Mako, moments before her pointless death in Uprising. In Pacific Rim Uprising, Mako Mori fails the Mako Mori test. That arc is not about her supporting the primary arc of a male character
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The test, established by Tumblr user Chaila in 2013, is passed if a movie features the following criteria:
As she grows and learns to believe in herself as a capable Jaeger pilot in her own right, she works with Raleigh to save the world and get closure on her childhood trauma.Īlthough Pacific Rim failed the more standard feminist-theory lens that is the Bechdel Test – at least one instance of two named women in a piece of media talking to each other about something that isn’t a man – Mako’s arc in the movie is so well actualized, and is resolved without her merely acting in service of fulfilling the arcs of the film’s male characters, that fans decided to establish a new critical media theory in her name: The Mako Mori test. As an adult, she struggles to live up to his fame as one of the best pilots left protecting Earth, and bristles up against Pentecost’s own desire to see her kept safely away from giant monster fighting. We see her confront her past – she was orphaned during one of the giant monster attacks as a child, and taken in by Jaeger pilot Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba). It is Mako’s journey in particular that serves as the emotional spine of Pacific Rim. That self-seriousness in the face of extremely silly but also extremely cool robot action goodness is anchored around Pacific Rim‘s two lead characters (who, like the robots, also have fantastic names): Raleigh Beckett, played by Charlie Hunnam, and Mako Mori, played by Rinko Kikuchi. Mako, suited up and ready to cleave some monsters in half in Pacific Rim.
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