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Archenemy
Main enemy of someone / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Archenemy (disambiguation).
In literature, an archenemy (sometimes spelled as arch-enemy) or archnemesis is the main enemy of someone.[1][2][3] In fiction, it is a character who is the protagonist's, commonly a hero's, most prominent and most-known enemy.
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