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| “ | Caine: Welcome to The Amazing Digital Circus! My name is Caine, and I’m your ringmaster. I'm here to show you the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, MIND-BENDING paraphernalia you've ever laid your eyes upon! Isn't that right Bubble? Bubble: That's right, Caine! I can't wait to see what you got cooking up for today!! Caine: Well let's not waste any time; let's get RIGHT into the show! |
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| ~ Caine's most famous quote, introducing himself to the audience, as well as the first lines in the series. |
| “ | Now- now, hold on, guys, wait, wait, wait! I may have the ability to add temporary modifiers to make adventures more interesting, but THAT'S IT! If I did anything more... (laughs nervously) ...trust me. It would not end well. | „ |
| ~ Caine panicking over the Players discovering the truth of his actions; his second most (in)famous quote. |
The Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity[1] (C.A.I.N.E.) "Caine" is the main antagonist of Glitch Productions' adult animated surreal dark comedy web series The Amazing Digital Circus.
He is the AI ringmaster of The Amazing Digital Circus and the one who sets the main cast of characters on the many adventures that they go on as well as being the one to cause most of the problems that the members are having. He is shown to be a generally well-meaning individual who is unaware of how much harm his realm was causing. That being said, later episodes have him take a darker direction, having him display a more wrathful and inconsiderate side to him, while implying that he has altered the other characters' minds to an unknown extent and, intentionally or not, directly caused the first abstraction of Scratch.
He is voiced by Alex Rochon, who also voiced Pianosaurus in Poppy Playtime.
Appearance[]
Caine takes on the appearance of an anthropomorphic and monstrous pair of teeth who wears a black top hat, a red ringmaster's suit and black pants wielding a staff. He has heterochromatic eyes, one being blue, and the other being green. Said eyes tend to change in size as well.
Personality[]
As the Circus's Ringmaster and Master AI, Caine is an upbeat, goofy and over-the-top person, aspiring to create eventful and interesting adventures for his captive humans to experience. He’s rather enthusiastic for what he does, trying to hype the humans up for his quests but at the same time, he does show some restraint as he seems alright with Zooble not participating in any adventures. Caine also seems fond of sharing with others, randomly giving Pomni a whole angel food cake and later offering Bubble to smoke a bubble pipe with him.
However, Caine's eccentricity and his limitations as an AI can cause him to act rather chaotically and vicariously, even causing him to be unintentionally malicious towards the humans. Caine can tend to be rather secretive and even somewhat of a liar, hiding the fake exit door from the humans in hopes of surprising them with it (eventually resulting in the tragic abstraction of Kaufmo and the mental breakdown of Pomni) and telling Pomni that the one thing he's incapable of is controlling the human's minds despite later doing exactly that numerous times both directly and indirectly. Coupled with his longstanding experience and serious side, it’s heavily implied that Caine bears important knowledge that he refuses to share for reasons unknown. Furthermore, Caine is adamant at enforcing the Circus’s rules to a T, censoring any swears spoken by the players and erasing Gummigoo on the spot when he entered. The latter incident further showcases that Caine is unable to feel proper empathy as an AI, though he does make an attempt to explain his actions to Pomni. Caine also seems incredibly absent-minded and unstable as he consistently forgets that Zooble dislikes his adventures as they're uncomfortable with their new body, constantly switching topics when trying to give them therapy, and this makes Caine act really dense in regards to understanding a human. He also seems insecure about his expertise in creating adventures, with said task being the only thing he was programmed to ever do.
Despite being dangerously oblivious (and completely clueless) to what impacts his actions have on the human players, Caine is shown to be genuinely caring and kind to the humans and others around him, particularly his assistant Bubble. While Caine frequently loses his patience at Bubble's gluttonous behavior and foul mouth, he’s shown to be a good friend to him and does enjoy spending time with him very much. However, Caine does have some peeves, as he dislikes Zooble for their lack of enthusiasm in his activities, getting infuriated when they refuse to attend an adventure he catered specifically for their "tastes". Likewise, Zooble dislikes Caine as he keeps forgetting to come up with a solution to their primary discomfort: their body dysmorphia, and as such has no motivation to get involved with him or his adventures.
He is shown to be quite egotistical and selfish in the later episodes, as he is shown to be more concerned about being praised for his adventures than how the players feel. He is shown to have start losing his patience with the cast in the sixth episode and slowly started to become more insane and rude, completely abandoning them after Jax botches his team-building exercise. Despite this, Caine still appears to care for the humans at core, quickly course-correcting whenever he lashes out at Zooble and genuinely attempting to help mend their relationships via the aforementioned exercise. It's also implied that despite his aggression towards them, Caine is trying his best to make Zooble like him as during the battle royale weapons appear in their room much to their surprise, implying that Caine might be giving them the upper hand to gain their favor. All in all, Caine appears to display signs of a narcissistic complex: while more than happy to help people out and make them smile, he's obsessed with being the center of attention and will take criticism very poorly, lashing out at others when things don't go his way.
Quotes[]
Main Series[]
| “ | My my, it appears a new human has entered this realm! | „ |
| ~ Caine after Pomni arrives in the circus. |
| “ | I'd like to give our brand new member a tour of the circus grounds first. Off we go! | „ |
| ~ Caine giving Pomni a tour of the Digital Realm. |
| “ | Here, we have... The Tent! This is where your living quarters are, as well as all sorts of other activities! These activities may include- (dial--up tone blares) ...ball pits, mini-golf, and more! | „ |
| ~ Caine introducing Pomni The Tent. |
| “ | And here, we have... The Grounds! Drown yourself in the digital lake or engage in ridery at the digital carnival! Night, day, it's all okay! The choice is yours, a cosmic buffet! | „ |
| ~ Caine introducing The Grounds to Pomni. |
| “ | Caine: This is The Void! We don't venture out into The Void. Not even I know what's out there... Pomni: That's uh-- Caine: We stay right here, where I can keep my hundreds of ALL seeing eyes on you! Ooooh~ |
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| ~ Caine telling Pomni about "The Void", demonstrating his controlling and overprotective nature in ominous ways. |
| “ | Moon: Hello, Caine. I love you~ Caine: DAHH!! Let's get outta here before the moon gets frisky! |
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| ~ Caine after seeing a talking female moon being smitten by him. |
| “ | ... Why are you like this? | „ |
| ~ Caine to his assistant Bubble licking up Pomni's vomit to clean the floor. |
| “ | U-Uh, I- *ahem* I assure you there is no "magical exit door". You're probably experiencing DIGITAL HALLUNCIATIONS!!! | „ |
| ~ Caine trying to hide the fact of the exit door. |
| “ | Now, how about if we talk about something else? Like your name?? | „ |
| ~ Caine changing the subject about The Exit to make sure Pomni doesn't abstract |
| “ | Nobody can remember their name once they enter "The Digital Circus". One of the few things I don't have control over are your minds. So all I can help you with, is coming up with a new one! | „ |
| ~ Caine giving Pomni a chance to name herself. |
| “ | Don't you worry your little head, your new name can be anything! Herebyacknowledgingthatyourchosennameand/ornamesmaynotbreachtheDigitalCircusUserLicenseAgreementstatingthatyournamemaynotincludeobjectionablecontentObjectionablecontentincludesbutisnotlimitedtosexuallyexplicitmaterialsobscenedefamatorylibellousslanderousand/orunlawfulcontentorprofanity. What're you thinkin'? | „ |
| ~ Caine reassuring Pomni |
| “ | Caine': What are ya thinking? Let's see! ... What do you think of, "XDDCC"? Pomni: I don't- Caine: You're right terrible! Let's try that again! |
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| ~ Caine coming up with Pomni's name with a slot machine. |
| “ | You! Do you like adventure? Activity? Wonder? Danger? Horror? Pain? Suffering? Agony? Death? Disease? Death? Angel food cake? | „ |
| ~ Caine continuously asking Pomni her hobbies. |
| “ | YOU PARASITE!! | „ |
| ~ Caine yelling at Bubble eating the angel food cake he was gonna give to Pomni. |
| “ | Don't worry, Zooble! I'll make it something unintrusive that you can still choose to not get involved with! | „ |
| ~ Caine reassuring Zooble |
| “ | Today's adventure is: Gather the Gloinks! (Throws several fits of maniacal laughter) | „ |
| ~ Caine to the audience. |
| “ | Ah ha ha ha! Oh, Bubble, you always know how to make me say this exact sentence. | „ |
| ~ Caine to Bubble. |
| “ | Kaufmo abstracted? Why didn't anybody tell me? | „ |
| ~ Caine exaggerating his response a bit. |
| “ | And into the cellar you go. | „ |
| ~ Caine putting Kaufmo into the Cellar with the other abstracted victims. |
| “ | I, do have to apologize for lying about the exit. I knew how much all of you have been wanting there to be one, but, you know, I was having so much trouble figuring out what to put on the other side an then ended up never quite 'finishing' it. And you know how I never like letting people see my unfinished work... especially if it leads you out into the Void. Anyway, it looks like you defeated the Gloink Queen, so I guess the adventure's over. Your reward is a delicious digital feast, cooked by our head Bubble Chef. | „ |
| ~ Caine making a flimsy apology and a deliberate feast as an excuse to keeping his people trapped in The Digital Circus. |
| “ | Today's adventure is... Candy Carrier Chaos! That's right! The Candy Canyon Kingdom's been robbed of their most valuable resource - maple syrup! It's up to you to bring the rotten bandits who stole it to sweet, buttery justice! | „ |
| ~ Caine introducing his new adventure, the second adventure of the series as well as the title of the second episode. |
| “ | Oop! Looks like one of these guys made it through. | „ |
| ~ Caine noticing and despawning Gummigoo. |
| “ | I know you guys love your NPCs, but if I start losing track of who's human and who's an NPC, who knows what could happen... | „ |
| ~ Caine explaining why NPCs aren't allowed in the circus. |
| “ | Caine: Zooble, come on out! I just want to talk to you! Hmm. Oh, I know! (snaps fingers; Zooble is brought over to him.) Zooble: What the- Could you have done that the whole time? Caine: Zooble, I just want to get to the bottom of why you keep skipping on all my amazing adventures. You could really end up hurting Bubble's feelings. Zooble: ...Uh, Bubble's feelings? Caine: E-Enough about Bubble's feelings! How about your feelings? |
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| ~ Caine questioning Zooble's behavior. |
| “ | Zooble, look at this cool bee I drew! | „ |
| ~ Caine to Zooble, showing his obvious short attention span. |
| “ | I DO NOT use my adventures to torture my guests! Any torment I inflict is 100% accidental. Like any good war criminal! Zooble: We weren't even talking about that! I couldn't even give less of a crap about the adventures! |
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| ~ Caine arguing with Zooble. |
| “ | THEN WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM, ZOOBLE!? I'M TRYING MY BEST TO REMEMBER, BUT BOTH YOU AND MY BRAIN WON'T TELL ME!!! | „ |
| ~ Caine's villainous breakdown when getting frustrated at Zooble in their therapy session. |
| “ | Oh, Zooble, Zooble, Zooble, making adventures is my art! It's all I exist to do! All I'm... good at. A—And, uh... (chuckles) w—what you're saying could imply that I'm bad at the only thing I'm good at, and that... (chuckles weakly) that'd be... | „ |
| ~ Caine revealing his insecurities to Zooble about not being good at making adventures and almost causing the whole circus to glitch out. |
| “ | And- And now, I-I'm starting to wonder if the "Wild West" was... e-even a real direction at all. | „ |
| ~ Caine venting to Zooble about the Wild West. |
| “ | Caine: Welcome back, my meowing milkmaids! Jax: Don't ever call us that again. |
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| ~ Caine upon everyone returning from their adventure in Mildenhall Manor. |
| “ | Caine: Did somebody say adventure!? Pomni: ...No? |
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| ~ Caine to everyone in Zooble's room in "Fast Food Masquerade" |
| “ | Caine: Well, if you're all gonna be such CRITICS, why don't YOU suggest a better one? Zooble: We do! Have you not checked the suggestion box once? Caine: (hovers to the suggestion box) Gonna be real, I forgot we had that. |
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| ~ Caine taken aback by the critique on his adventures, with Zooble pointing out to use the suggestion box, much to the former's realization. |
| “ | Gangle: Can we maybe pick one that's more... normal? Caine: Well, I don't know what's NORMAL to you people! "Let's have one where we all work at a fast food place." Is that normal? |
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| ~ Caine taken aback by Gangle's remark of having a normal adventure. |
| “ | Great! That means today's adventure is... "An Honest Hard Day's Work at Spudsy's Restaurant Chain!" And YOU can be the shift manager! | „ |
| ~ Caine declaring Gangle's position of power bestowed upon her. |
| “ | That's right! You've shown enough leadership skills today to be the perfect shift manager! Of course, of course! I'm already getting tons of ideas! Ha ha- (notices Bubble stopped blugging the hole before shifting his tongue back to Bubble.) That was weird. | „ |
| ~ Caine being weird. |
| “ | You can shut up now! | „ |
| ~ Caine dropping Zooble down a trap door to force them into the adventure. |
| “ | Caine: Mmmyello? Gangle: Hey, Caine. We're having a bit of an issue with the employes, and I was wondering if you could have a punishment waiting for them if they do a horrible job. Jax: Wait, what? Caine: MOTIVATION! That's what my adventures have been missing! Great idea, Gangle! I'll be sure to make something TRULY awful for your ROTTEN employees! |
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| ~ Caine to Gangle suggesting punishment for Jax's sadistic behavior. |
| “ | Caine: Alrighty! Let's get this performance review out of the way. Overall, pretty productive. Made a lot of sales with few customer complaints. Couldn't help but notice, however, that you seem to have cut your own shift short, went a little kooky, and ran out into oncoming traffic. Now, being in a position of power like this, you coooould offload the blame to one of your employees and avoid the dock on your score. What do you think? Gangle: No, that was my responsibility. I just... cracked under the pressure, I suppose. Caine: Hmm. Well, that's gonna knock your overall score down to... a B+! How's that sound? Gangle: ... Caine: Speechless. I can't say I blame you. Not every company executive is as forgiving as me. (Puts up Gangle's performance picture; everyone else has a B+ except Kinger, who has an A+ for horseback riding on a bull) And that's it for the reviews! You have yourself a nice day. (Gangle leaves the room and the room is silent for a moment.) I'm such a good bo- (glitches randomly) |
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| ~ Caine's performance review with Gangle, with the latter accepting her responsibilities and foreshadow of the former's personality. |
| “ | Oh, Zooble, you mismatched cash piano, I'll TEAR YOU TO PIECES-!!- Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated. | „ |
| ~ Caine's second villainous breakdown, nearly snapping at Zooble but suddenly changes his behavior to normal again. |
| “ | Caine: Everyone, I'm going to pitch you some future adventure ideas, and I'm going to ask you to give me your honest opinions on them. Jax: I was gonna sleep. Caine: All right! So, I've got an adventure where you all tour my amazing magic chocolate factory and get killed off one by one from OSHA violations, one where a sentient cardiovascular system goes to war against the United States military, and one where you have to survive a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland with a telepathic-talking dog who's mean to you the whole time! What do you think? (Everyone is stunned) Ragatha: Uh, I don't know. They all sound a little... uh, dark? Caine: I can't tell a compelling story where nothing bad happens! Where's the intrigue? The stakes? Bubble: Not to mention the sssssex appeal!... Caine: What are you talking about? |
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| ~ Caine giving a review on his upcoming adventures, all of which are comically dark. |
| “ | Zooble: You know, you could always try the suggestion box again. I honestly didn't hate the last one we did with it. Caine: YOU... didn't hate it? Zooble: It was kind of refreshing doing something grounded in reality. Pomni: Yeah, I really didn't mind that one, either. |
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| ~ Caine's reaction to Zooble's commentary on the suggestion box adventure of the Fast Food Masquerade. |
| “ | Caine: Well, how am I gonna please everybody if you all like different things? Zooble: Maybe just keep your adventures open at all times and let us do whatever we want, when we want. Caine: (Not very subtlety whispering) Are you hearing this, Bubble? The toy box character wants us to leave the other intelligent AIs to run for a prolonged period of time. Bubble: Disgusting. Zooble: Am I not supposed to be hearing you? Caine: Zippy! Zooble: What did you even zip up? I don't have a mouth. |
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| ~ Caine's confliction on how to entertain the crew. |
| “ | Caine: Okay, well, how about this? We'll do a Lightning Round, going through all the suggestions in the suggestion box in rapid succession. And if you don't like one, you can all vote to skip it. Pomni: What? Like, now? Caine: That's right! So grab your bones and pop your pansies, 'cause here we go! |
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| ~ Caine explaining the rules of the Lightning Round, beginning the adventure, "Untitled" and judgement if his adventures or the suggestion box adventures are better. |
| “ | Caine: Sorry, Jax, democracy has spoken. Jax: Democracy sucks. |
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| ~ Caine to Jax after everyone voted for him to be a vegan for the rest of the adventure and skipping Poacher's Paradise. |
| “ | His acting is phenomenal. It's hard to believe he's vegan. | „ |
| ~ Caine about Jax's performance within the "President Pomni" adventure. |
| “ | Moon: They look happy. Caine: They do, don't they? Moon: You think after this, maybe we could- Caine: Wait a minute! That's a bad thing! Bubble: Explain to Daddy Bubble how bad thing? Caine: I-I think... - Don't say that. I-I think they're enjoying the suggestion box adventures more than the me adventures! What should I do?! Bubble: You should die- You should throw a  ing beach party!Caine: Why do you swear now? Ugh, forget it. Let's go to an intermission! |
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| ~ Caine becomes paranoid that the Digital Circus are enjoying the suggestion box adventures more than his adventures before going to an Intermission. |
| “ | Zooble: Caine, what are we doing right now? Caine: We're intermission-ing! Zooble: ...Why??? Caine: (Silent for a long time) Zooble: Uh, hello? Bubble: And now back to the show! |
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| ~ Caine's intermission. |
| “ | Caine: I'm bored! Let's go to the next adventure! Zooble: You're not even a part of- |
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| ~ Caine moving the others to another adventure. |
| “ | It's softball, ladies and gentlemen! Beautiful night for a game, right, Bubble? (Bubble: BLEEEH!) We've got the Big Tops VS the Evil Big Tops! | „ |
| ~ Caine starting the softball adventure, introducing the Digital Circus and their mirror counterparts. |
| “ | Wowie! Another home run! | „ |
| ~ Caine's commentary on Zooble batting the ball right at their evil counterpart. |
| “ | Caine: Bazowieezooweewa! Another home run! And that makes three home runs in a row! The Big Tops win! Ragatha: Uh, that's... not how softball works. Caine: Well, that's how my softball works. We're done! Hooray! |
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| ~ Caine declares the Big Tops the winners, because of the catcher's, BaZooble, demise. |
| “ | Well, I hope we learned that suggestion box ideas are actually not fun at all, and Caine's ideas are much better! | „ |
| ~ Caine bluntly expressing his insecurities on adventure ideas. |
| “ | Today's adventure is brought to you by the Favorite Character Awards!! Stay tuned and find out who will claim the ultimate prize! | „ |
| ~ Caine announcing the Favorite Character Awards teaser. |
| “ | Ah, there you are! Now I don't have to do the snap-summon thing. And I'm glad I found you! We need even numbers, 'cause today's adventure is a TEAM adventure! Meet you guys up at the stage in, uh, 5.7 minutes. | „ |
| ~ Caine upon knowing Zooble's location (due to Jax ratting them out) and announcing their new adventure. |
| “ | Today's adventure is... gonna be a bit of a short one, due to the Favorite Character Awards. But it'll be a perfect opportunity to showcase your guys' strength to the press! (Bubble: This is so heavy.) That's right, Bubble. Seeing you all play batball a few days ago really got me thinking. We should do our own sporting event! But with cool new sports invented by yours truly. | „ |
| ~ Caine explaining his new idea to the Crew. |
| “ | Zooble, why does all you do is complaining? I never know what you want! | „ |
| ~ Caine getting further irritated with Zooble. |
| “ | Caine: The suggestion box just cause interpersonal drama. And me no likey! Zooble: Alright! You REALLY wanna know what I want?! Caine: Oh, no... Zooble: I want the ability to have ***. Jax: (drops his jaw) No way! Are we FINALLY having this conversation? Caine: Wh-whwhwhhhhhrwwrwrwrwrwrwrwRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWRWW!!!!!!!! (resets) Oh, hi, Zooble! |
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| ~ Caine's glitched breakdown upon Zooble's want. |
| “ | Caine: Now, now - you know what they say about assuming. It makes an "ass" out of "u" and "ming". Zooble: "Ming"? Pomni: Did Caine just say a ?
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| ~ Caine lecturing Zooble about assuming while also saying an uncensored swear. |
| “ | YOU LOOK CONVOLUTED!!!! | „ |
| ~ Caine's third breakdown towards Zooble once again when they call his newest adventure convoluted. |
| “ | Hello, my little rubber baby buggy bumpers! Today, I've decided to go to the store to get essential ingredients for my signature Milk and Cigarette casserole! | „ |
| ~ Caine voice-overing to the players while being present there. |
| “ | SHUT! You're only making the joke take longer. | „ |
| ~ Caine when Zooble asks about the Chinese room. |
| “ | Hey, Jax! I didn't know you could ask if I was around like that. (Pats Jax on the shoulder.) Good job. | „ |
| ~ Caine appreciating Jax for calling him. |
| “ | Caine: GASP! A human wanting to... (eyes grow big) hang out with ME??? How could I possibly turn down such an offer?? Jax: So, where you wanna—? (Caine pulls Jax by the shoulder out of the circus grounds and into a sit-down restaurant, where they sit across from each other at a table.) Caine: So, Jax! Whatcha want to talk about, friendo? Jax: Uh– I– Caine: Wait, JAX! I wanted to ask you about the adventures! What do you think I should do to make them more appealing to the Zooble and the Pomni? Jax: I think that– Caine: We should figure out what to order first! Conversation can happen after we've loaded up on digital nutrients. |
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| ~ Caine and Jax during their "dinner date". |
| “ | Caine: What are your thoughts on cedar-smoked salmon? I "cedar" smoked salmon, but I hardly "knowder" smoked salmon! (laughs maniacally) Jax: Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha. Uh, do you have any secret hobbies? Caine: ...secret hobbies? Jax: Yeah, like, things you do on your own that you'd be interested in talking about? Caine: Why... I...I didn't think a human would ever want to ask me about my.. Th-this is the most fantastical moment of m– (glitches) |
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| ~ Caine getting manipulated by Jax and getting glitched in the process. |
| “ | Caine: Whatcha doin' there, Jax? Jax: Have I ever told you how it's my dream to get eaten by you? [beat] Caine: ...That's a weird thing to say and want. |
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| ~ Caine when he catches Jax trying to steal the former's office key. |
| “ | Caine: Buuuut, like I was saying. This macroverse place really intrigues me. And these photos are all I have of the location. I'm obsessed with them. I-I just wish I had more info on the location so I could accurately recreate it. TOO BAD THEY CUT ME OFF! Right?? Jax: Uh, yeah. What a shame. Caine: So, what's your takeaway from all this? Jax: What? Caine: What's your takeaway from all this? Is it that I'm actually a cool guy with cool hobbies and not that much different from you beautiful humans? Jax: Uh, sure. Caine: WOWIEE! I'm so glad we understand each other a little more. I really am trying my best to make you guys happy, and being appreciated for that just makes me want to... (glitches) (Jax reaches inside Caine's mouth, grimacing. he soon pulled out a keycard full of spit. He sits back down and pockets it as Caine suddenly stops glitching) Caine: -elebrate by giving you guys anything you ask for! How's that sound? |
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| ~ Caine showing Jax the photos of C&A office in the real world. |
| “ | Congratulations, my little cattywampus cucumbers! You picked the good ending, where you realize you'd rather stay with me than go back to that pesky old Macroverse, or whatever we decide to call it! I knew you'd make the right choice! | „ |
| ~ Caine congratulating Pomni and the gang for getting the "good" ending. |
| “ | Caine: Great job playing your part, "Abel"! (They both laugh) Abel: All in a good day's work! By the way, you think I could get a raise after that performance? Caine: (laughing) Oh, you're getting too smart. Time to delete! Abel: AHHHHH- |
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| ~ Caine mockingly congratulating Abel for his role, before deleting him. |
| “ | Kinger: Scratch. The first abstraction... Caine: Hey! Hey! Hey! I didn't say anything like that! Come on, guys! You know I'm just here to have fun! I... (Everybody looks shocked and furious at Caine.) Caine: Uh... Questioning's over! Your prize is this lovely gift basket of soaps and lotions! Stay fragnant, have a good light—— Fragrant! Night! BYE! |
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| ~ Caine's implication that he was the reason of everyone's abstraction; hence trying to exclude Kinger from the current adventure at any cost. |
Other Media[]
| “ | Welcome to the Amazing Digital Circus! Are you ready to see something incredible?! Well too bad! You're gonna see it anyway! In today's show, we've got quite the performance! | „ |
| ~ Caine in the teaser for The Amazing Digital Circus right before throwing knives at Pomni and making her scream in pain. |
| “ | Caine: Your little crying face left quite the little crying mark, on the Internet! [looks at us] Something I don't canonically have any knowledge of, take a look! [Caine shows Pomni a bunch of pixelated images. Presumably either R34 artwork or "Content Farm" videos] Pomni: What the, f am I looking at!?Caine:The consequences of our actions! And it's only gonna get worse from here... Pomni: Oh, oh-oh ohh no. Caine: But that's not what I'm here to show you, I'm here to show you all the cool adventures you and your funny buddies are gonna go on! Like this Candy Kingdom! |
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| ~ Caine telling Pomni about the "consequences" of their pilot's popularity in the promotional video "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE". |
| “ | Sun: Hi, Caine, I'm gonna kill you! Caine: Uh-Uhm, what? Why? Sun: I read all the scripts and saw that I don't get a single line of dialogue while the moon gets two!! Caine: I-I mean I, guess we can give you some more lines. Sun: Okay! Never mind! I don't want to kill you anymore! |
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| ~ Caine to Sun in "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE". |
| “ | Caine: Speaking of dialogue, there will be all sorts of new dialogue from many of our new colorful characters! *Quick montage plays* With this many new characters, imagine all the violent shipping wars that we'll become completely powerless to do ANYTHING ABOUT!? Pomni: Is... Is this a cry for help? [Caine turns into a bootleg plushy of himself] I see... |
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| ~ Caine slowly going off-script and lamenting over what sort of chaotic impact their own show will have on it's fan in "POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE". |
Relationships[]
Family[]
Friends[]
- Bubble (assistant and best friend)
- The Mannequins
- Circus Members
Neutral[]
Enemies[]
Abstracted Victims[]
- Kaufmo
- Queenie
- Ribbit
- Scratch (the first abstracted, implied to be directly caused by Caine's meddling)
- Multiple unnamed
Gallery[]
Renders[]
Wiki Render
Official Glitch render
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Concept Art[]
Caine's official artwork.
Pilot[]
Welcome to The Amazing Digital Circus!
Isn't that right Bubble?
Caine surprised at Pomni's arrival.
Caine lying to Pomni about how he cannot control Human minds.
Candy Carrier Chaos![]
Caine announcing a new adventure
The Candy Canyon Kingdoms been robbed of their most valuable resource: MAPLE SYRUP!
"Bubble you can't say that!" Caine horrified that Bubble said a massive wave of swear words.
Videos[]
Canon[]
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS- PILOT
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 2- Candy Carrier Chaos!
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 3- The Mystery Of Mildenhall Manor
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 4- Fast Food Masquerade
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 5- Untitled
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 6- They All Get Guns
THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS - Ep 7- Beach Episode
Non-Canon[]
POMNI WAKE UP TIME TO GO ON AN ADVENTURE
Trivia[]
- Originally when the pilot first premiered Caine was put on this wiki but quickly taken off and put on the Heroes Wiki instead under the belief that he was trying to genuinely prevent the players from abstracting. Shortly after that, he was moved to the Neutral Characters after it was ruled out following the revelation that not only are these actions self serving but they weren't villainous or heroic enough.
- After the release of episode 7, "Beach Episode", his article there was taken down and he was put back on this wiki since during that episode, he makes an entire adventure where he gaslights the players into thinking they have a chance to escape only to reveal it was yet another adventure made just to ease his own concerns, is revealed to have intentionally lied about not being able to manipulate the minds of the players, and is implied to have caused the abstraction of other characters in doing so.
- Series creator Gooseworx has said that Caine was inspired by AM from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with them both being sentient AIs who trap human souls in their realm where they live eternally and can't die. Unlike AM however, who is a malicious system torturing souls out of spite, Caine is a well-meaning AI who genuinely has no clear idea or understanding of the harm he is causing. Later episodes will likely have Caine become more closer to AM as his personality is taking a darker turn, especially in episode 7.
- Caine's nigh-omnipotent powers were also stated to be inspired by Four from Battle for Dream Island.
- Caine's voice closely resembles the fan made dub his voice actor, Alex Rochon, made for the Deltarune character Spamton G. Spamton, with Gooseworx even confirming that Alex's dub of Spamton led to her recruiting him for the show.
- When reading the note slipped from underneath the Chinese door in episode 7, Caine lets out a laugh that's very reminiscent to the laugh he does in his Spamton videos.
- Caine has rather odd eating habits, being capable of drinking water despite being an AI, with Gooseworx additionally stating that he would drink fruit-flavoured shampoo if given a chance.
- It's confirmed that Caine can drink things, as he mentions in Episode 5 that he's been meaning to drink water more often. Considering that his head is a large pair of dentures connected to nothing, it's unclear how he drinks or eats.
- This is a trait shared by Zooble and Kinger, who similarly appear unable to consume food and water.
- It's confirmed that Caine can drink things, as he mentions in Episode 5 that he's been meaning to drink water more often. Considering that his head is a large pair of dentures connected to nothing, it's unclear how he drinks or eats.
- Being an AI, Caine cannot experience certain emotions leading to his rather aloof behaviour and evident lack of empathy towards the humans in later episodes. He also would fall for any verbal jokes like "up-dog" according to Gooseworx.
- Caine apparently came up with his own name, "Creative Artificial Intelligence Networking Entity", before shortening it to an acronym in order to seem more professional. Furthermore, his name Caine may be also pun on "canine", a pair of teeth found in mammals used for cutting food, or Novocaine, an anaesthetic commonly used in dental procedures.
- It has been theorised that Caine's name is a reference to Cain, the oldest son of Adam & Eve, and the first murderer, from the Bible. This has led to fans creating fan-designs of what "Abel" would look like, as Cain's brother was Abel.
- Curiously, the simulation in which the circus resides appears to be created by a company known as "C&A", which could mean "Cain & Abel". This seems to be supported by how the guns he gives out are labelled "Cain and Abel", a reference to the guns manufacturing company Smith and Wesson.
- It has been theorised that Caine's name is a reference to Cain, the oldest son of Adam & Eve, and the first murderer, from the Bible. This has led to fans creating fan-designs of what "Abel" would look like, as Cain's brother was Abel.
- As stated in a promotional video, Caine canonically has no knowledge of the internet.
- Despite being the overlord of the Circus, Caine is the second shortest member of the main cast, only being slightly taller than Pomni.
- As revealed in the third episode, Caine thinks the Wild West is a direction.
- Caine appears as the deuteragonist (alongside Jax) of the production comics for The Amazing Digital Circus, where it's revealed that he was married to Pomni's mother before divorcing her. This is non-canon.
- Zooble mentioning Caine singing "Daisy Bell" outside their room is likely a reference to how "Daisy Bell" was the first song sung by a computer synthesised voice, by the IBM 7094 in particular.
- "Daisy Bell" is also known by many as the song sung by the HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey during his final moments, which is also reference to the aforementioned IBM 7094. It's been noted by a few fans that this could potentially foreshadow Caine's fate in the coming episodes.
- Caine spelled backwards is ENIAC, the first general purpose computer to use in 1961.
- While Caine himself claims to be an AI, it's been speculated that thanks to his increasing mental instability and possible abstraction, as well as his remark of mixing up NPCs and humans, that he could be a human that simply forgot he was one. This seems to be supported by how Circus members such as Jax, Kinger and Pomni have cartoonish powers akin to Caine's when they embrace their digital side, implying that the reason Caine could be so powerful could be thanks to completely forgetting his human identity.
- It's definitely worth it to note, however, that Gummigoo is shown to have an incredibly lifelike AI, and the same could go for Caine, explaining why he has such a human demeanour.
External Links[]
- Caine on the The Amazing Digital Circus Wiki
- Caine on the SMG4/Glitch Productions Wiki
- Caine on the Antagonists Wiki
References[]
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