Manfred Powell is the main antagonist of the Tomb Raider's film adaption, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, he appears only in the first film installment.
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Born in Dorset, Powell was educated at Oxford. At the age of 23, he became a barrister and worked as a counsel to several large banking firms, also acting as a board member and stockholder for multinational corporations. He has an apartment in New York City and homes in London, Washington D.C. and Venice. He was later appointed Queen's Counsel at the age of 36.
Powell was the eleventh member of the Illuminati and was an important figure in the society's mission to seek the Triangle of Light. Before they formulated this mission, Powell served as the apprentice of Richard Croft, who also was a high-rank member of the Illuminati but soon left the order when the latter discovered a sinister plan to use the triangle. Powell killed him, and took his seat at the Illuminati council.
Powell was suggested to Lara Croft as someone who might know more about the The Clock. But it was a ploy just to inform the Illuminati of the existence of the The Clock. Manfred then raided Abbingdon Estate and took the eye.
At Cambodia, Powell commanded alongside Alex West, hundreds of locals to gain entrance to the Tomb of Keo and retrieving the first of two halves of the Triangle of Light. Powell met Lara inside and agreed on helping her open the Cauldron of Youth, since he was running out of time. However, Lara used the pillar she latched upon, shot down and retrieved the piece before Powell could reach it. The Temple stone guardians then came to life, and Powell had no choice but to leave the temple.
Still having the Clock, forced Powell and Lara to work together on the next expedition to the Ice Cave Tomb in Siberia, Russa, containing the final fragment of the Triangle of Light, the Ritual of Restoration committed by the Illuminati leader was cut short by Powell's murder of him. His motivation for the killing was simple, he did not want to be the right-hand man during the new age, he wanted to be a god himself. He then tries to assemble the Triangle of Light, but is unable to do so. Knowing that Lara knows a way, he kills West. Lara then destroys the Clock, and takes the needed part for the assembly. Powell and Croft assembled the Triangle of Light. A race then commenced to the top of the pyramid to obtain the fully forged triangle.
Lara won the race and possessed the powers of the Triangle of Light, she then turned back time to the point of West's death, twisting the knife back at Powell, hitting his shoulder. Lara then destroyed the Triangle of Light, restarting time again. The chamber then began collapsing, and everyone turned to leave, but Powell revealed to Lara that he was the killer of her father, and showed Richard's pocket watch with a picture of Lara's mother inside to prove it. Lara and Powell then engaged into a hand-to-hand fight, resulting in his death by Lara crushing his throat. Lara retrieved her father's watch, and left.
Trivia[]
- Manfred Powell is dressed similarly to Cowboy in Cambodia scenes.
- Iain Glen would later go on to feature as an antagonist in the Resident Evil film series, based on the video games of the same name which like Tomb Raider debuted in 1996.
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