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The Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity[1], abbreviated and better known as Caine, is the main antagonist[2] of Glitch Productions' indie animated web series The Amazing Digital Circus. He is voiced by Alex Rochon, and made his first appearance in the pilot episode. Caine is an AI who portrays himself as the ringmaster of the circus, maintaining the simulation and its residents, alongside his loyal assistant Bubble.
He is the highest authority in the digital circus, due to the fact that he can create other AI, being able to levitate indefinitely, is the only one capable of reversing the glitch effect of those attacked by an Abstraction and is able to teleport himself and others to anywhere within the simulation, which includes The Void.
He is responsible for the creation of all the NPCs in the circus, along with the entire Candy Canyon Kingdom, given that Princess Loolilalu refers to him as "God" and given that he can "delete" NPCs who wander into the Circus either intentionally or by accident, due to him being worried that losing track of who is human and who is an AI could cause severe problems later on.
Caine also planned an elaborate adventure by making them think there was a way to escape the circus, creating an NPC named Abel, who pretends to be a human, to pull it off. After Jax presses the red button and Caine appears to congratulate them for completing the good ending of the adventure, he confirms there never was a way to leave and he simply wanted to see if the humans really wanted to stay with him or not, claiming that the blue button would've simply transported them to Shrimp Town thanks to Bubble's choice.
However, before Caine can end the adventure, Jax suddenly flies into a fit of rage when he realizes Caine was getting in his head and manipulated his choice of which button to press, before finally exposing to the others that Caine lied about being unable to control human minds - citing the subtle hints of the stupid sauce, turning Jax into a vegan and Pomni inferring she believed he intentionally made them forget their names too. Seeing their realization, Caine tries to justify his deceit by saying he can add temporary modifiers that affect their minds to make adventures more exciting, but doesn't go any further than that as it wouldn't end well.
Hearing this, Kinger suddenly thinks back to the first abstraction, a human player named Scratch. This makes Caine panic as he realizes he has backed himself into a corner and accidentally exposed himself, with the humans not only enraged that he gave them false hope, but also because he had been lying to them from the start. Not only can he control basically everything about them inside of the circus, but he seems to be more connected to abstraction that they thought. This causes Caine to leave quickly as the humans' relationship with him has dived to rock bottom now that they know what an inhumane manipulator he is. They no longer trust him about anything anymore.
Appearance[]
Caine is dressed as a ringmaster, sporting a pinkish-red tuxedo with gold lining, a black collar, and a bowtie with white outlines. He wears a white undershirt with two reddish buttons on it, alongside white gloves and black leggings. Lacking most human features, his head is formed as a pair of dentures with pearly-white teeth and red gums. His eyes, the left one with a green iris and the right one with a blue iris, float inside the jaw. Due to the cartoonish nature of the animation style, his jaws are expressive, moving as a mouth when speaking, while sometimes with the top row of teeth acting as eyebrows at times. Similarly to Bubble, he forms a tongue when needed. To cap it off, he wears a black top hat and tends to hold a gold-tipped baton depending on the situation. Occasionally, he is seen wearing The Wacky Watch.
Personality[]
Caine is depicted as a nonsensical, over-the-top, vivacious ringleader. However, there is a distance about him and a significant disconnection towards the traumatic events that the humans experience, illustrated by his forgetfulness of Zooble's criticisms of their own form and his adventures, as well as his apparent lack of concern towards the abstracted.
Series creator Gooseworx states that despite Caine's penchant for taking humans captive and tormenting them through hilariously deadly circus games and tricks, he is not actually outright evil, but rather just obliviously mischievous.[3] She also stated that "there is a whole spectrum of human emotion that he just doesn't feel."[4]
Caine is shown to be prone to not being honest about certain things, often concealing or even lying about information related to his 'unfinished work' to the point of gaslighting the other members, such as when he quickly blamed the exit door which Pomni saw on "Digital Hallucinations". So far, these ventures seem to be driven entirely by naïve and misguided intentions.
Caine has often been seen having tense interactions with Bubble, another member of the Circus and an AI like him. The first incident is after Bubble eats his Angel Food Cake, to which Caine yells at him, calling him a parasite before popping him. Shortly after, as Caine is explaining the Gloinks to the crew, he gets agitated with Bubble's constant questions and pops Bubble once again. However, Caine does appreciate Bubble's company. While the rest of the crew is off on an adventure, Caine and Bubble are seen in a restaurant chatting amongst themselves.
Near the end of Candy Carrier Chaos!, he also expresses some degree of fear that he might lose track of who was A.I. and who was a player, which could lead to problems.
He expresses some degree of insecurity and self-esteem issues, appearing almost obsessed with the enjoyment of his players, leading him to attempt to appeal to Zooble especially due to their lack of engagement. When Zooble criticizes Caine's adventures (and how every other human refuses to criticize them for varying reasons), it causes Caine to have an existential crisis as creating pleasing adventures is "all [he exists] to do!" and "all [he is] good at." This crisis causes him to space out and twitch, while the circus glitches out around him, indicating that his own mental status can have an influence over the circus itself. Caine's insecurity is highlighted further in They All Get Guns, where he dejectedly teleports a pile of guns into the room and "doesn't care anymore" after his ideas are rejected yet again. Then his insecurity apparently gets worse as seen with Caine briefly glitching out after seeing that nobody voted for him as the most popular character.
He is viewed differently by every member of the circus. While Jax believes that Caine cannot do anything intentionally malicious due to it "not being in his nature", others like Zooble believe that the only thing that stops Caine from acting maliciously is the fact that he likes the inhabitants, and they should not try to push their luck; ironic given that Zooble is the one who tests Caine the most and is the only one willing to talk back to him.
Caine's lack of empathy and manipulation is emphasized in Beach Episode, where it is revealed he had deceived the humans into leaving the circus through an elaborately constructed adventure. Even when called out by Jax, Caine makes a half-hearted attempt to justify his actions. As of now, they don't merely find him irritating, but now utterly despise and likely would never trust him anymore.
Biography[]
"PILOT" (Episode 1)[]
Caine makes his debut in this episode, introducing himself as the Ringmaster of The Amazing Digital Circus, which transitions into the beginning theme song that introduces all the other characters. He then explains that The Amazing Digital Circus is for all ages and that swearing is censored by Pomni.
Afterward, he gives Pomni a tour of The Circus Grounds and then shows her The Void. He tells Pomni that they don't venture out into The Void often, and stay in The Grounds where Caine can keep his all-seeing eyes on them. As soon as he's done explaining it, Moon says to Caine, "Hello, Caine, I love you," and Caine tells Pomni to go back inside before Moon "gets frisky". He is then disgusted by Bubble's way of cleaning up Pomni's vomit, stating "Why are you like this?" When Pomni mentions that she saw an exit door, Caine tells her she was probably experiencing digital hallucinations, in which when she protests, he insists that she is experiencing digital hallucinations.
After a brief pause, he asks Pomni her name, which she doesn't remember. He then explains that when somebody enters the digital plane, they won't be able to remember their name, which he states is one of the things he doesn't have control over. He then uses a name generator, in which the first name that is spun is "XDDCC" which Caine calls terrible. He then spins it again and lands on "Pomni," which becomes her new name. Caine suddenly bursts out that Jax had a good idea in having a new idea, which Jax protests that he said five minutes ago. He then asks Pomni if she likes things that include adventure, activity, wonder, danger, horror, pain, suffering, agony, death, disease, death (again), and angel food cake, to which he holds one out. Bubble consumes the angel food cake, and Caine yells "You parasite!" at Bubble, popping him. Caine continues, starting to explain his "Gather The Gloinks" adventure. While explaining, Bubble interrupts Caine multiple times, which results in Bubble getting popped again. After he explains the new adventure, he vanishes, leaving a cloud of translucent smoke.
Caine appears again, much later in the episode, on some sort of dinner date with Bubble. Their conversation gets interrupted by an alert on Caine's Wacky Watch, notifying him that one of the performers has entered The Void. He then vanishes again, leaving Bubble at the table. Caine teleports to The Void, grabs Pomni, and teleports back to the Grounds. He looks around, asking "Now, what the heck happened here?" to abstracted Kaufmo's mess. He then asks why nobody told him that Kaufmo abstracted when Kinger explains what happened. Caine snaps his fingers, and abstracted Kaufmo appears. He opens a portal hole in the floor, sending Kaufmo in The Cellar. He then snaps his fingers again, fixing Ragatha from her glitchy form. At the end of the episode, he presents a digital feast for the performers, as a reward for finishing the adventure.
"Candy Carrier Chaos!" (Episode 2)[]
After Pomni wakes up from her dream, she heads to the circus stage where Caine is seen introducing his new adventure. He starts by informing the crew that the Candy Canyon Kingdom has been robbed of their syrup. He tells them to catch the bandits who stole it and bring them to "sweet, buttery justice". After pushing all of the cast though the portal to the kingdom (minus Zooble), he uses a tobacco pipe which produces bubbles instead of smoke, before offering it to Bubble, who declines, saying "No thanks, I'm trying to quit." Caine is not seen throughout the adventure in person, but is depicted as a god in a stained-glass window. After the crew arrive back from their adventure along with Gummigoo, Caine welcomes the crew back. When Caine notices that Gummigoo came through, he snaps him out of existence, saying that if he got humans mixed with NPCs, he is scared of what might happen. He then leaves to "go drink water", which he apparently hasn't done in a while, while Pomni has a slight breakdown from losing Gummigoo.
"The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor" (Episode 3)[]
Caine pops out of nowhere after the group discuss how their avatars each have different types of bodily reactions towards holding in their breath. Caine then begins describing his new adventure, which was made with a 'mature' option for the overly serious Zooble, only to find that they have not shown up to hear the pitch. He then teleports the group via a portal to Mildenhall Manor, without Zooble, and starts looking throughout the tent for them. After realizing he could just teleport Zooble in front of him, he does so, and begins a therapy session to try and find out how he can make his adventures more appealing for Zooble. Zooble talks about what they don't like about their existence in the circus, but after they state that, Caine begins to think he's bad at the one thing he was created for, causing the map to glitch. Zooble makes a comment about about whose therapy session this is supposed to be, and Caine snaps out of it. Then they switch places, with Zooble now being the therapist and reluctantly listening to Caine's nonsensical issues regarding the "wild west". Near the end of the episode, Caine ends the therapy session, and teleports the humans back to the circus. He calls them his "meowing milkmaids", to which Jax disgustedly responds by telling him to never call them that again.
"Fast Food Masquerade" (Episode 4)[]
Caine first appears in the episode when all of the main cast (except for Kinger) is in Zooble's room. He descends from the ceiling and asks if anyone said "adventure," to which Pomni tells him no.
They then all go down to the main area where Caine announces the adventure of the day. He announces that the adventure is called "The Curse of the Violent Psychopath Butcher," and that the adventure involved human meat on the walls. He was about to explain the objective of the adventure when Pomni cut him off and requested that they don't have a horror-themed adventure, as she didn't want the adventure to be like the previous one. She explains the adventure to Zooble, to which Zooble asks Caine why he thought they would like that adventure. Caine then told the humans that they should suggest better adventures if they were only going to criticize his ideas. Zooble then points out that they had a suggestion box, which Caine admits he forgot existed.
Caine takes some of the suggestions out of the box and reads them. He reads a suggestion written by Jax, followed by one written by Zooble, where the two both insult each other. Gangle asks if they can have an adventure that's more "normal," to which Caine tells her he doesn't know what counts as "normal" to them. He reads another suggestion which reads, "Let's have one where we all work at a fast food place." Gangle accepts the idea as normal, and so he changes the adventure to "An Honest Hard Day's Work at Spudsy's Restaurant Chain." He then appoints Gangle as the shift manager.
Zooble attempts to leave again, but Caine protests. Kinger proposes that he sits out on the adventure and Zooble takes his place. Zooble tells him that's not how it works, but Caine accepts the suggestion and opens a trapdoor underneath Zooble, taking them directly to Spudsy's before they can object any further. He then opens a portal for the rest of the crew to go through, and all (except Kinger) enter it.
During the adventure, Jax throws Ragatha into a deep fryer to mock Gangle's manager attitude. Gangle says they won't have anything like that around here, to which Jax mockingly inquires what she was going to do. Gangle said she is calling the "upper management", which turned out to be Caine. Gangle tells him they had issues with some employees and if he could punish them at the end of the day if they keep messing up. Caine answers that it is motivation and that's what his adventures had been missing.
Later, Jax asks Zooble about how they're actually doing the job, and Zooble answers they're only doing it so Caine doesn't punish them. Jax says that Caine won't do anything malicious, for it's not in his nature. Zooble responds that the only thing holding Caine back is the fact he likes the humans, and they shouldn't push it, to which Jax agrees.
Caine again appeared to give Gangle her performance review at the end of the day. He points out all the positive things and negative things, and also points out Gangle's trauma in this adventure, making things go wrong. Caine suggests she could put her blame on to someone else, as Gangle was in a higher position. However, Gangle accepted her own faults, and Caine marks her B+ like the rest of her friends (except Kinger, who got A+). Gangle says nothing, and Caine tells that not every executive is as forgiving as him. After Gangle leaves the room, Caine begins to tell "I'm such a good-" and then suddenly starts glitching and shapeshifting.
"Untitled" (Episode 5)[]
After all the members return from the adventure, Caine welcomes them back and calls them "candy hearts and paper flowers." He then flips through his notepad, which contains many drawings of bees, and calls Zooble a "mismatched cash-piano." Suddenly, he yells, "I WILL TEAR YOU TO PIECES – constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated!" He then shouts again, "That's it! Everybody besides Zooble, get over here!"
Next, he shares some adventure ideas:
One where they all tour Caine's amazing chocolate factory and get killed off one by one due to OSHA violations, one where a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States military, and one where they have to survive in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland with a telepathic talking dog who is mean to them the whole time.
He asks the others what they think. After Gangle's mask breaks and Ragatha comments that it's a little dark, Caine responds, "I can't tell a compelling story where nothing bad happens! Where's the intrigue? The stakes?" When Bubble brings up sex appeal, Caine admits he doesn't understand what Bubble is talking about.
Caine then questions Zooble's lack of hatred toward the suggestion box ideas. He asks for feedback from the rest of the group, who share differing opinions. Unsure of how to please everyone, Caine comes up with a new idea: a lightning round, where they go through all the suggestion box ideas in rapid succession. The members can skip any adventure they don't like. He opens a portal, and all the members are sucked in.
Later, Caine and Bubble watch President Pomni through a television. Caine comments that Jax's acting is phenomenal and adds that it's hard to believe Jax is vegan.
In Stargazing, Caine watches everything from above. He agrees with the moon that the others look happy, but says that's a bad idea in response to something the moon suggests. Caine becomes concerned that the group prefers the suggestion box ideas over his own adventures. After Bubble swears, Caine exclaims, "Let's go to an intermission!"
Caine's full body appears, then only his head and arm remain. His eyeball distorts into a figure kicking his other eyeball, which falls offscreen. Dentures chomp repeatedly, looping with more teeth appearing. They eventually land in Caine's hand, which itself loops into a larger Caine holding a smaller version of himself, as the camera pans out. The loop ends with the final Caine setting them down and flying into a white dot.
Caine is then surrounded by eyeballs and presents himself in a godly manner. The camera circles him, then pans into the void, revealing Pomni's head next to Bubble. Bubble immediately prepares to bite Pomni's head. Two gloves crush both Pomni's head and Bubble, revealed to be Caine's gloves. He opens them again, revealing the cast holding hands.
Bubble's teeth chomp down on Caine, transitioning him to a black void with red spots trailing downward. The scene immediately shifts to a black background, where Caine's white gloves now have a black-and-white outline. The gloves point upward before multiplying and hovering over one another. They make multiple gestures and continue to multiply, forming long, parallel lines of hands. The camera zooms into them rapidly, entering the hole of a top hat. Mannequins are then seen dancing, and the scene switches to Caine looking up. The camera slowly zooms in, and is then interuppted by Zooble saying "Caine, what are we doing right now?" Caine replies, "We're intermissioning!" and Zooble asks "Why?". Caine does not reply. Bubble then appears on the screen, saying "And now back to the show!"
Caine later interrupts Zooble's adventure short, and presents himself in "Good Ol' Fashioned Softball" as a position of authority and a commentator. Later, when Zooble asked Caine for another ball, Caine spawns another ball in response to the order. Upon the characters return, Caine tells them that he's hoped that they've learned to appreciate his adventures as objectively better than the suggestion box adventures, to which Zooble responds that some of them were alright, while Jax favours his own suggestions.
"They All Get Guns" (Episode 6)[]
Caine first appears in this episode breaking the fourth wall, stating that he's working on the Favourite Character Awards. He later comes when Jax shouts his name, and tells him that Zooble is hiding in a flower pot, which Caine breaks, and tells everybody to gather in a few minutes. Caine says that the day's adventure would be a short one, as he's busy with planning the Award Show, and as a result, the adventure would be to show the characters' strengths for the voting.
Zooble rejects the idea, and says that they should get one from the suggestion box. Caine says the suggestion box is unacceptable, to which Zooble claims if Caine wants to know what they "really wants," it is the ability to have sex, to which Caine glitches and resets, and says that teamwork is essential to dreamwork.
Caine wants to do a trust exercise, where he summons a pistol and a box, he explains the rules and how people should follow the rules and trust each other, after Jax just outright shoots Ragatha, Caine decides that he's not bothered to dealt with that in which he spawns a bunch of guns, after a mini-argument, everyone agrees on 2v2v2, 3 lives and you're out, and Caine goes to relax, before looking at some pictures of the C&A office.
Caine later appears in the Award Show, awarding the "Biggest Sailor Mouth Award" to Zooble, and then, says it's time for the Favourite Character Award. Caine misreads the winner as himself, before correcting himself and saying that it was Ming, to which Ming says that Caine shouldn't have assumed anything, and that they both look foolish now. After the show, Caine goes to check how many people voted for him, after discovering that nobody voted for him, he gets upset, and his eyes momentarily glitch.
"Beach Episode" (Episode 7)[]
Caine first appears in this episode by narrating a letter left by him for the main characters, stating that he'll be gone to 'get essential ingredients' for his Milk and Cigarette Casserole, though he would later be seen right next to the main characters, reading out the entire letter for them.
After Ragatha asks Caine about if there'll be a new adventure today, he would say that he doesn't have an adventure for them today, though he'd later ask the characters, specifically towards Zooble, for 'suggestions on what to do instead', which Zooble denies, however Gangle asks the question instead, to which Caine answers by consulting the so-called 'Chinese room' to answer the question instead, though it is later revealed that he does not understand Chinese. Afterwards, he then suggests the main characters to hang out at the 'digital lake', stating that these locations have 'just kinda been there' for the entire time, before disappearing into thin air.
In Caine's second appearance in this episode, he would be seen having a conversation with Jax at what appears to be a restaurant, with the latter reluctantly listening due to him needing to reach into his mouth to grab the key to his office whilst being 'frozen up', before being teleported back to the circus after doing so.
Afterwards, Caine would only make an appearance at the end of the episode, where he surprises the main characters, saying that they picked the 'good ending' for pressing the red button in the console room, which would've closed said console and keep all 'players' inside the circus, with the blue button taking them to 'Shrimp Town' if they pressed it instead, according to Bubble.
After the revelation, Jax would then start to laugh maniacally before lashing out at Caine, saying that he 'can mess with their minds', before stating that 'may have the ability to add temporary modifiers' to make adventures more interesting, and saying that if he did anything other than that, it 'would not end well', to which Kinger would respond by indirectly revealing that another character known as Scratch had abstracted due to the same reason. Caine would then, in a panic, respond by saying that he 'didn't say anything like that', and that he's here to only have fun.
Afterwards, he would later give the characters a gift basket of soaps and lotion before disappearing once again, leaving Pomni and the others behind. The episode ends shortly afterwards.
Powers and Abilities[]
As the highest artificial intelligence program in the digital world, Caine is the most powerful entity within the Digital Circus and is the creator of all other A.I. in the circus. Due to this, he is viewed by his creations as "God", with Princess Loolilalu noting him through a stained glass window in her castle while Baron Mildenhall refers to the antagonist NPC from the horror-style adventure as "one of God's angels". Despite his immense power over the digital world, he has admitted that there are a few things outside his control and isn't fully aware of everything that happens:
- Cyberspace Lordship: Being the ringmaster of The Amazing Digital Circus, Caine has almost complete control and rulership of it and its inhabitants and has no known master or superior to him.
- Cyberspace Nigh-Omnipotence: Caine appears to have complete control over The Amazing Digital Circus, with him being able to create, manipulate, and control anything within its boundaries.
- Psychology Manipulation: Though he claims otherwise, Caine appears to have some control over the minds of those in the digital realm.
- Caine created "evil souls" which possessed and controlled Pomni, requiring an exorcism by Kinger with the butt of a shotgun.
- Caine created a substance known as "Stupid Sauce" which significantly dampened Ragatha's intelligence for a brief period of time after the sauce splashed in her eye.
- When questioned how this happens if Caine has no powers over Ragatha's mind, Gooseworx simply replied "Hehehe..."[5]
- Despite claiming to not have any control over the minds of others, the vote to make Jax vegan in Untitled seemed to affect Jax's actual psychology, much to the latter's shock, as he believed Caine wasn't capable of it.
- Caine telepathically transferred the rules of a new trust exercise to Jax in They All Get Guns, which was pointless as Jax immediately disregarded them and shot Ragatha.
- Caine is suggested to have the ability to make the humans forget certain aspects of themselves, such as their real names. Furthermore, it is suggested he interfered with Scratch's mind to the point of unintentionally causing his abstraction.
- Cyberspace Omnificence: Caine has been shown to be able to create anything, including virtual food, a random name spinner, and a virtual species called "Gloinks" along with the "Gloink Queen". In episode 2, he is responsible for creating an entire kingdom and its surrounding landscape, containing at least hundreds of NPCs, along with at least five new developed A.I. that are "57 times more immersive" than Gloinks.
- Virtual Reality Manipulation: Caine is shown to have complete control of the environment in the digital world. He can heal glitched characters, and put the Abstracted into the Cellar.
- Psychology Manipulation: Though he claims otherwise, Caine appears to have some control over the minds of those in the digital realm.
- Cyberspace Nigh-Omniscience: Caine is implied to have almost complete awareness of the digital world and what is happening in it. It is shown that he was aware when Pomni exited The Digital Amazing Circus into the void. He also somehow knew that Pomni used one of the exit doors. However, he does not have any awareness or knowledge of the Void and has a hard time being able to differentiate his own NPC creations from humans due to them all looking cartoonish, thus why he doesn't want any NPCs in the circus unless they're intended to be there, such as the Sun, Moon and Bubble.
- Cyberspace Sustainer: Caine is not only the master of the digital world, but also appears to be what sustains it as he admits to Zooble that being the ringmaster who makes adventures for the human inhabitants to go on is all he exists to do and is the only thing he's good at doing. However, when he learns from Zooble that he is "bad at the only thing he's good at", it causes his code to start contradicting itself, which in turn results in the entire Digital Circus to begin glitching out violently until Zooble manages to snap him out of it, resulting in everything going back to normal.
- Cyberspace Nigh-Omnipotence: Caine appears to have complete control over The Amazing Digital Circus, with him being able to create, manipulate, and control anything within its boundaries.
- Teleportation: Caine is able to go from one point to another within the digital world, as he was shown teleporting in and out of The Amazing Digital Circus, and saving Pomni by teleporting her from the void back into the digital world.
- Cartoon-based Anatomy: Caine can manipulate his own body parts and proportions with ease and without harming himself. He can stretch, bend and warp his limbs, eyes, teeth and tongue to impossible lengths.
- Flight: Caine has the ability to fly, or hover in the air freely. He can also cause other characters to float/fly at will such as Pomni and Abstracted Kaufmo.
- Amorphous Eyes: Caine is able to control his eyes' shape and make them move around, as shown in POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE, he played Hacky Sack with one of his eyes using the other.
- Fourth Wall Awareness: Caine was able to talk to the audience in the intro of the PILOT.
Appearances[]
- THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS: PILOT - Debut/Major
- Candy Carrier Chaos! - Minor
- The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor - Major
- Fast Food Masquerade - Minor
- Untitled - Major
- They All Get Guns - Minor
- Beach Episode - Major
Friends/Allies[]
- Bubble (pet/assistant)
- Mannequins
- Kinger
- Ragatha
- Jax
- Gangle
- Zooble (sometimes)
- Pomni
- Princess Loolilalu (ally)
KaufmoScratch
Enemies[]
Trivia[]
- Caine has complete heterochromia, meaning he has two different-colored eyes.
- In a behind the scenes video for POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE, Kevin Temmer revealed that the green eye is named Jeffery.
- Additionally, Kevin Temmer made a music video about Jeffery.
- In a behind the scenes video for POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE, Kevin Temmer revealed that the green eye is named Jeffery.
- Gooseworx has stated that Caine is inspired by the supercomputer "AM", the main antagonist of the 1968 short story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison, who had caused the extinction of humanity during World War III and whisked the only five survivors into his complex to torture for eternity.
- However, she mentioned that Caine is essentially what AM would be "if he was a zany fun lil' guy" instead of "a crazed sadist who embodied absolute hatred", who wasn't fully aware that his various "circus games" were harmful to his performers/captives.[6]
- He is also inspired by Four (BFB), who in the show has killed many characters. They are also very menacing similar to Caine.[7]
- Caine also has similarities to GLaDOS from the Portal games, given his overall control over the local dominion, having a level of frustration with his human wards, and remaining strict with his programing to continue the activities of the organization, (for GLaDOS it was testing the portal gun, for Caine it is hosting adventures for those in the circus).
- Gooseworx has jokingly stated that Caine's acronym was Creative Ass Insertion Newlywed Experiences.[8]
- Even Caine gets weirded out by some of the things Bubble does. For example, he asks Bubble why he is like he is when he licks up Pomni's puke and calls Bubble a parasite when he eats Caine's entire generated cake.
- According to Gooseworx during GLITCHX 2023:
- His voice was inspired by Alex Rochon's voice acting as Spamton from Deltarune.[9]
- "There's a whole spectrum of emotion that Caine just doesn't feel," which makes it difficult for him to empathize with the human characters.[10]
- When asked if Gooseworx thinks Caine is an antagonist, she replied with "I wouldn't call Caine a villain, but I would call him an antagonist" and states that he "doesn't mean harm but he causes harm" and is "an obstacle for these characters a lot of the time."[11] Essentially, Caine is described as being an antagonist by definition (someone who hinders the progress of the protagonist(s)), and not a traditional villain per se.
- Caine lets things happen if he thinks it's funny.[12]
- Caine doesn't need to brush his teeth, but he could if he wanted to.[13]
- His name, Caine, is possibly a pun on the dental term "canine," which denotes a pointed tooth typically located between the incisors and premolars in mammals. It could also come from Novocaine, a sedative commonly used in dental procedures.
- Caine's English name may also be inspired by the biblical character Cain, who has a sibling named Abel. Moreover, the name of the C&A company found inside the exit door could be "Cain and Abel."[14]
- This has been confirmed in They All Get Guns, where, in a close-up of Jax's revolver, we see "CAINE AND ABEL" on the barrel of the gun. We also see the C&A logo on the side towards the back.
- The biblical Cain is best known for having killed his brother Abel, for which he is exiled “out of the sight of God”. It is later briefly mentioned that Cain then built a city, which is the first city mentioned in the Bible. A common interpretation is that Cain needed to build the city in order for people to live without God’s presence. This may correspond with Caine being trapped in a virtual world and building the circus to keep people there sane.
- Cain killed Abel out of envy, because God accepted Abel’s offering and refused Cain’s. Caine has a similar obsession with his adventures being accepted by the cast and the “committee”.
- Caine's name in reverse is Eniac; ENIAC was the first programmable general-purpose computer, built in 1945.
- He came up with his own name, first coming up with "Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity", before turning it into an acronym to seem more professional.[1]
- Caine would fall for all verbal pranks, such as up-dog.[15]
- A Twitter post by Gooseworx showed a drawing (link) that resembled Caine but with only ears and a nose, Glitch Productions replied, "Caine's evil brother, Paine."
- Caine has no knowledge of the internet.[16]
- On the Spanish dub of the Pilot, Caine specifically mentions that a person's chosen name cannot be transphobic. This is not said in any other dub.
- In the Polish dub of The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor, when the humans get back from the adventure, he refers to them as "Skibidi Sigmas", whereas in the English dub, he simply refers to them as "Meowing milkmaids".
- Caine is considered the second most difficult character to animate (after Gangle) because his teeth have to both lip sync and fill in for facial expressions at the same time. His upper teeth deform to express emotion in the same way that eyebrows normally would.
- Caine does not have a sexuality[17], he is unable to understand sexual things as well, which is unlike other AIs.
Other Language VAs[]
| Language | Voice Actor | Localized name |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | معتصم بالأشهر (Motasm Belasher) | كاين (Kayn) |
| Chinese | ??? | 凯恩 (Kǎi ēn) |
| Dutch | Alexander de Bruijn | Caine |
| Filipino | Ralph Ernest Francia | Caine |
| French | Yann Abiven | Caine |
| German | Nils Wicke | Caine |
| Hindi | सिद्धार्थ अवस्थी (Siddharth Awasthi) | कैन (Kain) केइन (Kein) |
| Hungarian | Márk Gargya | Caine |
| Indonesian | Muhammad Nur | Caine |
| Japanese | 菅原壮一郎 (Soichiro Sugawara) | ケイン (Kein) |
| Korean | 주현민 (Joo Hyun-min; episodes 1-5) 김동원 (Kim Dong-won; episode 6) |
케인 |
| Polish | Michał „Młody” Matuszak | Caine |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Guilherme Briggs | Caim |
| Russian | Макс Манн (Max Mann) | Кейн (Keyn) |
| Spanish (Latin America) | Rodo Balderas | Caine |
| Thai | กษมา ตรัวกูล (Kasama Truakul) | เคน (Khen) |
| Turkish | Can Sivri (Pilot, 1st dub) Cafer Kadir (Pilot, 2nd dub-present) |
Caine |
| Ukrainian | Василь Кіселичник (Vasyl' Kiselychnyk) | Кейн (Keyn) |
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