Mister Negative

Mister Negative
Mr. Negative. Art by Steve McNiven.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Cameo: Free Comic Book Day (Spider-Man) (May 2007) Full: The Amazing Spider-Man #546 (January 2008)
Created by	Dan Slott Phil Jimenez
In-story information
Alter ego	Martin Li
Abilities	Superhuman strength and reflexes Mental domination Healing touch Access to advanced technology and secret laboratories Ability to switch between reversed and regular appearance and charge up knives and swords with black electrical energy

Mister Negative (Martin Li) is a fictional comic book supervillain appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an enemy of Spider-Man, the Punisher and Cloak and Dagger.

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.

Martin Li is an illegal Chinese immigrant from the Fujian province who attempted to travel to America to be with his wife. But 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.

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. 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.