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NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Maxwell Lord from the DC Extended Universe. The mainstream version can be found here:Maxwell Lord .
| “ | I've never been much for rules, the answer has always been more. | „ |
| ~ Maxwell Lord |
| “ | Anything you want, Anything you dream of, you can have it!!! | „ |
| ~ Maxwell Lord to the public |
Maxwell Lord is the main antagonist of the 2020 DC Extended Universe movie Wonder Woman 1984. He is the head of a tycoon called The Black Gold Cooperative who uses Dreamstone, created by Dolos, the God of Treachery and Mischief prior to humanity.
He is portrayed by Pedro Pascal, who also played Paolo in Dishonoured 2, Dave York in The Equalizer 2, and Agent Whiskey in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
History
Maxwell Lord is the power-hungry, greedy and ruthless CEO of The Black Gold Cooperative who desires financial success and fame due to his experiences as a social outcast and having grown in a family of poverty while being regularly abused by his father. In 1984 Lord is facing financial ruin, visits the Smithsonian in search of a mysterious Dreamstone which seemingly grants wishes upon contact with any user. Both Diana and Barbara unknowingly use the stone to fulfil their own desires. Diana wishes for her deceased lover, Steve Trevor, to return, causing his soul to take over another man's body.
Barbara wishes to become strong and beautiful like Diana but both of their wishes come at a cost, Barbara's comes at the price of losing her former personality while Diana's costs her her powers. Lord holds a gala at the museum where he manipulates Barbara into giving him the Dreamstone, Lord then wishes to become the embodiment of the stone its self, granting him its wish granting powers but at the price of draining his lifeforce with every wish he grants. Lord utilises the power to trick people into wishing for something so he can take what he desires in return to amass wealth, fame and fortune but also leaves chaos in his path.
Lord's health rapidly deteriorates with every wish he grants, Lord utilises its power to gain access to the President who he tricks into making a wish in exchange for his respect, influence and power so that he can gain access to a global broadcasting network project that the US has secretly been developing so he may grant wishes to the entire world. Lord rehabilitates his health by absorbing his wishers lifeforce but as a result of his global broadcast, peoples wishes begin to cause instability across the globe.
Barbara who has joined forces with Lord and wished to become an apex predator, battles against Diana while Lord broadcasts his wish granting abilities, Wonder Woman eventually defeats Barbara and confronts Lord who has now become too powerful to stop. Using her Lasso of Truth, Wonder Woman communicates to the world via Lord and convinces them to renounce their wishes while she shows him a vision of his son wandering the streets as chaos ensues from his fulfilment of everyone's desires. Lord seeing the chaos and destruction he's caused and unwilling to sacrifice his son whom he neglected for years renounces his wish and returns to reunite with his son.
Personality
He is a very charismatic, cunning, and manipulative businessman who is able to use his influence over the public to get what he wants when he wants it. Although even being influential over Diana Prince and Barbara Ann Minnerva, still when a deeper look is taken he is an egotistical and ruthless individual. Using his charisma to get anything he desires whilst truly being a ruthless man looking to show himself as one to show "benefits to humanity." Overall what he displays to most is a facáde of which he is very dangerous and not one to be messed around with. However, despite his ultimate villainy, he does seem to care about his son.
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