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* [[Parental Abandonment]] -- Prerequisite for becoming a commissar. Vail does wonder how true his story is, though, as Cain is a (self-admitted) nearly pathological liar prone to manipulating others.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] -- Cain plays with this up and down the scale. He's gained a reputation for being a relatively fair-minded commissar by being willing to listen to other people's concerns, but it's mostly in the interest of saving his own skin. However, when he ''does'' investigate the lead everyone else is ignoring, he inevitably ends up uncovering (and defeating) something far more sinister than the original threat.
* [[Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason]] -- He owes pretty much his entire career to this trope. The Emperor appears to have it in for him because almost every act of intended cowardice, self-preservation/gratification or caution on his part ends up being turned on its head and landing him smack dab in the middle of another life-threatening situation. Then again he always manages to survive it with flying colours, so the Emperor might just be doing it because he knows he can take it.
* [[Selfish Good]] -- [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Debates over his deeper motives and hidden strength of character aside]], it's quite clear that on the surface, Cain is primarily concerned with his own self-preservation.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]] -- Cain is one of these in the ''Warhammer 40K'' world; whenever he downplays his accomplishments, most people think that it's out of modesty. One religious sect has even proclaimed him to be ''a physical manifestation of the God-Emperor's Divine Will''. Vail playfully points out that Cain would be absolutely ''horrified'' if he ever learned about said religious sect.
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* [[Rules Lawyer]] -- As a Gunner, Jurgen is a member of the Guard. As Cain's aide, he is technically seconded to the Commissariat. He tends to ignore the legal snarls about his precise status unless he absolutely has to, at which point he chooses whichever side brings him advantage at the moment.
* [[The Scrounger]] -- Another indication that Jurgen's smarter than he lets on, though the proxy use of Cain's commissarial authority helps. Cain finds this talent to be quite useful, and admits that he doesn't ask questions about Jurgen's methods to avoid knowing anything incriminating.
* [[Sidekick]] -- Even if every history about Cain's adventures but his own leaves him out entirely. A fact which Cain reputedly hated, as evidenced by his disdain for the [[Shout
** [[Sidekick Ex Machina]] -- The "Jurgen ex machina" is notorious among fans of [[Ciaphas Cain]]; he's almost always what allows Ciaphas to execute the killing blow. When he doesn't simply pull his melta and do it himself.
* [[Spanner in The Works]] -- Nobody ever expects Jurgen, and it tends to be the downfall of anything even remotely psychic.
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