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* Kane Hodder is an actor-slash-stuntman who is solely credited as portraying [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] in four (consecutive) films in the franchise's history (''Part VII: The New Blood, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday,'' and ''Jason X''). He also did stunts for Leatherface's actor in ''Texas Chainsaw Massacre III.'' All in all, "horror movie badass extraordinaire" probably looks good on a résumé.
* Creator/MichaelCaine, best known for playing LovableRogue type characters. It's a LineOfSightName. He was originally going to change his name to Michael Scott, but that name was taken, and he happened to spot an ad for ''Film/TheCaineMutiny''. He has joked in interviews that had he looked the other way, he would have ended up as "Michael One Hundred and One Dalmatians".
* Mixed-martial-artist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_Velasquez Cain Velasquez]] is a former UFC heavyweight champion known for his aggressive and high-energy fighting style.
%%* CDNS CEO Paul Kane, who now owns one of the seven master keys to the internet. Make of that what you will.
%%* Bob Kane, the man who co-created Batman.
* Inverted by Creator/DeanCain, who primarily plays heroic characters and is a total NiceGuy off camera.
* Herman Cain, a former 2012 Presidential candidate, seemed to like poking fun at this.
* There's a chain of fast-food chicken strip restaurants called [[http://www.raisingcanes.com Raising Cane's]]. The franchise was named after the founder's dog.
* Christian Kane, actor and musician, best known for being Lindsey Macdonald on ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and Elliot on ''Series/{{Leverage}}''. He is a PintSizedPowerhouse that did most of his own stunts on the latter.
* The Chilean pro-gamer Kane Blueriver (real name Nicolas Gonzalez), famous worldwide to be one of the most prolific gamers of all times, specifically in {{fighting game}}s. Different from various examples, his nickname comes from the eponymous ''Anime/LostUniverse'' character than the biblical Cain.
* Tim Cain, one of the founders of ''Creator/{{Obsidian}}'' was the one who conceptualized the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' franchise. He introduced the franchise’s bleak tone to explore the depths of darkness in humankind.
* Kain, ''just'' Kain, the hero of ''VideoGame/{{Wrack}}''. He is one of the few BloodKnight wracketeers remaining in a world without violence, so naturally when alien invaders sees this as an opportunity to conquer humanity, Kain on the other hand sees this as an opportunity to kick ass and fulfill his bloodlust.
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** ''ComicBook/XMen'' has Cain Marko, [[TheJuggernaut THE JUGGERNAUT]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]] Even more [[MeaningfulName appropriate]] given he's Xavier's [[CainAndAbel older, stronger, bullying stepbrother]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything jealous of his brother's intelligence and family favor]]. If you're still not convinced, [[IncrediblyLamePun flip his names around]].

** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': Kaine from ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. Being an unstable, overpowered psycho clone who simultaneously loves and hates Peter Parker (and [[CloningBlues Ben Reilly]]) is pretty fitting here. Anyone he killed had an ugly scar on his face called "The Mark of Kaine," and he could even put this mark on someone ''without'' killing him if he wanted to make a serious point. Basically, as a clone of Spidey, he uses the power that lets him stick to walls... '''on your face.''' Ow. Nowadays, as the new ComicBook/ScarletSpider, he's calmed down considerably, but he's still quite the threat, especially being bonded to The Other.

* Despite having a brother called Abel, nothing in ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd'' suggests that Cain and Abel are the biblical Cain and Abel. They're just a couple of angels with some unfortunate names [[spoiler: and end up following through on their namesake.]]

%%* Literature/CiaphasCain '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!!!''', a FakeUltimateHero, has not one but two names with unfortunate Biblical implications.

%%* General Thaddeus Kaine of ''VideoGame/ZorkNemesis''.

%%* Adam "Kane" Marcus from ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch''.

* TheRival in VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden is named Kayin. He comes with a boatload of symbolism about his name.

-->-- '''Herman Cain's''' typical self-introduction

* ''Manga/TrinityBlood'': Cain Knightlord is the BigBad of the story, being leader of the terrorist organization Rosencreutz Orden and the older brother for Abel Nightroad, Seth Nightlord and Lilith Sahl (the latter killed by Cain). Although the series is based in a {{Steampunk}} future version of the Dark Age, the many biblical references of the main characters, as well all of them being [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Crusnik]] (lab-created vampires that feed from other vampires), makes this Cain a ''big'' reference to the original one as well to Caine, the ''first'' vampire from ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''.
* ''Anime/LostUniverse'': Kane Blueriver, a space adventurer with his own ship who's also a descendant of [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]] thousand of years in the future. Inverted here, since he's the HeroProtagonist of the series and a AllLovingHero.

** ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis: Revelations'' establishes that much of the concept of Cain was actually based on the immortal supervillain ComicBook/VandalSavage, who used Cain as one of his [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]].
** ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'': Cain is the sinister trickster host; his brother Abel hosts its sister series, ''House of Secrets''. While originally the names weren't strictly meant to say that they're ''the'' CainAndAbel, their appearances as supporting characters in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' established that they're really a pair of StarfishAliens from billions of years ago who were the first sentient lifeforms in the universe to intentionally kill another of its own kind and its victim. The first act of murder was so monumental that they became archetypes living on for all of history in the collective unconscious of all life, [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith perceived by each new observer as one of their own]] and inspiring stories such as the Bible story of Cain and Abel. It's interesting to note that, while Eve is also a character in the comics, she does not consider herself to be related to them and denies it when Cain calls her "Mother". Cain responds that she is "everyone's mother", [[NoodleIncident and leaves it at that]].

%%* Lord Kane from the original ''VideoGame/ShiningForce''.

* Though it's really a Disguise/Split personality, there's a Cain in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac''. He wears an eyepatch and his starting skills make him a 'rogue' kind of characters. Abel makes an appearance as an item/familiar.

* Kain of ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIV'', complete with feeling jealous and overshadowed by his brother-figure Cecil. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Golbez takes advantage of this.]]

* Billy Kane from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' games, though in this case his surname is pronounced "Khan". A vicious fighter and henchman of [[SuperMobBoss Geese Howard]] who also has a [[MonsterBrotherCutieSister cute little sister]] called Lilly Kane, literally the "Abel" of his big brother, but Billy [[BigBrotherInstinct protects her]] instead of wanting to kill her.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': What [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-073 SCP-073]] calls himself. Ironically he's a pleasant WalkingWasteland while [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2]], "Able," is an AxCrazy BloodKnight. Professor Crow's first name is also Kain.

* The Kain family from {{VideoGame/Pathologic}}. Though they aren't evil(there are no exact villains in the game), they are still creepy and mysterious - the [[spoiler: recently deceased]] patriarch of the family was a seemingly immortal man, his sister-in-law was resident TheCaligula, and her daughter [[spoiler: is obsessed and probably in love with one of the protagonists.]]

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series' Dr. Cain isn't a bad guy, but his attempts to copy Dr. Light's research has ended in disaster. (Guess Dr. Cain forgot about the whole "30 years of brainwashing--er, we mean, ethical training".)

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series' Dr. Cain isn't a bad guy, but his attempts to copy Dr. Light's research has ended in disaster. (Guess Dr. Cain forgot about the whole "30 years of brainwashing--er, I mean, ethical training".)

* Karl Edward Wagner's {{Literature/Kane}}, who is in fact a Conan-esque (that's the description for those who have never read the Kane books... he's actually not much like Conan at all) version of the Biblical Cain, with stories that take place in a dangerous and dark prehistory. Kane himself was cursed with immortality by an insane elder god after having strangled his brother, Abel. From the evidence given in the stories, it's pretty clear that the insane elder god is meant to be Jahweh, i.e., {{God}}.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Meet -- Literature/CiaphasCain[[note]][[LargeHamTitle HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]][[/note]], [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]], [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Khaine]], [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]], this [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Kane]], [[OverlyLongGag aaand]] [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Caine]]. Not pictured: Wrestling/{{Kane}}, VideoGame/{{Kane|AndLynch}}, [[Film/InTheMouthOfMadness Sutter Cane]], Literature/{{the Kane|Chronicles}}s, or Creator/MichaelCaine.]]

* Gabriel Caine from ''Webcomic/{{EVIL}}''.

[[caption-width-right:350:Meet -- Literature/CiaphasCain[[note]][[LargeHamTitle HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]][[/note]], [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]], [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Khaine]], [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]], this [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Kane]], [[OverlyLongGag aaand]] [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Caine]]. Not pictured: Wrestling/{{Kane}}, VideoGame/{{Kane|AndLynch}}, [[Film/InTheMouthOfMadness Sutter Cane]], or Literature/{{the Kane|Chronicles}}s.]]

* An interesting example here is Kwai Chang Caine from ''Series/KungFu'' -- generally a good guy, but not wholly unlike his biblical namesake; he killed a man and had to leave his homeland because of it.

* The two main characters of ''Webcomic/{{Starfighter}}'' are code-named Cain and Abel. Cain is a cocky, [[TallDarkAndHandsome dark]], BastardBoyfriend and former criminal who's involved in some kind of subterfuge with the higherups. Despite being a major {{Jerkass}} and somewhat abusive, he comes across as cool, competent, and sexy.

[[caption-width-right:350:Meet - Literature/CiaphasCain,[[labelnote:*]][[LargeHamTitle HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]][[/labelnote]] [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]], [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Khaine]], [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]], this [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Kane]], [[OverlyLongGag aaand]] [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Caine]]. Not pictured: Wrestling/{{Kane}}, [[VideoGame/KaneAndLynch Kane]], [[Film/InTheMouthOfMadness Sutter Cane]], or [[Literature/TheKaneChronicles the Kanes]].]]

* The villain of the first ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' movie is named Kain (though it's pronounced like "kine" in accordance with Japanese phonetics).
* Cain Knightlord from ''Manga/TrinityBlood'' is the BigBad of the story, being leader of the terrorist organization Rosencreutz Orden and the older brother for Abel Nightroad, Seth Nightlord and Lilith Sahl (the latter killed by Cain). Although the series is based in a {{Steampunk}} future version of the Dark Age, the many biblical references of the main characters, as well all of them being [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Crusnik]] (lab-created vampires that feed from other vampires), makes this Cain a ''big'' reference to the original one as well to Caine, the ''first'' vampire from ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''.
* Kane Blueriver from ''Anime/LostUniverse'', a space adventurer with his own ship who's also a descendant of [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]] thousand of years in the future. Inverted here, since he's the HeroProtagonist of the series and a AllLovingHero.
%%* Cain in ''Anime/{{Nightwalker}}''.
* Kane from ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'' is an example that's played straight in the manga and played with in the anime. In the manga, he's an evil genius who's willing to play dirty to defeat Takao, although DefeatMeansFriendship kicks in after he fails to secure victory. In the anime, he's sociable and hits it off with Takao right away. Then he becomes BrainwashedAndCrazy and is turned into a severely unhinged variant of his manga self. He gets better.
* Cain of ''Manga/CountCain''. While he's actually the protagonist, he was given the name because his father believes him to be cursed. He has a troubled past, is known as a ladies' man, collects poisons for a hobby, and has the unlucky tendency of having the people around him die often, and in gruesome ways. However [[spoiler:on his death]], Alexis reveals that he named his son "Cain" because even though the biblical Cain committed a terrible sin, God still forgave and protected him, and eventually allowed him to settle down.
* ''Golden Cain''. The title refers to the main character's enigmatic love interest who's trouble, to say the least.
* ''Teknoman'', the US adaptation of ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'', renames EvilTwin Shinya Aiba into Cain Carter... possibly to make up for renaming his tekkaman form to Teknoman Saber instead of the extremely descriptive "Tekkaman ''Evil''". The name Cain actually makes sense here, though: Based on the flashbacks, it seems that the twins' incredibly screwed up parents had been intentionally goading their sibling rivalry into full blown homicidal malice for pretty much their entire childhood, before anyone had ever heard of a tekkaman.
%%* The ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' anime used a guy named Kaine the Longshot to replace a less family-friendly villain in the manga version.
* Sergeant Kain Fuery of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. Subverted in that he's a rather shy and somewhat geeky communications officer. WordOfGod says that the author picked most of the first names for more minor characters at random from a dictionary of European names. It's actually a misromanization of Huey, after the [[EveryHelicopterIsAHuey iconic helicopter]], as part of the military characters' ThemeNaming, all of them being christened after military aircraft. Huey Kane does sound a bit more fitting for the character.
* Prince Cain from ''Manga/DawnOfTheArcana''. He is Caesar's older half-brother and the first-in-line to the Belquat throne. However, he holds a strong hatred for Caesar as Caesar's mother was put as queen while Cain's mother was dethroned, Caesar has black hair (hair color is taken as SeriousBusiness with black hair being the most favorable while the rest of the hair colors are seen as "common"), and Cain's fiancee Louise has feelings for Caesar.
* A combined subversion and straight use of the trope in ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': The Cain of this series is [[spoiler: Leader of an alien civilization destroyed by the Zonder. Cain also developed the G-Stone technology and sent Galeon to Earth with his son, Latio (AKA Mamoru). In short, a strong candidate for the show's [[BigGood Big Good]].]] However, in FINAL, [[spoiler: A replicant of Cain, named Pei La Cain, acts as one of the villainous 11 Sol Masters. Notably, his only two contributions to FINAL's plot are a brief appearance that costs Guy dearly in his first duel with Palparepa, and serving as Mamoru's opponent in the final battle.]]

* Cain Madhouse is the BigBad of ''Manga/ToTheAbandonedSacredBeasts''. An AxCrazy [[TakeOverTheWorld megalomaniac]], Cain believes it is the right of the Incarnates to rule the world with him in charge.

* The [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batfamily]] has a couple of these:
** Kathy Kane, the original ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, and her niece Bette Kane, Bat-Girl. Unambiguously heroic, but usually treated as pests or second-raters by ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', whose mother's maiden name also happened to be Kane. Probably named after ''Batman'' creator Creator/BobKane, who appears not to have been a real-life example of this trope. [[http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/389/ Maybe.]]
** [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Cassandra Cain]], the second Batgirl, is the daughter of an assassin (David Cain) and the world's greatest martial artist (Sandra Woosan, a.k.a. Lady Shiva). Cain raised her to kill practically from birth, but she escaped and became a superhero. Her name is probably a MythologyGag for the first Bat-Girl.
** The current Post-Crisis ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}, Katherine "Kate" Kane, has been drawn into the inner workings of the [[ReligionOfEvil Religion of Crime]] due to her presence at the heart of their prophecies regarding the "twice-named Daughter of Cain". As a "twice-named" (referring to [[spoiler:her twin sister, who she thought was lost as a child]]) and the daughter of a "Kane," the religion has become somewhat preoccupied with her sacrifice.
* One of the recurring enemies of ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'' is one Killer Kane. Originally simply a CrazyJealousGuy soldier who became Buck's enemy after his girlfriend Wilma Deering left him for Buck, he was later upgraded into a "super-racketeer" who rules the Earth of 2440 as its supreme dictator.
* One of the early enemies of ComicBook/TheFalcon was a Daryl Kane, a low-level crimelord who creatively began calling himself "Nemesis" after clasing with Sam.
* During ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis: Revelations'' it is established that much of the concept of Cain was actually based on the immortal supervillain ComicBook/VandalSavage, who used Cain as one of his [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]].
* Vincent Cain aka Cain the Gris-Gris Man from the ''ComicBook/GhostRider'' books. Despite his name, he's not actually a Gris-Gris Man or even a man at all, but rather a murderous avatar of vengeance created by the elderly and bitter voodoo practitioner Ruby Avedon.
* Cain was the sinister trickster host of DC's horror anthology series ''House of Mystery''; his brother Abel hosted its sister series, ''House of Secrets''. While originally the names weren't strictly meant to say that they're ''the'' CainAndAbel, their appearances as supporting characters in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' established that they were really a pair of StarfishAliens from billions of years ago who were the first sentient lifeforms in the universe to intentionally kill another of its own kind and its victim. The first act of murder was so monumental that they became archetypes living on for all of history in the collective unconscious of all life, [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith perceived by each new observer as one of their own]] and inspiring stories such as the Bible story of Cain and Abel. It's interesting to note that while Eve is also a character in the comics, she does not consider herself to be related to them and denies it when Cain calls her "Mother". Cain responds that she is "everyone's mother", [[NoodleIncident and leaves it at that]].

* Kaine from the infamous Franchise/SpiderMan storyline ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. Being an unstable, overpowered psycho clone who simultaneously loves and hates Peter Parker (and [[CloningBlues Ben Reilly]]) is pretty fitting here. Anyone he killed had an ugly scar on his face called "The Mark of Kaine," and he could even put this mark on someone ''without'' killing him if he wanted to make a serious point. Basically, as a clone of Spidey, he uses the power that lets him stick to walls... '''on your face.''' Ow. Nowadays, as the new ComicBook/ScarletSpider, he's calmed down considerably, but he's still quite the threat, especially being bonded to The Other.

* Joshua Kane, hunter of big game and werewolves in ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'' issue 4 and his unscrupulous businessman brother, Luther Kane.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Vol 3]]: Kane Milohai is a Hawaiian god and ally of Wonder Woman's. He helps her get back into Olympus, and is rewarded for his efforts by having his heart ripped out by Zeus.
* Garrison Kane of ''ComicBook/XForce'' was originally a subversion, as despite his RageAgainstTheMentor motivation he was still a hero, and frankly ComicBook/{{Cable}} kind of deserved it for leaving Kane to die. Later after his original creators left he played his name very straight, falling prey to CyberneticsEatYourSoul and becoming the merciless enforcer for the mutant concentration camp Neverland.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' has Cain Marko, [[TheJuggernaut THE JUGGERNAUT]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]] Even more [[MeaningfulName appropriate]] given he's Xavier's [[CainAndAbel older, stronger, bullying stepbrother]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything jealous of his brother's intelligence and family favor]]. If you're still not convinced, [[IncrediblyLamePun flip his names around]].

* The ''FanFic/RebornTrilogy'' has Boba Fett taking on the title of Darth Kain when he joins forces with Palpatine and becomes a Sith Lord. [[spoiler: He ends up renouncing it and becoming Boba Fett again just before his HeelFaceDoorSlam.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Meet - Literature/CiaphasCain,[[labelnote:*]][[LargeHamTitle HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]][[/labelnote]] [[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Kain]], [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Khaine]], [[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Deckard Cain]], this [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Kane]], [[OverlyLongGag aaand]] [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Caine]]. Not pictured: Wrestling/{{Kane}}, [[VideoGame/KaneAndLynch Kane]], or [[Literature/TheKaneChronicles The Kanes]].]]

For when the character is actually Cain himself (which is a case of CriticalResearchFailure, since the Biblical Cain dies not two pages after getting his mark), see {{Cain}} and BiblicalBadGuy. For when the character is descended from him, see TheDescendantsOfCain.