearly manages to destroy Gipsy Danger, who only manages to survive through quick thinking.
* KungFuProofMook: {{No Sell}}s Crimson Typhoon's Thundercloud Formation attack by catching all three of its arms. She also severely weakened Cherno Alpha by managing to damage its heavily-armored reactor.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: Her tail suffers this, courtesy of Gipsy Danger.
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Originally, her tail was supposed to be torn off only to come to life until meeting death by ice. This was kept in the novelization.
* MadeOfIron: Takes hits from all four of the Jaegers but keeps on fighting.
* MonsterIsAMommy: Upon Otachi's death, a team is sent into an orifice in her body. However, it is found that Otachi is actually ''pregnant'', and [[EnfantTerrible the newborn beast quickly wreaks havoc on the team]].
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: First we see her speed and agility. Then when Crimson and Cherno engage her she reveals her tail-claw and her acid spray. Then we see she has a weird flowery tongue, then we discover her tail [[OrganAutonomy has a mind of its own and can fight independently.]] And when Gipsy tears out her acid sac and her tail, she ''unfurls her wings and takes to the sky''. When she is finally downed, she has one last postmortem surprise for us... she is [[MonsterIsAMommy actually pregnant]].
* NoSell: [[spoiler:Otachi manages to catch each of Crimson Typhoon's arms and stop the blades from rotating.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger chops its head and a wing off with its sword, killing it in mid-flight.]]
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:She was pregnant the whole time she attacked Hong Kong.]]
* PrehensileTail: The claw on the tip allows it to act more like an extra arm than a tail.
* RibcageStomach: The scene of Hannibal's team entering her entrails shows that a large amount of her abdominal cavity is hollow, as her [[spoiler:womb]] is seen suspended upside down next to her dinosaur brain. Quite a logic body trait when one considers that [[spoiler:the monster can fly.]]
* StoryBreakerPower: The ''only'' entity (Jaeger or Kaiju) with [[spoiler:a demonstrated ability to fly. It's obvious that Jaegers were never built for aerial combat.]] This revelation ''also'' should have revealed the wall defense, which had already been proven ineffective, to be a complete waste of time, but it's never brought up. Likewise with its corrosive acid.
* TongueTrauma: [[spoiler:After missing its spray of acid at Gipsy, the Jaeger rips out Otachi's tongue (and acid-producing gland) to keep it from trying that again.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leatherback]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pr_leatherback.png]]
->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' January 8, 2025
->'''Target:''' Hong Kong, China

One of the Kaiju that attacks Hong Kong. Big, muscular, with approximately the shape of a gorilla.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Not only is he [[TheBrute burly]], but his midsection is noticeably prominent and bloated-looking. Doesn't make him slower or any less menacing than any other Kaiju.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Had its {{EMP}} emitter ripped off and arm blown off by Gipsy Danger.]]
* TheBrute: He has a few tricks up his sleeve, but mostly relies on raw brute force.
* DidntSeeThatComing: Winds up on both ends of this. [[spoiler:Nobody anticipated that there would be a Kaiju with an in-built {{EMP}} shockwave generator designed specifically to deal with Striker Eureka. Of course, the aliens didn't plan for Gipsy Danger's presence.]]
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler:His InTheBack jump against Cherno Alpha was the first time he was seen in the fight.]]
* {{EMP}}: [[spoiler:Has an EMP emitter on its back.]]
* EyeScream: Gets shot in the eye by a flare shot by Striker Eureka's pilots. All it does is piss it off.
* ExtraEyes: Six total.
* FatBastard: He's rather heavyset for a Kaiju, and is just as vicious as the others.
* ForceAndFinesse: Relatively speaking in the team of him and Otachi, he's the force while Otachi is the finesse.
* ForTheEvulz: One of the few Kaiju who shows signs of open sadism, taking his time with Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka's crews.
* GeniusBruiser: Performs well-coordinated teamwork with Otachi using his partner as bait to set up an ambush, shuts down Striker Eureka just when it's putting itself in a position of vulnerability to use a genuinely dangerous weapon, shows ponderation about his and his opponent's strengths and odds, and is the only Kaiju in the film to use tools.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: His primary fighting style, helped by his [[PowerFist hard mace-like fists]].
* HeroKiller: Destroys Cherno Alpha and kills its pilots.
* InTheBack: His DynamicEntry against [[spoiler:Cherno Alpha.]]
* ItCanThink: A cunning and resourceful Kaiju like its partner Otachi, Leatherback not only is intelligent enough to use tools, he also has a sense of tactics: he stays near [[spoiler:the disabled]] Striker Eureka and lumbers cautiously around it in case it is not completely out and just PlayingPossum as Kaiju themselves do. As Leatherback has no ranged weapons to safely maim him from away and Striker is his strongest foe in close quarter range, this is the safest stance for him to prevent a turn of the tables.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Uses a crane as a mace to batter Gipsy silly.
* {{Kevlard}}: [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger has to shoot him nearly a dozen times to make him go down. Unlike more armored Kaijus, the individual shots do damage him, it's just that they are not enough to get through his bulk until the damage builds up.]]
* KillerGorilla: Has a gorilla-like body. Also, although it's named after the leatherback turtle, the name still evokes a silverback gorilla.
* LightningBruiser: Can move incredibly fast and agile for his size, marking a difference with the slow, cadenced Kaijus introduced until that point in the film.
* LivingWeapon: While all Kaiju qualify, Leatherback's arrival serves as chilling proof of what Newt had already theorized: these monsters aren't just showing up randomly -- someone is deliberately sending them. [[spoiler:Animals don't just "evolve" a natural EMP generator against prey they've never personally met.]]
* MakeSureHesDead: [[spoiler:Even after Gipsy Danger shoots off his arm and blasts him in the gut several times, Raleigh tells Mako that they need to "check for a pulse." Cue Gipsy Danger blasting Leatherback's body ''several more times''. "No pulse" indeed.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Gipsy Danger [[spoiler:rips it apart and blasts it several more times to be sure.]] Justified; Kaiju have [[spoiler:learned to [[PlayingPossum play dead]], so Jaegers will let their guard down. [[DoubleTap Raleigh was making sure that when Leatherback was dead, it]] ''[[DoubleTap stayed]]'' [[DoubleTap dead]].]] Also a pretty nifty double-KickTheSonOfABitch for the two pilots: one for Mako, whose parents were killed by a Kaiju, and one for Raleigh, in his first Kaiju fight since his brother was killed by one.
* StealthyColossus: Despite his enormous size, he goes completely unnoticed under the water until the very moment of his DynamicEntry.
* StoryBreakerPower: [[spoiler: His EMP enables him to take out just about any Jaeger, as well as the Shatterdome, in a single move. This allows Leatherback to be the only Kaiju capable of defeating Striker Eureka.]]
* StoneWall: Took several point-blank Plasma Caster shots into the chest before going down, and that's not counting all the punishment it received beforehand.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Raiju]]
->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' January 12, 2025
->'''Target:''' Unknown

One of the Kaiju fought at the Breach. Looks like a flower jawed pangolin. Much faster than other Kaiju.
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* {{Expy}}: Its real head which is hidden inside an armor plated head bears a striking resemblance to Gabora from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''.
* FragileSpeedster: Not very durable at all, but the fastest Kaiju underwater on record and easily [[spoiler:sneaks behind Gipsy Danger and bites its right arm off]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Sliced in half lengthwise through a combination of Gipsy Danger's BladeBelowTheShoulder and Raiju's own [[InertiaIsACruelMistress momentum]].]]
* NestedMouths: According to his Hero Clix figure, it looks like his head splits open to reveal a purple wormlike [[https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTRQ4zahizZGZiKsqwl7wi3jAP1iXnt-u9rzi9yXUSIvYzKN7jAg head.]]
* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: His design is very crocodilian.
* {{Raiju}}: Named after the thunder beast {{Youkai}} of Japanese folklore.
* TechnicolorToxin: A secondary power in the game. It can release a toxic and corrosive cloud of poison into the air as a ranged attack, and cover the battlefield in it as a FinishingMove.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scunner]]
->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' January 12, 2025
->'''Target:''' Unknown

One of the Kaiju fought at the Breach. Looks like an aquatic bull.
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* ALoadOfBull: Has two large prominent bull-like horns.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger drags its face into a volcanic vent, burning half of it before it breaks free.]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Between ramming horns, a biting mouth, large clawed hands, and a whip-capable tail, it doesn't seem to have any specialized focus.
* MeaningfulName: "Scunner" is a Scottish word for "a strong dislike."
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the features of a bull, a shark, and a turtle.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler: It's stabbed through the neck like a kebab, dragged over to a volcanic vent and roasted, and finally caught in Striker Eureaka's nuclear payload.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has a smaller pair of arms under its larger primary set.
* ThreateningShark: Has a hammerhead shark-like head.
* TurtlePower: Has a turtle-like shell.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Slattern]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3406511_slattern.jpg]]
->'''Category:''' V
->'''Breach Date:''' January 12, 2025
->'''Target:''' Earth

One of the Kaiju fought at the Breach. The only Cat 5 ever encountered (at least until the sequel), it is the largest and most dangerous monster anyone has ever seen.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Not only can they club but are strong enough to stab into Gipsy Danger's back during their tumble.
* CatsAreMean: When he's on all fours his body looks very feline influenced as well as the shape of his front two hands/claws look like a lion's.
* DanceBattler: His tail-end, anyway. He twirls them disorientingly before lashing out with all three to devastating effect.
* DragonInChief: [[spoiler:While all Kaiju serve as TheDragon to their other-dimensional masters, Slattern is the worst of them all and serves as the final obstacle of the story. A bit literal as well, during the fight with Eureka, he emits an enormous roar that summons Scunner back to double team the [=MkV=] Jaeger]]
* FinalBoss: Sent out at the very end to deal with Gipsy Danger and Striker Eureka.
* LargeAndInCharge: He is a Category 5, the most [[TheDreaded feared]] among the Kaiju that attacked Earth, although Newt suggested that he may have merely been the first member of a second wave of more powerful Kaiju.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Subverted; villainous. Has quite the double chin.
* {{Leitmotif}}: "Category 5", a darker, faster-paced, highly varied and even more ominous variation on the main Kaiju leitmotif (complete with choral backing!) which emphasizes the power and dread that Slattern possesses.
* MadeOfIron: Even compared to ''the other Kaiju''. [[spoiler: To the point of surviving the equivalent of 1.2 million tons of TNT ''blowing up in his face''.]]
* MassOhCrap: His appearance causes one for the forces back in Hong Kong.
* MultipleTailedBeast: He has three main tails with numerous smaller tails besides.
* NonIndicativeName: The word "slattern" basically means "promiscuous woman" (or, in more vulgar terms, "slut"). It's [[AllThereInTheManual revealed in the novelization]] that when this Kaiju first appeared, all the Rangers were struck by its utterly massive size:
--> '''Tendo Choi:''' Bitch is big.\\
'''Pentecost:''' Don't use that word. Call it "Slattern", if you must.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Cut open numerous times by Striker Eureka (including having his throat slit and his arms nearly sliced off), has a ''nuclear bomb'' explode ''in his face'', stabbed repeatedly by Gipsy Danger, and ''then'' he only dies when he's cooked alive by Gipsy Danger's [[ChestBlaster nuclear turbine]] at point blank until the blast starts ''coming out his back''.]]
* ShockAndAwe: His tails are electrified.
* SlashedThroat: Striker Eureka manages to inflict this on Slattern. [[MadeOfIron It doesn't even flinch.]]
* ThreateningShark: His head greatly resembles a hammerhead shark's.
* YouShallNotPass: A villainous example. [[spoiler:He is the guardian of the Breach (the portal from which the Kaiju enter our world).]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kaiceph]]
->'''Category:''' Unknown (pre-scale)
->'''Breach Date:''' June 1, 2014
->'''Target:''' Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

The third Kaiju ever, killed by a nuclear strike that wipes out the city it was attacking.
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* TheCameo: Appears very briefly as a decaying corpse on an aircraft carrier.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Scissure]]
->'''Category:''' Unknown (pre-scale)
->'''Breach Date:''' September 2, 2014
->'''Target:''' Sydney, Australia

The fourth Kaiju, killed with ''two'' nukes.
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* MadeOfIron: It took two nukes just to kill him.
* NukeEm: Defeated by nukes after three days of getting it far enough away from Sydney, Australia.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Karloff]]
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/karloff_profile.png]]
->'''Category:'''
->'''Breach Date:''' April 23, 2015
->'''Target:''' Vancouver, Canada

The fifth Kaiju, and the first to fight a Jaeger. It loses. [[CurbStompBattle Horribly]].
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* BloodFromTheMouth: From Brawler Yukon's first blow.
* TheCameo: Has a little more focus in the prequel comic but appears briefly behind smoke during the prologue.
* CurbStompBattle: Never stood a chance against Brawler Yukon.
%%* FragileSpeedster: He looks too twig-like for a Kaiju.
* FrankensteinsMonster: His square head looks like that of Boris Karloff's depiction of Frankenstein.
* MuggingTheMonster: Was the first Kaiju to find out the hard way that humanity wasn't going down without a fight.
* OhCrap: The presumed mental reaction to Brawler Yukon's existence.
* ShoutOut: His name is a reference to Boris Karloff.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hardship]]
->'''Category:'''
->'''Breach Date:'''
->'''Target:'''

The sixth Kaiju to appear, and the second to be killed by a Jaeger. Hardship is killed by Romeo Blue.
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* DevelopmentGag: Hardship's final design is based on the original concept for Mutavore.
* NiceShoes: Has sneakers designed after it.
* TheCameo: Briefly appears in the prologue fighting Romeo Blue.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Meathead]]
->'''Category:'''
->'''Breach Date:'''
->'''Target:'''

A Kaiju that only appears on the cover of ''Tales of Year 0''. No other details are known about him.
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* TheCameo: Appears very briefly in the comic prequel.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Resembles a stylized Carnotaurus.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yamarashi]]
->'''Category:''' III
->'''Breach Date:''' October 17, 2017
->'''Target:''' Los Angeles, USA

A Kaiju that is briefly mentioned in the movie. It was Gipsy Danger's first kill.
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* TheBigGuy: According to Newt, he was one of the largest Category [=IIIs=] on record.
* MeaningfulName: "Yama-arashi" means "porcupine" in Japanese. Newt's tattoo reveals it to be quite prickly.
* RazorFloss: Gipsy Danger killed Yamarashi by garroting it with a [[ImprovisedWeapon cargo crane wire]] until [[OffWithHisHead its head came off]].
* TheCameo: It's only seen as a tattoo on Newt's left arm, which Raleigh recognizes as Yamarashi.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hundun]]
->'''Category:''' Unknown (pre-scale)
->'''Breach Date:''' February 5th, 2014
->'''Target:''' Manila, Philippines

The second Kaiju, and the one that began to make it clear Trespasser was not an isolated incident.
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* TheCameo: Appears very briefly in the prologue.
* NobodyPoops: Averted.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Verocitor]]
->'''Category:''' N/A
->'''Breach Date:''' N/A
->'''Target:''' N/A

A simulated Kaiju used for virtual training.
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* FragileSpeedster: Verocitor looks more like it was designed for hit-and-run tactics as opposed to grappling.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Has the most normal-looking designs as opposed to the more alien-looking Kaiju.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Verocitor's design is ''heavily'' reminiscent to terrestrial lizards.
* TrainingBoss: Like Belobog, Verocitor is a hypothetical Kaiju used in simulations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Belobog]]
->'''Category:''' N/A
->'''Breach Date:''' N/A
->'''Target:''' N/A

A simulated Kaiju used for virtual training.
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* DevelopmentGag: Much like Hardship is to Mutavore, Belobog is based on concept art of Onibaba.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Designed like one.
* MultiPurposeTongue: His tongue spears Gipsy Danger during the simulation.
* TrainingBoss: Not an actual Kaiju, but a hypothetical one used in training simulations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rachnid]]
->'''Category:'''
->'''Breach Date:''' September 25, 2024
->'''Target:'''

One of Striker Eureka's Kaiju kills.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Rachnid is listed in Striker Eureka's combat dossier as one of its kills.
* NonindicativeName: Its name suggests that Rachnid is a GiantSpider but according to [[WordOfGod Travis Beacham]], this is not the case.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Reckoner]]
->'''Category:'''
->'''Breach Date:''' 2016
->'''Target:''' Hong Kong, China

A Kaiju that previously attacked Hong Kong. Its skeleton forms the Bone Quarter.
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* {{Cult}}: Its remains, particularly the skull, is home to a doomsday cult believing the Kaiju are TheScourgeOfGod.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: The bones remained in Hong Kong, a shanty town being built around it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]
!!Otachi Junior

->'''Category:''' ?
->'''Breach Date:''' 2025
->'''Target:''' Hong Kong, China

Otachi's child, rips itself free after its mother is killed.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Strangled by its own umbilical cord.]]
* FetusTerrible: It "births" itself and goes after its targets seconds later.
* NotQuiteDead: After ripping its way out of Otachi's corpse and [[spoiler:accidentally strangling itself with its own umbilical cord), it springs back to life for a few moments to eat Hannibal Chau, before dying for good.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:'''Spoiler Character''']]
!!The Precursors

The masterminds behind the Kaiju attacks.
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* AbusivePrecursors: '''Dear God, are they ever!''' Moving from planet to planet, killing the local populations via the Kaiju so that they can move in and harvest the abundant resources, then leaving the planet to die whilst they find the next one. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Plus, it's implied that]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking were responsible for killing the dinosaurs.]]
* AliensAreBastards: Played absolutely straight.
* AlienInvasion: The Kaiju are their means of clearing out Earth so they can colonize it.
* AscendedExtra: [[spoiler:They only appear in the final scenes of the first movie as the masters of the Kaiju army. In ''Uprising'', they have a ''much more'' active role. Though they don't appear in person, they brainwashed Newt into serving them and kickstarting the second invasion.]]
* BigBad: As the creators of the Kaiju and the ones sending them to Earth to kill/destroy everything in their path, they serve as this. [[spoiler:And again in ''Uprising'', operating through a BrainwashedAndCrazy Newt to almost destroy all life on Earth.]]
* EvilGloating: [[spoiler: They're not immune to this, taking time to point out to Liwen that they/Newt accomplished everything without her being any the wiser because she's not as smart as she thinks she is. Backfires as it almost gets Newt shot by her on the spot.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: They occasionally speak with distinctive flanged-bass style voices [[spoiler:when they're talking through Newt]].
* ExtraEyes: They have six of them on their face.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: For ''Black''. While any have yet to appear, most Kaiju that are ravaging the world are still subservient to them while [[BigBad The Sisters]] formed an ApocalypseCult around them, making clear that their actions have greatly shaped the series setting and story.]]
* HiddenVillain:
** In the first film their presence comes as a big surprise, given that up until Newt's drifting with a Kaiju brain there had been no indication there was any sort of guiding intelligence behind the Kaiju (trailers even used parts of Newt's explanation to make it sound like the Kaiju themselves were much smarter than realised, so as to keep the Precursors' presence secret).
** [[spoiler:While the viewer is aware something's off in ''Uprising'' (given Obsidian Fury's actions) the film frames the events as human-contrived (with the reveal the Kaiju brain was grown on Earth, and the Marshal even saying "Precursors didn't do this, humans did") and throws suspicion on Liwen Shao, which ultimately turns out to be a RedHerring. Even after Newt's role is revealed, it's not until his MotiveRant where their control becomes apparent that Hermann realises they're involved.]]
%%* HordeOfAlienLocusts
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: See NiceJobFixingItVillain
%%* HumanoidAliens: Very vaguely.
* KarmicDeath: Del Toro himself points out in the director's commentary that at the end they find out what it's like for a giant monster to invade their world and wreak havoc.
* LaserGuidedKarma: They've completely wiped out countless civilizations in order to drain their planets of their resources, of which Earth and humanity were their latest targets. Humanity, however, fought back and created monsters to fight their monsters. One of these weapons would then make it through the portal they used in order to access our world and nuke them (or at least a base of theirs) into oblivion.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:They're the ones controlling Newt in ''Uprising'', which, given his manipulations, makes them basically The Man Behind The Man ''Behind The Man''.]]
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: More like Aliens Behind The Monsters, but it still counts given they're responsible for all of the havoc in the film's universe.
* NestedMouths: Their actual faces pop out of what appears to be a mouth, similar to Raiju [[spoiler:and Raijin]]. It might be a suit, but who knows?
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:If sending the pregnant Otachi was a backup measure to kill the interloper Newt via her child, it backfired spectacularly and only provided an easily accessible brain that provided crucial information for the final assault on the Breach]]. On the other hand, [[spoiler:since this leads to Newt's mind being corrupted by the Precursors between the first film and ''Uprising'', it nearly worked out for them in the long run.]]
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Averted. The Precursors first attempted to conquer Earth during the time of the dinosaurs, but the atmosphere was too hostile for them to move in. Millions of years later, humanity has polluted the environment to their standards, allowing them to move in again.
* NonindicativeName: They are very contemporary and the kaiju are not old, with the term referring more to the fact they're known to have been about long enough to bring about the extinction of the dinosaurs long before humanity ever evolved.
* OhCrap: Their reaction to seeing Gipsy Danger about to self destruct ''directly in front of them''. Downplayed due to their lack of facial expressions, but you know it is there.
* OrganicTechnology: They apparently wrote the book on this. They have an ''assembly line'' of Kaiju.
* OverarchingVillain: They are the true main antagonists of the ''Pacific Rim'' franchise, having been the {{Big Bad}}s of the first film, TheManBehindTheMan to Newt in ''Uprising'', and the {{Greater Scope Villain}}s for ''The Black''.
* PlanetLooters: The Kaiju-makers regularly invade planets through rifts between universes and wipe out any native organisms that might become a bother, potentially including humanity.
* PuppeteerParasite: [[spoiler:They're not physically present in ''Uprising'', but their mental control of Newt otherwise fits the bill perfectly. Hermann even refers to Newt as having been infected by them on several occasions.]]
* SuddenlyVoiced: [[spoiler: They speak for the first time in ''Uprising'', through Newt.]]
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: People have worshiped lesser beings than the Kaiju. The Precursors mass produce them. You do the math.
* WalkingSpoiler: Almost a victim of TrailersAlwaysSpoil, revealing their motives but not their existence, implying it belongs to the Kaiju and not the masters.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Pacific Rim: Aftermath''
[[folder:Faux Face]]
!! Faux Face
A scary monster with two heads that appears in ''Pacific Rim: Aftermath.''
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* BreathWeapon: Of the electric type.
* TheCameo: Its hologram outline appears very briefly in Uprising when the heroes start examining previous Kaiju movements.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Despite the name it is two fully functioning heads. The closest to something like that is Otachi's tail coming to life once getting pulled off and that was in the novelization.
* ShockAndAwe: Seems to possess an electric breathe weapon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Spinejackal]]
A scary monster with lots of eyes that appears in ''Pacific Rim: Aftermath''.
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!! Spinejackal
* ExtraEyes: Has panoramic vision so sneaking up on it was incredibly hard to do.
* OffWithHisHead: Lost the top half of his head to Striker Eureka throwing a wind propeller like a shuriken.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Film/PacificRimUprising''

[[folder:Raijin]]

->'''Category:''' V
->'''Breach Date:''' 2035
->'''Target:''' Tokyo, Japan

The second confirmed Category 5 Kaiju. Appears in the sequel with Hakuja and Shrikethorn.
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Gottlieb gives the monster its official name, Raijin, when it shows up in the radar. As at that time he couldn't know the creature looks like Raiju from the previous film, it's a surprising coincidence.
* AttackReflector: Its faceplate can absorb kinetic energy and it can use the energy to empower itself or redirect it toward an opponent. It was able to punch Gipsy Avenger across half of downtown Tokyo in one hit by absorbing a single punch from the Jaeger.
* CompositeCharacter: Appears to share traits of several Kaiju from the first film, including Onibaba's temple-like silhouette, Raiju's head plates that close over to protect a softer real face, and Knifehead's stance and body type. Considering the Precursors create the Kaiju in a literal assembly line, this is probably intentional.
* ExtraEyes: Has 16 of them, the most of any Kaiju.
* LargeAndInCharge: Being a category 5 he towers over his category 4 partners.
* LeaderFormsTheHead: Averted. When the trio [[spoiler: combine into the Mega Kaiju, the final head is more of a fusion between Hakuja and Shrikehorn's faces. Raijin's headplates form the chest below it though.]]
* NestedMouths: Has toothed external head armor that closes to protect its real head within.
* NoodleIncident: According to its stat cards, Raijin has engaged in battle with humanity before.
* NoSell: Gipsy Avenger begins the fight with the famous rocket punch, which Raijin simply absorbs and turns back on the Jaeger, catapulting it back a great distance.

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[[folder:Hakuja]]

->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' 2035
->'''Target:''' Tokyo, Japan

A Category 4 Kaiju. Appears in the sequel with Raijin and Shrikethorn.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Saber Athena slashes at its soft underbelly when it leaps overhead.
* FastTunnelling: Hakuja can burrow underground extremely quickly for such a behemoth to reposition and ambush any unsuspecting Jaeger.
* FragileSpeedster: With its multiple legs, Hakuja is one of the most agile Kaiju on land, but one solid hit from Guardian Bravo is enough to knock it down.
* InASingleBound: Hakuja also sports impressive jumping capabilities.
* ImpactSilhouette: Is knocked into a building by a strike of Guardian Bravo's electric whip and tunnels straight through it.
* MixAndMatchCritter: Combines features of a mole, an armadillo, a lizard and a beetle.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has six limbs, and puts them all to good use be it digging, climbing, or leaping at foes.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Is smaller than the other two kaiju (although the same Category as one of them), but puts up quite a fight.
* StealthyColossus: Land based version: its tunneling skills make him prone to appear suddenly behind an unsuspecting foe.
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[[folder:Shrikethorn]]

->'''Category:''' IV
->'''Breach Date:''' 2035
->'''Target:''' Tokyo, Japan

A Category 4 Kaiju. Appears in the sequel with Raijin and Hakuja.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Plays only a very small part in the final battle, before the three kaiju are merged into one.
* CompositeCharacter: Combines features of Slattern and Leatherback, with spikes added for good measure.
* KillerGorilla: Has this shape, with its thick arms coming down to the ground like a gorilla's stance.
* MeaningfulName: Shrikes are small predatory birds, notorious for impaling dead prey on thorn bushes to cache food for later. Shrikethorn doesn't cache its victims, but does impale them on spikes.
* MultipleTailedBeast: Has two tails, which serve as spike-launching weapons.
* SpikeShooter: The spikes at the end of its tails can be shot like artillery.
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[[folder:Hybrid -- '''Spoiler''']]
Unmanned Jaeger Drones created by Shao Corporation that was to replace the Jaegers, they were secretly modified by Newton to reopen multiple Breaches to let the Kaiju return to Earth.
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* {{Cyborg}}: Unmanned Jaeger drones that were to be remotely controlled by a human, but were modified to be controlled by a Kaiju brain.
* LightIsNotGood: The Drones body armor is white in color and they look futuristic and heroic in their normal form. Once their Kaiju brain took control and they becomes Kaiju-Jaeger abomination, not so much.
* MechanicalMonster: Once the Kaiju brain assumes control, the Drones grows spikes from inside out, can open their faceplates to reveal fanged jaws, and become much more monstrous.
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[[folder:Unnamed portal kaiju '''Spoiler''']]
An immense Kaiju of uncertain category who emerges from the Breach.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Is shown emerging from the portal in some trailers [[spoiler: though he never actually makes it out alive.]]
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Is quickly and unceremoniously killed once Shao disables the drones: the malfunctioning drones' portal beams cut his face apart before the collapsing portal bisects him to death.
* GiantEnemyCrab: According to WordOfGod, its lower body [[https://mobile.twitter.com/stevendeknight/status/995019980847509504?s=19 resembled that of a lobster.]]
* GiantMook: Is easily twice the size of Slattern from the first film- though his full body is not seen, one of his arms alone is as big as an entire Hybrid Drone.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Is bisected by the Breach; his lower half is not seen.
* PortalCut: A victim of this.
* RhinoRampage: His head resembles a rhinoceros, with a pair of large horns on his forehead.
[[/folder]]


[[folder:Rippers '''Spoiler''']]
A swarm of small, insect-like Kaiju drones created from Shao Industries prototype mechs. They are unleashed in droves in the final battle to turn the tide in the kaiju's favor.
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* AscendedExtra: Combined with AdaptationalSpeciesChange. They return in ''The Black'' as an actual kaiju species resembling massive reptilian wolves.
* CombiningMecha: Merge together to act as stitches when putting together the kaiju parts.
* CombatTentacles: Possess numerous tendril like appendages used for movement as well as grasping.
* TheSwarm: Insectlike drones that scamper across the streets and climb all over the kaiju like army ants.
* ZergRush: Emerge from the Shao Industries in a seeming river of drones spreading all over the streets and climbing all over the kaiju [[spoiler: to cut them apart and reassemble them into one, using their own bodies as sutures.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mega Kaiju '''Spoiler''']]

->'''Category:''' Unknown
->'''Breach Date:''' 2035
->'''Target:''' Mt. Fuji, Japan
A Kaiju created from three other Kaiju, the Mega Kaiju is the biggest Kaiju seen so far and is also the toughest and deadliest one yet.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Being a fusion of three separate kaiju, the Mega Kaiju inherits their special abilities: Raijin's ability to redirect kinetic energy, Hakuja's body armor and multiple limbs, and Shrikethorn's twin weaponized tails (though instead of shooting spikes the tails are used more like spears).
* AttackReflector: Inherits this ability from Raijin and uses it to send a powerful shockwave that knock back the four Jaegers charging toward it.
* AttackItsWeakpoint: Has three secondary brains due to being three monsters in one body. Getting to them however is harder than it looks.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Has sharp spear-like tips on the tips of its tails, which can easily skewer a Jaeger in one hit.
* BodyHorror: Raijin, Hakuja and Shrikethorn are literally ''torn apart by Newt's drones'' and reassembled into a single creature.
* CurbStompBattle: Once it is formed, it quickly demolish three of the four Jaegers that gave its previous three components trouble. Only Gipsy Avenger is left standing due to her more experienced pilots and even then, she has sustained multiple critical damages.
* DeathGlare: Gives [[spoiler: Newt]] a murderous one before stomping over to Mt. Fuji.
* ADogNamedDog: Apparently the best name its creator could think of for his giant fusion kaiju is "Mega Kaiju".
* DragonInChief: Quite possibly the most powerful Kaiju yet for the Precursors.
* ExtraEyes: Has multiple eyes running alongside its head, to a total of ten (strangely, it's a lot fewer than the total of the eyes on the three original kaiju).
* FusionDance: A Kaiju created from Raijin, Hakuja and Shrikehorn with the help of Newton and his mechanical drones.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Is killed by Gipsy Avenger dropping from the stratosphere to literally punch it in half.
* TheJuggernaut: None of the attacks on it do any real damage, even when aimed its weakpoints: it's simply too thick skinned. And on top of this, it's easily strong enough to rip the advanced Jaegers to pieces.
* MightyGlacier: Befitting its status as the biggest Kaiju seen so far, it move quite slowly but shrugs off everything the Jaegers throw at it and demolishes them back with ease.
* MightyRoar: The first thing it does when it is formed is to unleash a powerful and tectonic roar. Also quick fond of doing it, stopping quite regularly to roar for no practical reasons. Even with the mouth of Mount Fuji right in front of it, it still pauses to roar triumphantly, giving Gipsy Avenger enough time to punch it to death. And even with half of its body gone from said punch, it still managed to give one final roar before falling down dead. In a twist of FridgeHorror, it's possible that the monster is in a constant state of agony from being stitched together, and is actually ''screaming in pain...''
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Has six limbs, with the four hind limbs seemingly being from Hakuja and the two front arms combining Raijin and Shrikethorn's arms. Like Raijin, the Mega Kaiju can absorb kinetic energy and reflect it back at its foes.
* TailSlap: Inherits the twin tails of Shrikehorn and one solid hit from them was enough to break Saber Athena in half.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: As the three kaiju are disassembled by the drones and put back together into a single monster, none of the Jaegers intervene or try to stop them combining, simply standing by as the Mega Kaiju forms before their eyes.
[[/folder]]

!!!Debuted in ''Anime/PacificRimTheBlack''

[[folder:"Boy" -- '''Spoilers''']]
!!!Voiced by: Creator/BenDiskin
A mysterious white-haired child discovered by Taylor and Hayley Travis in a Pan Pacific Defense Corps laboratory.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Despite having been captured and experimented on by humans, he forms a mutually protective bond with Hayley Travis, who constantly fusses over him.
* BizarreTasteInFood: He eats a butterfly and tries to eat scorpions and snakes, only for Hayley to stop him fearing he'll get stung or bitten.
* CuriousAsAMonkey: Boy is constantly wandering off to explore -- and hunt for prey -- to Hayley's chagrin, as she fears he'll get himself hurt.
* CuteBruiser: He seems to be a Kaiju with the ability to disguise himself as a human. Normally, he looks like a cute white-haired child who likes to draw pictures and play with rocks. However, if you somehow get him angry enough... '''''run.'''''
* CuteMute: Doesn't show signs that he's capable of speaking, but has no problem understanding others when spoken to. That, plus he's a little kid, showing curiosity to the world around him.
* EscapedFromTheLab: He was found in a stasis tank of green liquid in Episode 2 when Taylor and Hayley reach the PPDC Recruitment Center in Meridian in search of power cells. He breaks out and accompanies the siblings from that point on.
* EyeColourChange: When Hayley is knocked unconscious by Copperhead, the Boy's eyes turn [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] as he transforms into his Kaiju form.
* HellishPupils: One of the tells that he's not human are his eyes, which have vertically-slitted pupils in his human form.
* HulkingOut: Transforms into a medium-sized kaiju when enraged over Hayley being injured.
* ImmuneToBullets: He not only survived being shot in the head by Rickter, but didn't even get hurt. This also hints at his part-Kaiju biology.
* MysticalWhiteHair: His human form has an albinistic appearance, with white hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. However, it's quickly made apparent that he's not human.
* NoNameGiven: He is referred to only as "Boy" by Taylor, despite Hayley's initial protests. This ends up catching on with Hayley and even Loa. The end credits omit his character completely until Episode 7, dubbing him "Kaiju boy".
* NonMaliciousMonster: Despite being a Kaiju, he forms a bond with Taylor and Hayley, going as far as to attack his own kind when Hayley is knocked unconscious.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes flash red before he transforms. In his Kaiju form he has red irises surrounded by black sclera. Unlike other kaiju he's only got two eyes.
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Goes from a small, adolescent boy to a good-sized Kaiju when he transforms, gaining at least one thousand times his human-form mass.
* SuperStrength: He is capable of leaping great heights and blocked a punch from the ''much'' larger Apex with no harm.
* SweetTooth: Upon drinking hot chocolate for the first time, he is ecstatic and playfully tries to grab Hayley's cup.
* ThroatLight: When he starts transforming into his Kaiju form, his mouth emits an eerie blue glow.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Because of his affection for Hayley, Boy has no hostility towards humans (making him, so far, the only Kaiju character who is good) and after she is injured by Copperhead he transforms to attack the larger kaiju.
* TheyLookLikeUsNow: In the final episode, Boy is revealed to be a humanoid Kaiju, able to shapeshift into a Kaiju form when sufficiently angry.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Acidquill]]
->'''Category:''' III
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* CloneArmy: Unlike the previous Kaiju shown in the series, which have unique appearances despite being genetically identical, the Acidquills seem to be mass-produced.
* CombatTentacles: In addition to their long, prehensile tails, Acidquills have powerful tentacles with sharpened tips, which they can use to impale prey.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite their name, they aren't shown to possess quills or corrosive abilities.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Copperhead]]
->'''Category:''' IV
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* BigBadEnsemble: With Shane for the main villain of season 1. Copperhead serves as the primary Kaiju antagonist, attacking and destroying Hayley and Taylor's hidden village and hunting them relentlessly.
* DisneyDeath: It's baited into lunging off the edge of a deep ravine and [[DisneyVillainDeath seemingly falls to its death]], but when Taylor and Hayley ask if it's dead Loa promptly responds that it isn't and will be back for revenge.
* TheDreaded: It's developed a reputation for destroying Jaegers even before the start of the series.
* ExtremeOmnivore: It rips off Atlas Destroyer's right arm and eats it during their second fight.
* FeedItABomb: In the final episode of Season 1, [[spoiler:Copperhead is killed when one of Hunter Vertigo's nukes is shot into a hole ripped in its chest]].
* NormalFishInATinyPond: The only reason Copperhead lasts as long as it does is because Atlas Destroyer, as a training Jaeger, has been stripped of her weapons. If she still had her armaments, Copperhead explicitly would have been killed in the ''very first blow'' of their first fight.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Copperhead pursues Atlas across Australia to find and destroy it, even after being knocked out twice.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Apex]]
->'''Category:''' Unknown
The last surviving member of the Jaeger/Kaiju hybrids created by Newton Geiszler and Shao Industries, now evolved into a bio-mechanical creature that hunts and consumes other Kaiju.
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* DeusExitMachina: Apex is ''much'' more powerful than a normal Jaeger or kaiju and would stand a good chance against a Category IV like Copperhead, but after giving Atlas a new arm, it leaves the children by themselves without any conflict.
* HybridPower: After the other drones were destroyed, Apex underwent an evolution where it completely fused its kaiju and Jaeger halves. This not only makes it strong enough to effortlessly catch a punch from Atlas Destroyer and manhandle at least Category 3 kaiju, it also freed it from any outside influence to make it the only kaiju with true independence.
* ItCanThink: Apex shows signs of intelligence, drifting with Boy twice and Hayley once, realizing that Boy saw her as a protector and that Atlas Destroyer was missing an arm. It then brought them a replacement seemingly unprompted.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Apex is extremely powerful and has killed numerous opponents -- implicitly both Kaiju and Jaeger -- in the past, and it does attack Atlas Destroyer [[spoiler:after killing the Acidquill they were fighting. But it's only acting like a territorial animal and even helps the group after Boy calms it down.]]
* MechanicalMonster: Apex used to be one of the Kaiju/Jaeger hybrid drones, but its biological and technological components have merged to the extent that it's metamorphosed into a predatory biomechanical {{Robeast}} with a black-and-red exoskeleton covered in chitinous spikes, six red eye-lenses, talons, and a mouth full of fangs it can hide behind a faceplate.
* MonstrousCannibalism: Despite being a hybrid of Kaiju and Jaeger, Apex's primary food source is other kaiju.
* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: It has survived many years since Uprising, including by implication an interwar period when it probably had the PPDC's undivided attention. By the time we meet it it's killed every Kaiju and Jeager it's ever fought and is still going strong.
* {{Robeast}}: The end result of Kaiju tissue infecting the Jaegar drone from ''Uprising'', becoming a perfect sentient fusion of the two that hunts other Kaiju for sustenance.
* SoleSurvivor: It is the only Kaiju/Jaeger hybrid drone known to have survived the self-destructing feedback loop that destroyed the others. It's implied the surge that was meant to kill it instead severed it from the Precursor's hive-mind.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Newt Kaiju]]
A Kaiju resembling a giant newt, which the residents of Bogan steal eggs from.
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* FeedItABomb: Mei shoots a RPG down its throat to kill it.
* MonsterIsAMommy: The Kaiju lays eggs which Bogan periodically raids to trade with the Sisters for Jaeger parts. It's only hostile in defense of its nest.
[[/folder]]