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The One was an action movie released in 2001, starring Jet Li and Carla Gugino. The movie was later made into a video game. Originally the film was to have starred The Rock, before Li assumed the lead role.

Plot outline

A superhuman criminal named Gabriel Yu-Law (Jet Li), once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel, seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes to absorb the common life force that connects them and become a god. The only one who can stop him is the last of his alternate selves, Gabriel Law, who works in the LAPD in our own universe and, prior to the events of the movie, was unaware of the multiverse. Law is assisted by a member of the Multiverse Authority that Yu-Law once worked for, with the concern that if one or the other versions survive, there would be catastrophic results for the multiverse.

Background Information

As part of the promotion for the movie, there was an official website for the fiction Multiverse Authority called the "MVA Mainframe". Although the site is now defunct, it provided detailed background material on the storyline and some of the characters, including some that were not in the film. Below is the information from the site.

History of the Multiverse Authority (MVA)

The MVA was created in the "Alpha Universe". A prominent US Senator and member of the Senate Parallel Universe Technology Committee named Marcos Rodriguez championed the original Quantum Tunneling Research Project and was instrumental in raising the necessary funds. However, shortly after the first successful Quantum Tunnel jump, Rodriguez was indicted on charges of campaign finance fraud and accepting kickbacks from government contractors. Before he could be brought to trial, Rodriguez was able to access the prototype Quantum Tunneling Device and jump into the "Beta Universe". Due to the infancy of the technology, by the time he could be tracked Rodriguez had already arranged the death of his Beta Universe "parallel universe version", also a US Senator and had assumed his position.

A former Texas Border Patrol agent named Kyle Browning was hired to head security for the Quantum Tunneling Project and accompanied researchers on many of the first jumps. When one of the researchers made an unauthorized jump to escape from a tax fraud scandal, Kyle Browning successfully retrieved her.

The MVA was formed to address the problems of the new technology and the criminals who were abusing it. Kyle Browning was made Head Field Agent and set in place many of the practices and procedures still used in the tracking and apprehension of criminals in other universes. He also coined the term "parallel universe retrieval", meaning not just the capture of criminals but the act of escorting them back to the Alpha Universe for trial.

Some time after its creation, the MVA appealed to all major technology producing Alpha Universe countries to contribute personnel and resources to the growing organization.

The MVA's basic mission is to prevent Quantum Tunneling from becoming a tool of crime and to apprehend all those who use it to escape justice and/or alter the affairs of parallel universes.

Field agents of the MVA are divided into two interrelated groups. One group specializes in simple retrievals of Alpha Universe criminals who have used Quantum Tunneling to escape to another universe. The other group tracks criminals who commit "inter-universal crimes" such as smuggling or the termination of one's parallel universe versions.

MVA Personnel and Agents

Special Agent Harry Roedecker

:Age: 54 :Authorization: Level 5 :Pre-Agency: Harry Roedecker is a former United States Secret Service agent. Roedecker resigned after being forced to accept blame for the assassination of the Secretary of State. He immediately applied to the MVA. :Agency Record: Despite being one of the most highly decorated field agents in MVA history, Roedecker has been unable to apprehend Major Violator Gabriel YuLaw, his former partner. Roedecker and YuLaw were partners for more than six years and responsible for over fifty Parallel Universe Retrievals. After an unsuccessful attempt to apprehend Violator Andrew Harris, YuLaw became obsessed with Harris increased physical abilities. Roedecker failed to notice this or the fact that YuLaw began terminating his Parallel Universe Versions while they were on field missions. By the time Roedecker learned about YuLaw's activities from Agent Grant, he had already become too powerful to apprehend. :Bio: Psyche reports indicate that Roedecker assumes blame for the transformation of his former partner, Gabriel YuLaw, from a decorated MVA Agent to a Major Violator. Roedecker has had little success since YuLaw left the agency.

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