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Jesus... had days like this.
~ Cain

Cain, also known as RoboCop 2.0, is the main antagonist of the 1990 sci-fi film RoboCop 2.

He is a notorious drug lord and the leader of his gang of drug-addicted criminals known as the Nuke Cult. Soon enough he comes into conflict with RoboCop, in which Cain proves to be a unpredictable and dangerous foe who is hopelessly addicted to Nuke - further coming out as an all-violent godlike figure in his delusions and insanity.

He was portrayed by Tom Noonan, who also portrayed Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter, The Ripper in Last Action Hero, Jake Berlin in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stewmaker in The Blacklist, and John Lee Roche in The X-Files.

Biography[]

Rise to Power[]

Not much is known about Cain's past. Yet according to his police record, he served in the Amazon War and was court-martialed, then sent to Danmemora Correctional Facility. He was held at Danmemora for three years, until there was a power outage that caused problems with security, allowing him to escape. He then relocated to Detroit and developed the highly addictive narcotic he calls "Nuke". He creates Nuke without problem due to the police strike happening in Detroit, which was triggered by former Detroit police SWAT leader Lt. Hedgecock, who was obeying Richard Jones's illegal orders to destroy RoboCop (who was fired by The Old Man for murdering Bob Morton and ordering the former to destroy the latter); and the deaths of crime lord Clarence Boddicker and his gang.

Cain and the Cult of Nuke[]

The people want paradise. They will have it.
~ Cain announcing his intention to "save" people with Nuke.

Cain first appears in the movie talking on the television, preaching as if to a congregation about the divine and pure power of Nuke.

He is seen in person at a Nuke drug lab when RoboCop steps in and halts the procedures. Out of all the targets in the lab that night, RoboCop was unsuccessful in arresting Cain and his remaining thugs - among whom include Cain's henchwoman Angie and his preteen minion Hob - who all slip out of a rear entrance and get to their waiting limo. Inside the limo, they find an illegal immigrant worker from the drug lab; she pleads not to be turned over the police. Cain demonstrates his cold and sociopathic nature by simply shooting her and pushing her out of the limo.

Later on RoboCop tracks down Cain and his thugs at the Sludge Plant near River Rouge, where he captures RoboCop and has him disassembled to continue his criminal activities without interference. RoboCop had obtained the information from a corrupt policeman called Duffy, the latter of whom is also addicted to Nuke. When Cain learns that Duffy is the reason why RoboCop tracked him down at the Sludge Plant, he plans to dispose of him in retritubtion. He has Duffy ambushed and taken captive to a dingy backroom surgery. Thereupon Cain has Duffy eviscerated whilst still alive, during which he forces Hob to watch as well as Angie.

Getting Injured[]

Eventually, RoboCop recuperates and resolves to bring down Cain at all costs. He leads his fellow officers down to the Sludge Plant for an assault on the Nuke Cult. The police officers cleave a path through the guards, but Cain flees with Hob and Angie in two armored bomb disposal trucks, laden with Nuke and tens of millions of dollars of drug money. RoboCop manages to hitch a lift on Cain's truck, but is thrown off due to his wild and furious driving.

Unfortunately for Cain, his sense of power clouds his judgement and he cannot resist but play a game of chicken with RoboCop, who by this time has commandered a motorcycle. RoboCop had no intention of playing by the rules though, and threw himself through the windscreen of the truck, critically injuring the drug lord and crippling the vehicle.

In a similar, but more nefarious, situation to Alex Murphy's death, Dr. Juliette Faxx, an unethical psychologist working for OCP, visits Cain in the hospital. Here, after an unnerving talk with the patient, she pulls the plug on his life support, intending to kill him and use his brain for her RoboCop 2 project.

Renegade RoboCop 2[]

After Dr. Faxx implants Cain's brain and major nervous system into the Robocop 2 model, remnants of his personality and memories remained, along with his addiction to Nuke. OCP used this to their advantage at first, controlling his behavior by providing a regular supply of the drug in exchange for doing their bidding. OCP learns of a secret meeting between Cain's apprentice Hob Mills and the Mayor, where Hob offered to bail out the city's debt to OCP in exchange for a "hands-off" approach to Nuke distribution. Since this would hinder OCP's attempts to take over the city, they sent Robocop 2 in to kill everyone, which he does with ease, with the mayor being the only survivor.

During the unveiling of Delta City and RoboCop 2 at a press conference, the OCP president unwittingly presents a canister filled with Nuke to the audience, and pledges to use Robocop 2 to hunt and destroy every distributor of Nuke in the city. His addiction overriding his programming, Cain betrays OCP by destroying the remote control that disarmed his weapons systems, and opening fire on the audience. It was then that Robocop arrived to stop Cain, and the two cyborgs battle throughout the building, eventually ending up outside the civic center. Cain goes on a rampage, firing at armed personnel and civilians alike, stopping only when Anne Lewis appears holding the canister of Nuke from before. Cain takes the canister and inserts it into his body, becoming distracted from the overwhelming euphoria of the drug long enough for Robocop to jump onto his back, tear off one of his panels, and then pull out Cain's brain. He smashes it against the ground, killing Cain and deactivating Robocop 2.

Abilities[]

As an ordinary human, Cain was very charismatic and smooth-talking, but also cruel and merciless towards anyone who betrayed or failed him. His reputation throughout the city made him feared and respected amongst criminals and police alike.

As RoboCop 2, his exoskeleton bore little to no resemblance to the more friendly and familiar humanoid aesthetic of the original RoboCop. The body was far more mechanical and monstrous in appearance, resembling more like a humanoid tank than a man; an angled beak-like armored faceplate contained a blurry screen, a hulking disproportionate body adorned with hydraulic pistons and powerful hinges, spindly clawed arms crisscrossed with rivets, and inhuman raptor-like legs with retractable claws that could punch through concrete for extra stability. The armor on RoboCop 2 far surpassed RoboCop or ED-209, not just immune to small arms fire, but to several direct shots from a Cobra assault cannon and a head-on collision from an APC.

RoboCop 2 was far more heavily armed than its predecessors as well, possessing two larger arms along with two smaller arms normally kept curled around his shoulder joints: His left arm held a six-barreled rotary chaingun and retractable battering ram, both arms had a 3-clawed hands more than powerful enough to tear through sheet metal or pick up and throw a human with ease. The left shoulder held a smaller arm capped with a claw that resembled the Jaws-Of-Life, and the right held a plasma cutting torch arm powerful enough to scar RoboCop's faceplate. The right shoulder also held a retractable double-barreled assault cannon, though Robocop managed to blow this weapon apart by firing his own gun down its barrel..

RoboCop 2 was just as hooked on Nuke as his past self and Juliette Faxx had decided that this addiction would be the perfect way to control him, after the failures of the other test subjects. The small crossed panel below the head concealed a mechanism that could quickly deliver a full fix to the disembodied brain.

Personality[]

Cain resembles everything a person would expect from a cult leader; he is incredibly charismatic and promises all of his cult followers a path to the promised land if they too became addicts on his drugs. However, he is also unpredictably violent and intolerant of betrayal, having one of his own followers dissected alive when he sold him out to the police.

Furthermore, Cain appears to be obsessed to a degree of fanaticism towards religion - even using a figure from the Bible as his crime name (Cain). However one of his major weaknesses would be his addiction, and to a degree a somewhat reliance on his own drug Nuke to the point where he considers the "power" of the narcotic to be divine and pure. This addiction even carries out when he was transformed into RoboCop 2.

After being killed and having his brain transplanted into the shell of RoboCop 2, the executives of OCP expected him to act and behave exactly like the first RoboCop. However, he retained Cain's old personality and memories, including his addiction to Nuke. He was unpredictably destructive, killing the rest of his cult in a way to sever all loose ends and going on a warpath across Detroit, leaving destruction in his wake.

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Trivia[]

  • He was named after the Biblical murderer Cain in Abrahamic traditions.
  • Both Cain and 'The Old Man' have scenes where they say they were going to make the phrase "Made in America" "mean something again".

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Clarence Boddicker | Emil Antonowsky | Leon Nash | Joe Cox | Steve Minh | Bobby | Dougy

Nuke Cult
Cain/RoboCop 2 | Angie | Hob | Catzo

Urban Rehabilitators
Paul McDaggett | Ōtomo | Coontz | Margaret Love | Carl Seltz

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Raymond Sellars | Rick Mattox | Tom Pope | Liz Kline

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