bruno karnelli - the overweight son of a karnelli and a manfredi, who credits his parents' marriage with bringing the two crime families together, although he is offended that he has not been invited to their big meeting. he makes a deal with mister negative, who promises to make bruno head of both families. after sean boyle accidentally plants a spider-tracer on him, spider-man follows him (hoping it will lead him back to boyle) as he is pulled into a blue van and kidnapped. bruno is tied to a table by mister negative and his inner demons as they extract a large amount of blood from him, until they are interrupted by spider-man, who lets them escape in order to save bruno. spider-man believes that the only way bruno would become leader of the crime families is if all other candidates for the job are killed, which makes bruno realize that this has been mister negative's plan all along. bruno then tells spider-man where to find them.