One of the most intriguing aspects of the DC Universe is how it's learned to embrace crossovers again. Whether it's Batman mingling with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Justice League mixing with He-Man's crew, or Krypto appearing with Scooby-Doo, it happily splices nostalgic properties together. At the same time, these stories offer DC Comics a chance to turn something familiar into a fresh canvas with material that can appeal to new audiences.

DC has confirmed that the Justice League will be facing the Monsterverse's Titans in October of 2023. Fans are giddy to see Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman tussling with King Kong and Godzilla. However, while there's a lot of potential inherent in characters like Rodan and King Ghidorah, the DCU has the perfect reality waiting for another amalgamation: the Pacific Rim Universe.

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Justice League X Pacific Rim Has Better Villains

This isn't to denigrate Kong or Godzilla, but they're no villains. In due time, they'll probably transform from antiheroes into the behemoths the League needs to work with to fight other more malevolent kaiju. That said, the concept of creatures from Skull Island coming over and triggering humanity has been flogged to death. The Monsterverse movies repeated this with Kong and Godzilla's war, and it's sure to happen again when they team up to fight more dangers lurking in the Earth's core.

Additionally, Netflix's Skull Island, Legendary's Monsterverse comics, and related properties make the Monsterverse franchise feel oversaturated. However, Pacific Rim offers something more innovative and nuanced than primal beasts climbing the food chain. This reality hinges on the idea of invasion, with the Precursors intent on taking the planet for themselves. They're smarter, more cunning and decisive, and are playing a long game. The Titans are icons, of course, but they're also primitive.

Having Pacific Rim's kaju invade a DCU reality would create an engaging, bombastic, and action-packed spectacle. In addition, it would push the League to work with a newly-arriving Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC). Since these monsters are more dynamic, quicker, and have an array of explosive powers, they feel more versatile and threatening. They're also a form of controlled chaos, with a mastermind behind the legion, and that lends itself much better to intrigue and mystery. The Pacific Rim anime proves how powerful these beings could be as war dogs as opposed to prehistoric Skull Islanders. Since comics are constrained by the budgets of live-action and animation, it's a massive opportunity to unleash evolved, scarier versions of the Precursors and their pawns.

DC Already Has The Perfect Mech-Verse

DC: Mech is the ideal reality for this. This miniseries (from Kenny Porter, Baldemar Rivas, Mike Spicer and Tom Napolitano) already had the heroes using Lex Luthor's tech and Wonder Woman's metallurgy to make mech-warriors along the lines of Pacific Rim's Jaegers. This would allow the League and PPDC to share data, upgrade each other's research, and even merge to produce different designs and robotic variations.

These stories do lean a lot into the vibe established by Ultraman, Power Rangers, Gundam, and Voltron, after all. Plus, the idea of having the younger League mind meld in the Drift could help unravel secrets and motivations, and explore their unseen histories. This also enables Pacific Rim to bring characters back who were killed off too early. This could include Idris Elba's Stacker and Rinko Kikuchi's Mako. Even Charlie Hunnam's Riley could join the fun by mentoring the inexperienced League.

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This world is primed for meeting new allies thanks to how Lex faked an alien invasion in its previous stories. As such, it'd actually be interesting seeing a real incursion happen here and see Mech-Earth struggle with how to react. Since the Precursors love bonding with humans and using them as puppets, per Charlie Day's Newt, it's easy to envision them doing the same with Lex. It's an arc he ironically took part in with DC's Perpetua, when she transformed him into her alien avatar. Here, though, Lex can be a new kind of Apex Predator, maybe even plotting to actually turn the Precursors in his ultimate weapon. The point is, DC: Mech already has the backdrop to welcome the Pacific Rim heroes and villains in. Both realms are more populated by more than just mindless warriors waiting to clash. All sides here have a bigger endgame and higher stakes.

Justice League X Pacific Rim Can Subvert The Invasion Angle

A crossover with the League has enough room in it to dive into something Pacific Rim Uprising hinted at. The PPDC wanted to take Jaegers over to the Precursor world to shut them down for good. Even Independence Day and Shane Black's The Predator toyed with this notion, only to get canned. However, the Justice Rim or Pacific League alliance can pursue this mission, using their mechs to take the aliens down on their own turf.

Inverting the invasion would allow DC heroes to cut loose outside their metal shells, showing the Pacific Rim characters what gods, aliens, and superhumans can do without tech. It'd even touch on ethical and moral dilemmas, as these heroes approach and cross lines, becoming villains and conquerors in the process. Batman would endorse this proactivity, but a Superman who lost his home might not, a debacle Young Justice detailed as well with a roving, aggressive League. This can create an existential crisis where the alliance has to wonder if they're becoming monsters themselves. The DC: Mech world doubles down as the best terrain for this thought-provoking journey, especially after it teased Brainiac was coming.

A bigger and even more organic twist would be Brainiac and his giant ship working with the Precursors behind the scenes. This narrative even carves out a space for other cosmic villains like Lobo, Mongul, and Sinestro to join the fray in their own mechs, or as kaiju-riders. Again, this sort of cross-pollination has worked in many previous DC crossovers, particularly when the Masters of the Universe and the Injustice realities collided. Ultimately, DC's Mechverse is a great place to set the company's most popular characters free, untethered from the main continuity. It hypes up the League even more, reminds folks of Pacific Rim's potential, and illustrates how DC can push the envelope with unconventional, creative stories. Crossovers are popular for all these reasons, and the synergies here are too good to miss.