One of the best things about Pacific Rim was that it didn’t waste any time and just dropped us into a fully realized world with little more than a trailer for the origin movie of Gipsy Danger that we thankfully skipped.

Few realize how completely Guillermo del Toro’s vision of this world ravaged by giant other dimensional monsters was. Here are a few of the Jaegers that didn’t make the final cut.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Del Toro was most disappointed about cutting the defender from his home country:

Tequila Sunrise

Early drafts had the Southwestern United States protected by the Savior of Santa Fe:

Turquoise Hubris

When Kaiju attack this guy will be there in 30 minutes or less, but he spends his down time doing speaking engagements at elementary schools about the obesity epidemic:

Pizza Regret

One subplot that we will hopefully see restored on the DVD is that the entirety of Cave-In-Rock, Illinois was destroyed by a Category 3 Kaiju codenamed Magnetface. Powered only by Faygo and nitrus, the two lone survivors of the attack aimlessly roam the midwest in:

Juggalo Ennui

Of course there’s your boring uncle’s favorite Jaeger:

Grisham Novel

Left on the cutting room floor were some of the cross-promotional characters they tried to fit into the film.

CBS lobbied hard to bring in Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs for a Two Broke Jaegirls angle:

Cupcake Waitress

Nintendo was ready to drop a lot of coins to see:

Plumber Italiano

and there was even a pitch for a TV spinoff:

Tiger Bayside

When Slater crushes a nut sitting backwards in a chair, Screech is the only one who can join Zack in the Drift and save the world in Saved By the Bell: The Kaiju Years.

Bonus -- this is what happens if Pacific Rim doesn't get a sequel greenlit:

And of course, the Kentucky Jaeger:

J. Dobbs Rosa