Typhoon (DC)

Typhoon is a male comic supervillain who features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

David Drake was a male human in the modern age who came to be a research scientist at Concordance Research. Drake teamed with fellow scientist Martin Stein, who was secretly one half of the hero Firestorm, to develop a new bathysphere prototype.

Concordance bought the rights to a boat called the Neptune Explorer, captained by a man named Anton Hammer, in order to use it to test the bathysphere, dubbed the Manta. Stein and Drake travelled to the South Pacific aboard the Neptune, but a tropical storm moved into the area in which they were to lower the Manta. Hammer insisted on carrying on the tests even though conditions were unfavorable. Drake acted as the pilot for the Manta while Stein remained aboard. When lowering the Manta, the Neptune Explorer began to shift and Hammer panicked, fearing the larger boat would capsize. Despite the protests of Stein, Hammer cut the Manta loose. Stein slipped away and transformed into Firestorm. Firestorm managed to stabilize the sphere and keep it from sinking, but a deranged Hammer shot Drake as he exited the sphere. While Firestorm subdued Hammer and his crew, the severely wounded Drake fell backwards into the submersible. The Manta capsized, and its reactor breached catastrophically. The interaction of the ocean water and the experimental nuclear pile caused an explosion that destroyed the vehicle and triggered Drake's metagene. His skin turned blue and his hair red. He gained the ability to generate and control storms, wind and lightning.

A mentally unstable Drake battled Firestorm, destroying the Neptune Explorer in the process before fleeing. After saving the ship's crew, Firestorm pursued Typhoon, eventually intercepting him over Sydney, Australia. Firestorm disrupted Typhoon's powers by super-cooling the air around him, the shock returned Drake to normal. Firestorm left Drake in the care of a Sydney hospital, thinking his powers gone for good. Some time later, Drake was deemed cured and released.

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Typhoon was a male human of Caucasian descent with shimmering blue skin and vibrant reddish-auburn hair that seemed to flow with energy. He possessed a sturdy, athletic build and initially appeared with a deranged, wide-eyed expression that reflected the trauma of the nuclear accident that transformed him. His most defining physical trait was his lower body, which was often entirely replaced by a localized, swirling vortex of wind and sand, making him appear as the literal eye of a living storm. He did not wear a conventional fabric costume in his debut, as his skin itself had been altered to a metallic blue hue, though he was often surrounded by arcing bolts of electricity and driving rain that obscured his frame. When he did manifest a humanoid lower half, his silhouette was that of a powerful elemental force, with his hair standing on end as if perpetually charged with static electricity, giving him a haunting and otherworldly presence. (The Flash v1 #294)

In his temperament, Typhoon was a man consumed by a disoriented, vengeful fury and a shattered sense of reality following the trauma of his transformation. He possessed a volatile and panicked psyche, quickly spiralling from a dedicated scientist into a destructive force of nature who blamed his predicament on those he perceived as his betrayers. Following the accident, he displayed a narrow-minded obsession with retribution, specifically targeting his former colleague with a cold, singular focus that ignored the collateral damage his storms inflicted on the city. He was not a traditional criminal seeking profit, but rather a tortured and reactive soul who used his immense elemental power as a vent for his internal agony and confusion. This personality was defined by a manic instability, as he alternated between moments of lucid, bitter dialogue and fits of mindless, atmospheric rage. He moved with the erratic intensity of a living hurricane, treating his god-like control over the weather as a rightful weapon to punish a world he felt had discarded him. (The Flash v1 #294)

Powers and abilities

The accident that gave David Drake his abilities made him, in essence, the living eye of a storm. As Typhoon, Drake generates a whirlwind around the lower half of his body that enables him to fly or hover. Typhoon can also project lighting from his fingertips, channelling the energy at times as powerful electric blasts. Typhoon can also generate storms of tremendous strength that generate tornadoes and driving hail. While the storms were originally localized to Drake's vicinity, over time he has gained the ability to generate entire storm systems that can stretch over multiple states. Typhoon can also grow in size relevant to size of the system he is generating. At times, he has grown larger than a skyscraper when generating a system of sufficient strength. Typhoon can change back and forth between his superhuman form and that of David Drake at will. Curiously enough, he has recently shed his costume and returned to operating in the nude.

Notes

• Typhoon was created by Gerry Conway and Jim Starlin where he made his first appearance in The Flash v1 #294 (February, 1981).

Appearances

• The Flash v1: (1981)
• Firestorm:
• Blue Beetle:

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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