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Sunspot
Sunspot
Biographical Information
Real Name: Roberto "Bobby" Da Costa
Alias: Sunspot
Age: 15-17
Species: Mutant
Religion: Catholic
Originally From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America
Relatives: Emmanuel de Costa (Father)

Nina de Costa (Mother)

Affiliations: X-Men

New Mutants

Interests: Rahne Sinclair

Juliana Sandoval (deceased)

Physical Description
Gender: Male
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 5'8
Character Information
Powers: Solar Energy Conversion
First Appearance: Growing Pains
Voiced by: Michael Coleman
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Character Male Mutants X-Men New Mutants Season 2
"The first five is like a cake, everything after that is like icing, and I like icing!"
Roberto

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Personality

Roberto is a driven, spirited yet hot tempered African-Brazilian boy. He usually has a very friendly, carefree attitude and gets on well with his teammates, particularly Rahne whom he seems to have a close friend-sibling relationship with. But though aligning with his powers; his energetic disposition can lead to disputes with his friends, and he shares a rivalry with Ray. He takes great pride in the fact that during the day, he believes he is the strongest amongst his teammates due to harnessing his powers from direct sunlight, loosely similar to how Amara's powers also work

Physical Appearance

Roberto is a young Afro-Brazilian boy with an athletic and lean frame. He has somewhat curly dark brown hair and brown eyes. Roberto usually wears a red shirt with cream colored accents, tan pants, and brown shoes. When training, Roberto, like all the other New Recruits, wears the standard navy blue X-Men uniform with yellow gloves, belt, and boots.

When Roberto uses his powers, he assumes a dark radiated form devoid of light that is at its most prime state to absorb solar energy. In this form Roberto turns black and his eyes have a completely white corona. While is in this form around his body black globes can be seen floating around him as well as a field that is either bright yellow, orange or white.

Powers And Abilities

Blind Alley - Sunspot
  • Solar Re-channeling: He can absorb solar energy and can utilize it for physical strength. The cells of a normal human body convert energy from foodstuffs into a form of energy usable by the body.
    • Enhanced Strength: When Sunspots cells are powered by solar energy he has the superhuman ability to augment his physical strength. The original limits of his strength was that of 2 tons.[50] Since then however his strength level increased to 50 tons.[6]
    • Enhanced Durability: Sunspot is one of the interesting powerhouses of the Marvel Universe due to the fact that he is one of the only that does not have a heightened sense of invulnerability. During many of the comics that Sunspot was seen in his teammates would remind him that he was super strong but not super durable.[53]
    • Self-Sustenance: While in transformed state, Da Costa uses his energy abilities to provide nourishment for himself allowing him to survive out in the cold of deep space.[56]
    • Fire and Heat Immunity: As is the norm with most pyrokinetics, Sunspot is immune to all forms of heat and fire as they simply add to his abilities and his mutant metabolism is able to simply convert these two forms and augment his abilities.

Early Life

Roberto Da Costa came from a wealthy family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with his white-American mother Nina Da Costa being an archaeologist and his father Emmanuel Da Costa being an Afro-Brazilian businessman. He was a very skilled soccer player with a promising future, until the day his mutant powers manifested. During a soccer game, he was racially taunted by a player on the opposing team and ended up beating the player down. He was shunned by everyone around him due to his behaviour until he was offered to attend another school, the offer which came from Xavier and an offer Roberto accepted where eventually, he moved into the school and became a member of the New Mutants, a group of young teenage mutants who were trained to one day replace their mentors and allies, the X-Men.

Season 2

Sunspot has the ability to draw solar energy from the sun, making him one of the most powerful members of the group. Often described as a teachers pet by the other new recruits, was one of the new recruits who managed to stay with the Xavier Institute when mutants were revealed to the public.

Growing Pains

Growing Pains - 10 ray

At the Institute, The New Mutants were putting on a display showcasing their powers where Roberto used this as an opportunity to show-off to fellow teammates, Amara and Jubilee who were watching him from close by. Upon the discovery of Mutants, Roberto was able to remain at the school unlike most of the other New Mutants who were being sent home due to their parents fearing that Mutants were harmful.

Bada-Bing Bada-Boom

BadaBing - 5 logan

During a training session that went wrong due to Tabitha's behaviour, Roberto attended it with his friends and teammates with Logan as their instructor

Fun and Games

During the dance, Roberto spoke with Amara

African Storm

With no Storm to teach her daily lesson, Roberto and the New Mutants were left to play ball until Hank showed up and offered them a chance to play a game of volleyball but without the usage of powers. At some point during the game, Roberto hit a ball which hit Berzeker who accused the former of using his powers which resulted in a fight.

Mindbender

On the morning of Jean's disappearance, Roberto, his friends and the other X-Men searched the school grounds for her to no avail until she was discovered to be controlled during a later fight.

Retreat

Retreat-Wolsbane&Reberto

Talking with Rahne

Due to his grades, Hank chose Roberto and others with lower grades to a retreat trip with him to Redwood Forest in California which was soon interrupted once the group was being chased down with said group under the impression that Hank (Who was in his Beast form) was the legendary Bigfoot.

Season 3

Day of Recovery

Day of Recovery - 3

On the day Mutants were revealed to the public, Roberto and his friends were forced into hiding down in the sewers below to avoid unwanted attention, the act which caused them to meet Caliban who was already aware of their X-gene and why they were in hiding.

Mainstream

Mainstream - New Mutants III

Xavier mentally wakes up all of the X-kids and calls the older kids into a meeting, while the younger once have breakfast.

Season 4

Roberto helped defeat Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen of Apocalypse.

In The Future

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Future Roberto

When Charles Xavier was under Apocalypse's control, Xavier saw a future where his students were much older and still X-Men with Roberto and the New Mutants with Erik who at some point redeem and reformed himself

Note

In Other Media

  • This is Sunspot's first appearance in an X-Men related animated television series.
  • Sunspot appeared in the 2014 film, X-Men: Days of Future Past and the 2020 film, The New Mutants along with Sam, Rahne and Dani.
  • He has appeared in the game Marvel: Snap.
  • He appears in X-Men '97 and has a close bond with Jubilee.

Appearances

Season Two
Growing Pains Power Surge Bada-Bing Bada-Boom * Fun and Games * The Beast of Bayville Adrift On Angel's Wings * African Storm * Joyride *
Walk on the Wild Side Operation: Rebirth Mindbender * Shadow Dance Retreat The Hex Factor Day of Reckoning I * Day of Reckoning II
Season Three
Day of Recovery The Stuff of Heroes * Mainstream * The Stuff of Villains * Blind Alley X-Treme Measures * The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe *
Self Possessed * Under Lock and Key * Cruise Control * X23 * Dark Horizon I * Dark Horizon II *
Season Four
Impact *' No Good Deed * Target X * Sins of the Son * Uprising * Cajun Spice * Ghost of a Chance Ascension I * Ascension II

References

  1. Joyride.
  2. On Angel's Wings.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Retreat.
  4. Day of Reckoning I.
  5. Self Possessed.
  6. Cruise Control.
  7. X23.
  8. Dark Horizon I.
  9. Target X.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Sins of the Son. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "S4Ep4" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "S4Ep4" defined multiple times with different content
  11. Ghost of a Chance.
  12. 12.0 12.1 Ascension II.
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