Rat Tonic

FACT: Pacific Rim Uprising was a secret remake of the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia musical episode The Nightman Cometh. FACT: I don't know anybody who cares. FACT: I can either hold this knowledge alone and privately gather evidence until my conspiracy board relating to these events gets too large for my apartment, or I can explain it on the internet.

Guys, I'm sorry.

So, the plot of The Nightman Cometh goes like this: Charlie, (played by Charlie Day) writes a musical in which his self-insert character, the Lead Boy, struggles against the Nightman. The Nightman represents a malevolent entity whose goal is to enter the Boy's soul and corrupt him until the Boy himself becomes the Nightman. In order to gain access to the Boy, he needs to enlist the help of the troll who lives in the Boy's bedroom. The Boy WOULD fall to the influence of the Nightman, except that he joins forces with a princess and is "transformed by the strong, musky power of true love" and becomes the Dayman, master of karate and friendship, instead.

In Pacific Rim Uprising, Charlie Day's character Newton Geiszler is the Lead Boy. The Progenitors, aliens from another dimension, are the Nightman who gain access to Newton's mind and soul via the troll/kaiju brain that lives in his bedroom. In Uprising, Newt does fall to this corrupting influence and becomes the Nightman, BUT in this interview, Charlie Day explains that the thing leaving Newt open to corruption is the ten year separation from his true love, Hermann Gottlieb. Every time Newt reaches out for help against the Progenitors' influence, he reaches for Hermann, culminating in a scene where Newt and Hermann beat up four armed dudes in an elevator. Ordinarily this would make NO SENSE - Newt and Hermann are a couple of out of shape nerds who wouldn't stand a chance against armed, trained adversaries who outnumber them two to one, except that they're together now and the strong musky power of their love makes them masters of karate.