History YMMV / Nemesis

!!The film (1992):

!!The comic:
* CompleteMonster: [[AntagonistTitle The title character]] is a wealthy sociopath who [[spoiler:paid to become a supervillain]]. Nemesis travels around the world, slaughtering innocents and targeting honest police chiefs [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. Choosing inspector Blake Morrow as his next target, Nemesis terrorizes the United States: crashing a plane into Washington; gassing the Pentagon to kidnap the President; and blowing up a prison that detains him after letting himself get caught. To [[KickTheDog further torment Blake]], Nemesis outs the former's son as gay, inseminates his daughter with his son's sperm and triggers her womb to collapse if an abortion is attempted. Confronted by Blake, Nemesis reveals he's strapped bombs to both the President and Blake's wife and ecstatically tries to force the inspector to [[SadisticChoice choose who will die]].
* HilariousInHindsight:
** We now actually have an official [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Batman who becomes the Joker, and manages to one up Nemesis by trying to destroy MULTIPLE UNIVERSES.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'' ends up with a similar promise of [[spoiler:a cape masked figure fighting the commissioner with their roles and moralities flipped]].
* MisaimedFandom: Inverted and possibly enforced. The point of the series is to have a crazy awesome badass villain to end all crazy awesome badass villains, designed to have the reader rooting for him. With the third issue, however, far few people will cheer on a man who crosses the Moral Event Horizon in the way that he does.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: The President demanding Blake to blow him up just so he can put Nemesis in critical condition. Also counts as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Nemesis [[spoiler:kidnapped a young woman and had her impregnated by her gay brother, somehow rigging her body so that an attempt at an abortion will destroy her womb]].
* {{Narm}}:
** The above-mentioned moral event horizon? It's described so ''clinically'' that the scene just comes off as ridiculous. Not to mention that the whole thing somehow made front page news.
** At the end of the story, the protagonist receives a letter from TheManBehindTheMan that describes all of the events that occurred down to every specific detail, but the person who delivers it says that they've had the letter for 10 whole years, meaning that the person responsible was able to accurately predict everything that happened. Already pretty extreme, but he was able to predict everything right down to [[spoiler:Blake's daughter having triplets from her rape.]] From 10 years prior.
* TheWoobie: Morrow's children, who Nemesis not only kidnaps, but also [[spoiler:forces to ''have sex with each other'', impregnating the daughter and forcing her to bear the child or else her womb with explode]]. The son in particular gets pity points for being gay and severely depressed for thinking his father won't love him if he knew (actually, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he does love him, and just wants him safe]]), and because what Nemesis did to him [[spoiler:is heavily implied to be a form of humiliation for him alone]].

!!The film (from 1992, not to be confused with the comic by Mark Millar & Steve [=McNiven=] published in 2009):

* EightDeadlyWords: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is just some rich guy who [[spoiler:became a supervillain out of boredom]], not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* MoralEventHorizon: Nemesis [[spoiler:kidnapped a young woman and had her impregnated by her homosexual brother, somehow rigging her body so that an attempt at an abortion will destroy her womb]].

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is just some rich guy who [[spoiler:became a supervillain out of boredom]], not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* EightDeadlyWords: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is just some rich guy who [[spoiler:became a supervillain out of boredom]], not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* EightDeadlyWords: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is [[spoiler:just some rich guy who became a supervillain out of boredom]], not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* {{Narm}}: Mark Millar has this happen a lot. The above-mentioned moral event horizon? It's described so ''clinically'' that the scene just comes off as ridiculous. Not to mention that the whole thing somehow made front page news.

* EightDeadlyWords: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is just some rich guy who got bored so he became a supervillain. Not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's pretty hard to find investment in a story where the title character and main focus does nothing but kill, maim, and spread chaos. But unlike ComicBook/TheJoker, who Nemesis takes inspiration from, none of the [[EvilIsCool charisma]] or [[MultipleChoicePast mysterious intrigue]] is there to keep the reader interested. It becomes even more insulting when it's ultimately revealed that Nemesis is just some rich guy who got bored so he became a supervillain. Not only telling the reader that their patience in finding out the full details of the character's apparent FreudianExcuse was a waste of time, but also that they had been following the exploits of a completely one-dimensional character who has done horrible things for no reason at all.

* SoBadItsGood: The very definition. Grab some beer and check your brain at the door and you'll have a smashing time. "I luff to vatch you vurk," says Brion James. We do too.

* {{Narm}}: Mark Millar has this happen a lot. The above-mentioned moral event horizon? It's described so ''clinically'' that the scene just comes off as ridiculous.

* HilariousInHindsight: We now actually have an official [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Batman who becomes the Joker, and manages to one up Nemesis by trying to destroy MULTIPLE UNIVERSES.]]
** WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight ends up with a similar promise of [[spoiler:a cape masked figure fighting the commissioner with their roles and moralities flipped]].

** WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight ends up with a similar promise of [[spoiler:a cape masked figure fighting the commissioner with their roles and moralities fliped]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series could be considered this to comic book series focussing on the [[EvilFeelsGood escapist exploits]] of [[VillainProtagonist supervillains]], by stripping out everything that creators typically use to make us root for characters like that. Nemesis isn't fighting people who are as bad or worse than him, he's not a NobleDemon like ComicBook/DoctorDoom or ComicBook/BlackAdam, and his evil isn't cartoonish and over-the-top enough to make him fun like the Joker or SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The quality ''sharply'' declines in each sequel in every way possible. Apparently none of the actors or crew wanted to work for Pyun again, so he was forced to come up with... whatever he could.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: [[spoiler: The President demanding Blake to blow him up just so he can put Nemesis in critical condition. Also counts as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.]]

* TheWoobie: Morrow's children, who Nemesis not only kidnaps, but also [[spoiler:forces to ''have sex with each other'', impregnating the daughter and forcing her to bear the child or else her womb with explode]]. The son in particular gets pity points for being gay and severely depressed for thinking his father won't love him if he knew (actually, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he does love him, and just wants him safe]]), and because what Nemesis did to him [[spoiler:is heavily implied to be a form of humiliation for him alone]].

* SoBadItsGood: The very definition. Grab some beer and check your brain at the door and you'll have a smashing time. "I luff to vatch you vurk," says Brion James. We do too.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series could be considered this to comic book series focussing on the [[EvilFeelsGood escapist exploits]] of [[VillainProtagonist supervillains]], by stripping out everything that creators typically use to make us root for characters like that. Nemesis isn't fighting people who are as bad or worse than him, he's not a NobleDemon like ComicBook/DoctorDoom or ComicBook/BlackAdam, and his evil isn't cartoonish and over-the-top enough to make him fun like the Joker or SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series could be considered this to comic book series [[VillainProtagonist focused on villains]], by stripping out everything that creators typically use to make us root for characters like that. Nemesis isn't fighting people who are as bad or worse than him, he's not a NobleDemon like ComicBook/DoctorDoom or ComicBook/BlackAdam, and his evil isn't cartoonish and over-the-top enough to make him fun like the Joker or SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series could be considered this to comic book series [[VillainProtagonist focused on villains]], by stripping out everything that creators typically use to make character like that likeable. Nemesis isn't fighting people who are as bad or worse than him, he's not a NobleDemon like ComicBook/DoctorDoom or ComicBook/BlackAdam, and his evil isn't cartoonish and over-the-top enough to make him fun like the Joker or SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}.

* MisaimedFandom: Inverted and possibly enforced. The point of the series is to have a crazy awesome badass villain to end all crazy awesome badass villains, designed to have the reader rooting for him. With the third issue, however, far few people will cheer on a man who ...
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: kidnapped a young woman and had her impregnated by her homosexual brother, somehow rigging her body so that an attempt at an abortion will destroy her womb]].

* HilariousInHindsight: We now actually have an official [[ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal Batman who becomes joker, and manage to one up Nemesis by trying to destroy MULTIPLE UNIVERSE.]]