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The Tornado[1] is a vehicle that appears in the Sonic Boom series. It is a uniquely designed aircraft built by the Ancients,[2] but was eventually abandoned. It was rediscovered several centuries later, where it would be used by Team Sonic for a while, with Tails serving as its primary pilot.
Description
Appearance
The Tornado is a medium-sized blue aircraft. Like a biplane, it has two main wings stacked one above the other, but they are so close together that they have smaller distance between them that the Tornado's airframe. Between the middle of its wings, the Tornado has a propeller, but it does not have a propeller on the nose. The nose rim and the wings' sides are yellow, and the tip of the wings are each adorned with a light blue light. It also has a raise and rather large empennage.
The Tornado possesses two open cockpits with windshields, but instead of being aligned along the airframe, they are placed side-by-side.
Features and abilities
The Tornado is noted to be an impressive piece of tech by present-day standards despite being several centuries old.[3][4] It possesses two propellers for momentum with retractable energy blades. When active, the propellers leave a helix-shaped contrail. When stationary, the Tornado is capable of hovering slightly above ground, allowing for quick take-off.[5]
History
Games
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Originally created by the Ancients, the Tornado eventually ended up buried (presumed to be due to crashing or an avalanche) at what would become Cliff's Excavation Site.
Team Sonic and Cliff onboard the Tornado.
About a thousand years later, the Tornado was discovered by Cliff and his workers during an excavation. During their visit, Team Sonic stumbled upon the Tornado, which Tails was confident he could fly. When the quartet later needed to go to Bygone Island, Cliff prepped the Tornado up and used it to bring the heroes to their intended location. It was soon after used by Sonic and Tails to reach the Sky Citadel when the Seaside Harbor Light failed to bring them there. As the citadel began falling apart shortly after, Team Sonic used the Tornado to escape the city and pursue Lyric the Last Ancient to his lair, although the Tornado took a beating when it landed.
Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal
Team Sonic onboard the Tornado.
In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, the Tornado was original a part of an abandoned vehicle hangar from the Ancients in Volcanic Crater. When Team Sonic got stuck in the volcano as it was about erupt, the group located the Tornado and used it to escape the caverns and reach Cloud Sanctuary, the stronghold of Lyric the Last Ancient, where Amy was being held prisoner, despite Tails having trouble with the controls.
TV series
The Tornado sinking into the lake.
While Sonic was facing Burnbot, Tails flew into the fray in the Tornado and helped Sonic attack Burnbot with the Speeding Swing Surprise. However, the Tornado's wing cut clipped by Burnbot during the fray, and with the Tornado's ejector seat failing, Tails crashed with the plane. Tails later patched the Tornado together and used it to race Dr. Eggman and Burnbot when they competed to be Sonic's new sidekick, but it got damaged by Burnbot again and crashed in a frozen lake with Tails where it sunk.[5]
Trivia
- Despite its resemblance to a biplane, Tails has speculated that the Tornado is not technically a plane at all.[6]
Gallery
Concept artwork
Screenshots
Other
See also
References
- ↑ Sonic Boom: Behind the Scenes of the TV Animation. YouTube (23 Juli 2014). Retrieved on 19 December 2015. "Script: REVEALS TAILS, circling above in the Tornado aircraft, wearing a headset and spotting Sonic's route."
- ↑ Steven Frost on Twitter. Twitter (8 November 2014). Retrieved on 14 November 2014. "Steven Frost: Poor Tails... He always seems to be crashing planes. Fortunately, this one was built by the Ancients and not actually him. #SonicBoom"
- ↑ Sanzaru Games (21 November 2014). Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. Nintendo 3DS. Sega. Area/Level: Volcanic Crater. "Tails: We're still in the air aren't we? I'm actually impressed. It's not bad for tech that's thousands of years old."
- ↑ Big Red Button Entertainment (21 November 2014). Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Nintendo Wii U. Sega. Area/Level: Cliff's Excavation Site. "Cliff: How do you like the old bird?... not too shabby for being buried for a thousand years, huh?"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Banker, Mark; Lieblich, Doug (8 November 2014). "The Sidekick". Sonic Boom. Season 1. Episode 1. Cartoon Network.
- ↑ Sanzaru Games (21 November 2014). Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal. Nintendo 3DS. Sega. Area/Level: Volcanic Crater. "Tails: I'm not sure this is technically a plane."