Nemesis

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Nemesis may refer to:

Contents 1 In philosophy 2 In politics 3 In fiction 3.1 Books and literature 3.2 Comics 3.3 Film 3.4 Games 3.5 Other 4 In science 5 In music 6 Miscellaneous uses

[edit] In philosophy

• Nemesis is "a painful response to another's undeserved good fortune" as defined by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics

[edit] In politics

• Operation Nemesis ("The Armenian Nuremberg"), the Armenian Revolutionary Federation code-name for the covert operation in the 1920s to assassinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide

[edit] In fiction

[edit] Books and literature

• Nemesis: The Death Star, by Richard A. Muller, a 1988 account of the Asteroid Impact Dinosaur Extinctions and the Nemesis theory of a solar companion star
• Nemesis (Isaac Asimov novel), a 1989 science fiction novel
• Nemesis (Agatha Christie novel), a 1971 detective novel
• Nemesis (Alfred Nobel play), a tragedy
• Nemesis (Angel novel), a 2004 novel set in the fictional Buffyverse
• Nemesis, a 1989 novel by Louise Cooper, first book in the Indigo series
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
• Hitler: Nemesis 1936-45, by Ian Kershaw
• The Nemesis Affair by David M. Raup
• Nemesis: Part I-VI by Wolfgang Hohlbein
• Nemesis (mythology), the goddess of divine retribution (revenge) in Greek mythology

[edit] Comics

• Nemesis (comics), one of several comic characters
  • Nemesis (DC Comics), a superhero in the DC Universe, affiliated with the Suicide Squad
  • Nemesis (American Comics Group), a Silver Age superhero appearing in Adventures into the Unknown.
  • Nemesis (Marvel Comics), the name of three fictional superheroines in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Nemesis (Ultraverse), a Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics character
  • Nemesis (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm comics character
  • Nemesis the Warlock, a series published in the British comic 2000 AD
  • Holocaust (comics), a Marvel Comics character also known as Nemesis
  • Nemesis is a living planet/villain in the "Black Moon" story arc in the manga Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon.

[edit] Film

• Nemesis (film), a 1993 science fiction film that spawned three sequels
• Star Trek Nemesis, the tenth Star Trek movie, released in 2002
• Nemesis Game, a 2003 mystery-thriller film about complex riddles

[edit] Games

• Nemesis (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
• Nemesis (role-playing game), a horror role-playing game
• Nemesis (video game), a 1990 Game Boy game based on the Gradius series
• Nemesis was the title of the arcade and MSX versions of the original Gradius outside Japan.
• Nemesis was a 1983 home video game for the BBC Micro released by Micro Power. It was a clone of the Centipede arcade game.
• Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, a 1999 video game
  • Nemesis (Resident Evil), the titular bio-weapon of the above game
• Nemesis, the final boss in the game Dark Sector
• Zork: Nemesis, an adventure game in the Zork series.
• Nemesis is the fictional name of the Luftwaffe's KG 200 and is the nemesis group to the fictional RAF Battlehawks

[edit] Other

• Nemesis (Transformers), a starship in the Transformers fictional universe
• Nemesis Breaker, an evil clone of Leobreaker in the Transformers universe
• "Nemesis" (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• "Nemesis" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Nemesis NXT, A racing aircraft

[edit] In science

• Nemesis (computing), a computer operating system
• Nemesis (drug), a street name for benzylpiperazine
• Nemesis (star), a hypothetical companion star of the Sun
• 128 Nemesis, an asteroid

[edit] In music

• Nemesis (네미시스), is a South Korean rock band
• Nemesis (the band), a Sri Lankan rock band.
• Nemesis (Grip Inc. Album) (1997)
• Nemesis Divina is an album by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.
• Nemesis (musicians), a pop music duo

• Jacob and Joshua: Nemesis Rising, a reality television series featuring Nemesis

• Nemesis (group), a Texas rap crew
• Nemesis, a song by the American New Wave band theSTART, released on the album Shakedown! (2001)
• Nemesis is the title of a song released by Shriekback in 1985
• Nemesis is a song by the group Cradle of Filth from the album Nymphetamine.
• Nemesis is a song from the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy from the Doomsday Machine album.
• Nemesis is an electronic music group from Finland. [1]
• Nemesis is a Dutch hip-hop producer
• Nemesis is a Bangladeshi Progressive band
• Nemesis is a song by VNV Nation
• Nemesis is a metalcore band from Bandung Indonesia
• Nemesis is a thrash metal band from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
• Nemesis is a British street dancing group from Milton Keynes, who reached the final of Britain's Got Talent 2008.

[edit] Miscellaneous uses

• HEIC Nemesis, an early iron warship used in the First Opium War
• Nemesis (roller coaster), a popular inverted roller coaster at UK theme park Alton Towers
• Nemesis Inferno, an inverted roller coaster at UK theme park Thorpe Park