Victor Veidt (Earth-5340)

"My methods are a means to an end, no different than pruning weeds in order to let an orchid flourish. Those who stand in the way of my vision oppose me because they fear me, but more than that they fear what I represent. Change. Do you know what I despise Braddock? And Anansi? Because never one have they reined in their own self-righteous arrogance long enough to try and see what I see. Never once have they asked me: why? Do you want to know? Love. Measure my crimes against what mankind does to itself, and I am a saint. I have looked into the future, I have seen how one violent action after another spins the world toward a future where all that remains of Earth is a burned out cinder. Every time I have looked into the future, that is what I have seen. Every time but one. In one possible future mankind becomes united. Cures for all diseases are found. Global conflict ends. Hunger is abolished. Education is universal. And no one goes without. In that world, there are laws. To break even the slightest of these is to suffer immediate and terminal punishment. Ten thousand futures have I looked at. A hundred thousand. And in only one does mankind finally unite, and flourish...and survive. Only one. My world."

- - Ozymandias

Victor Veidt is the supreme monarch of Sokovia and a former businessman, who acted as the CEO of Veidt Enterprises until it went bankrupt after he funded a failed expedition to the Negative Zone, where he travelled alongside Dr. Brian Braddock, Jessica and Dan Chapman, as well as the Bruce Quartermain to discover it's secrets. However, when a devastating accident happened, Veidt, alongside the rest of the crew, was hit by cosmic energy which gave them superhuman powers.

Rendered with super speed, senses, agility and the ability to drain the life of others, Victor blamed the four of his fellow crewmembers on the dissolution of Veidt Enterprises and his misery. Taking the identity of Ozymandias, Veidt returned to his home of Sokovia, killed it's Prime Minister and molded an empire on his own image.