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| “ | It's never over... We're gonna do this night after night... Game...after fucking game... You hear me, Doug? Game...after fucking game! Look up there, Doug! Look at 'em! This is it! THIS is what they want us to do! We're just gonna keep fucking bleeding out here, over and over again...until they carve...every fucking last one of us...OFF THE FUCKING ICE!!! | „ |
| ~ Anders after beaten by Doug in their fight during the climax, just before Doug punches him in the face one last time. |
Anders Cain is the main antagonist of the 2017 hockey film Goon: Last of the Enforcers.
He was portrayed by Wyatt Russell, who also portrayed the Water Creature (while possessing Ray Waller) in Night Swim, and John Walker/Captain America/U.S. Agent in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the upcoming film Thunderbolts*.
Overview[]
He is a hockey player who comes to the Halifax Highlanders hockey team after delivering a career-ending injury to Doug "The Thug" Glatt, who was recently named team captain that same day of his injury.
When his father Hyrum Cain comes with the solution to bring Anders to the team, he takes over the Highlanders following a trade from his original team the Wolfdogs, and immediately becomes captain at his father's request.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Anders Cain is a rookie sensation with a mean streak, and is also a very tough enforcer when it comes to getting into fights on the ice. Even though his father is the owner of the Highlanders hockey team, he could care less and sees it more of an empire he desires to control to his satisfaction. When he becomes captain, everyone is forced to look up to him.
He also has an attitude and a rivalry with Doug Glatt, especially after he ended his career by knocking him out in the first game of the season.
Cain proved to have the upper hand at first when he came to fight Glatt, but it seemed he would be matched up by him much later. Cain also doesn't seem to appreciate the fans either, and he is hated all over the hockey community, especially by Highlanders fans and later his own teammates.
Role in film[]
Anders Cain is present on the ice starting the season with his hockey team the Wolfdogs, coincidentally, also Doug Glatt's first season as team captain of the Highlanders. Cain from the beginning shows no moral respect for the game, and he breaks Glatt's stick provoking him to fight. Glatt reluctantly accepts, and the two fight on the ice. Cain delivers a few blows to Glatt's head, and he immediately knocks him down, with Glatt only delivering one punch that didn't affect Cain.
With Glatt gone, Cain's father Hyrum convinces the team coach to bring his son to the roster and name him captain. This happens and soon Cain turns the whole team around, for the worse as his inadequate hockey skills and his violent behavior results in him getting suspended. Soon after returning from suspension and when Doug returns to the team which brings back the winning streak, they both have a dispute which interrupts one of their games, resulting in them both getting suspended for the next game.
Eventually, Anders is fired from the team when his father hires Doug's old rival Ross Rhea into the team over him, forcing Cain to rejoin his old team who would be competing against the Highlanders in the final game. During the final game after Anders injures Ross and shows resent towards his father Hyrum, Doug finally beats Anders in a bloody rematch thanks to his hockey fighting league skills and training, showing mercy towards the latter when he challenges Doug to hit him as Glatt told him their fighting was over.
Cain then threatens Glatt that he won't stop fighting him until he and the Highlanders team would have the same fate as Ross, just before Glatt delivers a final punch to Cain's face that finally brings him down and ending his reign of terror, breaking Anders' jaw and throwing out Doug's arm in the process. Finally defeated by Doug and laying on the ground as Glatt was helped off the arena by his team, Hyrum comes to his son's aid, resolving their differences when Anders admits he hates hockey, bringing the two back together.
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Trivia[]
- Anders Cain is loosely based on NHL player Sean Avery, a veteran who shows little to no respect for the game.