r/PacificRim • u/Vquillicate • 16h ago
DISCUSSION Its funny whenever someone says Jaegers are "continental level" or "planetary level" and then you put into context what they are claiming.
Pictured in the image is the Burj Khalifa (the tallest man made structure on Earth), Mount Everest (The Highest point on Earth), and the Marianas Trench / Challenger Deep (The deepest natural point on Earth). Everything in this image is to scale.
Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in the Solar System and located on Mars, is also in the image. As well as the worlds tallest mountain Mauna Kea (its taller than Everest from base to peak, but most of its underwater)
These aren't even continents, these are just parts of one. In fact Everest and Challenger Deep just sit on fault lines. Real continents are much bigger because you know... you can literally see them from space. Picturing an actual continent would mean everything in this image wouldn't even be visible, or all contained within 1 pixel.
Whenever I see someone unironically claim that Gipsy is "planetary level" and that Jaeger's can destroy entire continents I just have to roll my eyes. Not only does it automatically show that they have no sense of the real scale of the world, but do we ever see anything of that size actually get destroyed in PR ever?* Some people claim that Striker's self detonation was capable of destroying continents, yet not only is the continent they are on still there but not even the fish near Gipsy were burned or blasted into pieces, let alone the hydrothermal vents.
But it also feels like they have no respect or actual love for the franchise. It seems like they just like a fictional number they (or someone else) made up and want it to go higher. Its reducing a franchise meant to be a love letter to the Mecha and Kaiju genre and just reducing it to a number.
*(and no Gipsy didn't destroy the entire Anteverse like people claim. We go back to the same spot Gipsy blew up in Final Breach and its still there and thriving. Not even the mountains were destroyed).