Superfoes Week: Lightning Does Strike Twice!

Emilio Storme was a scientist with a dangerous obsession towards Superman of Earth-One. He was a robotics scientist, while having a hobby finding methods to manipulate the weather. Storme first adopted the alter ego of Whirlicane using tornado styled equipment to allow him to spin at intense velocities, creating various chaotic climatic events which he used in his criminal career as a masked malcontent. Despite the tremendous power at his command, Whirlicane was swiftly defeated and captured by Superman.

Robot Master was a cybernetic criminal scientist who developed a robotic version the the King of Speed, Johnny Quick. When he sent his creation on a crime wave, he attracted the attention of the real Quick himself. Jet propelled and radio controlled, the robot replica was slower than the original, yet because it could emit electricity from its inner circuitry it was capable of stunning Johnny during their first conflict.

Storme was later paroled and released into the custody of S.T.A.R. Laboratories, although this time you used the Labs’ resources to developed an android with two physical and psychological settings, as Lightning and Thunder. During this second encounter with Superman, Storme's android self destructed when it was revealed the true nature of being, which seemingly also destroying his master Emilio himself.

During their match, Johnny Quick used water to short out Robot Quick, then disguised himself as his cybernetic twin. This led to Quick bring Robot Master and his henchmen to justice, and an end to future mechanized Monarchs of Motion. However, another Cybernetic Cyclone would appear decades later to menace humanity.

This occured when the Earth-One inventor turned criminal Thomas Oscar Morrow fled capture by migrating to Earth-Two. There, using a future version of Hourman's Crime Caster when the villain reconstructed and twisted to his sinister schemes, T.O. Morrow was gifted with the technology necessary to created a new type of android. This mechanized man, whom he labeled the Red Tornado, possessed cyclonic capabilities. This creature was used by Morrow as a weapon against the Justice Society...and later... Justice League, until Red Tornado turned upon his creator and joined the Society.

Ironically, when Whirlicane and his Lightning/Thunder android encountered Superman, the hero didn't enlist the aid Red Tornado. That android had migrated to Earth-One and joined the League, and no doubt would have been informed by his teammate of Storme's artificial life form!