Larry Trainor

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

## Negative Man

Divorced (Several Times) (Valentina Vostok, Eleanor Poole and Cheryl Saltz, Ex-Wives)
Exes (Kate Godwin and Dusty Marlow, Ex-Lovers)

### Residence

Doom Patrol HQ
63 Danny the Street
Danny the Street

## Physical Description

### Larry Trainor: 1981 - 1999

Larry Trainor was born on an air force base. Exactly when is difficult to say since there's conflicted reports due to clerical errors. His father was a fighter pilot and his mother was a helicopter pilot. Flying was in Larry's blood, maybe that's why Larry always had his head in the clouds. Larry's grades suffered due to his lack of focus. Larry was medicated, but still lacked interest in school. Larry's dad took him to meet some cadets who were denied entry to flight school due to low academic scores. Following this, Larry became a laser-focused student who even graduated high school early with ample college credits. While waiting to turn eighteen, Larry attended technical college and also did extra night classes to be most of the way to his Bachelor's Degree before boot camp.

### Larry Trainor: 1999 - 2001

After getting through basic, Larry got into flight school at age nineteen and bunked with fellow cadet Hal Jordan who became Larry's new best friend. Even outside of their down time, Larry was Hal's wingman, covering for Hal to sneak away to pursue some romantic pursuits with Carol... as long as it didn't put Larry in any threat of losing his chance of flying. The pessimistic but hard-working Larry finished at the top of his class and still managed to help Hal get in the top ten despite Hal's pranks.

### Larry Trainor: 2001 - 2002

Just six months out of flight school, Larry and Hal were to provide escort for an experimental Ferris Aircraft shuttle being tested. In the course of the flight, there was some sort of interference caused by the shuttle's exhaust and while trying to correct his instruments, Larry became distracted and nearly flew into a flock of migrating pelicans. As he evaded the flock, Larry drifted into the radioactive exhaust of the shuttle. The entropic field ravaged Trainor's body, but he still managed to land despite being blinded by his injuries with Hal talking him through it. After landing, Larry was admitted into a military hospital where he was found to be horribly disfigured and emitting waves of energy that seemed to effect the minds of anyone around him, necessitating Larry be treated in a lead-lined containment room.

Within months, Larry became so bitter that he told his young wife to forget about him and tried several times to kill himself. Having heard of Larry's plight, and correctly assessing the pilot was metahuman, Niles Caulder made contact. Caulder brought special bandages he had created to ease Larry's pain and absorb the radiating energy.

All Niles asked for in return was for Larry to fly back to Niles' house and meet some other 'candidates' for Niles' program... or something like that. Larry didn't really listen beyond Niles saying he could get Larry out of the containment room. That's all Larry needed to hear.

After accepting Niles' offer, Larry worked with Steve Dayton to develop a behavioral therapy to combat Larry's excessive negative emotions. With Dayton's help, Larry discovered that the negative energy inside him was actually some semi-sentient entity and Larry found he could expel this being with Larry's consciousness for short bursts. Developing some tactical applications to this, Larry became the Negative-Man!

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Chief*) From the start, Danny the Street knew Larry was not well. For personal reasons, it took Larry a while to open up and come out of the closet to everyone and accept Danny's help. That is all nice, but I have doubts that was the real problem. The two have similar energy patterns except Danny's energy has a positive charge and Larry's is.. well, negative.
* (*Submitted by Dr\_K-63)* A lot of Larry's problems stem from his denial of his bisexual nature. I'm not saying his sexuality had anything to do with his freak accident. I'm referring to his mental illness and his marital problems. That said, I hear Larry seems to have gotten much better since I first interviewed him for his admission into the DEO's Division of Operational Metas.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* Metahuman Physiology with Chthonic Entity
	+ *Clairsentience*
	+ *Chthonic Blast*
	+ *Limited Cosmic Awareness*
	+ *Limited Empathy*
	+ *Enhanced Resilience*
	+ *Passive Negative Empathic Radiation*
	+ *Chthonic Entity Projection*
		- *Energy Absorption and Projection*
		- *Invisibility*
		- *Intangibility (with EMP properties)*
		- *Supersonic Flight*
* World-Class Pilot
* Expert Marksman and Brawler
* More Intelligent than People Think

### Weaknesses

* Body is Immobilized by Projecting Chthonic Entity
* Mental Illness

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He believes he's being stalked by a pelican. His accident might be a cause of this.
* His military psych evaluation describes him as cautious and methodical, but after the accident and joining the Doom Patrol he became more reckless and fearless.
* In the Perpetual Cabaret there's a drink called "the Pelican" which is a fizzy white drink with a lemon wedge 'beak'. He does not appreciate the joke made at his expense, but even he admits it's a damn tasty beverage.
* He had a brief fling with with Dusty Marlow, bonding over their bisexuality and love of piloting, but have since become friends. He was also key in getting Dusty to accept the job of the Doom Patrol liaison on a more permanent basis.

### Notes

* His address is a nod to his first comic book appearance: *My Greatest Adventure #80* in 1963.
* His parents' names are a nod to the Bandage People from *Doom Patrol, Vol. 2*.
* His struggles with marriage and sexuality are nods to the *Doom Patrol* TV series:
	+ His bisexuality and problems with accepting it are nods to his marriage to a woman, homosexuality, affair with a man, and his story arc of accepting who he is.
	+ In the TV series he married a woman named Sheryl. His Earth-27 wife, Cheryl Saltz, in the comics was a colleague of Curtis Metcalf / Hardware.
* His belief he's being stalked by a Pelican is a nod to *Doom Patrol, Vol. 5*.

## Gallery

Larry Trainor.jpgLarry TrainorNegative Man.jpgNegative Man
## Network & Oracle Files

Network Files Larry Trainor 1.pngNetwork Files: Larry Trainor 1Oracle Files Larry Trainor 1.pngOracle Files: Larry Trainor 1Larry Trainor 1.jpgOracle Files: Larry Trainor 1 (Old Version)
## Appears In

Doom Patrol (Casual).jpgLarry with the Doom PatrolWorld's Strangest Heroes.jpgWorld's Strangest HeroesDoom Patrol.jpgNegative Man and the Doom Patrol

## Links and References

* Appearances of Larry Trainor

1. ↑ Network Files: Larry Trainor 1
2. ↑ Oracle Files: Larry Trainor (1/2)
3. ↑ (E27 Info) Perpetual Cabaret
4. ↑ Network Files: Dusty Marlow