Riptide (born Janos Quested) is a mutant who was capable of producing tornadoes at will.
Biography
X-Men: First Class
In 1962, Riptide was a member of the Hellfire Club. He attacked Division X with Azazel and Sebastian Shaw. He would destroy the Satellite dish which was used by Cerebro.
Riptide later joined his teammates to fight against the X-Men. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, while Erik Lehnsherr was magnetically pulling Shaw's submarine out of the water, Riptide created a tornado, causing both the X-Jet and the submarine to crash on the beach. He was knocked out when Erik pulls a piece of the submarine hull out on top of him. After Sebastian Shaw is killed, Riptide joins Magneto's new Brotherhood of Mutants, along with Mystique, Angel Salvadore and Azazel.
Powers
- Aerokinesis - Riptide is capable of creating and manipulating powerful winds of various sizes by spinning his hand.
- Cyclone Spinning - He is also capable of using the wind to spin at tremendous speeds, becoming, at best, a human tornado with enough force to toss a submarine and the X-Jet a large distance. His tornado's could also suck up water, without negatively affecting riptide.
- flight - Riptide showed capable of supporting himself in midair while within his tornado. He demonstrated this when he destroyed a satellite dish and attacked the x-jet
- Tornado Manipulation - Riptide could create smaller tornado's, and could control their movement and intensity. He used this to hurl Colonel Hendry across a room and overturn two speedboats.
- Enhanced Rotation- Riptide is capable of spinning at superhuman speeds without it affecting his balance or coordination. He is capable of being the eye of his own hurricane.
- Spatial Awareness- Likely to be a trained ability or part of his mutation. Riptide is capable of guiding himself whilst spinning. He was able to destroy Cerebro without accidentally harming the young mutants or destroying the part of the facility they were in.
Relationships
Friends
- Sebastian Shaw † - Former Boss
- Magneto - Enemy turned Former Boss
- Mystique - Enemy turned Former Teammate
- Angel Salvadore † - Enemy turned Former Teammate
- Azazel † - Former Teammate
- Emma Frost † - Former Teammate
Enemies
- Vinny Lavecchia † - Enemy
- Colonel Hendry † - Enemy
- Professor X † - Enemy
- Darwin † - Enemy
- Banshee † - Enemy
- Havok † - Enemy
- Beast - Enemy
- Moira MacTaggert - Enemy
Trivia
- He is the only member from the former Hellfire Club whose fate remains unknown as his fellow teammates Azazel, Angel Salvadore and Emma Frost were among those experimented on and killed by Bolivar Trask between X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past. Though unconfirmed, it is most likely that he suffered the same fate.
External links
Riptide on the Marvel Wiki
Riptide on Wikipedia
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