[The Mighty Blue Tornado, or: My Boss is a Delusional, Oblivious Moron; Send Help, part 4]
Well, we're done talking about the Legion of Copycat Heroes. Now it's time for the villains.
Wait, never mind, we gotta talk some more about how Blue Tornado got recruited by DETS to lead The Association, because he has the training to be an effective leader or something.
Because he was a Marine.
what does that have to do with anything
And he has a black belt all of a sudden.
A "multi-degree black belt in different types of martial arts."
And he was a private detective, don't forget. Who cares about Braintwister and his seniority?
And Antonio seems to forget that unless you were an officer, your job in the military was to follow orders, not give them.
tl;dr: Blue Tornado is the Number One Gary Stu, that's why.
...was he in the military
also it takes A LONG TIME to get a black belt, let alone multiple levels of it, let alone in DIFFERENT TYPES
Yep. I know it's easy to forget, since it has zero impact on his character except as a cheap way to make him sound badass without having to actually show it...
was your boss in the military
altho I feel like if he was he would know better
I'm assuming that's a no.
I am too tbh
so he's a multi level black belt in multiple disciplines, was in the military, is a private eye...
where did he find TIME for all of this
Was on multiple tours of duty in the military, even
so he'd be in like, his 30s or 40s even probably
.......
"And will Jon Marsh become that leader? It'll be remain to be seen, because Jon, he feels that he wants to be in love."
/buries face in pillow
/screams
more like the author wants him to be in love
holy Gary Stus, Batman
Oh look, the other piece of character art has just shown up
We're not talking about this character yet
lol
"Okay so, right now, we talked about Jon Marsh, so now let's talk about the foes of The Association." /gets up out of the chair
/sudden cut to Antonio settling back into the chair
~EDITING~
clearly he HAD TO GET PUMPED
"And this where it gets murky!"
the waters this thing sits in is already murky, my dude
So our Big Bad had met Jon Marsh before, when he visited his detective agency.
And apparently called himself The Collector.
does he collect things
what kind of alias is that anyway
Apparently?
He used Jon to locate a certain talisman that was being kept in a mansion somewhere, then he went and stole it or something.
The talisman gave him superpowers, because of course it did.
what is it with all these mansions
Darius has one, that fake Remy had one
there's another one
???
Okay, now I'm picturing them all being in some cheesy gated McMansion community.
Plunger lives directly across the street from Darius and is an obnoxious neighbor just for the sake of it
Okay, back to the unfortunate reality.
I would rather read that tbh
"He actually found this talisman, and when he found this talisman, he, he was able to obtain the powers from the talisman."
"So for example, when he obtained his powers, it was from something that called, the Black Ant. So, when he obtained these powers, this guy became very, very strong, and a very big nemesis to the Blue Tornado and the Association, because it was a black ant."
wait. literal ant?
"And in our universe, the black ant is very strong and very wise. Because if you look at the military, the military gets a lot of their insight from the way ants, uh, uh, govern their communities."
....
what
.........................Antonio please shut up now
And from what I can tell, he's just ripping off the Blue Beetle.
I think my brain broke
We've still got ten more minutes to go.
This is the Black Ant, btw.
.....
it's Ant Man's little brother
"The good guys is called The Association, the bad guys is called The Clique."
noooo it's totally original
"The very first person goes by the name Luis Rodriguez. And he goes by the name The Black Ant."
what
I think he means the first person to join (or form, rather) The Clique.
Mexican-American, born in Peachtree City...
who even knows
"To him, he feels that he wants to be the strongest in the world. And when he found out about The Association, then he went out on his own, with the, you know, with his abilities and his new strength, and he actually purchased his own mansion, and he wanted to recruit others to go up against The Association."
YOU GET A MANSION, YOU GET A MANSION, EVERYONE GETS A MANSION!!!
it's like Oprah
Do the Deviation kids who were supposed to be learning how to use their powers get their own mansion, since apparently The Association took over the first one?
Or did they never exist in the first place because screw you if you're not old enough for us to throw you out onto the front lines yet?
........Antonio please tell me you aren't ripping off Joker with this "Trickster" villain
oh god
Yup, it's Joker.
oh no
blah blah blah super crazy, sadistic, fancy gadgets and poisons...
"He do have some Evolved abilities, but it's not like he's an abnormal strong guy, he's just very, very str-- uh, very strong."
SO IS EVERYONE ELSE
Did I mention that Antonio ~loves~ shonen anime, especially DBZ?
oh no....
Because I think that's where a lot of his attitudes toward creating characters comes from. Focus on making everyone stupidly powerful and obsessed with being the best, while personality comes at a distant second.
everyone's power level is over 9000
preeeeeetty much
Back to Puffer.
Honestly, everything about him was already covered during what should have been Orca's section.
And unless you have a "special ointment" or healing abilities, odds are you'll die if exposed to his toxins.
"Enigma loves to pull members of the Association into his wicked mazes."
So... Riddler + Arcade?
And of course Antonio feels the need to remind us which villain is the "number one nemesis" of which hero, because he's been rambling about these entirely forgettable characters for nearly an hour now, so we've probably lost track.
"Monsoon is the number one nemesis to Windstorm. They are two women that just don't like each other."
Just hate at first sight, even as civilians. With powers.
That is literally the extent of Monsoon's character.
"From that day forward, it's gonna take the act of, uh, counseling, so to speak, to get these women to speak again. Uh, speak in a formal, a good, formal way."
"Cyclone and Downpour take turns as they battle Hurricane. Let's just say, the cleanup crew, ah, are not happy when these two, uh, they come and battle."
No given powers, but let's just assume they're the exact same as Hurricane's, like how Monsoon has the same powers as Windstorm.
tbh I've lost track of everyone except Plunger because he's ridiculous
Pretty much all the villains from this point on have "very similar" powers as their designated nemeses.
Because it's all the same. Very strong, very powerful, a bunch of them have wind powers, a bunch of the others have water powers...
Oh, and Gust and Gale used to be good friends in high school.
"But their friendship fizzled out over a mere misunderstanding."
I bet it was a boy
So one pair of female nemeses is built on the basis of "I just don't like you," and another pair is based on "now see, if you'd just had a conversation about this, we could have cleared the whole matter up."
omg Whiteout even comes from the same world as Mr. Blizzard.
Oh yeah, and the Onyx/Clamorous pair are fighting over a guy.
-_-
Mr. Blizzard: Hey, humans are neat. I wanna be like them!
Whiteout: Screw humanity!
Whiteout: Screw humanity!
Another cut!
Clamorous is "a very beautiful woman." But gasp! She's in love with Bowman!
But Bowman is more interested in Onyx, since they spend so much time together in the mansion.
.....................................
Clamorous would... leave The Clique... if she ended up with Bowman...
And just go off into the sunset with him and live a happy, civilian life together
...............................................................................................................................................................................
what
Her... entire... motivation... is to get this one... particular... man...
And next is Cardshooter!
whose nemesis is a toilet plunger
And he is literally a copy of Plunger.
They even get their cards and dice from the same dealer.
"So Cardshooter is a great, you know, a great, uh, nemesis to Plunger."
Oh, now we've got Flux, and and hoo boy, he does not disappoint as far as stupid characters go...
"Rush thinks he's the fastest alive, uh, Flux doesn't care, because actually he runs in reverse."
I'm thinking Antonio took the nickname "Reverse Flash" a hair too literally.
Ooh, and he might even be faster than Blue Tornado~
Aaaaaand now Blue Tornado can fly.
Because tornado powers.
"But Flux and Rush just don't get along..."
JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER HERO/VILLAIN PAIR
And finally, we've reached the last character.
Boss Playa.
"That's right, Boss Playa... is a very powerful pimp that resides on Tiggio Avenue."
Antonio named the pimp's territory... after his business.
He's just sooooooo tough
"Boss Playa has power that is unmatched by many."
He's two inches taller than Shambles at his base height.
"Is he more stronger than Shambles? It remains to be seen, but if you ask Shambles, I can bet you he would tell you know, he's not."
IT'S OVER
*no
I left for like two seconds to give someone a smackdown and came back to this
runs in reverse
mooyn
what even is the point of running backwards
it's not like you can see behind you
Besides crashing into--yeah
Like I said, I think Antonio just took "Reverse Flash" literally without stopping to actually think about it for half a second.
I don't think he put much thought into any of this
Nnnnnnnope
Christ this...sure was something
It certainly was a... thing.
how much of this was recent
He uploaded the video on the 12th.
oh lord...
Yup.
And there's a new bot comment following his sockpuppet and reply.
Operation_CashFlow !!: Team Tiggio when is the next video going to drop
rofl
Team Tiggio: We have a new video dropping by Wednesday of this week. Thank you again for patience.
oh we're on the edges of our computer chairs
I don't think he thought this through tho re: his youtube name
because it's the same name as the business, if you google the youtube, THE BUSINESS SITE COMES UP and I'm sure...that's great for publicity...
but uh. I found the website and all I can say is "wow this is a lot of ripoffs I see" and what is that, a...Naruto one...
Ren why is your boss like this
wait wait so the Blue Tornado guy ran top secret missions with a specialised team that clearly isn't important enough to have a name...
is that how he got all his black belts
If the fish views you as harmful it will produce an underwater tornado like vertex to wipe-out all dangerI think he means "vortex" but also
I would like to know how a fish can do that
is it by supersonic forces?
how does this work underwater
what is the purpose of this
these are the questions Antonio should be asking himself just like "how does this shit work" and it would be a great opportunity for him to worldbuild!
My boss is like this because he's an idiot
But Karuuuuuu
That takes effort!
but he just completely ignores the questions and is just like THERE'S THIS GUY AND HE'S SUGOI
writing anything good takes effort tho
He doesn't want to be good, he wants to be popular
but wouldn't you want to be popular because your stuff is good?
Well, okay, true. But he's already convinced his ideas are the best ever
it's so good he has like no real followers on youtube
After Jon developed his powers, he was then asked to join and lead a group called the Association. You can purchase The Mighty Blue Tornado signature t-shirts from our store.HE HAS MERCHANDISE
I KNOW
it's like buying a horse cart but you have no horses to pull it
Yeah, the books aren't out yet and don't have any solid release date
But BUY OUR STUFF
Windstorm
Is the number one enemy of Monsoon
THAT IS ALL THAT CHARACTER GETS AS A DESCRIPTION????
Yup.
THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WINDSTORM
I mean I didn't doubt any of this for a minute but
actually seeing it
my mind is just
pikachu.jpg
Puffer (a water villain half man/fish, with a toxic ability), also he’s The Green Whale number one nemesis
is he literally half fish
like. merman half fish
or are we talking the fish people from Slayers
I have no idea
I hope it's the latter but I doubt it because that would be interesting
"Toxic ability" makes me think Puffer is a pokemon tbh
Enigma
Love’s to pull the members of the Association into his wicked mazeshe should make sure he has an editor as well...
Yyyyyyeah
Crystal always carry’s Kenya,like. a spellcheck would've even caught that
I mean like go you, you passionate dude, but
the goal here is...lofty...
he's got book plans but nothing to turn into a book
everyone has a nemesis. you can't just have an enemy or a rival or something, no, everything is some kind of "nemesis"
Zero suggestion of a plot that doesn't revolve entirely around Blue Tornado and whether or not he'll lead The Association or want to "find love."
like. it's like a Gary Stu fic
but it's not even entertaining, which is what you want in a story
even if it's not great, as long as it's entertaining and whatever like. that's okay
but this isn't even entertaining!
It's just a constant parade of dick measuring
so this Kush thing
they look like shinobi
it doesn't take place in Japan tho
Nope
but...you have a char named Usagi...
It's some pseudo-African/Egyptian culture.
He claims he's editing out all the Japanese names.
neither of those have shinobi...
Atsupki Draak
what name is this
idek
I hear it in my head as "aht-soop-kee"
Then again, the one snippet of a recent scene I saw included a character named Ronald.
I hope his editing out Japanese names doesn't mean just throwing letters into them and calling it done
He refused to listen when I told him it stuck out like a sore thumb.
there is a king of sound...
you have the elements which. okay. whatever
but then
Ronald looks like a generic anime dude
Master Eel
.........
what
I wanna know about this guy he sounds fucking awesome
rofl
I haven't looked too closely at the Kush page, but okay then.
alas we are given NOTHING ABOUT ANY OF THESE CHARACTERS
why is he called Master Eel? does he look like an eel? does he like eels? IS HE AN EEL
Emi Shoutis Shout even a..name...
why do I have a feeling that was "Shou" and a t was just shoved there
there is a char named
Gaiden Force
..................
FORGET PLUNGER
IMAGINE BEING NAMED "SIDE STORY"
ah yes have you met my student, Sidestory
Gaiden seems to wear a straw hat or something
also the character art for all of them, you can tell there's like three different artists, nothing matches or has any cohesion
so you have some art that is more on the realistic spectrum of cartoon
and then there's anime that looks like something some 12 year old drew on deviantart
and then there's a THIRD STYLE THROWN IN and some characters look cross eyed
some of the art is actually nice
Just... Antonio. Quit trying to make ALL THE BADASSES and focus on one story at a time.
he's got so many series
like, Ares Arcana has a lot of different things (hence why it's arcana and not arcanum), but only three of them are developed because IT TAKES A LONG TIME
You want mismatched art? Look at Elvira & Friends.
(and really it was one story that ended up being so long it was split into three segments)
yeah I saw that and went y i k e s and moved on lmao
like I kind of feel bad about trashing your boss because obviously he's VERY PASSIONATE? and I dig that he's passionate that's good
but
gestures at the EVERYTHING
Also, it's not really a case of different artists so much as different tracing sources.
I have one of those CDs where you get free images you can colour in and what not and you can use them for literally whatever you want, they're copyright free
and the CDs I have are literally anime
and I'm wondering if that's where some of these things came from
He's passionate, but he's also blind to criticism and advice.
you did say you tried to steer him onto the path of good
but he didn't listen
I have no idea where he gets his sources from.
part about being a writer is accepting criticism, if you can't and you just get defensive and go YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MY GENIUS then you're not going to get anywhere
I have three of them, I could always go through them, it comes with a book to give samples and what not
but I mean. that's kind of lazy
(but you said he's lazy)
most of these things on his site don't...have any info tho
Mr Happy looks...vaguely disturbing
I mean, you saw the background of his video.
like it's kinda creepy looking
it's his work office ye
He couldn't even be bothered to straighten up the table behind him or clear away those boxes.
I feel like he's staring into my soul
Yep, his work office.
but like. if this is how he is with something he's PASSIONATE about how the hell is he in professional endeavours
And the MS Paint monstrosity child on that page isn't?
I saw that and immediately moved on
that's supposed to be some kind of edutainment thing for kids
My coworkers and I are constantly amazed that he's still in business.
I can kind of see why
Certainly isn't going to teach them proper grammar...
wow he's charging like $24 for a shirt
wtf he's got seven pages of merch, Ren
SEVEN PAGES
Yep
Oh jeez, that many?!
I can have a shirt of a haunted kettlebell or whatever
YES. SEVEN WHOLE PAGES
you can have a shirt with an MSPaint monstrosity!
But he's gotta build up hype for his books, Karu!
he doesn't even have anything to put in books!
but check out his merch
it's like having merch to advertise your mixtape but you don't even have the tape to put your sick beatz on
He's working on writing Kush, at least?
gestures are all the other stuff
at all*
he has hour long vids about Plunger and whoever else
so on Akatsupi's blog post
it says
Nancy and Nick are Twins or you can call them the Dragon Twins. They are at they strongest when they combine their fire chakra abilities.
Because hype
this looks like two people
she also looks cross-eyed
/facepalm
I keep hoping someone will see his videos and actually comment on it, because Antonio seems to think what he has is gold and it just isn't getting noticed for some reason.
Gaiden Force looks like he's touching his junk but
like comment on it with something constructive?
*comment on them
Constructive, blunt honesty, anything at this point that doesn't come from a paid bot.
but would he listen tho
he'd probs just delete them off the video or something
Gaiden Force looks like that hat has devoured his entire head.
what if his hat was his head
...nah that'd be too interesting
437 people subscribed to him
HE HAS A VIDEO ON HOW TO ADD A BACKSTORY TO YOUR PROTAGONIST???
And yet he can't get any comments. How very strange~
Save yourself the trouble. It's worthless.
ohhhh that green screen didn't work out so well in this vid
you can tell it's a green screen, there's artifacting caused by his shadow that's messing with the colour selection
aaaaand backgrounds shouldn't be clear, they should be blurry if the focus is on him by the camera
Yup, the green screen (actually several sheets of green posterboard) is taped up behind where my desk is.
...did he just say TARnader instead of tornado
is that an accent thing or
ARE YOU SERIOUS, REN
GREEN POSTERBOARD
The vast majority of the video doesn't discuss backstory at all, and when it does, it's in the vaguest sense possibld.
who are all these commenters on this vid
*possible
he's just talking about comics at this point
Bots, bots, and more bots.
why do I care about Superman's colours?! I came here to hear about how to make backstories for my characters!!!
I...am so sorry, Ren
that you have to DEAL WITH THIS DUDE
I warned you...
And thank you.
we're 4 minutes in and he's not even talking about his own work he's talking about DC
comics
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THAT MSPAINT THING ABOUT WITCHES OR WHATEVER
I mean this is just a history about DC and Marvel
so Ren
Spoiler: there is no backstory for Elvira in this video.
did you know that when creating a backstory
you should consider what your story is gonna be about
and what you want to do with that character
gasp I did not know that!
Ren
does he...does he ramble like this irl
did you know you can make believe a point of origin for your character
Most of the time, no. Usually because he's too preoccupied watching DBZ during a lull in work.
oh so his work ethic is over 9000
Or when he should be working... 
that emote describes how I feel watching this'
I know you warned me but I was like
there's no way it can be that bad
Surprise~
WE WANTED THIS CHARACTER TO BE A GREAT FIGHTER BUT ALSO LAID BACK well...yay?
omfg you can see the green screen background through his t-shirt at some point
I CAN SEE THROUGH HIM. LITERALLY.
if you piss off Elvira you might end up in a fire tornado
does...does he have a thing for tornadoes
Because more rambling about how super badass our characters are in a fight counts as backstory, right?
I mean your backstory can lend to why you act a certain way but like
I don't know, and I don't particularly want to find out.
what does backstory have to do with making a fun loving character
"we don't want to leave the reader in the dark about our characters!" and yet
but also it's okay to not have the reader know everything about the character
I can't believe he keeps the posterboard that is the green screen behind your desk
It's okay to just hint at certain things!
It's taped to the wall.
well now you too can create your videos about...things.
make an hour video on Protato
it would probably be 100 times better than this
because Protato is the robomom
Like hell am I putting any of my creations anywhere on his channel.
he wears a cool scarf and shades
no you make your own channel with your own cool vids
Pffft
attain your youtube fame
and then he can wonder how it happened
just whisper "Robomom" and give fingerguns as you walk out the door
...you know, I'm kind of tempted to try now.
pull out 40 pages of notes on Proto
"Welcome to my character thesis."
at least Protoman doesn't have a "nemesis" named Plunger
OF ALL THE NAMES
he couldn't be called like, Gambling Man or some shit, nooooo he's called Plunger, and people will wonder why he's not clearing drains and shit
I could see it as a name he used for like, ten minutes before the criminals he was trying to stop all died laughing
"No, it's referring to... guys, could you please listen for... a... a slot machine... guys?"
That's the secret. that's how he defeats his foes