Reasons for Nemesis Statuses

[Doman Ryler]

So I saw a post debating the logistics of why certain villains and heroes are nemeses and this post is to tell you all the less known / ones that take a little research to figure out why. For those who want to know and don't, or those who would like to add to tell the story of these that I'm going to go over, this is the thread for you! :D
So

Tachyon / Matriarch
This one took me a while to figure out, but they're actually cousins, go figure. The Matriarch is jealous of Tachyon's success, and when she finds the Mask of the Matriarch, all hell breaks loose, because she's a teenager who obviously has parental issues and is lashing out.

Wraith / Spite
Spite was one of the muggers who put Maia in the hospital and killed her boyfriend. When she runs into him again during his rampage, they recognize each other.

Expatriette / Citizen Dawn
Citizen Dawn is the mother of Expatriette. When Expat was not born with supernatural powers, Dawn rejected her. Mommy/Daughter issues abundant.

Mr. Fixer / The Operative
The Operative was actually a pupil of Slim Walker when he ran the martial arts school in Rook City. After the school closed, The Operative went her own way and found herself in the crime world. Master / Student dispute here.

Mr. Fixer / The Chairman
Due to relationship between Fixer / Operative, as well as Fixer's hate for the crime that plagues Rook City.

If there are any others people want to talk about please comment and add them. Since the Digital version has not gotten up to Vengeance or Wrath, I'll wait to add the other ones that are not too clear. As always, reference http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.com/multiverse to find out the most in depth information about the Multiverse.

[Ronway]

Originally posted by Doman Ryler:

Wraith / Spite
Spite was one of the muggers who put Maia in the hospital and killed her boyfriend. When she runs into him again during his rampage, they recognize each other.

Do you have the source for this? The reason I know they are nemesis is purely because Spite is a huge threat to the people of Rook City, the city that The Wraith protects.

[Doman Ryler]

Originally posted by Ronway:

Originally posted by Doman Ryler:

Wraith / Spite
Spite was one of the muggers who put Maia in the hospital and killed her boyfriend. When she runs into him again during his rampage, they recognize each other.

Do you have the source for this? The reason I know they are nemesis is purely because Spite is a huge threat to the people of Rook City, the city that The Wraith protects.

To be honest, this one is a little more opinionated, but originated from the nemesis blurbs at the beginning of a fight between Spite and Wraith in digital.

[bluedarkyugi]

Bare in mind this is a basic run down and as such largely simplified skipping a lot of the exact details. Spoilers from sets not released are tagged.

Baron Blade/Legacy
Baron Blade hates Legacy because he blames his fathers failings on Legacy's father.

Grand Warlord Voss/Tempest
Grand Warlord Voss destroyed Tempest's home and enslaved his people making them his Gene Bound Shock Infantry.

Omnitron/Omnitron-X
Omnitron-X came back to destroy himself, Omnitron wants Omnitron-X's advanced tech.

Plague Rat/Chrono-Ranger/Rat Beasts
The Rat Beasts are Plague Rat's descendants and also the ones who ate Chrono-Ranger's arm.

Gloomweaver/Nightmist
Nightmist was originally called in to help the Freedom Five stop Gloomweaver from crossing over, since then Gloomweaver has sought Nightmist's powers for his own.

Akash'Bhuta/Argent Adept
Akash'Bhuta is the avatar of chaos, The Virtuoso of the Void is an avatar of order.

The Ennead/Ra/Anubis
Ancient Egyptian mythology.

Apostate/Fanatic
Apostate tells Fanatic that they are the same shortly after murdering people for a dark ritual, Fanatic insists very loudly that they are not.

The Dreamer/Visionary
The Dreamer is a nightmarish reminder to The Visionary that maybe some of the torment she went through as a child, that she came back to prevent, may have been necessary.

La Captian/The Seninels
The Sentinels encountered La Captian several times whilst forming their team.

Kismet/Setback
Kismet attempts to control probabilty, Setback is a statistical anomaly so strong that he accidently foils her attempts to control probability around him frequently.

Iron Legacy/Freedom Six
The Freedom Six are the only ones left who continue to challenge him in his original timeline.

Ambuscade/Haka
Ambuscade wants to hunt the greatest prey alive and has detirmined that Haka is the ultimate prey he seeks. Haka views Ambuscade as a nusiance.

Miss Information/Parse
Parse was the one who uncovered Miss Information's secret identity as the Freedom Fives secretary.

[melkathi]

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

The Dreamer/Visionary
The Dreamer is a nightmarish reminder to The Visionary that maybe some of the torment she went through as a child, that she came back to prevent, may have been necessary.

Actually you got this one wrong. The Dreamer is the Visionary. From the Shattered Timelines booklet:
"When Vanessa Long, known as the Visionary, travelled back in time, her first goal was to save her not-yet-born self. She saved her parents from Project Cocoon, and when Vanessa Long was born, the Visionary was relieved that the baby seemed to be normal. Six years went by without complication, and the Long family seemed to be out of harm's way. That is, until young Vanessa's psychic powers developed. Her new, vast awareness of the world left her in a coma, and her nightmares manifested physically! The heroes must defeat psychic projections and wake up the Dreamer, but without harming the young girl whose mind is attacking them!"

[bluedarkyugi]

Originally posted by melkathi:

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

The Dreamer/Visionary
The Dreamer is a nightmarish reminder to The Visionary that maybe some of the torment she went through as a child, that she came back to prevent, may have been necessary.

Actually you got this one wrong. The Dreamer is the Visionary. From the Shattered Timelines booklet:
"When Vanessa Long, known as the Visionary, travelled back in time, her first goal was to save her not-yet-born self. She saved her parents from Project Cocoon, and when Vanessa Long was born, the Visionary was relieved that the baby seemed to be normal. Six years went by without complication, and the Long family seemed to be out of harm's way. That is, until young Vanessa's psychic powers developed. Her new, vast awareness of the world left her in a coma, and her nightmares manifested physically! The heroes must defeat psychic projections and wake up the Dreamer, but without harming the young girl whose mind is attacking them!"

Yes and the fact that the Dreamer is going through uncontrolled psychic episodes that The Visonary didn't tells us...

[mmylesa]

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

The Ennead/Ra/Anubis
Ancient Egyptian mythology.

More than that. Ra was an archeologist who found an artifact giving him the powers of the Sun God.

The Ennead are tomb robbers who found the other 9.

[dq_177]

Originally posted by mmylesa:

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

The Ennead/Ra/Anubis
Ancient Egyptian mythology.

More than that. Ra was an archeologist who found an artifact giving him the powers of the Sun God.

The Ennead are tomb robbers who found the other 9.

And now all of them got REKT HARD along with Anubis by the Final Boss

[bluedarkyugi]

Originally posted by mmylesa:

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

The Ennead/Ra/Anubis
Ancient Egyptian mythology.

More than that. Ra was an archeologist who found an artifact giving him the powers of the Sun God.

The Ennead are tomb robbers who found the other 9.

I did mention I was glossing over some stuff.

[jffdougan]

The information about Spite and the Wraith might be in the Rook City rulebook, but I've seen something to that effect elsewhere. (There's definitely something that makes it more personal.)

[melkathi]

Originally posted by jffdougan:

The information about Spite and the Wraith might be in the Rook City rulebook, but I've seen something to that effect elsewhere. (There's definitely something that makes it more personal.)

Not in the Rook City book. Was looking for it there yesterday :(

[Doman Ryler]

Update on Wraith/Spite
After chatting with Christopher I've discovered that Wraith assisted in the RCPD investigation and capture of Spite during his first killing spree

[LD3 [Sideous Sin]]

One nemesis grouping I did not understand much at first was Absolute Zero and Proletariat, that is until I looked back through Prolet's bio on the offical website, where this quote is from:

"Fast forward to modern day. Baron Blade unearthed records of Tsarev, and broke him free of his containment. He convinced the soldier that his old causes mattered not, but that his freedom was taken from him by the oppressive, so-called "Freedom Five". The Baron likened Tsarev's existence to that of "Absolute Zero", Ryan Frost, a willing lap-dog of the government due to his own bizarre nature. Did Tsarev want to end up like those people, or to help the architect of a new world?"

Based on that, I'm assuming Prolet is nemesis to AZ due to the fact that he thinks that, like himself, he thinks AZ is part of a government super-human experiment opperation? I don't know, but assistance in analyzing should help shed some light on the subject.

[bluedarkyugi]

Basically it boils down to the fact that both ended up Cryogenically Frozen (Proletariat to serve his country in the future, Ryan to wait for a cure) and Proletariat was forgotten by his government whilst Ryan was given the chance to serve his country that Proletariat was denied.

That and Proletariat is still stuck in the Cold War,

[LD3 [Sideous Sin]]

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

Basically it boils down to the fact that both ended up Cryogenically Frozen (Proletariat to serve his country in the future, Ryan to wait for a cure) and Proletariat was forgotten by his government whilst Ryan was given the chance to serve his country that Proletariat was denied.

That and Proletariat is still stuck in the Cold War,

So I guess that means he still thinks that Russia is still the USSR, right? Although, you could say that Ryan was conscious during his 2 years of cryo freezing, since he couldnt survive temperatures above absolute zero without suffering extreme burning.

[bluedarkyugi]

Originally posted by LegendDreamer3 Tomoki Sashi:

Originally posted by bluedarkyugi:

Basically it boils down to the fact that both ended up Cryogenically Frozen (Proletariat to serve his country in the future, Ryan to wait for a cure) and Proletariat was forgotten by his government whilst Ryan was given the chance to serve his country that Proletariat was denied.

That and Proletariat is still stuck in the Cold War,

So I guess that means he still thinks that Russia is still the USSR, right? Although, you could say that Ryan was conscious during his 2 years of cryo freezing, since he couldnt survive temperatures above absolute zero without suffering extreme burning.

I don't think the temperatures Ryan must survive at has been confirmed, although scientifically speaking, outside of Comic Book Mag...Science, Absolute Zero (the temperature) is the point where atoms cannot move at all, meaning that Ryan wouldn't have the energy to move at all if he was held at the actual temperature. It's far more likely that Absolute Z is just a cool sounding name. No pun intended.