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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origin of
the villainous mr. negative before we
begin we publish new content every day
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our latest videos the man known as
Martin Lee aka mr. negative
used to make his living as a snake head
a Chinese smuggler who specialized in
illegally transporting people across
borders
this particular snakehead whose true
name remains a mystery was transporting
one such group on a ship that ran
aground near New York panicking the
smuggler stole the name of one of his
deceased charges Martin Lee fearing that
he would be caught and deported to China
for previous crimes swimming to shore
the snakehead returned to his gangs
hideout in Flushing where he discovered
that all of his criminal compatriots had
been killed by ma Jia family crime boss
Silvio Manfredi better known as
Silvermane this was before Silvermane
became a head on a robot body
fYI rather than sending the man now
calling himself Martin Lee to join his
fellow smugglers in the Hereafter
Silvermane gave him to a criminal
chemist who was in the process of
testing a new designer drug Lee was
forcibly dosed with this truck named
delight along with several other
unwilling subjects while many died three
of the test subjects survived and
developed superpowers that linked them
to powerful energy sources called the
light force and the dark force these
three test subjects managed to escape
and use their newfound abilities in very
different ways
while teenager Runaways Tandy Bowen and
Tyrone Power used their light and dark
powers to become the heroes cloak and
dagger Lee became something else
entirely the drug split Lee into two
entities sharing the same body the kind
Martin Lee and the more villainous mr.
negative mr. negative is able to control
the dark and light force energies within
him to various ends augmenting his
physical abilities and corrupting those
he touches turning them into evil
inverted versions of themselves in this
form the villain takes on the appearance
of the photo negative with dark blue or
black skin and white hair his Martin Lee
persona meanwhile has a healing touch
and appears normal using his new
abilities mr. negative set out to not
only destroy the maggia crime family but
to become the new lord of the chinatown
underworld keeping true to his dualistic
nature mr. negative even you
the Martin Lee persona as a front
presenting himself as a kind-hearted
philanthropist and self-made man one of
his fronts even included the Beast
project a community outreach program
whose volunteers included spider-man’s
Aunt May
mr. negatives goal to become the new
ruler of the New York underworld
obviously brought him into conflict with
spider-man but also with the hood
another super-powered crime boss with
ambitions of becoming the new top dog of
NYC’s criminal world in many cases his
sinister ambitions are carried out by
the inner demons a gang of masked
enforcers granted a portion of their
masters power they say everyone has two
faces the one we showed to the world and
the one more rarely seen this sinister
villain embodies the duality better than
most with his kind and generous exterior
hiding the ruthless and bloodthirsty
monster within mr. negative may be a
relatively new villain in an already
stacked rogues gallery but he’s already
managed to make his mark do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be
you [Music]
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origin of
the villainous mr. negative before we
begin we publish new content every day
so be sure to subscribe to our channel
and ring the bell to get notified about
our latest videos the man known as
Martin Lee aka mr. negative
used to make his living as a snake head
a Chinese smuggler who specialized in
illegally transporting people across
borders
this particular snakehead whose true
name remains a mystery was transporting
one such group on a ship that ran
aground near New York panicking the
smuggler stole the name of one of his
deceased charges Martin Lee fearing that
he would be caught and deported to China
for previous crimes swimming to shore
the snakehead returned to his gangs
hideout in Flushing where he discovered
that all of his criminal compatriots had
been killed by ma Jia family crime boss
Silvio Manfredi better known as
Silvermane this was before Silvermane
became a head on a robot body
fYI rather than sending the man now
calling himself Martin Lee to join his
fellow smugglers in the Hereafter
Silvermane gave him to a criminal
chemist who was in the process of
testing a new designer drug Lee was
forcibly dosed with this truck named
delight along with several other
unwilling subjects while many died three
of the test subjects survived and
developed superpowers that linked them
to powerful energy sources called the
light force and the dark force these
three test subjects managed to escape
and use their newfound abilities in very
different ways
while teenager Runaways Tandy Bowen and
Tyrone Power used their light and dark
powers to become the heroes cloak and
dagger Lee became something else
entirely the drug split Lee into two
entities sharing the same body the kind
Martin Lee and the more villainous mr.
negative mr. negative is able to control
the dark and light force energies within
him to various ends augmenting his
physical abilities and corrupting those
he touches turning them into evil
inverted versions of themselves in this
form the villain takes on the appearance
of the photo negative with dark blue or
black skin and white hair his Martin Lee
persona meanwhile has a healing touch
and appears normal using his new
abilities mr. negative set out to not
only destroy the maggia crime family but
to become the new lord of the chinatown
underworld keeping true to his dualistic
nature mr. negative even you
the Martin Lee persona as a front
presenting himself as a kind-hearted
philanthropist and self-made man one of
his fronts even included the Beast
project a community outreach program
whose volunteers included spider-man’s
Aunt May
mr. negatives goal to become the new
ruler of the New York underworld
obviously brought him into conflict with
spider-man but also with the hood
another super-powered crime boss with
ambitions of becoming the new top dog of
NYC’s criminal world in many cases his
sinister ambitions are carried out by
the inner demons a gang of masked
enforcers granted a portion of their
masters power they say everyone has two
faces the one we showed to the world and
the one more rarely seen this sinister
villain embodies the duality better than
most with his kind and generous exterior
hiding the ruthless and bloodthirsty
monster within mr. negative may be a
relatively new villain in an already
stacked rogues gallery but he’s already
managed to make his mark do you agree
with our picks check out these other
great clips from WatchMojo and be sure
to subscribe and ring the bell to be
you [Music]
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