Helen Hunkel

### Relatives

Ma Hunkel (Red Tornado, grandmother) · Henry "Hunk" Hunkel (grandfather, deceased) · Gus Hunkel (great-uncle) · Herman Hunkel (great-uncle) · Huey Hunkel (father) · Sisty Jibbet (aunt) · Dinky Jibbet (uncle) · Felix Hunkel (cousin once removed)

## Physical description

### Hair Color

Red

Helen Hunkel is the granddaughter of the original Red Tornado, Abigail "Ma" Hunkel, an honorary member of the Justice Society and current caretaker of their headquarters. Helen grew up idolizing her grandmother's allies in the JSA.

As a young girl, Helen was once kidnapped by T.O. Morrow, the mad scientist who created the second Red Tornado, a powerful android. He injected her with Red Tornado technology nanobytes, though their effects did not manifest until years later.

Cheerful, bubbly, and extremely intelligent (4.0 GPA and a 1300 SAT score in high school), Helen is a 19-year-old student at Harvard University and an avid fan of musical theater, particularly the play, *Wicked*. However, her talkative nature and know-it-all personality often alienates her from her peers and leave the young woman isolated. Her outcast status causes her to suffer from atypical depression.

In recent months, she has begun to manifest unusual superhuman abilities. A sneeze demolished her grandmother's garage and, the next day, she awoke inside a tornado five hundred feet off the ground. The young woman soon realized that she has the power to manipulate wind.

In her 'rookie phase' with the Titans, she helped defeat the Fourth Reich, assisted the Justice League during the Lightning Saga, and fought the Heartbreak Slayer when he attacked Teen Titans headquarters. Along the way she visited the Fortress of Solitude and teamed up with the android Red Tornado.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Aerokinesis**: Helen possesses the power of wind manipulation. She is able to mentally summon cyclones and whirlwinds, project powerful bursts of air, and glide through the air on wind currents composed purely of violent wind forces.She can channel these forces through her arms and legs to produce bursts of cyclone-force winds and high speed forward velocity.
	+ **Air Blasts**: Helen can project her whirlwinds at over 350 mph from each arm. Her winds are said to level a building in seconds.
	+ **Flight**: By channeling these cyclone-force winds through the lower part of her body, she can fly at incredible speeds or hover in one place.
	+ **Force Field**: Helen is able to circulate the high force winds around herself or an extended area to protect herself and/or others from attacks and flying debris.
	+ **Tornado Creation**: She can create tornadoes and twisters with destructive winds.
	+ **Deflection**: She is able to deflect approaching objects with ease.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)**: Helen could break dozens of gang members and petty criminals.
* **Cooking**: Hunkel is renowned for her cooking, and her ability to feed large groups of people, particularly that of the ever-expanding roster of the Justice Society of America.

### Weaknesses

* **Clumsiness**: Be by unluck or clumsiness, Hunkel frequently put herself in embarassing or even dangerous situations.