THE RUSSIAN MOB: is a high-profile criminal operation that engages in black marketeering, terrorism, abduction, arms trafficking, exporting contraband like oil and metals, and smuggling of radioactive substances. In the former Soviet Union power elites and corrupt officials ran the country alongside criminal bosses, but after the economy collapsed the Russian mafia would split into several new gangs. At the time the United States loosened its immigration policy allowing ex-Soviet criminals to enter the country, and the first Russian organized crime began with con artists disguised as merchants in the lower Brooklyn area known as Brighton Beach. These thugs would group together under their own code of conduct based on strict loyalty with one another and militant opposition against the government.
ALEKSEI SYTSEVICH: the dim-witted and boastful Russian mobster whose theft of Oscorp plutonium landed him in a lifelong prison sentence after being foiled by Spider-Man. He drove an armored truck while his comrades secured the goods from a hijacked Oscorp van, but they were webbed to a lamppost while Sytsevich continued to flee, damaging other vehicles on the road and running over squad cars. He even confronts the superhero with rapid machine gunfire but he's publicly humiliated and handed over to the NYPD. Several months pass before Gustav Fiers and Harry Osborn decide to break Aleksei out of 'The Vault' as their first honorary member of The Sinister Six.
This vengeful mob boss was a prime candidate to pilot a large rhinoceros-based exo-suit, assembled from surplus Soviet-era military gear that Oscorp had stolen back in the '80s. Aleksei further modifies the mechanical suit of powered armor to include heavy machine guns and missile launchers.
THE MAGGIA FAMILY: is an international crime syndicate (based on The Mafia) the original and most powerful organization of career criminals following a strict code of secrecy among its members. The Maggia controls most of the illegal gambling, loan-sharking, and narcotics trade on the eastern seaboard, they even run casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey and Las Vegas. Their presence in the US first came to public attention in the 1890s and their widespread bootlegging of illegal liquor during the Prohibition Era became legendary, they now hold a great influence within various labor unions, and control New York's politicians on every level of government. However in recent years, the Maggia has invested most of its illegal gains into legitimate business practices, all-the-while hiring criminal supervillains and mad scientists into their ranks for more subversive activities.
HAMMERHEAD: is the most notorious New York City crime boss distinguished by the broad, flattened shape of his head, (the result of a botched cranium surgery) and that he dresses and acts like a gangster from the 1920s. Before ascending to the underworld's peak, a nameless gunman working for an unidentified Maggia crime family was severely beaten and left to die in a discount movie theater that was showing "
The Al Capone Mob" and "
The Godfather Part II" back-to-back. Much of his fragmented skull had to be replaced by an unbendable steel alloy, giving his head its trademark flat shape, this metal plate implant is impervious to gunfire and even useful as a battering ram. Upon recovering, the gunman couldn't remember anything about himself save his criminal ambition, the amnesiac's fragmented mind was still fixated upon the gangsters of cinema.
Now determined to rebuild his personality, he adopted the role of the mobster "Hammerhead", favoring 20's clothing and weaponry, and mirroring the speech patterns and behavior of his favorite crime noires. To match his gangster persona, Hammerhead can always be seen wearing a three-piece suit and fedora, smoking a cigar, and carrying his trusty
Thompson submachine "tommy" guns at all times. Needless to say, Hammerhead still has a screw or two loose in that thick metal skull of his, unable to remember his real name and quicker than ever to betray the trust of various crime families on his way to the top. His ruthless ambition and viciousness soon earned him a deadly reputation, as informants and reporters were often killed for getting too close to his employers' interests.
THE CHINATOWN TRIADS: are an underground society and street gang that engages in a variety of crimes from extortion and money laundering, to smuggling and counterfeiting music or video software as well as more tangible goods such as clothes, watches, and money. In reality however, NYC's Chinatown is generally viewed as a valued tourist attraction, but its earlier reputation was that of dangerous or dilapidated ghettos and slums, sites of brothels, opium dens, and gambling halls.
MISTER NEGATIVE: Born Min-Xiùying Lì in the province of Fujian, while attempting to travel to America on a slave ship operated by the Snakehead gang, the boat nearly crashed into New York harbor. The crew evacuated and its captives made a break for shore, the pennyless survivor swam to shore and spent the following years building a large fortune and dedicating himself to helping those less fortunate. He discovered the quickest method of making money was to be a Gineau pig for Oscorp's medical research, the ethnic refugee obliged the chemists and subjected himself to an evans blue dye synthesized out of venomous cephalopod ink. That mixture should've killed him, but as a disciplined student of the martial arts he'd been able to mediate the effects to only come out in the nocturnal hours.
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PHOTONEGATIVE: Li's appearance is represented by negative colors, his black hair and Armani suits glow a phosphorescent white, while his skin so in comics he speaks in reverse-colored black text bubbles with white letters, distorting the sound of his voice. Mr. Negative displays a high degree of superhuman strength, enough to send Spider-Man flying through two buildings with a single blow, and he demonstrates superhuman reflexes during gang wars, dodging bullets or cutting them in half with his sword. |
DARK CORRUPTION: Negative channels a black electrical energy through his body that he can also transfer onto people and objects, this dark power is often embued into his knives and swords, giving them an obsidian glow. Through skin contact Negative can corrupt people he touches in the same manner, bringing them under his possesion and obedience. A corrupted person's clothes changes to their photographic negative colors, they're even embued with vastly increased stamina and endurance. |
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THE ALTER-EGO: One-half benevolent philanthropist/One-half underworld mastermind, Mr. Negative |
MEDICINE MAN: Mr. Negative has access to secret laboratories, in which he's able to give his subjects medical care far more advanced than what's available to the general public. Negative's alternate persona, Martin Li seems to have the opposite power to cure others: a simple touch completely cured Eddie Brock's cancer, and homeless people who stay at his shelter have rapidly recovered from any illnesses or injuries they once suffered from. It just so happens the billionaire scion of an evil mega-conglomerate is dying of the same terminal hereditary illness that killed his father, to cure this genetic disease he needs a blood transfusion -- so could this be a set-up for an uneasy alliance or another rivalry with a still-dying Harry Osborn? |
THE GOBLIN'S GANG: is an urban terrorist group dedicated to Harry Osborn's hostile takeover of his father's company, Oscorp Industries. Felicia, the Goblin's second-in-command, had access to some untested equipment that, when mass-produced, would help him exact his revenge on Donald Menken: an OsCorp board member who'd been using Harry's security clearance to run the off-books Special Projects division at Ravencroft, and then framed him with covering up Max Dillon's accident to usurp his place as CEO.
PUMPKIN BOMBS: a set of light plastic grenades resembling miniature Jack-o'-lanterns with concussive, smoke, incendiary, or hallucinogenic gas-emitting properties, some of which release a specially concocted gas that neutralizes the 'spider-sense.' The flying razor-bat pumpkin bomb splits mid-air into several razor-edged 'bladed boomerang' projectiles which can slice through or impale themselves into opponents, and incendiary grenades when thrown ignite almost soundlessly and produce enough heat to melt through steel.
GOBLIN GLIDER: is a military-grade flying device, an incredibly fast and maneuverable rocket aircraft equipped with various state-of-the-art weapons, and the primary mode of transport for the Green Goblin. The pilot is locked into stirrups via electromagnetic clasps on the wings of the glider, it's steered primarily by the weight and attitude of its rider, either by leaning or by voice-activated radio-linked controls integrated into the Goblin's mask. The rider has access to a wide array of armaments, including heat-seeking and smart missiles, machine guns, extending blades, a flamethrower and a pumpkin bomb dispenser/launcher. Its top speed is 90 miles per hour (140 km/h), and it can support about 400 lb (180 kg), though it could lift far more without depleting the fuel supply.
GOBLIN FORMULA: a biogenic chemical compound made from various species of genetically engineered "super-spider" venoms, that when directly injected into the bloodstream causes severe mutagenic side effects that far outweight its performance enhancing benefits. Any successor to the Goblin persona possesses superhuman strength (lifting 9 tons under optimal conditions), increased speed, reflexes, endurance, and an accelerated healing rate.