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  • Ascended Fan Boy: In universe there's Katsu who is excited to see Kaiju fighting one another. Out of universe Robinson has been a fan of artist Bob Eggleton who did 'Whose Afraid of Godzilla' is now working with him to do the cover art for the Project Nemesis comic series.
  • Complete Monster:
    • Project Nemesis & Project Maigo: General Lance Gordon is the man to discover the husk of the kaiju later named the Nemesis Prime. He initiates testing on it while having those he thinks he can't trust killed. When he implants an organ grown using Nemesis Prime's genetic material, Gordon's body changes to reflect his bestial nature. Mentally controlling newborn kaiju, Gordon sends them to attack human areas, with one notable attack being on the Sydney Opera House, while the kaiju wreak havoc and devastation to devour all the humans they can. Gordon then sends them to attack Washington, D.C. and Fort Bragg, intending to annihilate the US's military and government and eventually have the kaiju destroy human civilization so he may rebuild the world in his twisted image.
    • Nemesis Alternate Universe novel:
      • Frankie Robles is a Serial Killer who drugs his victims, coats them in epoxy, and poses them like mannequins to enact various scenes of mundane life. Registering a 9.5 out of 10 on the Hudson Scale, Robles was active long before Nemesis was created, joined Divine Retribution, and claimed dozens—if not hundreds—of victims over the subsequent 13 years—using some of his victims to decorate Divine Retribution's shrine to Nemesis under Martha's Vineyard and hollowing others out to serve as hiding places in case the NSO came calling.
      • Daimon Dunn, aka "Fuck Face", is a narcissistic sociopath who founded Divine Retribution within three years of Nemesis' destruction of Old Boston, cobbling together pieces of various mythologies into a manifesto exploiting people's fear to rally followers by claiming that Nemesis will cleanse the world of the "unworthy". Seeking to supplant Nemesis and become a god himself, Dunn has his cultists combine Nemesis' genetic material with the RC-714 mutagen to create a serum that turns people into Golyat—eternally ravenous monstrosities that grow the more they eat and can infect others through their bodily fluids. Testing the Golyat serum on Martha's Vineyard—killing thousands and leading to the island being wiped out—Dunn retreats to a hidden base under Neo-Boston and turns himself into a Golyat, devouring enough people to grow to be 500 feet tall. Unleashing the Golyat mutagen in the underground city of Beantown, which leads to hundreds of people being killed or mutated, Dunn then attempts to destroy Neo-Boston and devour Nemesis.
  • Even Better Sequel: While people enjoyed Project Nemesis for being a thriller with mostly normal people having to deal with a Kaiju, a mutating human and a martial artist assassin fan boy. It seems lots of people consider Project Maigo to be even better with the sheer number of Kaiju and bringing monster vs. monster action forward and further cementing a shared universe with Island 731.
  • Heartwarming Moments: Near the end of Project 731 we get a touching scene between Hudson and Maigo that establishes how she quickly became his daughter figure. This includes her second time waking up and nearly killing Hudson due to thinking she was still in Nemesis. He forgives her for that and in the present he and Watson officially makes Maigo his daughter and gets his surname. Considering what she went through she deserved a better parent figure.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Robinson definetly likes to give the monster action. It's averted since some fans actually like seeing the strange expanding family of FC-P.
  • Moment of Awesome: Well, it is a series of novels about giant monsters. There's bound to be some cool events here and there.
    • Credit goes to Jessie, a random girl with a shotgun who, after witnessing Nemesis kill and devour her boyfriend, decides against fleeing, grabs the aforementioned firearm and proceeds to rack a shell and fire it directly into Nemesis' chest. Unfortunately, this gets her fried by Nemesis' self-detonation ability, but she still managed to make the monster feel genuine pain well before anyone with real firearm experience faced her.
    • In a horrifying sense, Nemesis herself. Her design, while terrifying, is also incredibly distinct and well made, and her rampage is every bit as awe-inspiring as it is nightmarish. Highlights include tanking torpedoes and Tomahawk missiles with zero issues, completely ignoring anything short of the best calibers we have(to the point where nukes are considered), and the debut of the Judgement Beam.
    • The ending of Project Nemesis is one for Maigo, managing to exert enough influence over Nemesis to target and kill her father in the debut of an absolutely devastating move called the Judgement Beam.
    • In Project Maigo the Washington battle finally ends with Karkinos ripping Nemesis apart and on the ropes. Turns out Nemesis was getting ripped apart so she could use her Judgement Beam. Except instead of it being used for overkill to burn away one human it is improvised to use Karkinos' own self immolation explosion to reflect the explosion back at him in a single line.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The Nemesis Saga is described as a series of thriller novels, and they earn that genre with flying colors.
    • Nemesis' rampage in the first book is the stuff of nightmares. Especially what happens to Ashton; after the sheer devastation of the town and the unbridled slaughter and feast that takes place, satellite imagery can only show wreckage and gore where the town used to be. Fortunately, as the book goes on she starts eating whales instead of people thanks to Maigo's conscience gaining more influence, but it doesn't undo the horrors the residents of Ashton and Portland faced thanks to her uncontrolled hunger and fury.
      • One of the worst parts of the Ashton attack is what happens to some poor unnamed woman; she's not just eaten alive by Nemesis, she was outright swallowed whole and is stated to have survived three hours before finally succumbing to the wounds of digestion. It makes you hope the majority of her meals died quickly...
    • While we're on the subject of Nemesis herself; in contrast to many giant monsters, instead of being bulky and slow she's more lanky and agile, while still having the immense durability to withstand basically everything the military can throw at her. This is mitigated as she grows, but she never stops being fast for her size, and it only gets worse from there due to her downright demonic appearance. Her face looks like a skull, her body is black with glowing orange spots, and as the cherry on top she's described as having very human eyes. Uncanny Valley doesn't even BEGIN to cover that.
  • Sequelitis: While Project 731 isn't hated it is considered a bit underwhelming after the Kaijufest that was Project Maigo. This might have to do with the fact of there being less monsters and some disliked Maigo going from Nemesis' conscience to a teenage girl albeit with super strength. Though with it becoming something of part one for a new trilogy with Project Hyperion and Project Legion some of the dislike has died down.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Project Maigo is crawling with numerous Kaiju and each one only really gets to shine for one scene at most. While each of the brood gets a moment to stick out some thought they were burned through far too fast for only a second book. Especially Typhon who seemed to naturally know how to think outside the box with Gordon having to influence him.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Project Legion brings together several universes established by Robinson, with the logical issue being the effort required to assemble a team of heroes across the multiverse while reconciling worldbuilding elements and character motivations. When the cast meets King Solomon of Antarktos and attempts to persuade him into joining their cause, he vehemently rejects them for sheer lack of reason to help. When he changes his mind later on, it is for no other reason than an emotive pep talk by his wife and his friend. Since The Last Hunter revolves around a conflict with the Nephilim, the giant descendants of humans and angels, it would have made perfect sense to identify the fallen angels with visiting Aeros, in the vein of Ancient Astronauts. Granted, Solomon does meet a quite humanoid angel in the subterranean Eden in the course of his adventures, but the description of its appearance reads eerily similar to the Aeros Artuke when he meets a Neanderthal woman in the intro of Raising The Past, later revealed to be a holographic projection that belies his true monstrous form. The additional resemblance between both the angel in Eden and Artuke's hologram to the underused Atlantide, brought to Earth by the Ferox in order to mingle with ancient humans and endow them with warlike qualities, implies that the Aeros deliberately imitated the Antlantide in order to corrupt humankind via interbreeding, counteracting the Atlantean genes present in the modern human population thanks to the Ferox machinations. While this role could have also been assumed by the Ferox themselves, the gigantic proportions of Aeros and the pattern of their visuals in general could have led to an intercontinuity revelation that is never elaborated upon.

Alternative Title(s): Project Nemesis

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