As well as several super-villains, the Inner Demons are also aided by footsoldiers who were once Asian immigrants used for slave labor by Norman Osborn. Liberated by Mister Negative, he proceeded to train the immigrants in the martial arts under the guise of preparing them for security jobs. But in reality he plays on their hatred of Osborn and turns them into his own corrupt agents, the foot soldiers of his alter-ego, Mister Negative, They are reborn as drug dealers and thugs, a plague on the streets of New York City, where they are soon confronted by Eddie Brock (Anti-Venom)