Editing Ciaphas Cain (section)

==Trivia==
[[File:Young-cain.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Considering his womanizer record we can easily conclude he looked this good (the high rank helps too. And while he never had a shield, he would've really appreciated one. It's a good artwork nonetheless.)]]
* He is essentially the "Edmund Blackadder" of the ''Warhammer 40k'' universe. More specifically, he is the Captain Edmund Blackadder of ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' for ''Warhammer 40k'' universe. Like Captain Blackadder, he is always trying to avoid combat, escape death, and retire from the Imperial Guard. Jurgen can be considered as Cain's "Baldrick" - dirty, disregarded, not all that bright but a good dogsbody to Cain. (Though a slightly more intelligent and significantly more badass Baldrick; think a cross between Baldrick from series 1 and the later Baldricks, but with a [[Meltagun]]. Also, Cain respects Jurgen.)
* Alternately, he is the Sir Harry Paget Flashman (VC KCB KCIE) of the 'Flashman' series of novels for the ''Warhammer 40k'' universe. Flashman was a key inspiration for Edmund Blackadder (although not of the first series; that was different). Seriously, look those books up. They're fantastic. Racist and sexist as hell, (it’s satire, but pretty prolific for more sensitive readers) but fantastic.
* Jurgen can be thought of as Fraser's other classic character Private McAuslan, J., 2nd Gordon Highlanders, Dirtiest Soldier in the World, the Tartan Caliban and the Highland Division's Answer to Peking Man. Think Pigpen in a kilt. Jurgen, however, appears to be smarter and has a Bristolian rather than a Glaswegian accent, which makes him sound inbred as hell - which might explain his psychic blank-ness.
* According to the narrator of his books (no, really) he uses the Lord Commissar rules on the tabletop, but this has become impossible in 8th edition since Lord Commissars (and normal Commissars) cannot wield chainswords or laspistols. Also, Cain wasn't a fan of the Lord Commissar honorific even though he himself was entitled to use it.
* Cain was so [[awesome]] that for decades he was the only entity in the [[Warhammer 40,000|galaxy]] to slip past [[Games Workshop]]'s chrono barrier on moving the setting into the 42nd Millennium. Then [[Gathering Storm]] happened, but then it cheated by saying no one knew what the real year was anyway.
* He is permanently marked as being on active duty because of the number of times he was believed to be dead only to come back from Emperor knows where. Notably this was not rescinded even when confirmed dead and buried in front of thousands as a war hero, he is just that awesome. [[Living Saint|To be fair to the Imperials, this hasn't stopped people in the past.]]
* A pretty good fanfic called ''Tales from the Black Millennium'' has Edmund Blackadder in command of an Imperial Guard regiment. Its sadly unfinished sequel ''More Tales from the Black Millennium'' drags Ciaphas Cain into the mix.
* [[Dune|There is a small section of the Tallarn Desert Raiders that think he is a Prophet of the Emperor]]. Which is at the same time hilarious considering Cain's personality and perfectly understandable after a couple of them seeing Cain [[awesome|challenge a World Eater and prevail over a Daemon Princess!]] The entire thing is the result of Emps himself [[troll]]ing one of Cain's old classmates, Beije, who hates Cain but is stuck in the same unit as the Cain-worshipping Tallarn.