Art by Kostmeyer
 
Written by Kostmeyer, June 2004.
Updated, December 2006.


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Code Name: Nemesis
Real Name: Donna Marceau.
Nicknames: None known
Occupations: Bounty Hunter.
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record.
Identity: Secret.
Aliases: None known.
Place of birth: Unrevealed. Presumably somewhere in the United States.
Age: 17
Marital Status: Single
Sexual Orientation: Unrevealed.
Known Relatives: David Marceau (father) and Emma Marceau (mother), both deceased.
Group Affiliation: Unrevealed.
Base of Operations: Mobile.
First Appearance: Black Limited Series #2 "War Zone".
Origin: Nemesis is a mutant and was born with her powers.
Height: 5 foot 3 inches
Weight: 143lbs (10 stones 3 pounds)
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Naturally very pale blonde. Cropped short.
Distinguishing Marks: None
Strength Level: Nemesis possesses the strength of a woman of her age, height and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Nemesis is a mutant with psychic powers. She has the ability to telepathically influence the minds of others. She has exhibited low level telepathy, being able to scan the surface thoughts of another person. She can also telepathically sense the presence of other people, although the limits of this ability have yet to be seen. Nemesis is also able to influence people’s perceptions, making them see what she wants them to.
Abilities/Special Skills: Nemesis is an expert in a variety of forms of hand to hand and ranged combat. She has been trained in the use of most conventional weaponry. Nemesis is a skilled pilot.
Weapons Used: Nemesis employs a broad range of weaponry but her weapons of choice are two energy pistols. These can be set to stun or kill. She has access to a wide range of advanced weaponry (presumably military prototypes) and a small shuttlecraft.
 

Personality: Nemesis is obsessive – driven to avenge her parent’s deaths at the hands of Coercion. She has spent years in training, putting herself through a punishing routine of intensive exercise and weapons training. She is so fanatically devoted to her mission that she tends to rush in first and think about the consequences later.
Personal Interests: Unrevealed. Bearing in mind Nemesis’ obsessive devotion to her mission, it seems likely that her personal interests relate to her mission, such as deduction, weapons and physical training.
History:
Very little is known of Donna Marceau’s past. It is known that her parents were killed by a strike team of the mutant hunting group Coercion. Donna – a child at the time – swore revenge, and dedicated her life to bringing Coercion to justice. She trained intensively and became an extremely efficient bounty hunter. At some point she became part of an organisation which outfitted her with advanced weaponry and her shuttlecraft. The exact nature of the organisation, and Nemesis’ relationship with them, has yet to be revealed. In recent years, Nemesis learned of a Coercion agent called Seraph, and devoted herself to tracking down this particular criminal. In doing so she intercepted a message linking Seraph to the costumed adventurer Laura Monikov, also known as Black. Nemesis researched Monikov and found that she had escaped from Coercion East, the only person ever to have done so. With a growing admiration for Monikov, Nemesis tracked her down, arriving as Black fought off a number of superhuman bounty hunters sent to recapture her and bring her back to Coercion. Nemesis planned to pretend to be a bounty hunter and deliver Black to Coercion, believing that this would cause Seraph to break cover and enable Nemesis to kill him. She was able to persuade Black to go along with this plan, however both of the women were ultimately captured by Coercion. Nemesis escaped from her cell in the Coercion East base, finding Monikov as she was being interrogated by Coercion East’s chief scientist Elena Kirova. Under torture Black confessed to being a Coercion field agent, among her crimes being the assassination of Nemesis’ own parents. Nemesis was recaptured and remains a prisoner of Coercion.