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===Portrayal in the Command & Conquer games=== [[File:Kane with Stalin.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Kane (standing) as Joseph Stalin's mysterious adviser during the 1950s of ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]''. Nadia is seen on the left.]] Although the first published game in which the character appeared was the initial ''[[Command & Conquer (video game)|Command & Conquer]]'' from 1995, Kane's first [[Canon (fiction)|canonical]] appearance (although this could be refuted as the Red Alert universe has now been officially severed from the Tiberium one) was as an obscure counsellor to [[Joseph Stalin]] during the [[Soviet]] invasion of [[Europe]] in the 1996 [[prequel]] ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]''; the story of which is placed nearly half a century before the events of the original ''C&C'' game.<ref>{{Cite web | url=ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/redalert/info/RAFAQ19.TXT | title=Westwood Studios Official Command & Conquer: Red Alert FAQ List | author=Westwood Studios | accessdate=23 April 2007 | publisher=Westwood Studios| date=1997-10-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/cc1/info/CCFAQ30.TXT | author=Westwood Studios | title=Official Command & Conquer FAQ v3.0 | date=1998-10-23 | accessdate=2007-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/ccgold/info/CCGFAQ13.TXT | author=Westwood Studios | title=Official Command & Conquer Gold FAQ v1.3 | date=1998-10-23 | accessdate=2007-05-13}}</ref> Kane proved to be the concealed [[INTJ|mastermind]] behind the actions of Joseph Stalin and thus the [[USSR]], and appeared to have instigated the [[world war]] between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Allies in order to further the [[Brotherhood of Nod]]'s long-term goals.<ref name="NodInfluence" /> This was done with the aid of a woman known as Nadia—the head of the [[NKVD]], Stalin's [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]] and evidently a member of the Brotherhood herself as early as the 1950s.<ref name="NodInfluence" /> In ''Red Alert{{'}}s'' alternative ending the USSR's conquest of Europe was completed, which would swiftly result in Stalin's assassination at the hands of Nadia, and her revealing the name of Kane as well as the existence of the Brotherhood of Nod to the player.<ref name="NodInfluence" /> Nadia then proceeded to reveal that Nod planned to continue to dwell in the shadows for several decades still, to openly emerge sometime "''in the early 1990s''".<ref>'''Nadia:''' We estimate that the Brotherhood will... tire of the USSR in the early 1990s. (''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'') Westwood Studios, 1996</ref> Kane however shoots her without warning upon those revelations, and the cutscene closes with the character stating the foreboding words to the player; "''Comrade Chairman, I '''''am''''' the future''".<ref>'''Kane:''' For the foreseeable future... Comrade Chairman, I '''''am''''' the future. (''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'') Westwood Studios, 1996</ref> Kane apparently then disappears after the canonical ending of ''Red Alert'' for several decades. His reappearance literally marked the beginning of a new age. Under his direction, the now emerged Brotherhood of Nod began researching the [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] substance of [[Tiberium]] almost immediately after its arrival on Earth through a meteorite impact in the year 1995, stating that it had the potential to bring about the next stage in [[human]]ity's [[evolution]]. This guidance of Kane led Nod to gain a near [[monopoly]] on the world's rapidly increasing Tiberium deposits, as the Brotherhood's technologies for harvesting Tiberium initially were the only viable method of extracting the crystals, giving them enormous amounts of [[Capital (economics)|capital]] in a relatively short period of time and causing Nod to pioneer unique Tiberium-based technology in virtually every field. Kane himself is believed to have invented these technologies, which are frequently referred to by his many followers worldwide as ''"The Technology of Peace"''. The period in which these events transpired, which would increasingly come to be known as the [[Command & Conquer (video game)|First Tiberium War]], was marked by the Brotherhood of Nod openly starting to preach to many of the [[third world]] nations to throw off their "shackles of slavery" under the [[industrialized countries]], while at the same time preaching an [[ideology]] of a Tiberium [[revolution]] to the entire world. Many would begin to sign up for Nod's [[utopian]] vision of global prosperity and peace for the human race by embracing Tiberium and the unifying ways of the Brotherhood, rendered blind to the implications of Nod's mantra "''Peace through Power''". For all these actions, Kane quickly rose to the top of the [[most wanted]] list of the [[United Nations]]' newly instituted [[Global Defense Initiative]] [[task force]], as the war between the GDI and the Brotherhood would eventually escalate into one of the most brutal conflicts in human history. [[File:The End (C&C).jpg|thumb|left|250px|Kane embracing GDI's ion cannon discharge at the end of the [[Command & Conquer (video game)|First Tiberium War]], set during the late 1990s]] The end of this war saw a GDI strike force laying siege to Kane's Temple and main base of operations in [[Sarajevo]], which would lead to the Brotherhood of Nod's first apparent downfall. Reports of Kane's demise were inconsistent however; some say he was buried underneath rubble when the Temple started to fall apart, but other sources stated that the Global Defense Initiative's [[ion cannon]] firing upon the main Temple structure had killed Kane—indeed, a [[closed-circuit television|security video]] eventually substantiated this story. In it, Kane is seen embracing the light of the ion beam seconds before the Temple exploded under its force. Despite the Brotherhood's defeat at the end of the First Tiberium War, Kane's followers never wavered and always believed that he lived in death, and were vindicated when he rose again in ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun]]'' almost thirty years later to once again lead waiting Nod forces worldwide and begin a new open war with the GDI. Although he appeared to his followers during a ceremony with a flawless face, looking virtually the same as during the events shown in ''Red Alert'' and the First Tiberium War, his real appearance was less aesthetically pleasing—almost a half of his head was covered by a metal plate, obscuring the massive burns presumably inflicted by the GDI ion cannon strike thirty years ago. He focused Nod's efforts on Tiberium weapons research anew, resulting in the development of a world-altering missile. The missile's launch was foiled by a daring GDI assault under the command of [[GDI characters of Command & Conquer#Commander Michael McNeil|Michael McNeil]], who ignored his superior's orders to refrain from the attack in order to allow GDI more time to plan and prepare for the deciding conflict. Kane was confronted by McNeil within his [[Pyramid#Egyptian pyramids|pyramid]] near [[Cairo]] and was impaled by him on a piece of metallic debris, which would result in the Brotherhood of Nod's second defeat. During the subsequent events portrayed in ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun#Expansion|Tiberian Sun: Firestorm]]'', an unholy alliance was formed between GDI and the remaining Nod forces to stop the rogue actions of Nod's advanced [[AI]] system known as "CABAL". After the final defeat of CABAL and his [[cyborg]] forces, the Nod ending shows Kane's dormant body hooked into the CABAL system core and being kept alive in a [[cryonic]] capsule, apparently recovering from his grave injury sustained at the end of the second conflict at the hands of Michael McNeil. The screen of the AI's system core is shown to be continually splicing between the CABAL entity and Kane, as a single individual, with both of them referring to Kane's "vision" with disjointed voices, yet with Kane referring to it in the first person using the word "my" whereas CABAL refers to it with the word "your" in an almost respectful manner. Suddenly only CABAL's voice can be heard, and the last words spoken by the continued union of Kane and the AI are; "''Our directives must be reassessed''." At the advent of the [[Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars|Third Tiberium War]], seventeen years afterwards, Kane made his second re-appearance to the world, rallying waiting and prepared Nod forces everywhere anew and promptly initiating an overly aggressive attack on GDI by taking out their control centre for space defences, and subsequently annihilating the organization's orbital command station ''GDSS Philadelphia'' with a [[nuclear missile]]. Although the worldwide assault on GDI's installations which followed suit was successful and Nod did at one point very nearly achieve a complete military victory over the disorganized and reeling Global Defense Initiative, GDI would manage to turn the tide on them after weeks of fierce urban warfare, a turn of events Kane apparently had anticipated. Kane had knowledge that a liquid Tiberium explosion of tremendous magnitude would attract the attention of an [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] species known as the [[Scrin]]. Through the war he had initiated, Kane successfully provoked and lured GDI into attacking his main "Temple Prime" complex in retaliation to the Brotherhood of Nod's brutal assault on GDI-protected blue zones across the world. The plot worked, as under the order of Acting Director [[GDI characters of Command & Conquer#Director Redmond Boyle|Redmond Boyle]] the ion cannon was fired directly upon "Temple Prime" in Sarajevo in an eerie repetition of historical events, which detonated a liquid Tiberium deposit purposely hidden deep underneath the Temple Prime and causing a [[cataclysm]]ic explosion across south-eastern Europe. Soon after the detonation, the alien Scrin arrived on Earth in order to begin large-scale harvesting of the world's Tiberium deposits. Kane's apparent purpose in bringing them to Earth was to gain access to their highly advanced technology, as he thought to use the monolithic "Threshold" towers the extraterrestrials constructed to bring him and his followers to reach "[[Entering heaven alive|ascension]]". Nod loyalists would eventually manage to secure one of these gigantic structures under Kane's guidance, placing it under the Brotherhood's control. During the Scrin campaign in ''[[Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars]]'', it is revealed that the alien species quickly became aware their premature awakening was a deliberate act by someone or something on Earth. After intercepting a transmission between Kane and the Nod commander (the player), they immediately focused their attention on Kane as the possible cause of this unprecedented incident, coming to the conclusion that the being of "Kane" somehow already existed in their master data matrix, and more disturbingly, that Kane's [[Genetics|genetic]] material is unrecognizable even to the vast ancient knowledge of their spacefaring species. Five years after this third world war, an [[artificial intelligence]] named "[[Nod characters of Command & Conquer#LEGION|LEGION]]" arises, with Kane promptly placing a secret army of cyborg soldiers -known as the "Marked of Kane"- under the entity's command in order to reclaim the mysterious Tacitus device from GDI's [[Cheyenne Mountain]] facility. Soon after, the Marked launch an unrelenting assault on the heavily fortified military research complex, overrunning GDI's finest defenses and obtaining the Tacitus for Nod once again. The final cutscene, titled "[[Ascended master|Ascendance]]", shows Kane inserting the object into LEGION while proclaiming: "''LEGION, my child, you are my greatest creation. It is time for you to take center stage; time for you to achieve the purpose for which you were created! One Vision, One Purpose!''". With this, the story of ''Command & Conquer 3'' concludes on a major [[cliffhanger]]. The Nod Campaign for C&C 4 is named "All things must end". It hints that Kane might be "Cain" from the Bible, as he mentions that he's been on Earth for thousands of years. At the end of C&C 4 (in both campaigns), Kane convinces Commander Parker, the protagonist, to activate a portal in the Scrin Threshold Tower and 'ascends', along with his Brotherhood followers, seemingly leaving Earth.
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