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* [[Dying as Yourself]]: {{spoiler|Commissar Donal}}.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: A minor example in ''For the Emperor'': Cain's narrative remarks that "Even after all this time I still find myself missing" Jurgen, which implies that Jurgen was '''long''' dead when Cain recorded this part. But Jurgen was still with him in ''Cain's Last Stand'', set in the last year of the 41st Millennium, and Amberley notes that the Cain Archive was probably composed only about two to five years later.
** A line in his narrative of ''Caves of Ice'', however, indicates '''that''' account was composed "more than a century" after the events ... which if literally true means a good 33 years after the start of the 42nd Millennium, giving plenty of time for Jurgen to have died long ago but still after ''Cain's Last Stand''. Yet another of Amberley's footnotes to ''Caves'', though, says that narrative dates from '''before''' the Black Crusade. Apparently she didn't notice the "more than a century" line.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Although we recognize it also depends of his luck.
* [[Eating the Eye Candy]]: Actually '''saves Cain's life''' in ''Duty Calls''. See Good-Looking Privates below for details.
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{{quote|I'm sure most of the men in the galaxy are familiar with the sinking feeling that accompanies the words 'Do you think you could do me a little favour, darling?', but when the woman doing the asking is an inquisitor it's even less wise than usual to say, 'No.'}}
* [[Unfriendly Fire]]: Cain's main justification for treating the troopers well is avoiding this. He also suspects Colonel Mostrue, his first commander, of attempting [[The Uriah Gambit]] from time to time. In ''Duty Calls'', he comes to suspect that some of the PDF ''did'' try this. {{spoiler|He's right - and they had orders.}}
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Subverted. While it's never said outright, statements peppered throughout the books, both in the text and in Vail's footnotes, all but confirm that the sexual tension between Cain and Vail is very much resolved. For one thing, she knows that he '''always''' arranges a Pillow Pistol where he sleeps, no matter how secure the area. For another, she mentions nightmares waking him on several occasions.
* [[Unwanted False Faith]]: Cain never found out, but one of the Tallarn witnesses to a battle where he beat down a Daemon Prince wrote a book about the experience and started a minor branch of the Imperial faith that worships him as a physical manifestation of the Emperor's will.
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Cain's opinion of nobility in general and planetary governors in particular. It's played with throughout the series, but especially with Mira in ''The Emperor's Finest''; while she's certainly arrogant, pushy, dense, and condescending, she's also capable of handling herself in a firefight, among other things.
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