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Mister Negative (Martin Li) is a fictional comic book supervillain appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an enemy of Spider-Man and the Punisher. Created by Dan Slott and Phil Jimenez, Mister Negative first appeared in a cameo in the history "Swing Shift" of ''Free Comic Book Day (Spider-Man)'', an issue set after the events of the "Spider-Man: One More Day" storyline. Mister Negative's first full appearance came in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #546 (January 2008); the start of the "Brand New Day" storyline. ==Fictional character biography== Martin Li is an illegal Chinese immigrant from the Fujian province who attempted to travel to America to be with his wife. However, his mode of transportation, the Golden Mountain, was a slave ship operated by the Snakehead gang as a way to sell Fujian captives as overseas slaves in Kenya. During a storm, the ship's crew evacuated, leaving the captives alone to make a break for the New York shores. Li was the only survivor and spent the following years building a large fortune and dedicating himself to helping those less fortunate.〔''Dark Reign: Mister Negative'' #1. Marvel Comics.〕 However, this story is later revealed to be somewhat false, though only the Mr. Negative persona appears aware of it. It is revealed that Mister Negative was actually one of the crew members of the Golden Mountain and when the ship nearly crashed onto the New York shores, he stole the identity of one of the deceased Fujian slaves, the real Martin Li, who was heading to America for the aforementioned reasons. This gang member was eventually captured by the Maggia Don Silvermane and experimented on with a synthetic drug created by Maggia chemist Simon Marshall that could be more potent than heroin. He escaped with the help of two other experimental inmates and was soon transformed into two men, the kind-hearted Martin Li and the villainous Mister Negative. The Mister Negative side dedicated himself to becoming Chinatown's Kingpin of Crime while the Martin Li side attempts to run the F.E.A.S.T. center with humility. 〔''Dark Reign: Mister Negative'' #3. Marvel Comics.〕 Martin Li operates a soup kitchen in Chinatown, the F.E.A.S.T. Project (Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter and Training), where Peter Parker's Aunt May volunteers.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #546 (Jan. 2008)〕 Neither Peter nor May are aware of Li's dual identity as a Chinatown crime boss under the name Mister Negative.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #548 (Jan. 2008)〕 Despite being a crime lord, Li is a seemingly kind and generous man. The F.E.A.S.T. Project has displayed healing powers for people of various illnesses, although the cause of this healing has yet to be revealed. During the first story of "Brand New Day" storyline, Mister Negative first comes into conflict with Spider-Man when he makes a power play toward taking control of New York's criminal underworld by attempting to wipe out all existing members of the Karnelli and Maggia crime families using a DNA specific bioweapon called the "Devil's Breath". In exchange for leaving the Maggia families' children alive, he takes a sample of Spider-Man's blood to use in a Devil's Breath formula.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #546-548〕 Mister Negative later tries to use the Devil's Breath formula to kill Spider-Man during a fight with the Maggia, but Spider-Man is able to hold his breath long enough to escape alive.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #620〕 Spider-Man then recruits the Black Cat to help him steal his remaining blood from Mister Negative and replace it with a vial of pig blood so Mister Negative is unaware of his loss.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #621. Marvel Comics.〕 Martin Li endorses Bill Hollister for mayor of New York City, putting him against Randall Crowne, who has him added to a list of opponents (many of whom become targets of the villain Menace, who is actually Hollister's daughter, Lilly). It also causes him to become the target of a smear campaign by Dexter Bennet, editor of ''The DB'' and supporter of Randall Crowne.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #558〕 After Menace is revealed to be Billy Hollister's daughter Lily and he resigns as mayor, Li unsuccessfully runs in a special election, losing to J. Jonah Jameson.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #591. Marvel Comics.〕 Mister Negative later recruits Hammerhead and offers to put his brain in a new robotic adamantium skeleton after having been shot point blank in the head by Underworld. Hammerhead agrees to that and Mister Negative has his surgeon Doctor Tramma perform the procedure.〔''Amazing Spider-Man EXTRA!'' (July 2008)〕 Mister Negative eventually comes across Eddie Brock and gives him a job at his soup kitchen. A touch of him causes his cancerous cells to completely disappear. Also, the remains of the Venom Symbiote fuse with Brock's white blood cells, causing him to become Anti-Venom during a conflict with Mac Gargan, the then current Venom.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #569. Marvel Comics.〕 After the F.E.A.S.T center is torn apart during the fight between the two, Li discovers from a group of sweatshop workers (from a shop owned by Crowne) that they were experimented on with drugs from Oscorp.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #572. Marvel Comics.〕 Later, Mister Negative and his Inner Demons encounter and battle Anti-Venom. In the aftermath, Brock watches Negative turn into Li, becoming the first to be aware of his dual identity.〔''Amazing Spider-Man Extra!'' #2. Marvel Comics.〕 During the 2008–2009 "Dark Reign" storyline, Mister Negative refuses to submit to Hood's rule during his conquest of New York's criminal underworld. During a meeting with Hood's henchman White Dragon, Negative corrupts him and sends him to attack Hood's headquarters. In retaliation, Hood decides to attack and kill him. H.A.M.M.E.R. seals Chinatown on Hood's behalf and an all out brawl erupts around Li's estate. Hood's gang gets the upper hand until Spider-Man arrives to rescue Martin Li. However, he too is corrupted and sent into battle on Mister Negative's behalf.〔 Spider-Man attacks and pummels the members of Hood's gang who are attacking the villain's headquarters and Mister Negative then sends him to kill Betty Brant, who is interviewing the real Martin Li's widow and is coming close to the truth. The Hood himself then confronts Negative at his Chinatown headquarters and battles him.〔''Dark Reign: Mister Negative'' #2〕 During the battle, Mister Negative tries to corrupt Hood, but fails. Norman Osborn ends H.A.M.M.E.R.'s blockade of Chinatown when Hammerhead hands him papers implicating Oscorp in the aforementioned drug tests on immigrants. An irate Hood decides to kill Negative anyway, but he escapes. A later conversation that Norman Osborn has with his own darker side the Green Goblin reveals that he now has an alliance with Negative similar to the one with Hood. However, Spot slips in and steals back the evidence of Oscorp's tests, revealing that he is actually Mister Negative's mole in the Hood's gang under the promise that he will be cured once they get their revenge on the Maggia.〔 During "The Gauntlet" storyline, Mister Negative corrupts Spider-Man's Aunt May when she walks in on him punishing an Inner Demon.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #618〕 However, Aunt May manages to break free from Mister Negative's corruption when Peter went to her for moral support after the Lizard devoured Billy Connors and essentially 'killed' his human side.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #633. Marvel Comics.〕 During the "Shadowland" storyline, Mister Negative takes the advantage of the conflict against the Hand in a plot to set up a criminal establishment there, only for him and his Inner Demons to run afoul of Spider-Man and Shang-Chi.〔''Shadowland: Spider-Man'' #1. Marvel Comics.〕 Mister Negative later has an encounter with Jackpot and Boomerang.〔''Web of Spider-Man'' vol. 2 #10〕 During the "Origin of the Species" storyline, Mister Negative was among the supervillains assembled by Doctor Octopus to secure some items for him.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #642. Marvel Comics.〕 During the "Big Time" storyline, Mister Negative is targeted by both Anti-Venom and the new Wraith. When they, along with Spider-Man, interrupt a heroin-smuggling operation, Wraith uses visual recognition software, linked to every television broadcast in New York, to publicly out Mister Negative as Martin Li. When the police approach, Negative and his men retreat. Li is later seen locked in a room by Negative's men, who wait for him to change back into their master.〔''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #664〕 During the "Spider-Island" storyline, Mister Negative is told of a prophecy that he is destined to be killed by Dagger.〔''Spider-Island: Cloak and Dagger'' #1. Marvel Comics.〕 During the "Avengers vs. X-Men" storyline, Mister Negative and his henchmen invade a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility as a way of taking an advantage of the war between the Avengers and the Phoenix Five, but Hawkeye and Spider-Woman defeat them while having a discussion about their relationship. It is later revealed that they were informed about Mister Negative's plan by Madame Hydra, who wanted to get rid of her competition.〔''Avengers'' vol. 4 #30. Marvel Comics.〕 During the "Original Sin" storyline, Mister Negative is seen meeting with Phil Urich (who is now leading the remnants of the Goblin Underground as the self-proclaimed Goblin King) when it came to them awaiting for Eel II to help divide the criminal underground following Norman Osborn's defeat. Their meeting is crashed by Black Cat and Electro who demand their share of the plan. When Mister Negative and Phil Urich refuse to listen to Black Cat, she reminds them that they were all outed by Spider-Man and will succeed in the goal of defeating Spider-Man.〔Slott, Dan (w), Ramos, Humberto (p), Olazaba, Victor (i). ''Amazing Spider-Man'' Vol. 3 #5 (October 2014). Marvel Comics.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mister Negative」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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