In early issues of the
Doom Patrol (DC Comics), The Chief recounts how Larry Trainor became the Negative Man.
CHIEF: I know how and why you became an outsider--a strange one! Disaster struck as you tested the K2-F, the experimental rocket plane that flew higher than any manned aircraft had ever gone... You lost ground contact... blacked out! For hours your jet skimmed through the still uncharted wave belts of inner space until it suddenly began to nose downward..."
Larry crash-lands the plane, only to find that a "negative energy being" has merged with his own body.
The Negative Man looks like this...
In Fringe, season 2, episode 6, "Earthling", A man sent to space came back with a dark entity in him. Walter learns that the man and the entity are connected and cannot be separated. The entity looks like this:
Swipe or homage? Discuss.
The Negative Man looks like this...
In Fringe, season 2, episode 6, "Earthling", A man sent to space came back with a dark entity in him. Walter learns that the man and the entity are connected and cannot be separated. The entity looks like this:
Swipe or homage? Discuss.
Unconscious homage, perhaps.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an old Quatermass story.