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Martin Li is an illegal Chinese immigrant from Fujian province who attempted to travel to the United States to be with his wife, who used the Golden Mountain as a means of transportation on a slave ship operated by the Snakehead gang as a way to sell Fujian captives as slaves overseas in Kenya. When the ship nearly crashed off the coast of New York, Li was killed and a member of the Golden Mountain crew took his identity.

The impostor who was now using his identity was captured by Maggia crime family member Silvermane, who forcibly delivered criminal chemist Simon Marshall who was developing a new synthetic designer drug called "D-Lite" for Maggi, testing it on teenage runaways and illegal immigrants, often with fatal results, in order to create a cash crop for the crime family. "Martin Lee" survived the experiment and escaped, gaining superpowers related to Darkforce and Lightforce who would go by the alias Mister Negative. The drug also created two distinct identities within him: the good-natured character of Martin Li and the villainous Mister Negative.[1]

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  • Most of his representations treat Li and his impostor as one and the same person. Although this is possibly due to Mister Negative possessing some sort of dissociative identity disorder that causes them to be treated as the same person.

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