What would your country's Jaeger look like?

[Kyber]

Not sure what it would look like, but it would be fat, drunk and depressed, just like everyone else living in here.

 

[Nouw]

A New Zealand Jaeger would most definitely be one of the newer, leaner ones. Can't have nuclear giant robots representing our country!

EDIT: Can't believe no one has posted this yet so...go crazy making your own. [http://apps.warnerbros.com/pacificrim/designer/us/]

Seriously man. Why did you link that? I've spent the last hour on it now.

Spoiler

Just as planned *maniacal laugh.*

Here's something [http://io9.com/pacific-rims-hilarious-fourth-string-jaegers-reveale-788692826] to cheer you up.

 

[Fragged_Templar]

Since I don't see Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland each building their own Jaeger, I think it would have to be a joint effort.
A joint Scandinavian Jaeger would be truly state of the art, being funded by each country, and with a little something extra from Norway's oil fund. It would be designed by the finest engineering minds that Scandinavia has to offer and would feature advanced prototype technology. It would have a standard primary reactor, but would also have a secondary solar and wind generator power plant. It would be built using good old fashion hard work and know-how, and would of course run on Linux.

As far as aesthetics go, cultural pride would demand that it look like a giant shield and battle-axe wielding viking. The colour scheme would be mostly polished steel, owing to the practical Scandinavian mindset, but would feature a combination of the national colours; red, white, blue and yellow, and the seals of each country.

I really wish this would be in the movie now... oh well, maybe in the sequel =P

 

[Cecilo]

Wouldn't build a Jaegar. They seem flimsy and prone to being destroyed by simply being touched, they also have a piss poor control scheme. If you are going to design a system to interface a person and a machine into one being, at least give them a control scheme that doesn't require flailing about.

For me, Only a titan would do.

None of this getting close to it nonsense, and if IT somehow happens to get close. Shields and a close combat cannon would deal with it. I don't think I will ever understand the concept of making a weapon to get close to an enemy that is completely unpredictable. Or even why someone would willingly charge such a creature in melee. It's clear they can already produce and use acid as a weapon.

What if they just decide to make a creature with acid for blood, you are pretty boned then aren't you.

 

[CriticalMiss]

We already have one called Optimus British Prime:

Spoiler

Behold my MS paint skills!

 

[Dryk]

I imagine Canada's would be plaid with the colours being red and white, it would have a large beard (out of witch missiles would fly) and carry a large axe. Instead of a thunk when it made a hit it would say sorry or eh or hozzer. It would also run on beer and beer bottles.

Canada's was the prototype. BEHOLD. Brawler Yukon.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

A Jager made in Argentina would probably fall apart instantly and cause the deaths of several bystanders. The government would sue the presidency, the presidency would sue the government, a year would go by, finally some meaningless tertiary private company scapegoat would get indicted and dismantled, Ricardo Darín would star in an inspired-by-true-events movie some years later and hereafter everybody would bring up the incident in their campaign rallies as a form of half-baked demagogy. Meanwhile, millions of pesos would suddenly and mysteriously vanish. You get the picture.

Surely somehow the government would waggle a finger in the UK's direction at some point... pinning thw whole thing on us, and linking it somewhat to the Falklands?

OT: Ours would fight with the Giant robot version of Bartitsu... and have a top hat. It's exhaust would be a pipe coming from it's mouth.

 

[Forobryt]

How come all of the UK ones are focusing on a gentleman, that won't win a war with monsters.
What we need is a giant mecha bulldog that is piloted by football hooligans wielding Boris Johnson as a weapon.

 

[Casual Shinji]

A better question would be: What would your country's Mobile Fighter Gundam look like?
In Holland's case, it's a giant Windmill:

Kudos to Pacific Rim for not going that route...

How the hell could they've forgotten to put clogs on that bad boy!? I mean, give him a bag of fries with mayo atleast.

Aren't those foot things clogs? That what I got from their shape anyway, maybe they should've painted them yellow...

Yeah, I guess they are. Clogs just don't look that dissimilar to mecha feet, I suppose.

 

[Gone Rampant]

I'm Irish, so it'd be a short, stout robot painted green with a jaunty hat tipped to the side, and ginger painted on the head.

It'd also be a motherfucking train-wreck in a fight.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Poland already had one decades ago:

Ain't it awesome?

AAAH AAAH AAAH!

KILL IT. KILL IT WITH FIRE!

 

[HellbirdIV]

A Swedish Jaeger would be extremely rugged and armed with large, heavy weapons - based on our current military doctrine of small forces with the most advanced tech, requiring little maintenance, packing heavy firepower and retaining high mobility. It would engage the enemy from afar yet have the armor to survive a forced melee.

Its name is STRF, or "Stridsfordon", literally "Combat vehicle", because the Swedish Army does not give out original names to anything. For the same reason it has no logos or decals, just standard camo green steel/plastic plating. It makes sense given the Swedish distaste for war. We don't give out inspiring names to any of our army equipment. (The Navy and Airforce still get to give out cool names, though.)

[http://s309.photobucket.com/user/Merandil/media/JaegerPoster.png.html]

 

[Jynthor]

One thing I don't get about many Jaegers is why they punch instead of shooting ALL the guns.(Going by trailers here, haven't seen the movie... yet, forgive me if I'm wrong)
That is why the Dutch Jaeger will be a beast armed with as many rockets and big ass guns as possible.
It will be black with orange stripes on its arms and it will be called The Ruyter, in honour of this badass [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michiel_de_Ruyter].

 

[Angie7F]

Well, being japanese, i cant help but claim that Gundam and Evangelion is our invention so we will like to just stick to recreating a gundam or evangelion.
But if I have to make something from scratch and reflect our culture, I suggest a girl pop group version.

Or any other teenager girl in miniskirts.
Preferably running on hybrid energy sources not nuclear because well, they tend to leak when struck by tsunamis.
that, or salary man in suits.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

It would be exactly like this. Hell, the first time the Canadian Gundam fought was in Niagara Fall's basin. Perfect setup for a Kaiju attack.

Isn't that somewhat idealistic? I'm Canadian, and I'd rather think our Jaeger would be an old relic purchased from Russia, given a quick red-and-white paint job and maybe a couple airbrush transfers of the Queen's face for good measure. Then we'd investigate the purchase process and find that Stephen Harper had funds diverted from vital Kaiju-survival measures into the purchase of this bucket of bolts.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

It would be exactly like this. Hell, the first time the Canadian Gundam fought was in Niagara Fall's basin. Perfect setup for a Kaiju attack.

Isn't that somewhat idealistic? I'm Canadian, and I'd rather think our Jaeger would be an old relic purchased from Russia, given a quick red-and-white paint job and maybe a couple airbrush transfers of the Queen's face for good measure. Then we'd investigate the purchase process and find that Stephen Harper had funds diverted from vital Kaiju-survival measures into the purchase of this bucket of bolts.

Well, with our current track record in our Arctic military practices, Canada probably lost the arctic ocean to the Kaiju already and we needed to be bailed out by the Russians.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

The U.S.'s Jaeger would probably be covered in advertisements from sponsors, if Nascar is any indication.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

What? I thought you were talking about soldiers like the Border Hunters, what are kajis
Some kinda giant robots?

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I imagine the British mech would only be half finished by the time the threat had been dealt with, be 3 times over budget even at that point and end up getting sold off to some MP's old school chum for a fraction of it's worth in a bid to recoup some of the losses from it's development. Old school chum will then sell it for scrap for ten times what he paid for it.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

The british jaeger...would be a gentleman.

It would have a top hat, and would be painted red from the neck down. It would have a monocle that shoots laser beams, and in built tea makin facilities.

I imagine our jaeger bashing Kaiju skulls in with a skyscraper-sized cricket bat, and shooting them with a giant, ornate dueling pistol that fires musket balls the size of small houses.