Nemesis (Resident Evil)
| Nemesis | |
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| Resident Evil character | |
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| First game | Resident Evil 3: Nemesis |
Nemesis is a fictional monster from the Resident Evil series of survival horror games. Nemesis is a biologically engineered creature created by the Umbrella Corporation and appeared as the title character for Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. It also appeared in the 2004 film, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, where it was portrayed by Matthew G. Taylor.
Background
Origins
Nemesis was developed long before the initial events of Resident Evil. The European Branch of the Umbrella Corporation originally developed the “Nemesis Project", a Tyrant bio-weapon that could follow orders. Later, Umbrella moved the project to the Arklay Mountains, shipping a box containing a prototype Ne-a parasite specimen to Albert Wesker.
From there, Wesker and William Birkin conducted several experiments on the parasite. In the most notable of these experiments, the scientists injected the parasite into the body of Lisa Trevor, Umbrella’s long-time guinea pig. Additionally, the experiment’s findings allowed William Birkin to develop the G-Virus.
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Nemesis is the title character and main antagonist in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. The Umbrella Corporation deploys Nemesis to hunt and murder the remaining members of Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.). One first encounters the creature outside of Raccoon City’s police department, where it brutally murders Brad Vickers. Nemesis will continue to pursue and confront the player’s character, Jill Valentine, through various parts of the game.
Nemesis, draped in a trench coat, will attack the player with a rocket launcher, hands and tentacles throughout the game. A player can injure Nemesis through weapons fire and later industrial strength acid. Throughout the course of the game, the detrimental effects of the NE-T virus twist Nemesis’ physical build. After having its trenchcoat burned off, Nemesis's tentacles will grow larger on the right arm. Later, after being decapitated and falling in acid, the player will finally encounter Nemesis as a grotesque digestive organ with disfigured limbs. While lacking the dexterity and attack power it once had, Nemesis is more resilient.
Films
Nemesis was mentioned at the end of the 2002 film Resident Evil, and later appeared in the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse, where he was portrayed by Matthew G. Taylor. In the film's continuity Nemesis is formerly Matt Addison one of the two survivors of the first film (alongside Alice) where he becomes infected after being scratched by a licker.
As in the third game he is unleashed into the city to kill the remaining S.T.A.R.S. members as a sort of test of his programming. This, however, changes once he encounters Alice at which point Timothy Cain announces that the Nemesis-program is officially activated. Alice and the Nemesis are forced into a final fight together near the end but Alice refuses to kill him remembering that Nemesis used to be Matt. The Nemesis then remembers Alice after Cain calls him a dead-end of evolution. When he is told to kill Alice he instead kills the men guarding her and allows the heroes to fight back. He is eventually killed trying to save Alice's life by shooting down a helicopter with his rocket launcher. He is crushed to death by the falling debris.
Unlike the game version the Nemesis does not use tentacles but instead an arm-mounted minigun is added to his arsenal aside his regular rocket launcher.
In Resident Evil: Extinction, Dr. Sam Isaacs mutates into a Tyrant similar to the Nemesis seen in the games. As a Tyrant, Issacs possessed a mass of tentacles instead of a right arm, had accelerated healing to the point of near-instantaneous recovery from wounds, and was capable of speech and possessed Issacs' intelligence and memories.