UGYS GUYS GUYSU GySU GUYS GUSY GUYS GUYS GUYS
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quigonejinn:
#and for the record#tagging this #c: mako mori #because that easy neck slap #pointed out by vrabia#that hand plant #that take down #THAT IS MAKO MORI SHIT RIGHT THERE#AND I WILL KEEP REPEATING IT UNTIL EVERYONE ACCEPTS IT AS CANON#RALEIGH BECKET GHOSTING WITH MAKO#AND CHUCK KNOWS EVERY FUCKING UGLY SECOND OF IT#AS SOON ASTHE FUCKING NECK SLAP COMES#HE KNOWS JUST HOW DEEPLY HE IS SCREWED #MAKO’S TECHNIQUE#RALEIGH’S STRENGTH
I have seen people try to analyze Raleigh’s fighting style in this scene
and I just sit here
chortling
muttering to myself
“It’s not Raleigh’s fighting style.”
#Even with a ton of training #it just wouldn’t be in the hand-to-hand combat lexicon of a six-foot-tall man #to TUCK HIMSELF INTO A BALL AND SOMERSAULT ON ONE HAND #in order to take down his opponent. #This is the technique of a MUCH SMALLER HUMAN BEING. #Someone who is accustomed to using people’s height and bulk against them #not someone who already has height and bulk to his advantage. #I will give you three guesses as to whose technique it actually is. #HINT: she is standing in the background of the first gif with her fists up #thinking to herself ‘Do the thing Raleigh. Do the thing.’ #DISCLAIMER: Hannah is not a martial arts expert. #But this is no fucking joke legit exactly the kind of thing my mom taught me #about controlling a situation and turning perceived disadvantages into the fucking endgame. #The year I ran rock camp I asked my parents to teach the self-defense workshop #and my mom is 5’2 and my dad is 6’2 and at least a hundred pounds heavier #and she showed every girl at camp how to make themselves into a fulcrum #and bring down big-ass scary dudes #and never in my life shall I forget when she asked what other advantages we have #and a girl held up her drumsticks #and Mom took one and proceeded to jab it into Dad’s pressure point. #A FUCKING DRUMSTICK. USE WHAT YOU’VE GOT OKAY. #This got hella rambly but suffice it to say that I am #and always shall be #stanning Mako Mori 5ever. #OKAY ONE MORE THING #THIS IS THE KIND OF MOVE THAT COULD SNAP A BONE #IF YOU DO IT JUST A TINY BIT WRONG #BUT RALEIGH DIDN’T #HIS ONLY OTHER NON-JAEGER FIGHT SCENE WAS CUT FROM THE MOVIE AND INVOLVED HIM SLAMMING A GUY’S HEAD INTO A BEER CAN
I really really love the idea that Raleigh is using Mako’s fighting technique as an extra “fuck you how dare you” to Chuck for insulting her.
#pacific rim was too excited to hold back#’HERE LOOK AT WHAT WE MADE’
shout out to pacific rim for showing me what i paid to see
I know we’re always talking about how Pacific Rim embraces the ridiculousness of the human race because “just build a giant robot to punch them in the face” is probably the most full-on human bullshit response we could have thought of to an invasion of giant aliens, but can we pause and also consider that the aliens are basically doing the same thing
like they wanted to invade us and their first thought about how to do so was “let’s genetically engineer giant fucking monsters that will crawl out of the depths of the ocean and trample cities”
Pacific Rim is just the story of two species that on a scale from 1 to 10 respond to every problem with a 17
