#hannibal chau

[shinobicyrus]

One thing my brain keeps going back to about Pacific Rim (besides the rad giant robots) is the whole existence of kaiju organ harvesters and their implications.

Like, you have Hannibal Chau, a bizarre and interesting character, but we’re presented with a black market operation that seems mostly interested in the “alternative medicine” uses of kaiju parts.

But my brain demands to know: what does the corporate kaiju harvesting industry look like? Sure kaiju blood is toxic, but there are plenty of toxic materials that have useful applications. Are there chemical companies studying kaiju organs? Big-Pharma jumping on the kaiju bone-powder bandwagon? Are bio-tech firms studying kaiju hide to make tougher materials? Agribusinesses clamoring to acquire kaiju crap for fertilizer?

I’m picturing something like the age of whaling, when humans hunted giant animals and carved them up to feed insatiable industries. Whale-oil lighting lanterns for entire cities, whale-bone being used in everything from knick-knacks, tools, umbrellas, and corsets. Ambergris alone was used in perfumes, medicines, cooking. It was even added to wine as an aphrodisiac.

We glimpsed how kaiju affected pop-culture. Now picture a kaiju smashing a city, but the stock market going up for construction companies (rebuilding the cities), vulture real estate (buying the destroyed land cheap), and all the other corporations that profit from the systematic dismantling of a kaiju corpse and making money off of its parts. Sure, a city was roughed up and who knows how many thousands are dead, but it’s a better windfall when a kaiju makes landfall. It’s always less profitable when jaegers kill them too quickly; sea-based extractions are so much more expensive.

Imagine entire industries, entire economies that don’t just make money from the devastation of kaiju attacks, but grow dependent on them. And then the laws, the squabbles over those valuable, resource-rich kaiju corpses. If a kaiju attacks one country but keeps rampaging and is killed in the country next door, who has claim over the body? The party who was damaged more by it or the country where the corpse physically is? Bidding wars over “cleanup” contracts that cut corners and are only interested in collecting those sweet, sweet, kaiju parts as fast as possible, even if their official mandate is supposed to be the safe removal and cleanup of a toxic substance.

Once jaegers started getting efficient at killing kaiju, the people with all the money became less interested in solving the problem of kaiju attacks and switched to merely managing the industries that kaiju-killing feeds.

What? You want to put more resources into R&D to try and close the Breach? Whatever for? The kaiju comes out, jaegers kill it, and the “host country” gets the proceeds from the kaiju’s body. It’s a win-win for everyone. Why waste time, money, and effort solving a problem that isn’t a problem anymore?

Everything is under control.

#Sorry Long Post #Nerd Rant #Pacific Rim #Kaiju #Hannibal Chau #Kaiju Harvesters #Worldbuilding #Capitalism #an entire kaiju-industrial complex #DARPA tech and military budgets build the jaegers #don't try to tell me that there isn't a entire cabal of corporations profiting off of kaijus beyond just simple toys and marketing #(though that also leads me to wonder WHO exactly has the patent on kaiju? #are they public domain or does the PPDC and the UN have an IP on the kaiju they identify and name??? #there's nothing wrong with me I'm normal I swear

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Pacific Rim

Sample Size: 7,930 stories

Source: AO3

#newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #raleigh becket #chuck hansen #mako mori #herc hansen #hercules hansen #stacker pentecost #aleksis kaidonovsky #sasha kaidonovsky #yancy becket #vanessa gottlieb #hannibal chau #pacific rim #fanfiction #ao3 #statistics #phantom statistician #newmann #newton x hermann

[one-thousand-cherrytrees]

A Collection Of: Random Things I've seen On Tumblr That Remind Me Of Newt At Like..1 am

#meme making machine #pacific rim #pacrim #pacific rim uprising #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #hannibal chau #I should be stopped

[taintedmind666]

#i like to imagine clown music in the background of this scene #they had such an interesting dynamic #pacific rim #pacrim #hannibal chau #newt #newton #newt geiszler #newton geiszler

[skellabelle]

hey bro i think theres something in your eye

you might wanna get that checked out

#pacific rim #pacific rim 2013 #pacrim 2013 #pacrim #pacific rim fanart #pacific rim art #newt geiszler #newton geiszler #hannibal chau #charlie day #my art #skellabelle

[magpje]

Hannibal Chau for @edgeofhopezine !!! Thanks for having me!

#pacrim #pacific rim #hannibal chau #pacific rim fanart #maskedmagpiesart

[drrav3nb]

PACIFIC RIM as a NETFLIX SERIES REBOOT in 2023

- TRAVIS FIMMEL as RALEIGH BECKET

- RINKO KIKUCHI as MAKO MORI

- CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as STACKER PENTECOST

- BENJAMIN BRATT as HANNIBAL CHAU

- TAIKI WAITITI as NEWTON GEISZLER

- RHYS DARBY as HERMANN GOTTLIEB

Credit to @bitchronan for the Netflix templates! These are amazing to use!

#this was fun to make #i've always had this in mind so it was fun to show this visually #what do you think of the castings? #hope you like it :) #pacific rim #pacrim #pacificrimedit #pacrimedit #travis fimmel #raleigh becket #rinko kikuchi #mako mori #chiwetel ejiofor #stacker pentecost #benjamin bratt #hannibal chau #taiki waititi #newton geiszler #rhys darby #hermann gottlieb #charlie hunnam #idris elba #ron perlman #charlie day #burn gorman #guillermo del toro #netflix au #netflix #netflix tv series #2023

[tentakrool]

They are the same.

#pacific rim #super mario movie #bowluigi #newt geiszler #hannibal chau #bowser #Luigi

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

I had all but forgotten about Cryptozoic's Pacific Rim trading cards, released in 2014 and dramatically scaled back from their original plans for a full set. Instead they released a binder that contained two autograph cards and seven wardrobe cards. (Oh, to be the person paid to cut up clothes and wedge them inside trading cards.) Although this arrangement is billed as a factory set, eBay reveals that there are at least nine wardrobe cards (the others are Raleigh/Chuck and the Kaidonovskys).

They're pricey, but as someone who was dead broke during that big prop auction... a little tempting.

#pacific rim #trading cards #mako mori #raleigh becket #chuck hansen #newt geiszler #tendo choi #hannibal chau #wei triplets

[edgeofhopezine]

🤖 CATEGORY FOUR KAIJU MERCH COMING IN HOT!!🦖

Find Otachi and her plus ones in our Leftover Sale shop!! This pin, sticker, and so many more Pacific Rim goodies are available while supplies last until Nov 22nd! Don't miss out!!

ORDER HERE

#pacific rim #zine #pacrim #fanzine #pacific rim zine #charity zine #hermann gottlieb #mako mori #kaiju #leftover sales #jaeger #stacker pentecost #newt geiszler #hannibal chau

[driftwithme]

PACIFIC RIM CHARACTER HEIGHTS!!!!

Aleksis Kaidonovsky: 210cm

Stacker Pentecost: 189cm

Herc Hansen: 185cm

Raleigh Becket: 183cm

Chuck Hansen: 183cm

Yancy Becket: 181cm

Hannibal Chau: 180cm

The Wei Tang Triplets: 179cm

Sasha Kaidonovsky: 177cm

Hermann Gottlieb: 175cm

Tendo Choi: 173cm

Newton Geiszler: 169cm

Mako Mori: 169cm

#pacific rim #pacrim #pacific rim 2013 #pacrim 2013 #aleksis kaidonovsky #stacker pentecost #herc hansen #hercules hansen #raleigh becket #chuck hansen #yancy becket #hannibal chau #wei tang triplets #sasha kaidonovsky #hermann gottlieb #tendo choi #newton geiszler #mako mori

[gh0stlymoth]

[ ID: a digital drawing of Newt, Hannibal, and Hermann. They are standing side by side, drawn from the shoulders up, with Newt on the left, Hannibal in the middle, and Hermann on the right. Newt is wearing a dopey grin on his face while Hermann looks a bit judging to the side. Both of them are thinking: "I am so normal." Hannibal looks deeply concerned and is thinking: "I need to get the fuck out of here." End ID] 

The three of them together have a lot of comedic potential tbh.

#pacrim #pacific rim #hannibal chau #newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #i had this in my drafts i redrew it to look better #i mean its still chibi but u know #the ghost scribbles

[monsterblogging]

Y'all. Everyone. Hannibal Chau calls his minions "boys" and his minions call him "boss." I think. I think. I think there's something very gay happening here. 🤔

(This is not entirely serious but it's not entirely unserious, either...)

#pacific rim #pacific rim 2013 #hannibal chau

[missanthropicprinciple]

The Monster of Gendarmenmarkt by by cephalopod_groupie

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

No Archive Warnings Apply

Complete/32 Chapters

Word Count: 30,125

Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb

#Newmann #hermann gottlieb #newton geiszler #my fanfiction #my fanfic #my fan fiction #fan fiction #fanfiction #Pacific Rim #Mako Mori #stacker pentecost #hannibal chau #tendo choi #karla gottlieb #cephalopod_groupie #The Monster of Gendarmenmarkt #my edits #cephalopod groupie

[taintedmind666]

On my Facebook meme grind rn

#pacific rim #pacrim #raleigh becket #chuck hansen #stacker pentecost #herc hansen #tendo choi #mako mori #newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #hannibal chau #yancy becket

[vampirismology]

[ID: A video of several of the Pacific Rim characters doing the Caramelldansen dance to the corresponding song in front of various backgrounds from the first movie. In order of character appearance: Yancy Becket and Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori, Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, Herc Hansen and Chuck Hansen, Sasha Kaidonovsky and Aleksis Kaidonovsky, the Wei Tang Brothers, Hannibal Chau and Newton Geiszler, Stacker Pentecost and Tendo Choi, and finally Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori. The video repeats a second time with the characters in the same order. End ID] pacific rim caramelldansen (Г・ω・)г

#my art #pacific rim #raleigh becket #mako mori #stacker pentecost #newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #herc hansen #chuck hansen #tendo choi #sasha kaidonovsky #aleksis kaidanovsky #wei tang brothers #hannibal chau #if i forgot anyone then i am so sorry there are so many of them here #also going to finally start posting art on here again and thought this would be funny to start with and also jamie wanted me to post it #pacrim #oh also this is kind of old i made it in june 2021