History Awesome / PacificRim

** ** The fight also calls back to Chuck's earlier comment that the Jaeger Program was brought down by incompetent pilots. Chuck made no attempts to hide the fact that he thought Raleigh was an inferior pilot and fighter. Raleigh proved him wrong.

** Not just take down, ''[[CurbstompBattle demolish]].''

* The AI whose voice is heard during parts of the facility scenes and announcing the status when the human characters are in the mechs to fight the Kaiju? It's GLaDOS from VideoGame/{{Portal}}! The director and his family are huge Valve fans, so Valve gave them permission to have Creator/EllenMcLain use her GLaDOS voice. Portal fans ''exploded''.

* Gipsy Danger fight with Raiju [[spoiler:is a quick CurbStompBattle where shoves its blade into its mouth during an underwater battle and [[InertiaIsACruelMistress uses the monster's momentum]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe to slice it in half]]]].

* You know that horn that always heralds Gipsy Danger's arrival? That loud ''BWOOOOM'' that sounds like HansZimmer's wet dream? [[MostWonderfulSound That's not part of the soundtrack.]] That's Gipsy's warning horn, and it has the double purpose of 1) [[BringIt distracting/intimidating Kaijus]], and 2) [[BigDamnHeroes announcing to any humans in the vicinity that a Jaeger is here to kick some monster ass.]]

* This movie's first CrowningMomentOfAwesome is the suit up. It manages to make a sequence more awesome than that in ''Film/IronMan''. And then the awesome just '''''keeps on escalating'''''.
** The whole suit up sequence and the step-by-step deployment of Gipsy Danger from the hangar bay, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome all accompanied by the main theme blasting in the background,]] '''FEELS SO DAMN AWESOME.'''

It's giant robots punching giant monsters in the face. The movie is ''made of it''.
* This movie's first CrowningMomentOfAwesome is the suit up. It manages to make a suit up sequence more awesome than that in ''Film/IronMan''. And then the awesome just '' '''keeps on escalating''' ''.

*** WalkingTall: The Mecha.

*** Otachi is going to get [[DwarfFortress Boatmurdered.]]

** Leatherback bodylocking Gipsy, then throwing him over the distance of several miles.

* [[spoiler:Chau is the only person onscreen to survive ''getting eaten'' by a Kaiju. The first priority he has upon cutting his way out is wondering where his ''goddamned shoe'' went.]]

* [[spoiler:Chau is the only person onscreen to survive ''getting eaten'' by a Kaiju. And he wants his goddamned shoe back.]]

** Furthermore the fact that in those final moments [[spoiler: you can see fear on those alien bastards faces before they were nuked to hell.]]

** To further underscore what Raleigh and Mako accomplished: they [[spoiler:penetrated the breach into ''another dimension'', kicked a Category 5 Kaiju's ass and used its body to get them through, activated the badly damaged GD's self-destruct, both ejected from the Jager, floated all the way from the alien Antiverse back through the breach and to the surface of the ocean, and lived to tell the tale, as if it were all in a day's work.]]

* The AI whose voice is heard during parts of the facility scenes and announcing the status when the human characters are in the mechs to fight the Kaiju? It's GLaDOS from VideoGame/{{Portal}}! The director and his family are huge Valve fans, so Valve gave them permission to have EllenMcLain use her GLaDOS voice. Portal fans ''exploded''.

*** Or, even better, Gipsy Danger AND Godzilla beating the daylights out of Ghidora.

** Leatherback choosing to take down Striker at his most vulnerable moment by unleashing his EMP while Striker is prepping his [[MacrossMissleMassacre K-stunners.]]

** Knifehead vs Gipsy Danger. Between the sheer scale of the Kaiju presented on screen, Knifehead returning from the dead, humanity learning ItCanThink when Knifehead plays dead, counters Gipsy's plasma carter, targets Gipsy's con-pod and ''rips out the pilot'', it showed that this movie wouldn't be a repeat of the 1998 Godzilla and the Kaiju were going to be a very real threat. Knifehead would have won if Raleigh hadn't suddenly learnt to single-pilot a Jaeger.

*** When Crimson needed help, Cherno was unable to save his ass on time. Similarly, when Cherno was getting torn apart, Striker couldn't stop Leatherback from killing the Kadainovskys. On the other hand, when Cherno starts getting back in the fight, Leatherback immediately ensures that victory would be the Kaijus', and when Striker had Otachi dead for rights, he again manages to both save her and defeat Striker. The two were essentially unbeatable until they made the mistake of splitting up.

** Slattern being the first Kaiju to hold his own aginst, even dominate for a while, Striker Eureka. Eureka had previously completely handed Mutavore and Otachi their asses with ease (Otachi and novel Mutavore had both shown the capability to dominate two Jaegers at once), and Slattern not only manages to throw him all over the place and seriously damage him, but shrug off the Stinger Blades.
*** Can't forget the 'Slattern survives a nuke' scene, of course. ''Especially since the bomb was 60x more powerful than tbe one that hit Hiroshima''.

** Scunner taking a [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow sword through the skull, face roasted with a volcanic vent]], and still survives to continue fighting Gipsy and helping Slattern with Striker Eureka.
* Any showing of the Kaiju using intelligence is great, given Hollywood's tendencies to portray monsters as simple giant animals.

** Leatherback and Otachi's use of cover and sneak attacks.

** Leatherback choosing to take down Striker at his most vulnerable moment when he is prepping his K-stunners.
** Scunner, Slattern, and Raiju splitting up the tackle Gipsy and Striker and swapping opponents when neccesary, hence showing their capacity for tactics and complex ambush strategies.

* Slattern, even after getting his throat slit, arms nearly amputated, hit point-blank by a damn nuke, and getting plowed right through the torso continues to put up one hell of a fight till the end and nearly destroys Gipsy.

** Since we're on the subject of a studio that owns the rights to both the King of Monsters and Jaegers... [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Gipsy Danger vs. Godzilla]], anyone?

** ** The fight also calls back to Chuck's earlier comment that the Jaeger Program was brought down by incompetent pilots. Since Raleigh's encounter with Knifehead was the first ever Jaeger battle to go south, Chuck made no attempts to hide the fact that he thought Raleigh was an inferior pilot and fighter. Raleigh proved him wrong.

** Considering the head of Legendary said that the sequel was unlikely to happen not too long before Godzilla's premiere and now pulling a 180 with Godzilla's success. Safe to say that Godzilla is a Kaiju worth being friends and co-workers with.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HndBiSyOrK4 About that...]]