Line #19 Anime/PacificRimTheBlack


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4	''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, and the second season was released on April 19, 2022.
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6	There was a time when Kaiju rose from the Pacific Rim only to encounter gigantic robots, Jaegers, built to fight them back. That time has passed. Now, Australia has been overrun by Kaiju, forcing the evacuation of an entire continent. Left behind, teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley embark on a desperate search for their missing parents, teaching themselves to pilot a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger to help in their quest and give them even the slightest hope of surviving.
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8	!!''Pacific Rim: The Black'' provides examples of:
9	* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Takes place after the events of ''Film/PacificRimUprising'', itself after the events of ''Film/PacificRim'', which were both this trope at the time they were released.
10	* ActivationSequence: In true mecha anime fashion, reused sequences of the characters slotting into Atlas Destroyer's pilot rigs and the pilot plugsuits securing around them happen consistently, a sure sign asskicking is about to ensue.
11	* AdaptationDeviation: The anime's depiction of the Drift is different from the films, showing the characters submerging into a sort of MentalWorld, surrounded by bubbles containing their memories.
12	* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: The Rippers from ''Uprising'' are changed from being biomechanical vaguely insectoid robots to relatively small wolf-like Kaiju.
13	* TheAlcoholic: Joel, Bogan's resident tech-wizard, is introduced three sheets to the wind from drinking bottle after bottle of alcohol. Drifting with him is an excruciatingly unpleasant experience that incapacitates several Riders.
14	* ApocalypseCult: Mention is made of the Sisters, a mysterious group 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]].
15	* ApocalypseMaiden: [[spoiler: Boy was created to be a Kaiju Messiah who would lead the Kaiju in finishing the destruction of Earth, but somehow slipped away from the Sisters' possession and ended up in a PPDC lab, where Taylor and Hayley found him. Ultimately, his love for them causes him to reject the Sisters' control.]]
16	* 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]]. [[spoiler: Subverted when Season 2 reveals he somehow survived.]]
17	* TheBadGuyWins: Though it's not made clear what's going on across the rest of the planet, by all appearances, the Precursors appear to be winning the war against the humans, harvesting the Earth of all its resources, and let the Kaiju roam free and lay waste all over the planet.
18	** There is, however, some evidence for hope. [[spoiler:In the finale of Season 2 the group finally reaches a very intact and functional Sydney Base. Despite Australia being overrun with Kaiju and mostly abandoned, the humans managed to hold on to this little corner of it. And they haven't just survived: Sydney Base is guarded by some new and very impressive looking Jaegers. If the PPDC can still afford to not only make new Jaegers, but to send them to a continent that's already lost, then that implies that the rest of the world can't be in that bad of shape.]]
19	* BackForTheDead: Hercules Hansen, after being absent in ''Uprising'', returns here in a flashback, being responsible for starting the last resort Black directive that declared Australia a lost cause just before being killed in battle with an Acidquill. [[spoiler:Subverted as he's listed as missing in action by the pilot files.]]
20	* BigBad: The High Priestess of the Sisters is the main villain of Season 2, pursuing the protagonists in order to [[spoiler: brainwash Boy into becoming the Kaiju Messiah]].
21	* 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.
22	* 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.]]
23	* ChildSoldiers:
24	** Taylor was training to be a Jaeger pilot since he was ten. Given that drift-compatible individuals are rare, and the Kaiju are bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, the world needed all the [[HumongousMecha Jaeger]] pilots it could get.
25	** When drifting with Taylor, Mei is revealed to have been taken in by Shane at a young age and raised to be his right-hand lieutenant. [[spoiler:It later transpires that Shane used his drift tech to MindRape her by feeding her false memories while suppressing her real ones]].
26	* ContinuityNod:
27	** 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 a sequel.
28	** Three pilots are said to have survived piloting solo: Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost, and Hercules Hansen. The former two did so in the first film, while the latter does so in this series.
29	** In the Jaeger/Kaiju graveyard, November Ajax is one of the wrecks. This was the police Jaeger that chased down Scapper at the start of ''Uprising''.
30	** Herc Hanson is seen again, piloting a mostly identical version of Striker Eureka, his original machine from Pacific Rim.
31	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Joel, courtesy of the explosive Shane implanted in all of his radios as an "insurance policy" against anyone who would betray him.]]
32	* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: As in the films, piloting a Jaeger solo is a terrible idea due to the mental strain. Taylor only manages to do it by drifting with the memory of someone who survived doing it, and even then all he has to do is walk around a bit until he can grab Hayley and get her to the conn-pod. The stress is such that he has to swap out with Mei almost as soon as Hayley joins him. In addition, he gains some of Herc Hanson's memories - but unlike drift memories from two pilots, Taylor is unable to distinguish them from his own.
33	* DarkAndTroubledPast:
34	** Mei was raised by Shane to be a ruthless soldier from a young age, [[spoiler:and had her memories scrambled by his drifting tech so that she doesn't know which are real or not]]. As such, she refuses to drift with Hayley and is reluctant to do so with Taylor, telling Shane her memories are no place for naive children.
35	** 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 from harm actually resulted in their deaths.]]
36	* DarkerAndEdgier: The upbeat tone of the films has been lost here, and humanity is clearly ''losing'' the war against the Kaiju far worse than ever before. Australia has been reduced to a post-apocalyptic wasteland where humans struggle to survive, Kaiju run rampant, and permanent settlements seem to be nonexistent. The first episode begins with everyone the protagonists care about being slaughtered, leaving them with only the slim hope that their parents are still alive out there. Most notably, the series features outright human antagonists, subverting the films' message about humanity uniting in the face of common enemy. Shane and his Bogan colony aren't helpful criminals like Hannibal Chau or under Precursor mental control like Newt... they're just out to get whatever they can for themselves and screw everyone else.
37	* DeadpanSnarker:
38	** Loa, Atlas Destroyer's AI, possesses a dry sense of humor. Upon meeting her for the first time, Joel, Bogan's alcoholic technician, quips that her sarcasm is a turn-on and grouses that it's just his luck that his ideal woman would turn out to be a twenty-story mech.
39	** Mei, one of Bogan's lieutenants, has her EstablishingCharacterMoment killing a crocodilian kaiju with an RPG, and then stopping Rickter from shooting Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy in retribution for the kaiju having eaten two of his Riders. When Rickter snaps that the two dead mooks were her friends too, she brushes him off and quips that she can't take him seriously with them all over his face. She also takes to sarcastically calling Hayley a princess due to presuming her to have had a sheltered upbringing.
40	* DeathWorld: No, not ''just'' because it's [[LandDownUnder Australia]]. Thanks to the rampant Kaiju attacks forcing the PPDC to abandon the continent, Kaiju have taken over the ecosystem, including man-sized dog-like Kaiju called Rippers. There are still venomous snakes and scorpions, though.
41	* DisasterScavengers: Shane's gang of DesertBandits, Bogan, scrounges the deserts and ruined cities collecting scrap, Pan Pacific Defense Corps weapons and vehicles, Jaeger parts, and kaiju eggs to trade with other gangs. Once he learns of Atlas Destroyer, he sets his sights on obtaining the Jaeger for himself to become the top power in Australia.
42	* DyingDream: [[spoiler: After Brina is mortally wounded helping to save Boy from the Sisters, Loa and Hayley place her in a Drift-created simulation of them all reaching Sydney and being reunited with the siblings' father. She passes away shortly after.]]
43	* ExactWords: Shane promises to spare Taylor, Hayley, and Boy if they leave Bogan by sunup. [[spoiler:He then sends Rickter to kill them, because he made no promises about what would happen to them after. Mei views it as a deep betrayal anyway, and turns on him as a result.]]
44	* ExtremeOmnivore: Copperhead eats one of Atlas Destroyer's arms after ripping it off.
45	* FailedASpotCheck: When Taylor and Hayley's parents take them to where they believe a base would be, all they find is an empty canyon. Five years later, Hayley falls into the ''underground'' base by accident while running away after a fight with her brother, and stumbles across Atlas Destroyer. They do mention, though, that with the evacuation at the stage it was in, the PPDC couldn't leave anything of value behind, destroying what they couldn't take and burying what they couldn't destroy.
46	* FeedItABomb:
47	** Taylor and Hayley's parents launch a missile at an Acidquill Kaiju, which deflects it with one of its CombatTentacles. They catch the missile before it hits the ground then force-feed it to the Kaiju, killing it at the cost of the Jaeger's arm.
48	** Mei shoots an RPG down the throat of a crocodilian Kaiju, blowing it to bits.
49	** [[spoiler:Copperhead is finally defeated when a nuke is shot into its open chest wound.]]
50	* FreezeRay: One of Hunter's weapons are a pair of shoulder-mounted cryo guns that can freeze a Kaiju solid in just a few seconds.
51	* 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, working to turn Boy into a Kaiju Messiah who will finish destroying the world.]]
52	* HappyEndingOverride: The triumphant ending of ''Uprising'' had the Precursors repelled once more with the implication that humanity was poised to invade their world. In this series, it's shown the war against the Kaiju has been going terribly since then, with the Precursors now capable of opening breaches anywhere and entire continents being lost to the invasion.
53	* HeelFaceTurn: Mei starts off as one of Shane's best soldiers -- a standoffish woman with a sarcastic sense of humor, but steadfastly loyal to her boss. However, her UndyingLoyalty to him [[spoiler:crumbles when Joel reveals Shane gaslit her and altered her memories, and reneged on his word to let Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy leave. The last straw comes when Shane repays her stopping Atlas Destroyer from stepping on him by killing Joel with an exploding two-way radio intended for her]].
54	* HellishPupils: Leaving aside his superhuman strength and durability, MysticalWhiteHair, and nonchalantly attempting to eat every small animal he comes across, one of the main clues that the Boy isn't exactly human are his vertically-slitted pupils. [[spoiler:The final episode reveals he's a Kaiju in human form.]]
55	* HeroesFightBarehanded: Not by choice. As a training Jaegar, Atlas Destroyer has no weapons. [[spoiler:It isn't until it enters a Kaiju/Jaeger graveyard that it gets one from Apex--a grappling arm to replace [[AnArmAndALeg the one it lost]] to Copperhead.]]
56	* HeroicSacrifice:
57	** [[spoiler: Midway through Season 2, Shane uses the Drift to enter Brina's subconscious to free her from the Sisters' control. He succeeds, but in the process the Sisters' influence wipes out his own mind, killing him.]]
58	** [[spoiler: Apex is heavily damaged restoring Boy's lost memories to free him from the Sisters' control and uses the last of it's strength to complete the process, deactivating shortly afterwards.]]
59	** [[spoiler: In the finale, Loa self-destructs Atlas Destroyer, killing herself but in the process also taking out Breacher.]]
60	* HighPressureBlood: Virtually every major wound inflicted on a kaiju results in this. Notably averted with human casualties - with the exception of a couple of hapless {{mooks}}.
61	* HopeSpot: In Episode 5, [[spoiler:Rickter is sent by Shane to kill Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy... who proceed to overpower and disarm him. Taylor holds Rickter at gunpoint with his own firearm, but is stopped from shooting him by Mei. Just as Rickter lets out a sigh of relief, Mei pulls out her own gun and shoots him through the heart herself]].
62	* IneffectualLoner: Mei, once she [[spoiler:turns on Shane's gang and strikes out on her own searching for the truth about her past, though she eventually ends up rejoining the siblings]].
63	* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Loa says this to Taylor and Hayley in the Season 2 finale [[spoiler: right before evacuating them from Atlas Destroyer and then self-destructing the Jaeger to kill Breacher.]]
64	* IWillFindYou: The secondary plot is Taylor and Hayley trying to find their parents.
65	* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: When last seen, Rickter is now running what's left of Bogan and never suffers any consequences for any of his actions throughout the show.]]
66	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After spending all of Season 2 trying to brainwash Boy to serve her vision, the High Priestess is killed by him when he rejects her.]]
67	* KickTheDog: Shane blows up [[spoiler:Joel's]] head to get back at [[spoiler:Mei]] for leaving.
68	* LegacyCharacter: In Episode 6, 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.]]
69	* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Hayley feels suffocated living in the hidden community. Taylor tells her that he promised to keep her safe, not entertained. She almost quotes this trope verbatim.
70	* MadeOfPlasticine: Both the Jaegers and Kaiju seem to be noticeably more fragile than in the films, with Atlas Destroyer being significantly damaged by PPDC-tech [=RPGs=], and kaiju being killed by single blows, or dismembered by seemingly shallow wounds.
71	* MechanicalMonster: Apex used to be one of the Kaiju-Jaeger hybrid drones, but its biological and technological components have merged to the extent that it's metamorphosed into a predatory biomechanical {{Robeast}} with a black-and-red exoskeleton covered in chitinous spikes, eight red eye-lenses, talons, and a mouth full of sharp teeth that it can hide behind a faceplate.
72	* MindRape:
73	** Shane uses drift tech to interrogate Taylor and raid his memories, leaving the boy unconscious and nauseated afterwards.
74	** Drifting with a number of Rickter's Riders in rapid succession [[spoiler:leads to Joel - Bogan's alcoholic technician - having a seizure that scrambles most of his memories, leaving him unable to repair Atlas Destroyer as Shane ordered... but pretty handy at using screwdrivers as throwing knives. He also starts using more Australian slang terms like "bonza", presumably also picked up from the predominantly-Australian Riders]].
75	** Mei discovers that [[spoiler:Shane used his drift tech to gaslight her, suppressing her true memories and implanting false ones in order to turn her into his loyal second-in-command. She initially refuses to believe it's true, but turns on Shane after seeing how cruel he really is and starts searching for her true past]].
76	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Hayley's desire to leave their hidden village leads to her and her brother accidentally launching a Jaeger, getting the attention of a Kaiju which then finds the hideout and slaughters everyone except her and her brother.
77	* MyParentsAreDead: Taylor refuses to leave the community until their parents come back for them, even though it's been five years since they heard anything from the outside world. Hayley bluntly tells him she believes that they're dead.
78	* NaiveAnimalLover: Bunyip Man thinks the kaiju living in his canyon feel a real emotional bond with him and he treats them like pets but it turns out that the reason they were so docile is because he was regularly feeding them. The moment he's unable to feed them, they turn on him and he's eaten by the very same kaiju he hand raised from infancy.
79	* NeverMyFault: Shane blames Mei for [[spoiler:Joel's condition post MindRape]] and Taylor for Copperhead heading for their location (as he and his sister failed to kill it before). Both of those things are entirely Shane's fault [[spoiler:for forcing Joel to drift with too many of his mooks trying to get Atlas Destroyer walking - including one who turned out to be epileptic, resulting in both pilots having a seizure while in the Drift and causing Atlas Destroyer's warning sirens to activate, attracting Copperhead.]]
80	* NonMaliciousMonster: [[spoiler:Apex is extremely powerful and has killed numerous opponents in the past - implicitly both Kaiju and Jaeger - and attacks Atlas Destroyer after killing the Kaiju they were fighting. But it's only acting like a territorial animal, and even helps the group after Boy calms it down.]]
81	* NotSoDifferentRemark: 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.
82	* OperationBlank: The titular "Black", a PPDC directive in which an area is declared lost and satellites are brought down for a ColonyDrop.
83	* ThePromisedLand: Sydney is this to the protagonists, being the only city in Australia still under the PPDC's control and safe from the Kaiju. [[spoiler: They finally reach it in the Season 2 finale.]]
84	* {{Protectorate}}:
85	** Taylor promised his parents he'd look after his little sister Hayley. Five years later, however, the now teenage Hayley finds his protectiveness overbearing and rebels against his strictness by neglecting her chores, sneaking out of the hidden village, and stealing supplies. This leads to Hayley trying to run away after a particularly nasty argument with Taylor, and stumbling into the long-buried Pan Pacific Defense Corps base where Atlas Destroyer is stored.
86	** Hayley takes it upon herself to look after the Boy, implicitly motivated by the trauma of having accidentally caused the deaths of all her and her brother's friends. [[spoiler:Apex is later revealed to have formed a similar protective relationship with the Boy even before the Black, and their shared desire is what prompts the biomechanical Jaeger to spare and help repair Atlas Destroyer after scanning the Boy and Hayley's memories]].
87	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: [[spoiler:Subverted with Apex. While it's extremely dangerous and almost destroys the siblings' Jaeger, it's just acting like a territorial animal. After Boy calms it down, it's rather peaceful and even offers them a replacement arm for the one Atlas lost to Copperhead.]]
88	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: After being part of the BigBadEnsemble in Season 1, in Season 2 Shane sacrifices himself to free Brina from the Sisters' control.]]
89	* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming:
90	** Hercules "Herc" Hansen - a veteran pilot not seen since the first ''Pacific Rim'' movie - [[BackForTheDead briefly returns]] as the pilot of the Jaeger seen fighting an Acidquill at the very beginning of the first episode.
91	** The Jaeger Marauder Zeus is named after the TopGod of Greek mythology.
92	** The main Jaeger, Atlas Destroyer, is named after the Greek Titan who supported the heavens. In Episode 6, [[spoiler:it gets a replacement arm from a Jaeger called Chaos Nemesis, named after the Greek cosmological concept of nothingness and the Greek goddess of vengeance, respectively]].
93	* SacrificialLamb: The first episode alone shows Shannon, a girl Taylor is implied to have a crush on, as well as Rosa, a girl who is Hayley's best friend... both of whom are abruptly killed when Copperhead attacks their village following Hayley's activation of Atlas Destroyer.
94	* ScavengerWorld: Having been abandoned by the rest of the world, those living on Australia survive by scavenging anything they can.
95	* SelfDestructMechanism: Loa mentions that the PPDC tried to remotely self-destruct Atlas Destroyer when they abandoned the base. It's not clear why it didn't work.
96	* SharedDream: Sharing memories and dreams is part of drifting. This means that Hayley now knows that her brother ''does'' subconsciously blame her for all their friends' deaths.
97	* ShipTease: The first episode teases that Taylor has a crush on a girl named Shannon, awkwardly accepting her invitation to a gathering at the falls despite previously being angry at Hayley for neglecting her chores. Shannon being killed by Copperhead is shown as particularly devastating for him.
98	* SiliconSnarker: Despite [[SarcasmBlind not understanding sarcasm]], Loa, [[HumongousMecha Atlas Destroyer]]'s AI, nonetheless has an extremely snarky wit.
99	-->'''Taylor:''' Loa, what happened?
100	--> '''Loa:''' Power cells are at 3%, which is--
101	--> '''Taylor:''' A little warning would have been nice!
102	--> '''Loa:''' A warning was indeed issued. To avoid any confusion in the future, when you hear me say "Warning", consider yourselves ''warned''.
103	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Mei starts out as a cold, sarcastic, tough-as-nails soldier loyal to Shane, but has a deeply-buried warm side. [[spoiler:She begrudgingly betrays him after learning that he messed with her memories to brainwash her, and reneged on his word to let Taylor, Hayley, and the Boy go by sending Rickter to kill them. She helps the siblings escape, but strikes out on her own after Shane kills Joel in retaliation. After reuniting with the siblings, she initially demands they leave (partly because of knowing that Atlas was a magnet to Copperhead, but also implicitly blaming them for Joel's murder) but loosens up enough to share some hot chocolate and even dances with them for a little while before her PTSD is triggered and she shuts down again]].
104	* SuperPersistentPredator: Copperhead pursues Atlas across Australia to find and destroy it, even after being knocked out twice.
105	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Almost to the point of being a deconstruction of various mecha shows. Taylor and Hayley's combat inexperience is a significant handicap throughout, as is Atlas Destroyer's status as a stripped-down training Jeager. The lack of dedicated maintenance facilities and technicians is also a constant problem, and the capabilities of mind-linking technology are exploited for rather dark ends.
106	* TakingYouWithMe: In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler: Loa self-destructs the critically-damaged Atlas Destroyer in order to kill Breacher]].
107	* TemptingFate: When arguing with Taylor in the first episode, Hayley snaps that nothing bad will happen to Shadow Basin on account of her sneaking off to explore because nothing ever does. Cue Copperhead being drawn to Atlas Destroyer's activation sequence and slaughtering the inhabitants of Shadow Basin.
108	* TheyLookLikeUsNow: In the Season 1 finale, [[spoiler:Boy is revealed to be a humanoid Kaiju, able to shapeshift into a Kaiju form when sufficiently angry.]]
109	* TimeSkip: The series takes place an indeterminate period of time after ''Uprising'', though not terribly long since Hercules Hansen is still an active pilot. Rifts are now opening all over the place and the Kaiju invasion is so bad that the PPDC is willing to abandon entire continents. It then jumps ahead five years after Taylor and Hayley are left behind.
110	* TooDumbToLive:
111	** Once discovering Atlas is still operational, complete with an [[ArtificialIntelligence AI assistant program named Loa]], and has a full set of instructional videos on how to safely deploy the Jaeger, Hayley ignores Loa's warning that she needs training and skips ''all'' the tutorials to unlock the Jaeger for deployment. It's only Loa telling her that she needs a partner to Drift with that keeps her from [[YourHeadAsplode killing herself]] trying to launch it solo.
112	** When Taylor shows up, Hayley's very excited to be able to launch... right until she realizes that the launch sequence includes several loud alarms, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom which attracts the attention of a Kaiju]]. What should have been a major find for their settlement instead got them all killed save Taylor and Hayley.
113	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Taylor, Hayley and Mei, as each of them has piloted Atlas Destroyer with one of the other two.
114	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Taylor shows up, Hayley's very excited to be able to launch... right until she realizes that the launch sequence includes several loud alarms, which attracts the attention of a Kaiju. What should have been a major find for their settlement instead got them all killed save Taylor and Hayley.
115	* 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 while Shane dives into Taylor's memories without his knowledge.
116	* WastelandWarlord:
117	** Shane is the ruler of Bogan, a camp of survivors and mercenaries who prowl the Australian Outback, scavenging and trading in Jaeger and Kaiju parts. Shane is the main human antagonist to Hayley and Taylor in Season 1, as he tries to take Atlas Destroyer from them.
118	** The High Priestess of the Sisters is effectively one as well, as the cult controls a stretch of the Outback known as the Divide, and under her rule has a tendency to kill every man they meet, and forcibly induct and brainwash women.
119	* WouldHurtAChild:
120	** Shane is 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.]]
121	** 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]].
122	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Shane, the leader of Bogan, is fond of killing people he no longer has a use for, and views his Riders as disposable fodder - at one point quipping that he made one of them drink yolk from a kaiju egg and watched his face melt. When reminded by Mei about Shane's tendency for this, Joel retorts that he's indispensable due to being the only Jaeger technician left in Australia... [[spoiler:right before Shane unintentionally scrambles his brain by forcing him to drift too many times in rapid succession, leaving him incapable of fixing Atlas Destroyer and at risk of being summarily executed - which happens when he answers Mei's radio later on.]]

Context Anime / PacificRimTheBlack