Nemesis Kid
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Nemesis Kid is the alias of Hart Druiter, a comic book supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He lives in the future and is an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Created by Jim Shooter, Nemesis Kid first appeared in Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966).
Nemesis Kid possessed the superhuman ability to spontaneously develop the powers appropriate to defeat any one opponent for the duration of the battle, though against more than one opponent his powers would either work against only one target, allow him to escape the situation, or fail to work at all. In his first appearance, he infiltrated the Legion of Super-Heroes on behalf of the alien Khunds. When his deception was revealed, he tried to frame Karate Kid as the traitor; when that failed, he fled.
He later became a founding member of the Legion of Super-Villains. When the Legion of Super-Villains invaded the planet Orando under his leadership, Nemesis Kid defeated Karate Kid in single combat and killed him. Karate Kid's widow, Princess Projectra, attacked Nemesis Kid using her power to generate illusions. Once he had adapted an immunity to her illusions, Projectra attacked him, beating him unconscious, whereupon she broke his neck, killing him.
Nemesis Kid did not appear in the 1990s reboot Legion. In current "Threeboot" continuity he appears in Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #22 as a member of a group later identified as Mekt Ranzz's Wanderers.
