History Characters / Pacificrim

* ImmuneToBullets: He not only survived being shot point-blank in the head by Rickter, but didn't even get hurt. This also hints at his part-Kaiju biology.

* 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 becoming the only kaiju with true independence.

* 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 its ever fought and is still going strong.

* UndyingLoyalty: Joel describes her as being unshakable 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]].

* 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 he didn't really care, so long as he made his point.

* ProperlyParanoid: He refuses to let Taylor and Hayley anywhere near Atlas, especially together, because he'd have no way to stop them if they did. He only reluctantly allows Taylor to pilot it with Mei when given no other option.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Because of his affection for Hailey, 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.

* 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 its killed every Kaiju and Jeager its ever fought and is still going strong.

* TheXenophile: Harbors a deep and abiding appreciation for Kaiju, seeing them as monstrous masterpieces. [[spoiler:Becomes a little more literal in ''Uprising'', where we see him treating a Kaiju brain as a ''lover''. [[{{Squick}} How we wish we had]] [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer made that last statement up...]]]]

* 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 its killed every Kaiju and Jeager its ever fought and is still going strong.

* ShapeshiferBaggage: Goes from a small, adolescent boy to a good-sized Kaiju when he transforms, gaining at least one thousand times his human-form mass.

* EvilIsPetty: He uses an ExplosiveLeash in his radios to murder Joel in front of Mei, just because she abandoned him.

->Nationality:''' Australian

[[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.

* 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 Yaegar]] 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:Hayley Travis]]
!!!Voiced by: Gideon Adlon (teenager), Camryn Jones (child)

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.

* ArmCanon: Has massive collapsible gatling guns on the back of each forearm.

* OutsideContextProblem: {{Downplayed}} as Rouge Jaegers were established, but they were so ramshackle that one advanced enough to match up to their flagship Gipsy Avenger caught everyone off-guard.

* MonsterIsAMommy: The Kaiju lays eggs which Bogan periodically raids to teade with the Sisters for Jaeger parts. It's only hostile in defense of its nest.

* 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 bomb that was meant to kill it instead severed it from the Precursor's hive-mind.

* 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.
* {{Expy}}: Of more traditional kaiju. While the natural kaiju are super weapons directed by an alien hivemind, Apex acts more like monsters from other franchises, causing destruction but without malice and generally only causing harm when hungry or threatened.

* ItCanThink: Apex shows signs of intelligence, drifting with Boy twice and Hayley once, realising that Boy saw her as a protector and that Atlas Destroyer was missing an arm. It then brought them a replacement seemingly unprompted.

* IncompletelyTrained: He never actually finished his training, having aced solely the written portion of the test. Still, better than nothng under the circumstances.

* 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]].

** 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 or 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]].

* HiddenDepths: Despite her efforts to appear stern and stoic, 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]].

* NotSoAboveItAll: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Mei taps her foot to the music when the Boy curiously turns on the café's jukebox, while Hayley and Taylor get up to dance. When Hayley notices and 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]].

* HulkingOut: Transforms into a medium-sized kaiju when enraged over Hailey being injured.

* ImmuneToBullets: He not only survived being shot point-blank in the head by Rickter, but didn't even get hurt.

* TokenHeroicOrc: Because of his affection for Hailey, Boy has no hostility towards humans and after she is injured by Copperhead he transforms to attack the larger kaiju.

* 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.

* 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. Get him angry enough... '''''run.'''''

* 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.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Referred to only as "Boy", by Taylor. This ends up catching on with Hayley.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: His eyes flash red before he transforms. In his Kaiju form this gives him red irises surrounded by black sclera. Unlike other kaiju he's only got two eyes.

* 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 Haley's memories of accidentally killing her friends. Haley is unfazed by Mei's memories and afterwards remarks they're not so different from one another.

* CoDragons: Prior to her defection, she was one of Shane's lieutenants.

* 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 Haley's memories of accidentally killing her friends. Haley is unfazed by Mei's memories and afterwards remarks they're not so different from one another.
* NotSoStoic: Mei does her best to be stern and standoffish, but she has a strong sense of justice and a deeply-suppressed warm side that 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; and can't help but tap her foot to the music when the Boy activates a jukebox in the café where she takes up residence following her defection from Bogan. To her chagrin, Hayley notices and drags her over to dance with them, leading to Mei letting down her walls and enjoying herself for a brief period.
* 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.

* 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. Despite this, it's shown his version of caring is still incredibly twisted because he stole Mei away from her ''real'' family, turned her from a cheerful girl to a cold ChildSoldier, and {{Mind Rape}}d her using drift tech to prevent her remembering.

* WouldHurtAChild: He definitely would. He took Mei from her family as a child, subjected her to a MindRape to hide her true memories, often putting Taylor, Hayley, and Boy at gunpoint, the list goes on.

* 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 happens to them.

[[folder:Hybrid '''Spoiler''']]

* MechanicalMonster: Once the Kaiju brain assumes control, the Drones grows spikes from inside out and become much more monstrous.

* AscendedExtra: Combined with AdaptationalSpeciesChange. They return in ''The Black'' as an actual kaiju species.

* 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. Get him angry enough... '''''run.'''''

* EscapedFromTheLab: He was found in a tube 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.

* HulkingOut: Transforms into a medium sized kaiju when enraged over Hailey being injured.
* ImmuneToBullets: He not only survived being shot point-blank to the head by Rickter, but didn't even get hurt.

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The last surviving Newt-hijacked drone, now evolved into a bio-mechanical creature.

* ItCanThink: Apex shows signs of intelligence, drifting with Boy twice and Haley, realising that Boy saw her as a protector and that Atlas Destroyer was missing an arm. It then brought them a replacement seemingly unprompted.

* SoleSurvivor: It is the only Kaiju/Jaeger hybrid drone known to have survived the self-destructing feedback loop that destroyed the others.

* MixAndMatchCritter: Resembles a cross between a salmon and a monitor lizard.

* 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.

* Expy: Of more traditional kaiju. While the natural kaiju are super weapons directed by an alien hivemind, Apex acts more like monsters from other franchises, causing destruction but without malice and generally only causing harm when hungry or threatened.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For someone as ruthless, cunning, and unlikeable as he is, he does genuinely care for Mei despite what he did to, 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.