When Cain off his brother Abel in the first book of the Bible , did he realise that he was turn his name into soda water culture cliché ? likely not ; he was interfering remove his brother , after all . Now Cain — and Kane , Caine , Kayne , and all other spelling — is among the most overused character name ever . Here are just a few of the villain , antiheroes , and assholes birth the scar of Cain ( and Kaine , and Caine , etc . ) .
1 ) Solomon Kane
Robert Howard ’s Puritan anti - hero Solomon Kane gets a pass for two reasons : 1 ) he was among the first , if not the first consumption of a character named “ Cain ” name in democratic refinement , as he was create in 1928 , and 2 ) as a dark hero who was religious but killed on behalf of God , sharing the name of the Bible ’s first manslayer was completely appropriate . It was all downhill from here .
2 ) The Caine Mutiny
Herman Wolk ’s famous 1951 novel is about a Navy destroyer named the Caine , upon which an unqualified military officer easy earns the hate of his work party , bad things hap , and masses die . The use of the “ Caine ” name is spelled out by a eccentric who thinks the ship is just as evil as its Biblical similitude , but really , the name is mainly to point bad juju happens here .
3 ) The Juggernaut , X - Men
This X - Men massive foe ’s full name is Cain Marko . Created in 1965 , it would seem like the Juggernaut has no spiritual influence upon him , but alas , he is in fact Professor X ’s half - brother , and thus has spend most of his comedian ’s career trying to kill his brother and his gaggle of students . Basically , he ’s a less successful variant of his namesake .
4 ) Cain , Battlestar Galactica
In the original 1978 BSG TV Series , Commander Cain was the more warlike of the two fleet commander , himself and Adama . Get it ? GET IT ? ! But he was n’t a unsound guy wire , and when fate reveal that his over = aggressive design , had Adama not arrest it , would have been a calamity , he happily goes on a suicide mission to make up for it . In the reimagined BSG in 2004 , Admiral Helena Cain is also more aggressive than her counterpart Adama … but she ’s also without conscience , flash insubordinate subordinates , abandoning all any civilians who do n’t directly help her , and condoning torture . Shockingly , her fate is not a glad one .
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5 ) Caine , Kung Fu
David Carradine star in the vastly popular 1972 telly series , about Kwai Chang Caine , a Shaolin monk traveling across the Old West while look for his brother . Now , the brother reference has nothing to do with the Caine name ; instead , it ’s used because like the Biblical Cain , Caine killed someone ( the nephew of his master ’s manslayer , and was subsequently cursed to fly to America and roam the domain . Admittedly , Cain did n’t go to America , but the murdering and wandering parts ? on the dot the same .
6 ) Kane , Alien
Perhaps the last manipulation of the name without any religious implications whatsoever , John Hurt ’s crewmember in 1979 ’s Alien had no patent brother , no religious affiliation of any kind , and no murderous leaning . He was just a swell who happened to be key out Kane … who unfortunately had an alien xenomorph jampack its ovipositors down his throat , lay its egg , and have its baby bust out of his chest .
7 ) Kain the Warrior , The Warrior and the Sorceress
Caine was n’t the only “ Cain ” David Carradine played ; he reprize the name an a badass mercantile fencer in this 1984 illusion remake of Yojimbo , whose beneficial nature is easy awaken by the heart ( and breasts ) of a sorceress named Naja . The name “ Kain ” is but used here to verify you jazz the Warrior is one bad gallant . It ’s not particularly nuanced , but since the film was mostly about exhibit topless char on screen anyhow , it ’s believably not worrying too much about .
- Cain , Robocop 2
Crimelord and drug kingpin Cain , played by Tom Noonan in the 1990 moving picture , is consummate , one - dimensional evilness . He sell a drug called Nuke to the poor of Detroit , collude with the law , and is basically a defective dude . Least you think Cain ’s relationship to Robocop is merely protagonist / resister , after Robocop offend him while trying to hightail it his hideout , Omni Consumer project very wisely opt the psychotic , aggregated - murderer Cain to become Robocop 2.0 . And thus indeed , Cain battles his blood brother in cyborgization .
9 ) Kain Highwind , Final Fantasy IV
The videogame humanity is no immunity from Cain / Kane / Kain / Caines . Square ’s beloved 1991 RPG Final Fantasy IV role - playing game starred the heroic horse Cecil , and his brother - in - weapon system Kain . You may be shocked to learn how this human relationship decease , assuming you have n’t show any part of this list yet . Both Cecil and Kain love their puerility friend Rosa , but Rosa only has eyes for Cecil . Cecil and Kain are both Dragoon Knights for the evil Emperor , but while Cecil visualise the folly of his center and quits , Kain doubles - down on being a cock , and is finally possess by the even more evil Golbez .
10 ) Kane , Highlander : The Final Dimension
By 1994 , the Highlander dealership was already in ruining and the name Caine was being used for anti - Italian sandwich and baddie with symbolic connections to the hoagy likewise . The scoundrel of the third Highlander movie was one of the later , and a brother to Connor MacLeod in the gumption that they ’re both fellow Immortals , and the last two ( because all of the Highlander picture feature the last two deity somehow ) . Also , Kane is quite the murder and rape partisan , so there ’s really no doubt who the safe “ brother ” is .
11 ) Kaine , Spider - Man
The Jackal has always been one of Spider - Man ’s most grievous foes . His # 1 destination is to mess with Peter Parker / Spider - Man — which he ’s really , really safe at — and his # 1 choice for doing so is with clones . Yes , the Clone Saga was his demerit . He began in 1994 with a Peter Parker clone he named Kaine who of course became mentally unstable and begin killing Spider - Man ’s enemy to the aggravation of the veridical Spider - Man . Since then , he ’s gotten salutary and ransom himself , but he ’s still carry his tragical past .
12 ) Jericho Cain , ending of Days
Oof . The 1999 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is a prime deterrent example of the Cain name — and passably much all of Judeo - Christian religion — getting forced into a lousy action moving picture . Christine is a adult female destined to have Satan ’s baby . Jericho Cain is a bitter cop who protect Christine and her ladyparts from the fiend . essentially , since the Church feels its their holy duty to murder this innocent ma’am to keep enter the public , she plainly require someone named after the Bible ’s first bad son to protect her from the military unit of God and Satan . It ’s worth noting that in the insane moving-picture show Southland Tales , a character is write a horrendous screenplay about a character reference refer Jericho Cain . Fun !
13 ) Cain , The Matrix : Reloaded
You might not have even note there was a fibre constitute Cain in The Matrix continuation ; he was the vampire serving the Merovingian , whose buddy was a werewolf of course of action named Abel . Which go us to a third use of the name Cain in pop culture : partner off with a persona named Abel for convey some kind of significance because there ’s nothing really significant about them .
14 ) Marcus Kane , Doomsday
In this goofy but still kind of fun post - revelatory , semi - zombie movie from 2008 , Malcom MacDowell wager an malefic scientist who rules as a feudal lord from his rook . MacDowell tell the character was like “ King Lear . ” The director said he was base on Col . Kurtz from Apocalypse Now . In reality , Doomsday ’s Kane is basically just an motherfucker , and thus that ’s the totality of his connection to his Biblical namesake .
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