Subject: I was thinking that as well.
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Posted on: 2015-03-24 19:58:00 UTC

The problem is that in the actual Pacific Rim movie, the Jaegers aren't actually as durable against the kaiju as most people think. Leatherback and Otachi were able to dismember two of them in quick succession before Gipsy Danger was brought in, and these were some of the only remaining ones after the Jaeger program got shut down - they were just THAT powerful. I should also point out that the Pacific Rim kaiju are apparently much lighter than most monsters of that size range tend to be, and realistically they'd be knocked over by a strong wind like the kinds encountered at the tops of skyscrapers. If they're that lightweight (and I can only assume that MUTO!Sonic would probably be of a similar constitution) and they're able to destroy two Jaegers operated by experienced teams of highly trained soldiers... I can only imagine what something like that could do to a Jaeger at a constant risk of breaking down, operated by a pair of teenagers with no experience with such technology whatsoever (or, Arceus forbid, a tween who suffers from crippling anxiety).

As for the other suggestions, shooting the MUTO!Sonic out into orbit will likely make a bad situation worse - what if it meets Ghidorah and uses the Suefluence on him? And I know enough about speculative kaiju biology to say with confidence that bleeding it out would take way too long.

I guess a Jaeger is the only thing that comes close to a good suggestion, but even that's not saying much given what happened to most of them in the Pacific Rim canon. I honestly have no clue as to what else to do that would stay true to the Duty, though. *shrug*

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