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 By Titan007 LOS ANGELES — The first thing you notice about Xolo Maridueña isn’t the fame. Not the franchise sheen that comes from anchoring a superhero film, nor the viral gravity that trails a star of a wildly bingeable streaming series. What lands first is the unguarded brightness—an earnest, quicksilver curiosity that makes him seem less like a celebrity crossing a lobby than a friend who kept the door for you. It’s an improbable quality to maintain when your face is beamed into millions of living rooms and your likeness sells out Comic-Con panels. But improbability has been a steady current in Maridueña’s life. He has a habit of turning the unlikely into the inevitable. He was born Ramario Xolo Ramirez on June 9, 2001, in Los Angeles, a Gemini with a name that carries a story. “Xolo” echoes Xolotl, the Aztec deity of fire and lightning, a name that sounds like a spark catching. The son of Omar G. Ramirez and Carmelita Ramirez-Sánchez, he grew up in El Sereno, the Eastside ne...