As their leader, he also dropped his original codename and adopted the moniker of Citizen V, formerly held by super-villain Baron Zemo while masquerading as a heroic figure with the Thunderbolts. After the events of Avengers: No Surrender he resigns as leader of A. Outside of comics, Sunspot has appeared in live-action and animation. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this.
Get Known if you don't have an account. Click here to see his non-powered form. I wish it wasn't so, but it can be dangerous place.
Even with a heart as big as yours, you will have enemies. A true leader must be prepared to protect those he cares for, as well as himself. Your greatest weapon will always be your mind and your compassion, my son. But there will come a day when you're forced to fight for what you believe in.
You are a natural born leader, my son. One day you will show the world you have the fire inside you. I know you will do great things. While moping about it he discovers that Xavier expects him to become evil like his father, which causes him to freak out and leave the New Mutants before he can hurt any more of them.
This leads into the Fallen Angels mini-series, and seven issues later Roberto returns to the team. After the New Mutants get a new leader in Cable and Mr. He still shows up in the rebranded X-Force , and eventually rejoins about thirteen issues into the series.
Then Shaw approaches him and he rejoins the club, then with Sage's help ousts Shaw as the Lord Imperial and takes his place. This also doesn't lead anywhere besides a single altercation with some of the X-Men, as Roberto rejoins Xavier's school right afterwards. Artistic Age : Roberto was fourteen while with the New Mutants, but you really couldn't tell from the way some artists depicted him.
It gets worse in X-Force , where he's roughly but doesn't look much different from older teammates like Siryn or Warpath. During Time Runs Out he upgrades to the leader of a third faction in the civil war between the superheroes, and then gets his own team to lead in New Avengers and its Sequel Series U. Then he grew up and was offered a spot on the team alongside his best friend Sam. Did you really think you could simply buy me out? Roberto: I didn't "think" anything. I did buy you out.
And I'm here to let my staff know that there are going to be some changes around here. I'm also going to kick your ass. My name is Roberto da Costa, and I'm a dashing, super-powered billionaire, an Avenger, and your awesome new boss. This guy right here?
He's trespassing on my property. Supreme Leader: Adorable, Mr. I suppose you think this is some kind of threat? Cannonball, real name Sam Guthrie, and Roberto become the best of friends. Roberto even ends up in space with Sam and his wife at one point. The couple name him godfather of their son Josiah. A lot of the New Mutants have gone on to become part of other superhero teams and organizations. He even took over Advanced Idea Mechanics in the name of good and ran the family business.
He's been part of at least 10 of the Marvel comic book teams. Marvel has a history of interesting team-ups amongst different teams of heroes.
The Marvel Team-Up Annual allowed for characters to team up outside of their normal storylines for stand-alone issues. In the sixth issue, Spider-Man tracked the work of Cloak and Dagger, only to cross paths with some of the members of the New Mutants. The same drug dealers who caused Cloak and Dagger to develop their powers targeted Sunspot and Rahne, thinking they could use them.
When the two team members were captured and injected with the drug, they attacked everyone in site. Cloak and Dagger managed to cure them using their own powers of light and darkness.
The Hellfire Club has always been associated with villains in the comics, so it might seem strange to see Roberto's name associated with the group. His father, however, was a member. Roberto eventually took over the club completely - but not as a villain. Instead, Roberto was invited to take his father's seat under false pretenses. He believed he would be changing the club to the side of good.
Eventually, when he became the leader, he tried to do just that. Though the New Mutants movie only shows Roberto speaking English, the comics have him fluent in a few different languages.
Since he's from Brazil, it's probably not a surprise that he's written as fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. Instead of presenting da Costa as an example of poverty, Marvel went the Black Panther route and made him an ostensible prince.
This, as well as his fondness for Spanish sayings — even though they should have been Brazilian Portuguese — kept da Costa grounded in the reality of being Afro-Latinx. Just as gay people face discrimination for their orientation, Black gay people are forced to deal with the double discrimination of race and sexual preference.
Similarly, even though his teammates were hated for being mutants, da Costa was doubly scorned for being Black and super-powered. This was best illustrated during his first power-up, which triggered a mass stampede of fear from the soccer stadium attendees.
Of course, he was playing soccer, a Latinx passion that has stayed with him, despite knowing that his professional aspirations on the field were effectively over. In early appearances, while training with his teammates, da Costa displayed a flair for supreme confidence that might have registered as machismo if not for his boyish need for approval.
The fear that he might devolve into a simple-minded brute was constantly abated by the fact that he was a language-loving wit, just as interested in jet-setting as he was in making an entrance by smashing through walls. That is, unless he perceived that someone was speaking down to him, as happened early in the New Mutants series while he was dealing with Professor X. The professor was possessed by a Brood egg at the time, which caused him to display more authoritarian tendencies than usual.
Da Costa responded with disdain — to the point that he considered abandoning the team. This was the refreshing image of a righteously angry Black young man, refusing to bow down to being treated as anything other than worthy.
He reacted similarly to Magneto and Cable when they assumed command of the team, always keeping the two at a distance rather than jumping onto their bandwagon without question. A care-free though proud ladies' man, fiercely aware of where he has come from and what he has lost to maintain his status. Some characters are pushovers who sit around waiting for instructions.
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