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Cyclone's Suit

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History

Origin[]

André Gerard was a N.A.T.O engineer who created a cyclonic belt, a weapon of war, and was told that N.A.T.O didn't need the weaponry because it purchased solely from the United States. Not long after N.A.T.O fired him he created the suit. The Cyclone Suit contained mechanisms that allow him to create high-velocity winds about himself.[1]

After his death in the Bar with No Name, his suit was found, looted and briefly used by criminal Bert Packer.[2]

Later, Gerard's work was streamlined and refined to create the Cyclone Suit worn by Pierre Fresson.[3]

Properties[]

The advanced Cyclone technology developed by Gerard for military use[4][5] and later incorporated as concealed mechanisms in his synthetic stretch fabric suit allow Cyclone to mechanically[6] produce high-speed winds,[6][7] including tornado-strength gales.[8][9][10] Cyclone could attack his enemies with blasts off wind powerful enough to cause a several-story building to collapse,[4][1] lifting them in the air and slamming them on walls, or throwing debris at them,[11] and he could also redirect air currents at whim to repel flying or[11] gliding enemies, or murder a victim by increasing spin speed and draw all the air in the area so that his opponent cannot breath[12] by creating a vacuum around that person.[11] Cyclone could fly by generating a small twister from his waist down, then increasing and moving it;[6][4][9][1] by using his powers like so, he can carry at least four people with him.[4][1] Cyclone could not pinpoint individuals within the scope of his winds: Everyone and everything in a given place was affected in the same way (except for the vacuum attack), and Cyclone could not keep one person safe if he targeted another nearby person.[11]

Although the specific limits of his technology are unclear, particularly the speed and strength of his winds,[4] it was confirmed that his power affect a diameter of 60 meters, centering in himself,[4] and that he could accelerate the local air volumes to at least 482 kilometers per hour.[6] After Cyclone's resurrection, The Hood magically increased Cyclone's powers with several effects, one of them being that Cyclone could focus all his wind power in a needle-width point, allowing him to pierce almost anything. There was also talk about potential synergies of Cyclone's powers with those of his ally, fire- and heat-generating Firebrand,[9] but those collaborations went unconfirmed.[13]

The Cyclone suit apparently protected Gerard from the strength of his own winds and allowed him to breath within his tornadoes, but the means how this is achieved, as those of how the winds are generated exactly, have been unrevealed.[4]

The suit was susceptible to malfunctioning, but Cyclone had the expertise to repair it on the fly, as long as he had access to the right supplies.[11]

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