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* ListOfTransgressions: When Grand Master Torquemada is put on trial after his regime is overthrown, it takes ''several days'' to read all the charges against him. Of course, it helps that he left tons of video evidence of all his tortures and genocidal campaigns (so he could have fun watching it later!) for the prosecution to use.
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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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* 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. In fact, his final plot is to trigger a device that will wipe out every alien and any human who has ever been in contact with one.
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* KnightTemplar: Torquemada fully believes that his genocidal crusades to purge the universe of all alien life and ruling humanity through terror is the 'right' thing to do. Noted by the man himself in a 2000 AD pin-up after winning The Eagle Award for best comic villain of 1984:
-->'''Torquemada:''' ''"Villain"''? This vile slur on my good name shall be avenged!
-->'''Torquemada:''' ''"Villain"''? This vile slur on my good name shall be avenged!
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* InsectoidAliens: The planet Arachnos is inhabited by a sentient race of {{Giant Spider}}s. Most of them are quite friendly, however.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Terror Tube", Termight's extensive and confusing underground transport system is an opportunity for the writer to make a few jokes at the expense of UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground.
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* EarthAllAlong: In the first story, "Terror Tube", Termight is introduced as the "capital planet of a cruel galactic empire", and only in the final panel is it revealed to the reader to be Earth.
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* LovePotion: Nemesis uses a spell on Torquemada to make him fall in love with Purity Brown so she can act as a spy for Nemesis. While it works at first, Torquemada's evil will is so strong that he eventually realizes what's been done to him and subconsciously manages to sic a monster on Purity.
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* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: It turns out that Hitler was one of the past incarnations of BigBad Torquemada, who is a warmongering fascist dictator in his own right, but unlike Hitler rules over all humanity in the far future.
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* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: It turns out that Hitler was one of the past incarnations of BigBad Torquemada, who is a warmongering fascist dictator in his own right, but unlike Hitler already rules over all humanity in the far future.future, so his enemy are the [[FantasticRacism "alien vermin"]].
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* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: It turns out that Hitler was one of the past incarnations of BigBad Torquemada, who is a warmongering fascist dictator in his own right, but unlike Hitler rules over all humanity in the far future.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first two Nemesis stories were part of a short-lived experiment called "Comic Rock", where ''2000AD'' would feature one-shot stories inspired by rock songs. In those two strips, Termight looks much more futuristic (resembling Mega City One of ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'') than how it would later be established, Torquemada is merely the Chief of the Tube Police, and Nemesis himself is [[TheVoice only heard but not seen]], with no indication that he's a demonic alien rather than a human being.
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* AmbiguouslyBi:
** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He and Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
** Baal, the uncle of Nemesis, enjoys getting back massages from male skeletons but during the hatching party, Nemesis and Chira were having for Thorn, Baal apparently engaged in sexual harassment towards one of the female guests.
** Torquemada was married to Candida and after she leaves him, he marries Sister Sturn but he takes a lot of pleasure out of killing aliens, especially male ones and he is obsessed with killing Nemesis.
** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He and Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
** Baal, the uncle of Nemesis, enjoys getting back massages from male skeletons but during the hatching party, Nemesis and Chira were having for Thorn, Baal apparently engaged in sexual harassment towards one of the female guests.
** Torquemada was married to Candida and after she leaves him, he marries Sister Sturn but he takes a lot of pleasure out of killing aliens, especially male ones and he is obsessed with killing Nemesis.
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* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:Nemesis traps both himself and Torquemada inside the Blitzspear to stop his nemesis from annihilating most life in the universe, which then travels through the wormhole connecting Earth to the rest of the cosmos and back again. This goes on for a billion years before Earth's star completes its life cycle and swallows the planet. The 2000 AD anniversary prog in 2016 adds a coda when Torquemada is subsequently released from his prison as the Blitzspear ascends, but Nemesis then arranges for him to be trapped again, this time ''for eternity''.]]
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* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:Nemesis makes sure of it.]]
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** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He sand Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
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** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He sand and Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
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* AmbiguouslyBi:
** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He sand Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
** Baal, the uncle of Nemesis, enjoys getting back massages from male skeletons but during the hatching party, Nemesis and Chira were having for Thorn, Baal apparently engaged in sexual harassment towards one of the female guests.
* Torquemada was married to Candida and after she leaves him, he marries Sister Sturn but he takes a lot of pleasure out of killing aliens, especially male ones and he is obsessed with killing Nemesis.
** Nemesis has unambiguously married Chira and then Magna after Chira died. At some point after Magna was killed for her treachery, Nemesis sleeps with Lilith. He sand Purity Brown are also shipped a lot together as well. However, his conflict with Torquemada is littered with FoeYay.
** Baal, the uncle of Nemesis, enjoys getting back massages from male skeletons but during the hatching party, Nemesis and Chira were having for Thorn, Baal apparently engaged in sexual harassment towards one of the female guests.
* Torquemada was married to Candida and after she leaves him, he marries Sister Sturn but he takes a lot of pleasure out of killing aliens, especially male ones and he is obsessed with killing Nemesis.
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* PetTheDog: Defied when Purity infiltrates the Terminators as Torquemada's new girlfriend (Nemesis used a spell on him) and after spending several weeks seeing how blatantly monstrous he is, wonders if there's anything remotely redeeming about Torquemada so asks him if he likes dogs. Torquemada states he doesn't.
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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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* {{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 ''in his ''sleep''.sleep''.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: After a billion years of traversing the cosmos with Torquemada's evil soul contained inside until Earth's sun goes supernova, the [[CoolShip Blitzspear]] ascends into Nemesis' pandimensional mothership the Milchspear, allowing Torquemada a chance to escape.
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* AshesToCrashes: Taken up to eleven by Nemesis, who interrupts Grand Master Torquemada's holy ceremony of consecrating the imperial family's remains by eating his mother's ashes, swallowing his father's heart, and gulping down his sister's blood.
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* 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]].
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* 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]].Nemesis. Even when he escapes after a billion years, Nemesis crucifies him and sends him out to another trip around the cosmos for the rest of eternity]].
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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.
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Stylistically Nemesis the Warlock combines dark fantasy, gothic imagery and science fiction in a manner, manner which can occasionally remind the 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.
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* BurnTheWitch: Torquemada and his Terminators purge humans condemned as traitors by throwing them into a great fire in the Earth's core. Nemesis foils their plans by rigging a dimension portal to send the rebels to safety.
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* BigBad: Tomás de TorquemadaTorquemada is the undisputed Grand Master of the xenocidal Termight Empire and the "ultimate incarnation of human evil".
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* FacePalm: Nemesis slaps his forehead during Torquemada's trial when the latter brings in Nemesis's great uncle Baal as a witness to "prove" that all aliens are evil and [[WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide he was right to wage war on them]]. Baal is an enthusiastic TortureTechnician of human beings (Nemesis had banished him for this), so this doesn't paint them in a very good light.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Nemesis's son Thoth witnesses the death of his mother and is accidentally abandoned for years on Termight by his father, who believed they had both died. He then tries to use his warlock powers to destroy everyone.
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* PastLifeMemories: Torquemada starts to remember the lives of his previous incarnations because [[spoiler:Thoth is killing them off one by one as revenge.]]
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* BigNo: Nemesis, near death at that point, gives a big "NOOOO!" when Torquemada reveals his last plan to activate his [[DoomsdayDevice "Final Solution"]].
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: ''Nemesis'' verges on BlackAndBlackMorality. BigBad Torquemada, leader of the human race (in the ''Nemesis'' universe, something like a cross between the heretic-burning medieval Catholic church turned UpToEleven and the Nazis), is a psychotic genocidal religious fascist god-dictator pledged to exterminate all non-human life--but Nemesis himself, who's ''essentially Satan'', has done things like openly lust for genocide right back at humanity and, at his worst, [[WouldHurtAChild intentionally kill a school bus full of children]]. Afterwards, he doesn't even seem to understand why it was a bad thing to do. Meanwhile, Nemesis' uncle Baal has a hobby of vivisecting humans and performing Mengele-ish experiments on them and his son Thoth hates and wants to destroy everything, including his father. Nemesis' allies the ComicBook/ABCWarriors are also extremely morally shady, given they've conducted massacres and frequently display genocidal urges towards humanity as well.
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* BadassNormal: Tomás de Torquemada, who constantly performs impressive, almost superhuman feats. May be also one of the reasons for his cult of personality.
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* CultOfPersonality: [[EvilOverlord Tomas de Torquemada]] builds the Termight death cult entirely around his person and forces everyone to worship him as the immortal god-dictator of mankind. Sometimes this is PlayedForLaughs by combining this with TheMerch -- Terrans can buy Torquemada's memoirs, Torquemada posters, Torquemada action movies, Torquemada busts, and Torquemada pillows and pyamas!
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: While Purity's attempt at ShamingTheMob doesn't work on the majority of the [[KnightTemplar Terminators]] assembled to watch her execution, Brother Gogol is momentarily shaken when she asks them "What are you all hiding behind your masks?"
