Ten Movie Tough Guys And The Dogs They Love
Because even the most hardened of killers needs a best friend.
Chuck and Hercules Hansen (Rob Kazinsky and Max Martini) in Pacific Rim (2013)
The Australian father and son who pilot the Jaeger mecha Striker Eureka (“Stroika Yooreeka”) have a British Bulldog called Max. Even in a world terrorised by interdimensional kaiju, families are clearly still bonding over their pets. I find it distressing that Herc and Chuck have such a quintessentially English dog rather than, say, a blue heeler or a kelpie; but given both actors’ extremely dodgy attempts at Aussie accents, perhaps it’s a subtle in-joke that they’re not actually Australian.