Pacific Nerd fan pedantery: the Kaiju emerged in 2013. The movie takes place in 2020. We know this partially because Obama is President when the attacks begin and presides over US participation in the Jaeger program, but by 2020 the mitigation strategy has shifted to a Wallhttps://twitter.com/soft_wanning/status/1259824652513423360 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
How exactly was a completely passive wall even theoretically supposed to work in the context of the film?
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Replying to @LizardOrman @BootlegGirl
My best guess is that the Kaiju just flail at it until they die of exhaustion, or failing that the wall buys time for artillery to batter down the Kaiju.
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Replying to @JosephZander @LizardOrman
They depict a Kaiju breaking through the American coastal wall, and I think imply that it's taken down later by fighter jets
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Wasn't it Australian and the only reason anyone got out alive was that Striker Eureka hadn't been fully decommissioned yet? The only direct references to America I know of in PR are at the start with San Fran being the first attack site and Gypsy defending Alaska.
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Replying to @Robnoady @BootlegGirl and
Yeah no non-Jaeger weaponry is shown working after the montage about the original kaiju, which took weeks to stop with constant barrages
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
Speaking of, didn't they at one point imply that Kaiju blood is incredibly toxic to the enviornment, only to largely ignore that later on?
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Ron Perlman's character is all about this
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