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This short story follows Holmes as his program is rebooted on modern computers and he is forced to compete against his nemesis yet again in the modern counterparts of Babbage's Analytical Engine.
General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.
* In the film Caddyshack, Carl Spackler, played by Bill Murray, mumbles the song under his breath while he is connecting the wires to the plunger as he prepares for his final battle with his gopher nemesis.
Hubris against the gods is often attributed as a character flaw of the heroes in Greek tragedy, and the cause of the " nemesis ," or destruction, which befalls these characters.
For Antony the nemesis is Octavius, for Macbeth it is Banquo.
* Sir Denis Nayland Smith is Fu Manchu's nemesis from the novels.
In the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, modern day New Yorker David Stutler, played by Jay Baruchel, discovers he is the last descendant of Merlin and is trained as a sorcerer by Balthazar Blake, portrayed by Nicolas Cage, a former student of the great wizard, so that he may ultimately do battle with Merlin's old nemesis Morganna, played by Alice Krige.
* A player's nemesis in Team Fortress 2 is a player who has killed him four times in a row without direct retaliation
For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.
An underground resistance is formed against him, including his nemesis ' son, Roger Wilco Jr.
Often a nemesis is a superhero's doppelganger or foil ( e. g., Sabretooth embraces his savage instincts while Wolverine tries to control his ; Batman is dark, taciturn, and grim, while the Joker is colorful, loquacious, and flamboyant ).
* Paul Freeman as Dr. René Belloq, Jones ' arch nemesis, Belloq is also an archaeologist after the Ark, but he is working for the Nazis.
In the cartoons of the 1930s, Pete would be Mickey Mouse's nemesis, but would vary in professions, from an all-out outlaw ( Gallopin ' Gaucho ) to a brutal law-enforcer ( such as Moving Day in which he is a sheriff who serves Mickey and Donald Duck with an eviction notice ).
In the earlier episodes, as mentioned in the show's opening title, Hercules ' main nemesis is his evil stepmother Hera, the powerful queen of the gods, who seeks to destroy Hercules using various monsters, because he is a reminder of her husband Zeus ' infidelity.
Hubris against the gods is often attributed as a character flaw of the heroes in Greek tragedy, and the cause of the " nemesis ", or destruction, which befalls these characters.
Butch the Bulldog is Pluto's nemesis.

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The plot will gradually meander to a final dramatic showdown between the protagonist and his nemesis.
On the final day of the regular season, they were tied with their nemesis, the Rangers, for the final playoff spot in the Patrick Division.
Kali is the reigning lord of Kali Yuga and his nemesis is Sri Kalki, the tenth and final Avatar of Lord Vishnu.
By the show's fourth and final season, Zack and Ivy were regularly teaming up with their former nemesis to stop considerably less moral criminals from taking over V. I. L. E.
As a finalist he progressed to the final eight for the 2000 Grand Prix, but once again dropped a decision to his nemesis Hoost.
In popular literature, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the falls as the location of the final fight of hero Sherlock Holmes with his nemesis Professor Moriarty.
The final books in the series featured his nemesis, Feramontov, a deadly and highly skilled Russian agent, whose ruthlessness went as far as trying to detonate a nuclear bomb.
Smiley learns the General had discovered information that leads to a final confrontation with George Smiley's nemesis, the Soviet spymaster Karla.
Drawn an away final against their 1997 ARL Grand Final nemesis the Newcastle Knights, the Sea Eagles led at halftime only to see their lead run down in a controversial second half.
He loves nudie magazines, free beer, bowling and " nudie " bars, and often cherishes the glory moment of his past: scoring four touchdowns " in a single game " while playing for the fictional Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus fictional Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, “ Spare Tire ” Dixon ( played by Bubba Smith in the episode " All-Nite Security Dude ").
However, Finland lost the final bitterly 3 – 2 to their nemesis, Team Sweden.
United reached the European Cup final in 1968, which was to be staged at Wembley, and Stiles ' old nemesis Eusébio was again someone he had to deal with as part of a fearsome attacking potential posed by opponents Benfica.
The club would play its nemesis Port Adelaide in the 1962 grand final and once again would go down by a heartbreaking 3 points to The Magpies.
Dent and Doyle pushed the score to 5 – 2 in the sixth with RBI singles and Reggie Jackson put the final nail in the coffin with a tremendous two-run blast in the seventh off his Game 2 nemesis, Bob Welch.
A new villain, Lord Dregg, an evil alien warlord, appeared as their new chief nemesis for the final two seasons.
He won two consecutive Challengers in Espinho over Tommy Robredo and Barletta defeating Markus Hipfl, this was followed up with a final in Estoril losing to nemesis Juan Carlos Ferrero as he did in all 8 of their matches.
Elfangor's demise comes in his final battle with his nemesis, Visser Three ( Esplin ).
Although he often fights new enemies in each episode as the series progresses, his arch nemesis is computer technologies billionaire Kieran Keyes ( Kim Coates ), who would slay Johnny's father, Frank Domino, in the premiere of the second and final season.
Set during protagonist Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry's preparations for the final battle alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore.
The final battle of this era, the Muir Island Saga, saw the X-Men, X-Factor and some allies fight an old nemesis of Xavier, the Shadow King.
However, Maria's death by his nemesis Radiguet exceeds into the final battle, quitting the team to go after Radiguet before Kaori manages to talk Ryu out of revenge by reminding him of Rie's final wish.

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Now, Kindaichi must prove his innocence by finding Gankutsuō, and make his nemesis pay for his crimes, once and for all!

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In April 1977 he went to play as a named superstar in the NASL for Fort Lauderdale Strikers alongside his old nemesis Best.
The blinding and mocking of Polyphemos called down the nemesis of Poseidon upon Odysseus ; Poseidon already bore Odysseus a grudge for not giving him a sacrifice when Poseidon prevented the Greeks from being discovered inside the Trojan Horse.
Despite the Soviets ' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.
Both are fighting for a throne and have a ' nemesis ' to face to achieve that throne.
Shang-Chi appeared in Wolverine First Class # 9, where Wolverine approached him for advice in order to defeat his nemesis, Sabretooth.
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.
While it was common knowledge that Jefferson was the candidate for president and Burr for vice-president, many Federalists were unwilling to support Jefferson, their partisan nemesis ( with one important exception, Alexander Hamilton ).
: Midnight in the House of Hurt ( 2008 ), Batman acquired a new nemesis, who shadowed him for seven more issues: his name was Pierrot Lunaire.
Latell states that the evidence indicated that the assassination operation was similar to other assassination operations Cuban intelligence had been involved in, and that Somoza was a long-time nemesis of Castro after he provided critical support to the U. S. in preparing for the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.
In the offseason, the Bulls lost B. J. Armstrong in the expansion draft, but Krause pulled off a masterful deal by trading Will Perdue to the San Antonio Spurs for the aggressive and often controversial rebounding specialist Dennis Rodman, who had won the past four rebounding titles, and who had also been a member of the Detroit Pistons ' " Bad Boys " squad that served as the Bulls ' chief nemesis in the late 1980s.
Although Thrawn and Zaarin were very much tactical equals, Thrawn eventually outsmarted and defeated his nemesis for good.
Lynch introduces a new nemesis for Spike, John, a human whose soul was taken when Spike earned his ; when John removes Spike's soul, Spike realises his redemption had begun long before his soul, and charitably has Willow return it to Drusilla instead, however shortly after Drusilla kills John prompting Spike to realize that she can't handle having a soul and so agrees to take it back from her.
As the explanations for SRA were distanced from evangelical Christianity and into the realm of " survivor " groups, the motivations ascribed to purported Satanists shifted from combating a religious nemesis to mind control and abuse as an end to itself.
Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.
When the hero Aeneas sued for Lavinia's hand in marriage, Amata opposed him because she had already promised Lavinia to Aeneas ' nemesis Turnus.
He is revealed to be an old nemesis of Marjory the Trash Heap and enslaves Philo and Gunge when they leave home for greener pastures in " Home is Where the Trash is ".
Beginning in 1924, Streicher used Der Stürmer as a mouthpiece not only for general antisemitic attacks, but for calculated smear campaigns against specific Jews, such as the Nuremberg city official Julius Fleischmann, who worked for Streicher ’ s nemesis, mayor Hermann Luppe.

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