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Dev Patel (born 23 April 1990) is a British actor. He began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007). His breakthrough came with the leading role of teenager Jamal Malik in Danny Boyle's drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which Patel was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Patel's career expanded with leading roles in the comedy-dramas The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015), the science fiction thriller Chappie (2015), and a supporting role in the HBO series The Newsroom (2012–2014). For his performance as Saroo Brierley in the drama Lion (2016), Patel won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently starred in the independent films Hotel Mumbai (2018), The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) and The Green Knight (2021), and made his directorial debut with the action film Monkey Man (2024).

Dev Patel

King Victor von Doom of Lavertia
for King Victor von Doom of Lavertia in Doom
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Latveria is a small European nation located in southeastern Europe, outside of the city of Haasenstadt is where the Zefiro clan often camped. The clan were referred to as gypsies by the outside world despite the people living peaceful lives as Latverian and Romani wanderers. The clan however were often the victims of harassment, discrimination and persecution the Baron and his men, and while many Zefiro accepted this behaviour, there was one member of the clan that would. A sorceress named Cynthia von Doom who had witnessed her people persecuted and harassed for decades cast a spell in an attempt to give her magical powers to fight for her people. The spell was unsuccessful however it summoned a power demon known as Mephisto. Cynthia made a deal with the demon, promising her soul in order to gain the power of Mephisto. Once Cynthia gained her new power, she went into the village in an attempt to fight back against the Baron and its men. While successful, it also came at the cost of Cynthia accidentally killing many of the children of the village, sadden by her faults she renounced her power and was killed by the village’s soldiers. Cynthia’s body was left for dead until it was discovered by her husband Werner, in her last dying breathe she begs her husband to keep their son safe.