Re: This is going to sound weird, but... But, exactly, couldn't Nemesis Kid adapt to Projectra's strength? Did she zap him with some psychic mojo he didn't know she had? Did the fact that she stood up to that punch with (for all intents and purposes) a "fuck you" freak him out that badly?
IIRC His power was to conscisouly decide to adapt to whatever superpower was used against him, her superpower was illusions, so he adapted to those. Her strength isn't a superpower, and he didn't view her as a threat, and by the time she was choking him, he couldn't concentrate to adapt to it.