History Awesome / PacificRim

*** The way that they swing it, you could probably call it [[IncrediblyLamePun a baseball boat]].

* Striker Eureka's introduction scene: five years after Kaiju turn deadlier, the Hansens pummel Mutavore. She never gets a hit in and they finish her with missiles in less than a minute. It's even more [[IncrediblyLamePun striking]] that we just saw Gipsy fight, and Striker is ''unbelievably'' nimble in comparison.

** Even after getting her tail and acid disabled, Otachi still has one more trick up her sleeve -- flight. She damn near beats Gipsy and would have if not for the Chainsword. The fact that she's the only flying kaiju in the franchise- neither ''Uprising'' nor ''The Black'' revealed another- helps cement her position in the franchise ''and genre'' as a certified badass and one of ''the'' iconic flying kaiju, putting her [[IncrediblyLamePun up there]] with the likes of ''Mothra, Ghidorah, and Rodan''.

* Mako's drift flashback was both a Moment of Heartwarming and a silencing of anyone's lingering doubts regarding Pentecost's badassery, standing like a triumphant god over the multipled holed body of his two-thousand-ton enemy with the rising sun framed behind him. Truly the crowning moment for Pentecost's story, because for a paternal authority figure like him, ''nothing'' is more awesome than being a little girl's hero.

** Even quieter moments were awesome, like when Raleigh grabs his arm to try getting him to listen - Marshal's stance ''screams'' "you just fucked up", and he elaborates ''twice'' that Raleigh should never lay hands on him again, emphasizing his point by asking "Is that clear?" He then refuses to accept a simple nod, turning his head and tapping his ear, making it explicitly clear that Raleigh needs to verbally acknowledge his authority. Marshal doesn't shout, but he doesn't need to.

* Otachi too.

** Even after getting her tail and acid disabled, Otachi still has one more trick up her sleeve -- flight. She damn near beats Gipsy and would have if not for the Chainsword.

*** Finally, when Otachi tries to stop this by grabbing her opponent's arm with her tail, Raleigh has Mako vent coolant onto the tail so they can shatter it once it freezes.

!!'''Meta'''
* 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 SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS from VideoGame/{{Portal}}! The director and his family are huge Valve fans, so Valve gave them permission to have Creator/EllenMcLain use her SelfDemonstrating/GLaDOS voice. Portal fans ''exploded''.
** And if you look reeeeeeeally closely during the Gipsy vs Leatherback fight, you can see the Aperture Science logo on a shipping container!
* The only actor who didn't come out of the four-story tall "torture machine" Jaeger sets completely beaten down and exhausted? The tiny Creator/RinkoKikuchi.

!!'''Fanworks'''
* Pacific Rim. Set to the theme to ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWrzv6Z7uRc That is all.]]
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ruE7cuoKM50 This]] crossover with the finale of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. It's surprisingly fitting.

** The man was a walking RousingSpeech. "I carry nothing into the Drift. No memories, no fear, no rank. And as for you, you're easy. You're an egotistical jerk with daddy issues, a simple puzzle I solved on day one. So we'll drift just fine."

*** Film/WalkingTall: The Mecha.