History Film / PacificRimUprising

* SequelEscalation: More action sequences, more types of Jaegers in battle, more types of weaponry, and a Kaiju that three times bigger than normal.

* DaylightHorror: In contrast to the previous movie, many battles including the final one take place in broad daylight.

* MiniMecha: There is one made of scrap metal called Scrapper, and it only comes up to a real Jaeger's ankles. She mostly serves as ComicRelief and to show off Amara's technical skills, but she does get to shine in a more active role as well.

* ComicRelief: Whenever Scrapper is on screen, you can bet something funny will happen.

* WhipItGood: Guardian Bravo's main weapon is a giant electric whip.

** Averted in the climax when [[spoiler:Scrapper arives to save Jake and Amara before Gipsy hits the mega Kaiju, as it's using one of the drone brains and Liwen is controlling it from the Shatterdome. Presumably, she modified the drone brain to remove the kaiju override.]]

** Technically a Giant Fist of Stomping as Shrikethorn knuckle-walks like a gorilla, when he crushes several unfortunate civillians who didn't make it into the shelter in time.

* OrganicTechnology: Turns out [[spoiler:Obsidian Fury is actually controlled by a WetwareCPU grown from scavenged Kaiju flesh, which is also merged with the Jaeger's cables and musclature. Once the plot is revealed, the supposedly mechanical brains of Shao's Remote Jaeger drones rapidly mutate and expand to turn the giant machines into horrifying amalgamations of mechanical and organic parts that act on the Kaijus' everlasting directive: KillAllHumans.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Liwen Shao says that the first rogue jaegar attack was a good thing in the end, implying that she orchestrated it to get her drones approved. However, it was actually Newt behind the plan, as he's being controlled by the Precursors]].