Tornadus is a green, muscular, vaguely ogre or genie-like Pokémon. He has a tufted, cloudlike white mane on the back of his head, small purple horns pointing forward, green ears, yellow eyes, and a white mustache. His muscular arms are spotted with purple, and his navel also has a spot of purple. He has a trailing cloud for a lower body, and his long, curling, purple tentacle-like tail is adorned with various sepia whorled structures.