#Hermann gotlieb

[jericos-art-corner]

Pacific rim DND AU. ->Dont repost my art. Dont feed to A//i i do not consent!!!!

[spottheantisemitism]

usually I’d side eye a story where the token Jewish character is a rules obsessed math nerd who says “numbers are how we get close to the glory of G-D” who is the perpetual debbie downer and who keeps putting his best friend/boyfriend down

but in a story where the Japanese character pulls a sword out of her mech and screams “this is revenge for my family” and the Russian characters speak only in swears and pilot a mech that looks like someone told Soviet Tank engineers to build at vaguely humanoid mech and the Australians are obnoxious and looking for a fight, I’d not only give him a pass but clutch Hermann Gotlieb protectively to my chest as a new blorbo

Pacific Rim wears it’s cheesiness and the fact that everyone is an ethnic stereotype on their sleeve.

“wait Cecil I thought he was a GERMAN stereotype”. Well gentile reader, that too! but the screenwriter did a JKR and said Herman is a German Jew. hence why the German Jewish math nerd who saves the day thing. it’s overdone, we get it the only German Jew you know is Albert Einstein we get it, stop making movies until you learn more about Jews.

Considering the lore tidbits like that his father created the first Jaeger Mech (why do you THINK it’s got a German name?) I want to know more about this man and his family

[kaijuposting]

PSA: The g-word is a racial slur. We call her "Lady Danger" for a reason.

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Pacific Rim draft script by Travis Beacham (be forewarned, it's pretty bad and sketchy a lot.)

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[cawsaurus]

Newt/Hermann is ADHD/Autism solidarity

[bitmeddler]

New from Sanrio… it’s HELLO KAIJU!!! 

Based on the opening of the movie with the talk shows and the sneakers and all that craziness, I feel like this totally could have happened. Trespasser-chan just might have been canon. And Newt would have bought the hell out of it. And Hermann would have disapproved (that or he would have secretly bought it for Newt and given it to him anonymously…)

This is a fill for the square “Action Figures / Posters” for @theloccent Pacific Rim Bingo. Three down, one to go!

[lithiumseven]

Ok but FUCK Pacific Rim: Uprising

[darksideoftheshipps]

[frogcabbage]

My dad hasn't watched Pacific Rim in years and he says the only thing he can remember about it are "the 2 gay scientists" i'm

[yourdeadprince]

my contribution to the cool @newmannanthology initiative ♡ a short comic with tiny details and light-hearted content :)

[loveaintforkeeping]

I will sing to you every day If it will take away the pain Oh and I’ve heard you got it, got it so bad 'Cause I am the best you’ll never have

-Miss Missing You, Fall Out Boy

[thisjaegerisourgetalongshirt]

get the hermann gottlieb look!

[churmac-blog]

herman’s idea of flirting with newt is putting the beds next to each other when they play minecraft

[kaijuposting]

The Pacific Rim Draft Script: Who The Heck Is Newt Gotlieb?

Some of you may have heard (or even read it on Travis Beacham's blog) that Newt Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb were originally one character. And indeed, in the Pacific Rim draft script, we can find a guy named Newt Gotlieb.

But if we read through the script, we can see that this an oversimplified statement. Newt Gotlieb has a different vibe from the both of them, and it's very obvious that Newt Geiszler was strongly influenced by another character.

Newt Gotlieb is a particle physicist who works for the Calixto Particle Observatory near Lima, Peru. At some point before the story, he began e-mailing Felicity "Flick" Kincaid, reporter and former girlfriend of Yancy Antrobus, who wants to uncover the mysteries of the kaiju and maybe even find a way to stop them. But it seems he got cold feet, because whenever Flick tried to e-mail him for more information, his replies were "vague and infrequent."

Finally, Flick tracked him down to his workplace. Here's his introduction and first scene:

INT. MAIN CORRIDOR -- CONTINUOUS Flick enters the dim hallway, relieved to be in from the cold. No sound save for the BUZZ of fluorescent lights and the ghostly CROONING of the wind outside. She spots a man come out into the hallway and linger, engrossed by his clipboard. He wears headphones, listening to music. He hasn't noticed her.

He's NEWT GOTLIEB (33) -- a lanky, unkempt academic with scruffy brown hair and an impish grin. Geekishly cute in his own peculiar way. Flick attempts to get his attention.

FLICK Excuse me… (he doesn't hear) Excuse me! Finally he looks up and takes off the headphones.

FLICK (CONT’D) I got an e-mail from someone here in reference to an article I'm --

NEWT You're Felicity Kincaid.

FLICK You can call me Flick… And you must be gotlieb @ calixto.org?

NEWT No. No, I'm not.

She glances at nametag on his lanyard: "Gotlieb." He relents.

NEWT (CONT’D) What are you doing here?

FLICK You e-mailed me. “I have info relevant to your investigation.” That’s what you said.

NEWT I figured you probably got stuff like that all the time.

FLICK I don’t. How substantial is it?

NEWT I don’t know. But I know COSDEC’s got it too, and I know they don’t talk about it.

FLICK All the more reason to have this conversation in person, right?

He turns to go.

(A quick note - "COSDEC" stands for "Combined Special Defense Corp." It's essentially an older version of the PPDC.)

Newt Gotlieb also works with a "stout, bespectacled scientist" named Myron Toynbee. Toynbee is glad that Newt e-mailed Flick, because there's some hot scientific data they're sitting on that Toynbee would rather the world know about. Eleven years ago, Gotlieb and Toynbee worked for a Doctor Ivo Czerny, who discovered that the kaiju were coming from a portal leading to a parallel universe. Soon Czerny got a call from COSDEC and went to work for their sci-division... until one day, they exiled him to the Australian outback.

Flick decides to talk to Doctor Czerny, and Newt follows after.

Across the lobby, Newt enters off the street, looking lost. He cranes his to scan the casual crowd of GUESTS. He searches and finally spots Flick at the front desk. He beams.

NEWT Hey! I caught you.

Finished with both her transactions, Flick hangs up and turns, a bit surprised to see Newt.

FLICK What are you doing here?

NEWT Well, I was thinking -- You're going to need some help.

FLICK You're bold all of a sudden.

NEWT I got you into this. I feel like I need to own up to that.

Before they can leave for Australia, a kaiju attacks and the pair of them have to avoid getting squished. After escaping, Newt cleans Flick's wounds; Flick abruptly insists that they'll never have a relationship, and Newt plays ignorant.

They reach Doctor Czerny, who reveals that the Interstice is a portal to an older, dying universe. He believes that the Precursors used a particle accelerator to create a new universe - our universe. When Czerny refuses to give Newt and Flick more answers, the pair of them poke around his place.

Flick picks her way into a quonset hut, but she's caught by Czerny, who reveals how he learned this information: he drifted with a kaiju brain. He lets Flick drift with the kaiju brain he has.

While this is going on, Newt discovers Czerny's data on the Interstice, and discovers what appears to be a weak point. Czerny, who has made up his mind that there's simply no stopping the Precursors, attempts to blow the whole place up with a nuke to try and stop Newt from bringing false hope to the world. He attacks Newt, but Newt escapes and rescues Flick before the bomb can go off. (It's quite obvious that this inspired the scene of Hermann rescuing Newt in the film.)

Flick reveals that she learned through her drift with a kaiju brain that the Interstice is stabilizing, which means that the weak point Newt discovered can be targeted. The pair of them take their discovery to COSDEC. The scene where Newt explains the Interstice's weakness is very similar to the scene where Hermann explains how he believes that detonating a nuke in the breach will close it.

Mako and Raleigh close the Interstice, and Newt holds onto Flick as they wait to find out whether they survived.

I'm sure you've noticed that Flick has quite a lot in common with Newt Geiszler, and that her interactions with Newt Gotlieb strongly mirror interactions between Newt Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb. So while I would say that this statement that Newt and Hermann used to be one character isn't exactly wrong, I would also propose that it's just as accurate (if not more accurate) to say that Newt used to be a gal - until Guillermo del Toro transed his gender.

[oh-and-this]

The fact I hadn't already seen this film is absolutely insane

[dragofelid]

I rewatched Pacific rim again

and I had to redraw hermann and newt

[dacergirl369]

chapter one of me and jazz’s (@apprenticeofdoyle) newmann fantasy au is up on ao3!!!!!!!!!! i’m so excited about this fic u guys omg

MIT professor Newt Geiszler is a part-time cryptozoologist intrigued by a recent spree of killings near his campus. After a mysterious visitor drops by his freshman monster mythology course, Newt is exposed to the truth he’s spent his entire career searching for-- and a dark, dangerous reality, lurking just below the surface of Boston...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16643564