Tornado

This article is about the Marvel UK Decepticon. For the Decepticon Skyscorcher, see Windrazor (G2).

Tornado is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

DAMN YOU JACK SPARROOOOOWWW!

Tornado makes a living by betraying people, apparently. Once a professional saboteur, then a Decepticon rebel. Then dead.

It would take little effort for me to unleash the power necessary to level this pitiful city. Why do we cloak ourselves in darkness like common criminals? Why?Tornado, "State Games"

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Marvel UK Generation 1 comics

Tornado, before the Great War, was a saboteur working for the city of Vos. He intended to bomb Tarn's power plant during the Games, when it would be running on a skeleton crew, and pin it on Iacon, which would result in a war after which Vos would grab all the power.

Unfortunately, this was not to be. A lowly second engineer in the power plant spotted the saboteurs and informed his superiors of their plan. While Tornado killed him before he could give the requested confirmation, when the bomb went off Vos was blamed instead, beginning a devastating war between Vos and Tarn which would end in the complete destruction of both. After this, he was amongst the survivors recruited by Megatron into his new faction of Decepticons. State Games

He would not last long . After trying to rebel against the Decepticons. he opted for Trial By Combat, where he faced his former comrade Earthquake. Though boastful of his superior speed, he didn't make it out alive. In fact, neither of them did.

Watching this on a tape millions of years later, Megatron thought that this would be a good way to rid himself of Starscream. The Enemy Within!

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Tornado was a member of Squadron X, a team of Decepticons which served as a brutal counterpart to the Autobots' Wreckers. Tornado was especially notable for having the highest killcount and being Macabre's right-hand man. This led to Starscream promising him a position within Decepticon High Command "come the revolution". Tornado's Squadron X profile

The rivalry between the Wreckers and Squadron X came to a head on Pova, and victory seemed within their grasp when Springer was trapped under rubble. Tornado, Earthquake and Macabre advanced on the Autobots' position, but Impactor fired through Springer's torso at them, and this surprise tactic turned the tide against them. Tornado and the others were put in inhibitor harnesses and contained, ready for justice.

According to Fisitron's Wreckers: Declassified datalogs, Tornado and the rest of Squadron X were able to somehow escape their harnesses, forcing the Wreckers to execute rather than imprison them. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

Except that they didn't actually break out. Impactor shot them all in cold blood instead. Last Stand of the Wreckers #5

Toys

Timelines

More like Strong Breeze.

• Pirates vs Knights (BotCon 2014 box set)

Notes

• The pages with Tornado and Earthquake were originally printed in black and white in Transformers (UK) #15. They were colourised for inclusion in Transformers Collected Comics 4.
• The wiki may be inadvertently responsible, in a similar way to what happened with Macabre's colours, for Tornado's yellow crest in Last Stand of the Wreckers, owing to a faded mainpic which had been cut out from its' background. The IDW The Transformers Classics UK Volume 1 reprint of the Collected Comics 4 colourised version shows no trace of yellow on his head!

External links

• Tornado at Obscure Transformers