The line comes from Guy Ritchie's crime film Snatch, released in 2000, where gangster Brick Top, played by Alan Ford, uses the word nemesis to describe his own brand of retribution. The scene became a favourite among film fans for its calm menace and quotable wording, and clips of it have circulated in edits, reaction videos and meme compilations for years. Like It was at this moment he knew, it is often used to signal that a character's fate has already been decided, which keeps the quote useful long after the film's release.