Contains spoilers for Mark Millar’s Big Game!This Nemesis cosplay is so awesome, creator Mark Millar shouted it out on X – full-on proclaiming how cool the take on his villainous anti-Batman character is. Displaying true excitement over the version of Nemesis brought to life with this build, he graciously signal boosted the cosplayer, delivering their work to a much-deserved wider audience.
Millar shared a post by cosplayer @luunchbox, featuring a high-level recreation of Nemesis, a character who was most recently a central antagonist of the author’s Big Game crossover series. The upcoming Nemesis: Rogues Gallery will serve as a direct sequel to Big Game.
The series is likely to center around Nemesis seeking vengeance against the Millarverse’s new class of superheroes, as well as looking to fill the vacuum left by the death of Wesley Gibson, leader of the world’s superheroes. If anything, this sterling cosplay representation of the character is only missing one thing, bloodsplatter, something frequently associated with Nemesis.
Nemesis Is Now The Millarverse’s Greatest Threat
Millar co-created Nemesis with artist Steve McNiven, who Mark Millar references excitedly in his response to Luunchbox about their Nemesis cosplay. The cosplay artist replied, thanking Millar, and saying Steve McNiven was among the first to see the Nemesis build, along with fellow artist Lenil Francis Yu. McNiven and Millar made a fantastic decision with their character design by putting him in a sterling white costume. Nemesis is consciously designed as an anti-Batman – a billionaire who becomes a costumed adventurer; however, instead of a hero, the character becomes an arch-villain. In addition to inverting Batman’s dark colors, putting Nemesis in white allows him to quickly, and frequently, become covered in his enemies’ blood.
Luunchbox’s cosplay depicts a pristine Nemesis, who has not yet slaughtered anybody on this particular day. It is an excellent execution of the character, with particularly precise attention paid to the mask. The cosplayer also exhibits Nemesis’ characteristic wicked grin, showing that they are enjoying embodying the character as much as the character loves embodying pure chaotic evil. The conclusion of Big Game cleared the way for Nemesis to be the biggest threat in the shared Millarverse comic continuity, and likely the greatest villain to come out of it so far, surpassing Wanted’s Wesley Gibson. More Nemesis stories will almost certainly lead to more versions of his already-iconic design, for expert cosplayers like Luunchbox to make builds of.
Great Character Designs Make Great Cosplays
The time, effort, and energy that cosplay artists like Luunchbox absolutely should be praised – at the same time, cosplayers will be the first to tell anyone that what makes them able to thrive in their artistic medium is great character designs, like the one produced by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven in bringing Nemesis to the page. Great cosplays start when an inspiring piece of art sparks the motivation for a build in a cosplayer’s mind – Millar’s evocative work, and his many artistic collaborators’ incredible visuals, mean more Mark Millar cosplays are always a welcome sight at comic conventions and online.
