Nemesis

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Contents 1 Philosophy 2 Arts and entertainment 2.1 Books and literature 2.2 Comics 2.2.1 Characters 2.3 Film 2.4 Games 2.5 Other 2.6 Music 2.6.1 Performers 2.6.2 Albums 2.6.3 Songs 2.7 Television 2.8 Roller coasters 3 Politics 4 Science and technology 5 Transport 6 See also

Nemesis (mythology) was the ancient Greek goddess of retribution.

In Modern English, the word commonly refers to an archenemy.

[edit] Philosophy

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

[edit] Arts and entertainment

[edit] Books and literature

• Nemesis (Alfred Nobel play), a tragedy
• Nemesis (Agatha Christie novel), a 1971 detective novel
• Nemesis (Philip Roth novel), an upcoming novel by Philip Roth
• 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, a 1989 novel by Louise Cooper, first book in the Indigo series
• Nemesis (Angel novel), a 2004 novel set in the fictional Buffyverse
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
• Hitler: Nemesis 1936-45, by Ian Kershaw
• Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45, by Max Hastings
• The Nemesis Affair by David M. Raup
• Nemesis: Part I-VI by Wolfgang Hohlbein
• Nemesis (Nesbo novel), a 2002 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo, the fourth in the Harry Hole series

[edit] Comics

• Nemesis the Warlock, a series published in the British comic 2000 AD

[edit] Characters

• Nemesis (DC Comics), a superhero character in the DC Universe, affiliated with the Suicide Squad
• Nemesis (American Comics Group), a Silver Age superhero character appearing in Adventures into the Unknown
• Nemesis (Marvel Comics), the name of three Marvel Comics superheroine characters
• Nemesis (Ultraverse), a Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics character
• Nemesis (Wildstorm), a Wildstorm Comics character
• Nemesis, a Marvel Comics character also known as Holocaust (comics)
• Nemesis, a living planet/villain character in the "Black Moon Clan" 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 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, title of the arcade and MSX versions of the original Gradius, outside Japan
• Nemesis, a 1983 home video game for the BBC Micro released by Micro Power; 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
• Lord Nemesis, a villain character in the online game City of Heroes
• Nemesis, an enemy character in Final Fantasy X
• Nemesis, a persona of the character Ken Amada in Persona 3
• Nemesis, a vehicle in Unreal Tournament 3

[edit] Other

• Nemesis Tipshus, a famous American cat with a streaming website working continuously since February 1994^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Music

[edit] Performers

• Nemesis (band), (네미시스), a South Korean rock band
• Nemesis (Sri Lankan band), a heavy metal band formed in 2006
• Nemesis, a Swedish doom metal band, predecessor of Candlemass
• Nemesis (musicians), a pop music duo
• Nemesis (group), a Dallas, Texas rap crew who recorded on Profile Records in the early 1990s
• Nemesis, a Finnish electronic and ambient music group
• Nemesis a hip hop raper from Lockport NY

[edit] Albums

• Nemesis (album), a 1997 release by Grip Inc.
• Nemesis Divina, album by Norwegian black metal band Satyricon

[edit] Songs

• "Nemesis", a song on the 2007 album Judgement by VNV Nation
• "Nemesis", a song on the 2001 album Shakedown! by TheStart
• "Nemesis", a 1985 song by Shriekback
• "Nemesis", a song from the album Nymphetamine by Cradle of Filth
• "Nemesis", a song on Doomsday Machine (album) by Arch Enemy
• "Nemesis", a single by Indian alt rock band Fossils (band)

[edit] Television

• "Nemesis" (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
• "Nemesis" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Nemesis in Transformers can refer to:
  • Nemesis (Transformers), a fictional starship
  • Nemesis Breaker, an evil clone character
  • Nemesis Prime, another usually evil clone character

[edit] Roller coasters

• 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

[edit] 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] Science and technology

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

[edit] Transport

• HMS Nemesis, four ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Nemesis, three ships of the US Navy
• HEIC Nemesis, an early iron warship used in the First Opium War
• Sharp Nemesis, a famous racing plane now on display at the National Air and Space Museum
• Sharp Nemesis NXT, a kit-built racing plane
• AAQ-24 Nemesis, part of Directional Infrared Counter Measures, a Northrop-Grumman aircraft defense system

[edit] See also

• Nemesis (comics), a disambiguation page

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