

He has brown hair braided in ponytail and a blue bandana. Thunder's "retro costume" wears a black leather vest with several logo patches such as KI, Rareware and Route 66 and also has large Killer Instinct logo at the back, he wears blue jeans and a brown shoes. Thunder's tomahawks now are handmade and more traditional compared to his original ones.

He wears a feathered war bonnet and a Nez Percé bear claw necklace, desert-colored pants with two interlocked belts, shin-guards, and combat boots. His face is covered in black, yellow, and white warpaint, almost completely obscuring its skin. Still bare-chested, but no longer wearing gloves and lacking his original mohawk, he now has warpaint done in the style of a crow, with white paint adorning his hands and upper arms, along with parts of his face and neck.

In Killer Instinct (2013), Thunder received a significant overhaul along with a more accurate Nez Percé tribal identity. He has black warpaint around his eyes, black tattoo lines along his shoulders, a shaved head with a feather mohawk headpiece and ear piercings. In the original Killer Instinct (1994), Thunder appears as a large, red-skinned Native American who is bare-chested and wears a pair of camo pants, green boots and gray gloves.
