61 Facts About Red Tornado

Red Tornado is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Red Tornado appears in TV series Supergirl, portrayed by Iddo Goldberg.

The Red Tornado name had previously been used for comical superheroine Ma Hunkel, who was introduced in All-American Comics in 1939 as a supporting character in Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist.

Red Tornado was formed with the merger of two entities: an android body created by supervillain T O Morrow and the Tornado Champion from the Earth-One planet Rann.

The Red Tornado Champion was the morally good part of a sentient tornado on Rann.

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The Red Tornado Champion ends his experiment with a duplicate Earth and JLA, and decides to continue being a hero.

The Red Tornado Champion, seeking an Earth where no one recognizes it, goes to the alternate dimension known in the DC Comics universe as Earth-Two.

The Red Tornado Champion enters the android's body, causing a short circuit in Morrow's computer which erases its memory.

In 1968, Red Tornado appears at JSA headquarters on Earth-Two claiming to be the "original" Red Tornado.

Red Tornado, programmed to appear inept, exposes the JSA to the dust created by the vaporization and all except Doctor Fate fall into a coma.

Doctor Fate awakens the remaining JSA members from their coma, and Red Tornado betrays his fellow JSA members by telling them to use Morrow's energy weapons.

Red Tornado puts the JLA into comas twice: once with energy duplicates and a second time with energy duplicates of their deadliest enemies.

Red Tornado appeared again in 1969, traveling alone to Earth-One with a warning.

Red Tornado makes his first appearance on Earth-One in April 1973, a year after the character's apparent death.

Red Tornado did not die in the explosion, but was hurled into the Earth-One dimension.

Red Tornado believes that a blind hermit remolded his face, regained his memories after several months.

Red Tornado tries to return to Earth-Two by stowing away in the JLA's Trans-Matter Cube, but his presence causes the JLA and JSA to go to Earth X: a world in which Nazi Germany won World War II.

In February 1974, Red Tornado accidentally frees alien supervillain Eclipso from imprisonment inside Bruce Gordon and is damaged in the following explosion.

The JLA must run a gauntlet of traps to reach his bomb; although Red Tornado is apparently killed in one of the snares, the Phantom Stranger saves him.

Red Tornado is again severely damaged when the Adaptoids mistake the JLA for tyrants.

Red Tornado is apparently killed again in 1976, when Nekron gives the JLA an extreme fear of death which causes it to disband.

Red Tornado is destroyed stopping the flare, giving the real Hawkman and Wonder Woman—who is immune to Nekron's fear-inducing power—time to evacuate the city, and Nekron is defeated with an overdose of intense fear.

On Earth-One Red Tornado slowly becomes more human-like, develops a distinct personality and adopts the name John Smith.

Red Tornado becomes a teacher, meeting employment counselor Kathy Sutton.

Red Tornado confronts Construct, and while they are locked in a battle of wills Wonder Woman activates Amazonian technology which disrupts Construct.

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Red Tornado uses his robotic memory to demonstrate that Shaw went missing during crucial moments of the adventure, and Shaw is unmasked as the Star-Tsar.

Red Tornado is tried at the World Court for human-rights violations by Ultraa, who is manipulated by the alien known as the Over-Complex; Ultraa ends the trial when he learns he is being duped.

Red Tornado becomes Traya's foster father and resumes his relationship with Kathy Sutton.

Red Tornado is one of two league members who discover that Starro has returned.

Red Tornado flees to Earth-One, where the supercomputer predicts that he will "fade away" in 28 days if the Justice League is not destroyed.

Red Tornado kidnapped Atom's wife, Jean Loring; the Flash's wife, Iris West, and Linda Danvers, transporting them to this world in the hope of luring the Atom and the Flash.

Red Tornado reversed the switch, and Future Man died of his mutations.

Morrow attempts to dissect Red Tornado to discover the outside influence, and releases Tornado Champion-Tornado Tyrant in the android shell.

Red Tornado uses a freezing unit hidden in his chest to immobilize Killer Frost, and they work together to thaw the city.

Red Tornado tries to resist as much as he can, given that he cannot be brainwashed, and defeats Construct in a virtual world composed of electromagnetic particles.

Red Tornado makes his final appearances in his original form in the Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series.

Red Tornado tries to contacting Kathy Sutton with several electronic devices.

Red Tornado's humanity is almost lost as he looks increasingly damaged, dirty and defective.

Red Tornado spends time, silent and still, in the empty JLA headquarters in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, feeling isolated from humanity.

When Robin, Superboy and Impulse have a sleepover there, Impulse's behavior revives Red Tornado and reassures him that he is not as removed from humanity as he had thought, albeit because he realized that all three of them were annoying him.

Red Tornado advises Young Justice, assisting them on their missions as needed, and is an auxiliary member of the JLA.

Red Tornado is recruited by Donna Troy to fight the menace in space during Infinite Crisis.

Twelve weeks later, in 52 week 17, the Red Tornado is beamed back down to Earth with the other heroes and overlooked by the search team.

Conscious but unable to say anything but "52", the Tornado is discovered by a group of young aborigines in the Australian outback.

Red Tornado's soul enters a human body offered by Felix Faust, posing as Deadman.

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Red Tornado has the same wind powers as his robotic form, but lacks his android body's stamina and resilience.

Since returning to his robotic body, Red Tornado has begun behaving oddly, losing control of his powers and nearly killing Red Arrow.

Red Tornado becomes increasingly cold and detached from his friends and family, acting more like a machine than a sentient being.

Red Tornado is then restored in a spare body, and Kathy agrees to marry him.

In 2009, DC comics announced a Red Tornado miniseries chronicling his origin and revealing an "android family" which may conflict with Tornado, his wife and adopted daughter after Final Crisis.

Former Titan Cyborg is among the new members of the League, setting out to rebuild Red Tornado and claiming to be able to make him indestructible.

Red Tornado accompanies the JLA on its mission to Hell, where he helps Superman defeat Minos.

An unfinished Red Tornado is seen in the Red Room while Cyborg is being rebuilt after Grid takes his robotic parts.

In "DC Rebirth", Red Tornado returned to the main continuity in the 2017 event Dark Nights: Metal being held captive by the Blackhawks.

Red Tornado is an android, and his creator, T O Morrow, designed him with strength, durability, and thought-processing powers many orders of magnitude greater than a human.

Red Tornado's senses are similarly computerized, allowing him to hear and see events far exceeding human perception; in an extreme example he used his vision to observe Justice League teammates attempting a low orbit rescue of Challenger astronauts inside a damaged space shuttle from sea level, though the images were out of focus and at the limit of his range.

In terms of emotional depth, Red Tornado has been capable of forming and maintaining a romantic relationship with Kathy Sutton, as well as a foster father relationship with Traya.

Unlike the Flash or Superman who can create high speed winds through physical motion, Red Tornado is aerokinetic, with the ability to spontaneously and regularly generate wind motion in excess of a Category 5 tropical storm, for winds exceeding 136 knots over a sustained period.

Regardless of his physical state, his maximum output has never been identified; for example, when under extreme duress and critically injured in a mortal human body, Red Tornado was still able to generate F5 tornado winds exceeding 276 knots, which was powerful enough to snap Solomon Grundy in half.

Red Tornado has undergone several major upgrades in his existence, several of which improved his physical form.

Red Tornado was part of Kenner's 1985 Super Powers collection, the 48th issue of the DC Comics Super Hero Collection, and the first assortment of Mattel's DC Universe Classics figures.