Tornado Tonion

"Gahahahah! Welcome to my silly, silly stage! Here goes nothing, yah! Bo-woing! Gahahahah!"

- Tornado Tonion

Tornado Tonion, known as Tornado Debonian (トルネード・デボニオン) in Japan, is a Maverick from Mega Man X7. He wreaked havoc in a Radio Tower; broadcasting silly, annoying messages across the airwaves. Modeled after an onion, Tonion is one of the few Mavericks that aren't based off of animals. In the English ports of X7, he has somewhat of a German accent, albeit high pitched.

Interestingly, he is one of three members of Red Alert who is fully aware that "the Professor" is manipulating them (the others being Red and Soldier Stonekong), and one of only two members who regrets being used and actually request that X kill him (the other being Red).

Strategy
Tonion is confronted at the top of the Radio Tower and one must take care to not touch the electrified edge as the shock can cause serious damage. Tonion's protective plates can deflect most attacks, and after absorbing enough damage they will break. However, this is temporary as he can regenerate them quickly. Tonion also lowers or removes his plates to perform his own attacks leaving himself vulnerable.

Tonion can perform the following attacks:


 * Tornado Dance: Tonion "blooms" and spins towards the player surrounded in a spiral of electricity. The attack can cause serious damage if caught in it. As Tonion lowers his protective plates to perform this maneuver, he is completely open to attack.


 * Circle: Tonion moves to the center of the arena, blooms, and spins, stretching his plates out periodically sweeping almost half of the arena. Easily dodged by simply moving back out of the way.


 * Wall: Tonion uses his body plates as moving wall that advances towards the player. Leap over them and attack while he's vulnerable before his plates regenerate.


 * Wiper: Tonion removes his plates, lays them out in a line and uses them to sweep the arena. The line can be laid at varying heights, so one must try and use the plates shadows to the determine when they need to be jumped over.

His weaknesses are the Gaea Shield and Gokumonken. Although the Gaea Shield is fairly easy to use, the amount of damage it inflicts with a single hit is extremely low, making it very a ineffective attack. With practice using Zero to attack at close-range with his Gokumonken can workout extremely well. Not only will the attack stagger Tonion, the counter strike will inflict heavy damage to him. The ideal moments to use Gokumonken is when Tonion performs his Tornado Dance and Wall maneuvers.

Stage Enemies
Enemies in Tornado Tonion's stage, the Radio Tower:
 * Yadokari
 * Antenna Shield
 * Batton Bone
 * Bounding
 * Guillotine

In-battle quotes

 * "Around and around!"
 * "Ouch!"
 * "I make wall, Yah?"
 * "You didn't like it!" (Death cry.)

Dialogues
Tornado Tonion: You be X, hmm? I ask you favor, yes? Stop us...Stop Red, please, yah?

X: What?!

Tornado Tonion: It professor...professor redesign us... We no longer...

X: Professor?! Who the heck is that?

Tornado Tonion: We no control, yah? Can't stop, none of us. Please, please, save us... We becoming something else!

Tornado Tonion: Gahahahah! Welcome to my silly, silly stage! Here goes nothing, yah! Bo-woing! Gahahahah!

Zero: ...

Tornado Tonion: What? No funny?? But I try so hard, so hard! OK, try again, yah!

Zero: OK, I get the picture. Let's get this over with.

Tornado Tonion: Ooh!

Tornado Tonion: Gahahah! Axl, you grow up handsome boy, yah! But I grow up handsomer boy, a-hah! Bo-woing! Gahahahah!

Axl: Heheh... You haven't changed a bit, buddy!

Tornado Tonion: So, you come up Electric Tower to stop broadcast of my groovy dance, hmm?

Axl: Yup. If Red saw it, he'd get mad and smash the monitor, anyway.

Tornado Tonion: Ooh! 

Trivia

 * Interestingly, Tornado Tonion appears to have a pointy, red nose in the official artwork that is not visible in his in-game 3D model.