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* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. Torquemada uses assassination and intimidation tactics during his trial to scare the jury into declaring him "not guilty" on the charges of crimes against existence. The free human government hands him over to his arch-enemy Nemesis instead.
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* CategoryTraitor: Torquemada and his AbsoluteXenophobe followers happily execute any human who associate themselves with aliens, or even merely object to his xenocidal crusades on alien worlds.
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* ShamingTheMob: Subverted. This fails miserably when Purity and other "alien lovers" are about to be executed by a mob of Torquemada's followers and she takes a moral stand.
-->'''Purity:''' Why are you all so evil? Don't you think it is wrong to kill aliens just because they're not the same as you?
-->'''Terminators:''' [in unison] '''''No.'''''
-->'''Purity:''' Why are you all so evil? Don't you think it is wrong to kill aliens just because they're not the same as you?
-->'''Terminators:''' [in unison] '''''No.'''''
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* SealedEvilInADuel: The final arc concludes with Nemesis stopping Torquemada from activating his "[[WeaponOfMassDestruction Final Solution]]" (a bomb designed to exterminate every alien and all humans who came into contact with an alien) by [[spoiler:drawing the explosion into both himself and Torquemada, who is also vulnerable after Nemesis scratches him with his claws. Nemesis and Torquemada merge with the Blitzspear into a single entity which roams the cosmos for billions of years into the future.]]
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* TheNecrocracy: After he was killed in a teleporter accident, Torquemada returned to rule his empire as a phantom. He would possess human hosts by devouring their lifeforce if he needed a body.
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** Torquemada wielding a chainsword at one point may or may not be example of this. However, both the story with the chainsword and the first edition of ''Warhammer 40000'' were initially released in the same year, 1988. Some rumors actually suggest that the use of the weapon in ''[=WH40K=]'' was inspired by its appearance in ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and not the other way around.
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** Torquemada wielding a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} chainsword]] at one point may or may not be example of this. However, both the story with the chainsword and the first edition of ''Warhammer 40000'' were initially released in the same year, 1988. Some rumors actually suggest that the use of the weapon in ''[=WH40K=]'' was inspired by its appearance in ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and not the other way around.
** Torquemada wielding a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} chainsword]] at one point may or may not be example of this. However, both the story with the chainsword and the first edition of ''Warhammer 40000'' were initially released in the same year, 1988. Some rumors actually suggest that the use of the weapon in ''[=WH40K=]'' was inspired by its appearance in ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and not the other way around.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: It's revealed that Torquemada's soul was so evil, it has been reincarnated many times throughout history in various past villains. These include the original Tomas de Torquemada, Adolf Hitler, Maximilien de Robespierre, the Witchfinder General, and John Chivington.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: It's revealed that Torquemada's [[BigBad Torquemada]]'s soul was so evil, it has been reincarnated many times throughout history in various past villains. These include the original Tomas de Torquemada, Adolf Hitler, Maximilien de Robespierre, the Witchfinder General, and John Chivington.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: It's revealed that Torquemada's soul was so evil, it has been reincarnated many times throughout history in various past villains. These include the original Tomas de Torquemada, Adolf Hitler, Maximilien de Robespierre, the Witchfinder General, and John Chivington.
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* TooKinkyToTorture:
** A nameless alien is in the hands of an inexperienced torturer, while his supervisor comes along. The alien sympathetically agrees with the criticism the supervisor gives, and while the torturer is soon busy receiving an earful from the supervisor, the alien says it'll torture itself if they won't do it.
** When Torquemada is sent back to the past, he meets his past incarnation: the original Tomás de Torquemada, head of the Spanish Inquisition. When future Torquemada readily admits various heresies, such as asserting that the Earth is round and claiming himself to be a God, he's strapped to a torture rack. He doesn't budge and gives his past version advice on torture, who is eventually [[EvenEvilHasStandards so disgusted by his cruelty]] that he's left in fetal position on the floor.
** A nameless alien is in the hands of an inexperienced torturer, while his supervisor comes along. The alien sympathetically agrees with the criticism the supervisor gives, and while the torturer is soon busy receiving an earful from the supervisor, the alien says it'll torture itself if they won't do it.
** When Torquemada is sent back to the past, he meets his past incarnation: the original Tomás de Torquemada, head of the Spanish Inquisition. When future Torquemada readily admits various heresies, such as asserting that the Earth is round and claiming himself to be a God, he's strapped to a torture rack. He doesn't budge and gives his past version advice on torture, who is eventually [[EvenEvilHasStandards so disgusted by his cruelty]] that he's left in fetal position on the floor.
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* GlamourFailure: Nemesis has a spell to disguise himself as a human when he needs to be incognito. During a trip to the past, the historical Torquemada (who is receiving messages from his future incarnation) can briefly catch a glimpse of Nemesis's true demonic form.
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* BloodKnight: Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty alien warrior who fights Torquemada primarily because he makes a good enemy. [[spoiler:Purity briefly regains her memories (which Nemesis had wiped from her mind) where her companion admits that he's really a bored god who has intentionally been prolonging the war.]]
-->'''Nemesis:''' [[spoiler:Just because Torquemada is evil, don't assume that must mean that I'm good.]]
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* BloodKnight: Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty alien warrior who fights Torquemada primarily because he makes a good enemy. [[spoiler:Purity briefly regains her memories (which Nemesis had wiped from her mind) where her companion admits that he's really a bored god who has intentionally been prolonging the war.]]\n-->'''Nemesis:''' [[spoiler:Just because Torquemada is evil, don't assume that must mean that I'm good.]]
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* HumansAreInsects: Nemesis views humans as ''lower'' than insects--at least they'll still be around when humans are gone! He likens his war against Torquemada as stirring up a termite's nest to see if one of them will bite back. Nemesis is a godlike alien who's simply bored without a formidable enemy to fight.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: When Nemesis and Purity are waiting in the time wastes, she regains parts of her memory that Nemesis had wiped from her mind. She was recruited by Nemesis to spy on Torquemada after wooing him with a love spell. [[spoiler:Though the real reason he made her forget this is because he had also admitted to her that he's far more cruel than he has made himself out to be, having intentionally prolonged the war out of boredom.]]
-->'''Nemesis:''' [[spoiler:Just because Torquemada is evil, don't assume that must mean that I'm good.]]
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* BloodKnight: Nemesis himself is a bloodthirsty alien warrior who fights Torquemada primarily because he makes a good enemy. [[spoiler:Purity briefly regains her memories (which Nemesis had wiped from her mind) where her companion admits that he's really a bored god who has intentionally been prolonging the war.]]
-->'''Nemesis:''' [[spoiler:Just because Torquemada is evil, don't assume that must mean that I'm good.]]
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* GoryDiscretionShot: After Torquemada succesfully ousts Mazarin as the new ruler of Termight, he tortures his rival to death in a way so gruesome that the comic explicitly leaves it off panel.
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* EvilKnockoff: Torquemada has a chamaeleonic alien creature which he names the Mimesis impersonate Nemesis and go on a rampage on Termight to turn the earthlings against Nemesis.
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* WizardsFromOuterSpace: Nemesis is a member of the Warlocks, an almost godlike race of aliens with spell-casting powers.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After he's overthrown, Torquemada is rescued by a group of die-hard Terminators. Before activating his weapon of mass destruction, he drives his sword through his last follower after he has served his purpose.
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* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Torquemada unveils his back-up WeaponOfMassDestruction to destroy all extra-terrestrials at once in the final arc. He {{handwave}}s why he hasn't used it before by admitting to Nemesis that to secure his rule over Termight he needed to keep the Terrans in permanent fear and give them an enemy to fight.
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* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: When Torquemada is on trial for his genocide of billions of aliens as Grand Master of Termight, his defence is to proudly proclaim his crusades necessary because the aliens wanted to destroy them as well, bringing Nemesis' TortureTechnician uncle to the stand to prove his point. He leaves out that it's actually Torquemada's wars of annihilation that made some aliens call for humanity's extermination.
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* GodEmperor: After returning from the dead, Torquemada's megalomania reaches its apex and he starts to have himself worshipped as a living god.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Before his trial, Torquemada's followers assassinate the alien members of the jury in fatal tube "accidents".
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* PowerIsSexy: Torquemada's wife Candida admits that she's primarily attracted to him because of his power when pressed why she's staying with a psycho fanatic.
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* YouKilledMyFather: Played for laughs when Nemesis and his allies are about to kill Torquemada. Everyone wants a piece of him for killing one of their loved ones: Nemesis for his wife, Purity for her father, and Mekquake for his mother. When Torquemada is confused because he never even met Mekquake's mother, he admits that he just made her up.
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* BaldOfEvil: Underneath his Terminator uniform, Grand Master Torquemada is a brawny, bald-headed man.
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* HorrifyingHero: Nemesis is a powerful demonic alien with BizarreAlienBiology. He is a BloodKnight AntiHero as well, but he's positively heroic compared to his genocidal arch-enemy Torquemada, leader of TheEmpire.
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* RealityWarper: Warlocks are powerful aliens with sorcerous powers, but Nemesis' young son Thoth can actually warp spacetime itself.
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* {{Thoughtcrime}}: Under Torquemada's rule over Termight, it is illegal to even think of opposing him, and his Terminators scan the planet day and night to look for thought offenders. Purity's father was sent to the vaporization vats for committing thoughtcrime in his ''sleep''.
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Written by Pat Mills and illustrated by variety of artists during its run, '''''Nemesis the Warlock''''' was one of the more famous titles in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', a British [[AnthologyComic comics anthology]] best known for its ''de facto'' flagship title, ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.
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Termight Empire is resisted by alliance of alien races of galaxy as well as resistance movement of human dissidents opposing the rule of Torquemada. Both of these are more or less led by an alien known as Nemesis. Belonging to the race of powerful, demonic aliens known as Warlocks, Nemesis is both [[MagicKnight fearsome warrior and mighty wizard]], who in several occasions brings forth his view of humans as PunyEarthlings. While Nemesis and his allies gain several important victories over Termight Empire, they constantly fail to bring down the entire Empire with Torquemada managing to get away with his life and Nemesis' plans to finish Torquemada failing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero or backfiring spectacularly]].
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Termight Empire is resisted by alliance of alien races of galaxy as well as resistance movement of human dissidents opposing the rule of Torquemada. Both of these are more or less led by an alien known as Nemesis. Belonging to the race of powerful, demonic aliens known as Warlocks, Nemesis is both a [[MagicKnight fearsome warrior and mighty wizard]], who in several occasions brings forth his view of humans as PunyEarthlings. While Nemesis and his allies gain several important victories over Termight Empire, they constantly fail to bring down the entire Empire with Torquemada managing to get away with his life and Nemesis' plans to finish Torquemada failing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero or backfiring spectacularly]].
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* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: After [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Torquemada]] was killed by Nemesis in a TeleporterAccident, he returned as a monstrous, distorted, clawed phantom who had to [[DemonicPossession possess rapidly-decaying hosts]] to interact with the physical world effectively.
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Termight Empire is pretty much a textbook example of this. PuttingOnTheReich is averted, since the clothing and armors of Torquemada's followers are mostly based on Ku Klux Klan and medieval armors. Also, Torquemada's reincarnations apparently include AdolfHitler. WordOfGod states that the Spanish Inquisition was the biggest inspiration for Torquemada and his Terminators. Torquemada himself even shares his name with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_de_Torquemada one of the most notorious inquisitors from the Inquisition.]]
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* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Termight Empire is pretty much a textbook example of this. PuttingOnTheReich is averted, since the clothing and armors of Torquemada's followers are mostly based on Ku Klux Klan and medieval armors. Also, Torquemada's reincarnations apparently include AdolfHitler.UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. WordOfGod states that the Spanish Inquisition was the biggest inspiration for Torquemada and his Terminators. Torquemada himself even shares his name with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_de_Torquemada one of the most notorious inquisitors from the Inquisition.]]
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* {{Write Who You Know}}: Mills actually based Torquemada on one of his teachers.
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* KnightInSourArmor: Nemesis, which causes him to slip sometimes into KnightTemplar territory.
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[[caption-width-right:329:[-[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters "I am in no doubt now, this miserable planet needs destroying... a planet so riddled with fear and superstition, it can spawn not just Torquemada but a series of monsters like him... such a world is better off obliterated!"]]-] ]]
->''"Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!"''
-->-- '''Tomás de Torquemada'''
->''"Credo!"''
-->-- '''Nemesis'''
Written by Pat Mills and illustrated by variety of artists during its run, '''''Nemesis the Warlock''''' was one of the more famous titles in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', a British [[AnthologyComic comics anthology]] best known for its ''de facto'' flagship title, ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.
''Nemesis the Warlock'' takes place in the distant future where Earth (called now Termight) and much of the known galaxy is ruled by authoritarian and expansionist Termight Empire, which follows the ideology of human supremacy and genetic purity to the extent of KillEmAll policy towards alien lifeforms and [[HalfHumanHybrid offspring of humans and aliens]]. This empire is lead by [[MeaningfulName Tomás de Torquemada]], whose power is backed by cult of personality and religious following revolving around him. Termight Empire keeps expanding in the galaxy, taking over one planet after another and massacring their alien inhabitants. Despite the might and humancentric ideology of the Empire, the life of average citizen ("Termite") in Earth tends to be controlled, repressed and likely to end violently (literally: in one short story it is said outright that deaths from natural causes are few and far between).
Termight Empire is resisted by alliance of alien races of galaxy as well as resistance movement of human dissidents opposing the rule of Torquemada. Both of these are more or less led by an alien known as Nemesis. Belonging to the race of powerful, demonic aliens known as Warlocks, Nemesis is both [[MagicKnight fearsome warrior and mighty wizard]], who in several occasions brings forth his view of humans as PunyEarthlings. While Nemesis and his allies gain several important victories over Termight Empire, they constantly fail to bring down the entire Empire with Torquemada managing to get away with his life and Nemesis' plans to finish Torquemada failing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero or backfiring spectacularly]].
The title got its start in the form of "Terror Tube" and "Killer Watt", two short stories taking place in the Earth under Termight Empire. At this point much of the setting and backstory wasn't yet fleshed out with Torquemada being described as "chief of the tube police" rather than "grand master of Termight" and with Nemesis spending both stories [[TheFaceless in his ship with no clues about his identity or appearance]]. Currently "Terror Tube" is available for free at the [[http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=thrillviewer&choice=terrortube current website]] of ''2000 AD''.
Stylistically Nemesis the Warlock combines dark fantasy, gothic imagery and science fiction in a manner, which can occasionally remind reader of [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} another well-known British franchise]], especially in the case of Termight Empire. While several tropes are played straight, many others are subverted or averted. Aliens are mostly depicted as sympathetic although not always flawless, while humans outside the resistance tend to be either docile "Termites" or fanatical "Terminators", the army of {{Knight Templar}}s following Torquemada and his ideology to the point of suicidal behaviour.
Also has a [[VideoGame/NemesisTheWarlock video game adaptation]]. Should not be confused with ''ComicBook/{{Nemesis}}''.
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!!''Nemesis the Warlock'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsoluteXenophobe: According to Torquemada and his Terminators, "The only good alien is a dead alien."
* ActionGirl: Purity Brown, Nemesis's human companion. Also, the female Warlocks, who are just out-and-out ''[[OneManArmy terrifying]]''.
* AndIMustScream: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Sea of Lost Souls]] in "Killer Watt", [[spoiler:Torquemada getting at one point trapped in time loop where he is repeatedly burned to death]] and [[spoiler:possibly the final fate of Torquemada with or without Nemesis]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Kremlin and his Yologs while killing the guards during [[spoiler:the mass escape organized by Nemesis]]:
-->"With respect, we're going to slice you up..."\\
"...and use you as laces for our boots!"
* AttackAttackAttack: One of the main tactics of the Termight Empire. Reasons include fanatic devotion to the Empire and Torquemada (one of the early stories shows dying Terminators singing ''"a hymn of joy at their own destruction"'') and (unfounded) fears of [[FateWorseThanDeath terrible fates]] meeting humans who are captured alive by aliens.
* BadassNormal: Tomás de Torquemada, who constantly performs impressive, almost superhuman feats. May be also one of the reasons for his cult of personality.
* BigBad: Tomás de Torquemada
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Nemesis dies but sacrifices himself to take down Torquemada once and for all. Torquemada's empire falls apart and Purity Brown becomes the new leader of Termight, renaming it Terra. Ultimately Nemesis and Torquemada continue to appear as spectral entities tied to the Blitzspear, ensuring that Nemesis and his actions will never be forgotten.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Warlocks, who have acidic blood, mouths in their necks, and long, spiked "noses" which ([[UnreliableExpositor if Torquemada is to be believed]]) are actually their ''genitals'', are amongst the ''milder'' examples of this.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Female Warlocks are much larger than the males, mostly because of their centaur-like lower bodies (the guys, for the record, are bipedal).
* BlackComedy: Oh ''yes''.
* BloodyMurder: At least the females of Nemesis' species have highly corrosive blood; one Terminator found that out [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a little too late]].
* CatchPhrase: Both Nemesis and Torquemada, as shown in the quotes at the top of the page. Nemesis has also another, longer one, which is used at least in two occasions, although with some variety:
-->'''Nemesis:''' I am the Nemesis -- I am the Warlock -- I am the shape of things to come -- the lord of the flies -- holder of the sword sinister -- the death bringer -- I am the one who waits on the edge of your dreams -- I am all these things and many more."\\
-- "World of Termight"\\\
'''Nemesis:''' For I am the Nemesis, I am [[spoiler:Khaos]], I am [[spoiler:Deadlock]], I am the Warlock, the shape of things to come, the lord of the flies, holder of the sword sinister, the death bringer, I am all these things and many more.\\
-- "The Gothic Empire"
* ChainsawGood: Torquemada [[ICallItVera calls it Cheryl]]. In one story he breaks it and has to make do with a hedge trimmer.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Saying that Torquemada and the Termight Empire employ torture to some extent is like saying that [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets American government spends some of its monetary resources on army]].
* CrapsackWorld: While this may not apply to the rest of galaxy, the Earth/Termight during the rule of Torquemada and Termight Empire is pretty much this.
* {{Crossover}}: There was a pretty big crossover with ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' in the '80s.
* DarkIsNotEvil: While Nemesis himself is shown often in an [[AntiHero ambiguous light]] in terms of both his morals and motives, he is more or less one of the "good guys" of the setting ([[spoiler: and ultimately shown to be JerkWithAHeartOfGold]]). His species, the Warlocks, aren't all that bad either... [[TheNecromancer mo]][[TheVamp st]][[EnfantTerrible ly]].
* EnfantTerrible: Nemesis's son, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Thoth]].
* FacelessGoons: The Terminators are chiefly identifiable by the ornate masks that hide their faces.
* FantasticRacism: The Termight Empire is literally built on a psychotic hatred of all forms of alien life. This is explicitly and repeatedly compared to modern-day racism.
* FullFrontalAssault: Nemesis uses many outfits and armors throughout the run of the comic. This is one of them. Thanks to Warlocks' BizarreAlienBiology, though, clothes do seem to be rather optional from a modesty standpoint.
* FuturisticSuperhighway: Early strips show that human civilization on Earth [[BeneathTheEarth has moved underground]] where cities are connected to each other by a system of "Travel Tubes", the inside of which are covered in a coat of magma, allowing all vehicles to travel along ''any'' part of a tube's interior lining. The "Killer Watt" strip envisions the system as something more like traveling inside telephone cables.
* GooGooGodlike: Thoth, Nemesis's son, is the most powerful Warlock in history thanks to [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale his mother]] giving him all her magical power in addition to what he had already. Oh, and he's an OmnicidalManiac. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Joy.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Some alien species are capable of procreating with humans. The offspring are commonly known as "mandrakes" after "the sinister plant that produced a beautiful bloom but whose roots were shaped like the devil himself". In some cases it is even possible that the external signs of the alien heritage do not manifest before adulthood. Not a pleasant discovery when [[spoiler:you are "executioner of Terminus, scourge of the alien, and Torquemada's right hand man"]].
* HeelRealization: At one point, [[spoiler:Torquemada meets his historical namesake (and one of his reincarnations) through time travel. After hearing Torquemada of the future mentioning the subject of reincarnation, the historical Torquemada decides to personally introduce him to the torture methods of Spanish Inquisition as a heretic. However, Torquemada of the future keeps telling about his actions and how the historical Torquemada served as his inspiration. This horrifies the historical Torquemada.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Nemesis dies in "The Final Conflict", but he makes sure to take Torquemada with him.]]
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: In Book I, when [[HalfHumanHybrid Brother Gogol]] insists that he'd rather die than help Nemesis let every alien prisoner and human traitor escape Termight, Nemesis's response is to levitate Brother Gogol and hover him over a cliff until he changes his mind.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The opinion of a ''lot'' of alien species. To be fair, Torquemada and the Terminators ''really'' don't help our case. Much of Torquemada's hatred for aliens is also rooted in having been a child slave for [[AliensAreBastards truly vicious aliens]]. Granted, Torquemada already hated aliens before he was a slave, but slavery certainly didn't help change his convictions and would ultimately only make things much, much worse.
* KarmicDeath
** In the first story where Nemesis himself is shown, [[spoiler:a group of humans try to capture and hang him while taking his armor in the process. Even though they initially seem successful, each one of them dies soon after the hanging. The way of death at least in some cases reflects what they did to Nemesis: The butcher who hit Nemesis happened to "accidentally" cut his hand with meat cleaver, the robotsmith who did the hanging was strangled by two of "the most dangerous snakes on this planet" and the man who spat on Nemesis was found more or less drowned. Eventually the rest of the local populace get the clue and return the armor to Nemesis (who is still hanging on the gallows), asking him to leave them alone and promising to not harm him again. Nemesis accepts the offer]].
** Also, [[spoiler:the deaths of Torquemada in the end of "Killer Watt" (where he was killed by the attack intended to kill Nemesis), "The Gothic Empire" (where the alien origins of his current body were exposed to Terminators, turning them against him and causing him to commit suicide) and "The Final Conflict" (where Nemesis turned Torquemada's WeaponOfMassDestruction against him)]].
* LivingShip: The Blitzspears, the Warlocks' traditional getabouts of choice.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Nemesis turns out to be this.]]
* MoralityChain: Purity, who can occasionally be the only thing preventing Nemesis from jumping off the deep end and just trying to exterminate humanity after the Termight Empire's latest outrage.
* MoralityPet: Candida, Torquemada's first wife, is only a partially effective example -- she does provide Tomás with a few PetTheDog moments, but mostly, his noble intentions where she's concerned just end up leading him to commit even ''greater'' evil.
* MoralMyopia: Shown by both Nemesis and Torquemada at various points:
-->"Foul, impure deviant! You dare compare your mate with the galactic master-race!"
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Female Warlocks are bigger, stronger, and more powerful mages than the males. The phrase itself is commonly used when referring to them.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Termight Empire is pretty much a textbook example of this. PuttingOnTheReich is averted, since the clothing and armors of Torquemada's followers are mostly based on Ku Klux Klan and medieval armors. Also, Torquemada's reincarnations apparently include AdolfHitler. WordOfGod states that the Spanish Inquisition was the biggest inspiration for Torquemada and his Terminators. Torquemada himself even shares his name with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_de_Torquemada one of the most notorious inquisitors from the Inquisition.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: During "The Gothic Empire" story arc, [[spoiler:Torquemada is actually killed for good]]. However, [[spoiler:Nemesis' son, Thoth, brings Torquemada from the past in order to exact his revenge by trapping Torquemada in a time loop, where Torquemada gets burned to death repeatedly. Later, Nemesis releases Torquemada from the loop in an attempt to get reunited with his son. Eventually, Nemesis leaves Torquemada to be picked and executed by Terminators, who consider him a traitor for working together with Nemesis. However, Torquemada manages to persuade the Terminators back to his side, [[ColdBloodedTorture disposes of]] the current ''de facto'' ruler of the Termight Empire and returns to Earth/Termight, continuing his rule as Grand Master]]. [[OhCrap Oops]].
* NonMammalMammaries: Female Warlocks, assuming they aren't mammals. [[BizarreAlienBiology Frankly, it's hard to tell.]]
* OrganicTechnology: The Warlocks use a fair amount of this -- in fact, it can be quite hard to tell which bits of the aliens themselves are mechanical or biological.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: After [[spoiler:his first death in the teleporter accident]], [[spoiler:Torquemada]] is capable of possessing dead bodies as a phantom-like entity and reanimating them as "zombies". In addition to this, [[spoiler:in ''The Final Conflict'' Nemesis finally has Torquemada at his mercy and decides to turn him and his Terminators into another kind of zombies by tearing out their hearts, weighting them with the scale and feeding the hearts of the guilty to his alien pet]]. However, [[spoiler:when Nemesis does this to Torquemada after [[ThatCameOutWrong having his way with the rest of Terminators]], zombified Torquemada picks up the scale, kills the pet of Nemesis with it, takes his heart from the corpse and puts it back to his chest. The entry about Villainous Willpower below is there ''for a reason'']].
* ReleasedToElsewhere: When [[spoiler:Torquemada takes back his throne after the events of "Torquemurder", he starts forcibly "teleporting" the alien inhabitants of Earth/Termight "to their homeworlds". In reality these "teleporters" are disguised vaporisation vats. The supporters of Torquemada also use this argument during his trial in "The Final Conflict"]].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Some aliens are closer to this than you would expect given the setting.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Variation, where humans play this role.
* ShipTease: Pops up occasionally [[InterspeciesRomance between Purity and Nemesis]].
* ShoutOut
** Torquemada wielding a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} chainsword]] at one point may or may not be example of this. However, both the story with the chainsword and the first edition of ''Warhammer 40000'' were initially released in the same year, 1988. Some rumors actually suggest that the use of the weapon in ''[=WH40K=]'' was inspired by its appearance in ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and not the other way around.
** The first edition of ''40k: Rogue Trader'' came out in 1987, but this comic and the ''Rogue Trader''-Era ''Warhammer'' shared several writers.
** In another example of the cross-pollination between the two, Nemesis occasionally makes use of what is clearly an early bolt pistol.
* SkunkStripe: Purity has a prominent one.
* {{Squick}}: Invoked in-universe by Torquemada and the Empire as part of their ideology:
-->'''Torquemada:''' People of Termight! Before I execute the dirty truckers, I want you to consider, for a moment, the aliens' leader... Nemesis! As I reveal -- for the first time -- that his foul proboscis is used in the reproduction of his odious species! Yes... not a thought to linger on, is it?
* TimeyWimeyBall: The frequent use of time travel in later story arcs can occasionally go into this territory.
* TortureTechnician: One of the trademarks of Termight Empire:
-->'''Torquemada:''' I am Torquemada! Chief of the tube police. I want to go to Necropolis where I am to address the Royal College of Terminators on -- "The Use of '''Pain''' in Modern Torture"!\\
-- "Killer Watt"
* UnusualEuphemism: Not the most trucked-up example in the history of comic books, but it is still there.
* VillainousValour: Suffice it to say that the Terminators are not all snivelling {{Dirty Coward}}s by a long, long stretch. And then there's [[TheDeterminator Torquemada]].
* [[HeroicWillpower Villainous Willpower]]: Tomás de Torquemada.
* VillainOverride: One of Torquemada's favourite tactics after the teleporter accident.
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[[caption-width-right:329:[-[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters "I am in no doubt now, this miserable planet needs destroying... a planet so riddled with fear and superstition, it can spawn not just Torquemada but a series of monsters like him... such a world is better off obliterated!"]]-] ]]
->''"Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!"''
-->-- '''Tomás de Torquemada'''
->''"Credo!"''
-->-- '''Nemesis'''
Written by Pat Mills and illustrated by variety of artists during its run, '''''Nemesis the Warlock''''' was one of the more famous titles in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'', a British [[AnthologyComic comics anthology]] best known for its ''de facto'' flagship title, ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.
''Nemesis the Warlock'' takes place in the distant future where Earth (called now Termight) and much of the known galaxy is ruled by authoritarian and expansionist Termight Empire, which follows the ideology of human supremacy and genetic purity to the extent of KillEmAll policy towards alien lifeforms and [[HalfHumanHybrid offspring of humans and aliens]]. This empire is lead by [[MeaningfulName Tomás de Torquemada]], whose power is backed by cult of personality and religious following revolving around him. Termight Empire keeps expanding in the galaxy, taking over one planet after another and massacring their alien inhabitants. Despite the might and humancentric ideology of the Empire, the life of average citizen ("Termite") in Earth tends to be controlled, repressed and likely to end violently (literally: in one short story it is said outright that deaths from natural causes are few and far between).
Termight Empire is resisted by alliance of alien races of galaxy as well as resistance movement of human dissidents opposing the rule of Torquemada. Both of these are more or less led by an alien known as Nemesis. Belonging to the race of powerful, demonic aliens known as Warlocks, Nemesis is both [[MagicKnight fearsome warrior and mighty wizard]], who in several occasions brings forth his view of humans as PunyEarthlings. While Nemesis and his allies gain several important victories over Termight Empire, they constantly fail to bring down the entire Empire with Torquemada managing to get away with his life and Nemesis' plans to finish Torquemada failing [[NiceJobBreakingItHero or backfiring spectacularly]].
The title got its start in the form of "Terror Tube" and "Killer Watt", two short stories taking place in the Earth under Termight Empire. At this point much of the setting and backstory wasn't yet fleshed out with Torquemada being described as "chief of the tube police" rather than "grand master of Termight" and with Nemesis spending both stories [[TheFaceless in his ship with no clues about his identity or appearance]]. Currently "Terror Tube" is available for free at the [[http://www.2000ad.org/?zone=thrill&page=thrillviewer&choice=terrortube current website]] of ''2000 AD''.
Stylistically Nemesis the Warlock combines dark fantasy, gothic imagery and science fiction in a manner, which can occasionally remind reader of [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} another well-known British franchise]], especially in the case of Termight Empire. While several tropes are played straight, many others are subverted or averted. Aliens are mostly depicted as sympathetic although not always flawless, while humans outside the resistance tend to be either docile "Termites" or fanatical "Terminators", the army of {{Knight Templar}}s following Torquemada and his ideology to the point of suicidal behaviour.
Also has a [[VideoGame/NemesisTheWarlock video game adaptation]]. Should not be confused with ''ComicBook/{{Nemesis}}''.
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!!''Nemesis the Warlock'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsoluteXenophobe: According to Torquemada and his Terminators, "The only good alien is a dead alien."
* ActionGirl: Purity Brown, Nemesis's human companion. Also, the female Warlocks, who are just out-and-out ''[[OneManArmy terrifying]]''.
* AndIMustScream: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Sea of Lost Souls]] in "Killer Watt", [[spoiler:Torquemada getting at one point trapped in time loop where he is repeatedly burned to death]] and [[spoiler:possibly the final fate of Torquemada with or without Nemesis]].
* ApologeticAttacker: Kremlin and his Yologs while killing the guards during [[spoiler:the mass escape organized by Nemesis]]:
-->"With respect, we're going to slice you up..."\\
"...and use you as laces for our boots!"
* AttackAttackAttack: One of the main tactics of the Termight Empire. Reasons include fanatic devotion to the Empire and Torquemada (one of the early stories shows dying Terminators singing ''"a hymn of joy at their own destruction"'') and (unfounded) fears of [[FateWorseThanDeath terrible fates]] meeting humans who are captured alive by aliens.
* BadassNormal: Tomás de Torquemada, who constantly performs impressive, almost superhuman feats. May be also one of the reasons for his cult of personality.
* BigBad: Tomás de Torquemada
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Nemesis dies but sacrifices himself to take down Torquemada once and for all. Torquemada's empire falls apart and Purity Brown becomes the new leader of Termight, renaming it Terra. Ultimately Nemesis and Torquemada continue to appear as spectral entities tied to the Blitzspear, ensuring that Nemesis and his actions will never be forgotten.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: The Warlocks, who have acidic blood, mouths in their necks, and long, spiked "noses" which ([[UnreliableExpositor if Torquemada is to be believed]]) are actually their ''genitals'', are amongst the ''milder'' examples of this.
* BizarreSexualDimorphism: Female Warlocks are much larger than the males, mostly because of their centaur-like lower bodies (the guys, for the record, are bipedal).
* BlackComedy: Oh ''yes''.
* BloodyMurder: At least the females of Nemesis' species have highly corrosive blood; one Terminator found that out [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a little too late]].
* CatchPhrase: Both Nemesis and Torquemada, as shown in the quotes at the top of the page. Nemesis has also another, longer one, which is used at least in two occasions, although with some variety:
-->'''Nemesis:''' I am the Nemesis -- I am the Warlock -- I am the shape of things to come -- the lord of the flies -- holder of the sword sinister -- the death bringer -- I am the one who waits on the edge of your dreams -- I am all these things and many more."\\
-- "World of Termight"\\\
'''Nemesis:''' For I am the Nemesis, I am [[spoiler:Khaos]], I am [[spoiler:Deadlock]], I am the Warlock, the shape of things to come, the lord of the flies, holder of the sword sinister, the death bringer, I am all these things and many more.\\
-- "The Gothic Empire"
* ChainsawGood: Torquemada [[ICallItVera calls it Cheryl]]. In one story he breaks it and has to make do with a hedge trimmer.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Saying that Torquemada and the Termight Empire employ torture to some extent is like saying that [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets American government spends some of its monetary resources on army]].
* CrapsackWorld: While this may not apply to the rest of galaxy, the Earth/Termight during the rule of Torquemada and Termight Empire is pretty much this.
* {{Crossover}}: There was a pretty big crossover with ''ComicBook/ABCWarriors'' in the '80s.
* DarkIsNotEvil: While Nemesis himself is shown often in an [[AntiHero ambiguous light]] in terms of both his morals and motives, he is more or less one of the "good guys" of the setting ([[spoiler: and ultimately shown to be JerkWithAHeartOfGold]]). His species, the Warlocks, aren't all that bad either... [[TheNecromancer mo]][[TheVamp st]][[EnfantTerrible ly]].
* EnfantTerrible: Nemesis's son, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Thoth]].
* FacelessGoons: The Terminators are chiefly identifiable by the ornate masks that hide their faces.
* FantasticRacism: The Termight Empire is literally built on a psychotic hatred of all forms of alien life. This is explicitly and repeatedly compared to modern-day racism.
* FullFrontalAssault: Nemesis uses many outfits and armors throughout the run of the comic. This is one of them. Thanks to Warlocks' BizarreAlienBiology, though, clothes do seem to be rather optional from a modesty standpoint.
* FuturisticSuperhighway: Early strips show that human civilization on Earth [[BeneathTheEarth has moved underground]] where cities are connected to each other by a system of "Travel Tubes", the inside of which are covered in a coat of magma, allowing all vehicles to travel along ''any'' part of a tube's interior lining. The "Killer Watt" strip envisions the system as something more like traveling inside telephone cables.
* GooGooGodlike: Thoth, Nemesis's son, is the most powerful Warlock in history thanks to [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale his mother]] giving him all her magical power in addition to what he had already. Oh, and he's an OmnicidalManiac. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Joy.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: Some alien species are capable of procreating with humans. The offspring are commonly known as "mandrakes" after "the sinister plant that produced a beautiful bloom but whose roots were shaped like the devil himself". In some cases it is even possible that the external signs of the alien heritage do not manifest before adulthood. Not a pleasant discovery when [[spoiler:you are "executioner of Terminus, scourge of the alien, and Torquemada's right hand man"]].
* HeelRealization: At one point, [[spoiler:Torquemada meets his historical namesake (and one of his reincarnations) through time travel. After hearing Torquemada of the future mentioning the subject of reincarnation, the historical Torquemada decides to personally introduce him to the torture methods of Spanish Inquisition as a heretic. However, Torquemada of the future keeps telling about his actions and how the historical Torquemada served as his inspiration. This horrifies the historical Torquemada.]]
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Nemesis dies in "The Final Conflict", but he makes sure to take Torquemada with him.]]
* HighAltitudeInterrogation: In Book I, when [[HalfHumanHybrid Brother Gogol]] insists that he'd rather die than help Nemesis let every alien prisoner and human traitor escape Termight, Nemesis's response is to levitate Brother Gogol and hover him over a cliff until he changes his mind.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The opinion of a ''lot'' of alien species. To be fair, Torquemada and the Terminators ''really'' don't help our case. Much of Torquemada's hatred for aliens is also rooted in having been a child slave for [[AliensAreBastards truly vicious aliens]]. Granted, Torquemada already hated aliens before he was a slave, but slavery certainly didn't help change his convictions and would ultimately only make things much, much worse.
* KarmicDeath
** In the first story where Nemesis himself is shown, [[spoiler:a group of humans try to capture and hang him while taking his armor in the process. Even though they initially seem successful, each one of them dies soon after the hanging. The way of death at least in some cases reflects what they did to Nemesis: The butcher who hit Nemesis happened to "accidentally" cut his hand with meat cleaver, the robotsmith who did the hanging was strangled by two of "the most dangerous snakes on this planet" and the man who spat on Nemesis was found more or less drowned. Eventually the rest of the local populace get the clue and return the armor to Nemesis (who is still hanging on the gallows), asking him to leave them alone and promising to not harm him again. Nemesis accepts the offer]].
** Also, [[spoiler:the deaths of Torquemada in the end of "Killer Watt" (where he was killed by the attack intended to kill Nemesis), "The Gothic Empire" (where the alien origins of his current body were exposed to Terminators, turning them against him and causing him to commit suicide) and "The Final Conflict" (where Nemesis turned Torquemada's WeaponOfMassDestruction against him)]].
* LivingShip: The Blitzspears, the Warlocks' traditional getabouts of choice.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: [[spoiler:Nemesis turns out to be this.]]
* MoralityChain: Purity, who can occasionally be the only thing preventing Nemesis from jumping off the deep end and just trying to exterminate humanity after the Termight Empire's latest outrage.
* MoralityPet: Candida, Torquemada's first wife, is only a partially effective example -- she does provide Tomás with a few PetTheDog moments, but mostly, his noble intentions where she's concerned just end up leading him to commit even ''greater'' evil.
* MoralMyopia: Shown by both Nemesis and Torquemada at various points:
-->"Foul, impure deviant! You dare compare your mate with the galactic master-race!"
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Female Warlocks are bigger, stronger, and more powerful mages than the males. The phrase itself is commonly used when referring to them.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Termight Empire is pretty much a textbook example of this. PuttingOnTheReich is averted, since the clothing and armors of Torquemada's followers are mostly based on Ku Klux Klan and medieval armors. Also, Torquemada's reincarnations apparently include AdolfHitler. WordOfGod states that the Spanish Inquisition was the biggest inspiration for Torquemada and his Terminators. Torquemada himself even shares his name with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomás_de_Torquemada one of the most notorious inquisitors from the Inquisition.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: During "The Gothic Empire" story arc, [[spoiler:Torquemada is actually killed for good]]. However, [[spoiler:Nemesis' son, Thoth, brings Torquemada from the past in order to exact his revenge by trapping Torquemada in a time loop, where Torquemada gets burned to death repeatedly. Later, Nemesis releases Torquemada from the loop in an attempt to get reunited with his son. Eventually, Nemesis leaves Torquemada to be picked and executed by Terminators, who consider him a traitor for working together with Nemesis. However, Torquemada manages to persuade the Terminators back to his side, [[ColdBloodedTorture disposes of]] the current ''de facto'' ruler of the Termight Empire and returns to Earth/Termight, continuing his rule as Grand Master]]. [[OhCrap Oops]].
* NonMammalMammaries: Female Warlocks, assuming they aren't mammals. [[BizarreAlienBiology Frankly, it's hard to tell.]]
* OrganicTechnology: The Warlocks use a fair amount of this -- in fact, it can be quite hard to tell which bits of the aliens themselves are mechanical or biological.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: After [[spoiler:his first death in the teleporter accident]], [[spoiler:Torquemada]] is capable of possessing dead bodies as a phantom-like entity and reanimating them as "zombies". In addition to this, [[spoiler:in ''The Final Conflict'' Nemesis finally has Torquemada at his mercy and decides to turn him and his Terminators into another kind of zombies by tearing out their hearts, weighting them with the scale and feeding the hearts of the guilty to his alien pet]]. However, [[spoiler:when Nemesis does this to Torquemada after [[ThatCameOutWrong having his way with the rest of Terminators]], zombified Torquemada picks up the scale, kills the pet of Nemesis with it, takes his heart from the corpse and puts it back to his chest. The entry about Villainous Willpower below is there ''for a reason'']].
* ReleasedToElsewhere: When [[spoiler:Torquemada takes back his throne after the events of "Torquemurder", he starts forcibly "teleporting" the alien inhabitants of Earth/Termight "to their homeworlds". In reality these "teleporters" are disguised vaporisation vats. The supporters of Torquemada also use this argument during his trial in "The Final Conflict"]].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Some aliens are closer to this than you would expect given the setting.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Variation, where humans play this role.
* ShipTease: Pops up occasionally [[InterspeciesRomance between Purity and Nemesis]].
* ShoutOut
** Torquemada wielding a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} chainsword]] at one point may or may not be example of this. However, both the story with the chainsword and the first edition of ''Warhammer 40000'' were initially released in the same year, 1988. Some rumors actually suggest that the use of the weapon in ''[=WH40K=]'' was inspired by its appearance in ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and not the other way around.
** The first edition of ''40k: Rogue Trader'' came out in 1987, but this comic and the ''Rogue Trader''-Era ''Warhammer'' shared several writers.
** In another example of the cross-pollination between the two, Nemesis occasionally makes use of what is clearly an early bolt pistol.
* SkunkStripe: Purity has a prominent one.
* {{Squick}}: Invoked in-universe by Torquemada and the Empire as part of their ideology:
-->'''Torquemada:''' People of Termight! Before I execute the dirty truckers, I want you to consider, for a moment, the aliens' leader... Nemesis! As I reveal -- for the first time -- that his foul proboscis is used in the reproduction of his odious species! Yes... not a thought to linger on, is it?
* TimeyWimeyBall: The frequent use of time travel in later story arcs can occasionally go into this territory.
* TortureTechnician: One of the trademarks of Termight Empire:
-->'''Torquemada:''' I am Torquemada! Chief of the tube police. I want to go to Necropolis where I am to address the Royal College of Terminators on -- "The Use of '''Pain''' in Modern Torture"!\\
-- "Killer Watt"
* UnusualEuphemism: Not the most trucked-up example in the history of comic books, but it is still there.
* VillainousValour: Suffice it to say that the Terminators are not all snivelling {{Dirty Coward}}s by a long, long stretch. And then there's [[TheDeterminator Torquemada]].
* [[HeroicWillpower Villainous Willpower]]: Tomás de Torquemada.
* VillainOverride: One of Torquemada's favourite tactics after the teleporter accident.
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