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Originally Posted by xSkullheartx

They have plenty of room for sequels and prequels.For a prequel,they could follow Stacker and the Coyote Jaeger.For sequels,you just had to pay attention to the story.After he drifted for the first time with the kaiju brain,he told Stacker that they were the ones that eliminated the dinosaurs.They saw the planet was too clean and left.They then came back millions of years later after we polluted the Earth enough for them to find it suitable.

That means that even though we saw an explosion on their side of the rift,A.We didn't see how much damage it caused,just that it closed the rift and B.They have the ability to open/create rifts when and wherever they want.

I'd like to see a prequel or 2 set in that 5 year period alluded to in the middle but we already know the end game of the first film so some suspense is taken out of the equation. What I'd really like to see is a sequel with the aliens possibly returning 50 or 100 years later when humanity has re-prepared for them. They think their new Kaiju will be strong enough but humanity has gone well beyond category 5 with Jaeger tech.

The nice thing about having such an old race of alien creatures is that for them time probably seems to pass by very quickly. In the millions of years between their attempted invasions of Earth did they develop new and stronger Kaiju? Probably, but since the atmosphere is what held them at bay in the past, they may not be significantly different in the present. They may not be as aware of the flow of time on our side of the rift either, time may flow differently on their side. Therefor you can reason that humanity, being driven to protect itself would develop fantastic new technologies in a span of time that crosses generations, while for the aliens it could only be a couple years difference perhaps.

Even if they did develop stronger kaiju we can see that at the end of everything with hardly any resources, that a damaged Mark 3 and a lone Mark 5 can take on a Category 5, albeit with heavy cost and casualty. That being said, after millions of years of design and development on the alien side, 8 years were all humans needed to put up a fight. If my theory holds about time flowing differently, then after a mere 50 or even 100 years I doubt the invaders would have developed Kaiju strong enough to decimate the planet again. The Jaeger tech would have advanced exponentially since their first encounters, well beyond the alien bio-tech.