Mike O'Kane

Carmageddon Splat Pack

Carmageddon Splat Pack driver
Mike O'Kane
Killer Coop
Info
Internal opponent number	16
Strength (1 - 5)	1
Network availability	Never
Short name (?)	Kane
Race number	64
Top speed	100 mph
Kerb weight	0.7 tons
0 - 60 mph in	7.2 seconds
Stealworthy	No
Description
"It's chirpy Cockney Mike O′Kane, in the Killer Coop. Keep yer ′Mince Pies′ peeled, unless you want him to take that lance and ′Elephant and Castle′."

Trivia

• Based on British Actor Sir Michael Caine. One may have seen him in the original The Italian Job, where he and a bunch of others carry out a grand heist involving the use of Mini Coopers. None of the minis in the film were fitted with a lance, though.
• Mike O'Kane is pronounced 'My Cocaine'. This same method of wordplay is also used for Jenny Taylia.
• In Cockney Rhyming Slang 'Mince Pies' means 'Eyes', while 'Elephant & Castle' translates as 'Arsehole' (pronounced "ar-sul"). Presumably Stainless meant the description to end 'shove it up your arsehole'.
• Most likely origin of the Elephant and Castle reference and its connection to Michael Caine, whom the character is based on: According to Michael Caine (in an interview on the late night talk show hosted by Craig Ferguson): "The Elephant is a very tough district in London named after a pub called the Elephant & Castle. The pub was originally named, when it was built a couple hundred years ago, after King Charles II's Spanish mistress called La Infanta de Castilla, and so the cockneys couldn't pronounce it, so they called it the Elephant and Castle." This myth has been debunked since, more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_and_Castle#History
• In the PlayStation version of Carmageddon, his counterpart is Michael Pain.
• This car can also be seen in Test Drive 4 as an undrivable civilian vehicle.
• In demo version of Splat Pack, his name was Mitchell Kane, while the shortname didn't change.