Fridge Brilliance:
- Mako no longer has a streak of blue in her hair because she doesn't need it. She won the war and avenged her family.
- November Ajax reboots its system quickly after the power surge it gets from Scrapper. Makes sense, given that a Jaeger was disabled until the end of a battle by an EMP attack in the last movie. Such a huge weakness would surely be addressed in future models.
- How is humanity going to bring the fight to the Precursors homeworld? Well, the Kaiju drones are still around and it may be possible to reverse engineer whatever Newt did to them to give them the ability to open breaches. Which means, the Precursor or Precursors controlling Newt may have just gave humanity the weapon they need to win the war.
- Why did the Kaiju drones have a kill switch when it would have been more logical for Newt to remove such a feature as soon as possible? Newt, as in Newt himself and not the Precursors controlling him, may have fought the Precursors control just enough to ensure that they didn’t remove the kill switch.
- He's also want a means of destroying evidence of his own involvement in the drones' creation, in the event someone discovered they'd been loaded with Breach-creating equipment on the sly.
- When the Kaiju were sent to Japan, they were each separate creatures that could merge with each other with outside help. Now them being able to survive disassembly and reassembly is a bit of a stretch until you realize that they were really aiming for them to be able to do that knowing that they couldn't send a Kaiju of that size through the rift. As a result, their goal the entire time was to build the mega kaiju by sending the individual parts through the rifts before assembling them into a complete form once that ends.
- The revelation that the Precursors have been in fact gunning for a specific earth metal ever since the beginning actually makes a lot of sense. Since they had no way to locate this metal, they sent the monsters to search for it and opened the breach in the Pacific so they would have access to the entire Ring of Fire and as many volcanoes as possible. When Newt was hijacked, he simply told them where it was, so they no longer needed to search and could instead work on attacking a specific spot.
- Jaegers moving with much more speed and finesse and not having a lot of weight to their movements unlike the Jaegers of the first movie can be attributed to Technology Marches On. Future Jaeger models focused more on speed and agility to allow the Jaegers to kill any Kaiju as soon as possible with as little damage to the city as possible. The precursors, meanwhile, focused more on power which led to the creation of the Mega Kaiju. While the new Jaegers were definitely faster than it, they just didn't have the firepower to really do much damage to the hulking beast.
- Mako didn't recruit Amara just for being a Teen Genius, but because she is not so different from herself. Having lost her own birth family to a Kaiju she understands exactly how Amara feels, and is trying to take her in the same way Stacker did her.
- Why is the kaiju brain named "Alice"? Newt used the brain originally to view the Precursors, and now the Precursors are using the brain to look through him. Almost as if they are viewing each other through a looking glass. Additionally, using the brain led Newt down a rabbit hole with unforeseen possibilities.
- Why are Jake and Nate willing to scoop up a bunch of cars with the gravity sling to toss them at Obsidian Fury? Because the cars in question are the same ones that spilled out of the parking garage that got damaged a moment earlier, so won't have been occupied by anyone.
Fridge Horror
- Geiszler invites Gottlieb to have dinner at his place and "meet Alice." We later learn that "Alice" is the kaiju brain that has been mind-controlling him. Had Gottlieb been given the chance to accept the invitation, Geiszler would surely have tried to put him under the same mind-control or kill him to protect the secret.
- Or, alternatively, Newt was inviting Hermann over to warn him of the Precursors presence in his mind. He was letting out a cry for help.
- Alternatively, alternatively: The invitation was a hallow gesture to give the appearance of normalcy, Gottlieb was not supposed to accept it. Newt is the chess master.
- The fact that Newt and the Precursors have a Plan B in case the Mega Kaiju failed. Just what was Plan B? And what if there are other plans if Plan B didn’t work out, like how it was stopped before it was enacted in the movie?
- One of the Kaiju, specifically Onibaba, was killed in Tokyo. Which means if Stacker hadn’t piloted Coyote Tango by himself and killed Onibaba, Onibaba would have thrown itself into Mt. Fuji and the Precursors would have won.
- Otachi could fly. Which means she could've easily made a beeline for Mt. Fuji if her prime directive hadn't been to get Newt instead.
- When the breaches first open, one of the kaiju that emerges is a truly immense kaiju with a head resembling a rhinoceros. The kaiju is bisected and killed before it can fully emerge though, which is fortunate for humanity: though only half its corpse is seen, one of its arms alone is bigger than an entire Hybrid Drone. In full, this kaiju would have easily been twice the size of Slattern!
- If this kaiju hadn't been killed, could it have possibly merged with Raijin, Hakuja and Shrikethorn to form a Mega Kaiju much, MUCH larger and stronger than the one that appeared in the film?
- Worse, if all the other Breaches had remained open for just a little longer, think of the size of a Mega-Kaiju they all might've merged to create!
- The fact that Jaegers designed to fight illegal Jaegers built by criminals exist. These are Weapons of Mass Destruction in the hands of the worst kind of people for that much power. It's only made a bit better by the fact that Jaeger parts are hard to obtain and usually require an extremely gifted team of engineers to construct.
- The Mega Kaiju. Just...the Mega Kaiju.
- First, there is its tendency to pause in battle just to roar loudly and aggressively. At first, it looks like it's just being cool and scary like any other awesome movie monster, until you remember how it was created. Those fearsome bellows may just as well be Raijin, Hakuja and Shrikethorn, screaming in both mental and physical agony.
- The hateful look it gives Newt may be played for laughs, but given that he was the one responsible for its fusion, that glare toward its creator could really be seen many ways, none of them particularly pleasant.
- The Mega Kaiju slowly and painfully heaving itself up Mt. Fuji and momentarily pausing at the crater's edge. It's clearly instructed to do so by the Precursors as part of its mission, but think about it: this tortured, twisted, stitched-together abomination is almost happy to die.
- Looking closely at the three Kaiju shortly before the Ripper drones swarm them, it's not unlikely they were unwilling participants to Newt's "surgery"... it even seems that Raijin is screaming in terror and pain as the drones start swarming his limbs.
- Even worse thought: remember how Newt's first drift-vision gave us a view of kaiju under construction in the previous film? Part of the reason why Raijin, Shrikethorn and Hakuja were screaming is because the three of them had been through the torturous assembly-process before. They were born through that same process, the first experience any of the trio can remember, and now they're having to go through such anguish again, fully conscious (thanks to that damned Hive Mind) of what's in store for them.
Fridge Logic
On the headscratchers page.
