Nemesis (Marvel Comics)
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Nemesis is the name of, seemingly, three fictional superheroines in the Marvel Comics universe.
Nemesis is also the name of the son of Apocalypse. For information about him, see Holocaust
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[edit] Catherine St.Ives
The first Nemesis appeared in Alpha Flight #8, and was created by John Byrne. She was the daughter of "Deadly" Ernest St. Ives, and used a magical sword, allegedly the only weapon capable of killing her father, to assist the Canadian superheroes Northstar and Aurora in combat with him. Although she apparently killed Deadly Ernest, he returned in Alpha Flight #32. There, the Flight member Puck used Nemesis's sword to fatally wound her father, who was then knocked in front of an oncoming subway train and apparently killed. Nemesis then explained her relation to the villain to the heroes and disintegrated.
[edit] "Jane Doe"
The second Nemesis first appeared in Alpha Flight #76, which was written by James Hudnall. She wears a costume identical to the first Nemesis, and uses the original's sword and, on occasion, has used a teleportation device. Nothing about her past has been revealed, save that she once led a cult called the "Children of the Night". Only her first name (Jane) has been revealed, and that was used only once and only in her first appearance - although Scott Lobdell, the writer, suggested that this was a reference to Jane Doe - i.e., name unknown. It has been speculated that she may actually be the original Nemesis in a regenerated or new body.
The second Nemesis was introduced as a member of Alpha Flight's trainee team, Gamma Flight, and remained a member until the team was disbanded, at which point she fled to keep her teammate Wild Child from being placed in government custody. After Alpha Flight was reinstated, Wild Child, now a full member of Alpha Flight, rescued her from Rok, the new leader of the Children of the Night. She accompanied him to the Alpha Flight headquarters and became an associate, but not a member, of Alpha Flight.
[edit] Amelia Weatherly
The third Nemesis to be introduced was born in the early 19th Century under the name Amelia Weatherly. She became the mistress of Centennial, but was killed under unknown circumstances, which involved a building burning down, and buried in a shallow grave, although Centennial - though he never found her body - had a proper funeral for "the one thing he ever loved" regardless, with "Love, like vengeance, is eternal" engraved on her tombstone.
Somehow, after having "been to Hell - twice" she was revived as "the living embodiment of retribution", her dead body animated by the connection to her promethium soulsword, Scell. When the sword is not held by her or sheathed close to her body, she can barely move.
Later, she was arrested as an anarchist terrorist by the Canadian Government and held there until Sasquatch made a bargain for her release to join his new Alpha Flight lineup to save the originals - initially under coersion, with Sasquatch injecting her with nanotechnology capable of severing her connection to her sword, effectively killing her, if she attempted to kill any Alpha Flight member. While only Nemesis herself was aware of their connection, Centennial was also independently recruited by Sasquatch to the team.
After they helped to rescue the original team, Nemesis herself was the member keenest for the new team to remain assembled, since, while long-lived, she was not immortal and her life was coming to an end - although, visibly, she had not aged since her original death - and there was a matter she needed to attend to, which she couldn't do from prison. She eventually convinced Sasquatch to allow her freedom in return for remaining a member.
When Flashback then came to ask for help in preventing himself from being drawn back to his death in the past, Nemesis revealed she and her sword could time-travel - however, she didn't mention until after she'd done it that she would need to kill Flashback to do so. She justified it on the grounds that if they prevented the original problem - which Sasquatch identified as Guardian's original death - then she would never have needed to kill Flashback in the first place. She then proceeded to kill the members of Alpha Flight one-by-one, as their attempts to solve the problem made the present increasingly worse and required someone else to go back to alter the past further. When she stabbed them, they went to a "weigh station" inside herself where they would exit in the past with no memory of the time spent there.
When it was Centennial's turn to be stabbed and enter the station, she revealed herself to him at last as the mistress he'd truly loved, but said she couldn't tell him after she exited to reality, and after she sent everyone else (bar Sasquatch) back, she spent time cradling his dead body. When the time finally came to kill herself, she met herself in the final moments of her original life, suffering a "slow and painful death" in a shallow grave at the foot of a hill, topped with a flaming building, and briefly comforted herself.
When she arrived in the past, she killed Heather Hudson to prevent Guardian's death, which meant that the future Sasquatch became one where Guardian had spent ten years becoming the ruler of the world - and torturing Nemesis. Sasquatch, however, managed to persuade Shaman to reset the timeline so that the attempts at altering the past had never happened. The result was that Flashback came, not to prevent his own death, but to give Sasquatch Shaman's pouch, which yielded copies of the original Alpha Flight taken from shortly before Guardian's "death," with only Shaman and Nemesis herself remembering the erased timeline, whereupon Shaman convinced Nemesis to reveal herself to Centennial, so that when they died shortly after they were buried together.
When stunned, she starts talking about "fuzzy bunnies".
