Drew Daniels (Earth-616)

The Texas Twister
Name	Drew Daniels
Current Alias	The Texas Twister
Aliases	Twister, Agent T
Affiliation and Relationships
Group Affiliation	Underground Formerly Rangers (Texas Initiative), S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-Agents
Relatives	Parents: Cody Daniels (father) Grace Daniels (mother)
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	6′5″ (1.96 m)
Weight	245 lbs (111.13 kg)
Eyes	Irises: Blue
Hair	Red
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human, Mutate, Irradiated by radioactive particles
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Amarillo, Texas
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Adventurer, rodeo performer, former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, cattle hand
Education	High school graduate; also limited occult studies, S.H.I.E.L.D. training
Base of Operations	Texas
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Roy Thomas, Mike Friedrich, George Pérez
First	Fantastic Four #177 (September, 1976)
First	Fantastic Four #177 (September, 1976)

...But could yuh ever ferget...The Texas Twister?

—The Texas Twister[source]

History

Drew Daniels, who was born in Amarillo, Texas, was working at a cattle ranch when a tornado and radiation from a nearby nuclear reactor affected him at the same time. The net effect was to give Daniels the power to generate tornadoes at will.

Calling himself "The Texas Twister", Daniels answered a newspaper ad that Bentley Wittman, "The Wizard", had placed to fill a vacancy in the Frightful Four. But when he discovered that the Frightful Four would not pay him to join its ranks, the Twister declined membership and instead accepted the offer to join the Super-Agent program being developed by S.H.I.E.L.D.. Unfortunately, however, two of the four super-agent trainees, Blue Streak and Vamp, proved to be traitors, and the program was disbanded.

The Twister decided to use his super-human powers to earn a living and joined Cody's Rodeo Extravaganza. There he first met Victoria Star, who called herself "Shooting Star", and who became his partner both professionally and personally. In an effort to garner publicity for themselves, Star and the Twister answered a summons from Rick Jones, seeking the help of The Avengers in containing a rampage by the Hulk. The pair met up with Firebird, Night Rider, and Red Wolf, and the five decided to continue to work together as "The Rangers". However, because of the geographical separation among the members, the Rangers did not last long.

Shooting Star's identity was at some point taken over by an unnamed demon in the employ of Master Pandemonium, who believed Firebird to be one of the possessors of his fragmented soul. To keep the Rangers from meeting regularly and perhaps posing a threat to him before he had completed his study of Firebird, Pandemonium dispatched the demon to take Shooting Star's place. Firebird nevertheless believed the demon to be hiding among the Avengers' West Coast branch, and with her guidance, the Rangers confronted the heroes. This served to bring the demon out of hiding. The demon claimed that Shooting Star was a human guise it had taken long before, that there never was a Victoria Star. The Avengers imprisoned the demon at their Compound and began an investigation of Master Pandemonium. For his own unrevealed reasons, the Texas Twister did not accompany them.

Soon, however, the Texas Twister returned to the Avengers Compound at a time when Hawkeye was alone, demanding to see the captive demon. Twister declared his love for the demon, which turned back into Shooting Star. The Texas Twister went on to explain that the demon had come to him months ago when the Twister's powers seemed to be fading, making him afraid that he would lose Shooting Star in case their rodeo act broke up on account of his lost powers. The demon had offered to augment the Twister's powers in exchange for his soul, and the Twister had reluctantly agreed. But after his powers were restored, he begged to be spared. The demon had then taken over Shooting Star instead. The demon had proceeded to cast a spell that prevented the Twister from telling anyone about this. But the spell had not prevented the Twister from researching the occult on his own; that was how he had found a way to break the demon's original spell.

The demon then possessed the Twister himself, and faced off against Hawkeye and Shooting Star. Ultimately, Star threatened to kill the demon rather than allow the possession to continue, and the demon reluctantly imprisoned itself inside a statue. The Texas Twister and Shooting Star were finally reunited.

Civil War/The Initiative

During the Civil War, the Texas Twister was recruited by the Thunderbolts to help round up unregistered super-heroes as a way of working off his fines for the public properties he had accidentally destroyed when he was drunk.

Weeks after the end of the Civil War, the Texas Twister was seen as a member of Texas' new government-sponsored superhero team, the revived Rangers, as part of the 50 States Initiative Program.

Using a floating base that it called a "Terrorcarrier", HYDRA attacked Crawford, Texas, a vacation spot for the President of the United States. He and his fellow Rangers joined a large group of heroes in attacking the carrier. The Texas Twister was injured in the resulting firefight.

Secret Empire

After Steve Rogers revealed himself to be a Hydra sleeper agent and overthrew the United States of America to establish a Hydra Empire, the Texas Twister joined the Underground.

Attributes

Power Grid

Powers

Tornado Generation: The Texas Twister has the psychokinetic ability to accelerate air within a radius of 100 feet from his body, thereby creating a tornado-like mass of swirling wind around him. The largest tornado he can create is approximately 200 feet in diameter; the smallest is approximately 2 inches in diameter. The approximate wind speed he can create is about 225 miles per hour. Such a wind swirling about his body is capable of lifting him off the ground and supporting him in midair. He can control the size of the tornado at will and also project its center to a point outside of his body. He can create miniature tornadoes around his arms, and use them to either enhance his punches, or extend them to push opponents back.

• Power Adaptation: Since becoming the Texas Twister, Drew Daniels has acquired various physical abilities enabling him to withstand the rigors of motion inside a tornado, such as denser skin to prevent unwanted heat loss, friction burns, and particle abrasions, enhanced eyesight, and an immunity to dizziness and motion sickness.

Abilities

Drew Daniels has received S.H.I.E.L.D. unarmed combat training.

Weaknesses

Drew Daniels is not immune to the effects of ethanol intoxication, and he can get drunk. During periods of such intoxication, when he endured them as the Texas Twister, he accidentally caused damage to, and accidentally destroyed, public properties, as stated above. He was charged fines for having done this.

Additional Attributes

Even before he became the Texas Twister, Drew Daniels was, as he still remains, an expert rodeo rider, lasso thrower, and sharpshooter.

See Also

• 29 appearance(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 9 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 3 minor appearance(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 4 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 16 image(s) of Drew Daniels (Earth-616)
• 4 quotation(s) by or about Drew Daniels (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Drew Daniels on Marvel.com
• Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Vol. 2) #13
• Texas Twister at the Marvel Appendix