Red Tornado

Background

Real Name: John "Reddy" Smith

Powers & Abilities

• Android Body: Red Tornado's body has been enhanced and improved upon over the years and serves to be made of the same material as other robots like Amazo.
  • Superhuman Durability: Tornado has an incredibly durable body, he has survived multiple gunshots, tornado pressure and blows from superhuman opponents.
  • Superhuman Stamina:
  • Superhuman Strength: Red Tornado has displayed enough physical strength to hurt NewMazo with a punch.
  • Aerokinesis: Red Tornado's true form was a powerful entity composed purely of violent wind forces. His android form channeled these forces through his arms and legs to produce bursts of cyclone-force winds and high speed forward velocity.
    • Superhuman Speed:
    • Flight:
    • Vortex Generation:
    • Air Blasts: Can project his whirlwinds at over 350 mph from each arm. His winds are said to level a building in seconds.
    • Deflection: Also is able to deflect approaching objects with ease.
    • Flight: By channeling these cyclone-force winds through the lower part of his body, he can fly at incredible speeds or hover in one place.
    • Force Field: Able to circulate the high force winds around himself or an extended area to protect himself and/or others from attacks and flying debris.
    • Invisibility: On occasion, Red Tornado used his high-velocity movement to render himself invisible to unaided human vision.
    • Tornado Creation: He can create tornadoes and twisters with destructive winds.
  • Computerized Brain: Tornado's brain processes at a rate as fast as multiple computers.
    • Enhanced Senses: One of his brain's processes allows him to enhanced his audio and visual sensors.
  • Regeneration: Thanks to Cyborg's Prometheus nanites Red Tornado is now able to almost instantly regenerate any destroyed part of his body.
  • Self-Sustenance: As an android he doesn't need to breath andoran survive in the vacuum of space with no issues.
  • Resurrection: If Tornado's body is somehow destroyed he can reinstate his 'soul' into a new body.
  • Interstellar Travel: Thanks to rockets installed in his feet Red Tornado can fly through the void of space.
  • Metamorphosis: After Cyborg's modifications to his body Red Tornado can now assume human appereance with a conscious act of will.
    • Transformation: Red Tornado can transform in a human-looking form at will. He can also assume a human-looking form in which he maintains the colors of his robot form.
• Computer Operation:
• Pedagogy:

Weaknesses

• Vulnerability to Fail-Safe: There is a fail-safe device in RT's heel. When struck there with enough force he will shut down.
• Vulnerability to Reprogramming: Red Tornado is susceptible to being mechanically reprogrammed as well as controlled. Numerous times he has been altered in order to destroy the JSA or the JLA.
• Air Dependence: Though Red Tornado can survive in a vacuum unaided, without air, his powers will not function as he can only control air in his vicinity, not create air from nothing.