Matrix's nemesis, his former buddy turned obsessive henchman-in-chief, is played with an exaggerated campness that would be considered offensive today.
Chris Rogers had been a victim for Graeme Swann on five occasions in the first four Tests and took the no-shot approach to facing his nemesis at The Oval, scoring off only four of the 52 balls he faced against the spinner before falling to him once more.
The Beano publisher DC Thomson has collaborated in an official "mod" for the popular game, replacing default characters and items with Dennis and Gnasher, as well as catapults, rotten tomatoes, stink bombs and Dennis' nemesis Walter.
But the largest contingent wants to go over to the Queen's Head to confront their nemesis.
If Andy Shrimpton were to have a nemesis, he might be someone like Andreas Casalotti, owner of London-based Zero Couriers.
When the USA were finally drawn against Germany and an opening game against their World Cup nemesis Ghana, there was a general air of resignation that fate would bring Klinsmann's team up against those two, but there was still a further sting in the tale when Portugal, and Cristiano Ronaldo, appeared as the final team in one of the undoubted groups of death of the tournament.
Surely there must be easier places to meet his nemesis in Sydney?
Dyke's analysis of his nemesis' unaccountability sounds broadly reliable.
And then: more trouble, in the shape of Paltrow's nemesis Blake Lively, proprietor of Goop's upstart rival in the world of websites flogging insufferably marketed, overpriced cobblers, Preserve.
It did not require too great an intellect to surmise this selection nor the reason why they wished to put him under the particular scrutiny of batting against his nemesis Australians rather than the cosiness of his England chums.
Both she and her nemesis returned in three sequels of markedly contrasting flavours: James Cameron's wham-bam Aliens (1986), David Fincher's clammy, intense Alien³ (1992) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's comic-book-style Alien Resurrection (1997).
