Raleigh Becket

Raleigh Becket is the main protagonist in the movie Pacific Rim and a mentioned character in it's sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising. He was the pilot of Gipsy Danger, although he loses his brother in one battle. After the lost of his brother, he would work as a construction worker until Stacker Pentecost found him. Returning to the Jaeger Program, he was partnered with Stacker's adopted daughter, Mako Mori to fight against the Kaiju in Hong Kong.
He is portrayed by , who also portrayed Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy, and King Arthur in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.
==Biography==
===Prologue===
At 2020, Raleigh was awakened by his brother with the notification of yet another Kaiju attack, one code-named "Knifehead". The brothers are pilots of a series of giant mechs known as JAEGERs with the one these two pilot being named "Gypsy Danger". After prepping the mech and finishing up the neural link, the brothers step forth to battle the giant monster at sea. 
Despite their years of experience, this kaiju was a lot more advanced than what they had ever faced and managed to fight through the large arsenal possessed by the JAEGER. This losing battle ended when Knifehead attacked the cockpit, killing Raleigh's brother. Despite the poor conditions of the mech and now being forced to pilot it alone, the mech pilot successfully finishes off the kaiju before getting the JAEGER to limp back to dry land and in the end, both he and his mech survive the ordeal.
===Pacific Rim ===
During the defunding of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, Raleigh had already retired and was working at another anti-kaiju project, being a giant wall. Due to his past however, he was brought back in as the organization is lacking in both JAEGERs and pilots. The mech pilot was greeted by Stacker Pentecost and his adopted daughter, Mako Mori. He was quickly introduced to the functions of the Shatterdome and the personnel fighting alongside them on the mission to bomb the breach. Alongside all that, he also got to see his old mech, Gipsy Danger which he remarks that it “looks like new”.
As he decides to stay, Mako informs him that his candidates will be prepared to face him in the morning. Curious to know her stake in the Pentecost’s mission, Raleigh asks if she’s Jaeger pilot. Mako answers in the negative, however, she tells him that she wants to become a pilot more than anything. However, Pentecost has his reasons for preventing her from doing so. He notes that her impressive simulator score can’t be the reason Pentecost forbids her the opportunity.
In an attempt to change the subject, Mako instead criticizes Raleigh's records, believing that his tendency to deviate from standard procedure and taking unnecessary risks put the lives of those at his side in danger. She decides to explain to Marshall Pentacost that she doesn’t believe he’s the right man for the breach assault. Raleigh, stung by her opinion, cites that real life combat is different from anything in a simulator and that the choices made in the moment are ones he has to try living with. Frustrated, Mako leaves his room; as she prepares to close the door she spies the scars on his back and left arm and becomes envious.
The following day, Raleigh decides to get some practice at the Kwoon Combat Room, taking on multiple candidates one by one in melee combat. Mako remains unimpressed, prompting the mech pilot to take a stab at her pride by questioning her selection of candidates. Mako tells him the problem lies not with the candidates, but with his inability to use the best tactics immediately take them out quicker than he is.
Irritated, Raleigh challenges Mako, bringing into question her purported skills as a Pentecost’s “brightest”. Though Pentecost objects at first, he allows Mako the opportunity to fight Raleigh. The two are evenly matched the fight, but Mako rises victorious when she uses a sweep maneuver, knocking Raleigh off his feet and pinning his leg. Despite her compatibility with Raleigh, Pentecost tells Raleigh that she won’t be his pilot and dismisses the issue. Mako leaves the Kwoon Combat Room in disappointment.
Some time later, Raleigh was waiting at his old JAEGER and suit for the next candidate who will be his partner. Surprisingly, said candidate is Mako who had gotten permission from her adopted father. As they prepare to Drift, Raleigh warns her not to latch onto a memory during the drift. The initial Drift between the two goes smoothly; their neural handshake allowing them interface with Gipsy Danger without issue.
However, when Raleigh latches onto the memory of his brother’s death, he throws them both out of alignment. Mako gets lost in her memory of Onibaba’s attack; reliving the memory while connected to Gipsy Danger activates the Plasmacaster on Raleigh’s side of the Jaeger. Her connection with the Jaeger is strong enough to override the emergency failsafe’s in the LOCCENT, and as a result, she nearly destroys the Shatterdome, which leads technician Tendo Choi and the Hansens, Herc and Chuck, to shut down power the entire system connected to the Jaeger.
The incident brings into question Mako and Raleigh’s capability to run defense for Striker Eureka during the breach assault. Chuck confronts Raleigh and Mako outside of Pentecost’s office after a meeting with the Marshall and his father. Knowing they heard him, Chuck tells Raleigh to disappear, figuring that the five year gap from the last time he piloted a Jaeger would endanger the mission. Mako warns Chuck to stop antagonizing Raleigh. 
He continues when Raleigh holds her back, calls them bitches who need leashes. His comment angers Raleigh enough to punch him; when Chuck fails to apologize to Mako, the two get into a fight that ends in Raleigh’s favor. Herc and Pentecost exit the office and split the two up. 
When LOCCENT picks up two Category IV Kaiju signatures, Otachi and Leatherback, Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha and Striker Eureka are deployed from the Shatterdome to confront the Kaiju in the Victoria Harbour while Pentecost keeps Mako and Raleigh grounded. However, when Otachi and Leatherback gain the upper hand on all three Jaegers; Otachi destroying both Crimson Typhoon’s Conn-Pod and Leatherback crushing Cherno Alpha’s pilots inside their Conn-Pod underwater and disabling Striker Eureka with an EMP blast; Raleigh reminds Pentecost that Gipsy Danger is analog and they still have a chance against the Kaiju.
Reluctantly, Pentecost sends both Mako and Raleigh out to fight Leatherback. The two grapple with the Kaiju, tearing its EMP organ from its back. Gipsy Danger is thrown into the docking area of the city where Leatherback continues to engage them. Throughout the battle they force Leatherback back toward the water, using the environment against it. Locked in a power struggle, the two use the Plasmacaster and fire into Leatherback’s stomach repeatedly; when the Kaiju falls dead, Raleigh and Mako shoot its corpse several more times to ensure it won’t get up.
They go after Otachi who’s entered the city in search of Newton Geiszler; dragging along oceanic freighter, they use the boat to attack Otachi before the Kaiju snatches the boat and tosses it aside. Otachi engages them immediately, knocking them down with its tail. The Kaiju evades them, disappearing into the crowded buildings. Mako and Raleigh search for the Kaiju, relying on their immediate sight and the helicopters patrolling above to detect movement.
The two are blindsided by Otachi who crashes through a building; it rams through the next building, using the environment to its advantage. Otachi tries to use its acid to burn through the hull of the Jaeger; Mako and Raleigh dodge its attack, but aren’t quick enough to avoid its pounce.
Otachi tries to use the pincer on its tail to crush their Conn-Pod, prompting Mako to use the coolant on Raleigh’s order and freezes the tail enough to shatter it. Free of its tail, the two pilots tear the acid sac from its throat and discard it. Otachi pounces on them again and digs into the back of the Jaeger and takes flight. The Kaiju smashes them through the tops of the skyscrapers and moves to take them above the atmosphere.
As they begin to lose oxygen, Raleigh believes they`re out of options. Mako, remembering the chain sword, deploys the weapon. Mako takes vengeance for her family when she and Raleigh cut Otachi in half; as they plummet, they barely manage to slow descent using Pentecost’s advice to purge the nuclear reactor. Landing relatively safely, the two return to the Shatterdome victorious. Herc thanks them for saving his and Chuck’s life from Leatherback.
Pentecost congratulates them for their efforts, but reminds the Shatterdome personnel that they still have work to do. Mako is the first to notice Pentecost nose is bleeding, alerting the Shatterdome to his illness. When he dismisses himself and orders the War Clock restarted, Mako shares a look with Raleigh that lets him know she is aware of his illness.
After some convincing, Mako agrees with her adopted father's decision to pilot Striker Eureka. Along with Gypsy Danger, the two JAEGERs are airlifted to the Challenger Deep, the location of the breach. As they approach the breach, they are attacked by Raiju and Scunner, two Category IV Kaiju sent to defend the breach. Scunner and Raiju ambush Gipsy Danger, tearing off its right arm and damaging its leg. When Raiju circles around for another attack, Gipsy Danger’s chain sword cuts the Kaiju in half. Crippled, Mako and Raleigh cannot get to Chuck and Pentecost before Scunner comes to the aid of Slattern, a Category V Kaiju who disabled Striker Eureka’s ability to deploy the thermonuclear bomb into the breach.
Pentecost tells Mako to make for the breach and destroy it using the Jaeger’s nuclear reactor. Though reluctant, she obeys the order and tells her father that she loves him. He and Chuck use the bomb to kill the remaining Kaiju. When the thermonuclear bomb goes off, Mako and Raleigh use the chain sword to brace themselves against the blast that parts the sea. The water comes rushing back around them, but they are able to recover despite the damage sustained to the Jaeger.
Mako begins to lose consciousness after her oxygen is compromised. They limp toward the breach with the halved body of Raiju when their path is blocked by a wounded Slattern. Tackling the Kaiju, they stab Slattern in the back with the chain sword as it attacks Gipsy Danger’s with its horned tails. It succeeds in cutting the line to Mako’s air supply. As they descend into the breach, Mako loses consciousness. Raleigh gives her his air supply and ejects her in one of Gipsy Danger’s life pods.
Now all alone in Gypsy Danger, Raleigh activates the nuclear reactor in the JAEGER, setting it up to blow once he exits it. He got a chance to look directly at the precursors, the ones responsible for the kaiju, giving one last insult before getting on a life pod. As he is launched up, Gypsy Danger explodes behind him, destroying the headquarters of the precursors and halting their invasion.
Once his pod emerged on the surface, Mako quickly swims over and forces the hatch open. She feared the worst when she cannot find his pulse. Embracing Raleigh, she begs him not to leave her. Raleigh regains consciousness and tells hers that she’s choking him. Relieved, she lets him go. Raleigh relays the destruction of the breach to LOCCENT and the two wait for pick up from the helicopters.
==Quotes==
==Equipment==
*Gypsy Danger: Gipsy Danger was a Jaeger in the movie Pacific Rim. It was piloted by Raleigh Becket, Yancy Becket (Deceased) and Mako Mori. Gipsy Danger was a mark 3 Jaeger powered by a nuclear reactor. It was one of the oldest jaegers in service aside from Cherno Alpha. It was constructed in 2017 and destroyed in 2025.
Gipsy was first seen in the Alaska shatterdome preparing for battle against Knifehead. It's fight with Knifehead severely damaged it tearing of it's left arm and killing Yancy Becket. Raleigh was forced to take on the strain with piloting Gipsy alone which a few pilots have ever done. After killing Knifehead with Gipsy's plasmacaster in it's right arm Raleigh then quits the Jaeger program. Gipsy is now placed in oblivion bay a place for destroyed or decommissioned jaegers. 
Gipsy is next seen 5 years later in the Hong Kong shatterdome when it was restored by Mako and Stacker Pentecost to prepare for the assault on the breach they then later they do a test with Gipsy with Mako and Raleigh. Everything was smooth when Raleigh then latched on to the memory of his brother's death then Mako also latched on to her childhood memory of the onibaba attack then charges up Gipsy's plasmacaster it almost fires on to the Loccent control center when Tendo Choi shuts of the power. 
Gipsy is then deployed when the kaiju Otachi and leatherback attack Hong Kong and destroy Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon and disables Striker Eureka so that means Gipsy is the last available Jaeger. Gipsy then kills leatherback with it's plasmacaster and kills Otachi with it's chainsword. 
Later on, it is deployed with Striker Eureka to destroy the breach it then starts a fight with Scunner and Raiju while Striker engages with Slattern. Gipsy kills Raiju with it's chainsword but Striker sacrifices itself to buy Gipsy some time to destroy the breach with a reactor meltdown. The blast from Striker's bomb kills Scunner but wounds Slattern severely. Gipsy then fights Slattern and kills it with a fuel purge then jumps to the breach. Raleigh ejects Mako from Gipsy to save her from low oxygen then engages reactor meltdown and ejects. Gipsy is then destroyed along with the breach. 
The legacy of it is Gipsy Avenger which is Gipsy Danger 2.0 with upgraded weapons.
==Appearances==
===Movies===
*Pacific Rim (2013)
===Movies===
*Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension (2018)
==Trivia==
* According to the novelization, Raleigh is dismissed from the Jaeger Program for disobeying Pentecost's orders.
==External Links==
*Raleigh on the Pacific Rim Wiki
*Gipsy Danger on the Pacific Rim Wiki
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