It actually happened because Paul verhoeven wrote a script that only got attached to the novel when someone else noticed the similarities. Paul never actually read it lol

In the novel they very much are small teams of individual warfighters in high-tech mech suits that can leap 100 yards at a time and fire tactical nukes. They also actually have strategy and stuff. The human wave warfare in the movies doesn’t fit in with the message of the novel at all. I’d actually recommend reading the novel, its pretty interesting even tho its politics are bad.

Difficult to be hard on Cain for taking rejection badly - imagine there only is and only has ever been 5 sapient creatures in existance, one of them is GOD, and he goes out of his way to point out how much he loves your brother and hates you. There’s no “we’ll get 'em next time” and certainly no “plenty of fish in the sea.”

The real ass GOD and every people who have EVER lived think you suck. Hard to underreact to that