Mr. Twister: “The Tornado Outlaw”
- Category: Weapon / Cyborg / Ex-Inhabitant of the Western World
- First Appearance: Army Men: Green Rogue (2001) Mission 12: “Twist-A-Fate”
- Status: Destroyed during the Green Rogue events
- Created by: Dr. Madd
Origins: The Outlaw of the Western World
Before becoming the spinning monster known as Mr. Twister, there was once an action figure from the Cowboy Bandits line, called “Twista Jack“, a masked gunslinger with a red bandana and a bad reputation. He was a lesser known toy in the Western World, a pawn of common thieves, in a thematic realm where the laws and myths of the Old West were played out endlessly: trains, duels, dust, and sheriffs molded in sepia-colored polymers.
Sharpshooter led Twista Jack, Rover and the Railcutters, a gang of outlaw figures notorious for robbing trains and caravans loaded with gold, the most precious currency of the Western frontier. But his fate changed during the ambush of the Union Line Express, a heavily armored modified Tan transport, carrying graphite fragments to the Real World frontier.
At dawn, the Railcutters struck. The heist was supposed to be perfect. Instead, Twista was betrayed by his gang, who had cut a deal with the Tan Militia to capture the gang. In the crossfire, Twista took a direct hit to the abdomen from a high-pressure shotgun. His body cracked open along the molded seams, the internal spring mechanisms exposed and severed. He fell between the rails, left to fade beneath the baking sun of the Western World. The Railcutters fled, and the story of Twista Jack ended there… or so it seemed.
The Discovery and the Conversion
Days later, Blue scouts combing the edge of the Western frontier discovered the broken outlaw among the melted rubber dunes. They recognized the potential in his body for experimentation: a feared figure from another world, long abandoned. They brought the bounty before Dr. Madd, who immediately saw an opportunity: a weapon made from a cowboy.
Dr. Madd delivered the ruined toy to General Plastro, under orders to “build a toy that never dies.”
Madd found inspiration in the outlaw’s name. Examining the shattered torso, he noticed the damage centered around the abdomen. In one of his most deranged experiments, Madd cut Twista completely in half and replaced the midsection with a servo-motor dynamo, designed to rotate his upper and lower halves independently.
To stabilize the spinning frame, Madd reinforced Twista’s joints with graphite implants, fusing his once-plastic skeleton into something far denser and more violent. The cowboy mask, once a disguise, was melted into his face during the reconstruction: now his final, permanent expression.
Thus, the outlaw Twista Jack was reborn as Mr. Twister, a grotesque hybrid of toy and machine… half weapon, half nightmare. The Tan army called him “The Whirlwind of Vengeance”, the Greys “Tornado Cowboy” and stationed him as the guardian of their plastic mine deep within the plastic underworld: the infamous Twista Mine.
Form and Power
As a result of Dr. Madd’s reconstruction, Twister’s body was fundamentally altered. When transported through a Portal into the Plastic World, his unstable hybrid structure caused an anomaly: instead of being miniaturized to the standard Army Men scale, Mr. Twister retained his original 12-centimeter height, towering over the 5-centimeter soldiers.
This gave him an enormous tactical advantage. His five graphite claws on each hand (designed for rotational cutting) could slice through squads of plastic soldiers in seconds. Each spin of his upper body generated a vortex strong enough to lift enemy troops off the ground and shred them mid-air.
Where most Real World toys lost mass upon entering the Plastic World, Mr. Twister gained lethality. His altered proportions made him the closest thing to a “giant” ever seen in the trenches of the Tan-Green war.
Mind and Behavior
Fragments of Twista Jack’s old persona survived the conversion. Deep within his corrupted memory core, echoes of the outlaw’s identity persisted. He still spoke with the accent of the Western World, and in the heat of battle he shouted distorted catchphrases:
“This town ain’t big enough for both of us…”
“Can’t stop the storm, partner!”
His compulsive spinning was not just an attack pattern… it was a symptom. The servo motor Madd installed could never fully disengage; Twister was condemned to perpetual motion, unable to stop the very rotation that sustained him. The Tan scientists considered him a “successful instability”: physically unstoppable, psychologically broken.
The Fall of the Tornado
During Mission 12: “Twist-A-Fate”, the Omega Soldier infiltrated the Twista Mine to destroy Tan reserves. Deep underground, Omega faced Mr. Twister in the mining arena, surrounded by old ruins. Twister’s attacks tore through the air like hurricanes, each spin releasing shards of dust shrapnel.
Omega activated his Bio-Strike mode, channeling his own hybrid energy to overload Twister’s servo core. The clash ended in a devastating explosion that killed Twister. All that remained of Mr. Twister were warped fragments of graphite and the half-melted remains of his mask.
Legacy in the Toyverse
Recovered fragments of Twister’s dynamo were later repurposed by Green Engineers to develop rotational defense systems for mecha units. Yet whispers persist that Dr. Madd kept a backup of the “Twister Project” schematics, planning to build a new generation of rotary shock troops… the Cyclone Series. But the abrupt end of the Tannic-Greeno war in 2004 shelved the project into oblivion.
In the taverns of the Western World, plastic cowboys still tell tales of the outlaw who spun so fast, the wind itself carried him beyond death.