- Crimson Typhoon v2: We see that in the fight against Otachi the only real damage to Crimson is that it's comm-pod was destroyed. This would be an easy fix (and they'd likely but it lower/armor it so it's not so exposed)
- Coyote Tango v2: Fix that radiation shielding issue, and give it better armor and you've got one hell of a long-rage Kaiju killer.
- According to Word of God, it was put back into service and subsequently destroyed in battle.
- Improved range of motion; The fact Crimson could perform kicks and flips was in itself a large feature of it. Mark VI will improve upon Crimson and Striker's agile design to make even faster Jaegers with an even wider range of motion. Expect full-on Lightning Bruiser compared to the slow tanks of past generations.
- Flight stabilizers; Jaegers probably can't fly (and never will, short of anti-grav technology) but given the Otachi fight, it's clear that Jaegers need to be designed so they can better slow down and control their fall.
- EMP Shielding
- Kaiju brains; They brought up the idea of a Kaiju-Jaeger fusion in the sequel, after all. Two human pilots+a cloned kaiju brain to provide superior coordination and possibly even allow to anticipate what a Kaiju can do as the pilots tap into the hivemind.
- Synthetic Muscle structures using carbon nano-tubes replacing some of the mechanical systems and giving the Jaegers a more organic appearance in certain places that look like black muscle and tendons found on representations of humans without skin.
- A Mark VII Jaeger which uses a successful 1 pilot system by using a pilot with neurological cybernetic implants that allows the pilot to export many of their brain functions into the Jaeger's computer. This will have the effect of almost entirely eliminating any delay between the pilots thoughts and the Jaegers movement and will also cause a reciprocated Cargo Ship between the lone pilot and the PPDC AI.
- One of the Jaegers will have the word Apache in the name and will use a scaled up tomahawk as a weapon. The tomahawk will pump plasma along the blade to heat it up and increase damage while cauterizing Kaiju wounds and the edge will glow orange.
- The ability to switch out weapons for each mission. On the fridge page its stated part of the reason the Kaiju started doing so well against the Jaegers wasn't just because the Kaiju got stronger. They also learned the Jaegers tactics and weapons, and acted to counter them and attack weakpoints. Gypsy Danger does so well because it has new weapons, rendering the old information useless, and Raleigh and Mako are very flexible and improvisational in their fighting style. So keeping the Kaiju guessing by switching weapons, and maybe even pilots will become a major part of the strategy. A Jaeger might be sent out on one mission with missile launchers and a heated sword, or it might be sent out with a flamethrower and electrified whips.
- So essentially ideas pulled from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED specifically the Strike. Launcher Packs? Sounds cool. And could even help with the EMP problem. Back up powerpacks.
- Emphasis on heavy weapons and firepower, as well as being able to take hits, instead of flashy agility. Given just how long Cherno Alpha lasted and how powerful it was with it's outdated tech, (Equal to Fragile Speedster Crimson Typhoon, a Mark IV Jaeger), It's a good bet it's more effective to build em strong than fast, with heavy weapons intended for the likes of Slattern being part of it.
- Mk V design actually supports Lightning Bruiser line of thinking. Striker Eureka was not only the most powerful, but also the fastest, Jaeger made. Especially since Cherno Alpha's demise has shown that Kaiju can easily defeat heavy armor.
- Attack Jaegers (also called "Breachers") designed to penetrate the Breach and take the war to the Alterverse. Massive firepower will be their trademark, possibly including nuclear weapons. One Jaeger could easily carry the arsenal of a missile sub.
- Alternate: Stacker will be resurrected as an AI when they try to repair a Jaeger using parts from Coyote Tango's computers.
- Alternate alternate: The movie will be a prequel.
- And his closest companions are an Action Girl and a self-destuctive robot.
- Jossed. The Jaeger was, according to Guillermo Del Toro, named after the de Havilland Gipsy Engine.
- I think that the original troper meant that maybe in the Pacific Rim-verse "Gipsy" was the slur it always was until 2013. But when Gipsy Danger fought his first battle, when she became the beacon of hope that she is, the word "Gipsy" started to be used for design heroics. Much like until some decades, in the fifth of november Guy Fawkes was a demon to be tortured and killed, but now, even the very same fifth of november, he's hailed as an hero
- It will forever be my headcanon that Yancy and Raleigh and/or the most influential creator of GD has/had prominent Romani ancestry, and the usage of "Gipsy" was a homage to that ancestry. Also because it sounds cool.
- Or maybe the term "Gipsy" was used in the non-race-related sense of, say, "gypsy cab license".
- Then it'd be pretty much the same plot again.
- Wouldn't it then be called ‘Atlantic Rim’? Or something like, ‘Pacific Rim: Rise Of The Atlantic’? Why would they call it ‘Pacific’ if it has to do with the Atlantic, not the pacific?
- For the same reason Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan weren't in "The Kung Fu Kid"
- 'Atlantic Rim' has already been taken by an Asylum mockbuster.
- This might help explain why they tend to decompose so fast after death.
- The novelization mentions the Kaiju are silicon based life.
- Be heavily damaged in the beginning, forcing it to be put away and for the pilots to use the older, model mech.
- It IS the old mech. After it gets damaged there will be a timeskip and a second chance for it to prove itself.
- Confirmed. Gipsy Danger gets damaged in the prequel and brought back late in the game.
- Sort of. Raleigh and Mako Mori desync during a calibration test with them Drifting in Gypsy Danger. Raleigh recovers, but Mako Mori gets caught in memory and activates one of the plasma cannons. Mission Control was just barely able to shut down Gypsy Danger before anything bad happened.
- Two Jaegers journeying alone to the bottom of the ocean to drop a nuke down an interdimensional portal while fighting multiple Kaiju may have in fact been considered a suicide mission, but I don't think the lack of helicopters has anything to do with proving that none of the pilots were meant to survive. From what we see in the movie, the helicopters serve two purposes: Transporting Jaegers and spotting for their pilots. Keep in mind that, in this case, the Jaegers are deep underwater. The choppers can't see anything for them, and retrieving the Jaegers would be impossible from that location. The Jaegers would have to walk back to the shore until they could be attached to the chopper harnesses and hauled back to base. Remember, the original plan was to have Striker drop the bomb into the breech while Gipsy fought them off. In ideal circumstances, neither crew would have been lost, and neither would have had to escape their Jaegers. The only reason why they sent the helicopters out there in the first place was because changes in the plan meant Raleigh and Mako had to eject, something they hadn't been anticipating before the fight.
- Tak Mashido, the inventor of robots such as Zeus and Noisy Boy, was hired to help scale up his robots to fight the kaiju.
- And thus we will get a Kaiju/Jaeger vs Big Bad fight and it will be GLORIOUS!
- Confirmed. There are beings on the other side of the portal who are responsible for creating and sending the Kaiju through the breach.
This may only apply to Otachi.
- Onibaba just had to find the one thing moving at high speed that was a colour other than grey and making an ungodly amount of noise. Not too hard. We can assume that Otachi was connected to Newt somehow mentally due to his Drift, though that really is WMG.
- That's not how eyes work. By that logic, and elephant can't see ants because they're too small, and ants can see individual cells.
AND Otachi COULD tell where Newt was, that's not a WMG, hence "It knows I'm here" and the deliberate tracking of him through the city without line of sight.
- The Japanese pilot is female and trailers suggest she's probably a Lady of War
- I assume the OP was referring to the pilot of Coyote Tango who's identity is unknown.
- I posted this WMG and I just got back from watching the movie. Pentecost certainly gets the best lines, though his taste in anime is unknown.
- Sorta. Pentecost was Coyote Tango's pilot, but that was in the past, and in the final fight he pilots Striker Eureka.
- Almost. The portal is inter-dimensional, but there is a plan to go back through it to the source that is a lab. And those beings do want to take over the planet.
- Being a model with a single pilot, the resulting mental strain makes it less efficient.
- It is a support unit intended to weaken kaiju for other Jaegers, not to kill them personally.
- Endless kill-steals, deliberate and otherwise, from the newer two-pilot models.
- This is the most likely explanation. The movie does confirm that it wasn't always a 1 Vs 1 engagement against the Kaiju (Raleigh and Herc Hansen speak of meeting before during a three-Jaeger operation), and thus it is possible that while Coyote Tango fought several times, it only had the kill shot in two opportunities.
- It doesn't have a longer period and only appears in a flashback / earlier scene that takes place prior to its decommission or destruction.
- One or both of it's kills will come in the battle that cripples Gypsy Danger - Coyote Tango's actions are why Raleigh survives the battle.
- Likely Jossed. The first Jaegers were built in 14 months, and no one thought about stuff like radiation shielding. Coyote Tango and its pilot, Pentecost, were retired with Pentecost (who has radiation-induced cancer) being told he'd die if he piloted Coyote Tango again/was exposed to any more radiation. Coyote Tango is also only seen in a flashback sequence.
- Very much Jossed. Coyote Tango was removed from service after it's battle with Onibaba (15-05-2016) - this being it's only Kaiju kill. It got remodeled later and joined Striker Eureka in battle (9-10-2021) scoring second kill with new pilots on board. We lack official information on later attacks and if CT engaged any Kaiju till 10-11-2022 when it is destroyed.
- Jossed, big time. The Kaiju are Genetically Engineered Bio Weapons.
- Variation: Future kaiju will be piloted and/or used as Trojan horses and the pilots/spies will look identical to humans a la Mimic. Newton's accidental(?) resemblance to Dr. Kasukabe will get even more pronounced when he falls in love with one of them. The other, more squeamish doctor would work just as well, and for added hilarity the human-kaiju is an amazonian Statuesque Stunner — not even because kaiju are huge, it's because she's modeled after the Russian pilot.
- First, it's Horizon Brave. Second, it is confirmed that Horizon Brave was killed in action, so it's unlikely that any of the Wei Tang Triplets were pilots for it.
- Pretty much Jossed. The Wei Tang triplets pilot the three-armed Crimson Typhoon. However, the idea that it gets destroyed in the battle of Hong Kong is confirmed.
- Nah, it's because Desmond saved us all.
- Because he wanted to see the movie.
- Probably Jossed because it's mentioned the Kaiju are silicon-based, have acidic blood and release a toxic substance called Kaiju Blue from their decaying carcasses.
- On the other hand... It's mentioned in the film that the Kaiju's controllers wiped out the dinosaurs in their first invasion attempt. It's possible that they kept some specimens in their own world for any number of reasons. Godzilla was a dinosaur mutated by nuclear radiation, and at the end of the film Gipsy Danger detonates inside the controller's universe. Now wouldn't it be great if now that the Jaegers are all decommissioned or destroyed and humanity is defenseless to any other breaches that there might be a really big guy out there with a grudge against the controllers and their own monsters?
- Alternatively... the nuclear blast that creates Godzilla is the one set off by Striker Eureka in the ocean. The humans will, in effect, create their own kaiju by accidentally mixing nuclear radiation and the remains of Scunner, Raiju, and Slattern.
- Now that the Godzilla remake is out, this is possibly Jossed. Godzilla was awakened in the 1950s and not in the 21st Century. Also Godzilla was mutated not by Striker Eureka's nuke. but by nuclear attacks disguised as tests.
- However, both Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla confirm that they kept other Kaiju, like the Skullcrushers and the Mutos in their respective films in check like hunters. Both films establish that humans aren't too bright when it comes to dealing with Godzilla and King Kong so sometime after their big cross-over event, both monsters are killed by humans, thus allowing the Kaiju from Pacific Rim to emerge.
- The problem with all these theories connecting Pacific Rim to MonsterVerse is that there timelines just don't match up. In the Pacific Rim timeline, the first kaiju appeared in 2013 and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge. In the MonsterVerse timeline, Godzilla destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge and kaiju were already known to humanity. As such if the two series existed in the same universe, there would be severe Continuity Snarl that would require massive retcons. Sorry kaiju fans but this is all Jossed.
- We do see the other side of the Breach and it looks like Xen. In this alternate Half-Life, the Xen aliens created the Resonance Cascade purposefully to facilitate the invasion of Earth.
- Gonarch is actually a prototype Kaiju that we see in the closing chapters of Half-Life.
- So are Striders and the other Combine synths.
- The Jaegers are either produced at or were initially designed by Aperture Laboratories, causing Cave Johnson to become rich (for a change), not suffer mercury (or moon-dust) poisoning, not try to put Caroline into the AI system, and thus not have a rampant GLaDOS. We all know that GLaDOS was uploaded as the AI in the earlier Jaegers.
- Come to think of it, there is a cargo container displaying the Aperture Science logo visible (albeit for about a split second) during the fight with Leatherback....
- Aperture Science managed to make a human-machine neural link (with the uploading of Caroline), so why couldn't they make a human-human(-machine) neural link?
- Jossed; Gypsy Danger is powered by a pair of nuclear reactors, and apparently at least one of the other Jaegers is powered by something like fifty diesel engines.
- Fifty diesel engines per Muscle Strand...
- Nah. If it were, Gipsy Danger would probably be powered by an Arc Reactor instead of nuclear cores.
- All the better to understand an Eldritch Abomination from another universe.
- Jossed - The Jaegers are completely mechanical, and it doesn't seem like anything is reverse engineered from the kaiju. All studies are about understanding them to kill them better.
- But confirmed for the sequel, according to this interview. The only question is which side will be using the partially-alien machines...
- Extremely unlikely; even accepting the notion that Attack on Titan's world had defeated the Titans in the intervening time frame and that they had once again spread across the globe, there is no way that a continent's worth of Asians are going to spring forth from Mikasa'snote lineage in the intervening time frame, let alone divide into both Japanese and Chinese branches to account for both Mako Mori and the Wei Tang Triplets.
- Alternatively, Attack on Titan takes place 2000 years after Pacific Rim. The Kaiju were awed enough by humanity being the only race to defeat them that they created new soldiers in their image, and tried to retake Earth via the Titans. Walls Maria, Rose and Sina are the remnants of the walls built to defend humanity from Kaiju. The rift in the Pacific was reopened, and countries nearest to the Pacific were destroyed outright; hence why the majority of the cast in Attack are of European descent.
- Alternatively, the Titans are result of an experimente in which humans tried to fuse the Jaeger's interface with the Kaiju biological armor and dimensions. And it went horribly wrong.
- Jossed.
- Partially correct. During the attack on Sydney, Hercules Hansen was forced to make the Sadistic Choice between saving his wife or his son. Chuck would have preferred Herc saved his mother, and Herc hates himself for loving his son more than his wife. They're both perfectly aware of the disconnect, and take their shared anger and self-hatred out on the Kaiju.
- The fact that one of the Kaiju is pregnant suggests an existence other than being purely constructed as weapons. Perhaps Kaiju were a victim race the Masters "repurposed."
- Hence why when he tugs down Newt's eyelid he immediately recognizes his bloody sclera/what he did and wants nothing more to do with it. His comment about how he did that once too isn't about going to the shelter at all, it's about doing something damned reckless.
- Alternately, when he said he 'tried it once' he didn't mean just using a public shelter, he mean using one after he'd drifted with a kaiju. He tried it once, and a kaiju came specifically for him, the same way Otachi did with Newt.
- If he attempted to drift with a kaiju that could explain how they knew to start targeting the pilots and exploit the Jaeger weaknesses. He does mention the Drift going both ways.
- Despite me remembering Word of God saying somewhere that Newt was the first to try drifting with a Kaiju, it would make a lot of sense. Hannibal knows a lot about the Kaiju anatomy, and while that could be attributed to years of running his black market operations, I'd imagine hooking your brain up to a Kaiju would help with that too. I could imagine Hannibal, not realizing the Kaiju have a hivemind, thinking that drifting with a Kaiju would give him just enough knowledge of their biology to improve the efficiency of his business.
- He had the exact same wounds as Striker had inflicted before, on top of the burning from the explosion. Apparently Slattern really was just that tough. Those aliens sure do know how to make a hardy monster.
- Slattern wasn't the first Kaiju to survive a nuke. In 2014 Kaiju Scissure (which was at best Cat III) took not one but TWO tactical nukes before going down - this event convinced people it's time to look for an alternative.
- Trespasser, Kaiju numero uno, took three.
- Three tactical nukes, after six days of continuous bombardment with every conventional weapon the United States Armed Forces could throw at it. Hardy monsters, indeed.
- Word of God says that Hannibal has a "constructed persona." ...this is more literal than it appears; he's an interdimensional Kaiju flesh dealer. Being a native "placebo" black market organ dealer is the perfect cover. The Kaiju Masters have tried this stunt on other worlds in other dimensions. Hannibal sells flesh to worlds to wrap around bombs to send through rifts. "Meat Bombs" are a pretty effective deterrent.
- Earth, however, is not a paying customer in whatever interdimensional currency he uses. (And he has to harvest Kaiju flesh somewhere)
- This also explains how he understood the nature of the Kaiju hive-mind so quickly.
- Or he could be Hellboy, in disguise as a human, doing a deep cover operation for the BPRD, perhaps to root out the conspiracy behind the shutdown of the Jaeger program.
- The Cloverfield Universe is one Alternate Universe across from the Pacific Rim one. The Cloverfield Monster's awakening was the signal to the hivemind that worlds in the multi-dimensional neighborhood were ready for colonization.
- And naturally, after the film's conclusion, the Jaeger program is scrapped (because of, you know, all the Jaegers being destroyed) while the United States & North Korea use Nanosuits to search for any other traces of aliens on the planet and make an interesting discovery on a certain island archipelago in the Pacific Ocean...
- Also, Hannibal Chau is The Emperor. Why him? Because we know The Emperor had many guises in his past lives, and Hannibal, we find out, somehow knew from the get-go how to neutralize and dissect and clean up kaiju corpses in a relatively short amount of time. He also has apparently an intimate familiarity with how the neural handshake works. Seems like an immortal guy that has a hand in founding both The Imperium AND The Mechanicum would be familiar with giant chaos-beasts AND how to build the Titans needed to fight for his armies on a larger scale.
- Possibly in the future it becomes possible to have a single pilot for a Jaeger by replacing the second pilot with an AI 'pilot' in the form of the Machine Spirit.
- To add to this, the Kaiju seem awfully similar to Tyranid Bio-titans, and, considering the Tyranids have apparently eaten other galaxies and can absorb the DNA of their victims...
- Just a minor issue OP. Jaegers are a lot bigger than Warhound Titans. Warhound Titans are 14 meters tall, the shortest Jaeger on record (Horizon Brave) is 72.5 meters tall. Unless you're talking about weaponry, then yes. Jaegers seem to fall somewhere between Warhound and Warlord Titans in terms mobility/damage output however.
- In that case, they could be considered a generalized Titan prototype — over time, more specialized models were developed, including physically smaller Warhounds for scouting and skirmishing, and larger and more powerful Warlords and Emperors for increasingly large and powerful foes (the Kaijus/Tyranids would hardly stop at Category V beasts, after all).
- They could be early Imperial Knights.
- Considering the very next assault after one of their kaiju had to spend an hour busting through a wall included the first ever flying kaiju, and one that could spit corrosive to demolish barriers no less, it's pretty clear the Masters were making deliberate countermoves to overcome the humans' defenses. Unless they have some really, really smart wildlife on their home dimension, it's pretty clear they realized Earth's natives were methodically and deliberately opposing them.
- also:If those were not early model omni tools the pilots used in the Jeager cabins, I'm Trope Tan's mother.
- Essentially, Gipsy Danger is a Super Robot with a Real Robot retrofit. Access the Neural link deep enough; and you access the SR parts.
- It was probably because Gipsy Danger was off. EMPs don't actually damage equipment that's not running an electrical charge.
- Um, yes they can. The damage might be less, especially if there were a lot of physically opened circuits, but anything with wires can be damaged by an EMP. On the other hand, Gipsy Danger's circuits might have been less miniaturized and less sensitive, both of which would make it less vulnerable. It might even have been built before "everyone knew" that Kaiju couldn't generate EMP and had hardened electronics.
- I'd rather guess that because Gipsy Danger is powered by nuclear reactor whole installation is shielded from radiation - it is perfectly doable - along with Conn-Pod being shielded as a whole to protect the pilots - it would allow digital display inside. The point Raleigh made about it being "resistant because analogue" was on the other hand his mistake as he's not an expert - he just remembered about shielding and tried to make a point.
- The line bothered me at first too, but then I remembered something interesting about Gipsy Danger. In particular, the strange mechanisms on the floor of the cockpit that Raleigh and Yancy's boots attach to. It's quite possible that "Analogue" is shorthand for a Jaeger with fully or semi-analogue motion input, as opposed to a completely digital one. Much in the same way we call a car with manual transmission a "Manual". Radiation shielding on the Jaeger would have been built up around the reactor, but it's possible the cockpits were a noticeable weak point for an EMP blast. When the blast struck, Striker's unit was completely knocked out because it didn't have proper shielding and the pilot input was completely digital, so even if the Jaeger had been semi-functional, it's possible they wouldn't have been able to maneuver it at all. In that case, what Raleigh is really saying is that Gipsy Danger is both an "Analogue" input Jaeger with a nuclear reactor and therefore radiation shielding, meaning it can operate without much trouble even after the blast.
- Not Necessarily, you need two or more pilots because of how huge and complex a Jeager is. Controlling an excavator or any other piece of equipment is probably simple enough for a single person to do it.
- True, there'll be singleton pilots for simpler machines. Drifting teams will probably still be in high demand, though, as complex higher-end equipment is bound to be more taxing to operate than low-end.
- Transforming Mecha: Not only a gratuitous way to Troll the Michael Bay Transformers Film Series, but also can be handwaved as attempting to give Jaegers more mobility than a slightly clutzy Humongous Mecha (along with opportunities for Combining Mecha, a la Power Rangers), either to reduce collateral damage from knocking around in city centers, or to fight equally more "streamlined" Kaiju (who, in this idea, are a bunch of smaller creatures that Zerg Rush as either a prelude or support force for the gigantic Kaiju). These Jaegers will be smaller to allow them the ability to transform into vehicles, and thus will only need one pilot (albeit one who's good syncing in both Mecha mode, and Vehicle mode). Assuming a vehicle "team" can transform into one Combining Mecha, all of the pilot minds sync up when they combine.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion homage: In an effort to harness various advantages of Organic Technology, from Healing Factor to Unstoppable Rage, future Jaegers will be cyborgs partly cloned from the Kaiju themselves but clad in armor to keep the public in the dark (the armor also doubles as a Power Limiter). Interfacing with them, however, will require being able to withstand drifting with a Kaiju brain and tends to mangle one's psyche somewhat. Regardless, Newt obviously Jumped at the Call and insisted upon becoming a pilot.
- Tropes in Space (I.E. Orbital Bombardment (particuarly with a Kill Sat), Cool Starships and Drop Ships, SpaceStations and off-planet colonies, etc.): basically, after the Pacific region is completely trashed, and the future of humanity remains uncertain if the Kaiju decide for another go, somebody gets the bright idea to use some of the technological research put into the Jaegers into building sustainable colonies on the Moon and other planets. A possible plot point for a new Big Bad is to have a traditional alien incursion coming from outside the solar system, (starting with the extraterrestrial colonies before getting to Earth), or have one or more of these extraterrestrial colonies "rebelling" against Earth (think the Helghans and ICA from [[Video Game/Killzone]] - with Humongous Mecha!!!). The latter is particularly interesting as it allows inter-human conflict, pure mecha-on-mecha battles, and possible low gravity fights on the Moon or Mars.
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke: In this case, either a government agency or financial entrepreneur decides to figure out more of this "Living Weapon" business with the Kaiju, and tries to integrate their brain matter into replicating the "Hive Mind" in a human body (a misguided attempt to strengthen a human psyche to sync with a Jaeger solo at best, an insidious attempt at making a Hive Mind of humanity at worst). "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?", right? Naturally, this would make whoever is unlucky enough to get the treatment get Psychic Powers, and batshit insanity as well: either these psychic psychos are Brainwashed and Crazy for whoever made them, the original Hive Mind takes over the psychic and uses them as their own agent on Earth, or the psychic simply Turned Against Their Masters, and humanity in general (or at lest racks up A LOT collateral damage trying to get those they have a grudge with).
- A more general addition would allow for Artificial Limbs, Cyborgs, and Ridiculously Human Robots - no plot point for them, per se (they're more for filling in new Rule of Cool stuff along with the plot hooks I could think of).
- Callback to Mimic with humanoid kaiju spies. Heck, for all we know there could've been human-kaiju spies since the second one came to earth.
- Another Rift opens, but this time, the Kaiju are actually Humongous Mecha for their creators, having decided that it's probably most cost-effective to send sapient pilots. At least one will be a Worthy Opponent disgusted with his race's ambitions of conquest when they can just colonize another, uninhabited planet, and communicating with him (and his Heel–Face Turn) will be a major plot point. The main villain will be a General Ripper who apparently doesn't understand the concept of Sunk Cost Fallacy.
- Remember the offhandedly mentioned group of people who worshiped the Kaiju, thinking that they were a divine sign of the gods being dissatisfied with humanity? After the drift is closed, they organize a revenge effort and decide that is their divine mission to continue to the kaiju's missions. Whether they somehow clone the Kaiju or start making Jaegers to mimic the Kaiju doesn't matter. What matters: Humanity is once again its own worst enemy, and the Jaeger program has to be reinstated to combat this new home-grown threat. And the twist will be that those who are funding the cult are actually the people who manufacture the Jaegers. It was a multi-billion dollar industry, and they weren't willing to let it die. This can add a whole new level of espionage sub-plots and more traditional action. Or...
- The above mentioned humans with robots against humans with robots, but—as mentioned above—a result of space colonies declaring independence. This will allow Deltoro to pay homage to an entirely different area of the mecha anime genre, the area that Mobile Suit Gundam established.
- The kid who was there when Gypsie Danger first hit shore after its defeat by Knifehead grows up and becomes a Jaeger pilot, most-likely citing Raleigh as either inspiration or a source of doubt.
- A future film will show the Kaiju as genetically engineered bioweapons are as much as victims of the Masters, as the very humans they're ordered to exterminate. They're none too happy about it. Eventually a mutant strain in the Hive Mind starts to manifest, and spread out to where the creatures have effectively Turned Against Their Masters. Said Precursors, are furious at their own bioweapons openly defying them, and decide if the uprising cannot be quelled, then the Earth invasion is a lost cause that must be purged. So the Masters opt to destroy the entire planet along with the rebelling Kaiju. The PPDC will be faced with a dilemma: Do they extinguish this anomaly in the Hive Mind, to continue the war and save Earth from annihilation by the alien Precursors? Or do they assist the Kaiju rebellion, knowing if they win together, the creatures will call Earth "home" and become a Master Race over humanity?
- Its scientifically impossible for the original dinosaurs to have been our birds and reptiles. As genetically designed clones, they would be incapable of breeding sustainably enough for enough genetic variance to take hold andnevolution to work. More likely the Kaiju just fought the dinosaurs. Which incidentally, sounds like an awesome idea for a prequel
- It's very possible that even if Pentecost didn't do this, Mako primarily had (or sought out) interactions with older more traditional Japanese people, a lower-key version of what seems have happened with Hermann judging from his flashbacks. (Awkward child prodigy whose only peers/intellectual companions were stodgy adults of an earlier generation; voluntarily adopts a painfully-British, painfully-academic presentation as a result.) Her identity isn't completely depersonalized and homogenized — her hair dye, boots, personalized living space, etc. She could have voluntarily sought out that kind of discipline herself, in the same way Pentecost relies on his framework of military discipline/hierarchy even no longer formally in the military.
- This is actually what happened in the Novelization.
- Also, remember Raleigh "went out of synch first." He unexpectedly flashed back to Yancy's death, but he was experienced enough in the Drift to get back under control. That traumatic memory triggered Mako's own traumatic memory, and she wasn't experienced enough to rein it back in.
- Considering that the US was only able to construct four Jaegers, it seems really unlikely that any of the Scandinavian countries would be able to construct one solo, especially since they would presumably already be helping with the construction of Jaegers in the Pacific zone. A Norwegian/Danish/Swedish/Finnish collaboration stationed in Norway and a British/Icelandic jaeger stationed on Iceland seems more likely.
This will massively raise the stakes for the sequel, as there's no portal to target to put a stop to it, and there aren't single events anymore, its a constant, exponentially escalating attack. This will lead to the world's governments dumping every resource available into dozens of new Mark 6 Jaegers. And that will lead to battles of a dozen Jaegers versus a dozen Kaijus all at once. It is going to be fucking awesome.
- highly unlikely, as Trespasser was little bigger than a blue whale and the PRDF detects not just size but also ambient radiation.
- The opposite - Trespasser was big even by Kaiju standards - Knifehead was only 5% bigger and was the biggest Cat III Kaiju recorded in his time (we lack precise data on Cat IV which emerged three months before Knifehead).
- It makes sense, with all the Jaegers destroyed Nuking Clover was the last option that was certain to work.
Gentlemen: we the evidence is clear. Every Jeager Pilot is one of us.
- Variation: Jaeger weapon caches will be set up in and around threatened Cities with a variety of mech-sized to grab mid-fight. This will happen for two main reason:
- So the Jaegers can adapt to the apparently-infinity-variable Kaiju quicker and more easily. Bugger won't stay still? Grab a net of meter-thick carbon-nanotube rope and let fly. Blades and blasts glancing off a shell thicker than a teenager's skull? Drop the hammer and crack it open like a walnut.
- Firearms will likely not be field-reloadable, but one- or few-shot BF Gs that Jaegers can use up and toss aside/club the ugly somebitch.
- Jaegers will still have their own built-in weapons, but they will probably be either unorthodox custom attacks like Crimson Typhoon's Thundercloud Formation, or too energy-intensive to power without a full Jaeger's power source like Gypsy Danger's Plasma Caster.
- So pilots like Raleigh have an alternative to breaking the tanker your company spent half a million dollars on over some kaiju's skull. Someone has to pay for that stuff!
- So the Jaegers can adapt to the apparently-infinity-variable Kaiju quicker and more easily. Bugger won't stay still? Grab a net of meter-thick carbon-nanotube rope and let fly. Blades and blasts glancing off a shell thicker than a teenager's skull? Drop the hammer and crack it open like a walnut.
- And then he helped produce this movie so that people would know about the horrors that were averted.
- Not only will this be a source of income in a world that thinks the threat is gone, but the PDC will be glad to have the opportunity to keep the Jaeger program up to date with technology (though the actual weapons would likely be toned down for sporting events) and have a wider pool of potential pilots already trained. It would be like the real military putting the war games they run for training purposes on pay per view.
- Does... Does this mean potential Mobile Fighter G Gundam homages?
- Possible, but the background material indicates that Herc originally partnered with his own brother (Chuck's uncle). Then he saw something in the drift - a secret from his brother's past - that not only shattered their compatibility, but caused them to be estranged.
- And what's more, they will be right. Especially if we send Jaegers armed with nuclear weapons. Imagine something like Striker Eureka's chest missile launcher, but loaded with sub-launched ICBMs.
- Most major cities destroyed: check.
- Take all the resources and move on: check
- Have been to earth before: check
- Hive mind: check.
- Controlling aliens look the same as the ones in ID4: check.
- Aliens staring at the nuclear device about to kill them: check.
- This WMG is made of win.
- Given the Norse view that War Is Glorious, that Stacker raised Mako, whose Japanese background would mesh quite well with Nordic ideals, and how Stacker received the best death that a Viking could think up by going down fighting the enemy, this theory is awesome.
- The show will premiere on television instead of being released on a digital outlet like Netflix
- The show will be aimed towards mature audiences as opposed to younger audiences, a la Thunder Cats 2011 and Sym-Bionic Titan
Eventually Gottlieb begins to correspond with Geizler, unaware of their existing connection. And when they meet in person he realizes that the brilliant scientist he has been communicating with is the uncultured ignorant trash that he had met during his experiment, causing the divide between them. Over the course of the movie Charlie/Newton manages to prove to Geizler that he is genuinely a different person now, and shows him how much he can contribute, mending their divide.