Supergirl: First Look at Red Tornado

Warner Bros. Television and CBS have released a first look at Iddo Goldberg as Red Tornado.

You can check out the full image below.

ComicBook.com was the first to report on Goldberg’s casting. Warner Bros. describes the character as follows:”RED TORNADO is the most advanced android the world has ever seen.Designed by scientist T.O. Morrow for the U.S. Army as the ultimatesuperweapon, he soon becomes sentient, posing a grave danger to National City — including the peopleSupergirl cares about most.”

In what way Goldberg will play both Morrow and the Red Tornado isn’t clear. While the character has often been imbued with the personality of a human in the comics, Morrow isn’t Red Tornado, just the android’s inventor. He’s also evil, while Red Tornado is a hero and longtime Justice League member. (Red Tornado also served as a mentor to Young Justice when that team first assembled under the pen of longtime Supergirl writer Peter David.)

It’s possible that an accident could fuse the two, accounting for Red Tornado’s deviant behavior. We had previous speculated that Morrow could have built the android based on himself and Goldberg would be doing only voice work for the android, but acting as Morrow physically…but this photo seems to show otherwise.

In addition to Red Tornado and the previously-announced Livewire and Reactron, Supergirl recently announced that General Sam Lane and his daughter Lucy will appear on the series, along with the Kryptonian villain Non.

Supergirl is an action-adventure drama based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El, Superman’s (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton with her parents’ help at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Protected and raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex, and learned to conceal the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin in order to keep her identity a secret. Years later, at 24, Kara lives in National City assisting media mogul and fierce taskmaster Cat Grant. She works alongside her friend and IT technician Winn Schott and famous photographer James Olsen, who Grant just hired away from the Daily Planet to serve as her new art director. However, Kara’s days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw, head of a super-secret agency where her sister also works, enlists her to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. Though Kara will need to find a way to manage her newfound empowerment with her very human relationships, her heart soars as she takes to the skies as Supergirl to fight crime.

The Supergirl series premiere airs Monday, October 26 at 8:30 PM. The series will then move to its regular Monday 8 PM slot the following week, November 2.