Or the oil tanker is just an especially small one? Are we literally just ignoring the visuals of the film now?
Idk the visuals also showed Slattern taking a nuke equivalent to 150 megatons but you seem pretty adamant on cherry picking one specific scene
We know it didn't cause any external damage, or at least sufficiently small external damage that it caused no bleeding.
How can you say this when the projectiles landed where existing injuries already were then obscured with smoke?
Do you have scans after the detonations that are not obscured with smoke?
The bloodied spots on Mutavore were already there before the missiles struck.
Yeah so you can't prove it wasn't injured.
What makes it so unconventional? It's big explosive missiles of some variety and non-nuclear.
Only thing mentioned was that it was designed by Newt's expert knowledge on Kaiju biology to pierce deep into their Hides.
We don't know if conventional resources were used or if it was something exotic like the rest of their equipment.
What method of damage does it cause which caused Mutavore to die? (Granted he already wasn't in good condition from all the punches)
Probably some sort of shrapnel, maybe the armor got weakened enough by the punches for the payload to penetrate deep enough into the body to do severe damage to the brain and throat.
Kinda pointless to argue about tho since the only thing we know so far is.
1. The Missiles are not conventional because they were specially designed by a genius engineer who has been studying Kaiju biology for years, the only bit of information mentioned was it being designed for penetration.
2. Eureka had to soften up Mutavore and fire at existing injured sites for a finisher.
This with context is very different from your claim that big missiles are enough to kill Kaiju.
Based on the following mentioned feats
1) Copperhead a Category IV withstanding 50+ meter fire balls from minefields.
2) Tresspaser a Category III withstanding 3 tactical nukes and 6 days of Jet/Tank/Missile bombardment.
3) The multiple Kaiju killed by nukes before Jaegars were made.
4) The in universe creator of the Mecha mentioning Jaegar have nuke level force.
5) Slattern withstanding a Megaton or higher.
6) Gypsy withstanding several million tons of water falling onto them while already severely damaged.
7) Pacific Rim Black, Jaegar Hunter Vertigo using nukes to kill Category III Kaiju
That "big missiles" aren't gonna cut it. This is even seen in the comic
Big Missiles don't cut it, they just knock a category III on its ass for a few seconds, this Acid Quill btw doesn't suffer any injuries and takes out Jaegar Kinetic without dying.