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Ciaphas Cain

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Ciaphas Cain	comment	Commissar Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!! is the protagonist of a series of novels by Sandy Mitchell, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Where Gaunt's Ghosts is Sharpe meets 40K, Ciaphas Cain is something between Blackadder and Flashman in the gothic SF world of 40K. Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to the normally absurdly Grim And Dark 40K universe, the series follows the exploits of a cowardly, self-hating Commissar, in charge of morale and discipline in the Imperium's army, who has managed to not only survive the front lines of the ultimate Crapsack World, but prosper. Over the course of the series, Cain becomes a massively acclaimed Hero of the Imperium, partly through opportunism, skill and minor heroism, but mostly through sheer blind luck. Sent to progressively more insanely dangerous warzones as his reputation grows, Cain actually wants nothing more than to find a quiet place to hide from the fighting.In short, he's the type of person Commissars are supposed to shoot.That is, if you believe him. The author himself has stated that even he doesn't know whether Cain is actually the Dirty Coward he presents himself as, or just doesn't give himself enough credit. If you're curious as to which is which, the best option is probably just to read the books yourself and draw your own conclusions.The novels are presented as sections of Cain's private memoirs, organized, edited, and footnoted by Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Cain's occasional liaison both professionally note he and his regiment occasionally help the Inquisition, either as cat's-paw or heavily armed backup, and she's the one he calls when he finds something that falls under the heading of "the Inquisition's problem" and personally.Eleven novels, fifteen short stories and two audio dramas have so far been published. Many of the stories have been recompiled in omnibus editions.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_112daba0	comment	Those awesome four are hardly the only teachers in the schola, and Cain does mention that he wouldn't really bother with the rest of the faculty. And even with the above three, he doesn't really give a picture of their teaching styles.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1144041a	type	Strictly Professional Relationship
Ciaphas Cain / int_1144041a	comment	Strictly Professional Relationship: Cain mentions that at the end of his first assignment working with Colonel Kasteen, they exchanged a look that could have led to more than just friends, but neither pursues it because they don't want to deteriorate their working relationship. Besides, he prefers blondes. And more to the point, Amberley Vail would kill him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Ciaphas Cain / int_1235f055	comment	The very first short story Fight or Flight was not meant to be continued and it shows. Cain is a downright Dirty Coward with no wiggle room for interpretation, Jurgen is remarked as being long dead despite outliving Cain who died of old age after two centuries, and there's no mention of Cain's other adventures or accomplishments
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Ciaphas Cain / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Ciaphas Cain / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: In Old Soldiers Never Die, the 12th Valhallan Artillery is equipped with gas shells, designed to airburst to spread their load. Cain resolves the Zombie Apocalypse by having the 12th use the gas shells to deliver a vaccine to the Nurglite plague to large zombie concentrations.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_12eee2cf	type	Heal It with Booze
Ciaphas Cain / int_12eee2cf	comment	Heal It with Booze: In Death Or Glory, Cain has a tracker who's helping guide their convoy to safety give his stash of whisky to the vet they've got working as a doctor (both because he's probably running out of antiseptic and because he wants to keep their tracker sober).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Ciaphas Cain / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: Cain's professed motive for saving many people is that they will be between him and the guns. This is subverted in Cain's Last Stand, where he (quite reasonably) realizes that everyone between him and Varan is one more person for Varan to turn against him, and that he has to exploit Jurgen's gift to limit the number of converts - especially as it becomes apparent that those freed from Varan's influence remain fanatic converts to the cause of Chaos. Subverted Blazing Saddles-style in The Devil You Know, when during a duel Cain points his laspistol at his own head. It really does make sense; the Dark Eldar he's dueling freely admitted she wants to capture Cain for several years of Cold-Blooded Torture. When she thinks Cain's about to kill himself to prevent that from happening, she lunges forward to stop him and leaves herself wide open for a chainsword through the chest.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Ciaphas Cain / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: Cain's Fake Ultimate Hero reputation causes him to regularly apply this to himself in his narration.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_13b33a51	type	Deathbed Promotion
Ciaphas Cain / int_13b33a51	comment	Deathbed Promotion: Cain leaves his commissarial sash of office to the grievously wounded cadet Donal as a way of saying he's become an official commissar. Subverted when he shows up again under the brainwashing villain Varan's orders, but Jurgen interrupts the effect long enough for Donal to shoot himself in the head, asking Cain to kick Varan's ass for him. Cain takes back the sash and proceeds to do so, booting Varan off a dam with a Bond One-Liner.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Ciaphas Cain / int_149ff4b0	comment	Inverted repeatedly throughout the books, as Cain tries to get himself assigned to a nice, quiet job where he doesn't have to be shot at all the time, but always winds up in the worst possible situations—which gets him a reputation for being a thrill-seeker, causing him to end up in even more of these! The one time he does get a relatively quiet job? He goes on a routine patrol, and Hilarity Ensues.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
Ciaphas Cain / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: The Big Bad of Duty Calls says so to Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Ciaphas Cain / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Varan is a relatively short man with a huge ego, extraordinary charisma, astounding oratory ability, fanatical and twisted followers, and a tiny moustache? Subtle.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1501b4a2	type	Flamethrower Backfire
Ciaphas Cain / int_1501b4a2	comment	Flamethrower Backfire: In For The Emperor a sniper accompanying Cain shoots the pack of a (already dead) genestealer cultist's flamethrower to create a barrier to cover their escape (although this is justified, since the sniper was armed with a LongLas, which would easily have been able to boil the fuel and make the tank explode). Averted in Caves of Ice where a flamer-equipped guardsman is killed by a bolter to the chest, though Jurgen takes out a Flamer-wielding Ork and causes it to detonate.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
Ciaphas Cain / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: The plot of Cain's Last Stand, sort of. Perlia isn't his home, but it is where his reputation was first solidified and seems to be his favorite planet of all the ones he's visited in his long career.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Ciaphas Cain / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Repeatedly, for example in Caves of Ice:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Ciaphas Cain / int_16e94b0a	comment	In Choose Your Enemies, the 597th is deployed to a moon of an ice giant to drive away eldar raiders, who turn out to be from a craftworld hoping to reconquer the system entirely. Worse, they discover a cult of Slaanesh active in the mines, which are linked to a forge world in the heart of the system by the webway. The eldar, who blame themselves for Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll-ing Slaanesh into existence in the first place, pursue their own agenda throughout the book, alternately aiding and hurting the Imperials.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Ciaphas Cain / int_173909	comment	In Cain's Last Stand, the planetary governor's daughter is hastily located, sworn in, and instructed to make a broadcast to counter her father who is performing the same service for the other side. Cain himself makes a few broadcasts banking on his fame as The Liberator.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Ciaphas Cain / int_17501df2	comment	By the time Cain's Last Stand was written though, the latter was forgotten; every named member of the faculty is ultimately shown to be a bit of a Cool Old Guy (or in one case, a Cool Old Nun), at least off duty.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Ciaphas Cain / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Whenever Cain ends up facing Tyranids or their Genestealer agents, he will always make a reference to the time he was on the space hulk Spawn of Damnation and saw Space Marines in Terminator armour get shredded by a bunch of purestrains, as a shorthand of reminding himself and the readers of how dangerous they are. note This only applies to accounts set chronologically after aforementioned adventure in the space hulk, of course.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Ciaphas Cain / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The series purports to be Cain's private memoirs, written about a century after they happened and distributed by Amberley to her fellow Inquisitors for perusal and evaluation. Ciaphas himself is very much an egomaniac and focuses almost exclusively on his own actions, but is also either an abject coward or a hero with extremely low self-esteem and a self-deprecating sense of humor, meaning that his accounts are rarely entirely reliable and often full of holes. Amberley herself notes that Cain would say what he thought would suit him best and seems to either have unusually detailed memories about the events he's recountingnote many of which would have been at least decades prior or he supplemented them with a lot of artistic license. There are three supporting accounts in the tales: The first is the memoirs of Jenit Sulla, who was one of Cain's subordinates during the events he describes. However, Jenit has entirely bought into the heroic myth surrounding Cain (which was one of the things Cain set out to dispel), writes in a prose so purple it's nigh unreadable, and her narration makes it sound like Cain was a mentor-figure to her. Cain's narration, however, makes it clear he considers her nothing more than another snot-nosed butterbar and finds her eager "Emperor-and-Imperium"-idealism extremely annoying. The second is a history of the sector in which Cain operated during the events in For the Emperor!. It gets a lot of the facts right and provides a very good overview of the area and events surrounding the plot, but the author is a Conspiracy Theorist who blames everything from toenail fungus to Exterminatus on a (quite likely non-existent) conspiracy of rogue traders. The third is Cain's official biography, which the man himself treats with an attitude varying from "confusion" to "amusement" to "would rather wipe my arse with a rusty poker than that rag", depending on which side of the bed he woke up on. Finally, the editor, Inquisitor Amberley Vail, was involved in the events and a frequent collaborator (as well as sometime lover) of Cain's. While she is generally impartial, she's not above a little judicious editing and inserting a few footnotes implying Cain's memory of certain events is flawed to make herself look better.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Ciaphas Cain / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: In "The Little Things", three men try to kidnap Amberley (or possibly her wealthy cover identity) shortly after she gets out of the shower. Cain is able to take out two of them, but one gets the drop on him only for Amberley to foul his gun arm with her towel long enough for Cain to shoot him. Cain notes that his last sight was a memorable one.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Ciaphas Cain / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Cain's Last Stand" is used several times, as it's the name of one of the battles of his early career, the site of which he returns to in order to make another stand. Another character remarks on this, saying most people only get one of those. The Traitor's Hand, once as a quotation, once by Beije—see Malicious Slander.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Ciaphas Cain / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: In Death or Glory, Cain and Jurgen have to infiltrate an Ork-occupied town in a stolen Ork vehicle. They go in at night to reduce visibility, Cain has to keep his head down, and Jurgen drives while wearing a bulky blanket over himself to conceal the fact that he is human. A few Gretchin try to hitch a ride, but fortunately Jurgen speaks enough Orkish to trick them. Later in the novel, Cain and his new allies are trying to get to a PDF supply base ... but they're all traveling in captured Ork vehicles, and nearly get blown away by the unit already there before proving they're really Imperials.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Ciaphas Cain / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Cain explains Chaos cults thusly in Cain's Last Stand:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1ae71783	type	Happy Fun Ball
Ciaphas Cain / int_1ae71783	comment	Happy Fun Ball: The Shadowlight. The core of it is naught but a slab of dark stone roughly the size of an Imperial data-slate. It's really a psychic power-boosting Artifact of Doom.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Ciaphas Cain / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The Klutz: Penlan, aka "Jinxie."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Ciaphas Cain / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Jurgen. When Cain writes an emotive scene where they're stuck in a corner, about to torn apart by ravening hordes of tyranids, Jurgen will placidly comment "Bit of a mess", as if he's offering Cain a sandwich. This also makes Cain keep his cool, as the commissar can hardly appear less composed than his aide. Malden the psyker from the third book never really raises his voice, though can can appear distraught or exasperated depending on the situation.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Ciaphas Cain / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: The assorted outside sources Vail sources in her footnotes.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1d515cb4	type	One-Wheeled Wonder
Ciaphas Cain / int_1d515cb4	comment	One-Wheeled Wonder: One of the techpriests in Emperor's Finest and Caves of Ice had his lower body replaced with a single wheel. Made even worse by the fact that techpriests have huge metal dendrites attached to their backs and like to replace as much of their body with metal as possible, though Ciaphas mentions that he must have very good gyroscopes to work.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Ciaphas Cain / int_1dd14f5a	comment	Cain's plan for taking out the big bad in Cain's Last Stand runs on this and I Surrender, Suckers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1dd225c4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Ciaphas Cain / int_1dd225c4	comment	Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: In The Greater Good, this is used to contrast T'au technology—complete with rounded corners, icon-based touch interfaces, wireless projectors, and "thin, flat" portable computing devices—with the Used Future technology of the Imperium. In For the Emperor the local architecture adopting a similar aesthetic (still recognizably human but with no right angles) is an early indicator of how much influence the T'au have had on the place.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Ciaphas Cain / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jurgen becomes Cain's aide right at the start of his commissarial career and is still his aide over a century later in his retirement. Cain considers Jurgen the only person he's ever truly trusted.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Ciaphas Cain / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The author absolutely loves making these. See the Shout Out page for more details.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
Ciaphas Cain / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Inverted; Cain actually is a hero to Jurgen, the closest thing to a valet he has. Amberley Vail's association with Cain has let her see the accuracy of his accounts, even though she thinks he may be too hard on himself.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
Ciaphas Cain / int_1f19f198	comment	Back-to-Back Badasses: The cover art of The Greater Good has Cain doing this with a T'au Fire Warrior Atop A Pile of Tyranid Corpses. Of course, as is usual for this series, nothing like this ever actually happens in the book.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ciaphas Cain / int_1f799027	comment	Lord General Zyvan telling the Administratum people that if they aren't happy with his decisions they can bitch about it to the Tyranids.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_1fd6a164	type	No Time to Think
Ciaphas Cain / int_1fd6a164	comment	No Time to Think: During the Wire Dilemma of disarming a car bomb on Adumbria, he is forced to guess because all the wires are the same color.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Ciaphas Cain / int_2059a430	comment	When investigating a Slaaneshi hideout, Cain finds a room with a big pile of cushions in the middle, its purpose unclear. Amberley lampshades that Cain, a man of the galaxy, seems a little hypocritical here.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2064626a	type	Villains Act, Heroes React
Ciaphas Cain / int_2064626a	comment	Villains Act, Heroes React: Cain is generally sent on missions to repel invasions or suppress rebellions, as opposed to conquering new worlds. As a result, the strategic initiative in the stories always falls on the villains, whose actions are the reason he gets sent to whatever world they threaten.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Ciaphas Cain / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: In The Greater Good, the Imperial Guard and the T'au military form a shaky truce, and they agree to send each other members of their groups to liaison with the others. Given Cain's good standing with the T'au after Gravalax, and his propensity towards both joining seemingly innocuous assignments and getting forced into knowingly dangerous ones, he'd be the obvious choice. However, he successfully palms the duty off to Donali, an experienced diplomat, with no blemishes to his reputation.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Ciaphas Cain / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: At the climax of The Greater Good, the heroes figure out how to broadcast a disruption signal being generated by a Tyranid cortical node they have captured for study. This breaks the Hive Mind's control of the Tyranid fleets assaulting the planet and leads to a crushing Imperial victory. Unfortunately, it also burns out the cortical node, and capturing another of those alive is going to be tricky. There was talk about experimenting to see if replaying data recorded from the original broadcast would work as well as a live transmission, but no mention of whether or not said experiment ever happened or if it worked.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_21309fd	type	Reflexive Remark of Reverence
Ciaphas Cain / int_21309fd	comment	Reflexive Remark of Reverence: In Duty Calls, the Sororitas characters and the Gavarronean militia automatically make the sign of the Aquila whenever the Emperor is mentioned. The novella "Old Soldiers Never Die" has the Valhallan 597th working with a Tallarn regiment. By this point in his career, Cain is familiar enough with Tallarn customs to deliver a "Throne be praised" and Aquila sign at the same time the Tallarn colonel does.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
Ciaphas Cain / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Ariott is pressed into service as the caravan's medic in Death or Glory. He's actually a veterinarian. The same book also features two artisans (of unspecified trades) pressed into service as auto mechanics by the only real Tech-Priest; over the course of the book they start to carry Mechanicus iconography and act as Enginseers in all but name, and according to a footnote they formally joined afterwards.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_213e1088	type	Losing the Team Spirit
Ciaphas Cain / int_213e1088	comment	Losing the Team Spirit: Vail invokes it to explain why Cain would be a logical assassination target; Cain himself is oblivious to his effects on morale.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Ciaphas Cain / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Oddly enough, despite Cain's dry panic and his constant placement on the hellish frontlines of a hellish universe, his and others' commentary reveals that the Imperium is somewhat less crapsacky than it's normally portrayed: he leads Imperial Guard regiments that aren't used as cannon fodder, the Imperium is (wearily) able to work with FILTHY XENOS to avert civil wars, Cain notes that stereotypical "shoot everyone for heresy" Commissars and Inquisitors do not last very long, and it's stated that on many Imperial worlds, ordinary people do enjoy a standard of living comparable to their counterparts on modern Earth. So while there is the risk of dying horribly at the hands of an invader, it's unlikely. Which makes sense when you realized that the events form the codexes (the main source of Grimdark) are only the major ones and are often centuries apart. It's also explicitly justified several times. Most of the places Cain visits are such backwaters that the Imperial government in the sector mostly just ignores them, allowing the locals to carry on. The world in the first book, for instance, had been openly trading with the T'au for generations before anyone noticed. The one major world we see, the forge world in The Greater Good, is the setting's usual hellish hive full of slave labor and casual dismissal of human lives.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Ciaphas Cain / int_21f3aa44	comment	While subtle, there are a few casual lines thrown in that shows Cain has the typical xenophobic view of the T'au expected from most Imperials. Relatively speaking, he is still very tolerant of them, which can largely be attributed to professional respect and the overall lack of instances where the T'au have actively tried to kill him. Granted, as a well-connected Commissar, he might also be privy to the knowledge that the Greater Good is not nice, which could also influence his views of them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Ciaphas Cain / int_21f3e32e	comment	Cain has two augmetic fingers due to having the originals shot off by a glancing hit from a Gauss flayer.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2221d1fc	comment	Invisibility Flicker: Saves Cain's life in Duty Calls. An invisible psyker loses control of his powers, first to Cain's taunting and second to the arrival of Jurgen, whose presence completely negates warp powers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Whenever Jurgen's melta is brought along, it will probably be needed. (Of course, a melta being a melta, there are plenty of times when it would have come in very handy. It's a very "opportunistic" weapon). In "Traitor's Gambit", Cain finds a T'au-made gun and keeps it as evidence of their involvement. It's still at hand when he needs a weapon quickly and his laspistol is not convenient to draw.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_22eff5dd	type	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam
Ciaphas Cain / int_22eff5dd	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam: When the eponymous Commissar drives along a major highway on Perlia heading towards a town that was attacked some time ago to link up with reinforcements, the highway is jammed full of (wrecked) civilian cars that were attacked by the Orks who invaded the planet a few months ago. Cain notes that most of the cars stood no chance against the ordnance used by the Orks, mentioning the grisly sight of the occupants slouched dead in them, some of them killed weeks ago.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_233d181	type	Misaimed Fandom
Ciaphas Cain / int_233d181	comment	Misaimed Fandom: invoked In-universe example—while Amberley is pleasantly surprised to find her publications of Cain's stories are unexpectedly popular among her fellow Inquisitors, she's slightly put out that many of them prefer to treat them as light entertainment rather than the "serious food for thought" she'd intended them to serve as.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Ciaphas Cain / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: The forge world of Fecundia. While once upon a time it may have been verdant and fertile, by the time of the books it's a blasted wasteland. Anything not covered by hive cities, factories, or mines is either bare rock, deserts made from powderized slag metal, or oceans formed from industrial runoff. The air is so toxic and carcinogenic that even workers who will never see the surface are required to have augmetic lung replacements.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Ciaphas Cain / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Cain disdains "Emperor-botherers," but he does have some fondness for The Precepts of Saint Emelia and quotes it a few times throughout the series. In Duty Calls he's infuriated when the villain uses a Quote Mine of one of his favorite verses to justify his crimes. In The Emperor's Finest one of the Tech Priests frequently quotes trite platitudes that Cain doesn't recognize. Amberley's research reveals that they're from ''Soylens Viridians for the Machine Spirit," a book the priest wrote himself and was kind of bitter never got popular.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
Ciaphas Cain / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: Subverted. Young Donal in Cain's Last Stand is in many ways a dead ringer for a younger Ciaphas, and Ciaphas knows himself well enough to be watching the young cadet. As Cain's essentially upon his last great adventure, the reader might expect Donal to survive and take up the reins as a Generation Xerox. Unfortunately, Donal is badly wounded and attempts a You Shall Not Pass! moment, but is captured and mentally enslaved. Cain and Jurgen rescue him, but they are forced to test the extent of Warmaster Varan's mental domination, and when Donal feels himself slipping again he commits suicide.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Ciaphas Cain / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: The entire Valhallan 597th in general. Kasteen and Broklaw in particular.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Ciaphas Cain / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: Invoked word for word in The Traitor's Hand by Magot, as she moves into a Commissar's line of fire to shield Grifen.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Ciaphas Cain / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: Some of the novels start out this way. For The Emperor opens with Cain facing down the rioters in the mess hall, then backtracks to his request to be transferred away from brigade headquarters and back to a regiment, then moves through his arrival at the troopship carrying the Valhallan 296th/301st and works its way back to the riot. Choose Your Enemies opens with an Eldar ambush on Drechia, then backtracks a month and spends nearly five chapters getting back to the ambush.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Ciaphas Cain / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Cain is basically Blackadder (the Blackadder Goes Forth version especially) and George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman IN SPACE. A big difference however is that he never crosses the line from lovable scoundrel to outright villain like Flashman does. Cain may be a womanizer, but it's always consensual. Gunner Jurgen is probably based on another George MacDonald Fraser character, Private McAuslan, AKA the Dirtiest Soldier in the British Army. Like McAuslan, Jurgen is ugly, has skin problems, horrible breath, and body odor that causes revulsion in everyone he meets. Unlike McAuslan, he is a highly competent soldier, though he isn't terribly bright (yet amazingly good at planning ahead). Likewise, if Cain is one of Blackadder then Jurgen is one of Baldrick, probably the one from The Black Adder who was competent and had good ideas more often than not. Warmaster Varan is in many ways an Ersatz of Adolf Hitler, right down to the mustache, arm gestures, and speeches. Granted, he's an insecure, psychically-empowered mutant Ersatz, although this isn't revealed until late in the book. Amusingly, none of the Imperial forces are terribly impressed by his rhetoric, and Varan depends heavily upon his psychic ability to enthrall anyone he can speak with or has a line of sight to. Ariott, a minor character in Death or Glory, is an Ersatz of James Herriott, of all people, being a veterinarian and later writing an autobiography called All Lifeforms Large and Small.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Ciaphas Cain / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: In Cain's Last Stand, the students at the schola provide support.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_26ac8fea	type	Painful Persona
Ciaphas Cain / int_26ac8fea	comment	Painful Persona: Zigzagged. Cain (who has a reputation as a fearless Hero of the Imperium) claims to be a Dirty Coward who would book it on the first shuttle out of a warzone if it wasn't for all the witnesses around and the loss of status and reputation it would entail, but multiple times throughout the series he does the right thing even when there's no one to see it. It doesn't help that every single time he tries to worm his way out of a fight (such as inspecting an out-of-the-way post, staying at the headquarters instead of joining the front, exploring abandoned tunnels, etc.) he ends up thwarting an enemy ambush, foiling an assassination attempt, or stumbling upon awakening Necron forces. He also mentions not being averse to being in the spotlight or being a Large Ham, and even Inquisitor Vail doesn't know whether he's a genuine hero with Self-Deprecation issues or a lucky coward.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_26b0a73	type	Legendary in the Sequel
Ciaphas Cain / int_26b0a73	comment	Legendary in the Sequel: "Fight or Flight," the original short story, features Cain's very first adventure as a newly minted commissar. The work which followed it, For the Emperor, features Cain as an established HERO OF THE IMPERIUM. Due to the series' Anachronic Order, subsequent works play up and down the scale.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Ciaphas Cain / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Amberley's psyker Rakel is present at a Guard briefing in For The Emperor, with the command staff informing Cain of the state of play while steadfastly ignoring her bizarre antics.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
Ciaphas Cain / int_2740531a	comment	Cain mentions a few times that after being rescued from an Ork prison camp on starvation rations, getting some proper food in her has done wonders for Felicia Tayber's figure.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_27705cf8	type	Textile Work Is Feminine
Ciaphas Cain / int_27705cf8	comment	Textile Work Is Feminine: One insult from the 301st was that the women of the 296th were doing needlework in the rear echelons.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Ciaphas Cain / int_2848e7d2	comment	Oblivious to Love: Cain takes nearly half the book to figure out Mira's true objective in tagging along with him. And even when he figures it out, he still thinks she's trying to bag a Space Marine. When the full realization hits him, he wastes no time in trying to get rid of her. Too bad he'd already smiled and nodded his way through all her none too subtle hints, making it hard to suddenly explain his position makes it impossible to marry. Amberley lampshades how dense he was about getting the hint.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
Ciaphas Cain / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Cain nearly has to do this in The Greater Good, when a tyranid has his foot in its grasp. He'd lifted his sword to make the cut when the creature is killed in a well timed intervention by Space Marines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_28d87218	type	Food End
Ciaphas Cain / int_28d87218	comment	Food End: To date, nine out of ten books have ended with a mention of food or drink, along with several of the short stories. The exception among the novels is Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_293f8cd8	type	I Meant to Do That
Ciaphas Cain / int_293f8cd8	comment	I Meant to Do That: Most notably in Fight or Flight. The melee fight at the end of Death or Glory. A number of Cain's achievements involve things turning out better than expected for him, and then not correcting people who believe that he planned it that way.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Ciaphas Cain / int_2a090d00	comment	Played straight and lampshaded in the short story Echoes of the Tomb where the redshirts were troopers of the Adeptus Mechanicus — and they wore red uniforms. They're even called redshirts by Cain. And, despite cybernetic augmentations and hellguns, they are all slaughtered when the Necrons wake up.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Ciaphas Cain / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Several, most notably Sergeant Lustig, Penlan and Magot.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Ciaphas Cain / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Cain novels are more or less the only Warhammer 40K media that convincingly continue to portray Necrons as horrific monstrosities to be feared. Cain has only pulled off one win out of three encounters with the Necrons (and only by blowing them up from orbit), as opposed to his constant success against just about everything else. They are also the one threat thus far that he has adamantly refused to stand and confront, reputation be damned.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Ciaphas Cain / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Cain insists on having a pintle-mounted heavy bolter put on any Salamander that he uses. Salamanders can mount a storm bolter or a heavy stubber in the game. Cain mentions that he tends to get heavy bolters mounted because they allow him to lay down extra cover fire if he needs to, and they look cool for the troops. They tend to get used a lot.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Ciaphas Cain / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Inverted in regards to the 597th; there's a number of reasons the regiment performs substantially better than the average Guard regiment. It's mentioned in an off-hand remark that the Administratum never did quite catch on to the merging of the 296th with the 301st. As a result, the 597th received double the usual amount of replacement recruits and equipment, to the point that it never really had to deal with shortages. This abundance of equipment led to the 597th issuing com-beads to every member of a squad, giving them much higher unit cohesion. Either we don't see it, or the 597th managed to escape the usual bureaucratic incompetence of the Administratum and subsequently was deployed frequently to iceworlds to fight Orks, tasks Valhallans both relish and excel at.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Ciaphas Cain / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Early in "Old Soldiers Never Die", when the limo carrying him is attacked by locals, Cain's first thought is to quiz the governor about what combat drugs the planet's gangers have access to. In Duty Calls, Simeon is addicted to every single combat drug in his injector rig. He would die immediately if it were ever removed.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Ciaphas Cain / int_2d4fa515	comment	Magot, in one instance, led her subordinates into a melee charge at Khornate cultists, And slaughtered them without taking any casualties.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Ciaphas Cain / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: One is happening in the background during The Traitor's Hand, but Cain doesn't pay much attention to it (And given how little attention he pays to his briefing slates, may not have even known it was going on). Cain accidentally sets off another one in Death or Glory. When he kills Korbul, the rest of the Ork bosses become too busy fighting over who gets to take over the Waaagh! to bother with minor details like stopping Cain and his refugees from escaping. It's clear that Cain wasn't expecting that result, it's also clear he's not objecting.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2d7f0748	type	Raised by Natives
Ciaphas Cain / int_2d7f0748	comment	Raised by Natives: Gue'vesa Au'lys Devrae, Facilitator of External Relations, who shows it by shaving her hair into a scalp-lock. She is from the world of Ka'ley'ath, or "Downholm" to use its Imperial name, a world annexed by the T'au prior to the Damocles Crusade. Her entire family line is understandably completely assimilated into the T'au way of life, having been there for generations.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2dbbe772	type	Propaganda Hero
Ciaphas Cain / int_2dbbe772	comment	Propaganda Hero: Cain's reputation is at least in part built on this (as well as on his extremely impressive—if accidental—actual heroism).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
Ciaphas Cain / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: A variation. The pornographic tapestries in a Slaaneshi brothel in The Traitor's Hand are left undescribed, other than one Guardswoman wondering aloud if a scene depicted is even anatomically possible. Cain says it isn't and that even if it was, it would be against regulations.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2f2f5b3f	type	Hedge Maze
Ciaphas Cain / int_2f2f5b3f	comment	Hedge Maze: The climax of Choose Your Enemies takes place at the center of the hedge maze in Governor Fulcher's orbital residence. Rumours of disappearance cling to the place despite the maze being "childishly simple" to navigate according to a retainer. It's where Fulcher's Slaaneshi cult holds rituals and sacrifices, ultimately summoning Emeli for another confrontation with Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Ciaphas Cain / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: Malden in The Traitor's Hand. According to Cain, the most noticeable fact about him is the fact that he's not all that noticeable.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
Ciaphas Cain / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Attempted by an Ork in Death or Glory, didn't work because he's an Ork and Felicia just stepped out of his way (on a mecha, that is). Attempted by one of the other Schola teachers in Cain's Last Stand. It works, destroying the ram and the ship it hit, but it didn't destroy the ship they had hoped to. That said, the attack forces its original target to change course, preventing it from annihilating the Imperial headquarters via orbital bombardment and allowing the Imperials to evacuate. Attempted by T'au infiltrators in "Traitor's Gambit," who try to ram an Imperial warship with a planetary governor's yacht. The Imperials spot it well ahead of time and blast it. Cain barely manages to avoid this fate in Vainglorious after his shuttle's servitor is subverted and tries to ram the flagship. He manages to turn it into Coming in Hot instead.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_31898188	type	Recurring Dreams
Ciaphas Cain / int_31898188	comment	Recurring Dreams: Flashbacks, even. One of them is actually a plot point, though turns out it wasn't a normal kind of dream.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Ciaphas Cain / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Parodied in Duty Calls, where Cain considers Periremundian fashion (and PDF uniforms) so garish that even Slaaneshi cultists would find them in bad taste.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_31b99a18	type	Naming Your Colony World
Ciaphas Cain / int_31b99a18	comment	Naming Your Colony World: While serious and usually Meaningful Name examples of Symbolica exist, e.g. Serendipita (where the Space Marines locate the Spawn of Damnation), Sandy Mitchell has a good time parodying this, such as with Nusquam Fundimentibusnote "arse end of nowhere", Simia Orichalcaenote "brass monkey", as in "cold enough to freeze the balls off of", and Sodallagain.note as Amberley put it, "apparently charted by a very bored explorator"
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Ciaphas Cain / int_328445e	type	Holy Water
Ciaphas Cain / int_328445e	comment	Holy Water: In The Last Ditch, the 597th's chaplain helps to repel a daemon with holy water he'd blessed himself. It causes the demon's flesh to melt as if it had been covered in acid. Cain regularly references the occasion he charged a daemon of Khorne with nothing more than a rusty bayonet and a vial of holy water. Since he survived the experience, it was presumably quite effective, with or without Jurgen's assistance.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_328b32	type	Unequal Pairing
Ciaphas Cain / int_328b32	comment	Unequal Pairing: Cain and Amberley clearly care deeply about each other, but Cain is very aware of just where his place is in relation to her. On the other hand, two of the most frequently recurring themes in Amberley's footnotes are Cain's self-centered nature and his unawareness of the effect his reputation has on others. While Amberley is plainly not starstruck in the way that, say, Sulla is, Cain never seems to have considered the possibility that she found it just as difficult to refuse him as he did her, albeit for different reasons.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
Ciaphas Cain / int_35d4beb4	comment	Done with the Tyranids of all things in The Greater Good. The Tyranids attacking the planet are from a different hive than the ones that the Mechanicus has on ice, and tear into each other every chance they get.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_35fb4e55	type	Declining Promotion
Ciaphas Cain / int_35fb4e55	comment	Declining Promotion: Ciaphas Cain is a downplayed example. It's mentioned in a footnote in The Greater Good that he would more than qualify as a "Lord Commissar" (which is technically a title connoting respect, since the Commissariat is made up of equals) but refuses to be called such. Downplayed because he still gets the respect and influence either way; he just does it as part of his Humble Hero persona.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3678fbfa	type	Mad Bomber
Ciaphas Cain / int_3678fbfa	comment	Mad Bomber: Captain Federer, commander of the 597th's sappers, has quite a thing for big booms. Rumour has it that he was ejected from an Adeptus Mechanicus seminary because of it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_368c1306	type	The Men First
Ciaphas Cain / int_368c1306	comment	The Men First: Cain does this to inspire loyalty, which may extend his lifespan in battle.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
Ciaphas Cain / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Ascended Meme: The cover◊ of Traitor's Hand certainly seems familiar... In The Last Ditch Cain manages to defeat a Tyranid swarm that has him vastly outnumbered by having his Guard troopers shoot up a Pyrovore, triggering an explosive chain reaction that annihilates the swarm. At the time the book was released, the Pyrovore was a notably useless unit with a loadout that was designed for close combat and stats that both made it terrible at close combat and meant it would die long before it could get into range. Furthermore, they were saddled with a poorly worded special rule that made them into thermonuclear bombs capable of sweeping both armies off the tabletop when they exploded.note This is the rule in question "Volatile: If a Pyrovore is slain by a Wound that inflicted Instant Death, every unit suffers a Strength 3 AP- hit for each model (excluding Pyrovores) within D6" of the slain Pyrovore (resolve damage before removing the Pyrovore as a casualty)." What they probably meant to say was that every unit within d6" of the Pyrovore would suffer an S3 hit for each model in that range. What they actually said was that every unit on the tabletop suffered that number of hits. This meant that if the Pyrovore was surrounded by a pack of 20 Termagants or Hormagaunts when it exploded, everything else on the table would immediately sustain 20 hits, enough to kill anything that isn't a Warlord Titan. People noticed this flub almost immediately, and the jokes flowed from there.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Ciaphas Cain / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Frequent references to things "going ploin-shaped" (as opposed to "pear-shaped," a British idiom interchangeable with "going to hell in a handbasket," "brown trousers time,", and most importantly, "OH SHI—"). Amusingly, he also uses "Emperor's bowels" for that last one.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Ciaphas Cain / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Warmaster Varan can turn anyone to Chaos if they can see and hear him—even Battle Sisters.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_39884242	type	KnowWhenToFoldThem
Ciaphas Cain / int_39884242	comment	Know When to Fold Them: Kasteen and Broklaw are initially opposed to Cain's proposal in For The Emperor to amalgamate their seperate regiments into one to avoid a repeat of the deadly riot they just had to deal with, but promptly change their minds when Cain points out the alternative is him doing what most Commissars would have by that point: carry out a round of mass executions to restore discipline, then reassign the survivors as a penal legion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Ciaphas Cain / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Cain reflects in The Last Ditch that many commissars favor bolt pistols as sidearms for their well-known loud and messy effects, adding to their intimidation factor. Cain contrasts this with his humble laspistol, which while not as impressive, is something he rarely has to worry about running out of shots for at an inopportune moment, making it better suited for keeping him alive in the field than an ammunition-dependent projectile weapon might be.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_39e41f39	type	Tomboyish Ponytail
Ciaphas Cain / int_39e41f39	comment	Tomboyish Ponytail: Jenit.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
Ciaphas Cain / int_39ed1c8a	comment	The second is a history of the sector in which Cain operated during the events in For the Emperor!. It gets a lot of the facts right and provides a very good overview of the area and events surrounding the plot, but the author is a Conspiracy Theorist who blames everything from toenail fungus to Exterminatus on a (quite likely non-existent) conspiracy of rogue traders.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3b63ecb6	type	Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb
Ciaphas Cain / int_3b63ecb6	comment	Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: Cain notes one cadet is not this in Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Ciaphas Cain / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Cain will live, to write his memoirs. Vail will live, to edit them. Jenit Sulla will live, to poorly write her memoirs (and rise to the highest ranks of the Imperial Guard). Lord General Zyvan will live (at least) long enough to transfer Cain from the 597th to his personal staff, where Cain stays until (at least) three years before his retirement. In the prequel books, Jurgen becomes Cain's aide, he finds necrons in that tomb, Emeli is a Slaaneshi cultist attempting to sacrifice his soul and is promptly killed off, et cetera. There are also minor characters in some of the books whose later memoirs are quoted by Amberley in the same volume, which makes it clear that they survive the book, though one short story contains a excerpts from a manuscript by a minor character which was never finished, foreshadowing the fact that said character didn't survive.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Ciaphas Cain / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Cain makes frequent cryptic references to his earlier adventures; some have been explored in short stories, others it is assumed the reader would have heard about. Cain's Last Stand has a ton of these due to being written well into the future of the series. Cain also tries to convince Kasteen and Broklaw that "Jinxie" isn't really cursed, like the time she fell into a tunnel that led to finding necrons, or the incident with the grenade and the latrine, or... He trails off once he realizes just how deep he's digging himself. One of the most hilarious/awesome of these, is when Cain is reflecting on some of the times that he took apparently crazy actions due to choosing the near-certainty of death over the certainty of death, and off-handedly mentions "the time I charged a daemon of Khorne with nothing but a rusty bayonet and a vial of holy water."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3c850ac7	type	Room Disservice
Ciaphas Cain / int_3c850ac7	comment	Room Disservice: The villains of "The Little Things", a group of kidnappers seeking to kidnap a rich young noblewoman for ransom. Unfortunately for them, the noblewoman was an undercover Inquisitor, the room service she ordered was for a dinner for her and Cain, and Cain figured out they weren't really hotel staff the moment he saw them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Ciaphas Cain / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: In "A Mug of Recaff", Jurgen shoots his way past a Chaos sorcerer and the daemon he was conjuring up in under a page because they had gotten between him and the kettle he needed for his boss' brew-up. The fact that he's immune to all direct effects of warpcraft and weakens daemons just by standing too close to them played a major role in this.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3e95582f	type	The Greatest Story Never Told
Ciaphas Cain / int_3e95582f	comment	The Greatest Story Never Told: The heroic exploits of Gunner Jurgen, acknowledged by few and told by none besides Cain himself.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Ciaphas Cain / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: In The Beguiling This is one of Cain's frequent observations about Jurgen, often delivered with a great deal of Understatement and unconcerned stoicism.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
Ciaphas Cain / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Said formula being old Victorian and early 20th-century juvenile adventures such as the Tom Swift series. Not that that's a bad thing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Ciaphas Cain / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Sorel, in For The Emperor.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_3fbdb8aa	type	Quote Mine
Ciaphas Cain / int_3fbdb8aa	comment	Quote Mine: In-Universe example. In Duty Calls a rogue Ordo Hereticus inquisitor shrugs off shooting desperate civilians who tried to escape a tyranid attack on his shuttle with the line "The path of duty is often a stony one." Cain is apparently quite fond of that text and recognizes the Quote Mine, and Amberley's footnote reveals that the back half of the sentence changes the meaning completely:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Ciaphas Cain / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Taken to extremes in a manner only the 40K universe could in the third novel.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Ciaphas Cain / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: Amberley and Zyvan explain to Cain that this is the situation on Gravalax in For The Emperor. On the one hand, Gravalax isn't strategically valuable enough to justify getting into a protracted war with the T'au, so they want to avoid tensions escalating. On the other hand, the Imperium can't allow the T'au to simply annex Gravalax, since that will only embolden them to try conquering worlds that are even more valuable to the Imperium if they believe the humans won't put up a fight.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_40a447c3	type	Indestructible Edible
Ciaphas Cain / int_40a447c3	comment	Indestructible Edible: Imperial ration bars: unknown composition, palatable only to the desperately starving, capable of surviving some forms of Exterminatus, and "tasting reassuringly like nothing that you could identify".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_40ad4941	type	Sword and Gun
Ciaphas Cain / int_40ad4941	comment	Sword and Gun: Laspistol and a chainsword.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Ciaphas Cain / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: In Greater Good Cain claims that he "isn't easily startled". Amberley's footnote on that section consists of nothing but laughing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Ciaphas Cain / int_40c57041	comment	Sulla, in For the Emperor, goes from showing opposition and dislike of Cain's decisions on the regiment in front of other officials to eventually ask privately him in a rather nervous and shy way for a chance to show her value as a soldier. Cain of course takes the opportunity to act magnanimously, and get one more person disposed to cover his back, which makes Sulla all the happier.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Ciaphas Cain / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The back cover for Choose Your Enemies is a seriously jarring example. A lot of the Cain books start with Cain and whichever military force he's accompanying being sent to deal with one enemy only to discover another more serious threat to be dealt with, but the blurb for Choose Your Enemies starts by describing how Cain and 597th start the story by putting down a rebellion of Chaos cultists. This overlooks that the discovery of Chaos involvement was actually the book's first big Bait-and-Switch moment, and the 597th were actually originally dispatched to deal with an attack of Eldar. The Eldar (who take up the first 70 or so pages of the book before the Chaos cultists even appear and are still being treated as the main threat more than half-way through) don't even rate a mention.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Ciaphas Cain / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: This pops up in multiple ways: Much to Amberley's chagrin, she sometimes has to fill in background information with extracts from the memoirs of Jenit Sulla (and always makes comments sniping at her "one-woman assault on the defenseless Gothic language"). Where Cain's are erudite and well-written, Sulla lacks any literary talent and fills her own with dreadful nonsense and Purple Prose. For The Emperor also features extracts from Purge the Heretics, most notable for its author's overwhelming hatred of rogue traders (he blames them for everything, and every excerpt is cut off just before he launches into another rant). For Death and Glory, set before Cain joined Sulla's regiment, we have the memoirs of Sergeant Tayber, which are nearly as unreadable. Which is funny, because Cain's official autobiography To Serve the Emperor: A Commissar's Life is supposedly as equally unreadable (much like Flashman's) because they are less candid. He would most certainly not admit to the public about how he views himself as a selfish man. Apart from two sentences at the start of Fight or Flight, we never get to read passages from this book, however.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_41f02f77	type	Tastes Better Than It Looks
Ciaphas Cain / int_41f02f77	comment	Tastes Better Than It Looks: In Death or Glory, the breakfast Jurgen makes one day is described as "gray and lumpy". It smells appetizing, and Cain comments that after eating the whatever-it-was, he felt ready for anything the day might hold, so it must have tasted good.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_42064d3c	type	Left It In
Ciaphas Cain / int_42064d3c	comment	Left It In: A Dubya-parodying character in one of the novels ends an atrociously bad speech with something like "You'll edit that out anyway... what do you mean it was live?"
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
Ciaphas Cain / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Valhallan Janni Drere, who has a set of augmetic lungs that make an audible hiss! click! noise when she speaks.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Ciaphas Cain / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Mira is a downplayed example. Cain is happy to sleep with her, but begins aggressively finding excuses to avoid her company when he realizes that she is hoping to make him her husband. It's not that he'd mind that either, the problem is that she thinks he's given his implicit consent already in no uncertain terms, and thus he'd have a very awkward time explaining to her the fact that it would be plain impossible for him to leave his position to marry.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_438e4dd6	type	Demon of Human Origin
Ciaphas Cain / int_438e4dd6	comment	Demon of Human Origin: In the short story "The Beguiling", Cain wipes out a Slaaneshi cult with an artillery strike after killing its leader, Emeli, when she tried to seduce him into being a Human Sacrifice. Several decades later in the novel The Traitor's Hand, Cain encounters Emeli as the final boss; she's been turned into a Slaaneshi Daemon Prince during her time dead.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_43955609	type	Extradimensional Emergency Exit
Ciaphas Cain / int_43955609	comment	Extradimensional Emergency Exit: Cain finds himself in a Necron tomb that's just reactivated. Fleeing for his life, he runs through a Warp portal that happens to be linked to a Necron ship currently under attack by the Reclaimers chapter of Space Marines, who rescue him. He lost two fingers in the jump, although the Reclaimers outfitted him with augmetic replacements.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_43c5a4b7	type	Court-martialed
Ciaphas Cain / int_43c5a4b7	comment	Court-martialed: In For the Emperor Cain presides over the trials of six Guardsmen from the Valhallan 296th and 301st who had been involved in a Bar Brawl that resulted in the deaths of several Guardsmen and Imperial Navy personnel. The penalty is death, but Cain uses his authority as regimental commissar to commute the sentences to service in a penal legion. He then deals with the root of the problem by re-founding the two amalgamated half-strength regiments as one unit, the Valhallan 597th. The Traitor's Hand wraps up with Cain facing a Commissariat tribunal, basically a court-martial by a different name.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_449bebd0	type	Overzealous Underling
Ciaphas Cain / int_449bebd0	comment	Overzealous Underling: In The Traitor's Hand, the Imperial Guard finds evidence of a daemon summoning ritual, though too late to find anything useful. Another site is discovered, but the overly puritanical Tallarn soldiers and their commissar Beije completely destroy the site before the psykers can examine it. Because Beije believes Cain to be acting traitorously (along with a big helping of resentment), he attempts to arrest Cain with a Tallarn squad as he investigates the final site, inadvertently providing Cain with reinforcements to defeat the daemon princess as she's summoned and character witnesses for his heroic behavior. In Duty Calls, a squad of Sororitas gets so caught up in burning Tyranids that they leave their position, leaving a gap in the line they're supposed to be defending and leaving the temple/refugee camp wide open. Cain gets them back in by pointing out that their noble sacrifices mean certain death for the civilians depending on them for protection.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_45262f16	type	Big Dam Plot
Ciaphas Cain / int_45262f16	comment	Big Dam Plot: Cain destroys a dam to escape an Ork army in Death Or Glory. He later rigs another one (its replacement) in Cain's Last Stand, but it fails when Necrons arrive to claim the Shadowlight and jam the detonation signal.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Ciaphas Cain / int_4536fd29	comment	In For The Emperor a sniper accompanying Cain shoots the pack of a (already dead) genestealer cultist's flamethrower to create a barrier to cover their escape (although this is justified, since the sniper was armed with a LongLas, which would easily have been able to boil the fuel and make the tank explode).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_45390a1e	type	Pre-Insanity Reveal
Ciaphas Cain / int_45390a1e	comment	Pre-Insanity Reveal: One of Amberley Veil's retinue is a permanently combat-drugged lunatic named Simeon who flinches every time he sees Cain's commissar uniform. When Cain asks what his deal is, she tells him he was in a penal legion, snapped under pressure and started executing men for failing to salute a superior officer... while on the receiving end of an artillery barrage. Cain nods sympathetically, but notes that preventing that sort of breakdown is why they have commissars in the first place. Veil then says Simeon was the commissar.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Ciaphas Cain / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: After an abortive encounter with the ork outbreak the 597th were sent to quell, in true Cain fashion the true enemy of The Last Ditch turns out to be tyranids from a previously unknown hive fleet that had crash-landed millennia before and gotten frozen into the arctic glaciers and buried. Cain's troopship crashing knocks some of them loose and they start digging out their compatriots.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_46019790	type	Little Did I Know
Ciaphas Cain / int_46019790	comment	Little Did I Know: Practically Cain's catchphrase. Every book starts with a variation and he repeats it regularly, as well as his commenting that he'd be "gibbering in terror" if he only knew... It's greatly toned down in the 4th and 5th books, and is worded a lot better.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Ciaphas Cain / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: From the first line in The Greater Good:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
Ciaphas Cain / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Amberley confronting Governor Grice at the end of For The Emperor. She was wearing a ring concealing a lethal weapon on it at the time, so it's rather more serious than most examples of the trope.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4691c64f	type	Mission Briefing
Ciaphas Cain / int_4691c64f	comment	Mission Briefing: General Zyvan gives a few of these, as do Colonel Kasteen and other officers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Ciaphas Cain / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe, "scumsucker" is apparently a very serious insult, at least in the hive Cain (may or may not) be from.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_46c7e7b8	type	Stranded with Edison
Ciaphas Cain / int_46c7e7b8	comment	Stranded with Edison: In Death or Glory, their makeshift convoy/militia (made up from the rescued survivors/slaves from a town looted by Orks) has just enough specialists to survive (a tracker to help them find water and supply dumps, a vet to serve as an impromptu doctor, a technopriest to keep their vehicles running and enough former police, gang members and PDF troops to form a militia and a former not-so-Obstructive Bureaucrat to manage their supplies).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_47002c8f	type	Mistaken for Flatulence
Ciaphas Cain / int_47002c8f	comment	Mistaken for Flatulence: While scouting the Mechanicus shrine, Magot glares at Jurgen with the demand "Who let that one rip?". The smell was actually from the volcanic vents powering the shrine (though since we're talking about Jurgen, it wasn't a bad guess ...).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Ciaphas Cain / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Cain fears he is going to be on the receiving end of this at the end of Cain's Last Stand after the dangerous artifact called the shadowlight falls into the hands of the Necrons, noting that whatever their relationship, Amberley is still an Inquisitor first and foremost, and he has technically failed in his assignment to keep the artifact out of enemy hands. Fortunately for him, Amberley concedes that while not ideal, the shadowlight is safer in the hands of the Necrons than the forces of Chaos, and agrees with Cain's hypothesis that given how much effort they expended to recover it, the Necrons were clearly afraid of its power, and thus likely have no plans to use it against the Imperium.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4764ce3a	type	Military Moonshiner
Ciaphas Cain / int_4764ce3a	comment	Military Moonshiner: On his first assignment Cain jokes that the first thing most Guardsmen do when they hear their regiment is getting a new Commissar is dismantle the stills, shut down the card games, and get stores to tally with inventory for the first time ever.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_47bbbb28	type	We Do the Impossible
Ciaphas Cain / int_47bbbb28	comment	We Do the Impossible: Because of his reputation, Cain always gets the most important or dangerous tasks to accomplish, forcing him to triumph in suicide mission after suicide mission... which is exactly what he wants to avoid (the suicide missions, not survival).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Ciaphas Cain / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Between Cain and Drumon, a Reclaimers Techmarine.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Ciaphas Cain / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Penlan, aka "Jinxie". It hasn't killed her yet. She's even been promoted. Additionally, she's rather popular with the regiment, as it's believed that all the bad luck in her squad gets attracted to her and leaves everyone else alone. Interestingly, this basically makes her the rank and file version of Cain, considering how often the latter manages to bumble into trouble just to bumble right out again through dumb luck. He just has better PR.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
Ciaphas Cain / int_483152c4	comment	In The Traitor's Hand, the Imperial Guard finds evidence of a daemon summoning ritual, though too late to find anything useful. Another site is discovered, but the overly puritanical Tallarn soldiers and their commissar Beije completely destroy the site before the psykers can examine it. Because Beije believes Cain to be acting traitorously (along with a big helping of resentment), he attempts to arrest Cain with a Tallarn squad as he investigates the final site, inadvertently providing Cain with reinforcements to defeat the daemon princess as she's summoned and character witnesses for his heroic behavior.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Ciaphas Cain / int_485eb589	comment	In Duty Calls, it serves as a seal protecting Jurgen from being harmed by a Chaos Artifact of Doom when he picks it up—an artifact which ends up killing the rogue Inquisitor as he makes his getaway once he leaves Jurgen's area of effect. In Cain's Last Stand, Cain again uses it to his advantage when he confronts Warmaster Varan. Jurgen's presence nullifies the power of Varan's Compelling Voice, allowing Cain to wrong-foot and defeat him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_489f14dd	type	Glamorous Wartime Singer
Ciaphas Cain / int_489f14dd	comment	Glamorous Wartime Singer: Amberley Vail's disguise when Cain first met her. Cain desperately tries to insist that she wasn't his type.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Ciaphas Cain / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Ciaphas himself. Capable, intelligent, handsomeâ€”and a compulsive liar desperately trying to hide what he sees as his own fundamental lack of courage and decency in a culture obsessed with martyrdom. It's fairly obvious in his memoirs that Ciaphas is incapable of giving himself credit for any achievement, because he has to justify any noble act with ignoble intentions.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_49a11c69	type	Commissar Cap
Ciaphas Cain / int_49a11c69	comment	Commissar Cap: Standard gear, though Amberley does note that Cain would probably prefer a helmet. It's humorously lampshaded near the beginning of Caves of Ice Also:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Ciaphas Cain / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: Inverted repeatedly throughout the books, as Cain tries to get himself assigned to a nice, quiet job where he doesn't have to be shot at all the time, but always winds up in the worst possible situations—which gets him a reputation for being a thrill-seeker, causing him to end up in even more of these! The one time he does get a relatively quiet job? He goes on a routine patrol, and Hilarity Ensues. Played straight in the original short story Fight or Flight, which ends with Colonel Mostrue assigning the odorous Gunner Jurgen to Cain as his personal aide, obviously intended as a practical joke at Cain's expense. Jurgen goes on to not only be a more-than-able aide to Cain, but also turns out to be a blank whose powers save Cain's life countless times. Cain himself mentions that even heroes of the Imperium like himself are a dime a dozen compared to a blank like Jurgen.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Ciaphas Cain / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One of Amberley's comments in The Last Ditch basically boils down to saying you should use the Lord Commissar rules to represent Cain on the tabletop. In The Emperor's Finest a decidedly meta footnote in Chapter 7: The irony of this statement seems to have eluded Cain entirely, though not, I suspect, most of my readers. In-universe this refers to fellow inquisitors but the passage this footnote refers to fits the most common complaint in RL about the Cain series. Amberley is disappointed that her fellow Inquisitors treat Cain's memoirs as light reading instead of food for thought. Given that the real world readers would have no idea who Cain was before they picked up the book, they wouldn't be overly surprised to discover he seems to be a self-serving coward which would greatly surprise people who have been watching his work for decades. Also, the books are much, much lighter than other 40K books whose grim setting is supposed to be dramatic and thought-provoking, often times to make people examine human nature or just for the shock value the setting provides. Comparatively, the Cain series is light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek which is more "light" then the darker material.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4aafa707	type	Ping Pong Naïveté
Ciaphas Cain / int_4aafa707	comment	Ping Pong NaÃ¯vetÃ©: When investigating a Slaaneshi hideout, Cain finds a room with a big pile of cushions in the middle, its purpose unclear. Amberley lampshades that Cain, a man of the galaxy, seems a little hypocritical here. Cain also takes a while to figure out Mira's reason for going with him on a campaign.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4ae4e6e1	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure
Ciaphas Cain / int_4ae4e6e1	comment	Popcultural Osmosis Failure: A footnote in Caves of Ice has Amberley completely confused about why the Ice World the book takes place on would be named the Canis Latinicus version of "Brass Monkey".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Ciaphas Cain / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Apart from the conflict at the beginning before they can contact Cain, a few early scenes where they agree to work together with the Imperium to fight the Tyranids, the bit where El'Hassai accompanies Cain to a Mechanicus facility and an appearance in the epilogue, the T'au don't really contribute anything to the plot of The Greater Good, despite the book being named after their central philosophy. The scene on the front cover of Cain and a T'au Fire Warrior fighting back-to-back against a Tyranid horde never happens.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4c1ae434	type	Compromising Memoirs
Ciaphas Cain / int_4c1ae434	comment	Compromising Memoirs: Cain wrote a set, which we're now reading.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4d440389	type	Idealist vs. Pragmatist
Ciaphas Cain / int_4d440389	comment	Idealist vs. Pragmatist: Cain, versus any named one-book commissar, and Amberley Vail, versus any other Inquisitor she encounters (Rasmus Vekkman in Choose Your Enemies excepted), are the pragmatists. Cain is reasonable, brave, and steady-handed with his troops, hewing much more towards the "morale officer" part of his job than the "shooting retreating soldiers" part, ostensibly because commissars who don't, tend to become the targets of Unfriendly Fire. Amberley, meanwhile, is a moderate who protects the Imperium from alien threats while causing as little collateral damage as she can manage, mainly by trying to arrange things so that the right people are in the right place at the right time.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4d74ae51	type	BlasÃ© Boast
Ciaphas Cain / int_4d74ae51	comment	BlasÃ© Boast: Cain does this a lot. He makes sure to remind the reader that he only does it to seem like a Humble Hero.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4dcfdb68	type	It's the Only Way to Be Sure
Ciaphas Cain / int_4dcfdb68	comment	In Caves of Ice, upon discovering a dormant Necron tomb on Simia Orichalcae, Cain wastes no time in ordering a complete Imperial evacuation from the planet. While he admits (privately of course) his primary motivation is to save his own skin, Cain does correctly point out that the Necrons in the tomb likely outnumber the Imperials hundreds to one, and if they do wake up, the Imperials will find themselves caught between the Necrons and the Orks already invading the planet, so the best thing to do in the circumstances is get off planet, alert the Inquisition to what they've found and then call in an Imperial Navy flotilla to obliterate the place from orbit. It should be noted that this is one of the few times that Cain advises running away without going through the usual rigamarole of "Oh, I just want to get relocated back into the action," but openly states that "No, we don't stand a chance, we're leaving as soon as we can."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4e324321	type	Single-Issue Wonk
Ciaphas Cain / int_4e324321	comment	Single-Issue Wonk: In For The Emperor, Amberley adds a wider view of the situation on Gravalax with excepts from a writer whose main failing is to blame everything on a conspiracy of rogue traders.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Ciaphas Cain / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: Kasteen and Broklaw, at the end of Traitor's Hand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4e90e76c	type	Be All My Sins Remembered
Ciaphas Cain / int_4e90e76c	comment	Be All My Sins Remembered: Played with. On the surface, the series is essentially one massive confession on Cain's part that he does not deserve the title of "Hero of the Imperium" with which he has been immortalized. The trope becomes subverted when you read carefully; more than once, Cain has done something heroic without thinking about it. Through most of the series, he appears totally selfish, but if something needs to be done, then it needs to be done. A specific example is when he jumps to save Amberley in Pererimunda and later reasons that he only did it because the pilot wouldn't have left without her, but one can see that he jumped first and rationalized later. This not only happens with Amberley, but also on other occasions, such as the time he sets the explosives in Nusquam Fundumentibus. He's pretty much sacrificing his own life to take out the tyranid infestation, but he survives thanks to some fast reasoning and Jurgen's proper use of a snowmobile to escape through tunnels previously dug by their enemies. As noted above, Word of God tells us that not even the author has defined if Cain is really a hero or not. Sometimes he's written Cain as entirely worthy of the title of "Hero of the Imperium", sometimes not.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Ciaphas Cain / int_4ef92d0b	comment	Played with in the same book. Certain Battle Sisters refuse to retreat to the line of their defenses because they must serve the Emperor; Cain finally points out that if the Tyranids outflank them, they will be responsible for the massacre of civilians in the Emperor's Temple. This not only persuades them to retreat but causes one of them to thank him later, for reminding them of their duty, and admit that their zeal had led them astray. Later, this takes on a grimmer note. The sisters realize they have sheltered a renegade inquisitor. Even his deception does not ease their guilt; they realized their zeal had blinded them from seeing the facts. In atonement, they sacrifice their lives to ensure the escape of the Inquisitor who had told them the truth and her party.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4f292929	type	Tall, Dark, and Snarky
Ciaphas Cain / int_4f292929	comment	Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Although Cain prefers to pass himself off as the Tall, Dark, and Handsome in public, at heart he is this, as his memoirs amply demonstrate.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Ciaphas Cain / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In For the Emperor, the first book in the series, Jurgen offers to go with Cain on his quasi-Suicide Mission, surprising Cain with his loyalty and thoughtfulness. Unfortunately, as the series went on and more stories came out covering events before this book, we learn that Cain and Jurgen have been practicially joined at the hip almost from day one, and it's an extremely rare event where Jurgen doesn't follow Cain into battle to watch his back. Making Cain surprised by something Jurgen has done dozens of times before. The very first short story Fight or Flight was not meant to be continued and it shows. Cain is a downright Dirty Coward with no wiggle room for interpretation, Jurgen is remarked as being long dead despite outliving Cain who died of old age after two centuries, and there's no mention of Cain's other adventures or accomplishments
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Ciaphas Cain / int_4fbc0887	type	Beneath the Mask
Ciaphas Cain / int_4fbc0887	comment	Beneath the Mask: The entire series is about a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM who secretly regards himself as a Dirty Coward whose every action was motivated by self-interest. Whether or not you believe that depends very much on how you interpret his true character. Inverted, in a fashion, for most of 40K's xenos races. In Cain's stories, we see these races as they would appear to someone who can't get inside their heads. We see the Orks as comic loonies because we can see through their eyes, but Cain sees them as ravening barbaric brutes. We see the Necrons as Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds because we know what their lives look like from the inside, but Cain sees them as omnicidal eldritch abominations. In short, Cain's stories allow us to see what 40K looks like when you can't see Beneath the Mask.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Ciaphas Cain / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: The shadowlight from Duty Calls is so ominous, it's never referred to with a capital letter and always in italics. This changes in Cain's Last Stand, where they actually use Caps as Shadowlight (might be ShadowLight).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Ciaphas Cain / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Replete with them, usually right before Cain kills someone with his laspistol. "Sorry. I prefer blondes." (Cain to a Slaaneshi sorceress who tried to seduce him) Amberley Vail is blonde, but Cain says this before meeting her. "Consider yourself relieved of your position" (Amberley to the Genestealer-hybrid governor of Gravalax) "Blood for the Blood God!" "Harriers for the cup!" "Impersonating an inquisitor is a capital offense." (Cain to a Slaaneshi sorceress who'd unknowingly disguised herself as Amberley) "Commissar Donal sends his regards." Especially appropriate in that, as he said it, he was doing exactly what Donal had, as his last request, asked Cain to do. "Kick his arse for me." Let us reiterate: Cain killed a man by kicking him in the arse... over a large drop. Not just any man either, but a Chaos warmaster. Subverted in Duty Calls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Ciaphas Cain / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Subverted. While it's never said outright, statements peppered throughout the books, both in the text and in Vail's footnotes, all but confirm that the sexual tension between Cain and Vail is very much resolved. This is outright confirmed in the short story The Little Things, in which Cain arrives at Vail's hotel suite for a romantic rendezvous, only for unwelcome guests (read, incompetent hitmen) to make an appearance.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Ciaphas Cain / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared Jurgen always seems to have whatever is needed in those pouches of his.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Ciaphas Cain / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: The Valhallans are ice-worlders and have a habit of setting their air-conditioning to levels that makes breath visible. Being assigned to Simia Orichalcae, the iceworld in Caves of Ice, brings them evident joy. It's mentioned in Cain's Last Stand, though that Valhalla is a justified case; All of the inhabitants live near the equator, and "Gone North" (their equivalent of "Gone South" or, "Gone ploin-shaped") arises from the fact that the Northern part of the planet (and the southern part, Amberley is quick to point out) is a place you really do not want to go. Adumbria is a three-biome planet, as it doesn't rotate on itself: one side is eternally dark Slippy Slidey Iceworld, the other a permanently lit Shifting Sand Land, and a thin band of habitable terrain all around. Fortunately, the forces being sent there are Space Russians and Space Arabs.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Ciaphas Cain / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Between them, the techpriests and Administratum functionaries in Caves of Ice are well on their way to forming one before Kasteen gets extremely annoyed by their utter dismissal of the Ork invasion and declares martial law (and Cain offers to shoot anyone who complains about it). Adumbria, in The Traitor's Hand, is being run by one of these thanks to a Succession Crisis. Zyvan tricks them into invoking the regent's emergency powers so he can shove them out of the loop. Just as well, as one of them was a Chaos cultist.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_534793ae	type	Methuselah Syndrome
Ciaphas Cain / int_534793ae	comment	Methuselah Syndrome: Cain (and Jurgen) are well over 100 years old by the time of the events of Cain's Last Stand
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Ciaphas Cain / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
Ciaphas Cain / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Rakel the psyker is too crazy for ideas like modesty, and her attire is repeatedly described as inappropriately revealing. Most characters find the crazy too disturbing to appreciate it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_54fbf23f	type	Seeking Sanctuary
Ciaphas Cain / int_54fbf23f	comment	Seeking Sanctuary
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Ciaphas Cain / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Ciaphas Cain / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: In The Traitor's Hand, Cain discovers that the aircar a gang of Slaaneshi cultists had used to barge into General Zyvan's headquarters had been rigged to explode. When a techpriest tells him to disarm it by pulling the red wire, Cain has this to say:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_56c55ed8	type	I Am Not Left-Handed
Ciaphas Cain / int_56c55ed8	comment	I Am Not Left-Handed: In The Emperor's Finest Cain manages to get permission to use an Astartes training chapel to practice his weapon drills in (mostly to get away from a very socially awkward situation) and Drumon, the Techmarine practicing there, volunteers to spar with Cain. Cain senses that Drumon is just humoring him after easily deflecting a few of his strikes, so Cain starts downplaying his own abilities, and intentionally fighting poorly. He then steps up his game suddenly, bypassing Drumon's defenses and taking a chip out of his armor with the teeth of his chainsword. Drumon is both surprised and impressed, and decides to not repair the chip in his armor so as to leave it as a reminder not to underestimate his opponents.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_56d5b88f	type	Divided We Fall
Ciaphas Cain / int_56d5b88f	comment	Divided We Fall: Cain often uses this argument to get multiple factions to work together, typically because if they fall, so will he.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Ciaphas Cain / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: Happens by freak accident in one novel: a frag grenade goes off near a Salamander that Cain's using, jamming the tracks and giving Cain quite the nasty concussion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5793fdbb	type	Meta Power
Ciaphas Cain / int_5793fdbb	comment	Meta Power: The shadowlight (always written in italics in the text) is an artifact that can (among other things) greatly enhance the faintest of psyker powers even if the affected individual never manifested any psychic potential previously. Fortunately, they're prone to Power Incontinence as well, and are still just as affected by Blanks (as is the shadowlight itself).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Ciaphas Cain / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Both used and subverted to a degree. Cain says he has trouble thinking of the T'au in For The Emperor as people, and the short story Traitor's Gambit makes his dislike of the T'au even more evident. Equally, he's shocked by (comparatively) friendly T'au behavior, being confused when a kroot saves his life when he is set upon by dissidents who support the T'au presence. Despite this, and remaining suspicious of multiculturalism or alien values, he gets on well enough with two comparatively cooperative T'au soldiers (a Fire Warrior and the aforementioned kroot), doesn't seem to bear most aliens any specific animosity, and almost shoots the two possibly-Genestealer-contaminated T'au soldiers to spare their comrades the trouble, only backing off because he couldn't be sure if they were infected (they had the usual symptoms, but as he notes, those symptoms could have been induced by exhaustion). He's also horrified by Amberley smiling at the possibility that the two were infected and inadvertently dooming their comrades. Note that even feeling any sympathy towards aliens puts him light years ahead of everyone else in the galaxy. He's also very egalitarian to the T'au diplomat working with the Imperials to coordinate their ceasefire in The Greater Good.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Ciaphas Cain / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: In For The Emperor, Cain's recon team and a squad of T'au pathfinders briefly team up to scout out the terrorist base. Then they find a Bigger Fish and things get worse. Meanwhile on the surface, a T'au armored vehicle helps the Guard break through a rogue PDF position. The Greater Good also sees the Imperium and the T'au team up, on a larger scale: with the approach of Tyranid hive fleets large enough to destroy multiple worlds from both sides, the two empires agree to stop fighting long enough to stop the bigger problem. Kind of subverted, since the T'au expected that the fight against Tyranids would deplete the Imperial Fleet of the sector to the level where they will be able to capture dozens of systems without Imperial interference. And if the bulk of the casualties ended up being on the T'au side, the Imperium would gladly do the same thing to them. The Imperium-T'au agreement isn't so much an alliance as it is a ceasefire until their mutual enemy goes away. Choose Your Enemies features Eldar saving Cain's life a few times. This is what happens when the Farseer in charge of the Eldar unit knows if Cain dies, the Slaaneshi daemon Emeli will destroy both the Eldar and a large stash of soul stones. "The Only Good Ork" revolves around Cain convincing an Ork leader that they should kill the genestealers looking to kill or infect them both, then try to kill each other.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_598c85e0	type	Enemy Scan
Ciaphas Cain / int_598c85e0	comment	Enemy Scan: In The Greater Good Cain is on the receiving end of one of these things. A squadron of T'au battlesuits keeps cornering him, shining a bright targeting light directly on him, which of course he tries to slip away from. In reality, it is not a scan to highlight weakness, but rather to get a clear picture of his face to confirm his identity against the T'au's files on him. They just wanted to talk to him specifically.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Ciaphas Cain / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Magot is generally able to channel her destructive tendencies in a productive way, being a regimental hand to hand champion and highly regarded as a soldier by Cain. She is also one of the worst troublemakers in the 597th Valhallan, a VERY robust driver (highlights include running over a Tyranid Lictor that was menacing Cain) and perfectly willing to hunt down and beat a man senseless for sexist vocal offense. Also, she will point her gun at anyone threatening Grifen, repercussions be damned. Cain takes absolutely zero measures against her being in a relationship with her own sergeant out of fear of what she might do.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Ciaphas Cain / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Inherited from the game's setting, mostly. See ShoutOut.Ciaphas Cain for the best examples. A particularly interesting case occurs in regard to the alcoholic drink amasec, as there are two different "rabbits" in different parts of the galaxy. In the Cain series, it is fairly clearly whisky, explicitly mentioned as derived from grain. In the Calixis Sector, the word instead refers to a fruit-derived brandy. Although given that the galaxy is extremely large with literally tens of thousands of inhabited worlds, and how similar words can have wildly different meanings even on our own single world, some language drift is understandable.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5ad7c5fd	type	Slippy-Slidey Ice World
Ciaphas Cain / int_5ad7c5fd	comment	Adumbria is a three-biome planet, as it doesn't rotate on itself: one side is eternally dark Slippy Slidey Iceworld, the other a permanently lit Shifting Sand Land, and a thin band of habitable terrain all around. Fortunately, the forces being sent there are Space Russians and Space Arabs.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5b12f598	type	Million to One Chance
Ciaphas Cain / int_5b12f598	comment	Million to One Chance: Cain, and his reputation, practically live on this. It's not always good examples either—in Caves of Ice, though it's not quite a million to one shot, the chance of Cain and his squad stumbling across a Necron tomb are pretty damn low. This is justified later on when Cain determines that the Adeptus Mechanicus deliberately positioned the mining facility over the Necron tomb, so finding it was just a matter of time.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5b19cc1b	type	Air-Vent Passageway
Ciaphas Cain / int_5b19cc1b	comment	Air-Vent Passageway: Both used and subverted in Cain's Last Stand, where the air vents are exactly the place genestealers like to hide, but Cain takes the fact it works as a sign that the Tyranids aren't the only threat. He also readily uses maintenance hatches after learning of them in Death or Glory (he notes in the short story Traitor's Gambit that he tries to acquire their access codes in advance when possible).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5bcdb848	type	"I Know What We Can Do" Cut
Ciaphas Cain / int_5bcdb848	comment	"I Know What We Can Do" Cut: At the climax of Cain's Last Stand. Cain tells them what they can do, tells us that they opposed it, but does not tell the reader until he actually does it: he calls up Varan and proposes a meeting to discuss surrender terms. Specifically, terms for Varan's surrender.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Ciaphas Cain / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Cain kicking Warmaster Varan over a cliff in Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Ciaphas Cain / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Necrons are to Cain what snakes are to Indiana Jones, and with good reason, detailed in the omnibus-exclusive short Echoes of the Tomb. They're the reason for his augmetic fingers. Notably, every time he runs into them he urges for an immediate evacuation of the planet, reputation as Hero of the Imperium be damned.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5d4359fe	type	No Blood for Phlebotinum
Ciaphas Cain / int_5d4359fe	comment	No Blood for Phlebotinum: Caves of Ice sees the 597th deployed to protect a valuable promethium refinery from an Ork attack.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5e260ea6	type	Conveniently an Orphan
Ciaphas Cain / int_5e260ea6	comment	Conveniently an Orphan: Cain is a product of the Schola Progenium, schools which raise and educate the children of people who died serving in the Imperial forces.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_5fd14ab3	type	Sacred Hospitality
Ciaphas Cain / int_5fd14ab3	comment	Sacred Hospitality: The Adeptus Mechanicus is bad at it, tending to forget things like comfortable beds, food that tastes like something, deactivating the guard servitors, and even that not everyone has augmetic lungs.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Ciaphas Cain / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Cain is practically a walking one. For the rare situations where he himself isn't enough, there's Jurgen and his peculiar talents. Between the two of them there is practically nothing they don't bring to a gear-grinding halt. The trope is even mentioned by name.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Ciaphas Cain / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Old Soldiers Never Die has plague zombies as a result of a Nurglite bioweapon called the Plague of Unbelief, which a Tallarn regiment unwittingly spread to the Planet of the Week from their last deployment.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Ciaphas Cain / int_60fa92ac	comment	Cain's tendency to run into, and deal with, people whose ideas he regards as insane and suicidal. He is particularly leery of Tech-priests and those who dabble in technology (the two Necron Tomb incidents, the Reclaimers' insistence on boarding The Spawn of Damnation, and Kildhar's biological studies of the Tyranids from The Greater Good come to mind).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Ciaphas Cain / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: In For The Emperor, Cain needs to win over the members of a tribunal in a case, and goes over how to do so.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_625e9470	type	Cooperation Gambit
Ciaphas Cain / int_625e9470	comment	The first novel, For The Emperor, features a planet which is on the brink of civil war thanks to tensions between pro-T'au and Imperium loyalist factions. Since neither side wants war to break out, they often have to calm down their own examples. In the end it turns out that Genestealers have been serving this role the entire time to soften the planet up for invasion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Ciaphas Cain / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Cain says in The Emperor's Finest that the surest way to bluff your way through a conversation is to act like you already know what you're talking about and be just vague enough that the other person hears what he or she wants to hear. He demonstrates this spectacularly in Duty Calls by bluffing his way into a rogue Inquisitor's hideout. The specific incident in The Emperor's Finest that Cain mentions this about involves, incredibly, marriage. To the heir to a planetary governor, of all people. It takes him days to figure out what he's agreed to. Amberley is bemused at how slow on the draw Cain was about that.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6306ceb6	type	Hat of Authority
Ciaphas Cain / int_6306ceb6	comment	Hat of Authority: Being a commissar comes with a very fancy hat. Cain repeatedly jokes that it's the only part of the job that he actually likes. By all indications, it's designed to be easy to spot from a distance so that troopers know they need to shape up quick because the commissar is coming. Nevertheless, at one point the 597th's Chaplain shows up, revealing that he's traded in the Church's own Hat of Authority for a standard trooper's armored helmet, and the eminently practical Cain allows himself a momentary pang of jealousy.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Ciaphas Cain / int_6331ba26	comment	In-story, the Cain Archive Amberley is editing the stories from is described by her as "consisting merely of a single dataslate, stuffed full of files arranged with a cavalier disregard for chronology, and to no scheme of indexing that I've been able to determine despite prolonged examination of the contents." (For example, in The Emperor's Finest, Amberley notes that Cain had not yet written about the immediately preceding events, chronicled in the short story Echoes of the Tomb, which Mitchell wrote seven years earlier.) Also, the editing and release of Cain's memoirs is done at Vail's sole discretion, such as expanding upon Plot Holes in previous books (Duty Calls was used to resolve a dangling plotline in Death or Glory).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_639aa0cd	type	Did You Just Have Sex?
Ciaphas Cain / int_639aa0cd	comment	Did You Just Have Sex?: In Choose Your Enemies, Cain sees both Colonel Kasteen and Major Broklaw entertaining the attentions of local nobles at a banquet in the 597th's honor, and wryly thinks to himself that neither the CO nor XO are likely to spend the night in their own quarters. Sure enough, the next morning, Kasteen is "gulping recaff with the air of someone who was tired but still relishing the process of having got that way."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Ciaphas Cain / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Cain has faced down Chaos Space Marines, Genestealer Patriachs and Tyrants, and Ork Warbosses in single combat. The Guard, and sometimes the PDF, even though Cain usually regards the latter as nothing more than a joke.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Ciaphas Cain / int_6439de78	comment	Astropath Clementine Drey at the climax of ''The Greater Good', who continually broadcasts a scrambling signal from a salvaged Tyranid bioship node to disrupt an invading fleet of Tyranids until the seizures she suffers become fatal. Her Heroic Sacrifice is specifically recognised and lauded as such afterwards in the histories of the conflict.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
Ciaphas Cain / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: At one point in Choose Your Enemies, Cain discovers that the local militia has been ordered to take the spirit stones off Eldar dead and send them up the command chain so the local governor can use them in a daemon-summoning.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
Ciaphas Cain / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: Commissar Donal shoots himself rather than re-succumb to Varan's brainwashing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_66d13ab9	type	Talking in Your Dreams
Ciaphas Cain / int_66d13ab9	comment	Talking in Your Dreams: According to Vail, Cain occasionally suffers from nightmares about the Necrons and talks about them in his sleep.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
Ciaphas Cain / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: Lampshaded in The Traitor's Hand, where Cain observes (to himself) that "torturing a masochist is singularly unproductive." Beije attempts it anyway, with humorous results.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_674e8192	comment	Blind Obedience: Jurgen towards Cain, who thankfully doesn't abuse it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6787588e	comment	The Pardon: Amberley offers one to troopers sentenced to a penal legion in the first book, by dint of accompanying the esteemed Ciaphas Cain on an Inquisitorial recon mission to the maze-like depths of the city sewers...that may or may not be swarming with a rebel faction who has the upper hand and something horriblebadevil. Cain doesn't like it, since he'd rather not have to go onto the field accompanying five guardsmen who might still hold a grudge over the sentence (and of several he personally saw stab people to death, and one of which scared him deeply), but can't object—mostly because when an Inquisitor wants you to accompany them, you accompany them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_68424916	comment	Mira means "Look at that!"note Literally, it's the imperative form of mirari, "to marvel at" in Latin. Cain certainly does, and then some.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_692c48c4	type	Navel-Deep Neckline
Ciaphas Cain / int_692c48c4	comment	Navel-Deep Neckline: When Mira introduces herself, she is wearing a stylized outfit resembling a garish military uniform that is cut a little too tight around the chest for her endowmentnote And being the daughter of a planetary governor, it was almost certainly deliberately tailored that way which she resolves by leaving the top several buttons undone. According to Cain, other items of her wardrobe tend toward being low-cut, so this is something of a stylistic theme with her. Rakel tends toward this as well, though with her it's (probably) accidental, the result of her clothing being a couple sizes too small.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Ciaphas Cain / int_6977c45e	comment	The first is the memoirs of Jenit Sulla, who was one of Cain's subordinates during the events he describes. However, Jenit has entirely bought into the heroic myth surrounding Cain (which was one of the things Cain set out to dispel), writes in a prose so purple it's nigh unreadable, and her narration makes it sound like Cain was a mentor-figure to her. Cain's narration, however, makes it clear he considers her nothing more than another snot-nosed butterbar and finds her eager "Emperor-and-Imperium"-idealism extremely annoying.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6a12837c	comment	Plain Palate: Implied for the techpriests in "The Greater Good", when one can't figure out why Cain would prefer a steak to soylens viridiens because it provides everything he needs. When Cain says, "Except flavour and texture," the priest says in a baffled way, "Oh. Those."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6a4a2085	type	Legally Dead
Ciaphas Cain / int_6a4a2085	comment	Legally Dead: Cain had been declared legally dead many times (most prominently in Death or Glory) to the point where it was inverted—there is a specific edict that prevents bureaucrats from calling him legally dead, so now he forever remains in active service even after being buried with military honours.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Ciaphas Cain / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Among the Valhallans; snow-sculpting, snow forts, Snowball Fights... pretty much anything involving snow and/or the killing of Orks.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6b4b3eba	type	Lady Land
Ciaphas Cain / int_6b4b3eba	comment	It gets gender-inverted in The Last Ditch when the matriarchal locals are extremely matronizing to the male officers; even Cain has a hard time being taken seriously, and the Governor makes several comments suggesting he and Major Broklaw are just there as Colonel Kasteen's eye candy.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Ciaphas Cain / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Zyvan employs one, and Cain often justifies accepting suicide missions because the alternative would leave him no longer invited to dinner by the general.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ciaphas and Cain are the names of well-known villains from The Bible. One possible translation of "Caiaphas", according to The Other Wiki, is "rock that hollows itself out". The Single-Issue Wonk who wrote that Fictional Document in For The Emperor is named Stententious Logar, a slight misspelling of a word meaning "addicted to pompous moralizing". Inquisitor Vail's name could also be one; she is, after all, concealing ("veiling") Cain's true nature from the world at large. And her favorite investigation method starts off with "pick a cover identity to use". Mira means "Look at that!"note Literally, it's the imperative form of mirari, "to marvel at" in Latin. Cain certainly does, and then some. It gets downright silly with some of the merely mentioned minor characters, such as the fencing instructor "Miyamoto de Bergerac" note Presumably from Miyamoto Musashi and Cyrano de Bergerac and the author of a book about the fungus-like features of Orks "Migo Yuggoth" note In the Cthulhu Mythos, the fungoid insects known as Mi-Go come to Earth from Pluto, which they call Yuggoth.. See also the Shout Outs page for more examples of this sort. Emeli DuBoir's last name is a bastardization of the word "boudoir", which is a lady's bedroom. Given Ms. DuBoir's actions in the stories in which she appears, this seems fitting. The Ordo Dialogus representative in charge of translating tablets associated with the shadowlight in Cain's Last Stand is Sister Rosetta. Rogue Trader (and covert agent for Inquisitor Vail) Orelius's ship is named the Lucre Foedus, a good approximation of "filthy lucre" AKA "dirty money".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6c0e5342	comment	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine: Done to Cain by the Big Bad of Duty Calls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
Ciaphas Cain / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: "Frak this, for my faith is a shield proof against your blandishments!" is a bit more inspiring than "Frak this! My soul's my own, and I'm keeping it!" It's implied that Cain's official biography is this compared to his memoirs that we read. Then again, "I strode forth against the xenos in the name of the Emperor" reads a lot better to imperial audiences than "I looked for a way to escape danger, then frakked that up too."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Ciaphas Cain / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Shows up twice in Cain's Last Stand: Donal shoots himself when he realizes that he can't overcome Varan's brainwashing. When the brainwashed Battle Sisters acting as Varan's bodyguards have his control over them broken, they collapse into screaming hysterics, then throw themselves off a rooftop.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Ciaphas Cain / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: All over the place. Several planets, including the ice worlds Simia Orichalchae and Nusquam Fundumentibus—respectively, pseudo-Latin for "brass monkey" note from the British expression "It's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" and "arse end of nowhere"note also British slang, for the middle of nowhere—as well as Sodallagain, a planet with apparently nothing of interest. In Cain's Last Stand, there's Orelius's ship, the Lucre Foedus... quite appropriate for a Rogue Trader. The Planetary Governor of Deepwater is named Landon Hoy. A lot of the Shout Outs also feature these.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Ciaphas Cain / int_7040b6bc	comment	This is one of Cain's frequent observations about Jurgen, often delivered with a great deal of Understatement and unconcerned stoicism.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Averted, but specifically discussed in Cain's Last Stand. The people Varan controlled remain warped even after his death. Cain observes it would have been easier if they had been freed — "but this wasn't some comforting fairy tale...". In one rather extreme case, Varan's personal shuttle pilot is found dead after the final battle. He had been ordered by (the now deceased) Varan to wait for his return. The pilot took these orders literally and starved to death waiting for Varan.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7098892d	comment	Weapon-Based Characterization: Cain's chainsword and laspistol. In the first book, Cain declines to replace it with a more powerful hellpistol because he's afraid that the extra weight would throw off his aim. See Covers Always Lie above for what the general Imperial population believes is the case. Although this is justified as to why they think he carries around a bolt pistol- a) because the Bolt Pistol is quite often associated with commissars, who do use the weapons often (though Cain explains why he prefers the laspistol in "The Last Ditch,"), and b) because in The Greater Good, it's explained that Jurgen found a very, very nice bolt pistol, and Ciaphas uses this when posing for posters instead of his normal laspistol.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_70cc528	type	Asymmetric Dilemma
Ciaphas Cain / int_70cc528	comment	Asymmetric Dilemma: Two examples in The Last Ditch: While fighting a Mawloc in Cain worries at length about the prospect of being digested to death, prompting a footnote from Amberley about how he'd die of physical trauma or suffocation first. She admits that it's not as reassuring as she'd meant it to be. Later, Cain marvels at a pile of demo charges that could take down an Ork Gargant. Jurgen agrees if the Orks had a Gargant... and if the Tyranids hadn't eaten all the Orks.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_70d2bc73	type	Antagonistic Governor
Ciaphas Cain / int_70d2bc73	comment	Antagonistic Governor: A couple examples: In For The Emperor, Governor Grice causes a lot of problems for Cain and the other Imperials because he's a genestealer hybrid. Averted in the other novels, where the governors are competent but hopelessly outmatched or a George W. Bush expy, none of them are actually ill-intentioned towards Cain (except for one after he ended up brainwashed by the villain). In one case, one even saves Cain from being married to a particularly pushy Girl of the Week). Double Subverted in Choose Your Enemies where the Planetary Govenor is helpful and effective right up until he is revealed as the Big Bad.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_713e479	type	Sensor Suspense
Ciaphas Cain / int_713e479	comment	Sensor Suspense The fourth book has this, when he's in an escape shuttle that's being attacked by an Orkish fighter (since it most likely has very close ranged weapons its appearance on the pod's radar is the same as it would be for a missile). Also present in The Emperor's Finest, which sees Cain boarding a space hulk alongside a chapter of Space Marines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
Ciaphas Cain / int_716d9138	comment	In For the Emperor Cain presides over the trials of six Guardsmen from the Valhallan 296th and 301st who had been involved in a Bar Brawl that resulted in the deaths of several Guardsmen and Imperial Navy personnel. The penalty is death, but Cain uses his authority as regimental commissar to commute the sentences to service in a penal legion. He then deals with the root of the problem by re-founding the two amalgamated half-strength regiments as one unit, the Valhallan 597th.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_725a80b2	type	Mistaken for an Imposter
Ciaphas Cain / int_725a80b2	comment	Mistaken for an Imposter: Played for Laughs—one of the few instances in Cain's later career where his name doesn't immediately evoke awe in the person to whom he's introducing himself is a moment when the other person thinks he's joking.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Ciaphas Cain / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Beije is a textbook case of a secondary character who goes from a minor obstacle for the heroes to deeply unlikeable after spouting off at the mouth.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7302acc9	comment	When Mira introduces herself, she is wearing a stylized outfit resembling a garish military uniform that is cut a little too tight around the chest for her endowmentnote And being the daughter of a planetary governor, it was almost certainly deliberately tailored that way which she resolves by leaving the top several buttons undone. According to Cain, other items of her wardrobe tend toward being low-cut, so this is something of a stylistic theme with her.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Ciaphas Cain / int_7315fd38	comment	Cain's chainsword and laspistol. In the first book, Cain declines to replace it with a more powerful hellpistol because he's afraid that the extra weight would throw off his aim. See Covers Always Lie above for what the general Imperial population believes is the case. Although this is justified as to why they think he carries around a bolt pistol- a) because the Bolt Pistol is quite often associated with commissars, who do use the weapons often (though Cain explains why he prefers the laspistol in "The Last Ditch,"), and b) because in The Greater Good, it's explained that Jurgen found a very, very nice bolt pistol, and Ciaphas uses this when posing for posters instead of his normal laspistol.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_73e7dcb6	type	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy
Ciaphas Cain / int_73e7dcb6	comment	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: Early in The Emperor's Finest, Mira resorts to throwing her lasgun at a purestrain genestealer when the powerpack runs dry. As a noblewoman whose military rank is purely honorary, it never occured to her to carry her own reloads — she'd ordered one of the other PDF soldiers to carry them for her, leaving them out of reach when everything went ploin-shaped.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
Ciaphas Cain / int_744e3311	comment	From the same book, he also seems approving when the Arbites show up to beat the crap out of a handful of troublesome but otherwise peaceful pro-T'au humans.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ciaphas Cain / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: The aversion is discussed in the first book. The Imperial Guard would rather not have to fight for Gravalax if they don't have to, as its status as a remote border system means that ensuring a secure supply line would tie up a lot of resources that are needed elsewhere. But on the other hand, if they don't fight for it, the T'au might take it as a license to keep on going and start grabbing other, far more valuable systems. It's played with in the 597th; they don't have the same problems keeping their numbers and equipment up that other regiments do because it took decades for the logistics branch to catch on that they were amalgamated and stop giving them two regiments' worth of supplies.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_74cd99f8	type	See the Whites of Their Eyes
Ciaphas Cain / int_74cd99f8	comment	See the Whites of Their Eyes: Averted and mocked in Death or Glory:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Ciaphas Cain / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Inevitable due to the fact the stories are written out of order and have recurring characters. Inquisitor Vail and Ciaphas Cain are the most notable, since the very beginning of the first novel basically establishes that the novels could not exist without Cain surviving to write them and Vail surviving to edit them. Occasional one-book characters (and Sulla) also get this, as Vail could not possibly include excerpts from their memoirs if they didn't survive to write them. Averted, however, with one character's memoirs being listed as never being published foreshadowing the fact that he didn't live long enough to finish them).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Ciaphas Cain / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Cain and Mira. It ends with them apart but they know it's for the best.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_760b2270	type	The Dreaded Toilet Duty
Ciaphas Cain / int_760b2270	comment	The Dreaded Toilet Duty: A squad of repeat offenders jailed for their behavior on shore leave is punished by Cain with relatively light sentences (so as to maintain his popularity, there's plenty of commissars who'd have shot the lot at the first offense). One is apparently such a repeat customer that he can joke about it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7719cf90	type	It Began with a Twist of Fate
Ciaphas Cain / int_7719cf90	comment	It Began with a Twist of Fate: Nearly every important plot event stems from Cain looking for a quiet, routine assignment away from the front line. All it does is allow him to run into the secret cult/the backdoor entrance into their base/ the unseen flanking attack which only leads him into greater danger as a result. Lampshaded to hell in the short story "A Mug of Recaff" where Jurgen considers it Cain's signature move, to the point it doesn't even occur to him it isn't deliberate.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Ciaphas Cain / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: This is a common failing of Techpriests when it comes to Necrons and their tombs, and the Cain novels are no exception: While searching the mines below a processing plant his unit's guarding, Cain discovers a Necron tomb. The Techpriest who accompanies Cain can't understand why he wants to blow up the tomb's entrance and call in the navy to bomb the place into oblivion. He changes his mind after he's the only survivor of a group of "Cogboys" who entered the tomb; he eventually gleefully helps drown the tomb in promethium. The short story Echoes of the Tomb chronicles Cain's first encounter with the Necrons after a group of Techpriests attempt to salvage what they believe is an inactive tombworld.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Ciaphas Cain / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Then there's the nursery rhyme, "The tracks on the Land Raider crush the heretics, crush the heretics, crush the heretics..."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_782b8a66	type	Absurdly Dedicated Worker
Ciaphas Cain / int_782b8a66	comment	Absurdly Dedicated Worker: In Cain's Last Stand, after Warmaster Varan is killed by Cain, his shuttle pilot is found starved to death in his cockpit. Varan's main superpower is psionic brainwashing, and the investigators surmise that he ordered the pilot to wait for further orders and thanks to Cain, could never give him different ones.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Ciaphas Cain / int_7870735b	comment	At the climax of Cain's Last Stand, with their position about to be overrun by Varan's vengeful Chaos horde, matters swiftly go from bad to worse when a force of Necrons teleports in behind the Chaos forces and begin annihilating the heretics. Realising the Necrons fully intend to fight their way through the Chaos lines to the Imperial position, and aware they're in no shape to fight such an enemy, Cain wastes no time in ordering a full evacuation and orders the Mechanicus adepts on site to detonate the facility's self-destruct mechanism. The Imperials succeed in escaping, but the Necrons sabotage the self-destruct and escape with a powerful artefact the site was housing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_79c2062e	type	Inappropriately Close Comrades
Ciaphas Cain / int_79c2062e	comment	Inappropriately Close Comrades: Early in the first book, Cain struggles with the aftermath of a riot on a ship in which some provosts were killed. The captain of the ship is hellbent on having the murderers executed, even though it would be terrible for the morale of the regiment. Cain suspects his vehemence comes from having a relationship with one of the dead provosts that is beyond what would be appropriate for a commander, and Amberley confirms this to be the case in a footnote. The possibility of a relationship between Cain and Colonel Kasteen was mentioned by Cain, but neither pursued it as it could have given rise to the type of problems seen in the trope description (the fact that Cain is frak-buddies with Inquisitor Vail probably helped a little). That said, before he meets Vail he has no problem using his personal charm at any level of the Guard command, nor does he have a problem letting Kasteen go up the stairs before him so he can look at her ass (which incidentally saved their lives, as he wouldn't have noticed an incoming Attack Drone otherwise). The Valhallan 597th is a mixed-gender regiment created from two different single-gender regiments, so it's mentioned in passing that pregnancies happen often enough that Cain is familiar with baby behavior. Cain is also aware of a less-than-regular relationship between Corporal Magot and Sergeant Grifen, but chooses to stay well out of it, since he prefers to avoid being as much like harsher commissars (who tend to die of friendly fire far from enemy lines) as possible. This is a minor plot point in The Traitor's Hand, as Cain notes that Beije probably suspects that he's in this relationship with Magot because he's being lenient with her (to avoid damaging the morale of her squadnote And possibly a bit of favouritism since said squad's save his life several times.). Cain notes that even if she wasn't a lesbian, he already has enough dangerous women in his life (a clingy planetary governor's daughter, a daemon princess, and the aforementioned Inquisitor, who chooses to take it as a compliment).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
Ciaphas Cain / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Even before he knew about Jurgen, and afterward when he's not around, Cain was confident in his ability to fool mind readers—mostly by controlling stray thoughts. It is implied that he couldn't have defended himself from an actual investigation and is lucky that his memory has never been scanned before. But then again, Amberley is the first human being in his life whom he cannot fool no matter how he tried, and she's an Inquisitor.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Ciaphas Cain / int_7b0fddcd	comment	In The Traitor's Hand in particular, people mocking the Khornates' "Blood for the Blood God!" Battle Cry.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7b3ebb57	type	Buxom Beauty Standard
Ciaphas Cain / int_7b3ebb57	comment	Buxom Beauty Standard: Evidently, the Warhammer 40000 universe as told by Sandy Mitchell. Considering the main game has few women that aren't evil, monstrous succubi, or generally (facially) unattractive nuns, some might gain a new appreciation for the setting after reading his novels.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Ciaphas Cain / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: Cain doesn't "charge the enemy". He "retreats forwards".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Ciaphas Cain / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "When did you last have an augmetic upgrade?" turns out to be one for Magos Kildhar in The Greater Good. It makes her realize that she's been the Manchurian Agent all along.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7bb1296b	type	"Rashomon"-Style
Ciaphas Cain / int_7bb1296b	comment	"Rashomon"-Style: For times when Amberley was there in person, she'll note when she remembers things differently than Cain has written them. The extracts from other people's accounts diverge even more, as Jenit Sulla never sees Cain as less than a mighty hero and a personal mentor (after he's spent a while griping about her, her gung-ho tactics and her horse-like face). Tayber from Death Or Glory is probably the biggest example of this, as Cain describes fighting off hordes of Orks until he and Jurgen believe they're cornered and their luck has finally run out, only to be relieved in the nick of time by a PDF unit, while Tayber's account has Cain roll into town, kick Orkish arse, forge the PDF and civilians into an army and go on to liberate the planet exactly as he planned.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Ciaphas Cain / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Cain is an expert player of 'Regicide', the 40k version of chess. Averted to a point with General Zyvan, who can't win a single game against Cain, despite being a far superior strategist.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Ciaphas Cain / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: To deal with the necrons in Caves of Ice, Cain essentially turns an entire promethium refinery into a giant fuel-air bomb. The explosion would probably have been a mass extinction-level event had the planet not been an ice world, and the shockwave buffets Cain's ship in orbit!
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7d4a47d1	type	Let Us Never Speak of This Again
Ciaphas Cain / int_7d4a47d1	comment	Cain occasionally mentions being held captive by Dark Eldar reavers, an experience he is apparently loathe to recount, even compared to all the other horrors he has experienced.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Ciaphas Cain / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Sulla, in For the Emperor, goes from showing opposition and dislike of Cain's decisions on the regiment in front of other officials to eventually ask privately him in a rather nervous and shy way for a chance to show her value as a soldier. Cain of course takes the opportunity to act magnanimously, and get one more person disposed to cover his back, which makes Sulla all the happier. Mira in The Emperor's Finest is definitely a Type A, bouncing from coy and flirty to snippy and sullen with Cain depending on whether or not she's getting her way.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7f3be191	type	Impossibly Cool Clothes
Ciaphas Cain / int_7f3be191	comment	Impossibly Cool Clothes: Mira owned a dress that was only held up by static cling. In Amberley's footnotes, she said that she used to own one of those, but it was wrecked in a firefight. She never bothered to replace it, because the few places you could hide a gun in a dress like that were rather uncomfortable.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Ciaphas Cain / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Cain's main justification for treating the troopers well is avoiding this. He also suspects Colonel Mostrue, his first commander, of attempting The Uriah Gambit from time to time. In Duty Calls, he comes to suspect that some of the PDF did try this. He's right—and they had orders.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Ciaphas Cain / int_7fbe9a30	comment	When Cain and a small squad go into the Necron tombs to destroy the warp portal in Caves Of Ice, they get confronted by Pariahs. Most Freak Out, but Cain and Jurgen are unaffected due to having an acquired immunity to the psychic effect used by the Pariahs, since it's essentially the same thing as Jurgen's ability.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Ciaphas Cain / int_808cbaeb	comment	She's also a terrible writer compared to Cain, often going on in excessive prose. Amberley often comments about this to her chagrin.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Ciaphas Cain / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Cain makes the Schola Progenium seem less like a badass Military School and more like Tom Brown's Schooldays, complete with "scrumball practice".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8334ba2e	type	Big, Bulky Bomb
Ciaphas Cain / int_8334ba2e	comment	Big, Bulky Bomb: Multiple instances: In typical 40K fashion, Cain improvises an over-the-top one of these using an entire refinery's worth of promethium to blow up a Necron tomb. The resulting explosion is felt from orbit. He pulls another stunt like this on Nusquam Fundamentibus, where he essentially triggers a volcanic eruption to kill a buried Tyranid bioship before it can summon more of its kind.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Ciaphas Cain / int_8344209e	comment	Averted in Caves of Ice where a flamer-equipped guardsman is killed by a bolter to the chest, though Jurgen takes out a Flamer-wielding Ork and causes it to detonate.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Ciaphas Cain / int_83fb6177	comment	First-Episode Twist: For The Emperor runs on this. The 296/301 Valhallan is merged into the 597th (and are forged into a single force, instead of two mutually antagonistic units) and Kasteen and Broklaw become friends with each other and with Cain, genestealer cults are behind the trouble on Gravalax, Amberley Vail is the inquisitor, Jurgen is a blank...
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
Ciaphas Cain / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: Played for Laughs. Amberley occasionally provides translations of Orkish phrases that give a much more sophisticated explanation to the words than the Orks probably could articulate. For instance, she translates an Ork ship named "'Ard 'Nuff" as "Battle-Ready" when a more literal translation would simply be "Hard Enough". She also elaborates on "zogoff":
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Ciaphas Cain / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: Cain occasionally mentions being held captive by Dark Eldar reavers, an experience he is apparently loathe to recount, even compared to all the other horrors he has experienced. Most of the civilian members of his force in Death Or Glory were made slaves by Orks before he (read: the PDF squad he met up with) rescued them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8494bcb3	type	Disposable Pilot
Ciaphas Cain / int_8494bcb3	comment	Disposable Pilot: Warmaster Varan's (Brainwashed and Crazy, like all his minions) pilot is eventually revealed to have starved to death as he had been told to stay there until Varan's return. After Varan dies and Decapitated Army is noticeably averted, he continues to wait for orders that never come.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_854b029a	type	Encyclopedia Exposita
Ciaphas Cain / int_854b029a	comment	Encyclopedia Exposita: The novels frequently have "excerpts" from from various fictional sources — often Jenit Sulla's unreadable biography — in-between chapters.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Ciaphas Cain / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In Duty Calls, Cain mentions how dark the Inquisition's secrets could go. Zemelda Cleats, a new recruit of Amberley's, makes light of her new duties, comparing it with a children's game. All this sets up something terrible happening to her on Amberley's watch.. but Cain's not talking about Amberley at all. The dirty business refers to rogue Inquisitor Killian.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_87c62ade	type	Deadly Dodging
Ciaphas Cain / int_87c62ade	comment	Deadly Dodging: Cain making combat servitors fire at each other in Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Ciaphas Cain / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Since most cities in 40K are so old the undercities have undercities (and many of those have undercities of their own), this trope is somewhat justified. Both Lampshaded and played straight in Death or Glory. When Cain is trapped in a building surrounded by Orks, he remarks that having sewers and storm drains as a convenient escape route whenever he's trapped is not nearly as common as he would have liked. Played straight in For the Emperor when Cain and Vail go into the city sewers to hunt Genestealers. Played with in The Emperor's Finest, when Cain points out to the Astartes Commander that the tunnels running below an enemy artillery unit aren't spacious enough to fit Space Marines, but PDF troopers can move there just fine. However, after saving Cain and Mira from the Genestealer ambush, Space Marines proceed to hunt down the survivors in those very tunnels. In Terminator suits, no less.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88424df3	type	I Thought Everyone Could Do That
Ciaphas Cain / int_88424df3	comment	I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Cain briefly forgets that not everyone has his tunnel instincts in an early book.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8864056	type	Plague of Good Fortune
Ciaphas Cain / int_8864056	comment	Plague of Good Fortune: Cain's entire career can pretty much be summed up as a repeating cycle of "Be thrust into danger" --> "Find greater danger while trying to escape first danger" --> "Become praised as a hero for defeating new danger." Naturally, as his fame increases, so do others' expectations of him, much to his chagrin.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
Ciaphas Cain / int_8878f3be	comment	The penal squad in the first book, none of which survive. Not to mention the rest of the 597th Valhallan, at least at first before Cain turns them into a Badass Army.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88792708	type	Badass Back
Ciaphas Cain / int_88792708	comment	Badass Back: At one point in The Traitor's Hand, Cain attempts to elbow a cultist behind him, then switches to stabbing his chainsword under his arm into the cultist's chest.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Ciaphas Cain / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Cain manages to successfully convince others he has this. (See also Pre-Mortem One-Liner.)
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Ciaphas Cain / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: In a non-romantic example, Cain considers Sulla as this. She, of course, remains completely unaware of what he thinks, and sees him as a mentor. Mira is a downplayed example. Cain is happy to sleep with her, but begins aggressively finding excuses to avoid her company when he realizes that she is hoping to make him her husband. It's not that he'd mind that either, the problem is that she thinks he's given his implicit consent already in no uncertain terms, and thus he'd have a very awkward time explaining to her the fact that it would be plain impossible for him to leave his position to marry.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88e6f113	type	Pull Yourself Down the Spear
Ciaphas Cain / int_88e6f113	comment	Pull Yourself Down the Spear: In The Last Ditch, an Ork Cain is fighting tries to do this when Cain impales it on his chainsword, but he cuts through its spine and kills it before it can get very far.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Ciaphas Cain / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The resolution of Cain's Last Stand depends on this. Most of the stories go this way—Cain and his unit are summoned to take care of one threat, but then an even BIGGER threat shows up. Fight or Flight (The very first Cain story) starts with the mopping-up of a fairly minor Ork incursion, with Tyranids showing up just as they're about to wrap things up and call it a day. For The Emperor starts out with tensions between humans and the T'au, with the real threat being Genestealers. Caves of Ice has the Orks at the start, with the Necrons as the real threat. That is before an Ork Gargant smashes through Necron Monoliths and threatens evacuation zone. Duty Calls originally has the 597th sent to deal with a routine civil insurrection, which turns out to have been started by genestealers, followed closely behind by Tyranids, but a much greater threat from renegade elements of the Inquisition and the Adeptus Mechanicus presents itself. The Emperor's Finest starts with Genestealers and Tyranids, but Orks also become a very prominent threat. Interestingly, the T'au and the Orks are frequently on the lower end of the threats that Cain faces, and are often used as the "Set-up" villains. The Last Ditch starts with Orks, but shifts to Tyranids. The Greater Good has T'au forces at first before shifting to Tyranids (again). Choose Your Enemies spends most of the book with the Eldar as the main threat, with the real threat of the Chaos Cult only becoming apparent at the climax.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Ciaphas Cain / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Poor, poor Commissar Beije. First, he comes to arrest Cain for cowardice and desertion, only to find out Cain has his hands full trying to prevent a daemonic summoning. Then a (male) cultist kisses Beije as he tries to interrogate him. Then it turns out Cain was right, that the summoning will turn the planet into a giant, permanent portal into the Warp, and that Cain is perfectly willing to talk back to a Greater Daemon. Then Cain defeats the daemon (Beije getting attacked and further tormented in the process), earning the admiration and respect of the Emperor-botherers Beije had brought with him, undermining his authority even further. Then, once Cain is put on trial, the tribunal of commissars not only clears Cain of all charges, but starts looking into charges of incompetence for Beije given what could have happened if he'd actually stopped Cain and the ritual went off without a hitch. And when they're out of the courtroom, Cain reminds Beije that they still have a duel to fight (Beije having referred to Kasteen as a "petticoat colonel"), so Beije is forced to hastily apologize to her. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Tallarns he was with have started a seemingly sanctioned or at least tolerated splinter cult worshipping Cain as the Emperor's will made manifest, and Cain also pulls some strings after a couple of days to make sure Beije doesn't get executed or suffer some other terrible fate - if Beije is even half as smart as he pretends to be, he'll have realized that the only reason he's not dead or assigned to a penal legion is thanks to the very commissar he tried to have arrested and put on trial.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_89204ffb	type	Shrug of God
Ciaphas Cain / int_89204ffb	comment	Shrug of God: Sandy Mitchell says he doesn't know whether Cain is the Dirty Coward he claims to be or is selling himself short.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_896459e2	type	Adaptation Decay
Ciaphas Cain / int_896459e2	comment	Everybody loves Cain and makes sculptures and whatnot dedicated to him, always wildly inaccurate. Cain hates the very existence of such art.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Ciaphas Cain / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Emeli.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Ciaphas Cain / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The penal squad in the first book, none of which survive. Not to mention the rest of the 597th Valhallan, at least at first before Cain turns them into a Badass Army. As well as Cain's Liberators from Death or Glory, who start out as just a squad of PDF and a few dozen civilians and end up with a few hundred troops and everything a mobile army needs but air support. Perhaps the most impressive is Vail's retinue in Duty Calls. Faced with a food vendor who had stumbled into some knowledge of the Inquisition—and picked up a gun when cornered by a Genestealer cult—Vail hires her. Others include a former commissar/member of a penal regiment, and a former arbite who had, while undercover, imploded a criminal organization with a judicious murder and frame.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Ciaphas Cain / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: At one point in The Traitor's Hand, a World Eater Chaos Marine gets killed "with satisfying thoroughness" by two krak missiles and a lascannon blast, any individual one of which would be enough on its ownnote In the game, a single Krak Missile can cause instant death to any Space Marine character, as it's normally an anti-tank weapon. Same goes for the Lascannon. They effectively made Chunky Salsa of the Chunky Salsa of the berserker..
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The first three books are in chronological order, the fourth is a prequel, the fifth takes place between books two and three, the sixth takes place in the WH40K universe's "present day" long after the events of the rest (although the last three all focus on his part in a single larger story), the seventh takes place between book four and book one, and the eighth (which notably involves his second campaign on a specific world when the story of his first trip there has yet to be published) takes place after the third, but still half a century before the sixth, the ninth taking place less than a decade before the sixth and the tenth taking place several years after the eighth. The short stories are in equally random order, with two taking place before book four (including Cain's first act of alleged heroism), one taking place somewhere between books four and seven, one taking place immediately before book seven, and one taking place roughly a decade before book six, and several that have so few reference points that one cannot reliably tell what decade they took place in. In-story, the Cain Archive Amberley is editing the stories from is described by her as "consisting merely of a single dataslate, stuffed full of files arranged with a cavalier disregard for chronology, and to no scheme of indexing that I've been able to determine despite prolonged examination of the contents." (For example, in The Emperor's Finest, Amberley notes that Cain had not yet written about the immediately preceding events, chronicled in the short story Echoes of the Tomb, which Mitchell wrote seven years earlier.) Also, the editing and release of Cain's memoirs is done at Vail's sole discretion, such as expanding upon Plot Holes in previous books (Duty Calls was used to resolve a dangling plotline in Death or Glory). If the novels are divided into groups of three (which the Omnibus editions do) each trilogy is in chronological order, with each of the latter two following Cain's (often peripheral) involvement in a single larger plot. The short stories in the Omnibus volumes don't adhere to this, though. In the first Omnibus, Hero of the Imperium, each novel, taking place during Cain's time with the 597th, is preceded by a short story from his time before joining the 597th, detailing Cain's first encounter with the major threat of the novel to follow. The two short stories in the second Omnibus, Defender of the Imperium, are in strict chronological order, with one beginning before Death or Glory, and the other preceding Cain's Last Stand. In the third Omnibus, Saviour of the Imperium, the three novels are followed by the novella Old Soldiers Never Die and a collection of short stories, in no particular chronological order.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: They can still talk and think and shoot lasguns, though they believe that loyalists are only following the False-Emperor rather than the "True-Emperor"...
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8c9e724c	comment	Big Beautiful Woman: Mira is described as having inherited a slight tendency toward plumpness from her father. She apparently carries that weight quite well.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: "Three Questions" centers around the murder of a Commissar who routinely enacted the maximum penalties he could on minor offenses - which basically gave the entire regiment a motive for killing him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Ciaphas Cain / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Cain tells the ringleader of the pro-T'au terrorists he's facing in Traitor's Gambit essentially this; after she gives a long-winded rant about how they plan to use the commandeered yacht in a suicide attack to kill Zyvan and cripple the Imperial forces long enough for the T'au to annex the region, Cain shoots her down by pointing out that even if the terrorists succeed in their half-cocked plan, the chain of command will ensure a new Imperial general takes over and the T'au won't be allowed to gain a foothold. Cain also adds that unlike her comrades, who at least appear to believe in the Greater Good, the woman is nothing but a common thief using the situation to line her own pockets.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_8e07d1b8	comment	Merciful Minion: In the first novel, a riot breaks out on the ship he's assigned to. In the aftermath he can't have anyone executed (since it would destroy morale, and more importantly make him likely to suffer an "accident" on the battlefield) but the captain wants blood (he was in a relationship with one of the military police killed in the riot). So, Cain lets the captain hold a tribunal (the defendants of which are found guilty) and sentences them to "death" by transferring them to a penal legion to die in battle. Later on, Cain is press ganged by Amberley into going on a highly dangerous recon along with the most "expendable" soldiers she can find. Guess who she picks.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Ciaphas Cain / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Inquisitor Vail, and Colonel Kasteen to a lesser extent. Both are quite beautiful and very capable in combat.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Ciaphas Cain / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Strangely combined with Karma Houdini: Governer Fulcher in Choose Your Enemies is revealed to the be the head of Slaanesh cult attempting to summon a daemon with gathered Eldar soulstones. While his death by Emeli who used his body and other cultists to form her own daemonic body is Laser-Guided Karma, his posthumous reputation is Karma Houdini, because the Inquisition's policy of covering up Chaos incursion means that they tell everyone that Fulcher is responsible for killing the Eldar leader with nukes in his orbital estate, thus driving the Eldar off. This is despite 1: it's Amberley's doing in order to cleanse Chaos taint, 2: The Eldar agreed to leave peacefully after Emeli's banished, and 3: Fulcher is responsible for nearly turning the planet into Daemon World.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Even Cain is horrified in Duty Calls by the realization that Killian abandoned children to a Tyranid attack. To a different degree of "innocent", given the setting: Amberley recalls a book from her childhood where she always liked the pictures of burning heretics, and children are taught songs like this: A more conventional example in the aftermath of the fighting in Fidelis in The Emperor's Finest. As Cain and Jurgen head to the starport they pass a group of kids playing in the rubble of a wrecked building, who only break from their game to wave and squee at their passing Salamander.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_91e8cd03	comment	Apocalypse Wow: Cain's Necron tomb-killing promethium bomb in Caves of Ice is powerful enough to launch debris into orbit, where it buffets his fleeing troop ship. That would probably manage to squeak onto the Class 0 minimum requirements were the planet reasonably civilized beyond the sole refinery (which was consumed in the blast entirely).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_92e8c891	comment	Embarrassing Statue: After Cain's liberation of Perlia, a huge statue is erected in his honor. Cain himself thinks it an eyesore, and when the planet is attacked decades later, asks hopefully if the statue's been destroyed.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_93311f8e	comment	The Squadette: The Valhallan 597th regiment Cain finds himself working with in the novels has nearly equal amounts of men and women thanks to incorporating the all-female Valhallan 296th.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_93a38c9b	type	Magic Feather
Ciaphas Cain / int_93a38c9b	comment	Magic Feather: Cain credits his augmetic fingers for his excellent pistol aim, but Inquisitor Vail points out that most people with them lose ability with their hands. She suspects the real reason is all the time he spent training with a Space Marine right after getting them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_94721d54	type	Your Favorite
Ciaphas Cain / int_94721d54	comment	Your Favorite: At the end of Caves of Ice, Cain has spent the last several days helping Amberley deal with the aftermath of his discovery, and destruction, of the Necron tomb. The last night before he leaves, he takes the liberty of ordering food, because she's been busy; he gets her ackenberry sorbet, which he indicated "hadn't been hard to remember" was one of her favorite foods. (Amberley, editing as usual, puts an abrupt end to Cain's narrative at this point, because though she admits that Cain continues for several more paragraphs, "it only covers personal matters of no interest to anyone else.")
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9515716	type	Working for a Body Upgrade
Ciaphas Cain / int_9515716	comment	Working for a Body Upgrade: A large chunk of The Greater Good is set on a heavily-polluted forgeworld. "The Tithe Worker's Survival Guide" discusses the need for body augmentation to survive work on the surface (which pays better) and suggests workers talk to their supervisors about the procedure to repay the cost of those augmetics. Most (though thankfully not all) of the Adeptus Mechanicus in Vainglorious are collaborating with the villains in the hopes of becoming fully robotic like the Necrons themselves. Cain doesn't believe they'll hold up their end of the deal, and the Big Bad confirms he couldn't even if he wanted to.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Ciaphas Cain / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Cain considers Lt. Sulla to be one, worried that in her eagerness to smite the enemies of the God-Emperor she is going to get herself and (more importantly) Cain killed. He also holds this opinion about Sisters of Battle, considering them so fanatical as to be unreliable at holding to a plan, saying the best you can do is point at the enemy, yell "Heretic!", and let them do their thing. In Duty Calls, Amberley's footnote to one such remark notes that though Sulla's platoons tend to have slightly higher casualty rates, they have even higher morale, because they get results. The Nusquam 1st (and the PDF they recruited from) were a entire regiment of these. This green regiment and their equally green Commissar considered the more effective tactics used by the Valhallan 597th to be acts of cowardice, ignoring Col. Kasteen's pointing out that the Valhallans were doing twice as much damage as the Nusquams while taking only a third as many casualties. They wised up eventually.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_95d5fa0e	type	Area 51
Ciaphas Cain / int_95d5fa0e	comment	Later, in The Greater Good, Cain also pays several visits to a secret Mechanicus research facility named Regio Quinquaginta Unus - or, in plain english: Area 51.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9620c3a1	comment	Cain considers Lt. Sulla to be one, worried that in her eagerness to smite the enemies of the God-Emperor she is going to get herself and (more importantly) Cain killed. He also holds this opinion about Sisters of Battle, considering them so fanatical as to be unreliable at holding to a plan, saying the best you can do is point at the enemy, yell "Heretic!", and let them do their thing. In Duty Calls, Amberley's footnote to one such remark notes that though Sulla's platoons tend to have slightly higher casualty rates, they have even higher morale, because they get results.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_970c790a	comment	Most (though thankfully not all) of the Adeptus Mechanicus in Vainglorious are collaborating with the villains in the hopes of becoming fully robotic like the Necrons themselves. Cain doesn't believe they'll hold up their end of the deal, and the Big Bad confirms he couldn't even if he wanted to.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
Ciaphas Cain / int_973291cd	comment	People's tendency to swear a lot, especially Cain. One such instance in The Greater Good has him thinking that if he is about to die, that at least it would be among friends and that he should say something heroic. All he manages is yell "Frak off!" to a Tyranid.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9751f6eb	type	Tanks, but No Tanks
Ciaphas Cain / int_9751f6eb	comment	Tanks, but No Tanks: An In-Universe example in Duty Calls. A news report claims Cain used a tank to stop what was essentially the Hindenburg carrying an awful lot of promethium from crashing into a city. In reality, he used a Chimera (an APC). However, the Chimera's multi-role design and the Imperial Guard using slight variants on the same chassis for every common tracked vehicle in their arsenal muddies the issue a bit. In the game an APC is considered a tank, which gives them the very ability he used.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: For the Emperor, Duty Calls, The Last Ditch and the short stories Fight or Flight and Sector Thirteen are all campaigns against Tyranids and/or their Genestealer infiltrators. Cain's Last Stand starts with fighting against Tyranids. The Greater Good features them as a Greater-Scope Villain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_988dc0fd	type	Living Gasbag
Ciaphas Cain / int_988dc0fd	comment	Living Gasbag: An offhand remark in Death or Glorynote right after Cain managed to get himself and Jurgen ejected from their troopship in an Escape Pod mentions skywhales, which the accompanying footnote explains as a creature from Blease's World that lives on airborne pollen and produces hydrogen gas as a byproduct of its metabolism. The creatures are quite placid and the planet's human inhabitants have domesticated several subspecies to turn them into Zeppelins from Another World.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_98f5de00	type	Let Me Get This Straight...
Ciaphas Cain / int_98f5de00	comment	Let Me Get This Straight...: Cain invokes the spirit of this trope in For The Emperor, while counting the cost of the riot between the 296th and the 301st.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Ciaphas Cain / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Commissar Donal.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Ciaphas Cain / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Plot- and story-specific instances include: Cain has two augmetic fingers due to having the originals shot off by a glancing hit from a Gauss flayer. Janni Drere has augmetic lungs which are noted to give her breathing an audibly mechanical sound. Amberley's companion Caractacus Mott is mentioned to be mostly augmetic from the neck down; his first appearance has him effectively ignore being shot in the leg by a lasgun.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Ciaphas Cain / int_99ddfcec	comment	It's mentioned in a footnote that the 12th Artillery, who Cain was stationed with in the short story that began the series (where he met Jurgen), was among the troops sent in. The question of whether Cain made a social call to his "old friends" is a further reference to Major Toren Divas, who Cain would probably rather avoid (thanks to what happened in For The Emperor).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9a004414	comment	Industrial World: Quadravidia is a Forge World depending on the proximity of Imperial fleets dropping by to rearm themselves for its protection. Ciaphas uses this as a bargaining chip to force them to allow a T'au diplomat on the planet: since they clearly don't need the Guard's help in fighting off the approaching Tyranids, they'll find somewhere else to make themselves useful and leave the cogboys to deal with the 'nids themselves.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Ciaphas Cain / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Maxim Sorel, who ends up stabbing a man to death in a brawl simply "because he didn't see any reason not to". Following the court-martial for the above infraction he is sentenced to death by taking on a suicide mission alongside Cain. This does not stop Sorel saving Cain's life and makes him one of two convicts out of the original five who do not go rogue or get subverted by the enemy. Which doesn't leave a lot of options.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Ciaphas Cain / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The Planetary Defense Forces on Imperial worlds are often disparagingly referred to as the "Imperial speed bump", a force that hopes it will hold long enough against any attackers for the Imperial Guard, Space Marines, or Sisters of Battle to show up and turn the tide. In Death or Glory, however, when separated from his unit by a mishap with an Escape Pod, Cain and Jurgen form up a convoy of refugees protected mainly by the remnants of destroyed PDF units, including a lone Leman Russ main battle tank and Earthshaker self-propelled howitzer, and leads them for months on a successful fighting retreat to Imperial lines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Ciaphas Cain / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The Salamander Cain often travels in is frequently equipped with a flamer, and it gets used frequently. at the end of Caves of Ice, several million gallons of promethium are ignited to stop a Necron assault. "Last Night at the Resplendent" ends with the title building engulfed in flames after Jurgen uses the Salamander's flamer on the genestealer broodlord resident there.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Ciaphas Cain / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: In the first book, this is the attitude the male soldiers of the pre-597th amalgamated regiment have to their female counterparts after the two regiments have been merged (a brawl breaks out because the 296 wanted to use their regimental crockery to celebrate their founding day, which a male soldier undiplomatically referred to as "some mincing tart's front parlour tea service"). Even Broklaw has this attitude towards Kasteen (at least partly because he resents her being promoted above him on a technicality). Cain naturally spends the first act resolving this. The female members of the 597th, including their Colonel, get this from a Tallarn regiment in The Traitor's Hand. The fact that one of the female 597s looked for, challenged, and utterly dominated, their prize fighter didn't change this view. It gets gender-inverted in The Last Ditch when the matriarchal locals are extremely matronizing to the male officers; even Cain has a hard time being taken seriously, and the Governor makes several comments suggesting he and Major Broklaw are just there as Colonel Kasteen's eye candy.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Ciaphas Cain / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Cain's opinion of nobility in general and planetary governors in particular. It's played with throughout the series, but especially with Mira in The Emperor's Finest; while she's certainly arrogant, pushy, dense, and condescending, she's also capable of handling herself in a firefight, among other things.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9cc1e9ec	comment	Unwanted False Faith: Cain never found out, but one of the Tallarn witnesses to a battle where he beat down a Greater Daemon wrote a book about the experience and started a minor branch of the Imperial faith that worships him as a physical manifestation of the Emperor's will. Please note the words "minor branch" and not "heretical cult." This group was supported by the official religion of the Imperium.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Ciaphas Cain / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Cain deconstructs the usefulness of the Bolt pistol in The Last Ditch, noting that it uses physical rounds which can be eaten up fairly quickly, while the laspistol he favors can be recharged and by pretty much any means. In addition, he points out that its appeal among Commissars is mostly due to it being loud and flashy. In a footnote, Amberley says that this is partly why Orks are attracted to Bolters, but she also notes that a Commissar would take offense to being compared to an Ork.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Ciaphas Cain / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: In Echoes of the Tomb, Magos Killian shoves Cain out of the way of a Necron Gauss Rifle. Cain has to watch as the Magos is vaporized, while clutching his hand that lost two fingers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ciaphas Cain / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In The Emperor's Finest, the assembled military leaders of the Serendipita system discuss possible threats related to the joint Astartes/Mechanicus expedition to a genestealer-infested space hulk taking place in their space. They agree that the Astartes themselves are probably safe, but a.) the Mechanicus tend to be way too crazy about the prospect of archeotech to take proper precautions, and b.) the Astartes salvage crew also includes a large number of chapter serfs which are entirely human. The Greater Good, set 60 years later, reveals that they were right to be worried on both counts. During The Greater Good, Cain notes with surprise how few cybernetic augmentations Magos Kildhar has, seeing as the higher in rank most members of the Adeptus Mechanicus get the less flesh they try to have. It's because she's been a Manchurian Agent for the genestealers for decades, and going in for augmentation would reveal her tainted genes.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9d473705	comment	Official Presidential Transport: In Traitor's Gambit, the Planetary Governor of Deepwater travels in his official space yacht, the Wavecrest.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Ciaphas Cain / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: A couple to Gaunt's Ghosts: A small blink-and-you'll-miss-it one in Duty Calls. When riding in a limousine, Cain notices a small cabinet made of naalwood, and comments that it was probably worth more than the aircraft he rode in on. This is because naalwood only comes from the planet Tanith, which was destroyed by Chaos half a millennia previously, and so is very rare and very expensive. There is an earlier nod in one of Vail's footnotes. In response to Cain making a comment about how he always gets command of ad hoc units on special duty, she comments that giving commissars command of special task forces is common practice, referencing one commissar who commanded a regiment for some years, though he was given the dual rank of Colonel to ease the paperwork. Commissar Forres hastily retracts an accusation of cowardice in The Last Ditch after she learned that the last time a Commissar insulted Colonel Kasteen, Cain challenged said Commissar to a duel. This was Tomas Beije, towards the end of The Traitor's Hand. The Greater Good has several; Cain mentions adjusting his hat to a "suitably heroic angle". He was shown how to do this by Mira in The Emperor's Finest. The plot is also set off by the T'au remembering him favourably from the events of For the Emperor. It's mentioned in a footnote that the 12th Artillery, who Cain was stationed with in the short story that began the series (where he met Jurgen), was among the troops sent in. The question of whether Cain made a social call to his "old friends" is a further reference to Major Toren Divas, who Cain would probably rather avoid (thanks to what happened in For The Emperor).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
Ciaphas Cain / int_9e062ca3	comment	In For the Emperor, the first book in the series, Jurgen offers to go with Cain on his quasi-Suicide Mission, surprising Cain with his loyalty and thoughtfulness. Unfortunately, as the series went on and more stories came out covering events before this book, we learn that Cain and Jurgen have been practicially joined at the hip almost from day one, and it's an extremely rare event where Jurgen doesn't follow Cain into battle to watch his back. Making Cain surprised by something Jurgen has done dozens of times before.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9e1e1e94	type	Fantastic Livestock
Ciaphas Cain / int_9e1e1e94	comment	Fantastic Livestock: Duty Calls has the world of Periremunda (Canis Latinicus for "Lost World") which uses sauropods as livestock. Unfortunately, the world falls under attack by Tyranids, and the immense farm animals provide them a huge amount of biomatter to convert into more Tyranid organisms.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Ciaphas Cain / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Jenit Sulla gets around a cabal of them in The Last Ditch, among other things pressing back into service a small flotilla of shuttles that had been erroneously declared destroyed (to the relief of the crews, who had become Un-person) via her authority as an Imperial Guard officer under a martial law declaration. The situation is fairly absurd even for the setting; the shuttles were earmarked to help the regiment disembark; the ship the regiment was on crashed on arriving at the system; the administratum then declared them lost with the ship, even though they never left the spaceport. They then ordered the ships, which officially didn't exist, to vacate their berths to make room for ships that exist.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Ciaphas Cain / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: The PDF in Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_9f3857d5	type	Draw Aggro
Ciaphas Cain / int_9f3857d5	comment	Draw Aggro: Cain and Jurgen confuse a combat servitor in Death or Glory by alternating shots at the thing. Each time it targets one of them, the other attacks and the servitor's targeting systems reset onto the new threat.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a04fe73e	type	Imposter Forgot One Detail
Ciaphas Cain / int_a04fe73e	comment	Imposter Forgot One Detail: In "The Little Things", Cain realizes that the man bringing room service to Amberley's room isn't really a hotel employee when he notices that the man's uniform didn't fit, when every other employee of the hotel he'd seen was wearing perfectly tailored outfits.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
Ciaphas Cain / int_a0b0840c	comment	More Expendable Than You: Cain's professed motivation in his very first adventure. Also inverted in that Cain's true intentions were exactly the opposite. Brought up in The Traitor's Hand, when Cain claims that the Imperium needs its generals but can always get another commissar. Zyvan disagrees: "Not like you, Ciaphas," a comment which genuinely surprises Cain. Similarly, in Duty Calls Cain expresses surprise that a psyker tried to assassinate him rather than Zyvan or the planetary Arbites chief. Amberley notes he doesn't seem to realize he's so popular with the Imperial Guard that his death would seriously damage morale. Another example is partially acknowledged by Amberley. Cain is extremely useful as an asset to the Imperium as a whole, but competent heroes (whether or not their reputation is deserved) aren't especially rare. Ironically, Jurgen, as a blank, is far rarer and more valuable (at least, to the Inquisition).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
Ciaphas Cain / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Cain really wishes he weren't (at least not the "legend" bit).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Ciaphas Cain / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Inquisitor Vail gets to pull one on Cain in Duty Calls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up:
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The brainwashed Battle Sisters have a terminal instance of this once Varan's hold on them is broken and they realize that they were bodyguards to a Chaos agent.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Ciaphas Cain / int_a1b76006	comment	Lio Trevellyan of Perlia, from Cain's Last Stand, who is shown to be competent, understanding, and possessed of Nerves of Steel when the forces of Chaos invade his home. Sadly, he's overmatched and forcibly turned to the side of Chaos Warmaster Varan the Undefeatable, doomed to be remembered as a traitor to his world. Fortunately, in the aftermath, his niece and heir Illyria ends up being just as competent as he hoped she would be.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Ciaphas Cain / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: In The Last Ditch, "Jinxie" Penlan accidentally discharges her lasgun while using its buttstock to try to unjam another weapon. Fortunately it hits an Ork (which then crashes its flier into the middle of a swarm of Orks), so it works out for her in her typical fashion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
Ciaphas Cain / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: As a favoured trope of the Imperium, Gratuitous Latin showing up should hardly be a surprise. Most notably in Caves of Ice, where Cain and the tech-priest Logash are about to flood the mines with liquid prometheum from the refinery tanks. Important background note: Logash's superior Ernulph led a group of tech-priests into the mines a couple chapters ago to worship the Machine God in the middle of the Necron tomb and got himself flayed for his trouble, and Logash was the only survivor of that bit of idiocy. Later, in The Greater Good, Cain also pays several visits to a secret Mechanicus research facility named Regio Quinquaginta Unus - or, in plain english: Area 51.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a47340fe	type	One Riot, One Ranger
Ciaphas Cain / int_a47340fe	comment	One Riot, One Ranger: In The Devil You Know the Guard sends just Cain to save a flagging war, although Jurgen still tags along and Cain wrily notes that the supply drop he arrived with was probably more useful. He ends up wiping out the invading force almost singlehandedly through the usual cascade of unlikely events. His main given reason for seeking assignment with the 597th is because in his days as an independent Commissar command kept doing stuff like this to him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Ciaphas Cain / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In Caves of Ice, when they have to burn a body to keep the Orks from realizing they're there, even Cain seems perturbed by it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Ciaphas Cain / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: The fresh-out-of-the-schola Commissar Forres seems more concerned with driving troops to show their valor and be willing to sacrifice themselves for the Emperor than actual efficient strategy. Kasteen calls her out on this, pointing out that using actual tactics tends to result in higher damage inflicted on the enemy while incurring fewer casualties, which in the long run counts more than just trying to show off one's courage.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a7078cb5	type	Bullethole Door
Ciaphas Cain / int_a7078cb5	comment	Bullethole Door: Jurgen's melta (a weapon designed to shoot through armored tanks) comes in handy for these.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a7544a0f	type	Beneath the Earth
Ciaphas Cain / int_a7544a0f	comment	Beneath the Earth: Cain often ends up in these types of environments. He's also the perfect man for the job with his "tunnel senses," much to his discomfort. Amberley notes that while he often claims to be from a Hive World, she can't find any record of such a thing. Of course, this being the Imperium of "lose a planet because of rounding errors," that's not so far-fetched.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a76d6304	type	Data Pad
Ciaphas Cain / int_a76d6304	comment	Data Pad: Frequent mention of dataslates is made throughout the books. In particular, Cain occasionally sees Jurgen looking at a porno slate, and according to Amberley, the entire "Cain Archive" was him putting all his adventures onto a single dataslate.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Ciaphas Cain / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Also subverted in Cain's Last Stand with Bursar Brasker, who's also been using Obfuscating Stupidity "to conform to other people's expectations" and turns out to be something of a kindred spirit to Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a839608e	type	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Ciaphas Cain / int_a839608e	comment	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines: The plot of Death Or Glory has Cain and Jurgen land on the wrong side of a land bridge that's the only link between the ork-held continent and the Imperial Guard. He manages to make contact with survivors and by the end is leading a creditable army.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Ciaphas Cain / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Cain explicitly denies believing it before admitting that he can, decades later, remember every detail of the first time he saw Amberley Vail.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_a9b10a62	type	Think Nothing of It
Ciaphas Cain / int_a9b10a62	comment	Think Nothing of It: Cain disclaims his own heroism, frequently, being aware that it will add the charm of modesty to his legend, and occasionally in an unsuccessful attempt to let him get by them and do something else. Sometimes, he is actually annoyed that Jurgen gets none of the credit he deserves, with all of it going to Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
Ciaphas Cain / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: An offhand comment from Cain in The Emperor's Finest reveals that some Guard regiments use cats as attack animals and cavalry.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Ciaphas Cain / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The xenophobia and authoritarianism of the Imperium are on full display, though Sandy Mitchell tends to use it for Black Comedy instead of plain grimdark. Now and again, especially when Cain is up against the T'au. Apparently, egalitarianism and open-mindedness freak him out, as you would expect from an Imperial citizen. From the same book, he also seems approving when the Arbites show up to beat the crap out of a handful of troublesome but otherwise peaceful pro-T'au humans. While subtle, there are a few casual lines thrown in that shows Cain has the typical xenophobic view of the T'au expected from most Imperials. Relatively speaking, he is still very tolerant of them, which can largely be attributed to professional respect and the overall lack of instances where the T'au have actively tried to kill him. Granted, as a well-connected Commissar, he might also be privy to the knowledge that the Greater Good is not nice, which could also influence his views of them. Another example in Cain's Last Stand: glancing around the Schola grounds, Cain notes a black-painted truck bearing a load of prisoners for interrogation, execution and live-fire exercises, decides all is well and gets back to work. There's also the line about looking forward to a brisk round of target practice against unarmed demonstrators, but that one was probably a joke. He mentions organizing firing squads very casually as part of his duties in one of the short stories. Cain also appears to believe wholeheartedly in machine spirits and the rituals of the Mechanicus, although he doesn't care much for individual techpriests most of the time. (Given the two Necron tombs they hacked off while he was around that we know of, it's hard to blame him.) Finding a stolen Imperial-made gun mounted on an orkish buggy, he wonders if it will still work now that its spirit "has been corrupted by being forced into servitude". When it does, he reckons it's because it remains loyal to the Emperor. In the same book he makes a big deal about the courage and self-sacrifice of an escape pod's auto-pilot computer. He's quite put off by the secular way the T'au and their loyalists use their machinery, and wonders why the machine-spirits of the T'au don't simply stop working "out of sheer pique." In Cain's Last Stand, he sees that the Chaos forces are using Imperial wargear with Chaos runes daubed over the aquilae. He immediately decides that it will be too dangerous to ever put those weapons back into Imperial hands because they've effectively converted to Chaos, and orders them destroyed. Amberley Vail usually comes across as a fairly reasonable, likeable person. And then she mentions, in Caves of Ice, how she can never hold back a smile when looking at the amusing expressions on the faces of heretics being burned alive in a book from her childhood. She also seems quite pleased (enough to unsettle Cain) in For The Emperor when the T'au seem unaware that their wounded troopers they've just rescued are probably infected by Genestealers, and shows no inclination to warn them. In The Greater Good, when the Mechanicus finally comes clean about their Genestealer breeding/research program, one character at the conference points out that all the original implantees were male. Female prisoners scheduled for conversion to servitors were turned over to the implanted men so more hybrids could be produced, it's implied via rape. Though uncomfortable at the measures taken to study the Genestealers none of the Imperials at the table have any real problem with this although a visiting T'au diplomat is clearly appalled. He's even more horrified when he admits that the gain might be worth the horrible cost, only to learn the Adeptus Mechanicus don't care at all about the people and only think of their output. Then there's the nursery rhyme, "The tracks on the Land Raider crush the heretics, crush the heretics, crush the heretics..."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
Ciaphas Cain / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: The planetary governor in Old Soldiers Never Die was a journalist descended from a branch of the ruling family that had renounced any direct involvement with politics. After the various abuses of the main branch caused a civil uprising that required the intervention of the Guard to restore order, they put him in charge because he was the one member of the ruling house that had nothing to do with the mess they had to clean up.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ab1064b3	type	Modesty Towel
Ciaphas Cain / int_ab1064b3	comment	Modesty Towel: Subverted in "The Little Things". The meat of the story takes place within the first couple of minutes after Amberley gets out of the shower, and she greets Cain wearing only a towel. However, she has to use the towel as a weapon to stop one of the kidnappers from shooting Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Ciaphas Cain / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The sorceress Emili sees the core of indulgent self-interest and potential for greatness in young Cain's heart and tries to convert him to worshipping Slaanesh, returning later as a classic Woman Scorned when he rejects her advances. He never figured this out, thinking he was just meant to be a sacrifice and that her later attention was just sour grapes because he won.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ab6e01e	type	Clean Cut
Ciaphas Cain / int_ab6e01e	comment	Clean Cut: In Duty Calls, Cain manages to score one of these on an assassin using his chainsword.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ab940e63	type	Robo Speak
Ciaphas Cain / int_ab940e63	comment	Robo Speak: Lampshaded in Cain's Last Stand, where he actually uses a trio of combat servitors' tendency to repeat their directives out loud to track their locations.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_abb15066	type	Corrupt Quartermaster
Ciaphas Cain / int_abb15066	comment	Corrupt Quartermaster: In "The Smallest Detail", Jurgen and a local investigator catch a quartermaster who's selling food and weapons on the black market and fudging the records to hide this. Jurgen was content to ignore it, considering it harmless and so common as to be unremarkable, until the quartermaster panicked and tried to have him killed.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Ciaphas Cain / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: When Cain faces off against Mawlocs in The Last Ditch he brings up a bit from the fluff about people being eaten whole by them, to suffer a slow, agonizing death as they are digested alive. Amberley then notes that in actuality anyone eaten by a Mawloc would actually die rather quickly by suffocation or crushing... before admitting that probably isn't much of a reassurance.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Ciaphas Cain / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Cain gets into this situation early in The Greater Good when on the losing side of a conflict with the T'au, separated from friendly forces, his salamander wrecked, Jurgen wounded, and surrounded by a team of closing Crisis Battlesuits with only his laspistol and no cover to hide behind, and he realizes that there is no way he is getting out of this one. Turns out that the T'au just wanted to ask him specifically to use his influence to get the beleaguered Imperial forces to agree to a cease-fire. Cain gets this bad in Caves of Ice while trying to advocate evacuating Simia Orichalcae and calling in a naval flotilla to wipe out the Necron tomb they found below the surface. The chief Mechanicus representative points out that even if they call in an orbital strike, it will take months for the flotilla to arrive, by which time the Necrons could be long gone. Kasteen and Broklaw agree that they have to destroy the warp portal inside the tomb to prevent that before they evacuate, and Cain, being one of only a handful who knows the tomb's location, grimly realises who's going to have to lead the demolition team back down there. In terms of affairs for the Imperium, the end of The Last Ditch provides one: based on Cain's findings on Nusquan, Amberley deduces that the Tyranids he encountered on that world had been in hibernation for over a thousand years, making them far older than either the Imperium's official first contact with the Tyranids or early encounters recorded by the Inquisition, suggesting that not only could the Tyranids have penetrated further into the galaxy than previously feared, other worlds in the Imperium could also have similar Tyranid presences in hibernation unbeknowst to them, the aliens simply waiting for others of their kind to awaken them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
Ciaphas Cain / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: The Imperium being what it is, the 597th often has to declare martial law in order to get the bureaucrats out of the way (typically because Cain is empowered to shoot them if they don't).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
Ciaphas Cain / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Used by Cain after he suffers any apparent injury. Though subverted, because he knows that it will trigger admiration and sympathy in others, who will encourage him to take it easy for a while, which he will grudgingly go along with while inwardly reflecting that he just manipulated them into letting him stay out of danger without losing face. Of course, these novels being what they are, the universe contrives to put him in even more danger anyway.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
Ciaphas Cain / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: The first step in creating a daemonhost appears to be providing a dead body for the daemon to move into. In "The Beguiling", a Slaaneshi cult goes the Human Sacrifice route; in The Last Ditch a daemon possesses a servitor instead of one of the living crew members on the bridge. The Traitor's Hand strongly implies that Emeli sucked the souls out of her cultists before she could refashion their bodies into a suitable form for her.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Ciaphas Cain / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Cain, in his comments on other characters. Amberley frequently does this in her footnotes and in her comments about some of the non-Cain texts she inserts pages from. Colonel Kasteen doesn't take crap from anyone, but is especially short with Obstructive Bureaucrats: In Caves of Ice, the administrator of a mining facility protests that Kasteen's defense plan presents an unacceptable risk of damage and demands that an alternative strategy be formulated; Kasteen responds that the administrator is welcome to "go outside and ask the orks to go away, if she thought that would help."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ae475b01	type	A True Story in My Universe
Ciaphas Cain / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: The series is presented as a group of extracts from Cain's memoirs edited by Inquisitor Vail. As such, he downplays his reputation for heroism, while she notes that he's being too modest. Vail also notes places where Cain seems to have mis-remembered the times of events, adds context and hindsight and edits out anything too specific about their relationship.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ae5ab58b	type	Luck-Based Search Technique
Ciaphas Cain / int_ae5ab58b	comment	Luck-Based Search Technique: Most of Cain's most pivotal discoveries are made when he tries to run away from something else. Another notable practitioner of this is "Jinxie" Penlan, who discovered an ambull tunnel in The Caves of Ice by falling through the floor into it and once triggered a landmine by throwing away an empty food tin.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_aee65648	type	Phobia
Ciaphas Cain / int_aee65648	comment	Phobia: Not a phobia, per se, but Cain is utterly terrified of Necrons, and absolutely will not confront them unless there is no other choice available (see Badass Decay in the YMMV tab). He also fears the Dark Eldar, often cringing from remembering the time he spent as a prisoner in a Reaver.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_af54b81d	type	Pillow Pistol
Ciaphas Cain / int_af54b81d	comment	Pillow Pistol: Amberley says Cain does this everywhere.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
Ciaphas Cain / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: Amberley's power armor is gilded so much it looks like it's made entirely of gold from distance.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Ciaphas Cain / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Cain has a few. He enough says that someone did something "neat as you please." Due to his pessimism, he often says, "my earlier assessment of the situation turned out to be an exaggeration and was on the pessimistic side, but not by as much as I would have hoped." He'll often say "the coin dropped" when he puts the pieces together and has a "Eureka!" Moment. If he thinks something is likely, his narration will say "It's credits to carrots."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Ciaphas Cain / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: Explicitly invoked and averted. Once Cain claims that a plasma bolt missed by a millimeter. Amberley points out that he would have suffered flash burns that close, so he must have been exaggerating. Played more realistically in "Traitor's Gambit"; he winds up shooting someone with a plasma pistol he had stuffed into his coat earlier, without drawing it first. Cain mentions being burned in the process, but since the alternative was to be left behind on an exploding ship, he doesn't dwell on the injury.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b0bce7aa	type	Selective Obliviousness
Ciaphas Cain / int_b0bce7aa	comment	Selective Obliviousness: Mira, with whom Cain has spent the last few weeks being very close with, brings up with Cain how she is considering returning to her homeworld with a consort who is a heroic champion of the Imperium, discussing how this would be advantageous for her for succession and political reasons. Cain agrees with this assessment, showing support for the idea while completely ignorant that she was talking about him (he thought she was looking to bag a Space Marine), when this is otherwise transparent to the audience. Amberley lampshades Cain's missing this, saying that his experience with women to that point had been more "broad than deep", and he did not yet have much experience with the dynastic considerations of Imperial nobility. Also, he knows he can't simply resign his commission with the Commissariat. If he were to attempt it, they would shoot him, and not even a planetary governor would be able to stop them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
Ciaphas Cain / int_b15b6a35	comment	Cosmic Plaything: Cain repeatedly comments that if the Emperor is actually watching him, He has a sick sense of humor.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b15f2cdb	type	Expospeak
Ciaphas Cain / int_b15f2cdb	comment	Expospeak: Vail's footnotes frequently serve as this. During a briefing in The Traitor's Hand, Cain gives a concise but informative discussion of the Chaos Gods, focusing on Khorne and Slaanesh as their minions are relevant to the story.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b1ce5419	type	The Brigadier
Ciaphas Cain / int_b1ce5419	comment	The Brigadier: Lord General Zyvan.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Ciaphas Cain / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: in the first story Cain implied Jurgen had died sometime between his adventures and the writing of the memoirs. In later books, Jurgen was there for Cain's funeral.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b2cb7993	type	Brains and Brawn
Ciaphas Cain / int_b2cb7993	comment	Brains and Brawn: Played with. Cain is undoubtedly more clever than Jurgen, while Jurgen is much stronger than Cain. However, Cain's such an excellent swordsman that Jurgen can't even compare. Cain is able to best a Chaos Marine (well, more like "barely fend him off while making it look easy", mostly by taunting said Marine) in melee, an Ork Warboss (by shooting him in the face) and loads of pureblood tyranid genestealers (still in a very probable way), which results in Cain actually doing all the melee fighting, while Jurgen dispatches distracted enemies with heavy weaponry. And while Jurgen may be Book Dumb, he's certainly a talented scrounger. Also, Cain is an amazing shot with a laspistol from the hip, while Jurgen is a much better sniper.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Ciaphas Cain / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Of all possible people, Magos Felicia Tayber, an Adeptus Mechanius tech-priestess. note The Adeptus Mechanius prefer to rise above emotion—or like to think so—to be more like machines. Whom Cain may or may not have slept with...
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b334402b	type	Paperwork Punishment
Ciaphas Cain / int_b334402b	comment	Paperwork Punishment: Discussed. Cain once mentions that, theoretically, his authority as an Imperial Guard commissar to execute underperforming personnel extends even to Lord General Zyvan. However, besides the fact Cain has no reason to want to, the paperwork he'd have to fill out after executing a Lord General Militant would be a special kind of Hell all by itself.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b3687765	type	Verbal Judo
Ciaphas Cain / int_b3687765	comment	Verbal Judo: In For the Emperor, Cain defuses a riot in progress, when everyone's attention happens to focus on him so that he can't just sneak out, by confusing the participants by suddenly giving orders to clean up the mess.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b3a4e20e	type	Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder
Ciaphas Cain / int_b3a4e20e	comment	Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: The superiors in this case may be completely innocent, but Colonel Mostrue often seems a bit too quick to call in artillery strikes close to where Cain is stationed during Cain's time with the artillery unit, and also frequently gets Cain sent off into dangerous situations. Cain suspects that Mostrue is aware of the fact that his first great triumph was really just a desperate attempt to get to safety and abandon the battery to its fate, but whatever Mostrue's intentions, his repeated survival of adverse circumstances only adds to the double-edged sword which is his reputation. Of course, everyone else in high command does this too, they're just not aware of the fact Cain really would rather they didn't.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b406648	type	Singing in the Shower
Ciaphas Cain / int_b406648	comment	Singing in the Shower: In "The Little Things", when Cain enters Amberley's hotel room, he can hear her singing in the shower, and hearkens back to when he first met her in her undercover role as, essentially, a nightclub performer.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
Ciaphas Cain / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: Cain is on the receiving end of one of these in The Caves of Ice. Jurgen's melta is frequently used for this.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Ciaphas Cain / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Played with in Duty Calls, as the governor's speech is a complete failure (and not even rehearsed; he seemed under the impression it was the rehearsal), demonstrating just how out-of-it the governor is (and with a name like Merkin W. Pismire the Younger, take a wild guess who he's supposed to be...).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
Ciaphas Cain / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: Cain is fully aware that Magot and Grifen are lesbians, but occasionally goes considerably out of his way to not notice they're a couple. It's possible he does so to maintain Plausible Deniability to avoid having to break them up, as he does much the same thing for a heterosexual couple in the 597th as well.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Ciaphas Cain / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Governor Merkin W. Pismire the Younger's address is a stab at George W. Bush. Also internally: Vail can't seem to resist taking the occasional stab at the other Inquisitorial Ordos (especially the Ordo Malleus) in the footnotes. In The Traitor's Hand, an overeager young soldier cries "Come on, men! Do you want to live forever?" before charging a tank. Cain, upon hearing this, groans about what a vapid and totally unrealistic clichÃ© it is. He's also amazed when it seems to inspire his companions rather than causing them to run the frak away. The Last Ditch makes fun of the Tyranid Pyrovore, a.k.a. the worst unit in the game. To wit, Cain takes out a huge Tyranid swarm by killing the pyrovores instead.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Ciaphas Cain / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Lady General Jenit Sulla, to a certain extent. In battle, she's everything Cain is: decisive, (presumably) a deft hand with weapons and charismatic enough to get people to follow her into certain death. Both of them achieve high position and a fair amount of fame. Personally, she's everything Cain is not: selfless, dutiful and loyal. She does from selflessness what Cain does for manipulation. And the best part? He created her. It's just after their first conversation in For The Emperor that she begins her climb towards glory, spurred on by his (fake) confidence in her. And she does it by imitating him. And her rise through the ranks began when he made an offhand comment that unlike all the platoon leaders of fifth company, she hadn't dropped the ball when forced to take over for her wounded company commander. Colonel Kasteen interpreted this as a recommendation and breveted her to captain. She's also a terrible writer compared to Cain, often going on in excessive prose. Amberley often comments about this to her chagrin.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
Ciaphas Cain / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: In general, Cain seems to be pretty cunning about this: he tries to build up trust with his subordinates because he knows that the more they appreciate him, the less likely they are to leave him hanging in a firefight. Ironically, as Amberley points out, it never occurs to Cain that this trust is genuine rather than fearing him more than the enemy.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Ciaphas Cain / int_b707726f	comment	As might be expected from him, Cain takes full advantage of this trope in The Traitor's Hand when he needs to get past a barricaded group of Slaaneshi cultists guarding a Daemon-summoning ritual. By chance a group of Chaos Space Marines in service to Khorne have the same goal and choose this exact moment to show up. Cain decides to hang back and let them break the barricade for him and distract the cultists. Unsurprisingly, Beije calls him out on this and calls him a coward, to which he calmly suggests Beije lead the way. Beije doesn't take him up on this offer.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
Ciaphas Cain / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: A downplayed version occurs during a friendly match with the Techmarine Drumon.note Drumon is in armor and allows Cain to turn on his chainsword; meanwhile Drumon wields a power sword with its power field deactivated, as Cain is in his commissarial greatcoat Cain nicks Drumon's armor with his chainsword and is horrified at having damaged a centuries-old relic, especially since he's a guest of the Reclaimers. However, Drumon reassures him that it's just a nick and he intends to keep it to remind himself of the dangers of complacency.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Ciaphas Cain / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Lieutenant Sulla is either laudably eager to destroy the enemies of the Emperor, or a borderline Leeroy Jenkins, depending on whom you ask. Cain definitely leans toward the latter view, but her eventual promotion to general officer rank, and more significantly her troops' high morale and confidence in her abilities, suggests that the former is more accurate. And the casualty rates in her units (which are the highest in the regiment) suggest the latter. The units' success rates and correspondingly high morale, meanwhile, suggest the former. Magot, in one instance, led her subordinates into a melee charge at Khornate cultists, And slaughtered them without taking any casualties.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b7fea698	type	Emotion Bomb
Ciaphas Cain / int_b7fea698	comment	Emotion Bomb: A psyker in Duty Calls uses despair, Slaaneshi cultists spread lust around wherever they are, and Necron pariahs are "shrouded in horror"... over and above the reasonable reaction to Necrons, that is.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b83aeca9	type	Lantern Jaw of Justice
Ciaphas Cain / int_b83aeca9	comment	Lantern Jaw of Justice: Most of the covers have Cain's Commissar Cap obscure the top half of his head, leaving only his Judge Dredd-esque chin to inspire the masses.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
Ciaphas Cain / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: Cain wears gloves. Technically they're part of his uniform, but they also serve to hide his prosthetic fingers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_b8f395f	type	Royally Screwed Up
Ciaphas Cain / int_b8f395f	comment	Royally Screwed Up: Cain assumes that this applies to all planetary governors until proven wrong. Going into book ten, roughly half of all planetary governors to be depicted are incompetent, evil, or involuntarily corrupted by Chaos, so he might have a point.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Ciaphas Cain / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: It's surprising how close Cain and Vail are—both are apparently (by their own words) high ranking exceptions to the stereotypical, fanatical commissars and inquisitors who appear to care about the people in service to them, but are highly sarcastic in writing, and claim to only be acting heroic to gain benefits (or, in Vail's case, make sure the Empire does its duty). They both share a rather similar dislike for Sulla, as well.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Ciaphas Cain / int_bacf8e98	comment	Preserve Your Gays: The implied lesbian couple in Caves of Ice are the only Red Shirts who survive nigh-certain death going through the titular caves as well as a Necron tomb. They do quite well afterward and are recurring minor characters in later books, and it's strongly suggested that it's specifically because of their love for each other that they make it through all of the various horrors they face.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Ciaphas Cain / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Kasteen and Magot.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Ciaphas Cain / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me A repeated gripe about Cain's memoirs from Amberley. Cain is of the opinion that this is the case with Mira. Amberley lampshades the irony of that sentiment.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Ciaphas Cain / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Being a Combat Pragmatist, Cain isn't afraid to use this to his advantage if his plans to NOT have the enemy in his face go awry. For example, the amateur-ish assassin that gets sent after Cain in Duty Calls could have killed Cain if he'd just kept his mouth shut, as talking caused his psyker cloak to flicker.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Ciaphas Cain / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Inquisitor Killian in Duty Calls is willing to stage a massacre and leave behind innocent civilians (and his own allies) to be massacred by aliens on the ground that what he is protecting is too valuable for the information to get out. Played with in the same book. Certain Battle Sisters refuse to retreat to the line of their defenses because they must serve the Emperor; Cain finally points out that if the Tyranids outflank them, they will be responsible for the massacre of civilians in the Emperor's Temple. This not only persuades them to retreat but causes one of them to thank him later, for reminding them of their duty, and admit that their zeal had led them astray. Later, this takes on a grimmer note. The sisters realize they have sheltered a renegade inquisitor. Even his deception does not ease their guilt; they realized their zeal had blinded them from seeing the facts. In atonement, they sacrifice their lives to ensure the escape of the Inquisitor who had told them the truth and her party.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Ciaphas Cain / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Lord General Zyvan telling the Administratum people that if they aren't happy with his decisions they can bitch about it to the Tyranids. In-Universe, "scumsucker" is apparently a very serious insult, at least in the hive Cain (may or may not) be from.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Ciaphas Cain / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted in The Last Ditch. After the gang learns of the Tyranid presence, Amberley Vail pulls strings to get a Space Marine strike cruiser to Nusquam Fundimentibus. Cain wins the battle before the Bone Knives get there; the best they can do is collect him and Jurgen from the planet surface.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
Ciaphas Cain / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: The T'au justification for partially occupying the planet in For The Emperor is the protection of their trading interests. Cain doesn't buy it, as the Imperium has used a similar justification to gain a foothold before taking over. Of course, it's his job to shoot anyone rude enough to point this out. Also, he's told that the Imperium are desperately keen to avoid having to defend Gravalax from outright invasion by the T'au, as it would be a drawn-out war of attrition for a largely insignificant backwater, and a drain on resources needed to fight the Tyranids and Necrons, in contrast to the rhetoric that the Emperor's mighty forces will defend his territory anywhere in the galaxy. The broader background behind The Greater Good is that the Imperium and the T'au have realized they need to work together to defeat the Tyranid hive fleets, but at the same time each is trying to arrange things so that the other power shoulders the brunt of the effort so that they themselves can more easily sweep up whatever's left in the aftermath.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Ciaphas Cain / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Lampshaded and subverted in the first novel, where Vail accuses Cain of "showing off" when he scores a headshot on an enemy Mook with his laspistol. He goes on to reveal that he was aiming for a torso shot and fired right when his target had ducked. However, Vail reveals in a footnote that Cain does possess an uncanny accuracy with a laspistol when firing at long-distance targets. He often attributes this to his augmetic fingers, but no other character with augmetics seems to share this skill. Amberley further addresses Cain's attribution of this to his augmetic fingers in a footnote, pointing out that the shaking is caused by heartbeat rather than the fingers themselves. She conjectures that his belief that his augmetic fingers give him better weapon handling is more psychological than physical. Of course, shortly after getting those fingers he did most of his laspistol practicing in an Astartes training chapel, a rare honor which had a strong positive effect on his self-confidence. In The Emperor's Finest he has Jurgen take a shot at a fuel tank which was too far for him to hit himself. Jurgen has to try a few times, but then it's revealed he actually aimed for (and hit!) the much smaller release valve, having assumed that was what Cain meant.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bd2f1d55	type	"Success Through Sex" Accusation
Ciaphas Cain / int_bd2f1d55	comment	"Success Through Sex" Accusation: Commissar Beije suspects Magot (a trooper in Cain's regiment who punched out a boxing champion from Beije's misogynistic regiment when he refused a normal match) got off lightly due to sleeping with Cain. Cain doesn't bother to correct him, but Magot is a) a Psycho Lesbian (who is having an inappropriate relationship, though with her female commanding officer) and b) who on occasion saved Cain's life, and he prefers not to be a discipline-happy martinet.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
Ciaphas Cain / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task: As others have pointed out, Cain's Last Stand shows that Cain has reached a state almost mythically impossible in the 40K universe: he reaches retirement. Cain will have you know that this has been his objective all these years.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_be5ada51	type	Sniping the Cockpit
Ciaphas Cain / int_be5ada51	comment	Sniping the Cockpit: Noted as an effective tactic against Ork flyers in The Last Ditch, especially since said fliers had no canopies to protect the pilots.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_be5d0950	type	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate
Ciaphas Cain / int_be5d0950	comment	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Inverted with Cain and Jurgen. Cain is a charismatic leaded beloved by his troops, and Jurgen is generally despised and admits that he doesn't like people.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Ciaphas Cain / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Assiduously averted by Cain to avoid Unfriendly Fire; played to the hilt by Beije. Notably, however, Beije only adheres to the strict religious protocols of his office. He's never seen abusing his troops, his Colonel respects him, and he keeps up with the men in combat well enough (unless you count how ineffective his command style is against World Eaters). He is simply, in Cain's words, "green-eyed jealous." which is foreshadowing for the story's real villain, who is green-eyed and petty to the extreme, far more so than Beije could ever be.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bf3e372	type	Torture Is Ineffective
Ciaphas Cain / int_bf3e372	comment	Torture Is Ineffective: The aforementioned "humorous results"? Getting spontaneously kissed. By contrast Cain gets a captured smuggler to talk with a simple Good Cop/Bad Cop routine.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Ciaphas Cain / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: Referred to as "fungs", for FNGs (Frakking New Guys).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bf6da1b1	type	Discredited Meme
Ciaphas Cain / int_bf6da1b1	comment	Discredited Meme: In-Universe. During The Traitor's Hand the Khornates Cain is fighting yell, "Blood for the Blood God!" so often that he gets sick of hearing it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_bf996668	type	Sliding Scale of Continuity
Ciaphas Cain / int_bf996668	comment	Sliding Scale of Continuity: The novels are a fusion of level 4 (Arc-Based Episodic) and Anachronic Order, numbered thematically rather than chronologically. The first trilogy tells the story of how Cain became attached to the Valhallan 597th Regiment and their early campaigns. The second covers much more ground timewise but is tangentially related to the shadowlight, a mysterious pre-humanity artifact discovered on Perlia. The third involves an over-arching plot revealing a devastating weakness of the Tyranids, though it takes until the third book to bring the plot threads together.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c0b53073	type	Rugby Is Slaughter
Ciaphas Cain / int_c0b53073	comment	Rugby Is Slaughter: Cain was a keen Scrumball player at the Schola Progenium and states that the only team that could regularly beat the Commissarial cadets was the Sisters of Battle cadets—not because they were better players, but because they seemed to be under the impression that the aim of the game was to hospitalise the entire opposing team. Beije never did well at it, possibly because he was enthusiastically tackled by everybody whether or not he had the ball.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Ciaphas Cain / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: In The Last Ditch, with their escape route destroyed and the geothermal power plant they rigged to explode in order to kill the Hive Ship co-ordinating the Tyranids on Nusquam Fundumentibus about to blow any second, Cain and Jurgen grab a couple of motorbikes and flee through tunnels the Tyranids burrowed beneath the power plant to escape, reaching the surface literally seconds ahead of the explosion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c15f1f71	type	Keeping the Handicap
Ciaphas Cain / int_c15f1f71	comment	Keeping the Handicap: Cain gets into a friendly duel with a Techmarine where he manages to score a hit against the Techmarine's armor. Cain is aghast, but the Techmarine reassures him and even tells him he'll keep the notch left by Cain's chainsword as a reminder never to underestimate an opponent.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c213d569	type	Snowball Fight
Ciaphas Cain / int_c213d569	comment	Snowball Fight: With an Ork WAAAGH! due in a day or so, the Valhallans decide to spend their down-time having one. You can't really blame them, since it's been a long while since the ice-world soldiers have found themselves in natural snow.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Ciaphas Cain / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: One of Amberley's footnotes explains the slang term "fungs" as a phonetic pronunciation of "FNGs", or "Frakking New Guys". She then says that Cain told her that the Guard uses a lot of TLAs like that—TLA meaning "Three Letter Abbreviations". She's almost certain he was pulling her leg with that last one. (He wasn't.)
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Ciaphas Cain / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: One of Jurgen's specialties. Magot also once ran over a Tyranid Lictor with a Chimera to rescue Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Ciaphas Cain / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: For all his claims to be an abject coward and fraud, Cain actually is very good at his job, if for the wrong reasons. At one point Vail notes that his unorthodox swordsmanship is some of the best in the entire subsector (presumably among regular humans; the books make it quite clear that 'among the finest in the entire Imperium' is still not in the same league as Astartes or heavily augmented humans or aliens). While he was no match for a Space Marine in strength and endurance, he has defeated Ork Warbosses and Chaos Marines in personal combat as well as holding his own against Tyranid leader organisms of various types. In the tabletop game a Lord Commissar, which he explicitly is even if he refuses the title, has a better weapon skill than any other regular human and most Space Marines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Ciaphas Cain / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Maxim Sorel and Jurgen. The former suffers a direct hit, killing him, while the latter receives a glancing hit that merely leaves him comatose for a while.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c3c0768c	type	Soldiers at the Rear
Ciaphas Cain / int_c3c0768c	comment	Soldiers at the Rear: Cain wants to be this; he's overtaken by events. The all-female Valhallan 296th used to be this, causing no small amount of friction between them and the all-male planetary assault 301st. Cain gets both into shape as the 597th, which even eventually produces the first Lady General of the Imperium.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Ciaphas Cain / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In For The Emperor, the Battle Couple among the Valhallan penal legion have apparently managed to miraculously escape the genestealer horde only somewhat disoriented...only for Cain to immediately execute them, recognizing their disorientation and impossible survival as telltale signs of genestealer implantation.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c4286511	type	For Doom the Bell Tolls
Ciaphas Cain / int_c4286511	comment	For Doom the Bell Tolls: Cain alludes to the Bell of Lost Souls tolling for him. Vail assures the reader that it was just a soldier's figure of speech since he couldn't have expected it to ring for him—then.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c4c4004a	type	Treachery Cover-Up
Ciaphas Cain / int_c4c4004a	comment	Treachery Cover Up: One of these is set up at the end of Choose Your Enemies: the planetary governor is said to have been killed in the fighting when the eldar attacked the space station he was on, rather than the eldar having been invited by Amberley and her Ordo Malleus counterpart to destroy the Slaaneshi cult the governor was part of. Cain isn't happy about it, but knows better than to contradict two Inquisitors.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c5474384	type	Vow of Celibacy
Ciaphas Cain / int_c5474384	comment	Vow of Celibacy: Averted. According to one of Amberley's footnotes in Cain's Last Stand, the Adeptas Sororitas are not actually required to be celibate, but most Sisters don't have many opportunities to take advantage so this trope is a common myth about the service. The footnote in question comments on Cain discovering that Sister Julien, one of his fellow instructors at the schola progenium, is in a relationship with the bursar.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c5a1fb94	type	Hologram Projection Imperfection
Ciaphas Cain / int_c5a1fb94	comment	Hologram Projection Imperfection: So common among the Imperium's holographic projectors that Cain rarely bothers to mention it, assuming that the reader already expects that. When he goes to a briefing hosted by the T'au in The Greater Good, he points out that they avert this fairly strongly. He actually finds the high visual fidelity of T'au holograms and their projector's lack of a need for the occasional whack a little distracting.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Ciaphas Cain / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Several of Cain's Noodle Incidents, like the time he was fighting a Chaos Dreadnought, or charged a daemon with nothing but a rusty bayonet and a vial of holy water, since he obviously survived all of them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c6695a49	type	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois
Ciaphas Cain / int_c6695a49	comment	MÃªlÃ©e Ã Trois: In Caves of Ice, the Valhallan 597th is deployed to defend a promethium refinery against an ork incursion, only to discover a necron tomb beneath the glaciers that attacks both sides. As might be expected from him, Cain takes full advantage of this trope in The Traitor's Hand when he needs to get past a barricaded group of Slaaneshi cultists guarding a Daemon-summoning ritual. By chance a group of Chaos Space Marines in service to Khorne have the same goal and choose this exact moment to show up. Cain decides to hang back and let them break the barricade for him and distract the cultists. Unsurprisingly, Beije calls him out on this and calls him a coward, to which he calmly suggests Beije lead the way. Beije doesn't take him up on this offer. In Cain's Last Stand, Chaos invades Perlia and clashes with the Perlian Defense Force and Cain and his students at the Military Academy. However, Cain becomes suspicious that the Necrons are active in the system as well. The necrons cut their way through the Chaos forces at the last minute, snatch up an artifact from the Imperial position, and then bug out, with the Imperials taking the opportunity to get the upper hand. In Choose Your Enemies, the 597th is deployed to a moon of an ice giant to drive away eldar raiders, who turn out to be from a craftworld hoping to reconquer the system entirely. Worse, they discover a cult of Slaanesh active in the mines, which are linked to a forge world in the heart of the system by the webway. The eldar, who blame themselves for Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll-ing Slaanesh into existence in the first place, pursue their own agenda throughout the book, alternately aiding and hurting the Imperials.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c689efe5	type	Sea of Sand
Ciaphas Cain / int_c689efe5	comment	Sea of Sand: In The Greater Good, Fecundia is an Imperial Forge World of which virtually the entire surface outside the cities is a wasteland of sand-like mining and industrial particulates. Cain and Jurgen crash-land amid the dunes after their shuttle is damaged by tyranid ships and end up going in circles trying to walk out of it; they're eventually rescued by a Krieg Death Korps cavalry company on scouting duty (who actually says it's a good thing they stayed put).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
Ciaphas Cain / int_c696f3ba	comment	Heroic Willpower: What Cain calls his 'survival instinct' looks uncommonly like this when it enables him to throw off Chaos influences or brings him to his feet with chainsword humming when death seems inevitable.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
Ciaphas Cain / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Hidden Depths ends with Amberley and her team escaping a firefight by going through an Eldar webportal, without saying anything about what's on the other side. This is not resolved until YEARS later, in Choose Your Enemies.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Ciaphas Cain / int_c72af5a8	comment	Cain gets into this situation early in The Greater Good when on the losing side of a conflict with the T'au, separated from friendly forces, his salamander wrecked, Jurgen wounded, and surrounded by a team of closing Crisis Battlesuits with only his laspistol and no cover to hide behind, and he realizes that there is no way he is getting out of this one. Turns out that the T'au just wanted to ask him specifically to use his influence to get the beleaguered Imperial forces to agree to a cease-fire.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c737726c	type	You're Not My Type
Ciaphas Cain / int_c737726c	comment	You're Not My Type: In "The Beguiling," Cain uses this as a Bond One-Liner when he shoots a chaos cultist who tried to seduce (and allow a demon to possess) him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Ciaphas Cain / int_c95d04f2	comment	In The Last Ditch, with the attacking Tyranids on Nusquam Fundumentibus becoming more co-ordinated due to the psychic influence of a Hive Ship buried miles underground, Cain concludes that trying to reach it is a Suicide Mission and their best bet is to pull all Imperial forces offworld until an incoming force of Space Marines can arrive to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, the local head of the Adeptus Mechanicus points out the Hive Ship will be fully awake long before the Astartes arrive, and once it is awake, it will start luring in other Tyranids from across the system to overrun the region. Cain and company resort to detonating a geothermal plant directly above the Hive Ship to kill it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_c9868780	type	Playing Possum
Ciaphas Cain / int_c9868780	comment	Playing Possum: Cain uses a variation (with himself as the bait) in Caves of Ice in order to ambush an Ork advance party and keep them from reporting the Valhallans' landing to the main horde.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ca7e95f6	type	Citywide Evacuation
Ciaphas Cain / int_ca7e95f6	comment	Citywide Evacuation: There is an evacuation going on for the last third of The Last Ditch. Tyranids are working their way toward the planet's biggest city, and Cain tries to send its three million people elsewhere to either maker the city a less tempting target or reduce the casualties if it is hit. The process is complicated by the governor refusing to evacuate herself for as long as possible.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Ciaphas Cain / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In the earlier stories an auspex operator sees a large amount of warp portals opening, but is puzzled by the lack of metal, which alerts Cain to the Tyranid presence, since bioships contain no metal. Thing is, Tyranids can't enter the Warp at all (and thank the Emperor for that, otherwise they'd have already eaten the galaxy instead of moving at sub-light speed. However, an entry in the Tyranid Codex does speculate that some Tyranid fleets have entered the warp through things like the Eye of Terror or the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath, which would explain the appearance of Tyranids during the Great Crusade (10k years before the attack of Hive Fleet Behemoth). Still, they don't have conventional warp travel). Though Tyranids do have a bio-ship (the Narvhal) that can create a kind of corridor of folded gravity, allowing Hive Fleets to move at FTL speed (though it's still much slower than Warp travel). What the operator was detecting may have been the bio-ships emerging from this gravity corridor. Cain also tends to not have the best memories about things at times, for a great example of this, see the section where Amberley tries to figure out what type of ship he's on, but the contradicting details make her, an Imperial Inquisitor, throw her hands in the air and say "I give up." One story mentions a Reclaimers armorer named Tobamorie, the character Toba Morie who shows up in Vainglorious is a brother-sergeant.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Ciaphas Cain / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Subverted in-universe. On at least three occasions, Cain orders an Imperial force to lock in on his signal and hit it with every weapon they've got. The person on the other end of the vox always assumes Cain is pulling one of these. Meanwhile, Cain is bugging out at maximum speed. In the audio dramas, he leaves his vox-bead behind to act as a homing beacon, in The Beguiling he gives the artillery just enough time to get the weapon-lock before departing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
Ciaphas Cain / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: In The Last Ditch, Cain shoves a krak grenade into a barrel of promethium and tricks a tyranid mawloc into eating it. KABOOM!
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Ciaphas Cain / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There are several cases that could be just good luck, but that sure look like the Emperor is giving Cain a hand. The most obvious in the end of Cain's Last Stand where a message that Imperial reinforcements are coming, which rallies the defenders and forces the invaders into an ultimately disastrous acceleration of their plans, turns out to be an echo from 60 years ago. While Cain shrugs it off as a coincidence, Vail points out how utterly unlikely the whole thing is. The fact that even Cain had earlier acknowledged that the stakes were high enough to justify the Emperor taking an interest adds fuel to the fire.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Ciaphas Cain / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Invoked by Inquisitor Killian in Duty Calls; when Cain asks why an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor sabotaged a project operated by the Ordo Xenos, Killian explains that while the Inquisition likes to project an image of being united in their struggle against humanity's enemies, in truth, the Ordos are a lot more fractious and determined to one-up each other behind the scenes. Discovered to be the case in The Greater Good with Tyranids; when the Adeptus Mechanicus in charge of research allow two groups of hormagaunts from different swarms into one area, the two start killing each other instead of working together as the tech-priests expected. Amberley theorises that if the Tyranids ever succeeded in conquering the galaxy, then the swarms would turn on each other until the strongest was left standing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cbf9d0fe	type	Sour Supporter
Ciaphas Cain / int_cbf9d0fe	comment	Sour Supporter: Kolfax in Death or Glory.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Ciaphas Cain / int_cc4b45f6	comment	As noted above, Word of God tells us that not even the author has defined if Cain is really a hero or not. Sometimes he's written Cain as entirely worthy of the title of "Hero of the Imperium", sometimes not.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Ciaphas Cain / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Over the course of the books, Cain defeats several daemons and a few Chaos Space Marines in close combat...with the aid of others, of course. Cain's reputation has gotten such a boost from these feats that the Imperial Guard has even made a drinking song about him kicking Khorne in the balls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Ciaphas Cain / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: Played with: the books seem to take delight in never having the escorts' survival — or their total wipeout — taken for granted. Played straight and lampshaded in the short story Echoes of the Tomb where the redshirts were troopers of the Adeptus Mechanicus — and they wore red uniforms. They're even called redshirts by Cain. And, despite cybernetic augmentations and hellguns, they are all slaughtered when the Necrons wake up.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
Ciaphas Cain / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand: In The Traitor's Hand, how he stopped Beije from trying to arrest him.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cd2b8aa3	type	Space Is Noisy
Ciaphas Cain / int_cd2b8aa3	comment	Space Is Noisy: Mocked in The Greater Good.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Ciaphas Cain / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: Played with: the Valhallan 597th is a mechanized infantry formation, not armored cavalry, so it's equipped with Salamanders and Chimeras, which, while tracked, are technically an open-topped troop carrier and an infantry fighting vehicle, respectively (though a Chimera does get confused for a tank at one point). That said, in Death or Glory, Cain ends up leading a refugee column across Perlia, which includes a legit Leman Russ main battle tank that he uses to great effect protecting the column from ork raids.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Double Subverted in Choose Your Enemies where the Planetary Govenor is helpful and effective right up until he is revealed as the Big Bad.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cde175c8	comment	Fake Static: Alluded to in The Traitor's Hand, when the Valhallan Sentinel squadrons take off to deal with a heretic shuttle without actually waiting for their orders to come in first.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Ciaphas Cain / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: This is a comedy set in the Warhammer 40000 universe. On top of which, Cain himself is a Lighter and Softer version of Harry Flashman IN SPACE!. Whereas Flashman really is a Dirty Coward and all around Jerkass (he raped a woman in the first book), Cain generally comes across much more sympathetically. It's not at all clear that Cain is the craven he bills himself as. On the other hand, Sandy Mitchell is also quite adept using GRIMDARK subtly rather than beating you over the head with it and running into A Million Is a Statistic like certain other 40k authors. As noted here and here (search on "page 111"), in Death or Glory for instance we see the aftermath of an ork attack where civilians were gunned down as they fled. Let no one say that Ciaphas Cain isn't serious or dark. (See also some of the points under Deliberate Values Dissonance above for further support.)
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Ciaphas Cain / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Cain appears to have become one prior to the events of Cain's Last Stand (or at least he claims to be more relaxed, to the irritation of his colleagues). By the time Cain's Last Stand was written though, the latter was forgotten; every named member of the faculty is ultimately shown to be a bit of a Cool Old Guy (or in one case, a Cool Old Nun), at least off duty. Those awesome four are hardly the only teachers in the schola, and Cain does mention that he wouldn't really bother with the rest of the faculty. And even with the above three, he doesn't really give a picture of their teaching styles.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
Ciaphas Cain / int_cf4d770	comment	Nightmare Fuel: invoked Cain has three literal sources: Necrons, his time as a prisoner of the Dark Eldar, and Emeli.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Ciaphas Cain / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Cain does it to himself in Cain's Last Stand, continuously reassuring himself (despite recurring nightmares and overwhelming lack of evidence) that there are no Necrons on Perlia. Guess who shows up at the very end?
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: Jurgen is almost never without at least one "porno slate", while Cain's cadets are known to swap "salacious holo-picts" instead of paying attention in class.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_cfe25df6	type	Lord Error-Prone
Ciaphas Cain / int_cfe25df6	comment	Lord Error-Prone: Toren Divas, whose well-meaning enthusiasm gets Cain nearly killed at least three times that we know of. Cain sees Sulla as this; she's really not that bad, just way too gung-ho for Cain's tastes.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Ciaphas Cain / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Like the sash and cap, this is a standard part of Cain's uniform. The 597th Valhallan Regiment, since they're native iceworlders. Cain lampshades the irony of the Valhallans being known so well for their characteristic greatcoats, considering that many of them forgo wearing that part of their uniform most of the time in the field. While such a coat is essential in an arctic environment like their homeworld, most of their deployments are to warmer locations, where such a coat is unnecessary and very uncomfortably hot for the cold-adapted Valhallans.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Ciaphas Cain / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Cain does this to the pro-T'au terrorist leader in Traitor's Gambit: when the woman orders him out of the last escape pod at gunpoint, Cain orders Jurgen to shoot her. While she's distracted, Cain shoots her from the hip with a T'au-manufactured plasma pistol he acquired earlier, the force of the blast ripping her gun arm off and more importantly, blasting her back far enough to get the pod shut.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
Ciaphas Cain / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: Each book contains about one footnote per five pages. In the foreword to the first omnibus edition, Sandy Mitchell commented that the typesetters were very glad no other Black Library books had such footnotes. (Incidentally, this is another facet picked up from the Flashman books, which are themselves quite well annotated, although those notes are at the end of each book rather than the bottom of the page.)
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d074c3a2	comment	Cain barely manages to avoid this fate in Vainglorious after his shuttle's servitor is subverted and tries to ram the flagship. He manages to turn it into Coming in Hot instead.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d07edd79	type	Thermal Dissident
Ciaphas Cain / int_d07edd79	comment	Thermal Dissident: Cain, who is not an iceworlder, often relishes being liaison to regiments from planets with less extreme temperatures. The Valhallans are iceworlders, meaning they enjoy cold showers, always keep the windows open and the AC on full blast when not deployed in subzero temperatures.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Ciaphas Cain / int_d129e13e	comment	He'll often say "the coin dropped" when he puts the pieces together and has a "Eureka!" Moment.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Ciaphas Cain / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong: In For the Emperor Cain concludes a pre-battle briefing with the line "The harder and faster you go in, the better." This causes Sulla (of all people) to whisper something inaudible to her neighbor (presumably something along the lines of "That's What She Said") and giggle, prompting Cain to glare at her.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d229ed6	type	Hobbling the Giant
Ciaphas Cain / int_d229ed6	comment	Hobbling the Giant: During the final battle in Caves of Ice, Cain spots (presumably necron-caused) battle damage on the ork gargant's left leg and orders all heavy weapons to hit that area. The gargant falls over, squishing large numbers of the attacking orks, and secondary explosions finish it off.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d2d09ff6	type	After-Action Patch-Up
Ciaphas Cain / int_d2d09ff6	comment	After-Action Patch-Up: Used, notably in The Traitor's Hand to stay out of the line of fire.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Ciaphas Cain / int_d332bf54	comment	It's humorously lampshaded near the beginning of Caves of Ice
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Ciaphas Cain / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Beije brings in a squad of Tallarns to bring Cain in on charges of treason, incompetence and cowardice. All it does is let the Tallarns see firsthand exactly why Commissar Ciaphas Cain is a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ciaphas Cain / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Cain gets one of these moments at the end of For The Emperor, when he executes two Guard troopers—the only survivors of a "special mission" other than himself and Inquisitor Vail—without forewarning or explanation. As the rest soon discover—and confirming Cain's unvoiced hunch—the two executed troopers turn out to be carrying Genestealer implants. Cain, despite claiming he's only acting concerned so that the guardsmen don't shoot him dead, is not pleased at this. Earlier, Cain has to tell his squad to open fire on a squad of PDF loyalists trying to arrest them for transporting Tau diplomats. The thing is, the PDF are entirely in the right (the Imperial Guard leadership doesn't want to get dragged into a war for a worthless planet, hence the cooperation with the xenos), and Cain bitterly regrets that this had to be the integrated squad's first action.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Ciaphas Cain / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Cain uses this sort of logic to justify some of his more apparently "heroic" actions—confronting dangerous threats, while seemingly suicidal at the time, has a much better chance (he claims) of ensuring his survival in the long term than running away and allowing them to grow even more dangerous, not to mention adding to his reputation for heroism. For instance, the time in Death or Glory when he wanted transportation for the PDF squad he intended to use as bodyguards. He had them sneak into the enemy motor park quietly, while he barged in the front gate and started singlehandedly shooting the place up as a distraction (Jurgen was busy starting up the vehicles they'd take). Cain's plan for taking out the big bad in Cain's Last Stand runs on this and I Surrender, Suckers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
Ciaphas Cain / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Cain defuses an argument between the Ordo Xenos and the Adeptus Mechanicus over which side caused the security leak that allowed Chaos agents to learn of the Shadowlight by blaming it on the long-dead rogue Inquisitor Killian. While he claims this was just so he could stop the argument and get people working on solving the problem, the logic he uses in naming his scapegoat is fairly plausible.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
Ciaphas Cain / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician Early in For the Emperor, Cain describes the regimental band of the 597th Valhallan as At one point in The Traitor's Hand, Cain mentions the elevator music in an Arbites headquarters.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Ciaphas Cain / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: And a scale of something that isn't even fictional: one of the few problems with Sandy Mitchell's 40K-verse is that his armies are incredibly small. The Valhallan 597th are around 1000 troopers total, which is not so bad except that if that is the standard, would mean that Cain has defended planets of billions with a force around 5,000 people at the highest. During the events of the fourth novel, for example, he mentions that a few regiments were liberating the entire star system, so perhaps 10,000 soldiers. For comparison, the Grande Armee was around 800 000 soldiers. In later books, the 597th has about 4,000 soldiers, so it's not so bad, but it's still bad. The American military in World War 2 had ten thousand-man divisions (typically composed of three brigades, each of three regiments, plus support formations), and that was when it had only a thirtieth of the planet's population of 2.5 billion. Especially aggravating because other Valhallan regiments in the fluff (the ones with the caricatural Soviet three-men-one-rifle human wave "tactics") have over a MILLION soldiers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Between the Valhallans and the Tallarns in The Traitor's Hand, of which Cain's rivalry with Commissar Beije is partly a microcosm. The Tallarns are Holier Than Thou male chauvinists from a desert world, the Valhallans are a pragmatic mixed regiment from an ice world. Yeah, they don't get along.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d5f31c75	type	Rabble Rouser
Ciaphas Cain / int_d5f31c75	comment	Rabble Rouser: There's a particularly sinister variant in Warmaster Varan, who can instantly (and permanently) convert people to the forces of Chaos just by talking and being within line-of-sight of them. Oh, and it's mentioned he has a holy book that only makes sense to his followers, looks nervous when talking, and has a ridiculous little mustache... The first novel, For The Emperor, features a planet which is on the brink of civil war thanks to tensions between pro-T'au and Imperium loyalist factions. Since neither side wants war to break out, they often have to calm down their own examples. In the end it turns out that Genestealers have been serving this role the entire time to soften the planet up for invasion.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Ciaphas Cain / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Inverted — Cain wants a nice, quiet job with no real responsibilities that's away from all the action, but he's kept on the front lines because he's too good at his job despite his "best" intentions.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d7b63718	type	Space Cadet Academy
Ciaphas Cain / int_d7b63718	comment	Space Cadet Academy: Cain was taught how to be a commissar at the Schola Progenium, and later goes on to teach at one on Perlia (where he has a rather understandable 100% Heroism Rating after single handedly breaking the back of an Ork invasion there) after retiring.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d8231198	type	Thank the Maker
Ciaphas Cain / int_d8231198	comment	Thank the Maker: An unnamed Tech-priest in The Greater Good sees Cain do something impressive and makes the mark of the Cogwheel while exclaiming, "The Omnissiah truly processes your data!"
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d8963315	comment	Invisible Introvert: The title character once encountered an invisible assassin whose latent psychic powers had been discovered and amplified late in life. After dispatching him, Cain thinks he looks like an unassuming functionary, which would explain the bitterness and resentment in his way of speaking while dueling Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Ciaphas Cain / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Cain has tried to pull this on numerous occasions to try and save his own ass. Most of the time it hasn't worked as he ends up running into the sneak attack/heretofore unknown enemy/infiltration/ritual that is actually a much worse threat. In his first appearance, his attempts to escape a gargoyle attack on his regiment's position on Desolatia end up with him running smack bang into the main Tyranid attack coming from the flank. Fortunately, he is able to both get back to the regiment and raise the alarm, and manages to cover up his attempt to desert by claiming he suspected what was coming and went to scout the area. In Caves of Ice, upon discovering a dormant Necron tomb on Simia Orichalcae, Cain wastes no time in ordering a complete Imperial evacuation from the planet. While he admits (privately of course) his primary motivation is to save his own skin, Cain does correctly point out that the Necrons in the tomb likely outnumber the Imperials hundreds to one, and if they do wake up, the Imperials will find themselves caught between the Necrons and the Orks already invading the planet, so the best thing to do in the circumstances is get off planet, alert the Inquisition to what they've found and then call in an Imperial Navy flotilla to obliterate the place from orbit. It should be noted that this is one of the few times that Cain advises running away without going through the usual rigamarole of "Oh, I just want to get relocated back into the action," but openly states that "No, we don't stand a chance, we're leaving as soon as we can." At the climax of Cain's Last Stand, with their position about to be overrun by Varan's vengeful Chaos horde, matters swiftly go from bad to worse when a force of Necrons teleports in behind the Chaos forces and begin annihilating the heretics. Realising the Necrons fully intend to fight their way through the Chaos lines to the Imperial position, and aware they're in no shape to fight such an enemy, Cain wastes no time in ordering a full evacuation and orders the Mechanicus adepts on site to detonate the facility's self-destruct mechanism. The Imperials succeed in escaping, but the Necrons sabotage the self-destruct and escape with a powerful artefact the site was housing. In The Last Ditch, with the attacking Tyranids on Nusquam Fundumentibus becoming more co-ordinated due to the psychic influence of a Hive Ship buried miles underground, Cain concludes that trying to reach it is a Suicide Mission and their best bet is to pull all Imperial forces offworld until an incoming force of Space Marines can arrive to deal with the problem. Unfortunately, the local head of the Adeptus Mechanicus points out the Hive Ship will be fully awake long before the Astartes arrive, and once it is awake, it will start luring in other Tyranids from across the system to overrun the region. Cain and company resort to detonating a geothermal plant directly above the Hive Ship to kill it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d9d2c40b	comment	In Cain's Last Stand, while tutoring his cadets on how to spot heretical infiltrators in Guard regiments, Cain asks a surprise question to the cadet who is paying more attention to the Adepta Sororitas novitiates exercising outside.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Ciaphas Cain / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: In For the Emperor, the 597th gets stymied trying to break through entrenched traitor PDF units (the 597th are mechanized infantry, meaning they lack heavy armor or artillery to deal with entrenched opponents), but then the Fire Caste security presence at the T'au embassy sends in a unit of Hammerhead Hover Tanks as a Gunship Rescue, which blast a hole in the enemy lines. In Death or Glory, after decapitating the Ork WAAAGH! by killing the warboss but also mightily pissing off the Orks, Cain and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits flee for their lives, hoping to reach Imperial lines before the Orks catch them. Imperial warplanes get there first for a Gunship Rescue. Subverted in The Last Ditch. After the gang learns of the Tyranid presence, Amberley Vail pulls strings to get a Space Marine strike cruiser to Nusquam Fundimentibus. Cain wins the battle before the Bone Knives get there; the best they can do is collect him and Jurgen from the planet surface. A literal example in The Greater Good. Cain's shuttle is shot down by the Tyranids and crash-lands in the wasteland of a forge world. They're nearly overwhelmed by Tyranids before a Death Korps of Krieg horse cavalry company comes to their rescue. The Death Riders themselves later have to get bailed out by a Reclaimers land speeder.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Ciaphas Cain / int_da3043c5	comment	The entire series is about a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM who secretly regards himself as a Dirty Coward whose every action was motivated by self-interest. Whether or not you believe that depends very much on how you interpret his true character.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dae24d7a	type	Recruit the Muggles
Ciaphas Cain / int_dae24d7a	comment	Recruit the Muggles: In The Traitor's Hand, a Chaos battleship is destroyed when it tries to massacre a giant swarm of merchant ships. The Imperial cruiser present manages to wreck the battleship's main weapons when it's already committed to its course, and then the merchants swarm it and nibble it to death with their little defensive guns.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Ciaphas Cain / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: The women of the 597th Valhallan Regiment, led by Colonel Badass Regina Kasteen, Inquisitor Amberley Vail of the Ordo Xenos, among others.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Ciaphas Cain / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Several examples: Cain and Amberley. Cain and Felicia to a lesser extent. Cain and Mira. Grifen and Magot. Vorhees and Drere, a Mauve Shirt couple from Grifen's squad in the second novel. Velade and Holenbi, Imperial Guardsmen from the first novel. This actually dooms them—the Genestealers infect them, specifically because they're in love. Any offspring would have eventually subverted the regiment and any places the regiment visited generations down, and when Ciaphas finds them showing signs of Genestealer infection, he shoots them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Ciaphas Cain / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Cain hands these out in The Traitor's Hand, Death or Glory, and Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Ciaphas Cain / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Several throughout the series. Maxim Sorel in For the Emperor for one. Cain thinks the punished soldiers will betray him and he actively fears Sorel. Turns out Sorel is the most loyal of the bunch. He just likes killing people, or at least doesn't see any reason not to kill people.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Ciaphas Cain / int_dc579c91	comment	Gunmen in the case of the PVF fighters of Chilinvale in Cain's Last Stand. The village is mentioned to be the closest to the Valley of Daemons in the book. The book spends a long time on the volunteers there (which were Corporal Manrin, Ex-Imperial Trooper Jaq, 361st Coranian, and teenage girl Franka as well as other unnamed volunteers).note The fact the three were named at all was a definite hint. The trope is seemly subverted when the town is brought up again when Inquisitor Makan pretends to be the man in charge of PVF in Chilinvale, note This gave him a plausible excuse to be in the Valley in Daemons in the first place (the Shadowlight was a secret to everybody and people would be asking hard questions if they knew the Inquisition was there). only for Cain to indicate that neither him nor Makan seemed to want to call in those PVF. However, when the battle starts, Manrin just happens to lead the Chilinvale PVF to the battle and just so happens to meet Cain during a stealth mission which just so happens to be to the one transport carrying the now mind-controlled Donal. Which wrapped up not one, but TWO instances of Chekhov's gunmen with one event.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dc664499	type	Gracefully Demoted
Ciaphas Cain / int_dc664499	comment	Gracefully Demoted: At the end of the short story "Sector Thirteen", the band of Military Mavericks Cain usually drags out of Arbites custody after overenthusiastic R&R have been promoted for their aid in defending against a genestealer cult. One of them comments that he finds the uniform uncomfortable, Cain reassures him by commenting he'll probably get demoted soon enough, which cheers him up.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Ciaphas Cain / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Cain generally has no patience with Imperial planetary/system governors, but in his travels, he meets a few good ones, notable for their rarity. And for their tragic fates. Landen Hoy of the Deepwater system, from the short story Traitor's Gambit, strikes Cain as showing "a reasonable degree of competence and integrity", and proves a pleasant and amiable host. He's murdered by tau-sympathizing insurgents during a combination robbery and assassination attempt on Lord General Zyvan. Jonas Worden of Lentonia, from the novella Old Soldiers Never Die, is an Unexpected Successor with a dim view of the governing dynasty of his home world, uncomfortable with the trappings of his office and just trying to do the best job he can. Ends up fatally infected during a Zombie Apocalypse on his world; the final entry in his Apocalyptic Log reinforces his hatred of his position and his determination to set a good example for his people. Lio Trevellyan of Perlia, from Cain's Last Stand, who is shown to be competent, understanding, and possessed of Nerves of Steel when the forces of Chaos invade his home. Sadly, he's overmatched and forcibly turned to the side of Chaos Warmaster Varan the Undefeatable, doomed to be remembered as a traitor to his world. Fortunately, in the aftermath, his niece and heir Illyria ends up being just as competent as he hoped she would be. Lord General Zyvan turns out to be unwilling to go to war with the Tau over a pointless backwater like Gravalax, something Amberley fully backs him up on. The Imperial loyalists on Gravalax aren't aware of this, of course. Cain himself takes pains to be one (and to instill the need to be one to the commissar cadets he's teaching), repeatedly stating that hardass commissars who shoot troopers for the slightest offense are the ones who die heroic deaths nowhere near the frontlines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dcac10e4	type	Tidally Locked Planet
Ciaphas Cain / int_dcac10e4	comment	Tidally Locked Planet: Adumbria in The Traitor's Hand is mostly inhabited in the twilight zone, and its inhabitants have 37 different words for degrees of twilight. (Amberley Vail cites a Fictional Document titled Sablist in Skitterfall whose title derives from this. Witty wordplay to an Adumbrian, nonsensical to an offworlder.) Cain's Valhallan 597th, being ice-worlders, are assigned to the perpetual winter of the night side, while the Tallarn 229th, from a desert world, cover the sunward side.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Ciaphas Cain / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Inquisitor Vail, in the first book, is introduced to Cain incognito at the governor's palace. He doesn't discover her true identity until later in the book. The reader, however, should know who she is since her name and Ordos are revealed in the introduction. Warmaster Varan is first mentioned in The Traitor's Hand in one of the chapter opening quotes, those being his last words. It isn't until Cain's Last Stand that those words are spoken by the man himself, although in a slightly different context than their original use would have the reader believe. Gunmen in the case of the PVF fighters of Chilinvale in Cain's Last Stand. The village is mentioned to be the closest to the Valley of Daemons in the book. The book spends a long time on the volunteers there (which were Corporal Manrin, Ex-Imperial Trooper Jaq, 361st Coranian, and teenage girl Franka as well as other unnamed volunteers).note The fact the three were named at all was a definite hint. The trope is seemly subverted when the town is brought up again when Inquisitor Makan pretends to be the man in charge of PVF in Chilinvale, note This gave him a plausible excuse to be in the Valley in Daemons in the first place (the Shadowlight was a secret to everybody and people would be asking hard questions if they knew the Inquisition was there). only for Cain to indicate that neither him nor Makan seemed to want to call in those PVF. However, when the battle starts, Manrin just happens to lead the Chilinvale PVF to the battle and just so happens to meet Cain during a stealth mission which just so happens to be to the one transport carrying the now mind-controlled Donal. Which wrapped up not one, but TWO instances of Chekhov's gunmen with one event. Inquisitor Malden is quoted on page 47 of the Omnibus: "You'll get more with a kind word and an excruciator than with just a kind word." A psyker named Malden shows up in Traitor's Hand to...extract information from a member of the council of claimants.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dd53c52b	type	Crushing Handshake
Ciaphas Cain / int_dd53c52b	comment	Crushing Handshake: Cain's augmetic fingers have given him the upper hand (ha ha) at least once in regards to this trope.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dd891949	type	Who Writes This Crap?!
Ciaphas Cain / int_dd891949	comment	Who Writes This Crap?!: Ciaphas wonders who comes up with Space Hulk names on learning he'll help clear out the Spawn of Damnation. Veil clarifies that usually it's the first Inquisitor to find it, and that yes, they do have a touch of the melodramatic when doing so. Amberley has similar comments on other Imperial names like "flayed ones" or Sodallagain (a planet evidently named by a very bored Explorator Magos).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ddc6244b	type	Emergency Refuelling
Ciaphas Cain / int_ddc6244b	comment	Emergency Refuelling: Cain's Ragtag Bunch of Misfits have rigged a supply depot to explode so the orks can't use it, when a straggler tank that's low on ammo shows up. Against Cain's judgement, the tank crew restock as much as they can and bail before the pursuing orks can catch up, and then the depot explodes.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_de86b894	type	Continuity Drift
Ciaphas Cain / int_de86b894	comment	Continuity Drift: In For The Emperor it is mentioned that Cain has seen Astartes reclaim the geneseed after going back on the Space Hulk. However, in The Emperor's Finest he is far too sick from an emergency teleport to actually go back onto the ship, and in fact starts making efforts to get as far away from the hulk as possible. In For the Emperor Cain mentions that he mopped up the Space Hulk with an Imperial Guard unit which also did not appear in The Emperor's Finest; perhaps he returned, however reluctantly, with some support. Amberley does mention that the "Cain Archives" did need heavy editing, and was essentially a single very long document with events placed wildly out of order from one another. Such discrepencies could have their origins there.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Ciaphas Cain / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Kolbe, the Arbites praetor of Adumbria in The Traitor's Hand, calls Cain's commbead in the middle of a Khornate cultist invasion to tell Cain something, then before he can say it, tells Cain to hold on a second.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Ciaphas Cain / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: It goes with the narration being from Cain's particular perspective. One book had an assassination attempt foiled purely because he was looking in just the right direction while covertly checking out Colonel Kasteen's behind.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e00b1dc1	type	Unluckily Lucky
Ciaphas Cain / int_e00b1dc1	comment	Unluckily Lucky: Cain's attempts to dodge risky assignments always lead him into finding something much worse, yet the combination of his skill and luck means that he always manages to not only make it out alive, but to have his reputation enhanced. "Jinxie" Penlan has, on more than one occasion, made important discoveries or saved herself or her fellow soldiers from harm, but these times are usually due to her klutziness having unexpectedly fortunate side effects.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Ciaphas Cain / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: (Supposedly) one of the few reasons why Cain doesn't chicken out at the first opportunity is that doing so would cause him to lose his reputation as a Hero of the Imperium, with all the benefits that brings.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
Ciaphas Cain / int_e070ebe6	comment	During The Greater Good, Cain notes with surprise how few cybernetic augmentations Magos Kildhar has, seeing as the higher in rank most members of the Adeptus Mechanicus get the less flesh they try to have. It's because she's been a Manchurian Agent for the genestealers for decades, and going in for augmentation would reveal her tainted genes.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e0a86167	type	Quickly-Demoted Woman
Ciaphas Cain / int_e0a86167	comment	Quickly-Demoted Woman: Averted. At the formation of the Valhallan 597th by merging one all-male and one all-female regiment that received crippling losses, the appointment of the female regiment's commander, Kasteen, to overall command does not sit well with the officers of the old male regiment. However, the sticking point is that while Kasteen is technically senior to her male counterpart (because her superiors got themselves killed and needed a field-promoted replacement three days before Broklaw's did), she is still the commander of a garrison regiment, while her counterpart has commanded line infantry in the field, and gender doesn't even come into it. She goes on to acquit herself admirably in the first book and remains the commander of the 597th for many years afterward.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e0ce2471	type	Absurdly Sharp Claws
Ciaphas Cain / int_e0ce2471	comment	Absurdly Sharp Claws: The tyranids' form the basis of a minor Running Gag/Noodle Incident where the first time in a book that the 'nids are mentioned, Cain invariably flashes back to a time he saw genestealers tear apart Space Marine Terminators like their armor wasn't there. We finally get to see it in The Emperor's Finest.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e0e3397e	type	Amusingly Awful Aim
Ciaphas Cain / int_e0e3397e	comment	Amusingly Awful Aim: One of Cain's cadets in Cain's Last Stand has a reputation for being a lousy shooter. However, this comes across as more like an Informed Flaw — the one time we see him shooting, he easily hits the heretics.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Ciaphas Cain / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Subverted in The Traitor's Hand, where the captured Slaaneshi cultists seem to actually be enjoying the treatment.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e16a12cb	type	Call a Human a "Meatbag"
Ciaphas Cain / int_e16a12cb	comment	Call a Human a "Meatbag": At one point in Caves of Ice, the techpriest Logash (angry at being denied the chance to investigate a Necron tomb) bitterly refers to "Typical meatbag behavior". Given the massive Shout-Out quotient of the series, this is likely a callout to the Trope Codifier. Notably, throughout both the series and 40K in general, regular humans call techpriests "cogboys".
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Ciaphas Cain / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: Cain prefers blondes (as he explains to Emeli as he shoots her, before she can mind control and sacrifice him).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
Ciaphas Cain / int_e26c3c72	comment	According to Inquisitor Vail, most Imperial Guard commissars operate at a regimental level, but the Imperial Navy has a single man enforcing discipline for a Mile-Long Ship (or possibly several of them), and the PDF often has one commissar for the entire planet. Said individuals often spend their days getting drunk, leaving the men under them blissfully unaware of their existence.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e26d8285	type	Explosive Decompression
Ciaphas Cain / int_e26d8285	comment	Explosive Decompression: Partially averted in Death or Glory. Lampshaded by Inquisitor Vail in a footnote. However, Cain is noted to be holding his breath. This is not the right thing to do if you wind up in hard vacuum, unless you like having severe lung injuries.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e280b250	type	Hard Head
Ciaphas Cain / int_e280b250	comment	Hard Head: Subverted in Duty Calls, where a minor concussion puts Cain out of commission for three days and enlivens his life with nausea and dizziness after. He plays it up and down according to what looks useful, and other character are anxious to remind him that he does not in fact have a Hard Head.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e2a622a7	type	Beleaguered Boss
Ciaphas Cain / int_e2a622a7	comment	Beleaguered Boss: During his years with the Valhallan 12th Artillery Regiment, Cain was forever pulling Guardsmen out of Arbites cells for drunken brawling, indecent behavior and otherwise disturbing the peace. While most commissars wouldn't have hesitated in shooting the lot of them and inspiring discipline through fear, Cain always does his best to limit his discipline to prison, latrine duty and floggings so as to maintain his popularity with the men (as so many martinets end up dying heroic deaths suspiciously far away from the front line, which he notes more than once). As his reputation grows, this has the side effect of the troopers doing their job flawlessly while on duty: no one wants to be the one who disappointed Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium (he cites one man as preferring to take on a Carnifex with a broken chair leg rather than let Cain down). According to Inquisitor Vail, most Imperial Guard commissars operate at a regimental level, but the Imperial Navy has a single man enforcing discipline for a Mile-Long Ship (or possibly several of them), and the PDF often has one commissar for the entire planet. Said individuals often spend their days getting drunk, leaving the men under them blissfully unaware of their existence.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e2f7ab99	type	Assassin Outclassin'
Ciaphas Cain / int_e2f7ab99	comment	Assassin Outclassin': Cain survives three distinct assassination attempts in Duty Calls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Ciaphas Cain / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Several of his adventures take inspiration or borrow motifs from several popular fictional stories while adding a Ciaphas Cain twist. For the Emperor to The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Caves Of Ice to At the Mountains of Madness. Death Or Glory to Lawrence of Arabia. Dead in the Water to Apocalypse Now. The Devil You Know to Predator. The last act of The Emperor's Finest plays out very similarly to an actual game of Space Hulk, such as genestealers staying just out of sensor range or a Terminator getting ganked when his weapon jams.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Ciaphas Cain / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: Exploited by Cain in Duty Calls when he realizes that the Battle Sisters are about to be overrun by Tyranids, which would have the effect of causing the entire defensive line to fold. He doesn't know who's in charge, so he picks the group of Sisters that have racked up the highest body count. He chooses correctly, as it turns out.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Ciaphas Cain / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Cain pretty much makes everything up as he goes along, though he does try to plan to avoid getting into firefights and occasionally actually has a plan beyond "Get out alive", even if it rarely actually works out that way.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e3b72664	type	Boarding Pod
Ciaphas Cain / int_e3b72664	comment	Boarding Pod: In The Emperor's Finest Cain and Jurgen have to help repel ork boarders on the Reclaimers Strike Cruiser Revenant, who repeatedly Zerg Rush the ship with these. The Space Marines use their Thunderhawk dropships as a fighter screen but some get through.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e3c36782	comment	Amberley Vail is blonde, but Cain says this before meeting her.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: A town Cain saves in Death or Glory (or more accurately, blows up with an ork army inside) gets rebuilt as "Cainstead." Amberley notes that he found this hilarious.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: A footnote in one of the books reveals that Cain has been listed as "killed in action" so many times that the Munitorum eventually gave up trying to keep track and decided to keep him on the payroll regardless—even long past his confirmed death and burial with full military honors. And even then, they aren't sure he's actually dead. Of course, Vail isn't going to tell anyone the full truth about it...
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Ciaphas Cain / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: In-universe there was a TV series called Cain's Heroes about Cain's adventures on Perlia. Cain hated it for a number of reasons, not least for totally ignoring Jurgen's involvement (as is always the case when people write about his adventures In-Universe).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
Ciaphas Cain / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: Used word for word in The Traitor's Hand. Also said by Cain himself in For The Emperor when he thought Jurgen's melta would make too big a hole but two hellguns would be just right. Averted in the short story The Beguiling: faced with a daemon, he doesn't bother trying to use a normal gun, instead calling in a full artillery barrage on the location.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Ciaphas Cain / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: Of the Warhammer 40,000 setting as a whole. The good Imperial leaders are portrayed as pragmatists who care about their troops and work to rein in the excesses of their more zealous compatriots, and there isn't a single Exterminatus called in. It also avoids issues with Too Bleak, Stopped Caring by humanizing the tragedy of never-ending war, and even finds time to convincingly portray every side as badass, especially the Necrons, of whom Cain is flat-out terrified. It also seems that on "normal" Imperial planets (i.e. ones other than crazy-overpopulated Hive Worlds, super-polluted Forge Worlds, and borderline uninhabitable Death Worlds), citizens enjoy a pretty decent standard of living when there isn't a war going on in the vicinity. Even We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future gets averted in one case, when Amberley points out that some factory jobs are both highly-paid and sought-after.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Ciaphas Cain / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: There's the usual mess of Chaos cultists. Also, Vail reports a cult that worships Cain as the embodied will of the Emperor and quotes the Book of Cain. Fortunately, Cain never heard of it. Almost certainly picked up from Flashman, where there is a (historically accurate and very funny) scene referencing John Nicholson, a British officer in India in the 1840s who was worshipped as a god by several frontier tribes known as the Nikkulseynites. His response was to flog anyone who mentioned them; Flashman suggests taking up a collection instead.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e568bf17	type	Destruction Equals Off-Switch
Ciaphas Cain / int_e568bf17	comment	Destruction Equals Off-Switch: Jurgen tries to invoke this during The Greater Good. Unfortunately the Mechanicus doesn't believe in this trope, and the door stays locked.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e58a7b9f	type	A Girl in Every Port
Ciaphas Cain / int_e58a7b9f	comment	A Girl in Every Port: Cain mentions playing around a lot in his early career. He eventually stopped, partly because it kept putting him in danger (e.g. by dating a girl who turned out to be a Chaos cultist, or a stroppy spoilt heiress) and partly because he met the love of his life, Amberley (and since she's an Inquisitor, cheating would definitely put him in danger).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e5da07dd	type	Badass Unintentional
Ciaphas Cain / int_e5da07dd	comment	Causing one is the only reason Cain manages to survive his unplanned assault on the central Ork command post in Death or Glory. After killing the Warboss leading the whole WAAAGH!, rather than killing Cain and Jurgen on the spot, the various Nobz serving under him instead start bickering about who's in charge. And Orks being Orks, it only takes a few seconds for bickering to turn into bloodshed. Another character showing up and hosing down the whole mess with a heavy flamer ensures that this happens afterwards within the various Ork clans as well as between them; the resulting chaos is probably a large reason it only took two years to reclaim the planet after the Orks had conquered half of it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Ciaphas Cain / int_e6291d05	comment	Holograms flicker and require Percussive Maintenance.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e652089c	type	Artistic License â€“ Ships
Ciaphas Cain / int_e652089c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Ships: Cain describes the Indestructible as an Armageddon-class battlecruiser in the beginning of The Traitor's Hand; a different work quoted in the book calls it a cruiser. This could be for a number of reasons (Armageddons are typically converted Lunar-class cruisers, or Cain's professed lack of interest in the navy). Or "cruiser" could just be short for "battlecruiser". Cain and a few other characters mistakenly thinking that any ship used by Space Marines is called a Battle Barge, as opposed to a distinct class. Cain is amazed at the size of a Space Hulk based on how small the ships he recognizes are in comparison to the whole, comparing it to a small moon. Amberley states that the hulk in question is only 4 or 5 kilometers across in any direction, which she describes as "quite big enough", being so big that an entire fleet anticipates taking months to destroy it. The problem is that in this setting an escort ship is from .8 to 1.5 kilometers long, and a standard cruiser is more than 5 kilometers in length (though this varies by game edition and writer). The hulk is referred to as containing battleships, any one of which would be twice the size as that given for the entire object. The distances and travel times when he explores it indicate an object at least ten times the given size, so this may just be a typo. In The Greater Good, Cain gives a number of details about the ship he was traveling on, each of which implies that Cain was on a totally different class of warship. After a while Amberley gives up on trying to figure out which ship he was on.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Ciaphas Cain / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Zig-zagged in Caves of Ice with the tech-priest Logash, whose sole contribution is to tell them a little bit about ambulls before just hanging around. Some 70% of Cain's narration about him amounts to "What an annoying man he was" and/or "The mission would have gone smoother if I had thrown him to the Orks/ambulls/Necrons". However, he survived alone far better than any of the soldiers. In fact, without him they wouldn't have escaped near the end, or been able to blow up the facility, stopping the Necrons and saving millions of lives.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Ciaphas Cain / int_e6f18344	comment	Caves of Ice has the Orks at the start, with the Necrons as the real threat. That is before an Ork Gargant smashes through Necron Monoliths and threatens evacuation zone.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e73b36ed	type	Truce Trickery
Ciaphas Cain / int_e73b36ed	comment	Truce Trickery: Downplayed in The Greater Good. The Tau Empire signs a truce with the Imperium of Man amidst a border conflict over a minor planet because they detected Hive Fleet Kraken entering the region. On the surface the t'au and humans try to collaborate on a joint defense against the tyranids; however, in reality, both sides covertly try to make the other bear the brunt of the 'nid invasion in hopes of taking advantage once the hive fleet is defeated. The climax of Vainglorious involves Cain agreeing to continue to supply a Necron lord with the raw material to build himself a superweapon. Instead he fills up the crates with demo charges, skitarii and a Space Marine, letting them turn the tables on the villain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Ciaphas Cain / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: To various extents. Most of Cain's actual job description as a commissar consists of maintaining regimental discipline, but he's relatively laid-back about it since he's a decent guy who favors results over ironclad adherence to rules and regs. This especially includes Jurgen, a perpetually stinky and disheveled artilleryman whose surprising competence, literal-mindedness, and being a blank have saved Cain's ass many times. In Cain's Last Stand, though, even Cain rolls his eyes at some PDF fighter pilots who get a little carried away in a target-rich environment and have to be reminded what part of the enemy fleet they're supposed to be attacking. In The Traitor's Hand it becomes a major source of conflict when Commissar Beije becomes convinced that his more laid-back style is evidence of actual corruption. The man ends up interfering in operations several times as a result, nearly dooming the world they're defending in the process, and ends up bringing Cain before a tribunal on formal charges. Said tribunal dismisses the cowardice charges and then proceeds to indict Beije for incompetence. Cain has to call in favors to save Beije from getting shot by firing squad. It's also often mentioned (and shown) that Sentinel pilots have a pretty laissez faire approach to discipline and orders, disobeying the letter of their superiors' messages if they think they have a better idea and speaking rather more informally than is considered proper on official channels. Cain notes that this is endemic to most Sentinel pilots and cracking down on them to bring them in line would restrict their effectiveness as recon and fast attack specialists; therefore, smart officers (and commissars) tend to look the other way in most cases.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e8123047	type	Borrowed Biometric Bypass
Ciaphas Cain / int_e8123047	comment	Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Clearly known to work in-universe; when Cain and his cadets are escaping from the governor's mansion in Cain's Last Stand he puts a lasbolt through the genecode scanner that controls access to the escape tunnel specifically to prevent this.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Ciaphas Cain / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: A seemly minor event, but when Jurgen and Cain find the brain-washed Donal, Jurgen blank abilities start to free him from his mind-control. Jurgen hesitates and sheepishly ask Cain what's going on. He almost never does this even when he is fighting Chaos Space Marines, is in a Necron Tomb, or even when facing daemons. Actually, anyone mind-controlled by Varan is completely changed from Emperor loving citizens to Chaos worshiping fanatics in seconds. It's really quite disturbing.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e8bb3043	type	Kill It with Water
Ciaphas Cain / int_e8bb3043	comment	Kill It with Water: In Death or Glory, he takes out a large Ork army by destroying a dam. About 7000 Orks were counted as drowned. Averted with Cain referencing a belief that witches have a problem with water. Amberley then notes that this is merely a folktale and has no basis in reality.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Ciaphas Cain / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: At the end of Cain's Last Stand, Cain lures Varan to a meeting to discuss "terms of surrender". At the meeting, he announces that it's to discuss the terms on which Varan surrenders. He does it again a few pages later by fulfilling Commissar Donal's final request, killing Varan by putting the boot to his ass.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_e9fb50be	type	Redheads Are Ravishing
Ciaphas Cain / int_e9fb50be	comment	Redheads Are Ravishing: Averted. Cain tells Emeli that he prefers blondes before he shoots her, and later falls for the blonde Amberley. He does admit that he finds Colonel Kasteen, the red-haired colonel of the Valhallan 597th, to be quite attractive, but never follows up on it because of how that would complicate their working relationship. Finally, in The Traitor's Hand, Commissar Tomas Beije seems to be assuming that Cain is having an inappropriate relationship with Corporal Magot, who is also a redhead. He's very wrong; Magot's "preferences ran in an entirely different direction", and Cain "only has room for one lethally dangerous woman in [his] life."
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Ciaphas Cain / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Ciaphas Cain / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Emeli the Slaaneshi sorceress who eventually ascends to Daemon Princess.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_eb0d7317	type	Men of Sherwood
Ciaphas Cain / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: It varies from book to book. Sometimes, almost all of Cain's escort troops and other companions get killed, but a lot of the time minor characters fare pretty well, like the militia soldiers, prison camp escapees and tank crew stragglers in Death or Glory; members of the Valhalla 597th after their first two appearances; and the commissar cadets in Cain's Last Stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Ciaphas Cain / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Cain, Jurgen, and Amberley do this. A lot. Also, Captain Detoi and his troopers pull this off in Traitor's Hand, as do the surviving Reclaimers in The Emperor's Finest (sort of).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ecc99ac2	type	Fire Keeps It Dead
Ciaphas Cain / int_ecc99ac2	comment	Fire Keeps It Dead: The series references the Imperial practice of burning ork corpses to prevent re-infestation several times. In ''Death or Glory", Cain is rather confused at how insistent Jurgen is that they burn the corpses of the Orks they kill, and the accompanying footnote provides the trope's page quote.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Ciaphas Cain / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Several people in the Valhallan 296th and Valhallan 301st got their ranks in the merged Valhallan 597th this way. Colonel Kasteen and Major Broklaw were the highest-ranking surviving officers of their respective units, but Kasteen got the colonelcy based on three days' seniority (in other works, Broklaw's superiors took three days longer to be eaten by the Tyranids).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Ciaphas Cain / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: In For The Emperor, Cain sentences five troublemakers in the nascent 597th to certain death in a penal legion. He ends up having to lead them alongside Amberley Vail into the city's Absurdly-Spacious Sewer to get to the bottom of the local conspiracy. One deserts, later trying to off Cain only to get gibbed by Jurgen's meltagun. One takes a bolter round to the ribcage during the ensuing retreat from the 'stealer hordes. One gets His Head A Sploded by the traitorous governor. The final two have to be Mercy Killed by Cain himself after he realizes they've been infected by the Genestealers.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_edf8db61	type	Oh, My Gods!
Ciaphas Cain / int_edf8db61	comment	Oh, My Gods!: Cain occasionally uses "Emperor's Bowels!"; the modern equivalent should be obvious. Felicia Tayber is fond of "Omnissiah's cogs!"
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Ciaphas Cain / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, with Magos Killian in â€œEchoes of the Tombâ€� and Inquisitor Killian in Duty Calls.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Ciaphas Cain / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Subverted. Cain is so different from the stereotypical commissar (leading by example [so to speak] rather than fear and intimidation, not being trigger-happy, etc.) that it would seem that he's ineffective at his job, but both Amberley's comments and the actual memoirs indicate that this is anything but true. Cain justifies this in his writings, noting that commissars who do lead via fear and shooting their own men tend to Die Gloriously in Battle (many [hundreds of]) miles from the front lines) more often then not.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ef0acc4a	type	GRIMDARK
Ciaphas Cain / int_ef0acc4a	comment	Which makes sense when you realized that the events form the codexes (the main source of Grimdark) are only the major ones and are often centuries apart.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_efbc288f	type	Heroic Self-Deprecation
Ciaphas Cain / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Cain is a consummate master of this. There's a mixture of reasons for this: partly, it's because he knows that brushing away compliments about his mighty reputation will make him look heroic and modest to boot, partly that the vital contributions of his aide Jurgen are always overlooked and Cain gets all the credit, and partly because he really feels he doesn't deserve to celebrated as such a hero when he was only ever trying to save his own skin (or so he says).
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Ciaphas Cain / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Ciaphas Cain / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: The ultra-religious Tallarns, or at least Asmar and Beije in The Traitor's Hand, call it blasphemy that Cain had his dropship land on part of a monastery because he was in a hurry to get there to save them. The part in question was the vegetable garden. Then they don't even help fix it, unlike Cain's troops (having been redeployed already). They are slightly mollified when the Valhallans offer to have the bricks blessed in their names.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f03efcdb	type	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong
Ciaphas Cain / int_f03efcdb	comment	Cain gets one of these moments at the end of For The Emperor, when he executes two Guard troopers—the only survivors of a "special mission" other than himself and Inquisitor Vail—without forewarning or explanation. As the rest soon discover—and confirming Cain's unvoiced hunch—the two executed troopers turn out to be carrying Genestealer implants. Cain, despite claiming he's only acting concerned so that the guardsmen don't shoot him dead, is not pleased at this.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f1a6c4f8	type	Inevitable Mutual Betrayal
Ciaphas Cain / int_f1a6c4f8	comment	Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: The temporary alliance between Cain and a Dark Eldar Succubus in The Devil You Know ends this way, to no one's surprise.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f1bb4bd4	type	Emergency Presidential Address
Ciaphas Cain / int_f1bb4bd4	comment	Emergency Presidential Address: Played with in Duty Calls, as the governor's speech is a complete failure (and not even rehearsed; he seemed under the impression it was the rehearsal), demonstrating just how out-of-it the governor is (and with a name like Merkin W. Pismire the Younger, take a wild guess who he's supposed to be...). In Cain's Last Stand, the planetary governor's daughter is hastily located, sworn in, and instructed to make a broadcast to counter her father who is performing the same service for the other side. Cain himself makes a few broadcasts banking on his fame as The Liberator.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f1c860c4	type	Spider-Sense
Ciaphas Cain / int_f1c860c4	comment	Spider-Sense: Cain's palms itch when his subconscious is realizing something's amiss, but it hasn't hit the rest of his brain yet.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f243e0a7	type	Dangerous Deserter
Ciaphas Cain / int_f243e0a7	comment	Dangerous Deserter: The first book gets some of its tension from whether the penal squad will decide they've got nothing left to lose and become these. Kelp does. No one follows, and he seals his fate when he attacks Cain.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Ciaphas Cain / int_f3626b09	comment	Velade and Holenbi, Imperial Guardsmen from the first novel. This actually dooms them—the Genestealers infect them, specifically because they're in love. Any offspring would have eventually subverted the regiment and any places the regiment visited generations down, and when Ciaphas finds them showing signs of Genestealer infection, he shoots them.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f373d5e	type	Powder Keg Crowd
Ciaphas Cain / int_f373d5e	comment	Powder Keg Crowd: The regiment, when he first joins it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f37bf401	comment	In For the Emperor, the 597th gets stymied trying to break through entrenched traitor PDF units (the 597th are mechanized infantry, meaning they lack heavy armor or artillery to deal with entrenched opponents), but then the Fire Caste security presence at the T'au embassy sends in a unit of Hammerhead Hover Tanks as a Gunship Rescue, which blast a hole in the enemy lines.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f5129c45	comment	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious: The vat-grown foodstuff "soylens viridiens" is nutritionally complete if completely unenjoyable. Ciaphas loathes the stuff, but the Techpriests appreciate its convenience. The standard Militarium ration bars might not be "nasty", but certainly qualify on the other two counts. Cain refers several times to their "usual, and probably fortunate, lack of any clearly identifiable flavour", and definitely prefers real food, but is willing to eat ration bars if that's what's available.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Cain was declared KIA at the beginning of Death or Glory as the result of a space battle (in which not finding a body would be perfectly understandable). His record wasn't corrected to MIA (due to his radioing in a month after being declared dead) until around the time he managed to fight his way through the Ork army back to Imperial lines, and the revision to declare him alive didn't happen until after the campaign ended. According to Amberley's footnotes, this happened to him so many times over the course of his career that eventually the Munitorium stopped trying to keep track and declared that he would be listed as alive and on active duty at all times—even after his death from natural causes and burial with full military honors.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: Done with the Tyranids of all things in The Greater Good. The Tyranids attacking the planet are from a different hive than the ones that the Mechanicus has on ice, and tear into each other every chance they get. The rivalry between two different Chaos powers is a plot point in The Traitor's Hand. Causing one is the only reason Cain manages to survive his unplanned assault on the central Ork command post in Death or Glory. After killing the Warboss leading the whole WAAAGH!, rather than killing Cain and Jurgen on the spot, the various Nobz serving under him instead start bickering about who's in charge. And Orks being Orks, it only takes a few seconds for bickering to turn into bloodshed. Another character showing up and hosing down the whole mess with a heavy flamer ensures that this happens afterwards within the various Ork clans as well as between them; the resulting chaos is probably a large reason it only took two years to reclaim the planet after the Orks had conquered half of it.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f5c6409a	comment	In Cain's Last Stand, Chaos invades Perlia and clashes with the Perlian Defense Force and Cain and his students at the Military Academy. However, Cain becomes suspicious that the Necrons are active in the system as well. The necrons cut their way through the Chaos forces at the last minute, snatch up an artifact from the Imperial position, and then bug out, with the Imperials taking the opportunity to get the upper hand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Although we recognize it also depends on his luck.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f68ac685	comment	Battle Chant: In The Traitor's Hand there's a parody of this with the Khornites' catchphrase by having someone (mainly Cain) snark back at them whenever they show up (e.g. "Harriers for the Cup!", "Well, he can't have mine" "I'm getting really sick of hearing that"). The same book also has a scene where the Valhallans start chanting Cain's name as he duels a Chaos Space Marine, to his embarrassment.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f693f9a1	comment	A Way Out of a Cave-In: In Caves of Ice, an ambull is found wandering around the titular caves under a mining facility besieged by orks. A team is sent to investigate, as orks could easily use the backdoor into the facility. The fact that ambulls come from desert environments is brushed off until it turns out there's a dormant Necron facility with a working teleporter which the ambull probably wandered through... and then the Necrons start waking up.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: The Guardsmen characters constantly use "cogboy" as a mildly derogatory term for Tech-priests. In Death or Glory we find out that the Tech-priests themselves use "cog" as a compliment for someone who is essential to the smooth running of things but frequently not acknowledged. Given the Tech-priests assigned to the Guard are mechanics, most of them probably don't even know it's derogatory.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f76842b1	comment	The novella "Old Soldiers Never Die" has the Valhallan 597th working with a Tallarn regiment. By this point in his career, Cain is familiar enough with Tallarn customs to deliver a "Throne be praised" and Aquila sign at the same time the Tallarn colonel does.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Cain's gotten at least two of them in the same location... and he seems a bit annoyed that people keep calling them that. The valley itself is called that by the locals after the first one, and it's the name of the book where the second one takes place. In other words: Cain's last stand in Cain's Last Stand takes place in Cain's Last Stand, so named because it was the site of Cain's last stand.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f8c8175a	comment	The Traitor's Hand, once as a quotation, once by Beije—see Malicious Slander.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Many. Holograms flicker and require Percussive Maintenance. Jurgen has noticeable body odor and halitosis and looks dirty. Jurgen randomly offering Cain food and drinks. Cain's obsession with tanna, along with Amberley wondering how anyone can drink the stuff. Shrubberies find themselves destroyed very often by Jurgen's signature driving style. Everybody loves Cain and makes sculptures and whatnot dedicated to him, always wildly inaccurate. Cain hates the very existence of such art. Cain has to do something brave to maintain his heroic reputation. Cain chooses between two missions—one investigative, one on the active battlefield. He chooses the former. It doesn't end well and he mentions that in hindsight he would have gladly chosen the latter if he had any idea. The artwork usually depicts Cain with a bolt pistol instead of his preferred laspistol. This can be justified both in and out of universe by the bolter being the signature human weapon, and it just plain looks cooler than a laspistol. The Greater Good actually reveals the origin of the specific bolt pistol on the cover and its eventual fate. In The Traitor's Hand in particular, people mocking the Khornates' "Blood for the Blood God!" Battle Cry. Cain's lack of knowledge of space ships, his contradicting descriptions of them, and his tendency to leave out their names confounds Amberley to no end. She always tries to determine the name and class of the ship he is describing, just to edit and revise her conclusion so many times that she simply gives up trying. The Greater Good being a good example where she literally says she gives up trying to determine which ship Lord General Zyvan commandeered for his base of operations. Amberley's inability to determine Cain's planet of origin and determine his family history. Cain running away or trying to run away while also trying to make himself look good. Jurgen's simple-mindedness and his tendency to state the obvious. Cain's tendency to run into, and deal with, people whose ideas he regards as insane and suicidal. He is particularly leery of Tech-priests and those who dabble in technology (the two Necron Tomb incidents, the Reclaimers' insistence on boarding The Spawn of Damnation, and Kildhar's biological studies of the Tyranids from The Greater Good come to mind). Sulla being too gung-ho and looking like a horse. Amberley apologizing for Sulla's Purple Prose whenever she has to reference Sulla's memoirs in her footnotes. Cain or someone kills something only to force the person under it (often Cain) to roll away before it crushes them. Usually the person "just barely gets away" as it "lands where I/he/she was a moment/second before". Cain describing something as "too stupid to realize it's/he's/she's dead" at which point whatever it is (whether ork, Tyranid, human, etc.) collapses in a heap often with a stupefied/humorous look of its/his/her face.note In fact, one the times this is used for drama/horror is when a psyker uses her power to keep herself from dying from fatal wounds. It freaks Cain out for obvious reasons. People's tendency to swear a lot, especially Cain. One such instance in The Greater Good has him thinking that if he is about to die, that at least it would be among friends and that he should say something heroic. All he manages is yell "Frak off!" to a Tyranid.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Cain, to the kroot. Only an allusion, not leading to Revenge. This also may have simply been a lie as well, strengthened by the following footnote mentioning that Amberley still couldn't find any confirmation of Cain's actual past (becoming a commissar is an honor reserved for the children of Imperial heroes) and that he is exceptionally skilled at manipulating people. The Kroot shrugs it off and says he's sure they died well. Mind you, Cain doesn't care much for his parents.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl: The Tallarns in The Traitor's Hand, who refused to participate in an inter-Regimental hand-to-hand combat tournament because the 597th's team had women on it. To the surprise of exactly no one but the Tallarns and their commissar, the girl goes after their champion at the first opportunity. To the surprise of no one, Magot easily beats the warp out of the Tallarns' best fighter. He then gets in trouble because Magot has a higher rank than he does.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Por'el'hassai, the T'au ambassador that Cain saved in For The Emperor to keep a potential conflict from escalating, is nominally Cain's enemy (as much as any xenos is the enemy of the Imperium). Despite that, the two seem to have developed a distant if respectful rapport over the years. They even sit down in The Greater Good for a friendly game of Regicide.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fcaec6bf	comment	Orbital Bombardment: Not a surprise, as it's a standard tactic of many factions in The 'Verse at large. Duty Calls has the Imperial fleet supporting the Imperial Guard's ground operations against a tyranid invasion by blasting any 'nid-held locations they find out about. The planet's weather patterns make finding out about them difficult, unfortunately. In Cain's Last Stand Warmaster Varan's forces flatten the Perlian PDF headquarters with a battleship's lance batteries. The for-once-not-incompetent brass had already evacuated but we don't know the casualties.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Ciaphas Cain / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Amberley's comment about marshmallows and meltaguns became a running gag that appeared in the first three books. In Caves of Ice, Scrivener Quintus, in his idiosyncratic minutes of a meeting to assess the Ork threat on the refinery, offhandedly mentions that Broklaw fired his bolt pistol into the air to call the meeting to order. Later on, when Cain arrives after learning of the Necrons, he gets freaked out at the large blast hole in the ceiling, which Broklaw refers to like an inside joke.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: In Choose Your Enemies Cain refers to things with the appopriate aesthetic as "Eldary" to the amusement of his companions. By the end of the conversation they're all using it for lack of a better term.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_fea42091	comment	Nevertheless, at one point the 597th's Chaplain shows up, revealing that he's traded in the Church's own Hat of Authority for a standard trooper's armored helmet, and the eminently practical Cain allows himself a momentary pang of jealousy.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Ciaphas Cain / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: The Battle Sisters in Duty Calls, until Cain reminds them of other duties. Also, Orks, Tyranids, Necrons, and Khornates. One of Cain's (and the Valhallan 597'th's) strengths is recognizing that while yes, the Imperium does encourage the guards to attack and never stop, it's usually more effective to use actual tactics against foes. This is pointed out in The Last Ditch, when another Commissar points out that the 597th isn't "doing their duty to the Emperor" by charging and attacking as hard as they can. Officers of the 597th point out that by not following this trope, they've killed twice the enemies that the locals have and with a third of the casualties.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: A T'au diplomat instructs Cain on how to use one of the T'au's grappling and rappelling lines, which spool wire into the handle and can form a molecular bond from the handle to any surface it is placed on via a few buttons embedded into it. It is a simple device, and this would not normally take much time to explain. However, he explains it to Cain (at Cain's request) while Cain is desperately trying to fend off the attacks of a combat servitor with over-sensitive Friend or Foe? programming.
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Ciaphas Cain / int_ff769d04	comment	Thin Dimensional Barrier: In The Emperor's Finest, the Reclaimers Space Marines are able to track the space hulk Spawn of Damnation between star systems by locating the weak points it leaves in realspace when it transitions into the Warp.
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Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dead Man's Trigger Finger / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Deadly Sparring / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Deathbed Promotion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Decapitated Army / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Deck of Wild Cards / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Declining Promotion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Defeating the Undefeatable / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Demolitions Expert / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Demon of Human Origin / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Derailed Train of Thought / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Designated Point Man / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Desk Jockey / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Destruction Equals Off-Switch / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Did You Just Have Sex? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	"Die Hard" on an X / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dirty Business / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Disappointed by the Motive / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Disney Villain Death / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Disposable Pilot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dodge the Bullet / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Domesticated Dinosaurs / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Don't Ask, Just Run / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Doublethink / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Draw Aggro / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dreadful Musician / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Duel Boss / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dug Too Deep / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dumb, but Diligent / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dungeon Bypass / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Dwindling Party / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Earned Stripes / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Earth-Shattering Kaboom / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Eating the Eye Candy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Egopolis / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Elite Agents Above the Law / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Embarrassing Statue / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Emergency Authority / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Emergency Refuelling / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Emergency Trainee Battle Deployment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Emotion Bomb / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Endless Daytime / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Enemy Civil War / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	English Literature / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Enmity with an Object / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Erotic Dream / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Escape Pod / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Even the Subtitler Is Stumped / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Experience Entitlement / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Experienced Protagonist / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Explosive Decompression / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Extradimensional Emergency Exit / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fake Static / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fake Ultimate Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fantastic Livestock / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fauxshadow / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fear Is the Appropriate Response / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Feed It a Bomb / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Female Flatfoot and Snarky Guy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fictional Sport / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Field Promotion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	File Mixup / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fire Keeps It Dead / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Firing One-Handed / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	First Snow / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Flamethrower Backfire / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Flanderization / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fleur-de-lis / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Food End / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Food Pills / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	For Doom the Bell Tolls / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Forgot About the Mind Reader / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Founding Day / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Full-Name Basis / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Future Food Is Artificial / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Future Slang / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Geo Effects / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ghost Ship / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Girl of the Week / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Glamour Failure / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	God Before Dogma / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Gondor Calls for Aid / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Good-Looking Privates / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Got Volunteered / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Gracefully Demoted / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Gravity Screw / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Guard Stations Terminally Unattended / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Gung Holier Than Thou / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Guns in Church / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hand Cannon / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Handguns / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hands-On Approach / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Handsome Lech / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hangover Sensitivity / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Harmless Freezing / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Head-Tiltingly Kinky / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heal It with Booze / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heal It With Fire / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hedge Maze / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heh Heh, You Said "X" / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hell on Earth / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Helping Would Be Killstealing / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heroes' Frontier Step / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heroic Neutral / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heroic Self-Deprecation / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heroism Equals Job Qualification / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	He's Just Hiding / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Heterosexual Life-Partners / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hiding from Embarrassment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	High-Voltage Death / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Historical Hero Upgrade / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hobbling the Giant / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hold Your Hippogriffs / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hologram Projection Imperfection / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Holy Burns Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Holy Water / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Home Guard / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hopeless War / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	How Many Fingers? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Hulk Speak / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Human Hard Drive / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Human Shield / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Humans Are White / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Humble Goal / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Don't Know Mortal Kombat / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Knew It! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Meant to Do That / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Surrender, Suckers / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I Will Only Slow You Down / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Idealist vs. Pragmatist / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	If I Wanted You Dead... / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ignorant of the Call / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	I'll Take That as a Compliment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Implied Love Interest / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Impossibly Tacky Clothes / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Imposter Forgot One Detail / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Impromptu Campfire Cookout / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	In Mysterious Ways / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	In the Back / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	In Working Order / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Inappropriately Close Comrades / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Incorruptible Pure Pureness / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Indestructible Edible / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Industrial World / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Indy Ploy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Inertia Is a Cruel Mistress / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Infallible Narrator / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Insert Grenade Here / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Instant Marksman: Just Squeeze Trigger! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Invincible Incompetent / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Invisible Introvert / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ironic Name / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ironic Nursery Tune / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Is This Thing Still On? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	It Began with a Twist of Fate / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	It Has Been an Honor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	It's the Only Way to Be Sure / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Jabba Table Manners / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Join or Die / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Just Eat Him / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Just Think of the Potential! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Keeping the Handicap / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Keystone Army / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Kissing Under the Influence / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Klatchian Coffee / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Knee-capping / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Laborious Laziness / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Language Equals Thought / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lantern Jaw of Justice / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Large and in Charge / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Large Ham Title / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lawful Neutral / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lawful Stupid / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Leaning on the Fourth Wall / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Legally Dead / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lemony Narrator / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Level Grinding / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lie to the Beholder / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Little Did I Know / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Live-Action Escort Mission / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Living Gasbag / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Living Legend / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Load-Bearing Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Lord Error-Prone / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Love at First Note / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Loving Details / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Low-Tier Letdown / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	MacGyvering / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mad Bomber / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Magic Is Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Magical Underpinnings of Reality / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Majorly Awesome / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Master Swordsman / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Matriarchy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mauve Shirt / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Men of Sherwood / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Merciful Minion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Meta Power / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Methuselah Syndrome / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mile-Long Ship / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Miles Gloriosus / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Military Maverick / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Military Salute / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Million to One Chance / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mistaken for Afterlife / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mistaken for Badass / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mistaken for Flatulence / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mobile Kiosk / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Modesty Towel / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Moe Greene Special / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Molotov Truck / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Monochrome Casting / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Monumental Damage / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mook Chivalry / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	More Expendable Than You / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	More Hero than Thou / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	More Senior Subordinate / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Motivational Lie / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mr. Vice Guy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Multi-Armed and Dangerous / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Multi-Track Drifting / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Multi-Ethnic Name / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	My Friends... and Zoidberg / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Mysterious Past / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Name of Cain / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Naming Your Colony World / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nay-Theist / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nerves of Steel / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nightmarish Factory / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No One Could Survive That! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No-Respect Guy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No Sex Allowed / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No Time to Think / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	No Yay / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nominal Importance / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Non-Promotion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nondescript, Nasty, Nutritious / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	North Is Cold, South Is Hot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Nose Art / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	"Not How I'm Dying" Declaration / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Not the Intended Use / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Obligatory Earpiece Touch / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Obliviously Superpowered / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Obstructive Zealot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Obviously Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Official Presidential Transport / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Oh, and X Dies / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Oh, My Gods! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Old Retainer / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Old-School Dogfight / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Omnibus / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	One-Wheeled Wonder / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Only I Can Make It Go / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Only in It for the Money / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Opportunistic Bastard / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Original Position Fallacy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Outscare the Enemy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Overheating / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Overranked Soldier / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Overshadowed by Awesome / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Overt Operative / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Overzealous Underling / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Painful Persona / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Paperwork Punishment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Paralysis by Analysis / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pardon My Klingon / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pent-Up Power Peril / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Performer Guise / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Perilous Old Fool / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Persona Non Grata / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Personality Powers / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Phlebotinum-Handling Equipment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pillow Pistol / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Placebo Effect / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Plague of Good Fortune / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Plot Armor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Plug 'n' Play Prosthetics / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pop the Tires / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Porn Stash / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Possessing a Dead Body / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Powder Keg Crowd / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Power Cable Attack / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Power of Trust / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pragmatic Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pre-Insanity Reveal / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Prefers Rocks to Pillows / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Prehensile Tail / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Preserve Your Gays / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pretty Fly for a White Guy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pretty Spry for a Dead Guy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Prisons Are Gymnasiums / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Professional Slacker / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Propaganda Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Prophetic Names / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Proportional Aging / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Pull Yourself Down the Spear / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Punch-Clock Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rabble Rouser / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rake Take / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ramming Always Works / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Reading Tea Leaves / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Real Name as an Alias / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Reality Changing Miniature / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Recruit the Muggles / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Red Shirt / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Reflexive Remark of Reverence / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Religion of Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Removing the Earpiece / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Ridiculously Potent Explosive / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Right in Front of Me / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Right Under Their Noses / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Road Block / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rogue Soldier / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Romantic Runner-Up / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Room Disservice / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Royal Inbreeding / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Royally Screwed Up / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rugby Is Slaughter / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Rugged Scar / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sanity Has Advantages / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Saved by Canon / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Scarred Equipment / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Scotty Time / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Scrapbook Story / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Screaming Warrior / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sea of Sand / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Secular Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	See the Invisible / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	See the Whites of Their Eyes / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Seeking Sanctuary / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Self-Made Myth / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sensor Suspense / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Serial Escalation / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Smith / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sexy Discretion Shot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Shattering the Illusion / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Showy Invincible Hero / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Shrine to the Fallen / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Shrug of God / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	"Shut Up!" Gunshot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sick and Wrong / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sidenote Full Story / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Signature Scent / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Singing in the Shower / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Skip the Anesthetic / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Skirts and Ladders / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Slave to PR / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Continuity / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Slippy-Slidey Ice World / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sniper Pistol / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sniping the Cockpit / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Snowball Lie / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Soldiers at the Rear / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Something for Everyone / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Space Cadet Academy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Space Is Noisy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Spaceship Slingshot Stunt / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Spider-Sense / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Stage Whisper / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Standard Time Units / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Stealing the Credit / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Stereotype Flip / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Stock British Phrases / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Straight for the Commander / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Stranded with Edison / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Strange Salute / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Strategy, Schmategy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Straw Feminist / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Strictly Professional Relationship / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Subspace Ansible / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	"Success Through Sex" Accusation / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Suicide Mission / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Supernatural Fear Inducer / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Suspicious Spending / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Sword and Gun / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Tagalong Chronicler / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Taking the Veil / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Tanks, but No Tanks / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Target Spotter / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Teleportation Misfire / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Teleportation Rescue / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Teleporter Accident / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	That's What She Said / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Battlestar / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Brigadier / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Chanteuse / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Corruptible / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Drag-Along / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Dreaded Toilet Duty / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Elevator from Ipanema / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Greatest Story Never Told / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Leader / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Little Detecto / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Magnificent / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Men First / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The One That Got Away / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Only One I Trust / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Pardon / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Pig-Pen / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Political Officer / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Radio Dies First / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Resenter / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Scrounger / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The So-Called Coward / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Squadette / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Stoic / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Team Benefactor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	The Unfettered / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	There Are No Therapists / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Thermal Dissident / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Thin Dimensional Barrier / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Throwing Down the Gauntlet / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Tidally Locked Planet / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Token Romance / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Too Awesome to Use / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Too Gifted to Teach Others / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Toothbrush Floor Scrubbing / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Torture Is Ineffective / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Trading Bars for Stripes / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Tragic Bigot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Trapped Behind Enemy Lines / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Trapped-with-Monster Plot / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Trial by Friendly Fire / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Truce Trickery / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	True Companions / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	True Neutral / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Typhoid Mary / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Uncoffee / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Undercover Model / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Underequipped Charge / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Underestimating Badassery / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unequal Pairing / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unfit for Greatness / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unreliable Expositor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Untouchable Until Tagged / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Unwanted False Faith / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Up Through the Ranks / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Upper-Class Twit / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Vader Breath / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Variant Chess / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Vengeful Vending Machine / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Veteran Instructor / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Villainous Demotivator / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Walk, Don't Swim / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Walk This Way / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Walking Disaster Area / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Warding Gestures / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	We Do the Impossible / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Welcomed to the Masquerade / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	"We're Live" Realization / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Westminster Chimes / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	What Did You Expect When You Named It ____? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	What Would X Do? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Where's the Kaboom? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Who Would Be Stupid Enough? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Why Won't You Die? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Women's Mysteries / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Workout Fanservice / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	World of Action Girls / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	World's Best Warrior / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Wounds to Keep / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Wrench Wench / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You Are Better Than You Think You Are / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You Can See Me? / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You Can't Make an Omelette... / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You Have Failed Me / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You Remind Me of X / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	You're Not My Type / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	In the Future, We Still Have Roombas / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Orichalcum / int_e694aadb
Ciaphas Cain	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Guilt Trip / int_e694aadb

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