Janos Quested
Alias(es)	Riptide
Appeared in	X-Men: First Class
Status	Alive
Actor	Álex González

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.

Biography

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 is responsible for demolishing the first version of Cerebro. On the aftermath of the battle of the X-Men against Shaw, he is one of the mutants who joined Magneto's first group of The Brotherhood of Mutants.

Powers and abilities

Janos Quested is a powerful but egocentric mutant. He can generate powerful whirlwinds from his hands, with varying 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.

Relationships

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

Appearances/Actors

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

Behind the scenes

• The character of Quested is silent.
• Like other members of the Hellfire Club, he will not appear in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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.

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X-Men: First Class

Janos Quested holds out his hand.

Promotional image.

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