History Film / PacificRim

* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** ''All'' the Jaegers:
*** Brawler Yukon (USA)
*** Cherno Alpha (Russia)
*** Chrome Brutus (Canada)
*** Coyote Tango (Japan)
*** Crimson Typhoon (China)
*** Diablo Intercept (Chile)
*** Echo Saber (Japan)
*** Eden Assassin (Russia)
*** Gipsy Danger (USA)
*** Horizon Brave (China)
*** Hydra Corinthian (USA)
*** Lucky Seven (Australia)
*** Mammoth Apostle (USA)
*** Matador Fury (Mexico)
*** Nova Hyperion (Russia)
*** Puma Real (Panama)
*** Romeo Blue (USA)
*** Shaolin Rogue (China)
*** Solar Prophet (Peru)
*** Striker Eureka (Australia)
*** Tacit Ronin (Japan)
*** Vulcan Specter (Australia)
** [[RunningGag All the Humans]]: Idris Elba plays Marshal Stacker Pentecost. Charlie Day is Newton Geizler. Charlie Hunnam is Raleigh Becket. The older Australian pilot is Hercules Hansen. Creator/RonPerlman is Hannibal Chau (justified in story that he picked the name himself).
--->'''Hannibal Chau:''' Like the name? I got it from from my [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars favorite historical character]] and my second-favorite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn.
** [[RuleOfThree All the Kaiju]]: "Trespasser", "Dengue", "Slattern", "Raiju" (literally "Lightning Monster"), "Onibaba" ("Grandmother [[{{Youkai}} Ogre]]"), "Yamaarashi" ("Mountain Storm"), "Knifehead", "Leatherback", "Otachi" (literally "[[{{BFS}} Great Sword]]"), "Scissure", "Kaiceph", "Verociter", "Karloff", "Belobog" and "Scunner".
** The Shatterdomes!

* LGBTRepresentationInMedia: Disregarding a first scene where Mako stared at Raleigh, this film is a pretty good example of a film that shown {{Asexual}} Representation. Our two opposite gender main characters spends the entire film trying to become eachothers soul mates, and they succeed. But they never kiss or anything else, since they already proved they were Soulmates by succeeding the films finale.

''Pacific Rim'' (or marketed as ''[[{{Creator/WarnerBros}} Warner Bros. Pictures]] and Creator/LegendaryPictures' Pacific Rim'') is a 2013 {{Kaiju}}/HumongousMecha film directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.

''Pacific Rim'' (or marketed as ''[[{{Creator/WarnerBros}} Warner Bros. Pictures]] and Creator/Legendary Pictures' Pacific Rim'') is a 2013 {{Kaiju}}/HumongousMecha film directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.

''Pacific Rim'' is a 2013 {{Kaiju}}/HumongousMecha film directed by Creator/GuillermoDelToro.

* NextSundayAD: UpToEleven: The film itself is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the early timeline information indicates that the Kaiju first attacked in ''2013''. The ''Tales from Year Zero'' graphic novel specifically places this as ''August 11th'', just over a ''month'' from the film's premiere. Likely a deliberately playful gesture, in the same spirit as ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''' depiction of the futuristic world that is 1999.

** Newt at one point mentions Kaiju having a secondary brain like dinosaurs. Except dinosaurs didn't have secondary brains; the so-called "sacral brain" came from a misunderstanding as to the purpose of an expanded spinal canal over certain dinosaurs' hips. While there is still some question about what this expanded canal ''was'' for, it definitely wasn't another brain.

** Least of all: when Gipsy Danger's fist is crashing through the building and lightly tapped a Newton's Cradle resting on someone's desk, a single ball starts swinging when in reality all of them would have swayed. A Newton's Cradle is started by picking up one ball on the end and dropping it, not by pushing the entire object.

* BilingualBonus: All important non-English dialogue is subtitled, minus one line: Mako's [[spoiler:last words to Stacker]], "[[spoiler: Sensei, aishitemasu]]", meaning "[[spoiler:I love you, teacher]]".

** From Raleigh Becket's narration: "When you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can ''win.''"

** From Raleigh Backet's narration: "When you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can fight the hurricane. You can ''win.''"

* AdultFear:
** Raleigh witnessed his brother's death from inside his brother's head and was utterly helpless to stop it.
** Watching Mako's memory of a Kaiju attack is terrifying. To see something so huge and murderous relentlessly stalk a sobbing little girl is every adult's worst fear come to life.
** Herc's reaction as he says goodbye to Chuck. He should have been there fighting right next to his son but due to his broken arm, he can't.

* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The stated descriptions of Jaeger engineering don't make much sense in general, but in particular, Gipsy Danger is said to be invulnerable to Leatherback's EMP weapon because of being "analog", which would imply she uses mechanical computing of some sort rather than digital electronics. The fact is, she has just as much evident electronic circuitry as any other Jaeger; what would make a difference would be increased shielding. Also, analog circuitry requires longer circuit lengths than digital, which makes it ''more'' vulnerable'' to EMP.

* ButterflyKnife: Hannibal Chau uses one to intimidate Newt, poke him in the nose, and taunt a dead Kaiju. [[spoiler: He also uses it to cut himself free from the belly of a dead Kaiju.]]

** Hannibal Chau jams his ButterflyKnife into the baby Kaiju and boasts of how he knew it wouldn't live long outside of the womb. [[spoiler:Next moment, he's swallowed into its gullet.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Mako has blue tips, befitting an Anime-inspired character. It calls back to the blue coat she was wearing as a child in her flashback and the trauma that came with the experience of having a run-in with a Kaiju.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: The reveal that the Kajiu invasion is happening now because Earth's [=CO2=] emissions have changed the atmosphere sufficiently to be habitable for their alien masters. This is obviously a rather more far-fetched consequence of [=CO2=] emissions than climate change. And it requires us to accept that the aliens with the technology to teleport custom-made Kajiu's couldn't accomplish within 65 milion years a feat of geo-engineering that less advanced humans managed in one century by accident.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: The reveal that the Kajiu invasion is happening now because Earth's CO2 emissions have changed the atmosphere sufficiently to be habitable for their alien masters. This is obviously a rather more far-fetched consequence of CO2 emissions than climate change. And it requires us to accept that aliens need earth's resources enought to monitor earth for 65 million years to see if the atmosphere has changed, and have the technology for mass-manufacturing custom Kajiu's and teleportation, couldn't manage a feat of geo-engineering that humans did in about a century by accident.

** The world council shuts down the only defense against Kaiju in favor of a giant brick-and-steel wall that took five years to complete and is heavily implied to have had a lot of fatalities in building... and they '''continue'' to insist on it after the one in Australia falls to one hour's worth of attack. Furthermore, Kaiju don't go away, and by that point, everyone is aware that they are arriving steadily stronger and more frequently, meaning that in a best-case scenario, the walls would end up with tons of Kaiju beating on them from the outside. And that's before we find out that [[spoiler:some Kaiju can ''fly'' and spit acid.]] People protest this decision in-story, and it's a reaction that's well-deserved.

* ALoadOfBull: The triple event has Scunner, a rather bull-like Kaiju with gouging horns. One shot of Gipsy even evokes a bullfight/rodeo.

* ''Pacific Rim: Amara'' (2018) - Website/{{Webtoons}}

* RealityEnsues:
** A brief shot in the prologue shows heavy equipment in Manila dealing with a previously unrecognized hazard of giant monster attacks: a hill-sized mound of giant monster shit.
** After the Wall, which the Jaeger program is being scrapped for and immense amounts of money were sunk into, proves completely worthless against Mutavore, riots and protests break out worldwide.
** Jaegers are the absolute pinnacle of human technological and industrial might, but given the sheer amount of resources and expertise it takes to make and maintain one (the US and China, the two industrial superpowers, can just about make ''three'' Jaegers each; smaller countries like Australia, Mexico and Japan can barely throw together enough scratch to make one each), the project becomes untenable in the face of battle losses. Which is why the Wall was proposed.
** Hannibal Chau's business is built on the ensuing reality of having large Kaiju corpses to get rid of. The aforementioned dung goes for large amounts of money because it's high in phosphorus and useful in fertilizer.
** There are multiple shots of people using the bones as structural support for buildings, including a temple with a skull for the entrance.
** The appearance of the Kaiju has had a profound effect on human culture. There are Kaiju {{Fanboy}}s, Kaiju doomsday cults who believe they are divine wrath towards humanity, and even [[AnimalWrongsGroup Kaiju animal rights fanatics]].
** No matter how good the pilots or advanced a Jaeger is, two-to-one are extremely bad odds for anyone unless they're really lucky or pull a kamikaze move.