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* [[Paranoia Fuel]]:

** When you idle in the game by civilians, sometimes they'll talk about your exploits. Nemesis is fond of using Automatons that perfectly resemble normal people. If you've encountered Nemesis troops lately, you might hear a comment like this:

** A couple of tip missions in the 30-40 range revolve around a former hero who falls foul of this, and ends up being driven [[Ax Crazy]] by the belief that anyone can be a Nemesis automaton. In one Vigilante mission {{spoiler|it's actually the player character that does so, blowing up a Longbow base and killing everyone inside in the belief that they're ''all'' automatons.}} One possible interpretation of the whole affair, bearing in mind Nemesis' nature as a chessmaster and his "Heroes are a threat" propaganda, is that this [[Wild Mass Guessing|actually his real goal]] rather than successful infiltration.

** Metronome, the [[Mirror Universe|Praetorian]] {{spoiler|Clockwork King}}. He has no physical body. You can't kill him, because [[Our Ghosts Are Different|he's already dead]]. He can possess any robot by [[Psychic Powers|telekinetically]] rewriting the operating system on its hard drive (which he knows how to do because {{spoiler|he helped Anti-Matter design them}}). You know, those [[Robot Buddy|robots]] that Praetoria uses for [[Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids|everything]]. Throw a stick and you'll hit three of them, and now every single one of them could, at any time, suddenly drop what it's doing, turn around, and try to murder you. He's not just [[Haunted Technology|a ghost in the machine]], but a ghost in any machine, in every machine. And since {{spoiler|Anti-Matter murdered him}}, and Penelope Yin [[Stalker with a Crush|spurned his affections]], he's [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|angry]].