The Tempest is a villain from The Mask: The Animated Series.
History[]
Fritz Drizzle before his transformation
His first appearance was in the episode "Rain of Terror" where the Tempest started as a TV weatherman named Fritz Drizzle working for the Edge City News who had thirteen years of weather reading from meteorological college and took great pride in his work, but it seemed his weather predictions were not always correct, such as one such time when he said it would be a clear day, but a heavy downpour of rain took place instead. The Mask confronted him about this and said for a weatherman he was literally "all wet". He was also constantly interrupted before his report was even finished. Fritz blamed the tv station for not giving him the proper weather reading tools, never taking his profession seriously and lack of respect.
To make matters worse, one of the news crew came up to him and told him to wear a clown suit for his next weather forecast, which would result in public humiliation, much to the Mask and the Anchorman's amusement who laughed themselves silly. This proved to be the final straw. Fritz snapped at this even further lack of respect and trashed the newsroom. The news crew fired him and he swore revenge on them as well as all of Edge City.
He went stomping off to a weather station and tried sabotaging the position of a weather satellite, but the beam of the satellite crossed over with a lightning storm which rebounded from the satellite dish he had tampered with, zapping him.
The Tempest defeated
The accident changed him into a freak with the ability to control the weather giving him the persona of "the Tempest". He decided to seek revenge on Edge City for his mistreatment and use his powers to terrorize unless a statue bigger than the Eiffel Tower was built in his image to honour his previous persona. Tempest made good on his threat by making a hailstorm, a blizzard and floods appear. The Mask was able to stop him by opening a manhole which sucked him down, along with the flood waters he created. He presumably kept away from Edge City after this.
He is then seen in the episode "Convention of Evil", where he is invited to a group therapy session held by psychiatrist Dr. Neuman along with other villains Pretorius, Lonnie the Shark and Pete, Gorgonzola, The Stinger and Bub. He often argued with the Stinger, referring to him as "Bee Boy" and after Pete laughed himself silly when Tempest described his defeat by the Mask, he threatened to shove a lightning bolt up his nose if he didn't shut up. Eventually all the villains were defeated by the Mask who had been disguised as Dr. Neuman all along, while the real Dr. Neuman had been held up in traffic jam on the way to the session. Tempest's defeat was being given a wedgie by the Mask.
Powers[]
As his name shown, he has the power to create weather. He also has flight ability.
Trivia[]
- He resembled Robin from Batman the animated series.
- His powers are similar to Storm from the X-Men.
- He is defeated in the same way as Dorian Tyrell from the film, both being sucked down a drain created by the Mask into an unknown fate, though unlike Dorian, he is shown in his next appearance to be alive.