Mister Negative

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Mister Negative in Dark Reign: Mister Negative v1 #1.

Mister Negative is a male comic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Battling Spider-Man in Web of Spider-Man v2 #10.

Martin Li

As part of his goals, he intended to cement his rule over the criminal underworld in Midtown and decided to target the crime families of the Maggia. This saw him form a secret alliance with Bruno Karnelli who sought to take control of the families. However, in truth, he was simply used as a tool to ensure the Maggia's elimination. After acquiring the Tablet of Death and Entropy, he had the Lemurian alchemical formula analysed to create a poison called 'the Devil's Breath' that was an engineered poison that could target select genetic bloodlines. He then betrayed Karnelli where he kidnapped him in order to harvest his blood to be treated with the poison created from the tablet to be used for the elimination of the Maggia who had come to Midtown for a family gathering. Spider-Man interrupted the process of draining Bruno's blood and destroyed the Tablet but he was too late as the Devil's Breath was created whereupon it was deployed at the Vandemere Hotel where the Maggia were meeting one another. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #547) The gas killed all the relatives of the Karnelli and Manfredi bloodlines though those that had no genetic links were spared from its effects. At the same time, Mister Negative decided to eliminate the spouses and children of the Maggia members who had gone to be entertained at the circus. This was because Mister Negative did not want any opposition of his control of the criminal underworld with him having his Inner Demons prepare the Devil's Breath to finish his objective. However, this time, Spider-Man intervened and saved the Maggia women and children who were rushed out before the gas could kill them. This led to Mister Negative deciding to focus his attention on Spider-Man with him capturing one of the Maggia children and threatening to kill them unless the Wall-Crawler provided him a sample of his blood. The hero agreed with Mister Negative threatening Spider-Man that if he intervened again in his plans in the future then his next supply of Devil's Breath would kill not only him but his entire family. He then threw the child into the nearby waters whilst he made his escape. Whilst his plot against the Maggia was a moderate success, Mister Negative decided on his future actions and the potential to use Spider-Man whilst returning to his civilian guise as Martin Li at the F.E.A.S.T. shelter. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #580)

As Martin Li, he donated Terracotta Statues to the metropolitan museum with this being showcased by Mayor J. Jonah Jameson. It was then that his operatives were putting his plans in place with Anti-Venom arriving at the museum but Mr. Negative was prepared for him. This led to him ambushing Brock and prepared to kill him but was stopped by the mysterious Wraith. She freed Spider-Man who was brought to the scene by Anti-Venom with the three heroes battling Mr. Negative along with his minions. During the fight, it was discovered through facial recognition that Mr. Negative was Martin Li with this being transmitted publically revealing the criminal mastermind to the world. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #664)

During the Avengers Vs. X-Men conflict, Mister Negative came to learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. had acquired many of the Red Skull's warmachines from the Fear Itself incident that were being stored at a warehouse. He also received information that said Hydra had planned to strike to recover the weapons with Mister Negative striking with his Inner Demons first at the secret New York Harbour facility. Their plans were thwarted though when Hawkeye and Spider-Woman intervened after Jessica Drew had received a tip about the Inner Demons operation. As a result, the Inner Demons were defeated and arrested alongside their boss Mister Negative. (Avengers v4 #30)

Three weeks ago, Martin Li was in a Department of Justice prison transport being taken to a new facility when the convoy was attacked by the Inner Demons. Alongside them were a mind controlled Cloak and Dagger who dealt with the guards whilst the Inner Demons freed Martin Li as well as turned him back into his Mister Negative persona. Restored once more, Mister Negative decided to shift his operations to China in order to peddle in the drug Shade that was a manufactured version of his corruptive touch ability. (Amazing Spider-Man v4 #6)

The Martin Li persona came to see the news that reported on the return of the Sin-Eater who was clearing peoples minds of their criminal deeds. Thus, he ceased control of his body from his darker side and then went to meet the Sin-Eater where he begged to be freed from his sins. This was granted and when he awoke he found himself to be released from Mister Negative with Martin being overjoyed at his new freedom. However, this turned out to be temporary and the negative side was returned to him where he attempted to retake control of their body. On several occasions, Li came to black out but regained possession of his body but in those moments Mister Negative came to send orders to his Inner Demons to secure him. Pursued by his negative side's men, Martin came to flee to the re-opened F.E.A.S.T. centre where he came to make amends to May Parker who looked to help him. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #58)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Long ago, Martin Li said that he had given up in fighting against his negative side. He believed that this was an attempt to achieve a balance between the two personas. However, in reality, he fell into subservience to his negative side. Thus, Mister Negative came to bury Martin Li's psyche all the time to the point that it grew weaker everyday. (Amazing Spider-Man v5 #58)

It was said that he ran a tight operation with his henchmen being terrified of him to the point that they worked hard to ensure that they never made mistakes. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #664) He felt that he needed to maintain his reputation so that those people he dealt with had faith in him. As such, he was known to brutally murder his own subordinates if they decided to cheat another party and did it violently in front of others in an effort to show his sincerity in future dealings. This also served as a way of ensuring his brutal reputation as those that witnessed his murders spread word of Mister Negative to others. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #546)

His Martin Li persona claimed to never want to return to China. (Amazing Spider-Man v4 #6)

Powers and abilities

Mister Negative demonstrated to possess a degree of superhuman strength as he was shown to effortlessly throw a child across an area whilst using only one arm. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #580)

Creations of Mister Negative included:

• Devil's Breath : a poison derived from a formula inscribed on the Lemurian Tablet of Death and Entropy. The mixture was capable of selectively targeting and killing anyone of a specific bloodline introduced into the poison. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #547)
• Shade : a drug that chemically induced a refined version of Mister Negative's touch allowing it to corrupt a person allowing them to control them. (Amazing Spider-Man v4 #6)

Notes

• Mister Negative was created by Dan Slott and Phil Jimenez where he made his first appearance in first appearance in Free Comic Book Day v1 2007 Spider-Man (June, 2007).

In other media

Television

• In Ultimate Spider-Man, a version of Mister Negative appeared in the animated television series Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister 6 season where he was voiced by actor Keone Young.

Video games

Appearances

• Free Comic Book Day 2007 Spider-Man v1: (2007)
• Amazing Spider-Man v1:
• Avengers v4:
• Amazing Spider-Man v4:
• Amazing Spider-Man v5:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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