Red Tornado
There’s a color theme going on with Justice League heroes. You have Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Black Lightning, and Booster Gold among others, and right along with that you have Red Tornado. The Tornado is unique though because he’s not just a superhero, he’s an artificial life form, one who was built by a super-villain to infiltrate the Justice League precursor the Justice Society of America, and destroy it from within. Through logical reasoning though, Red Tornado decided that good was superior to evil and became a hero from that point on.
Created by the villain T.O. Morrow, who depending on the version you’re reading is either from the future or has insight into it, Red Tornado initially finds himself swept into repeated plots to destroy the JSA and the Justice League, but his heroism continues to set himself apart, and he begins to develop human emotions and attachments.
[zergpaid]He’s also continually destroyed in the line of duty and yet, somehow, he’s always able to return in new forms with the assistance of his Justice League allies. Over the years, he’s been an active member of the League, and even acted as mentor to the League’s next generation, the teen hero team Young Justice (made up of Superboy, Robin and Kid Flash).
Of course, Vision, The Avengers’ own artificial life form member, will appear in Age of Ultron, so I submit that any Justice League movie should up the ante with their own android. Not only is Red Tornado a unique character as a robot with a fake past trying to find his humanity, but he has a unique power set, too. He has aereokinetic abilities, meaning that he can manipulate wind and air, including the power to fly away on a red-colored twister. You can’t tell me that’s not going to look awesome on film! And by casting Ray Fisher as Cyborg for Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder’s already opened the door to cybernetic and robotic characters in the future.
