How Netflixs The Black Fits Into The Pacific Rim Timeline

How Netflix’s The Black Fits Into The Pacific Rim Timeline

Netflix’s animated series Pacific Rim: The Black is connected to the movie franchise, and here’s how it fits in the Pacific Rim timeline.

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How Netflixs The Black Fits Into The Pacific Rim Timeline

Netflix Pacific Rim: The Black continues the monster franchise with an animated sequel, but how does the show fit into the Pacific Rim timeline? The original Pacific Rim movie directed by Guillermo del Toro kicked off the war between Kaiju and humanity’s jaegers with a story primarily set in 2025. When it finally came time to make a sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising jumped forward a decade to explore more of this world. The box officer returns on the sequel weren’t as large as the studios hoped for, though, and at least temporarily put an end to the franchise’s big-screen presence.

Three years after Pacific Rim: Uprising’s release, the franchise is continuing thanks to Netflix. The streaming service is the home of a new animated series that further explores this world. Pacific Rim: The Black primarily follows the adventures of siblings Taylor and Hayley Travis as they travel across the Kaiju-infested remains of Australia in search of their parents. The seven-episode first season expands the mythology of the Pacific Rim franchise in some fascinating ways and with only minimal connections to the movies. So where does Pacific Rim: The Black fall in the timeline?

Pacific Rim: The Black works well on its own without needing to pinpoint the precise time it takes place in the timeline, and the show actually refrains from signaling exactly where it falls. However, there are several context clues that provide an idea of when the movie falls on the timeline. Before getting too into the weeds of the references to the other movies, the best clue for when the animated series takes place is with how it builds on the live-action sequel. There are references to the events of the film, which squarely makes Pacific Rim: The Black take place after Pacific Rim: Uprising’s ending. It isn’t clear exactly how much time has passed between these stories, though.

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There are many clues to Pacific Rim: The Black coming after Pacific Rim: Uprising in the timeline. For starters, it is established in the movie canon that there were no Kaiju attacks between Pacific Rim and its sequel so that immediately rules out the chance of it fitting in there somehow. The appearance of Herc Hansen through a flashback to Operation Blackout pushes back how early in the timeline it can take place too. The show also repeatedly mentions the Uprising Wars, which is what the events of the sequel are known as in-universe. The Travis siblings even discover several destroyed jaegers who fought in that war. All of this further supports Pacific Rim: The Black taking place after Pacific Rim: Uprising and representing the farthest point in the timeline the franchise has gone.

Despite these references, nailing down an exact year for Pacific Rim: The Black’s events is more difficult. Taylor and Hayley go to find their parents five years after they were last seen right before Operation Blackout commenced. The show doesn’t clarify if Operation Blackout is tied to the Uprising Wars at all or if that event happens well after the attack featured in Pacific Rim: Uprising. With the movie’s events falling in 2035, the earliest Pacific Rim: The Black can take place is 2040. However, it is equally possible that Operation Blackout occurred decades later. Unless Pacific Rim: The Black season 2 brings more familiar characters to its story or blatantly says when it takes place, the exact setting of the show could remain a lingering question.

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