The main antagonist is a young dictator named Zaygos, who wants to use the Dal Gren for his own nefarious purposes.

He soon discovers that his new title is quite literal, as a nefarious spirit named Yasunori Kato appears.

Six years later, however, Marvel decided to revive the original Jean Grey ; so as to absolve her from Dark Phoenix's atrocities, the story was retconned to make Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix two separate beings and reveal that the original Jean Grey had been lying unconscious in a cocoon while Dark Phoenix's nefarious deeds were committed, in no way responsible for them ; thus cleared of the moral stain, Jean Grey could go on to a further long and varied career.

Despite the Dukes often coming to his rescue ( see below ), Hogg forever seems to have an irrational dislike of the clan, particularly Bo and Luke, often accusing them of spying on him, robbing or planning to rob him, and other supposedly nefarious actions as he believes they are generally out to get him.

" Bowser ranked in the first slot on Game Daily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games list, explaining if Yoshi and Wario get their own games, Bowser should too due to his being one of gaming's most nefarious villains.

The faux Roth is revealed to be a surgically altered impostor bent on using the author's notoriety to advance a nefarious political agenda.

During the transition period, some taxes were upheld based on a careful review of the actual economic impact of the tax, and other taxes were reviewed based on the kind of tax involved, whether the tax had a nefarious impact on commerce or not.

After he goes on a hunger strike and is spotted chained to some railings by the nefarious Chancellor of the Exchequer / Deputy Prime Minister David Carlton ( Charles Dance ), he is drawn into a world of seedy political intrigue, as the Deputy Prime Minister tries to use Ali as a tool to destroy the Prime Minister's credibility.

Danby's Test Oath proposal was merely the latest, most nefarious attempt to introduce divine right monarchy and episcopacy on the country.

Emperor Justinian I ( died 565 ) ordered that the children of priests, deacons and subdeacons who, " in disregard of the sacred canons, have children by women with whom, according to sacerdotal regulation, they may not cohabit " be considered illegitimate on the same level as those " procreated in incest and in nefarious nuptials ".

John Moore ’ s Zeluco focuses on the nefarious plots of a single man who cannot control his passions.

Jim Naureckas, writing for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, counters that Klehr, Haynes, and Vassiliev's allegations, if true, indicate merely that Stone was " just gossiping ," and he assails the authors for their " nefarious " and " tendentious " magnification of “ relatively innocuous behavior ” on the basis of one anti-Nazi maneuver.

However, the focus on the search for the Encryptor Chip is shown less as the season deals more with a new scenario ; each episode involving Hacker seeking to take over a cybersite or all of Cyberspace, or plot a nefarious scheme in which he is wreaking chaos and havoc somewhere.

Аfter procuring the banishment of Menshikov he drew up a letter purporting to be the last will of the emperor, appointing Catherine Dolgorukova his successor, but shortly afterwards abandoned the nefarious scheme as impracticable, and was one of the first to support the election of Anne of Courland to the throne on condition that she first signed nine " articles of limitation ", which left the supreme power in the hands of the Russian council.

In the next section, T2, the adventurers move on to the nearby village of Nulb to confront several nefarious opponents, including agents from the Temple.

" I'd hate to think what they would have done if we were doing something more nefarious then putting on shows and registering voters.

It turns out that this house is on the site of an old farm which was Curwen's headquarters for his nefarious doings ; beneath is a vast catacomb that the wizard had built to serve as his lair during his previous lifetime.

A few people have blamed volcanic oddities, others speculate that someone was intentionally creating an electrical phenomenon for nefarious ends, possibly including a con on the villagers, with a Tesla-type Magnifying Transmitter or similar device.

The game starts in Washington D. C., where President Ronnie ( based on U. S. President Ronald Reagan ) has been abducted by the nefarious DragonNinja clan.

Regular segments featured on the show included Brak's School Daze, Zorak's Horror Scopes, Poets ' Corner, Brak's Monday Ratings Report, The Top 5 Cartoon Countdown ( discontinued in 1997 after the show's slot on Saturday mornings was shortened from an hour to a half hour ), Vacation Spots Around the Universe ( pieced together from clips of Ultra 7 episodes ), Messages from Outer Space ( also pieced together from the aforementioned Ultra 7, and starring the nefarious Hot Dog Men ), Mailbag Day, readings from the Cartoon Planet Storybook, messages from Count Floyd ( Joe Flaherty's local Public-access television cable TV horror movie host from SCTV ; the segments were originally shown on Hanna-Barbera's The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley ), Learning to Talk Italian, Nuggets of Joy from Zorak, Zorak's Helpful Hints, and Cooking with Brak.

protagonist in his exploits ,” depicts the Thule Society ( that Hitler formally disavowed while in power ) as a “ powerful nest of Nazis who disappear into the Black Sun and are deeply entangled in the Reich ’ s paranormal research efforts ,” and goes beyond Himmler ’ s symbolic use of the Black Sun to make it a “ limitless energy source that the Nazis are hell-bent on manipulating toward their own nefarious ends .”

A single Russian ethnographer was told by nearby Tajiks — long hostile to the Yaghnobis, who were late to adopt Islam — that the Yaghnobis used their language as a " secret " mode of communication to confuse the Tajiks ; this account led to the belief by some ( especially those reliant solely on Russian sources ) that Yaghnobi or some derivative of it was used as a code for nefarious purposes.

The Boys are called upon to rescue Dora when she is kidnapped by the nefarious stock villain Dan Backslide ( a play on the name of the Rover Boys series villain Dan Baxter ).

" The character, " Bing Hitler " ( actually coined by Capaldi as Ferguson started with the monogram of " Nico Fulton " but admittedly later stole the name for his " own nefarious ends "), premiered in Glasgow, and subsequently became a hit at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr. Maureen Robinson ( played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart respectively ) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith ( played by Jonathan Harris ), in the 1960s CBS sci-fi television series Lost in Space.

Dr. Claw frequently concocts various evil plans, usually involving large-scale thefts or other plans to set up bases or procure resources to further his nefarious activities, usually involving the death of Inspector Gadget when he interfered.

He shall confront nefarious Dr. Gulk ( Cameron Mitchell ) who plans to take over the world.

The nefarious Dr. Sivana hatches a plan to kill the " real " Billy Batson and sends his three henchmen to find out where Billy lives.

William Devane was Hitchcock's first choice for the role of nefarious jeweler Arthur Adamson, but Devane was unavailable when the film went into production.

Divoff has played many villains in film and on television, usually drug cartel leaders, and is best known for having played the nefarious Djinn in the first two films of the Wishmaster series.

Carlo Cavagna of About Film criticized the series, saying that it consisted of " pedestrian one-hour confrontations pitting Duncan MacLeod against one overacting nefarious immortal after another, each a pale imitation of Clancy Brown's delicious overarching villainy in the first film ," and felt that the series featured " a wide array of unappealing supporting characters " and that " the writers didn't know what to do with the Highlander concept.

In the film, Smart is called back into service in order to stop a nefarious KAOS terrorist plan from exploding a bomb that destroys only clothing, so as to leave KAOS as the only supplier of clothes to the entire world.

Mac and Me is a 1988 sci-fi fantasy film co-written ( with Steve Feke ) and directed by Stewart Raffill about a " Mysterious Alien Creature " ( MAC ) that escapes from nefarious NASA agents and is befriended by a young boy who uses a wheelchair.

Some regional versions contained more nefarious creatures.

This belief became a model for various conspiracy theories about various Cabals with dark nefarious objectives beginning with taking over Usenet or the Internet.

Before the specifications were finished, however, Apple sued Next for " nefarious schemes " to take advantage of the cofounders ' insider information.

Simon Templar is a thief known as The Saint because of his initials ( ST ) and because his heroic exploits fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation.

Although he did not perform as much in the early shows Milligan eventually became a lead performer in almost all of the Goon Show episodes, portraying a wide range of characters including Eccles, Minnie Bannister, Jim Spriggs and the nefarious Count Moriarty.

It also expresses the visceral impact of structural racism through " provocative and brutal " language that characterizes racism as " nefarious, global, systemic, and constant.

The former are generally thought to have made a pact, usually with the Devil, and morph into werewolves at night to indulge in nefarious acts.

In the 1989 crossover Inferno, Madelyne Pryor was revealed to be a clone of Jean Grey created by the nefarious mutant geneticist Mister Sinister.

The war lasted from February to September 1517 and ended with the expulsion of the duke and the triumph of Lorenzo ; but it revived the allegedly nefarious policy of Alexander VI, increased brigandage and anarchy in the Papal States, hindered the preparations for a crusade and wrecked the papal finances.

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

In international politics, the compromises most often discussed are usually regarded as nefarious deals with dictators, such as Neville Chamberlain ’ s appeasement of Hitler.

Some of these are get-rich-quick schemes, though many others affect the financial security of the Duke farm, which Hogg has long wanted to acquire for nefarious reasons.

In other words, innocent monopoly, or monopoly achieved solely by merit, is perfectly legal, but acts by a monopolist to artificially preserve his status, or nefarious dealings to create a monopoly, are not.

— A mysterious character who evolves from being an illicit technology specialist and hacker to being a powerful Confucian leader and nefarious force.

Mrs Lefay visits Digory in the The Lefay Fragment, and becomes Andrew Ketterley's nefarious godmother in the finished novel.

Writing simple software applications for keylogging can be trivial, and like any nefarious computer program, can be distributed as a trojan horse or as part of a virus.

In addition, law enforcement organizations report these dogs are used for other nefarious purposes, such as guarding illegal narcotics operations, use against the police, and as attack dogs.

Organizations, ranging from multi-national for profit corporations to nonprofit charities, keep secrets for competitive advantage, to meet legal requirements, or, in some cases, to conceal nefarious behavior.

He also apparently has no compunction about engaging in nefarious acts such as pimping his secretary.