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The Red Tornado is a [[DC Comics]] character, best known as "the robot member of the [[Justice League]]". His personal history, however, is a little more convoluted than that.
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The [[Golden Age]] Red Tornado, from the [[The Forties|1940s]], was actually a ''woman'' disguised as a male hero (she was pretty burly). She had no superpowers and was associated with (but not a member of) the [[Justice Society of America]]. Abigail "Ma" Hunkel was a hefty housewife who started out as a supporting character in ''Scribbly the Boy Cartoonist'', but quickly overshadowed the title character when she donned her characteristic soup pot and longjohns to keep her neighborhood safe for her kids. She was both one of the first female superheroes and one of the first superhero parodies.
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Ma Hunkel is still around. Though now in her 80s and long past retired, she serves as the JSA's resident museum curator while looking after her granddaughter Maxine, alias the wind-powered superhero Cyclone.
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During the [[Silver Age]], like many other DC characters, the Tornado was reinvented. This time, he was an [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|android]] with wind-creating powers. This version first appeared in ''"Justice League of America''" #64-65 (August-September, 1968). The two parter was written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Dick Dillin.
The android was created by [[Mad Scientist]] T.O. Morrow to infiltrate the Justice Society and destroy it from within, pretending to be the original Red Tornado suffering from amnesia. Despite realizing that could not be true (because they knew the facts about the original Tornado- obviously Morrow [[Did Not Do the Research]]) the Society allowed him to join them. Eventually The Tornado discovers the truth and turns on his own creator, saving the Society and becoming a true hero.
Later, the Tornado joined the Justice League and gained his own secret identity ("John Smith"--he didn't have much imagination), a human girlfriend, and even adopted a little girl orphaned in a Middle Eastern war. Although often given a robotic personality in other mediums, the Tornado in the comics had human emotions and spoke normally, though he did angst about "not being human enough."
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The Red Tornado appeared in [[Animated Series|animated form]] in ''[[Superfriends|The Super Powers Show]]'', as a member of the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', in some episodes of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' and as a recurring character in ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' - the cartoon, that is, in addition to the [[Young Justice (comics)|comic]].
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* [[Tangent Comics]]: In this alternate version of the [[DC Universe]], "Red Tornado" was actually a Russian bioweapon.
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