Help me identify this old PC platformer with monsters and soda

Question

I've been looking for this platform game of a guy (teenager with blue pants and a cap I think) that collected soda bottles and there were lots of monsters around. I played it on pc when I was like 4 or 5 (+- 15 years ago). I'm not totally sure but I kinda remember these other aspects:

-There were executions (monsters killed you) and a funny animation showed up

-There was a world map Super Mario-like with locations that included: ice mountain, haunted forest, etc.

-The name of the game had "ken can" or something like that

Answer

Sounds like Commander Keen to me, though I wouldn't describe your deaths as "executions". He certainly had blue pants, and here's the funny death animation :P

CK 1-3 looked like this, note the pop cans and ice:

CK 4-6 were like this, with 4 having forest levels:

And the ice mountain level:

It also had soda bottles:

This was the world map:

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