Well, his armor was originally red, if you read Redhawk’s entry in Crooks!

Cyclone came out of a character I had created when I was about 6 years old. I don’t know if I knew about Iron Man then (I read a lot of Spider-Man, but I don’t think I read the Avengers, although I’m sure I had seen Iron Man in various ads throught the Spider-Man books). Originally, he was part of a three-hero team. Cyclone, White Lighting and Gladiator. You’ll note that White Lighting (and his evil archnemisis Black Thunder) did not make it into the META-4 cannon. Some ideas are good, some are not.

Cyclone’s incarnation in the M&M core book came from that original idea (which I had polished into a pretty tight character concept in the last 24 years), guided through the META-4 filter, and out came a tough-talking, hard-oncrime, heavily armed and armored bad ass anti-hero.

Cyclone is at odds with a lot of META-4s heroes. He’s the guy who supported things like the Bangkok ‘85 incident. He thinks that bad guys should be put into the ground.

Much like Iron Man, he has a background in engineering and weapon design, but instead of running a multi-national corporation, he owns Ericsson Rocket Labs, which designs and produces hi-tech weapons for the government (this is how Cyclone got tied in with the META-4 folks). The Cyclone armor was originally an abandonded project that the Ericsson engineers put on a back shelf as too expensive to mass produce, and unlikely to be used for a single supersoldier.

Of course Buzz Ericsson, the man who would become Cyclone, was aware of the project, and had the armor plans and parts secretly delivered to his hidden lab, where he finished the prototype armor. Unsatisfied with it’s systems, he used the design to create a new suit, one with more devastating weaponry.

Once he completed the second suit, he began his crusade against crime. And not just super-crime, but all kinds. Bank robbers, muggers, mad scientists, they all get a taste of hot lead from the whirling gun on Cyclone’s arm.

This of course, has brought him into conflict with other heroes (most notably META-4’s team, the Reserve, who he served with for a time). Cyclone has worked with teams of heroes from time to time as it suits him, but mostly works alone. He never lasts on team very long, both due to his willingness to kill, and his attitude towards those who won’t kill villains in order to rid the world of their cancer.

As for the yellow and green, well, what can I say, he likes those colors.

Forward | Courage Unlimited | A Note on Notes | Thematic Influence | The Luciferian | Roll Call | Knock-Off | Gimmick | Twist | Cyclone | The Pugilist | Minotaur, ANTAG and Bestiary | Iraq Discoveries | The Reserve | The Front

All content within the “Super Unicorn Unbridled” is owned by the respective authors. All the content was granted generously by members of Super Unicorn: Sean Glenn, Erik Mona, or Kyle Hunter on the Mutants and Masterminds Atomic Think Tank messageboard. ECORE and XEI do not claim ownership of any content. This series was put together to organize information about the META-4 setting and its characters.

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