Janos Quested

Janos Quested is a mutant with the ability to spin his body at an incredibly fast rate to create whirlwinds, or just directly make them from his hands.

X-Men: First Class
Never far from the side of his leader, Sebastian Shaw, Riptide creates powerful whirlwinds that can demolish buildings - and challenge even the most powerful mutants. He was responsible for demolishing the first version of Cerebro. On the aftermath of the battle of the X-Men against Shaw, he was one of the mutants who joined Magneto's first group of The Brotherhood of Mutants.

Appearances/Actors

 * Canon (1 film)
 * X-Men: First Class (First appearance) - Álex González

Relationships

 * Sebastian Shaw - Former leader.
 * Magneto - Leader.
 * Hellfire Club - Former teammates.
 * The Brotherhood of Mutants - Teammates.
 * The X-Men - Enemies.

Powers and abilities
Janos Quested is a powerful but egocentric mutant. He can generate powerful whirlwinfs from his hands, with variyng degrees, going from tossing a human to a wall, to pushing a submarine and the X-Jet to a nearby island. He can also use the air to make it spin himself eventually becoming a human vortex.

Behind the scenes

 * According to Álex González, the character of Quested is silent.

Trivia

 * González's part was originally announced as being named "Tornado", before Álvaro Sánchez corrected the announcement, officially naming the character Riptide.
 * In the comics, Riptide is a villainous character who works for Mr. Sinister’s Marauders. His powers allow him to spin incredibly fast; differently from the movie, his spinning abilities allow him to generate calcium deposits in the form of sharp objects for which he uses his speed to launch at enemies as spikes or shuriken-type projectiles.
 * Riptide is the only character in the movie that never speaks.
 * A character with similar powers appears as one of Stryker's captive mutants on X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
 * On the film he is never referred to by his real name, Janos Quested.
 * He plays the silent henchman archetype character.