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Tornadoes are one of the most awe-inspiring, deadly and terrifying manifestations of nature's fury. They can strike anywhere at any time, claiming hundreds of lives each year and causing billions in widespread property damage. ...unless, of course, you live in the land of make-believe. There, only the visible funnel cloud is capable of doing any damage. Never mind that a Real Life tornado is a rotating area of 60+ mph ground winds — of which the funnel cloud is only the center — and those winds will be ripping up trees, cars and cows and turning them into projectiles. Never mind that those same winds can sweep entire houses off their foundations... and turn them into projectiles. In fiction you'll be perfectly safe in a tornado as long as the funnel cloud itself does not touch you. Is this the kind of thinking that can get you seriously injured or even killed in Real Life? You'd better believe it. Persons who have survived close proximity to a funnel cloud say afterward that they were convinced they were about to die. Even experienced storm chasers have been fatally wrong about the size and direction of a tornado. The high-velocity winds circling the funnel — and the debris they're carrying — are a much greater threat to your life than the funnel itself. In short, if you're less than a mile away from the storm, you're in trouble. Big trouble. Though this trope runs on some heavy use of Artistic License, it's well-documented that tornadoes can be... capricious in their damage, destroying one house but leaving the one next door completely untouched, due to multiple vortices inside the tornado area. Still, would you bet your life and safety on winning that meteorological lottery? Didn't think so... Uses the same "scientific" principles as Convection, Schmonvection, which basically state that only the visually obvious thing is dangerous — you can come very close to natural danger but if you don't touch it, you'll be fine. See also Unrealistic Black Hole, which is this trope In Space! The only instance in which this trope comes within spitting distance of Truth in Television is 'dust devils', which can be confused for small tornadoes but aren't associated with a parent cloud, and are significantly smaller and weaker than a supercell tornado. Only rarely does a dust devil become powerful enough to be dangerous to humans, though it's still inadvisable to go close to one (they're tiny, mobile dust storms, after all). If you want more information about tornadoes and what you should do to survive them, please check out the US National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center tornado safety page and our very own Tornadoes. Compare Mega Maelstrom and Funnel Cloud Journey. When weaponised, see Tornado Move. |
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In Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister, you can direct Nancy's car freely around the map even when a big (and stationary) tornado is whirling away in one part of it. Turning the car towards the tornado does make Nancy complain about how she's going the wrong way, but you don't crash or get killed unless you drive right into the thing. | |
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Wonder Woman 600: Cyclone creates a funnel that picks up a whole slew of adult men but doesn't effect anything or anyone right next to it. | |
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In the second No One Lives Forever game, Cate travels to a mobile home park in Akron, Ohio while a tornado is barreling down on the city. There, she has to discover clues about H.A.R.M.'s plan while fending off waves of female Ninja. Meanwhile, the funnel cloud is moving around them conveniently destroying trailers while leaving everything beyond the immediate vicinity intact. Also, the fight with the ninja boss takes place in a trailer that has been picked up by the tornado. The tornado is played semi-realistically in that you can clearly see rotation in the clouds and debris swirling about far outside the funnel, but only "semi" because, well, the boss fight takes place in a double-wide that's been picked up by a bloody tornado. | |
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Populous: The Beginning has tornadoes that aren't always under your control, you can tell them where they start but after that they can wander off. They are very destructive when cast right on top of a building as they stay in place for a while. Afterwards, the tornado will head off in a random direction, zigzagging on the way. Anything caught in the funnel will be sucked into the air, levitated for a while then launched into a random direction; the tornado itself doesn't do damage to people but the fall does. | |
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Monster Hunter has a number of monsters capable of creating tornadoes that only harm you if you directly touch them: Kushala Daora, Amatsumagatsuchi, and Paolumu have traditional ones, Sand Barioth has sandy ones, and Abyssal Lagiacrus has underwater ones. | |
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Played straight in Bleach. During the Hueco Mundo arc, after witnessing a tornado spawn right in front of them, Chad, Uryu, and Ichigo try to run away from it. Made worse by the fact that Chad notices the wind picking up even before the funnel cloud appears. | |
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Even the Care Bears are not exempt from tornado terror: Hug, Tugs, and Tenderheart had run-in with a tornado in the Tear Jerker episode, "The Sleeping Giant". | |
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As it turns out, Hercules can touch the funnel cloud—which he uses to suck up the rest of the Titans before hurling them into space, where they explode. | |
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The☆Ultraman has a monster called Spiral, which is a living tornado that sucks everything the defense forces threw at it - missiles, jets, projectile weapons - into it's core. Incidentally, getting sucked into Spiral is the only way to access it's sole weak spot, it's heart, which Ultraman Joneus exploits by deliberately touching the funnel cloud and blowing it up from within. | |
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Strangely subverted in The Simpsons. Todd Flanders is driven through a tree during a hurricane. While he should be squished, objects like 2x4's have been driven clean through a tree by the winds of these storms. There is another point when Homer leaves the family shelter because he mistakes the eye of the hurricane for the end of the storm. When he runs back to the shelter, he is pulled off the ground, only to get grabbed by the rest of the family and spun around. |
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Into the Storm (2014) shows the bigger tornadoes picking up and tossing debris from a fair distance away, but the smaller, ropelike twisters seem to only be able to damage and pick up things the funnel cloud physically touches. | |
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Looney Tunes' The Tasmanian Devil can turn into a tornado. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head: In "Tornado", Beavis and Butt-Head are sucked into a tornado and thrown back onto the ground unhurt, only to be crushed by falling objects. | |
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In Dusk's Dawn, Mister Brave ducks under a tornado. | |
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Diablo II: The Druid class has a few egregious examples, but the most offensive is the Hurricane skill, which is one of the Level 30 tree's-end techniques. Plainly, it summons a frickin hurricane that you then walk around in. Not only are you completely unharmed by it, neither are your allies. Enemies are not sucked in; instead, anything that comes into contact takes significant damage and dies. The lore says the druid is unharmed because he is in the eye of the cyclone. Also interesting are the actual Tornado and especially Twister spells: the latter produces three tornadoes that are so tiny as to miss targets two druid lengths in front of you, and getting hit only stuns you for a fraction of a second. The former correctly deals damage around it, where 'around it' is defined as the size of a large monster, and because it deals damage over time it cannot even interrupt monsters. This spell set goes nicely with the waist height volcano, but it is no surprise the sequel features Energy Twister, a tornado of whirling magic!. Said sequel still falls squarely into this trope however, with Energy Twister still only dealing damage to enemies directly touched by its funnel, while the player and scenery remain entirely unharmed. |
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ANNO: Mutationem: During her boss fight, Melissa uses her ice powers to grant her herself icicle wings and use them to create a spinning tornado to protect herself while she tosses chunks of ice at Ann. | |
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Inverted completely in Roseanne in the tornado episode. Their area gets put under a tornado watch and they do everything short of writing their wills (though little in the way of actual useful preparations), they are so sure the tornado is going to encounter their specific house. The Gallows Humor they trade after receiving the watch wouldn't be out of place in Dr. Strangelove. For those who don't live in a tornado-prone area, tornado watches just mean that conditions are right for a tornado to form; it doesn't mean one will, much less that it will be anywhere near your town. | |
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Fire Twister: Although it's clearly a severe kind of tornado (or firenado, more specifically), since it left a lot of destruction in Los Angeles, the titular fire twister doesn't cause much effect beyond the range of things near its funnel part, aside from its attraction to heat. | |
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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and A2 have a minor aversion. The Cyclone spell (effectively a momentary magic tornado) has an Area of Effect (admittedly no bigger than that of bog standard Black Mage spells). | |
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Classic Disney Shorts: The tornado in "The Band Concert" acts as if it were sentient, sucking up trees and buildings like a vaccum cleaner. It picks up Mickey and his band while they are still playing, too rapt up in the music to notice, and drops them harmlessly around a tree like Christmas ornaments. "The Little Whirlwind" gives similar treatment to a whirlwind, depicted as a mischievous child interfering with Mickey's yard work. Mickey chases it away, only to be chased himself by the whirlwind's mother, a full-grown tornado (which reuses some of the same animation as "The Band Concert"). Similar whirlwinds appear in "Playful Pluto" and "A Gentleman's Gentleman" to bedevil Pluto the Pup. |
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Zigzagged in SimCity, depending on the game; only the square touched by the tornado is directly harmed, but any buildings they touch are instantly reduced to rubble, be it a single-storey house or a nuclear power plant. Or even an asphalt road. | |
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In Tin Man the tornado travel storm sits right beside DG's house for several minutes without doing any damage to it. | |
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In the Sky Odyssey mission "the storm before the calm", the player is required to fly through a hurricane like storm over the Dark Sea. In this level you have to avoid touching the thunderclouds or else your plane gets blown into the ground. Also in the mission you get sucked into a tornado like vortex. You have to fly through the center of the funnel without touching the cloud walls. Failure to do so causes your aircraft to explode. | |
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Zigzagged In Donkey Kong Land, there are miniature tornadoes called Swirlwinds that appear in the Temple stages. They are invincible but Donkey and Diddy Kong can bounce on top of them harmlessly. However, touching the Swirlwinds from the sides damages them instead. | |
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King of the Hill subverts this during the twister episode. The winds are strong even before the funnel cloud strikes, with Bobby even trying to make an egg smash through a brick wall thanks to what he's heard from Dale, only to hit himself in the face with it since he tried to throw it into the wind. Hank is only able to make it to the storm cellar with the rest of his family thanks to the eye of the storm. | |
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World of Warcraft uses this with a couple bosses which summon tornadoes. They're magic tornadoes, but still. Even more egregious, some NPCs and Druid players use tornadoes to imprison foes, causing no damage whatsoever. Shamans also get a swirly-whirlwind-twister-thing every time their Windfury Weapon spell activates, though it appears for less than three seconds. | |
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John's hurricanes in Homestuck appear to work like this, though they might be carrying some debris that does the real damage. | |
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Inverted in Obsidian. One of its dream worlds includes a puzzle where the player must fire cannonballs at a distant tornado in the background, in order to trap it and provide air for the Mechanical Spider. The tornado even jumps if partially hit. | |
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Played more or less straight in one of the Mazinger Z series. One of the weapons of Mazinkaiser is Rust Tornado. The Humongous Mecha blows three tornadoes from its grill mouth. Anything it touches gets obliterated, and the wind gales kick big dirt clouds and leave a trail of destruction in its wake (in the movie it digs a wide trench across Mount Fuji), though the area surrounding the attack isn't affected as much as it should be. This is actually justified, as the wind also unleashes acid that corrodes anything the wind touches. Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger's Rust Hurricane and Great Typhoon aren't as powerful as Rust Tornado, so they can't do the massive damage Kaiser can. | |
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The tornado in "The Band Concert" acts as if it were sentient, sucking up trees and buildings like a vaccum cleaner. It picks up Mickey and his band while they are still playing, too rapt up in the music to notice, and drops them harmlessly around a tree like Christmas ornaments. | |
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In the My Name Is Earl episode "Nature's Game Show", Randy is sucked up by a tornado and deposited on the roof of the motel. This isn't the only example of the egregious tornado nonsense in that episode, but this is a particularly bad one. | |
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Mona the Vampire has what may be one of the most extreme examples of wrongness on Tornadoes ever. In "The Whirling Void", Mona learns about Tornadoes from her dad, who describe them as "whirling voids". Then, when a string of missing items start happening, Mona believes the culprit is a "whirling void" (which, to her, is a sentient, kleptomaniac tornado that isn't connected to any cloud, or even the ground, and is able to alter its size and shape and hide in any object). She also defeats it by blowing wind in the opposite direction that it's spinning. Oh, and at the end of the episode, when Officer Halcroft is dismissive of Mona's claim of a whirling void, we see one pass by and suck up a vehicle, which doesn't occur until the funnel cloud reaches it. | |
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Mario Party 5: A particularly whacked-out example occurs in the minigame Twist 'n' Out, where the players end up inside a giant Tweester, and with hammers try to whack each other to the funnel winds surrounding them in order to eliminate them. In the minigame Wind Wavers, two dueling characters are trying to run away from a giant Tweester while riding clouds, which they have to move by repeatedly waving fans at the Tweester. As time passes, the Tweester's pull strength will increase, so eventually one of the characters will be absorbed, thus rendering the other victorious (however, if both are sucked in at the same time, then the minigame will end in a tie). |
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Similar whirlwinds appear in "Playful Pluto" and "A Gentleman's Gentleman" to bedevil Pluto the Pup. | |
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Retsuga in Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin can create tornadoes at will. This trope is played straight in the sense that the surrounding area seems to barely be affected... and then Retsuga goes and actually dives into the funnel cloud and "rides" the tornado to make a fancy exit. Needless to say, doing this does not harm him in any way. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road: When Furiosa attempts to escape into the enormous sandstorm, she is chased by warboys in smaller cars. When one gets close, she eases it into a tornado by pushing against it while her own truck is unaffected. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the Tanegashima musket has a chance of creating a tornado depending on where it was fired based on the wind that will swipe soldiers off the ground, as well as drop items around the area. | |
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NiGHTS into Dreams… has the villain Wizeman the Wicked use a tornado as one of his attacks. It slowly advances towards the player and pushes them away if they hit the funnel itself, but it doesn't hurt. There's also a narrow weak spot where NiGHTS can drill through in order to get past the tornado. | |
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In The Seven Serpents of the Sorcery! gamebook series, the protagonist encounters a miniature tornado. If he touches it, he is sucked into it and it is Game Over. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Djinni and air elementals can turn into smaller whirlwinds that will only damage creatures that touch or enter it, or are in the whirlwind's path. Although it can create a cloud of dust over a larger area than itself. | |
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Present in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, when Ginrai is able to escape the grip of Overlord's tornado by breaking out of the funnel cloud. | |
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Scribblenauts has extremely annoying tornadoes that have debris clouds as per real life, but which don't actually affect you (or anything else) unless they're touched. | |
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The tornado in the cliffhanger ending of the first season of Smallville. | |
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The early gameplay teaser for Just Cause 4 features Rico trailing a tornado as it bears down on an enemy installation, with only the comparably small funnel cloud doing any damage to anything, including aircraft. Rico is even able to freely glide about with no difficulty. In the released game, we quickly discover that these tornadoes are artificially generated by a Weather-Control Machine, so they don't necessarily need to behave like the natural sort. | |
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Tornadoes are one of the most common forms of attacks used by The Flash foe, the Weather Wizard. They are generally shown emerging from the tip of his wand and things are only affected when they are hit by the funnel cloud. The Wizard even uses tornadoes to fly. | |
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In X2: X-Men United, Storm calls down several tornadoes to get rid of some pesky jetfighters trailing the Blackbird. The scene is very cool to watch, until you realize that there's no way the Blackbird itself could have gotten away and Storm probably laid waste to the New York countryside in the process. | |
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The Day After Tomorrow. One sequence has a swarm of twisters demolish L.A. Not so bad, yet. Then they show a flight of helicopters tailing the tornadoes from about two blocks away. Somewhere, a meteorologist is crying... | |
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Pinky and the Brain: "Brain Storm" is about Brain's attempt to harness a tornado for his latest scheme to take over the world. This trope is mostly in effect, although they are occassionally battered by a piece of flying debris (cow, pig, tractor...) because of the Rule of Funny. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Ghidorah's hurricane, even after it evolves into a Category 6 and produces offshoot tornadoes and water-spouts, is on its own nearly harmless to humans on the ground, just hitting them with a lot of rain and only a small wind which batters their hair and clothes, and making some atmospheric fog. Even a Category 1 hurricane should threaten to blow people off their feet, tear buildings apart, and send debris flying through the air. Even flying inside the cloud is relatively harmless, to the point that thousands of aircraft can safely fly right under the hurricane with minimal turbulence, and there's a crazy-high amount of lightning in the clouds that barely ever strike them. | |
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A hurricane trashes Kurozu-cho in Uzumaki searching for Kirie. It does a lot of damage, but she and Shuichi survive at point-blank range. Later, when everything is descending into chaos, the townspeople discover they can create their own tornadoes by making loud noises; these are strong enough to lift people, but again, have little effect if they don't hit you directly. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Mario Party 5: A particularly whacked-out example occurs in the minigame Twist 'n' Out, where the players end up inside a giant Tweester, and with hammers try to whack each other to the funnel winds surrounding them in order to eliminate them. In the minigame Wind Wavers, two dueling characters are trying to run away from a giant Tweester while riding clouds, which they have to move by repeatedly waving fans at the Tweester. As time passes, the Tweester's pull strength will increase, so eventually one of the characters will be absorbed, thus rendering the other victorious (however, if both are sucked in at the same time, then the minigame will end in a tie). In Mario Hoops 3-on-3, any character that touches the tornado on Glare Desert will be blown away, but only if they touch the actual tornado. |
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Shamal's Square attack in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces produces small tornadoes that slowly track the enemy. They only deal damage to you when you touch them. Everyone involved has Barrier Jackets capable of standing up to kiloton-range energy blasts, albeit with heavy damage, as well as flight capability, so this is a Justified Trope for once. | |
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Partially averted in Final Fantasy VI - the Whirlwind spell damages everyone on screen. You can still jump over it though. | |
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Justified to an extent in the Russian Tales of the Magic Land: the hurricane in question is magically created by a Wicked Witch, and enchanted by a Good Witch to deal as little damage as possible (specifically, she aimed it at a single house which she expected to be empty, but it didn't quite work that way). | |
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Zigzagged in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Although debris is thrown around by Sandman's tornado, Spider-Man himself isn't affected unless he actually jumps into the funnel. | |
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Lupin III: The Columbus Files has a waterspout at the end threaten to suck up everything nearby, including our hero and his gang. Their solution? Simply fly at it on an airplane and have Goemon cut it in half. Implausible Fencing Powers indeed. | |
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Air Force Delta Strike, Operation Raccoon Hunt: You have to fly into the center of a funnel cloud to destroy tornado generators. You can fly right up to the wall of the funnel on both the outside and inside of it, but don't touch the funnel, itself. | |
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Played straight in the Genesis game Toe Jam And Earl. Yes, tornados can dump the protagonists off of the level or into a lake, but they don't cause any damage. They can also be avoided by walking in a zig-zag pattern. | |
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In Man of Steel, the tornado which kills Jonathan Kent had some kick outside of the funnel proper, but nowhere near what a twister is really capable of. For one thing, one person stands perfectly still and doesn't move an inch even as he's enveloped by the funnel cloud. | |
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Twisters can strike your island in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. If it comes anywhere near anything but the biggest dinosaurs, they'll be picked up and spun around for a while before being hurled into the distance, killing them. The largest dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus, and Brachiosaurus, won't be picked up by the twisters, but if it passes directly over them, they will instantly be reduced to a quickly-dissipating red cloud. | |
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Final Fantasy: Partially averted in Final Fantasy VI - the Whirlwind spell damages everyone on screen. You can still jump over it though. Auron in Final Fantasy X can generate tornadoes in a special attack. All enemies are sucked up, regardless of size, and party members aren't. Said tornado can also be set on fire by throwing alcohol into it. The other two party members run away before it comes out, at least (and they only otherwise do so to make room for an aeon), but this still doesn't explain why Auron himself is unaffected. Likewise Cloud's Finishing Touch Limit Break in Final Fantasy VII, wherein he generates a tornado around himself and then somehow flings it towards the enemy with his sword. Also present in Final Fantasy Tactics. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and A2 have a minor aversion. The Cyclone spell (effectively a momentary magic tornado) has an Area of Effect (admittedly no bigger than that of bog standard Black Mage spells). A partial aversion in Dissidia Final Fantasy: most wind-based attacks (Garland's Cyclone, Terra's Tornado, Vaan's Windburst, etc) only hurt the opponent if they touch the funnel cloud in the center, but the attacks will absorb and pull them into the cloud if they're too close. |
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In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, the title villain actually generates almost harmless tornadoes with floating mechs. | |
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Demonstrated in Thor, when our eponymous hero creates a tornado in the middle of a town and little besides what is directly within the funnel cloud gets tossed around. But it's a magic-controlled tornado. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Jumping into a tornado in Sonic Adventure, perhaps Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Shadow the Hedgehog is encouraged. The surrounding platforms are completely unharmed except for occasional flying debris. |
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Played straight in Age of Mythology, where if the Tornado god power touches enemy units, they're sucked into it and spun around a few times before being blown out the top, dead. It also rips parts off of buildings that are close to it. Granted, it doesn't quite have to touch things to damage them, but you can still get way closer to one than should be possible. | |
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Auron in Final Fantasy X can generate tornadoes in a special attack. All enemies are sucked up, regardless of size, and party members aren't. Said tornado can also be set on fire by throwing alcohol into it. The other two party members run away before it comes out, at least (and they only otherwise do so to make room for an aeon), but this still doesn't explain why Auron himself is unaffected. | |
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In Crysis, there is a sequence towards the end where you have to weave your VTOL craft through some truly insane weather, including many tornados. This is a partial subversion in that, yes, you don't have to actually touch the funnel cloud to be doomed, but you do have to get darn close to it before you begin suffering any ill effects. | |
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A Shadow Bright and Burning: Korozoth has a large funnel cloud around its body. As long as one doesn't get too close to it, they won't be absorbed into it like Charley was. | |
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In later stages of the Katamari Damacy games, there are tornadoes that, much like the vicious animals of early stages, will blast you away if your Katamari collides with the funnel. Never mind that you can roll said tornadoes into your Katamari once it's big enough. Extremely little scrutiny reveals that we're never meant to take this seriously. | |
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Bug had dust storm hazards in Reptilia that resembled mini-tornadoes. They wouldn't suck Bug in, and would only damage him if he touched them. | |
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A recurring stage in the Soul Series takes place on Cervantes' ship The Adrian as it's caught in the middle of a violent storm, where two tornadic waterspouts menacingly churn away in the near distance. While such waterspouts are generally less powerful compared to tornadoes, the funnel clouds here are close enough that your fighters ought to be struggling against some very strong winds during the match, but the only effect they have on the surroundings is causing the vessel's sails and rigging to flap around a bit; even the rain falling over the deck comes down at a relatively gentle angle. | |
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The most ridiculous example yet comes from another made-for-TV flick: The blatant Twister rip-off Tornado! Here, the heroes are caught in the open trying to secure a weather analysis machine, and don't even notice that the F-5 tornado just passed right over them and they're now inside of it. The Cool Old Guy ultimately secures the machine and sacrifices himself by letting the twister engulf him, even though the "killer" storm just proved completely harmless to the rest of the cast. Wow. | |
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The plot of Korean miniseries Crash Landing on You gets rolling when Se-ri, out paragliding, does not notice the tornado until she's a couple hundred meters from the funnel cloud. She gets sucked right into it and blown over the border into North Korea. | |
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In one episode of Pokémon: The Series, people and Pokémon can be seen narrowly dodging small funnel clouds - the result of the attack Whirlwind - without coming to any harm. On the other hand, Pokémon do get sucked into whirlpools. | |
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Mega Man 2: Air Man's weapon is a Spread Shot of mini-tornadoes. | |
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Mega Man X: Subverted by Launch Octopus's whirlpool, which sucks the player in even if they don't touch it. Played straight with Storm Eagle's, Storm Owl's, and Spiral Pegacion's tornadoes, which only damage the player on contact and do not suck the player in. | |
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Kingdom Hearts III has the Demon Tide boss, the combined form of hundreds of Shadows into a tornado surrounding a dark orb. The Shadows themselves are the only part of the tornado that actually inflicts damage, with the Demon Tide's attacks largely consisting of flinging them at you. | |
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The made-for-TV movie Night of the Twisters has the heroes outrunning a tornado's funnel cloud that is right on their bumper during the finale. Especially weird in that an earlier scene has a tornado tear a wall off the protagonist's house while the funnel cloud is hundreds of yards away. That last one must have just been in a really good mood. | |
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In Mario Hoops 3-on-3, any character that touches the tornado on Glare Desert will be blown away, but only if they touch the actual tornado. | |
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A partial aversion in Dissidia Final Fantasy: most wind-based attacks (Garland's Cyclone, Terra's Tornado, Vaan's Windburst, etc) only hurt the opponent if they touch the funnel cloud in the center, but the attacks will absorb and pull them into the cloud if they're too close. | |
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In Family Guy, the funnel cloud is in the Griffins' front yard before they decide that they should run for the storm cellar. | |
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Used in a filler episode of Dragon Ball Z. A dragonball is caught in a tornado, which our heroes are watching from less than fifty feet away without so much as upsetting their balance. The obvious solution to their dilemma: send the super-powered five-year-old flying into the storm to retrieve the ball. Granted, this all turned out to be an illusion later, but the improbability of this isn't really touched on by the characters at all. | |
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Mega Man: Mega Man 2: Air Man's weapon is a Spread Shot of mini-tornadoes. Also played straight with Tengu Man and Tornado Man's tornadoes. Mega Man X: Subverted by Launch Octopus's whirlpool, which sucks the player in even if they don't touch it. Played straight with Storm Eagle's, Storm Owl's, and Spiral Pegacion's tornadoes, which only damage the player on contact and do not suck the player in. |
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In inFAMOUS 2, Cole is later able to create them, casing massive damage as well as wiping out any human sized person. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: JoJolion, Aisho's Stand, Doobie Wah, takes the form of a miniature twister that can create an automatic attacking tornado to track down and tear his victims apart, which grows in intensity with the breathing of his targets. | |
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Frozen II features a funnel cloud created by a belligerent wind spirit, pictured above, which is the reason why Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, and Sven aren't being blown away. | |
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Little Samson has little funnel clouds that move from left to right or right to left and push characters around on contact. | |
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