Calvin and Hobbes Pacific Rim AU where they’re Jaeger pilots and Newt and Dr. Gottleib have spirited debates over whether Hobbes is simply a stuffed tiger whose emotional significance to Calvin gives him the strength to pilot a Jaeger solo (Gottleib’s theory that Newt dismisses as “medically impossible”) or whether Hobbes is an actual sentient tiger who, by some means, is able to conceal his true form from everyone but Calvin (Newt’s theory that Gottleib dismisses as “unscientific”). When they finally ask Calvin, he replies “you’ll have to ask him.”