I forgot just how deeply cursed Alex Irvine's novelization of Pacific Rim is until I went skimming through the book looking for material that might have been sourced from Newt and Hermann's original character bios.
Among many, many other cursed things, the book makes Newt a big fan of laissez-faire capitalism, and he likes it when it gets involved with public programs:
Newt was almost as surprised. The entire Pan-Pacific Defense initiative was funded by a black marketeer who recouped his investment by selling parts of the kaiju whose killing he had financed. And some of the parts were purchased by Kaiju Science! Newt probably had tissue and organs on his lab tables that came from this Hannibal Chau person.
Now that was a public-private partnership, Newt thought admiringly.
Oh, and remember in the movie, where Newt shoves Hercules Hansen aside and yells, "Move, you fascist!"? Yeah. Not here. Nope. Alex Irvine makes Newt a good little respecter of military guys:
Newt and Gottlieb stormed into the LOCCENT disheveled, out of breath, and stinking like kaiju guts.
“It’s not going to work! It’s not going to work!” Newt shouted.
Herc held up both hands and the two scientists skidded to a halt in front of him.
Oh, and Raleigh Becket really likes it when strict roles and separation of classes:
Herc and Chuck Hansen sat together at the edge of the maintenance bay overseeing the work but staying out of the way of their crews. Raleigh knew Herc a bit from his first tour, but had only seen Chuck on TV. They were cool and professional. Techs did the maintenance. Pilots did the piloting. Didn’t do anyone any good to get those roles confused.
The whole book is just... like this; it exudes a constant low-grade miasma of super fucked up shit.
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They implemented a new feature on AO3 where you could curse or bless other users depending on if you liked their fics, and someone sent me a curse that blocked me from reading fics for the next 27 days and I got so pissed off I woke up.