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Humans from the 2013 Summer Blockbuster Pacific Rim, its 2018 sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, the anime Pacific Rim: The Black, and the tie-in material (the comics Tales from Year Zero, Tales from the Drift, Pacific Rim: Amara, Pacific Rim: Aftermath, and the novel Pacific Rim: Ascension). Drift back to the main page here.

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WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! This goes double for Newton Geiszler's folder, due to the character being a Walking Spoiler for Uprising.

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Humans

General Human Tropes

• Do Not Go Gentle: 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.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": Standard reaction to Kaiju having the upper hand. Especially notable when Slattern (the first-ever Category 5) shows up in the first film and the Mega-Kaiju forms in the second.
• Proud Warrior Race: Humanity as a whole has to be this just to survive by the point the story properly begins.

Debuted in Pacific Rim

Raleigh Becket

Raleigh Beckett

Played by: Charlie Hunnam, Paul Michael Wyers (young)

Voiced by: Irwin Daayán (Latin-American Spanish), Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese)

"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. He is recruited back into the program for one last attempt at defeating the Kaiju.

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• Amazon Chaser: Played with. He's not romantically interested, but he's definitely taken with Mako after their spar and insists that she become his co-pilot. Considering that she won that fight, it crosses with Defeat Means Friendship.
• Badass Boast:
  "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."
• Beware the Nice Ones: 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.
• Big "NO!": When Yancy is killed, Raleigh lets out an anguished scream of "No!".
• Broken Bird: 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 shell of his former self.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Marshal Pentecost seeks him out to pilot the rebuilt Gipsy Danger, as he's the only Mark-3 pilot still alive.
• Character Narrator: He does the opening narration of the first film.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The reason for his absence in Uprising is never explained in film despite still being alive and well by the end of the first movie.
  • Ascension has an explanation, but it is no longer considered canon as The Black reveals he retired.
• Combat Pragmatist: 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.
• Confusion Fu: 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" (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.
• Covered with Scars: His Shirtless Scene reveals the many physical scars he retains from the fight with Knifehead.
• Dead Sidekick: Inverted in that he seemed to be the sidekick to his older brother, Yancy. They were still connected via neural link when it happened.

This was the main reason why he stopped being a Jaeger pilot.

• Death by Adaptation: In Ascension, it is revealed that he contracted a fatal cancer from exposure to radiation in the Anteverse and died less than a year after closing the Breach. This is changed in the canon follow up to the movies, The Black.
• 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.
  • He and Yancy were woken up at 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. ^note The fight happened in FEBRUARY. In ALASKA. Think for a moment on how long the nights are.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Raleigh has dark blonde hair, and is one of the most heroic characters in the film.
• Heroic BSoD: Prior to the present timeline, Raleigh fell into a five-year rut due to his brother dying. When he talks about it with Mako, it's obvious that he still carries a lot of guilt about the incident.
• Heartbroken Badass: Losing Yancy had quite an effect on him. Doesn't stop him from kicking all kinds of ass though.
• Implied Love Interest: It's unclear if Raleigh and Mako are a Battle Couple, Like Brother and Sister, or Just Friends. The Big Damn Kiss doesn't happen at the end, but there are Ship Tease moments like Mako Eating the Eye Candy of Raleigh's Shirtless Scene.^note In the novelization, there's nothing implied about it, but the events of the novelization do not take precedence over those of the film.
• 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 Secret Handshake.
• The Lancer: To his brother Yancy during the prologue. He's goodhearted, but also impulsive and jokey.
• Last of His Kind: The last surviving Mark-3 Jaeger pilot.
• Military Maverick: 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.
• Mr. Fanservice: Raleigh has tons of scenes where Charlie Hunnam's impressive physique is on full display. Heck, his first scene has him shirtless.
• Nice Guy: 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 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 see a Kaiju up close.
  • When Chuck outright calls Gipsy an "old rust bucket" to Raleigh's face, Herc is watching for a reaction. Raleigh simply goes on eating. It's not until Chuck starts insulting him—and later on, Mako—that Raleigh attempts to retaliate.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: An odd example, as Charlie Hunnam is perfectly capable of doing a realistic American accent, but for whatever reason plays Raleigh with an over-the-top, clearly fake American accent.
• Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: 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.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • The excitable, upbeat Red to his brother Yancy's more levelheaded Blue.
  • The supplementary notes indicate that he is the perfect match with Mako 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.
• Retired Badass: 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.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Raleigh is the only pilot to flat-out quit the Jaeger Program. All the other pilots were simply killed or reassigned (like Pentecost). It's the main reason why Chuck is so disgusted and hostile towards him.
• Shirtless Scene: As discussed in the Mr. Fanservice entry, Raleigh has a few.
  • The introductory scene.
  • Mako gets a glimpse of one across the hall when their doors (opposite each other) were simultaneously open.
• Small Steps Hero: 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.
• Unlikely Hero: 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.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Not wanting to lock themselves into anything, the show runners left things ambiguous in Uprising regarding Raleigh's fate following poor test audience reaction. He is only mentioned in the film as being a legendary fighter.
• White Male Lead: 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.

Mako Mori

Mako Mori

Played by: Rinko Kikuchi, Mana Ashida (young)

Voiced by: Christine Byrd (Latin-American Spanish), Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese)

"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 | 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 Stacker Pentecost, one of the pilots of the Jaeger that saved her life.

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• Action Girl: She's a Jaeger pilot and the only candidate shown capable of keeping up with Raleigh.
• Alliterative Name: Mako Mori.
• Always Someone Better: 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.
• And This Is for...: "For my family!" (slash)
• Awesomeness by Analysis: 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.
• Back for the Dead: Uprising has her die early on in the Obsidian Fury attack, if only to serve as inspiration for Jake and the others.
• Badass Adorable: 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.
• Beware the Nice Ones: 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.
• Big Good: Serves this role in Uprising as the leader of the PPDC.
• Broken Bird: The combination of losing her parents and hometown to Onibaba resulted in Mako becoming a stoic perfectionist, which can be seen when she chases the RABIT during her initial Drift with Raleigh.
• Brutal Honesty: 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.
• Cool Big Sis: 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 Not Love Interest role.
• Doomed Hometown: Appropriately enough, Tokyo, which was destroyed in a childhood Kaiju attack.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Subverted. Realizes she's doing this while observing Raleigh's Shirtless Scene across the hall through their open doors. She quickly closes her own door in embarrassment, then keeps watching through the peephole. This appears to be played straight unless you read the novelization, where it's pointed out that she is not looking at him with lust, but envy instead.
• Genius Bruiser: 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.
  • She became a PPDC Marshal herself in Uprising.
• Happily Adopted: Raleigh theorizes this to be her relationship with Pentecost. He's right.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Familiar with the Hansens' bulldog, Max, and is very affectionate with him.
• Heroic BSoD: She starts "chasing the RABIT" during their initial Drift, slipping into the trauma from Onibaba's attack. She recovers, but not before instinctively powering up Gipsy Danger's Arm Cannon and nearly toasting the command centre.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • She studied everything about Raleigh in the hopes that she would be his co-pilot.
  • She has huge admiration for Pentecost because he saved her as a child and then raised her.
• Implied Love Interest: It's unclear if Raleigh and Mako are a Battle Couple, Like Brother and Sister, or Just Friends. The Big Damn Kiss doesn't happen at the end, but there are Ship Tease moments like Mako Eating the Eye Candy of Raleigh's Shirtless Scene. ^noteIn the novelization, there's nothing implied about it, but the events of the novelization do not take precedence over those of the film.
• Ms. Fanservice: 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.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
• The Not-Love Interest: 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 Ship Tease moments, their relationship remains platonic.
• Parental Abandonment: 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.
• The Perfectionist: 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.
• Pillars of Moral Character: 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.
• Rank Up: In Uprising, she's promoted to Secretary-General of the PPDC.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The mostly-stoic Blue to Raleigh's Red. Her hair's even Color-Coded for Your Convenience.
• Rei Ayanami Expy:
  • 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 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 — Megumi Hayashibara. You can't get to be a bigger expy than that!
• Revenge Before Reason: 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.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: 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.
• Sole Survivor: 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.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She is rather suddenly killed off about third-ways into Uprising.
• Twofer Token Minority: She's the only woman in the main cast of the first film, and she's Asian too.
• Waif-Fu: Holds her own against Raleigh despite lacking his bulk in muscle (she is quite wiry).
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: 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.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: A Japanese woman who is very soft-spoken and obedient, but still strong-willed and tough.

Stacker Pentecost

Marshal Stacker Pentecost

Played by: Idris Elba

Voiced by: Octavio Rojas (Latin-American Spanish), Tesshō Genda (Japanese)

"All I need to be to you and everybody else on this 'Dome is a 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 | Uprising^note flashbacks, photographs

Stacker Pentecost is a former British Royal Air Force and Jaeger pilot, a Marshal in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, and 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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• Action Dad: He has two children, Mako, who he adopted, and Jake.
• Affectionate Nickname: "Stacks" to his partner Tamsin.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: 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.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He's respected by the entirety of the PPDC because of his badassery.
• Badass Boast: 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.
• Badass Longcoat: His uniform's foul weather overcoat. It even gets commented on for "looking sharp" by Raleigh.
• Big Good: By the time of the main storyline, he is the only bonafide leader standing between humanity and its destruction.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Gives one to Hermann when he keeps interrupting Newt's exposition of his neural bridge experience with the Kaiju brain.
• The Chains of Commanding: 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.
• Convenient Terminal Illness: He's suffering severe radiation poisoning by the time of the movie. He's also part of the team that detonates the nuke attached to his Jaeger to "clear a path" for Gipsy.
• Cynicism Catalyst: 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.
• Deadly Nosebleed: He has several moments where realizes his nose is bleeding, and discreetly wipes it away. It is revealed towards the end of the film that he is dying from the strain of piloting a Jaeger.
• Defiant to the End: 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 Armor-Piercing Question:
  "Where would you rather die? Here, or in a Jaeger?"
• Determinator: Alongside Raleigh, 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.
• A Father to His Men: 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.
• Four-Star Badass: A flag-officer who pilots Jaegers.
• Good Is Not Nice: 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 take the ship and clear out.
  "You will not risk a city of one million people for a boat that carries ten."
• Heroic Sacrifice: Both he and 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.
• It Has Been an Honor: Shares such a moment with Chuck before they self destruct Striker Eureka.
• Large and in Charge: One of the tallest characters and is also The Leader of the PPDC.
• Large Ham: 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.
• The Last Dance: With no other pilots available, he co-pilots Striker Eureka with Chuck Hansen during the final battle even though the radiation poisoning will kill him.
• Lonely at the Top:
  • 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 Uprising when it's revealed he had to kick his son, Jake, out of the program after he tried to pilot a Jaeger solo.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Mako's mentor and father figure. He doesn't survive the final battle.
• The Needs of the Many: Cites this principle in his argument that the Becket brothers fight Knifehead closer to shore, even if it puts the fishing boat at risk.
• Not So Stoic: 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 Rousing Speech.
• Old Soldier: 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.
• Papa Wolf: 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 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.
• Parental Favoritism: If Stacker didn't outright favor Mako over Jake, he was certainly much closer to her and had a strained relationship with his son.
• Parental Substitute: Became this for Mako after Tokyo. He adopted, raised, and trained her. The prequel comic shows he adored her.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Stern and intimidating, but is also more than willing to back Newt's ploy to 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 Mako and Raleigh's unorthodox tactics in handling Otachi and Leatherback.
• Red Baron: Amara remembers him as "Badass Stacker" in Uprising.
• Retired Badass: Was once the Jaeger pilot for Coyote Tango. 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.
• Scary Black Man: His positional authority and commanding presence is quite intimidating when challenged.
  Stacker: One, don't you ever touch me again. Two. Don't you ever touch me again.
• Secretly Dying: 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.
• Suddenly Shouting: 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!"
• Taking You with Me: He and Chuck blow themselves up to take down two Kaiju so Gipsy Danger can seal the breach.
• Tranquil Fury: When Raleigh tries to insist he put Mako back in a Jaeger, grabbing him as he leaves, 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?
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: 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.

Hercules 'Herc' Hansen

Hercules "Herc" Hansen

Played by: Max Martini

Voiced by: Martín Soto (Latin-American Spanish), Shūichi Ikeda (Japanese)

"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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• Action Dad: He pilots Striker Eureka alongside his son and has been killing Kaiju since the very beginning of the program.
• Alliterative Name: Hercules Hansen.
• Awesome Aussie: Judging by his introduction with Raleigh, he is something of a Living Legend in the Jaeger pilot community.
• Bash Brothers: 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. He never revealed 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.
• Dad the Veteran: 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.
• Defiant to the End: 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.
• Determinator: 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.
• Four-Star Badass: 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.
• Hands-Off Parenting: 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.
• Heartbroken Badass: By the end of the film, Herc has outlived his son, his best friend, and his entire family. Herc struggles as he watches his 21-year-old son make a Heroic Sacrifice that had originally been planned for him.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Herc dotes on Max almost as much as his son does, and the bulldog is all he has left after Chuck's death.
• Heroic Sacrifice: 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.
• Never Found the Body: Implied. His file lists him as MIA after his Heroic Sacrifice in The Black.
• Nice Guy: He is a much more amicable man than his Jerkass son.
• Number Two: Always present with Pentecost during briefings and scientific meetings. By the end of the film and with Pentecost's death by nuclear explosion, Herc is promoted to Number One as Marshal of the PPDC.
• Old Soldier: 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.
• Outliving One's Offspring: After saving Chuck from Scissure's attack on Sydney as a young child, Herc later loses his son by Heroic Sacrifice 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.
• Parent-Child Team: He piloted a Jaeger alongside his son.
• Parents as People: 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.
• Put on a Bus: The Black has his archived file say his status is MIA, following the events of Operation: Blackout's initiation.
• Sadistic Choice: 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.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: He and his son go against Pentecost's orders and engage Otachi when she and Leatherback are overpowering Crimson Typhoon at Hong Kong.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: 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.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He calls out Chuck several times for antagonizing Raleigh and Mako, and isn't at all pleased by his haughty attitude.
• You Are in Command Now: Takes up the rank of Marshal after Pentecost's Heroic Sacrifice.

Chuck Hansen

Charles "Chuck" Hansen

Played by: Robert Kazinsky

Voiced by: Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (Latin-American Spanish), Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese)

"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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• Anti-Hero: Specifically of the Pragmatic Hero 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.
• Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Extremely confident in his abilities, and justly so. He has the temper to match, too.
• Awesome Aussie: 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 takes his English bulldog everywhere with him, including as the official decal on his tech team and Striker Eureka.
• Broken Ace: 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 Daddy Issues and Survivor's Guilt with regards to his father choosing to save him over his mother. He's almost a textbook example of an emotionally stunted Child Soldier 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.
• Child Soldier: 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.
• Establishing Character Moment: 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 perfectionists with war veteran fathers and suitably varying amounts of Daddy Issues, but Chuck is emotional where Mako is 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.
• Good Is Not Nice: 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 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.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: 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.
• Heroes Love Dogs: 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.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Both he and Marshal Pentecost blow themselves up while in Striker Eureka in order to clear a path for Gipsy Danger.
• Hot-Blooded: 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.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: For all his animosity with Raleigh and Mako, he cheered them on when Gipsy Danger came to fight Leatherback.

  Chuck: Come on, Gipsy, kick his arse!!!

• Improbable Age: 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.
• It Has Been an Honor: Said to Marshal Pentecost right before their Heroic Sacrifice.
• Jerkass Has a Point: 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 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.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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.
• Knight in Sour Armor: 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.
• Like Father, Like Son: For all of his jerkassness, Chuck, like his dad, says Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! and rushes in to try to save his teammates.
• Parent-Child Team: He piloted a Jaeger alongside his father.
• The Perfectionist: 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.
• Pet the Dog: Done literally and figuratively with his dog Max. Chuck is openly affectionate with the dog, showing that he's not entirely a jerk.
• The Rival: 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.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Leaves his post to try to aid the Russian crew while they were getting hammered by Otachi. This makes him no different 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.
• Survivor Guilt: 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.
• Taking You with Me: He and Pentecost blow themselves up to take down two Kaiju so Gipsy Danger can seal the Breach.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: 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.

Cheung, Jin, and Hu Wei

Cheung, Jin, and Hu Wei

Played by: Charles, Lance, and Mark Luu

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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• Bash Brothers: 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.
• Dragons Up the Yin Yang: Chinese, and with a dragon as their personal sigil.
• Hero of Another Story: The Wei Tang triplets have impressive records but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this film, as they're offed before the climax.
• The Quiet One: We don't hear them talk clearly outside of their Jaeger.
• Red Is Heroic: 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.
• Reformed Criminal: Before they were Jaeger pilots, the Wei triplets were street fighters in the Chinese underworld.
• Same-Sex Triplets: Together, they're known as the Wei Tang Triplets.
• Signature Move: The Thundercloud Formation, courtesy of their Jaeger's buzzsaw hands.
• Twin Telepathy: As explained in the novelization, part of their Drift hangover. They are constantly passing a basketball between them without looking because of this.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: We learn little about these characters before they die in battle.
• The Worf Effect: They are killed by Otachi while in Crimson Typhoon.

Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky

Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky

Played by: Robert Maillet and Heather Doerksen

"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

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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• Action Girl: 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 per Word of God.
• Almighty Janitor: 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: World War II 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.
• Arms Dealer: 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.
• Battle Couple: The two are married.
• Beware the Quiet Ones: 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.
  • Truth in Television: as noted in the Mother Russia Makes You Strong page, 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 Ukrainian hard house will be vocally unappreciated. Not that it stops the Wei triplets from complaining about it.
• Couple Theme Naming: Aleksis and Sasha Kaidanovsky, both have first names that are diminutives of "Alexander" ("defending men"). Fitting for a Battle Couple who pilot a Humongous Mecha.
• Defiant to the End: 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: Even when they're being drowned they're still trying to fight Leatherback.
• Gender-Blender Name: 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.
• Happily Married: 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.
• Hero of Another Story: The Kaidanovskys have impressive records but are sadly not the biggest heroes of this story.
• Husky Russkie: Aleksis is portrayed by the rather tall 5'10 Heather Doerksen, and Sasha by humongous 6'11 professional wrestler Robert Maillet.
• It's Personal: When Otachi murders Crimson Typhoon's pilots, Aleksis outright says "Let's get this bastard!"
• The Jailer: Both Sasha and Aleksis worked as guards at an unspecified Russian prison before they were recruited into the Jaeger Program.
• Meaningful Name: 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.
• Nerves of Steel: 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.
• The Quiet One: We don't hear them talk outside of their Jaeger, aside from Aleksis faintly calling Sasha over to her in the first cafeteria scene.
• Russian Guy Suffers Most: 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.
• Together in Death: They both die by each other's sides on the battlefield.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: We learn little about these characters before they die in battle.
• The Worf Effect: They are killed by Leatherback while in Cherno Alpha.

Yancy Becket

Yancy Becket

Played by: Diego Klattenhoff

Voiced by: René García (Latin-American Spanish), Hiroshi Tsuchida (Japanese)

"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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• Cynicism Catalyst: 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.
• Despair Event Horizon: As he was dying, which didn't help his Drift-linked brother's Heroic BSoD.
• Jump Scare: His death; Knifehead just popped out of the water when they previously thought it dead.
• Killed Mid-Sentence: "Raleigh, listen to me—"
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: 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.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Killed in the first twenty minutes of the movie to show how dangerous the Kaiju are getting.
• White Shirt of Death: He was wearing a while pilot suit by the time he was killed.

Newton Geiszler

Dr. Newton "Newt" Geiszler

Played by: Charlie Day

Voiced by: Víctor Ugarte (Latin-American Spanish), Tōru Furuya (Japanese)

"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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• Admiring the Abomination: He is a Kaiju fanboy. His entire torso is covered in tattoos referencing them, even down to his wrists!
• Ambiguously Bi: Newt is confirmed by Word of Gay 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 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.
• And I Must Scream: His one true line in Uprising indicates that his real personality is still inside, but he is completely powerless to stop the Precursors and their manipulations. By the end, it seems that is gone as well.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • 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 the Precursors choose him to help them destroy the world.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite his and Hermann's bickering, they really do seem to care about each other:
  • Hermann panics when he finds Newt unconscious after having drifted with a Kaiju.
  • Later, he offers 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, 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, despite hating PDA, embraces Newt.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • 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, you don't wanna.
  • He actually gets his wish in Uprising when the composite Kaiju pauses briefly for him, before continuing on its way to Mt. Fuji, revealing his position to Nate.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: His dynamic with Gottlieb in the first movie retroactively takes on this trope, with Charlie Day and Uprising director Steven S. DeKnight stating that Newt is in love with Gottlieb but in denial about it.
• Big Bad: Of Uprising, having been taken over by the Precursors.
• Blind Without 'Em:
  • 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.
• Brain Theft: His continued drifting with a Kaiju brain led to him being possessed by the Precursors.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: 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.
• The Corruptible: "Uprising'' reveals his Drifting with Kaiju brains made him a pawn of the Precursors.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Joins the nefarious Shao Industries in the Time Skip between the first film and Uprising. It's purely to set his true plan in motion.
• Didn't Think This Through: 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.
• Dirty Coward: 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.
• Dreadful Musician: According to the DVD Special Features, he is a horrible singer. Though like Charlie Day, he can play guitar and keyboard fairly well.
• Electric Instant Gratification: The scene with Alice in "Uprising" certainly appears to be this.
• Extreme Omnisexual: Uprising reveals he now treats a salvaged Kaiju brain as a romantic partner.
• Eye Scream: When he initially tries to drift with a Kaiju brain, the neural load is too much for him and thus his left eye starts bleeding.
• Face–Heel Turn: His unhealthy obsession with the Kaiju left him Brainwashed and Crazy in the interim between the first film and Uprising, courtesy of the Precursors, until he became Uprising's Big Bad.
• Fallen Hero: He went from the guy who found a way to defeat the Precursors to the one who almost destroyed Civilization. He wasn't himself at the time, though.
• Fighting from the Inside: 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.
• Innocently Insensitive: 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.
• Insufferable Genius: 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.
• Interspecies Romance: In Uprising, he lives with a salvaged Kaiju brain, calls it his wife, and treats drifting with it like sex.
• Leitmotif: "Call Me Newt".
• Like an Old Married Couple: 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."
• The Man Behind the Man: Usurps the role of Uprising's Big Bad 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.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Together with Gottlieb; their names are a Shout-Out to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, 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 Aerith and Bob 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 Rags to Riches case.
• Motor Mouth: Often talks very quickly and very excitedly.
• Nerd Glasses: Thick black ones for the resident Kaiju biologist. He actually provides the current page image for this trope.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • While his efforts to drift into a Kaiju brain were ultimately helpful, it's also what 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 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 and unhealthy Drifting habits make him an ideal pawn for the Precursors in Uprising.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: His look, mannerisms, tone and general tendency to TALK LOUDLY are essentially one great big, loving tribute to J. J. Abrams.
• No-Respect Guy:
  • 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 his reveal as the Big Bad 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.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: He's German, but speaks with Charlie Day's American accent. Justified, as his backstory in supplemental materials^note He's the second-youngest person ever to be admitted to MIT and was teaching there by age 19 means he was probably in his early teens at the oldest when he moved to the United States.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Newt spends most of the first half of Uprising running off his mouth, being an arrogant twerp, and butchering Mandarin. After he reveals himself as The Quisling, he admits that this was a deliberate strategy to avoid suspicion. He says it in fluent Mandarin just to ram the point home.
• Oh, Crap!: 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 looking for him specifically.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Downplayed. He's a biologist, and thinks Gottlieb's discipline is a field of theory and guesses. He is able to create a Drifting rig from random scraps, however, and is able to oversee the construction of Jaeger/Kaiju hybrids in Uprising.
• Professor Guinea Pig: When no one is entertaining his crazy-sounding proposal to enter a neural drift with a Kaiju brain, he just straps himself in. He lives, to everyone's surprise, with no apparent lasting damage.
• Questionable Consent: By the time we see Newt drift with Alice, an act that is presented as sexual, he is already completely under the control of the Precursors. It is unclear whether the continued drifting with a Kaiju brain following the events of the first movie was something he chose to do or was compelled to do.
• The Smart Guy: Part of the team researching the Kaiju.
• Storyboard Body: Has tattoos depicting Kaiju covering his arms and (according to Word of God) the rest of his torso. This helps reinforce his Ascended Fanboy status.
• Science Foils: 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 shooting down Newt's crackpot theories. Nevertheless, 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.
• Tattoo as Character Type: He has tattoos of various Kaiju as arm sleeves with dominant coverage, and Word of God says he has more on his torso. This shows his deep love of the creatures, even though they've killed millions. Naturally, he's also one of the world's leading kaiju biologists.
• Those Two Guys: Newt is introduced as a colleague and rival of Dr. Hermann Gottlieb — with whom he is constantly bickering — in the first film.
• Too Dumb to Live: Announcing to a crowded shelter full of superstitious, frightened people that 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.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • 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. He later floors Gottlieb when he reveals his brainwashing by the Precursors.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: From a hyperactive scientist with an unhealthy appreciation for the Kaiju, to an Omnicidal Maniac. How the mighty have fallen.
• Villainous Breakdown: 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 knocks him out with a single punch.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: More vitriolic than most examples because Newt considers Gottlieb to be a stuffy rival for most of the film.
• Voice of the Legion: The Precursors suddenly speak through him when it's revealed they're possessing him.
• Walking Spoiler: Noticed how his role in Uprising resulted in many whited-out entries?
• The Xenophile: 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.

Hermann Gottlieb

Dr. Hermann Gottlieb

Played by: Burn Gorman

"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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• All There in the Manual: 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 Unreliable Canon 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.
• Big "SHUT UP!": He's on the receiving end of one from Pentecost when he keeps interrupting Newt's exposition of his neural bridge experience with the Kaiju brain.
• Combat Pragmatist: 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.
• Genius Cripple: 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.
• Germanic Depressives: Doesn't quite seem to know what to do with Newt's 'bro-handshake' at first, among other examples.
• Handicapped Badass:
  • 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.
• Herr Doktor: Being German and a scientist, he embodies certain features of this archetype.
• Insufferable Genius: Not insufferable, but sour and a bit of a pretentious know-it-all.
• Jewish and Nerdy: According to writer Travis Beacham, he has Jewish ancestry but is non-practicing.
• Like an Old Married Couple: With Newt. Though they almost never stop fighting over their approaches to the Kaiju, they really do seem to care about each other:
  • Hermann panics when he finds Newt unconscious after having drifted with a Kaiju.
  • Later, he offers 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, 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 despite stating a few seconds prior how much he hates PDA, he embraces Newt.
• Mission Control: He assumes this role for the Final Battle in Uprising after the previous crew was wiped out in an attack on the Shatterdome.
• Non-Action Guy: A noncombatant who walks with a cane; his contributions are of the scientific variety.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Born, raised, and educated in Germany, but speaks with a posh British accent.
• Not So Above It All: 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.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: 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.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Nope, he's a theorist who thinks that Newt's ideas are batshit insane. He eventually trusts Newt enough to agree to join him in a neural Drift with the Kaiju brain.
• Science Foils: 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 shooting down Newt's crackpot theories. Nevertheless, they turn out to have been perfectly Drift Compatible all along.
• The Smart Guy: 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.
• This Is My Side: He'd like Newt to keep his Kaiju entrails on his own side of the room, thank you very much.
• Those Two Guys: With Dr. Newt Geiszler. Gets truly sad in the sequel: even after Newt's reveal as the Big Bad Hermann still stops him from getting shot by Liwen after realizing the Precursors are controlling him.
• Took a Level in Badass: 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. Except it isn't her plan, it's Newt's.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While a grumpy and abrasive scientist in the original movie, he becomes a friendlier person in Uprising.
• Unreliable Canon: 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.
• The Unreveal: We never do find out what happened to his leg.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: More vitriolic than most examples because Gottlieb hates Newt for most of the film, and the two only reconcile when Gottlieb offers to share the Drift with a Kaiju brain to take the neural strain off of Newt.

Tendo Choi

Tendo Choi

Played by: Clifton Collins Jr.

"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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• Fan of the Past: Dresses a little more old-fashioned and, in the novel, uses more old-school terms and slang.
• Happily Married: In the novelization, he hooked up with Alison after Raleigh left the service.
• Insanely International Ancestry: According to Beacham, he has roots from "all over," describing him as having Chinese, Peruvian, and Filipino ancestry.
• Mission Control: His role in the Pan Pacific Defense Corps is to help coordinate the Jaeger offensive from headquarters.
• Must Have Caffeine: 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.
• Reformed Criminal: According to the data book, Del Toro figured he had a shady past before cleaning up.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Always seen wearing a polo and a button-down. He's also a fan of suspenders and bow ties.

Hannibal Chau

Hannibal Chau

Played by: Ron Perlman

"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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• And Starring: Ron Perlman.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: 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 drifted with a Kaiju and needs a Kaiju brain for a second attempt, he instantly realizes everything is about to go straight to hell - 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 Otachi Junior's demise after having one look at him. Well, off by a few seconds, but still right.
• Blatant Lies: 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.
• Brooklyn Rage: A tough, black-market dealer from Brooklyn who is over-the-top hammy.
• Cool Shades: He has round, gold-rimmed shades that he takes off only once. As it turns out he started using them after a wound he received in a public shelter, during a Kaiju attack.
• Death by Adaptation: Being devoured by Otachi Jr. is fatal in the novelization... less so in The Stinger.
• Eaten Alive: He's swallowed whole by the Otachi Jr. It's a non-fatal example, thanks to The Stinger.
• Eye Scream: His left eye was injured during the first and only time he ever went into a public Kaiju shelter.
• Feet-First Introduction: The first time he properly appears, the shot starts on his gold-plated shoes and pans up to his face.
• Friend in the Black Market: 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.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: He has gold on his jewelry, his knife, his shoes, his teeth, his glasses...
• Gold Tooth of Wealth: He has several gold front teeth. Being a black market Kaiju parts supplier has made him very wealthy.
• Happy Ending Override:
  • 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 Secretly Dying, 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.
• Hidden Depths: He's apparently not a scientist but is roughly as knowledgeable about Kaiju as Newt is, and actually more in some areas.
• Killed Off for Real: Killed at the end of the "Aftermath" comic. We don't actually see the moment of death though, just the Fade to Black as he's shot.
• Large Ham: 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.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Sacrifices one of his staff in "Aftermath", shooting through her to kill a kaiju-worshipping ninja. At the story's conclusion, he's killed by another of his employees, her wife-to-be.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Loses his "goddamn shoe" fighting his way out of the Kaiju that ate him.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Despite how much of a jerk he might be, he certainly dresses the part of a successful crime lord.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: He is notable in that out of all the humans with cool names, he is the only one deliberately using a pseudonym. Which makes sense, being a criminal and all.
• Only in It for the Money: His motivation for dealing in Kaiju parts.
• Secretly Dying: In the Aftermath comic he has blue lines all over his body due to being coated in Kaiju Blue and his health is deteriorating.
• Sesquipedalian Smith: Invoked — he named himself after his favorite historical figure (Hannibal) and his second favorite Chinese restaurant (the otherwise unremarkable name Chau). The result is the very catchy name "Hannibal Chau".
• Tempting Fate: 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?

The Wizened Man

The Wizened Man

Played by: Santiago Segura

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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• Bald of Evil: Lacks all the hair on top, though in exchange he sports shaggy long hair on the back of the head.
• The Cameo: By Santiago Segura, Guillermo del Toro's close friend and usual collaborator. Also implied to be a Death by Cameo.
• Dashing Hispanic: Subverted quite thoroughly. He talks with suavity and a heavy Spanish accent, but his appearance is certainly unattractive and much more creepy than dashing.
• Fat Bastard: Rather wide of waist, and presumably quite underhanded given that he works in a black market.
• Honest John's Dealership: 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.
• No Name Given: Neither the film nor the novelization give him a name; "Wizened Man" is how he is officially credited.
• Oh, Crap!: Has a very intuitive one when he discovers a baby Kaiju awakening in front of him.
• Too Much Information: 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.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: It's not shown on-screen, but he is presumibly killed by Otachi Jr. inside its mother.

United Nations

The council of nations that provided funding to the Jaeger Program, and later the Wall that replaced it.

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• Jerkass Has a Point: 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.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: 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.
• Tempting Fate: Indestructible walls. Yeah, that worked out great.
• Too Dumb to Live: 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 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 rushing through or over the wall? If it had Wave Motion Guns like the Jaegers' cannons, or just More Dakka like the weapon defenses in Neon Genesis Evangelion, 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 plan.
    • The official reason given for discontinuing the (proven effective) Jaeger program in favor of the (laughably ineffective) wall plan was that it was "cost prohibitive," never mind that the money means nothing if humanity is overrun by a hostile alien invasion, and most of us would rather pay slightly higher taxes than be devoured by horrible monsters.

Debuted in Pacific Rim: Uprising

Jake Pentecost

Jake Pentecost

Played by: John Boyega

"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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• Ambiguously Bi: Is clearly attracted to Jules, but just can't stop commenting about how attractive Nate is.
  "He is handsome. He is sexy."
• Big Brother Mentor: Acts like this to Amara, especially after Mako dies.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character:
  • 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. 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. 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.
• I Am Not My Father: 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 Meaningful Echo.
• The Leader: He takes over as the field commander during the final battle of Uprising.
• Like Brother and Sister: 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.
• Like Father, Like Son: He's capable of giving one hell of a pep talk, just like his old man.
• Military Brat: 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.
• Oh, Crap!: When Obsidian Fury turns out to have two arms-mounted chainsaw blades against Gipsy Avenger's one.
• Remember the New Guy?: 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.
• Sweet Tooth: 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.
• The Unfavorite: 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 Fridge Brilliance in hindsight - no wonder his existence was never even hinted at in the first one...
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With both Amara and Nate initially, though by the film's end the vitriolic part has disappeared.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He joined the Jaeger program to be close to his father, maybe even drift with him eventually. Did not turn out so well.

Amara Namani

Amara Namani

Played by: Cailee Spaeny

"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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• Affectionate Nickname: Jake calls her "Smally" on account of her being smaller than him, and indeed the other recruits.
• Ascended Fangirl: She clearly idolizes the Jaegers, and becomes one of their pilots.
• Badass Adorable: 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 Final Battle 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.
• Bollywood Nerd: 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.
• Brainy Brunette: Has dark hair and enough mechanical talent to build an undersized but still relatively huge mecha.
• Cassandra Truth: She's convinced from the outset that the Kaijus will return some day, and it's a Foregone Conclusion that she's right, but nobody pays her fears much attention when she voices them.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: 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 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.
• Disaster Scavengers: Lives like this before meeting Jake.
• Falling into the Cockpit: Conscripted into the PPDC at the age of fifteen; events quickly escalate into her piloting a Jaeger at the climax.
• Fire-Forged Friends: 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 take control of Bracer Phoenix for the Final Battle.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Had her own robot dog named Twitch in the comics.
• Like Brother and Sister: Develops this sort of relationship with Jake.
• Little Miss Badass: 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.
• Little Miss Snarker: She can keep up with the best of them.
  Amara: Hold tight!
  Jake: That's what I'm doing!
  Amara: Then hold tighter!
• Newcomer Saves the Day: Amara despairs over being the class rookie, but manages to be crucial to the Final Battle by 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.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Her actress is only 5ft 2 inches tall, making her much smaller than her antagonist Viktoriya - but when she's pushed too far she easily beats the much taller Russian.
• Recruiting the Criminal: 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.
• Teen Genius: Only 15, yet smart enough to build her own Jaeger.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's a tough teenager from a scrap dump who amusingly complains her PPDC test helmet smells bad. Somewhat of Hypocritical Humor, 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.
• Wrench Wench: She's proficient enough to recognize where Obsidian Fury was manufactured.
• Wrestler in All of Us: She pulls an amazing flying armbar transitioned into a wrist lock on Viktoriya when they throw down in the Shatterdome barracks.

Liwen Shao

Liwen Shao

Played by: Jing Tian

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: CEO of Shao Industries, Engineer

Jaegers Piloted: Scrapper

Appears in: Uprising

The CEO of Shao Industries, a leading producer of Jaeger technology for the private sector in Uprising.

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• Bad Boss: Newt certainly thinks so. 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.
• Big Damn Heroes: 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.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Comes off as one, where her remotely-piloted Jaeger project is viewed by the pilots as Job Stealing Robots, and she is rather determined to get it approved in the midst of objections during her proposal. 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.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She's cold, haughty, refuses the marshal's handshake on arrival at the Shatterdome, and treats Newt like crap. Then it turns out 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 Big Damn Heroes moments with Scrapper.
• Good All Along: Despite being set up as an obvious villain for most of the movie, she turns out to have just been used by Newt and in fact helps save the world in the climax.
• Hidden Depths: While she is initially a cold CEO, she is shown to have hands-on engineering skills. In addition, realizing she was tricked by Newt and that her company was used to kickstart the second Kaiju invasion thaws her considerably.
• Light Is Good: Her first scene has her wearing a stark white dress that stands out, making her look imperious, cold, and intimidating. It later reveals that she is not as heartless as she appears, even helping to save the world at the climax.
• Prim and Proper Bun: Wears her hair in a neat bun to emphasize her no-nonsense nature. It's loose by the climax, coinciding with her thawing.
• Rags to Riches: 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.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: When we see her first, she refuses to shake hands with anyone and she acts cold and haughty. Towards the end, she defrosts hugely, personally piloting Scrapper into battle and saving Jake and Amara from dying in the final act.
• Teen Genius: Much like Amara, as according to the novelization Shao earned a doctorate at the age of 19.
• Underestimating Badassery: 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 Obfuscating Stupidity.
• Unwitting Pawn: She had no idea that Newt was using her company's resources to create an army for the Precursors.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: 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.
• Wrench Wench: 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?

Nate Lambert

Nathan "Nate" Lambert

Played by: Scott Eastwood

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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• Drill Sergeant Nasty: 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.
• Informed Attractiveness: 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.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: Gets lampshaded by Jake joking about it being an implant.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Comes with being played by Scott Eastwood. Even Jake cops to finding him attractive and sexy at one point.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Initially him and Jake piloting Gipsy Avenger is very much this due to their lingering issues - but once Obsidian Fury shows up they pretty quickly show why they were such a good team before Jake was kicked out.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: 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.

Viktoriya Malikova

Viktoriya Malikova

Played by: Ivanna Sakhno

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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• Alpha Bitch: Viktorya has this role among the cadets, and for what we see in her pilot scenes, she has the skill to back it up.
• Berserk Button: To Viktoriya, her full first name.
• Bigger Is Better: Viktoriya seems to think so, as she dismissed Amara's homemade Jaeger as 'too small'.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She is initially cold and standoffish to Amara, but warms up to her as the film goes on.
• Dumb Muscle: 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 Mighty Glacier of the four Jaegers, a trope typically associated to this.
• Huge Schoolgirl: Viktorya is a full head taller than Amara despite being both at their teens, probably for Husky Russkie reasons.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Viktoriya's appearance and nationality (a Russian with short blonde hair) and surly personality seem to deliberately invoke the Kaidanovskys. In Ascension, Her grandmother tells her the Kaidanovskys were her parents, but it's later revealed that she was lying.

Shatterdome Cadets

Shatterdome Cadets

Played by: Wesley Wong (Ou-Yang Jinhai), Lily Ji (Meilin Gao), Mackenyu (Ryoichi), Karan Brar (Suresh), Levi Meaden (Ilya), Rahart Adams (Tahima), Shyrley Rodriguez (Renata)

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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• Child Soldiers: Jake refers to them as 'teenagers', and they fall into the cockpits during the climax of Uprising.
• Famous Ancestor: According to the Ascension novel Ou-Yang's parents piloted Shaolin Rogue.
• Hero of Another Story: Ou-Yang and Viktoriya are the main characters of the prequel novel Ascension.
• Mauve Shirt: The ones given the most focus are Viktoriya, Jinhai, and Suresh. Suresh doesn't survive the Final Battle.
• Multinational Team: Implied. If the ethnicities of their actors are any indication, they come from all over the world, and the PPDC recruits from everywhere.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Some of the out-of-focus candidates disappear right before the final battle, but the novelization elaborates a bit more: 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). In the movie itself both of them live and rescue Ilya.

Jules Reyes

Julia "Jules" Reyes

Played by: Adria Arjona

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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• Deadpan Snarker: 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".
• Implied Love Interest: To both Nate and Jake, both of whom she has light Ship Tease with, but the movie doesn't show her relationship with either going anywhere.
• Mission Control: Steps up into the command room alongside Hermann in the climax of Uprising.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: She keeps her hair up in a ponytail, and is a Wrench Wench with the PPDC.
• Wrench Wench: 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 Final Battle.

Debuted in Pacific Rim: The Black

Ford Travis

Voiced by: Jason Spisak

Nationality: Australian

Jaegers Piloted: Hunter Vertigo

Brina's husband and the father of Taylor and Hayley, who piloted Hunter Vertigo up to and during the Kaiju invasion of Australia.

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• Battle Couple: He piloted Hunter Vertigo alongside his wife, and was exceptionally good at it.
• Disappeared Dad: He and his wife left their kids and several others in a safe oasis to attempt to get some rescue after The Black was enacted. They never returned. The ending of Season 2 reveals he made it to Sidney but was unable to rally a rescue mission.
• Gender Equals Breed: 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.

Brina Travis

Voiced by: Allie MacDonald

Nationality: Australian

Jaegers Piloted: Hunter Vertigo

Ford's wife and the mother of Taylor and Hayley, who piloted Hunter Vertigo up to and during the Kaiju invasion of Australia.

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• Alien Blood: As a member of the Sisters she has blue blood due to the process used to indoctrinate her. It goes back to being red when the High Priestess' hold over her is broken.
• Battle Couple: She piloted Hunter Vertigo alongside her husband, and was exceptionally good at it.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In Season 2, it's revealed that the Sisters captured Brina and indoctrinated her into their cult. Shane is able to restore her sanity, but she's left struggling against the cult's psychic influence and briefly relapses during the mission to rescue the Boy.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Season 2 reveals that the Sisters attacked Hunter Vertigo with an army of Kaiju, and Brina allowed herself to be captured so that Ford could escape. Towards the end of Season 2, she stays behind to hold off a Ripper sicced on them by the High Priestess, and kills it despite being savagely mauled. While it's indicated by the next episode that she will recover with medical treatment, this is revealed to be a Dying Dream courtesy of Hayley and Loa so that she can pass away peacefully.
• Missing Mom: She and her husband left their kids and several others in a safe oasis to attempt to get some rescue after The Black was enacted. They never returned. Season 2 reveals she allowed herself to be captured by the Sisters in order to buy time for Ford to escape, and was brainwashed and mutated by their rituals.
• Not Quite Back to Normal: When Shane frees her from the control of the Sisters' hive-mind, the only thing that changes about her appearance is that her eyes gain pupils. The Tainted Veins, Disease Bleached skin and hair, and blue sclerae are there to stay.

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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• Ace Pilot: Aced his early Jaeger pilot training. Then reveals only the written part. Then, when he first drifts with Mei, she mentions he "sucked" at pilot training, indicating he's at the very least exaggerating his qualifications. Taylor eventually admits he failed the actual test.
• Big Brother Instinct: He'll do whatever it takes to bring his little sister to Sydney safely.
• Child Soldiers: 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 The End of the World as We Know It, the world needed all the Jaeger pilots it could get.
• Dressed in Layers: Taylor's civilian clothes somehow manage to fit under his form-fitting plugsuit while he pilots Atlas Destroyer.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: 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.
• Incompletely Trained: He never actually finished his training, having aced solely the written portion of the test and failed the practical test. Still, better than nothing under the circumstances.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: 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.
• Sibling Team: Taylor most frequently pilots Atlas Destroyer alongside his little sister Hayley.
• Transferable Memory: 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.

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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• Big Brother Worship: 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.
• Character Development: Hayley starts off as impulsive and resentful of her brother's overprotectiveness, but over the course of the series having to look after the Boy fosters a maternal instinct and sense of responsibility, to the point where in Season 2 she remarks that she and Taylor have effectively traded personalities from how they were at the beginning of Season 1.
• Compressed Hair: Hayley's ponytail and bangs are nowhere to be seen when she's wearing her plugsuit's helmet.
• Cry into Chest: Cries into Taylor’s chest after the latter was forced to surrender Boy to the Sisters.
• Dressed in Layers: Hayley's civilian clothes somehow manage to fit under her form-fitting plugsuit while she pilots Atlas Destroyer.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: 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.
• Living Is More than Surviving: 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.
• Mama Bear: She becomes fiercely protective of Boy, eventually piloting Atlas to attack Apex in his defense.
• My God, What Have I Done?: 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.
• My Parents Are Dead: 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. Unfortunately, she's proven to be right by the final episode.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Mei initially refuses to let Hayley drift with her due to having been raised as a Child Soldier 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.
• Promotion to Parent: 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.

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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• Because You Were Nice to Me: 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 not so different from the girl she scornfully dismissed as a "princess" and starts thawing towards her as well.
• Blood Knight: 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.
• Child Soldiers: Mei is revealed to have been taken in by Shane at a young age and raised to be his right-hand lieutenant. It later transpires that Shane used his drift tech to Mind Rape her by feeding her false memories while suppressing her real ones.
• Co-Dragons: Prior to her defection, she was one of Shane's top enforcers alongside Rickter.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Mei was raised by Shane to be a ruthless soldier from a young age, 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mei has her Establishing Character Moment 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.
• Experienced Protagonist: 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.
• Get Out!: 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 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 against them 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.
• Happily Adopted: By Season 2, Mei is accepted by Taylor, Hayley, and Brina into their family as a Cool Big Sis.
• Heel–Face Turn: 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 Undying Loyalty to him 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 for stopping Atlas Destroyer from stepping on him by killing Joel with an exploding two-way radio.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her efforts to appear stern and sarcastic, it turns out she's a pretty good dancer.
• Ineffectual Loner: When drifting with Taylor for the first time, Mei initially resists linking minds with him — represented by the bubbles containing her memories swirling tightly around her — though she begrudgingly relents due to the urgency of the situation. Once she 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. In Season 2, Taylor remarks that he thought she'd strike off on her own again after Shane's death, but despite her scoffing and sneering she can't bring herself to abandon the siblings.
• It's Personal: 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.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: 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.
• Not So Above It All: When the Boy curiously 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.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Mei initially refuses to let Hayley drift with her due to having been raised as a Child Soldier 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. In Season 2, she wordlessly comforts Hayley after Brina's death, empathizing with her due to her own recent loss of a father figure, which Hayley thanks her for.
• Not So Stoic: 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. In Season 2, she tries to regain her sarcastic loner cred but can't bring herself to abandon the siblings, is openly disgusted when she learns the football-shaped object she and Taylor were playing with in Bunyip-Man's cabin is a Kaiju testicle, is terrified by the thought of being captured by the Sisters, and is devastated by Shane's death.
• Regretful Traitor: 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. 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.
• Rugged Scar: 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.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: 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.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Mei starts out as a cold, sarcastic, tough-as-nails soldier loyal to Shane, but has a deeply-buried warm side. 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 (partly because she knew Atlas would attract Copperhead's attentions but also implicitly blaming the siblings 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.
• That Liar Lies: 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.
• Undying Loyalty: 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 by murdering Joel right in front of her.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: 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.

Shane

Voiced by: Andy McPhee

Nationality: Australian

The main human antagonist of the first season and leader of a gang called Bogan.

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• The Atoner: When he hunts down Atlas in Season 2, He admits to Mei that no matter what, she's still his daughter and will do anything for her, even though she doesn't forgive him. Especially when he tries to barter Atlas off the teens in exchange for their mother's mind back, of which he has to be talked out of. He succeeds in getting her mind back, but at the cost of his own life.
• Bad Boss: To say he's not very pleasant to work for is a massive understatement. He's verbally and physically abusive towards even his top subordinates if they go against his wishes, and doesn't value the lives of his men, excluding Mei or Spyder, either. Lapses into Stupid Evil during moments of stress, as he's willing to kill essential personnel and those he does business with on a whim.
• The Bogan: Invoked. He named his organization "Bogan" and he is not above ordering the death of anything and anybody who annoys him.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Copperhead for Season 1. Shane is the primary human antagonist, taking Taylor and Hayley prisoner in order to seize Atlas Destroyer for himself. The dynamic changes for Season 2, where while still antagonistic to a fault, he is clearly not for the Sisters or their cult and is willing to work with the heroes to get their mother back in exchange for Atlas, which Hayley and Mei have to talk him out of and to do it for the teens' sake instead.
• Crazy-Prepared: 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: 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.
• The Don: Of a sort, being the ruthless leader of a highly militarized Bandit Clan called Bogan, and he seeks to accrue even more power by procuring a Jaeger.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: 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. By Season 2, he still cares for Mei deeply, though she doesn't reciprocate the feeling.
• Evil Is Petty: He uses an Explosive Leash 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.
• Exact Words: 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.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Dies via Mind-Reformat Death while getting Taylor and Hayley's mother back to sanity after getting mind warped by the cult.
• Mind-Reformat Death: In Season 2, Shane's consciousness is erased by the Sisters' hive-mind, which has been reformatting Brina's mind to make her a loyal acolyte.
• Properly Paranoid: 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.
• The Social Darwinist: 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.
• Stupid Evil: He's 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 (even with a merely unconscious Kaiju gunning for that Jaeger only miles away and no way to move it.) — 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.
• Ungrateful Bastard: 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. He changes his tune in the second half, where he tries to get Mei to understand his actions despite her resistance. Mei only relents when he offers to get the mind of Taylor and Hayley's mother back for them.
• Venturous Smuggler: He and his Bandit Clan 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.
• Would Hurt a Child: He definitely would. He took Mei from her family as a child, subjected her to a Mind Rape to hide her true memories, and raised her as a loyal Child Soldier. 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.

Spyder

Voiced by: Martin Klebba

Nationality: American

One of the members of Bogan, a masked man in charge of much of their equipment.

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• Cool Mask: Bears a mask with glowing lenses shaped like a spider's eyes, possibly the source of his nickname.
• The Faceless: Never seen without his mask.
• Gadgeteer Genius: One of Bogan's most tech-savy members.
• I Owe You My Life: Implies Shane protected him after The Black was established, this being the source of his loyalty to the man.
• Malevolent Masked Men: Zigzagged. He's the Number Two to a crime lord, but himself is a pretty decent guy.
• Number Two: Right-hand man to Shane, he's one of the few in on Shane's plans and secrets.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name, assuming Spyder was a nickname, is unknown.
• Static Stun Gun: Wields one, taking out several Sisters in an ambush alongside Shane.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's pretty short when compared to Shane, but he's also pretty intelligent.

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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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After getting knocked out and finding himself on the business end of his own gun, Rickter tries to talk Taylor down from killing him, despite trying to kill them mere seconds prior.
• Bad Boss: Takes over Shane's position after he dies. One of the first things he does as leader? Shoot a female soldier in the head after she disobeys his order to not fire at Apex and then refuses to stand down as it leaves the area, just to show his subordinates that he won't allow anyone disobeying him.
• The Brute: Between him and Mei, Rickter is the more hot-headed and aggressive, and has far less compunctions about killing innocent people.
• Co-Dragons: In season 1. 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. He is promoted out of this.
• Et Tu, Brute?: He clearly didn't expect Mei to kill him; his horrified expression right before biting the bullet says it all. Season 2 reveals that he survived, but is heavily wounded and not treated with respect by Shane anymore.
• Evil Is Petty: 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.
• A Father to His Men: Subverted. In season 1, 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. This changes in Season 2. He stops thinking this and even shoots one of his men in the head just to make it clear that he won't tolerate disobedience.
• It's Personal: 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.
• Karma Houdini: He survives being apparently shot dead by Mei in season one and ends the series as the new leader of Bogan, heavily implying that he will be an even worse boss than Shane.
• Oh, Crap!: He's left incredulous and terrified when he realizes Mei only stopped Taylor from killing him so that she could do so herself.
• Spanner in the Works: His petty grudge against Taylor and Hayley for the accidental deaths of his men sparks a firefight that causes Shane's deal with the Sisters' envoy to fall through.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: If he'd foregone a lot of the theatrics and just shot Taylor, Hayley, and Boy from the start, he would have had a lot less trouble. Though, considering Boy is really a Kaiju, it wouldn't have ended well for him anyway.
• Would Hit a Girl: All too eager to either beat on Mei or shoot Hayley. And even headshots a female soldier just to prove a point to his subordinates after Shane kicks it that he's now in charge.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's all-too-happy to comply with Shane's order to kill the teenaged Taylor, fourteen-year-old Hayley, and an apparently prepubescent Boy — even grinning sadistically as he shoots the latter first.

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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• The Alcoholic: 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.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: 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.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Episode 5 ends with his head being completely blown off by Mei's radio, revealed to be rigged with a bomb.
• Gory Discretion Shot: All you see of Joel's death is a spray of blood and his twitching feet.
• Heel–Face Turn: 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.
• Make an Example of Them: His death serves as this, to show what happens when someone turns their back on Shane.
• Mind Rape: 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.
• Oh, Crap!: When Mei points out that one of the new arrivals (Taylor) is a PPDC cadet, Joel realizes his Ultimate Job Security isn't so ultimate and decides to get to work instead of having another beer.
• Redemption Equals Death: Not long after defecting from Bogan, he is later killed.
• The Smart Guy: 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.
• Ultimate Job Security: Has this as the only person in the Black who knows anything at all about Jaegers... until PPDC cadet Taylor enters the picture.
• Your Head A-Splode: Joel is killed when Shane detonates an explosive two-way radio he was holding next to his head.

Bunyip-Man

Voiced by: Rhys Darby

Nationality: Australian

A former member of Bogan who lives in Never Never Valley and has — purportedly — found a way to coexist with Kaiju.

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• Ambiguously Brown: Has a dark skin tone and is accompanied by a didgeridoo track. This seems to imply he's an Aboriginal Australian, but its not confirmed.
• An Arm and a Leg: He had his left arm bitten off at the elbow by a baby Trespasser he'd nicknamed Lucy.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Mei is dismissive of him, saying he's clearly insane. 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.
• New-Age Retro Hippie: He sports a long beard, lives by himself on a mesa in a canyon — if you don't count the Kaiju inhabiting the canyon around him, and believes in the importance of positive mental energy — berating Taylor, Hayley, and Mei for stirring up their negative energy with a Jaeger.
• No Name Given: He rattles off a long list of mostly-derogatory nicknames he's been given, preferring Bunyip-Man, but at no point reveals his actual name.

Comics-Only Characters

Tamsin Sevier

Tamsin Sevier

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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• Action Survivor: She was among the pilots that fought Trespasser, the original Kaiju in San Francisco.
• All There in the Manual: 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.
• Baldness Means Sickness: The tie-in comics first introduce Tamsin with shockingly red hair. When Mako visits her in the hospital later, however, she's very thin and bald save for a few strands of hair, indicating that she's dying of cancer.
• Like Brother and Sister: She was like family to Stacker, and they were close enough to be a combat-capable pilot pair.
• Meaningful Name: The name Sevier is similar to sievert, which is a measure of radiation exposure.
• Heroic RRoD: Blacked out prior to the battle with Onibaba, causing Stacker to pilot Coyote Tango solo. They both got radiation poisoning from the poorly shielded reactor, and Tamsin ultimately died from cancer.
• Posthumous Character: Dies before the beginning of the film proper.

Dr. Caitlin Lightcap

Dr. Caitlin Lightcap

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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• Battle Couple: She first drifted with, and later married, the first successful Jaeger test pilot. They continued piloting Brawler Yukon for the duration of its service.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From a shy scientist to not only creating the first Jaegers but being the first to slay a Kaiju.
• Nerd Glasses: She wore a thick pair of glasses and was very intelligent.
• The Power of Love: Was motivated to create and perfect the "Drift" interface by her love for Sergio D'onofrio.
• Significant Haircut: 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.
• Student/Teacher Romance: 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.

Duc Jessop and Kaori Koyamada

Duc Jessop, Kaori Jessop (nee Koyamada)

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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• Battle Couple: They eventually got married and piloted Tacit Ronin.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: 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.
• Handicapped Badass: Duc used a cybernetic leg, but was a competent pilot.
• Heroic Sacrifice: 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.
• Intergenerational Friendship: 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.
• Language Barrier: 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.
• Suicide Mission: Went into their last fight against Ragnarok knowing they would die.
• Spell My Name With An S: Beacham uses "Jessop", while the comic spells it "Jessup".

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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• Curb-Stomp Battle: Multiple.
  • 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.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: 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.
• Glory Days: Misses being a modern day god as a Jaeger pilot.

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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• Red Right Hand: Her left arm is a mechanical claw.
• Samus Is a Girl: In the first issue we only hear her name. In the second we meet her.

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