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For Pacific Rim content. Primarily jaeger pilots, not the scientists. Ask me anything!

[cyanstyxx]

Hey uh pacrim fans so we all agree there is one great movie and nothing else. Shame they never made a sequel or sequel comic. Though its probably for the best, its such a great stand alone feature it doesnt need it. What a great film

[persephatta-crescent]

Stop the World | Pacific Rim | Chuck x OC

War is no time for love but Ranger, Chuck Hansen, and PPDC engineer, Jess Ramirez, are determined to seize every moment they have together. But can love be enough when the world is crumbling around them and monsters rise from the deep?

[m0d3rnpr0m3th3us]

jaegers should be real but like not for military purposes. just for like mundane practical shit. like construction or smth. imagine mindmeld controlling a giant robot for your construction job. that would be awesome

[bitmeddler]

An Op-Ed to Legendary upon reading Volume One of ‘Final Breach.’ 

***Edit: Re-blogged to share an update below***

As you lovely folks no doubt know, the first volume of the Pacific Rim sequel to Uprising to conclude the story has been released in digital format and us poor souls who backed it have been sent digital copies. To say it’s a travesty is putting it lightly. While I know it’s not likely to be read by anyone at Legendary, I decided to express my views. In case anyone would like to read what I sent them, I’ve put the text below the cut. Please be advised there are spoilers and frank language describing what happens in the comic which some may find disturbing.

To anyone else who backed this and wishes to express their dissatisfaction, if you log in, and navigate to ‘updates,’ there is a form saying: If you have any issues, click here to direct message us so that we can help! This prompts a message saying “Send a message To:Legendary Comics.” By Jove, don’t mind if I do…

I’m also going to try the public comments section but I’m certain my comment will be moderated and not see the light of day. 

I don’t necessarily think it will be read by Legendary or make any difference. However, we fans funded this project and if I paid a painter to paint my house and they dumped a can of paint on the floor, I’d express my dissatisfaction as well.

Without further ado, here’s what I sent:

I am compelled to write this after reading volume one of Final Breach and to express my deep disappointment in the project.  

The first Pacific Rim movie is beloved because it is a story about human connection through crisis, and about how different types of love and relationships, while occasionally complex, have the power to be greater than the sum of their parts. The giant robots punching monsters were just a (very cool) bonus. This is why the popularity of the movie re-spiked during the pandemic: we all needed a story about the world coming together through global adversity.  

All your subsequent iterations of this franchise have missed that mark. The fans stayed with you through a complicated relationship with Uprising, which notably featured child soldiers and a plotline that took a beloved hero from the first movie (Newt), subjected him to nonconsensual possession with no redemption, and took another beloved hero of the first movie (Mako) and fridged her unnecessarily for the “male hero pain” of her newly arrived brother character.  

We, the fans, backed this project. We wanted you to fix the sins of Uprising with this comic. I feel you have failed us.  

If you were to have looked at Pacific Rim fan interactions online, you would have no doubt noticed a significant lean towards the beloved fan-favourite characters of Newt and Hermann. One of the many reasons these characters have had an enduring impact on fans is their positioning as heroes despite falling well outside traditional heroic stereotypes. They are intellectuals and a little off-beat, but they are not ridiculed or othered for their “nerdiness” or potential neuro-atypical characteristics, alongside a healthy dose of queer coding (with Hermann Gottlieb being a clear homage to Alan Turing and Newt falling outside typical male masculine norms in almost every way).  

To therefore have abandoned and reduced the character of Newt to a few pages, which reveal that he is, in fact, still alive and still being held hostage and mentally tortured for years, only for Hermann to acknowledge this and then kill him anyway, is, quite frankly, a travesty of story-telling.  

What follows is a one-page, extremely graphic death by electrocution, after which we get one panel of Hermann standing by the smoldering corpse of Newton and saying the narrative equivalent of “woah, tough break bruh,” only to show up on the next page all business, with all traces of apparent sadness gone. This is slipshod writing and a callous abandonment of, honestly, both characters. You gave Newt a horrific on-screen death which disrespects and tosses aside the character, his entire narrative arc, and his potential for redemption, especially after the revelation that he is, in fact, still alive. Hermann Gottlieb’s character gets a more silent (and less graphic) death: the death of realistic depictions of humanity, guilt, or grief. You single-handedly ruined both characters in one fell swoop.  

You have fundamentally misunderstood what fans love about this story.  

Why is it relevant to mention the Pacific Rim fanbase? Because we funded this project. I’ll say it again: we funded this project. And as a fan who funded this project, I have to express my disappointment.  

I have no idea if this will be read, but it needed to be expressed. If you have, in fact, read this, then I thank you for your time and implore you to take better care with the television series (or go ahead and retcon the further sins of this travesty of a comic; the fans will not begrudge you for this, I promise).  

Do your research. Talk to fans. Understand why the first movie is a beloved classic. Do the things you did not do when laying out the story for this comic. We are the reason you met your funding goal, and we hoped for better.

[elf-lock]

If you have problem with life… maybe we can fix that.

[geniusbee]

im so tired im sorry

but i wanted to do a doodle of shatterdome moms! happy mother’s day, Alison and Vanessa c: 

[calliopeans]

hey give us your. moneeeeeeyy. we have suuuuch great ideas for this franchise. . we prommy. what do we have behind our backs? don’t worry it’s just an innocent palpatine death ray, it’s for a different project don’t worryyyyy. money now?

[calliopeans]

me when i’ve scammed fans out of their hard earned money

[lastdaysofwar]

In honor of Pacific Rim: Final Breach

What the fuck.

[eadrey-the-iptscray]

Some context/spoilers:

Raleigh is genetically a kaiju now, and somehow this hasn't impacted his appearance or mannerisms or anything else

Gottlieb uses a one-way drifting device to extract info from possessed!Newt (and kill him!)

Mako has been memorialized as a cutesy anime superhero

Category 6 and 7 kaiju appear in breaches all over the world

Also:

[youngshaowei1991]

... I have a sudden urge to edit all my old chapters instead of getting my next chapter ready...

[ariesrin]

“How’s the book going?”

Me: “I wrote 2 words and then rearranged 7 commas. So amazing, thanks.”

[montiray-blog]

Saw Pacific Rim today! Awesome monster fights and here is a sketch with many colors it’s late at night why am I awake

[anaeolist]

are there even words for how much i love this movie

[gardenofchrome]

Chaleigh but they're both wizards and Max is Chuck's familiar

[elvishness-deactivated20191104]

mrs and mr mori-becket (or mako and raleigh acting like overgrown children)

[floatingmangos]

Happy birthday to Raleigh!🎂🎉🥰

Don't worry about Aleksis and the other weis they are here.

( I took down sasha's braids and

Chuck made this cake not me~)

[cameron-phillips]

[ariwanzzz]

Of Chuck, Mako, and Raleigh, who would be the king, the soldier, and the poet?

I think all three could be soldiers, but I feel Mako fits best because of "the sword."

idk, just thinkiiiing......

[rorykurago]

Mako is the King, Chuck is the Soldier, Raleigh is the Poet Bard.

Chuck is infuriated that his Liege is giving shelter and hospitality to this ragamuffin drop-kick, but King Mako is intrigued by the things the bard's face does when the songs turn melancholy at the end of every court dinner.

[ariwanzzz]

i wanna kiss your forehead right now, thank youuuu, i actually wanna do a fanart so... you gave me really good ideas (*￣∇￣)ノ