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Thomas Oscar Morrow (Prime Earth)

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As a result of the New 52 in 2011, the entire line of DC characters was relaunched, incorporating properties belonging to the company's imprints: Wildstorm, Milestone, and Vertigo. As such, elements of this character's history have been altered in some way from the previous incarnation. For a complete list of all versions of this character, see our disambiguation page.

My dear Sivana, I'm a checker. Triple-checker.
— T.O. Morrow src

Professor Thomas Oscar Morrow, or T.O. Morrow, is a genius futurist inventor and S.T.A.R. Labs-scientist-turned-supervillain. He assisted in the conversion of Victor Stone into the hero Cyborg, and is the creator of the android Red Tornado.

Early Days

Prior to the adulteration of the timeline and erasure of ten years of history,[1] T.O. Morrow launched a career as a supervillain, using his genius as a futurist to commit would-be-crimes that had not yet been declared illegal, and constructed the Red Tornado, a weather-controlling android hero. When his fellow super-criminal scientist Doctor Anthony Ivo approached him with plans for a new iteration of his Amazo android, Morrow refused to take part, believing that the robot would overwhelm all of the Earth's superheroes and drive the human race to extinction, a prediction he shared with the heroes Wonder Woman and Robin when they sought him out for information on "NewMazo."[2] Morrow would later collaborate with Ivo on Tomorrow Woman, an android created to infiltrate and kill the Justice League.[3]

The New 52

 Main article: Justice League: Origin

In the altered timeline, Morrow was a S.T.A.R. Labs scientist. He developed an interest in advanced technology at a young age and went on to earn advanced degrees and work with Faster-Than-Light travel experiments with Dr. Will Magnus. He was appointed the Project Manager of the Red Room in the S.T.A.R. Labs facility in Detroit where he served as colleague and friend of Silas Stone. He was there during the first wave of the attack on Earth by Darkseid's Parademons and for the Father Box explosion which would prompt Victor Stone's transformation into Cyborg. He assisted Silas Stone with the transformation despite doubts that the experimental procedure would work.

Using untested, extradimensional technology recovered from the Monitor Machine, Morrow built "the Tornado," an android capable of controlling the Earth's weather, and during Atlantis' invasion of the surface world, sought to activate him to counter storms conjured by the Atlanteans. Silas Stone resisted due to the risks the android presented, and elected instead to send Cyborg into the Atlantic Ocean after the Justice League, converting his son's body for underwater operations with Morrow's help.[4]

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Morrow continued his work on the Tornado android for the United States Army and S.T.A.R. Labs at Fort Brazos Military Research Center under General Thelma Scaletti. Just as the Red Tornado reached completion, however, he was activated and hijacked by the hacker known as "Nameless", destroying Morrow's laboratory before escaping.[5]

DC Rebirth

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On the eve of an impending cosmic apocalypse, Professor Morrow worked with Doctor Will Magnus and Detective Chimp on Blackhawk Island to communicate with the heroes aboard the multiversal ship the Ultima Thule, with his Red Tornado forming a harmonic device with Magnus' Metal Men. Morrow discovered, while preparing a soft-boiled egg, that the boiling point of water had risen to 106 degrees. Concluding that the crisis had eroded the laws of physics, he gathered his fellow super-scientists, and when he learned from the Red Tornado that the Thule had been driven into the heart of the Multiverse to destroy it, joined hands with them in anticipation of their annihilation.[6]

Dawn of DC

Morrow worked with Doctor Ivo in the Artificial Intelligence and Synthetics division of the Halo Corporation,[7] until Halo was shuttered following the public exposure of its criminal activities.[8] He was present at the superhero-attended funeral of Silas Stone,[9] and was recruited into Doctor Pharm and Graft's Secret Order of Mad Scientists for a campaign of terror in the city of Metropolis.[10] At a clandestine lab, Morrow worked to reconstruct the Fourth Wall technology of the Mother Box, and his expertise was employed by Amanda Waller: to kill the superhero team the Titans,[11] he used Ivo's technology to rebuild a former S.T.A.R. Labs test subject into an android dubbed Vanadia, capable of countering the Titans' powers and made to believe that they had been replaced by impostors.[12] Vanadia was destroyed by the team, who traced her back to her creators. Seizing the laboratory's records, the Titans threatened to expose Morrow and S.T.A.R. for their unethical experimentation.[13]


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  1. ↑ DCU: Rebirth #1
  2. ↑ Batman/Superman: World's Finest #16
  3. ↑ Green Arrow (Volume 7) #14
  4. ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #16
  5. ↑ Legends of Tomorrow #3
  6. ↑ Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1
  7. ↑ WildC.A.T.s (Volume 2) #2
  8. ↑ WildC.A.T.s (Volume 2) #12
  9. ↑ Cyborg (Volume 3) #1
  10. ↑ Superman (Volume 6) #2
  11. ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #10
  12. ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #11
  13. ↑ Titans (Volume 4) #12
  14. ↑ Justice League (Volume 2) #4


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