History Anime / PacificRimTheBlack

** Loa, Atlas Destroyer's AI, is implied to have a dark history linked to the mech being decommissioned from combat service, [[spoiler:as she glitches out when scanning one of the derelict Jaegers and cagily refuses to tell Taylor why. In Season 2, she admits her desire to keep her original pilots safe for harm actually resulted in their deaths.]]

** Loa, Atlas Destroyer's AI, is implied to have a dark history linked to the mech being decommissioned from combat service, [[spoiler:as she glitches out when scanning one of the derelict Jaegers and cagily refuses to tell Taylor why]].

* AdultFear: ''Plenty'' of it. The opening Jaeger fight follows Ford and Jaeger desperately trying to protect their kids, among other civilians, from a rampaging Kaiju, and it gets worse from there. Shane is also a walking manifestation of this trope; [[MindRape torturing kids]] for information using drift tech, being all too willing to murder said children in cold blood, and [[spoiler:having kidnapped and brainwashed Mei from a loving family, blotting out her memories of a happy childhood so she believed he rescued her from the streets.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Rickter is all too eager to follow through with [[spoiler:Shane's order to kill the teenaged Taylor, 14-year-old Hayley, and the apparently prepubescent Boy -- even grinning as he shoots the latter first]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Joel, courtesy of the explosive Shane implanted in all of his radios as an "insurance policy" against anyone who would betray him.]]

* ApocalypseCult: Mention is made of the Sisters, a mysterious trio of women who collect kaiju eggs for an unknown purpose and are dreaded by the various groups of bandits. [[spoiler:In the final episode of Season 1 it's revealed they have some control over the Rippers and worship the Precursors -- viewing the Boy as the Kaiju Messiah.]] In Season 2, they serve as the main antagonists, pursuing the protagonists in order to [[spoiler: brainwash Boy to serve that role for them]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Taylor and Hayley are able to make it to Sydney in which they are reunited with their father. They also rescued the Boy from the Sisters who are all dead and Mai is able to live her own life with her original memories. Sadly, it doesn't come without a heavy price as many have died along the way including Shane, Brina, the Apex and Loa. Also, the world is still ravaged by the Kaijus]]

** Apex is one of the Kaiju-ized Jaeger drones from ''Film/PacificRimUprising'', the only one that survived the feedback loop used to kill the others. Its further evolution follows plans Del Toro had about about a sequel.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Taylor and Hayley are able to make it to Sydney in which they are reunited with their father. They also rescued the Boy from the Sisters and Mai is able to live her own life with her original memories. Sadly, it doesn't come without a heavy price with Shane dying after saving Brina from the Sister's control while drifting. Brina herself ends up dead after succumbing to injuries from a Ripper after rescuing Boy. The Apex also dies after using its last moments to transfer the Travis siblings memories into his mind to break the Sisters' control. And finally Loa self-destructs to kill Breacher and save everyone.]]

* TheyLookLikeUsNow: In the final episode, [[spoiler:Boy is revealed to be a humanoid Kaiju, able to shapeshift into a Kaiju form when sufficiently angry.]]

''Pacific Rim: The Black'', also called as ''Pacific Rim: The Dark Continent'' in Japan, is an original animated series produced and distributed by Legendary Television Studios and Creator/PolygonPictures in association with Creator/{{Netflix}}, based on and expanding the story of ''Film/PacificRim'', ''Pacific Rim: The Black'' follows siblings Hayley and Taylor, who learn to pilot an abandoned Jaeger in a post-apocalyptic Australia overwhelmed by the Kaiju. The series was originally greenlit for two seasons with a 2020 release before it was pushed back to 2021. The first season was released on March 4, 2021.

* ApocalypseCult: Mention is made of the Sisters, a mysterious trio of women who collect kaiju eggs for an unknown purpose and are dreaded by the various groups of bandits. [[spoiler:In the final episode of Season 1 it's revealed they have some control over the Rippers and worship the Precursors -- viewing the Boy as the Kaiju Messiah.]]
* AssholeVictim: Rickter, the leader of Shane's Riders, is a nasty piece of work whose first impulse upon encountering Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy is to pull a gun on them -- albeit after they accidentally cause the deaths of two of his men. Him confronting Taylor intent on revenge leads to a shootout between Bogan and a rival gang, and [[spoiler:he's all too happy to comply when Shane sends him to kill the three after they leave Bogan. Mei stops Taylor from killing Rickter once the siblings and the Boy disarm him... and then coldly shoots him through the heart herself]].

* BigBadEnsemble: Copperhead and Shane are the main villains of season 1. Copperhead serves as the primary Kaiju antagonist, attacking and destroying Hayley and Taylor's hidden village and hunting them relentlessly. Post-apocalyptic gang-leader Shane is the primary human antagonist, taking Taylor and Hayley prisoner in order to seize Atlas Destroyer for himself.

* GreaterScopeVillain: The Precursors serve as this. While they have yet to appear, the Kaiju that are ravaging the world, with one constantly pursuing the heroes, are still controlled by them making it clear that their actions have greatly shaped the series setting and story. [[spoiler: Then it's revealed that the Sisters are an ApocalypseCult that worship The Precursors and are heavily implied to be carrying out their commands within The Black.]]

* LegacyCharacter: In Episode 6, the Taylor and Hayley come across [[spoiler:a derelict Mark-IV Jaeger called Horizon Bravo, modeled and named after the old Mark-I Jaeger Horizon Brave in the same vein that Gipsy Avenger was named and modeled after Gipsy Danger. Loa, Atlas Destroyer's AI, apparently has a history with Horizon Bravo as she starts glitching upon scanning it.]]

* TooDumbToLive: While it never actually kills her, Haley has three instances of this:
** After accidentally landing in the buried, yet also surprisingly close and intact [[ElaborateUndergroundbase Jaeger Base]], Hayley makes a beeline straight for Atlas Destroyer rather than look for supplies, medicine, tools, let alone ''livable rooms''.

* NotSoDifferent: Mei initially refuses to let Hayley drift with her due to having been raised as a ChildSoldier by Shane, but upon being forced to do so she's taken aback by Haley's memories of accidentally killing her friends. Haley is unfazed by Mei's memories and afterwards remarks they're not so different from one another.

* PowerTrio: Taylor, Hayley and Mei, as each of them has piloted Atlas Destroyer with one of the other two.

* VirtualRealityInterrogation: Shane uses a modified drift engine to trick Taylor into revealing the location of Atlas Destroyer, making it seem like they're both in a normal interrogation room.