History Characters / PacificRimHumans

* 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.

* CoDragons: He and Mei are Shane's top lieutenants, with Rickter commanding the Riders and Mei being Shane's personal enforcer. The two often work together, but there's friction between them.

* 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. Come Season 2, he stops thinking this and even shoots one of them in the head just to make it clear that he won't tolerate disobedience.

* 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.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Mei is dismissive of him, saying he's clearly insane, but while he's definitely eccentric his years of living among the Kaiju have given him insight into their biology. His belief that he can tame the Kaiju through feeding and being kind to them is proven false, as the moment the Sisters sabotage his supply of live food, a Trespasser he'd raised from infancy promptly devours him.

* AllThereInTheManual: Only appears in the prequel comic.

* BattleCouple: They eventually got married and piloted Tacit Ronin until their deaths.

* 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.

* SamusIsAGirl: In the first issue we only hear her name. In the second we meet her and Mech Czarina would be more accurate.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* ItsPersonal: When Otachi murders Crimson Typhoon's pilots, Aleksis outright says "Let's get this bastrd!"

** 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).

** He actually gets his wish in ''Uprising'' when the composite Kaiju pauses briefly for him, before continuing on its way to Mt. Fuji. It's a wish only the Precursors could grant.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: His continued drifting with a Kaiju brain led to him being possessed by the Precursors.

* TheCorruptible: "Uprising'' reveals his Drifting with Kaiju brains made him [[FaceHeelTurn a pawn of the Precursors]].

* ExtremeOmnisexual: 'Uprising'' reveals he now treats a ''salvaged Kaiju brain'' as a romantic partner.

* FallenHero: He went from the guy to found a way to defeat the Precursors to being brainwashed into becoming their pawn.
* FightingFromTheInside: 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 mind-melding with a Kaiju and discovering information that saves the entire human race from extinction.

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''Uprising'', he lives with a ''salvaged Kaiju brain'', and treats drifting with it like sex.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Newt spends most of the first half of the movie running off his mouth, being an arrogant twerp and butchering Mandarin. 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.

** Gets even sadder in ''Uprising'' 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...

* 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.

* 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 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?''

* 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. According to the ''Blackout'' comic (which may or may not be canon), Herc found out that Scott had sold Jaeger secrets to the private sector and reported him for it.

* DefiantToTheEnd: Even after his Jaeger is disabled by an EMP strike, Herc convinces his son to come with him, 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!
* {{Determinator}}: Pacific Rim: The Black has him join Becket and Pentecost as the ''third'' person to survive piloting a Jaeger solo, managing to kill a Kaiju while doing so.

* HeartbrokenBadass: By the end of the film, Herc has 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.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: After saving Chuck from Scissure's attack on Sydney as a young child, Herc later 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.

* BlatantLies: He leaves Newt behind [[
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.