YMMV / Nemesis the Warlock

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• Adaptation Displacement: The comic today is mostly known for being one of the inspirations for Warhammer 40,000.
• Awesome Music: Face it: the theme of the Commodore 64 version is almost 7 minutes of pure SID awesomeness.
• Complete Monster: Tomas de Torquemada, "the ultimate incarnation of human evil", is the Grand Master of the Nazi-like Termight/Terran Empire, and Nemesis's Arch-Enemy. Even as a teenager, he wanted to kill aliens even before being enslaved for several years, a situation which only hardened his resolve. Having seized control by usurping his own brother and locking him in a madhouse with a disfigured face, Torquemada rules humanity and leads campaigns that kill billions upon billions of aliens. He also tortures and murders countless humans, including children, for reasons as small as them merely being in his way; even his supposedly-beloved wife is discarded in favor of his crusade. Torquemada provokes a war and sabotages peace between humanity and aliens so that he'll have an excuse to wipe them all out. Despite his rhetoric, Torquemada is a hypocrite who thinks nothing of using alien energies and life force to keep himself alive by murdering them, bodyjacking humans and aliens alike. When sent to the past, Torquemada's actions horrify even the original Torquemada, one of his earlier incarnations, before Torquemada murders Nemesis's young son Thoth. Torquemada even uses an alien to kill people, including his own men, hoping to turn humanity against Nemesis. In the end, Torquemada attempts to activate his self-described "Final Solution": a bomb to annihilate all aliens and any human who has ever come into contact with one.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • Torquemada is in the running for most evil villain in all fiction, but he's not a coward by any stretch of the imagination, tending to fight his much stronger foes like Nemesis hand to hand. When Nemesis ripped out his heart, Torquemada's undead body killed the monster that ate it and restored his soul through sheer willpower. Plus, his menacing fashion sense◊.
  • Nemesis himself is a powerful demonic Magic Knight with a bitchin' spaceship telepathically linked to him. While far less evil than Torquemada, he's no saint himself, and while he regularly goes up against the Terran Empire, Nemesis is essentially doing so because he's a Troll.
• Fridge Horror: In one of the early stories Nemesis gets caught by a few villagers who try to hang him, but it doesn't work. After he kills them one after another, other villagers agrees to let him go free. Now think how Torquemada is gonna react upon hearing about it.
• Fridge Logic: A few instances, most notably with the use and effects of time travel.
• Ho Yay:
  • Nemesis and Torquemada show a serious amount of blatant tension towards each other whenever they get into a battle with each other.
  • After Nemesis tricks his Uncle, Baal into drinking a hemlock drink laced with a sleeping potion, Baal wakes up and in the next scene, he is seen getting a back massage from a male skeleton named Henry.
  • When Nemesis is saying his farewells to Ragnar and Purity in the final issue, he hugs Ragnar but he does not hug Purity, only shaking her hand instead.
• Informed Wrongness: Purity blames Nemesis in book 8 for the deaths of Chira and Thoth by proclaiming that his prolonging of the war caused that o happen. However, the problem with this is that Purity is blaming Nemesis for more than what he is actually responsible for because Nemesis never anticipated that Chira and Thoth would perish. Chira had died as a result of a betrayal from Magna, whose lust towards Nemesis caused her to sell Chira and Thoth out to Torquemada, resulting in Chira’s murder and Thoth’s descent into madness. Nemesis also believed that Chira and Thoth would be safe on his home planet and was misled to believe that Thoth was dead until 10 years later when he finds out about Magna’s deception. Torquemada also murdered Thoth to get back at Nemesis for causing the deaths of his kids even though Nemesis was cornered into making that decision when the Torquemada’s police force trapped him with laser bars.
• Love to Hate: Torquemada, considering how often he won popularity polls this isn't too surprising.
• Moral Event Horizon: Magna crosses it when she orchestrates the murder of Nemesis' wife Chira by betraying her and Thoth to Torquemada and his terminators and the reason why Magna does this is just so she could get the chance to satiate her lust towards Nemesis.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: With the exception of Purity Brown, there are hardly sympathetic characters worth rooting for, including Nemesis, who's a brutal demonic Anti-Hero fighting against Torquemada for all the wrong reasons. The series' heavy handed theme of Humans Are Bastards, with most human characters being shown as sleazy and pathetic individuals when not committing atrocities, and Kevin O'Neill's grotesque artwork don't help much either.
• Ugly Cute: Various aliens during the run of the comic. Including Nemesis and his wife◊.

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