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Holocaust

Real Name: Unknown
Affiliation: None
Previous Affiliations: The Four Horsemen (AOA)
Aliases: Holocaust
Powers: A very high energy bio-blast. Having no human form, he is basically energy in an armored containment suit. In the "Age of Apocalypse" timeline, Nemesis, then possessed of a "normal" body, attacked Magneto's base at Mount Wundagore, mortally wounding the Scarlet Witch and some other young mutants before being driven off by Rogue. Later, Magneto exacted his revenge on Nemesis by nearly destroying his body, requiring him to be placed in a containment suit to survive. Calling himself Holocaust, he was the heir-designate of Apocalypse, even going so far as to call his leader "Father," although whether there actually was a relationship there is unknown. In the final battle of that world, Nate Grey stabbed Holocaust in the chest with a shard of the M'Kraan Crystal. The resulting conflux of energies transported the two of them across the realities to our timeline. Holocaust ended up in space, his containment suit shattered, and his body encased in a block of ice. He was found by the Acolytes, and Exodus ordered him brought aboard Avalon. Inside Avalon Holocaust was somehow able to drain the life energy of a few Acolytes to regain some of his strength. He escaped his containment chamber and began to battle Exodus, whom he remembered as an X-Man from his original dimension. Their battle destroyed the station, and they crashed to Earth, where Holocaust drained more human lives and was found by Sebastian Shaw. Shaw and Holocaust formed a short-lived and uneasy alliance, with Shaw providing Holocaust with a new containment suit (although he was surviving fine without it). Holocaust then helped Shaw capture and brainwash X-Force, but after that plan failed their partnership dissolved. Holocaust fought Nate Grey again, and then appeared as a thrall of Onslaught, but went his own way following Onslaught's defeat. During the incident when he, Dark Beast, and Nate were captured by the Shi'ar, who viewed the fact that Holocaust still had part of the M'Kraan Crystal inside him as the highest heresy, Holocaust appears to have renamed himself Nemesis, mostly due to Dark Beast's refusal to call him anything else. He then found out that his new containment suit has a shape-shifting capability, which can be used if enough bio-energy is absorbed. Nemesis used this ability to make himself look like Nate Grey, killing more and more people until the two adversaries finally clashed. Nemesis was defeated and so much of his energy was drained that he was searching out Dark Beast, who created his first suit, for assistance.

Suddenly, he became unstuck in time, and (again calling himself Holocaust), he returned to his birth reality, where he was told to join the Exiles. Angered at the Timebroker's interference, he tracked down the M'Kraan Crystal and took control of the army base housing it. Then he convinced the Exiles to help him sync the Tallus to the Crystal and attack the Timebroker directly.
Reason for Being an Exile: Unknown.
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