The Red Tornado experienced many highs and lows in his robotic existence. After saving Earth-Two from the Iron Hand's massive world-encircling nebuloid hand, the Tornado was jettisoned to Earth-One where he was repaired by his original creator, T.O. Morrow.
Not long after, Red Tornado's android body was destroyed ny an alien and months later was reassembled by the computer entity known as the Construct. Like Morrow's predictive computer on Earth-Two, Construct sought to use the Tornado for its own twisted ends. When Morrow tried yet again to defeat the League by manipulating his greatest creation, it was revealed that Red Tornado and the Tornado Champion were one and the same, suppressing their computer programming and the Tyrant persona.
Despite this outside interference, the Red Tornado stayed loyal to his human friends and remained an invaluable ally, particularly on the occasion when all of Earth-One's native heroes were paralyzed in comas induced by a reluctant Thunderbolt from Earth-Two, leaving the Society along with former members and current Justice Leaguers Black Canary and Red Tornado to save there friends. It is interesting that, although reassembled twice after being destroyed by Nekron and Morrow, the Thunderbolt distinguished that Red Tornado was still a native of Earth-Two, despite having lived and been rebuilt on Earth-One.
Then during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, yet another evil entity in the Anti-Monitor transformed Red Tornado back into his Tornado Tyrant personality, only this time as a mindless lackey. When the Tyrant was defeated at the hands of his former allies in the Justice Society, he reverted back to Red Tornado and was left seemingly lifeless... now stripped of his once noble personality. Or would he return at some later point in time?
During this same time period, the Tornado Tyrant/Champion's counterpart… the Thunderbolt named Mzzttexxal that merged with detective Jonni Thunder… was reawakened at the same time. At first adopting Jonni’s heroic personality before reasserting its own evil disposition, Mzzttexxal attempted to destroy the human that it bonded with. The Anti-Monitor unleashed both the Tornado Tyrant on Earth-One and this Thunderbolt on Earth-Two simultaneously. The elemental bolt would attack members of Infinity, Inc. before eventually being defeated, alongside her mate "Sky-Bolt" who had a symbiotic relationship with her much as the Tornado Tyrant and Tornado Champion had with each other.
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