Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Series)

Hail the Tornado Tyrant! (2009)

Carl Lumbly: Tornado Champion, Tornado Tyrant

Quotes 

• Red Tornado : You cannot do this. They deserve better.

  Tornado Tyrant : Please, Father! They're worthless biological jokes. This planet, which they have abused and poisoned will thrive without them!

  [Crushes Red Tornado between two cars] 

  Red Tornado : Not jokes. They aspire. They dare to dream. To reach out, to each other. To love.

  Tornado Tyrant : Blah, blah, blah!

  Red Tornado : Declaration: You cannot mock love. For it was love that created you.

  Tornado Tyrant : You are a fool.

• Tornado Champion : I'm sorry if I behaved badly, Father.

  Red Tornado : I know that this is still very new to you, Champion. But you must learn to master your emotions and not allow them to master you.

  Tornado Champion : I don't understand. I think, I feel. I'm human in almost every way, and yet they're still afraid of me. Of both of us. They see us as something other.

  Red Tornado : Observation: humankind fears that which is different. But humans are supremely adaptable. Given time, they will accept us.

  Tornado Champion : [groaning in frustration]  You trust them too much.

• Tornado Champion : Observation: you are reasonably useful for a biological life form.

  Batman : Please, you'll make my head swell.

• Batman : Champion, no! There's a difference between justice and revenge.

  Tornado Champion : The difference is that revenge is more efficient.

  Batman : The difference is morality.

  Tornado Champion : Morality? I am above human morality.

• Red Tornado : Champion, listen to yourself. We are servants of humankind. It is our honor and duty to protect them.

  Tornado Champion : They're evil, Father. A disease. And you are a naive fool for believing in...

  [a batarang is thrown into his chest and shorts him out] 

• Tornado Tyrant : Father and Uncle Batman. How lovely to see you. But I'm afraid I'm in no mood for a family reunion.

  Batman : That makes two of us.

• Tornado Champion : The humans seem so fragile, Father.

  Red Tornado : In many ways, they are. But they also possess an astonishing inner strength.

  Tornado Champion : Do I also possess inner strength?

  Red Tornado : Only time will tell.

  Tornado Champion : But I want to know now.

  Red Tornado : As the humans say, patience is a virtue.

  Tornado Champion : But why is there evil in the world?

  Red Tornado : Human philosophers have endeavored to answer that question for thousands of years, son, and have yet to find an adequate answer.

  Tornado Champion : Do you have an answer, Father?

  Red Tornado : No answers, only an observation. Human kindness is far preferable to human cruelty.

  Tornado Champion : Why is it preferable?

  Red Tornado : Because.

  Tornado Champion : "Because" is not a logical answer, Father.

  Red Tornado : Perhaps not. But based upon my studies of humankind, it is the only answer.

• Red Tornado : Observation: there are several serious software anomalies. But with time, I might be able to...

  Batman : You saw what happened back there. It was a noble attempt, Red, but your son is too dangerous. You have to use the fail-safe.

  Tornado Champion : Father, please don't do this to me.

  Red Tornado : Observation: it is the logical solution.

  [he activates the fail-safe and Champion powers down; after Tornado and Batman leave, Champion powers back up] 

  Tornado Champion : How fortunate that I removed the fail-safe device some time ago. And now, to perform some much-needed upgrades.

  [the machines solder pieces onto him] 

  Tornado Tyrant : My father has made his choice. He stands with the disease called humanity. So the war begins, and the victory will belong to the Tornado Tyrant!

• Red Tornado : You have caused much destruction and much suffering.

  Tornado Tyrant : Are you going to send me to my room without supper? I've moved beyond you.