By Any Other Name, a Tornado is just named... Ulthoon, Tyrant, Champion, Reddy???

The superhero known as the Red Tornado was not always such... originally he, or rather it, was spawned on the planet Rann as a sentient wind storm that went by the alias Ulthoon the Tornado Tyrant. Ulthoon terrorized that world until a native from Earth-One named Adam Strange did what he often would do while visiting Rann, save it from its latest threat.

However, despite his best efforts Adam failed to destroy Ulthoon... instead he caused something to happen to his former enemy that had a far more profound effect. The Tyrant became a Champion as he gained a conscience. After observing Strange alongside the Justice League of America defeating space dictator Kanjar Ro, and doing so nobly, the now Tornado Champion decided he to needed to turn over a new leaf by mirroring the heroism he had just witnessed. In fact, creating a visual imitation of the Justice League on another world, it seemed he would be more successful as a hero than a villain. That was, until his alter ego the Tornado Tyrant split off from him and seemingly defeated his League. Seeking out the real League, he learned from observing them how to beat his split persona and absorb the Tyrant back into himself... although this evil entity rears his ugly head once more much later.

However, he realized that he needed to start over... not on Rann nor Earth-One where he had a spurious reputation... but by journeying to Earth-Two. There, he encountered another individual from his home dimension, evil scientist T.O. Morrow who was developing an android to destroy that world's Justice Society. 

And coincidentally, the android Morrow created was to be known as the Red Tornado, harnessing the powers of wind much as the Champion himself had possessed. And since this was occurring on Earth-Two twenty years prior to when the winsome wind had just left Earth-One, due to the slower vibratory rate between universes, Red Tornado had actually preceded the birth of the Tyrant. In any event, when the Champion entered the android's body, its formerly malevolent programming was then altered by the combination of two minds into the benevolent Red Tornado that would ultimately choose good over evil. And, in fact, this is what he had done after first being manipulated into seemingly slaying the Justice Society and Justice League in two separate but related incidents. Having revived the assembled heroes, Tornado aided in the defeat of the android's creator... although Morrow would return. Now, the Earth-One Tornado Champion and his Earth-Two Red Tornado would merge into one entity, unique within both cosmos, although on a future occasion both Supermen would merge to defeat a near unstoppable foe. However, this melding proved to be to much for the Men of Steel as their psyches were unable to take the flood of thoughts and emotions the two had as distinct individuals. It is worth noting that the Tornados had a stronger mental fortitude that allowed them to become a better person due to the melding of each entity into the other. This would be borne out in the weeks, months and years to follow.

However, over the next several years, having been made a member of the Justice Society, it seemed that Red Tornado's career on Earth-Two was as much as failure as was his pseudo-League earlier. In his next recorded case with the team, he was shunted aside by his allies during a battle with Aquarius, then sent to Earth-One to recruit the League to aid their counterparts when the alien villain seemingly wiped out Earth-Two from existence. On his next adventure, Reddy ended up used as a pawn for another alien known as Creator2 who was trying to merge both Earths together in the same physical space. Years later, however, when the evil Iron Hand had Earth-Two imprisoned within a gigantic nebulon hand, it was the Tornado who delivered the special rod weapon needed to destroy this hand although at the cost of his own life. However, as was often the case with this scarlet clad hero, reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated. In fact, he was merely sent into Earth-One instead, where a recently escaped convict known as T.O. Morrow found his former creation. As in his past caper, the villain was obsessed with eliminating his adversaries. Once more, he failed, failing to account for the x-factor within the android, the melded personality of computer and sentient wind.

And so, Red Tornado was now stranded on Earth-One and thus joined the Justice League. However, the reason behind his being stranded wasn't readily determined, since he previously had the ability in both his forms to travel between universes. This time he decided to adopt a human alias, John Smith, rather than relying on a false alter ego like he tried to use on Earth-Two as the original Red Tornado, Ma Hunkel. Building a life for himself which included a girlfriend in Kathy Sutton and soon after a step-daughter in the war orphan known as Traya, John had finally seemed to succeed as a true champion among his powerful peers. He doesn't get to meet his Earth-One counterpart Stel, who was his own world's Green Lantern, although both were teammates of John Stewart in the League and Corps, respectively. 

* One interesting aside as to how the cosmos balances itself... the Earth-One heroine known as Zatanna who had control over weather would not have existed had not her father Zatara moved from his native Earth-Two to her home world and met her mother. Similarly, the wind-powered  heroic Red Tornado would not have existed on Earth-Two had not the Tornado Champion traveled to Earth-Two and altered the androids programming from the sinister computer that mirrored the Tornado Tyrant to the artificial man that would join the Society. And, in fact, both Zatanna and Red Tornado would be teammates in the League, and on one occasion journeyed to Earth-Two's past in a case together showing how the two characters were linked.