Sunspot
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2023, Fox films: Timeline: original. In Moscow Sunspot channels solar energy to Bishop's weapon, then is choked to death by a Sentinel that copies Iceman's power.
Comics
Roberto Da Costa is a Brazilian mutant who absorbs solar energy for strength and flight. A founding New Mutant and best friend of Cannonball, he inherits his father's fortune, serves in X-Force, the Hellfire Club and the Avengers, buys A.I.M. and leads the U.S. Avengers, then moves to Chandilar and Arakko during the Krakoan era.
Fox films
A Brazilian-born mutant who absorbs and uses solar energy. He joins Bishop's Free Mutants after 2018 and charges Bishop's weapon in the 2023 Sentinel dystopia. He dies fighting Sentinels in Moscow and in the Battle of China, before Wolverine's trip to 1973 erases that future.
Timeline 19 events
- Bronze · Comics: Roberto's powers first appear at a school soccer match in Rio, and after Donald Pierce kills his girlfriend Juliana he joins Xavier as a founding New Mutant.
- Modern · Comics: The New Mutants are taken to Asgard, where Roberto befriends the Warriors Three and considers staying because heroes are honored there.
- Modern · Comics: Roberto is captured and mind-controlled into Mojo's Bratpack, and the New Mutants help free the X-Men from Mojo as well.
- Modern · Comics: Convinced he is a danger to his team, Roberto runs away and joins the Vanisher's Fallen Angels with Warlock, later returning to the New Mutants.
- Modern · Comics: After his father dies Roberto leaves the New Mutants to take over the family business, and Gideon's experiments multiply his solar absorption as X-Force forms.
- Modern · Comics: Roberto leaves X-Force to become the Black Rook of the Hellfire Club in exchange for Juliana's return.
- Modern · Comics: Donald Pierce manipulates the Young X-Men into attacking Roberto, after which he teaches that squad and rejoins the New Mutants.
- Modern · Comics: Roberto joins the Avengers alongside Cannonball and helps rescue the core team captured on Mars.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Roberto buys A.I.M., ousts its Scientist Supreme, and visits Cannonball on Chandilar to ask him to return to Earth.
- Secret Wars · Comics: Roberto leads the U.S. Avengers as Citizen V after A.I.M. becomes an intelligence arm of the government.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Roberto dies in the War of the Realms and soon reappears as a citizen of Krakoa, resurrected by the Five.
- Fresh Start · Comics: The New Mutants travel to Shi'ar space, are conscripted to escort Deathbird, and Roberto buys the building on Chandilar where Cannonball lives.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Roberto moves to the terraformed Arakko, opens a bar and helps Storm and Magneto form the Brotherhood of Arakko.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Wracked by guilt over surviving the third Hellfire Gala, Roberto returns to Earth to search for the missing Cypher.
- 1973 · Fox films: Timeline: revised. Wolverine stops Bolivar Trask's assassination, the Sentinel wars never happen and the Free Mutants are never formed.
- 2018 · Fox films: Sunspot joins the Free Mutants, a resistance group led by Bishop (the page says in or after 2018).
- 2023 · Fox films: Timeline: original. In Moscow Sunspot channels solar energy to Bishop's weapon, then is choked to death by a Sentinel that copies Iceman's power.
- 2023 · Fox films: Timeline: original. At the monastery in China he questions the X-Men's plan, then agrees to fight for a future the Free Mutants may not share.
- 2023 · Fox films: Timeline: original. In the Battle of China he is overwhelmed by Sentinels that copy other mutants' powers and falls from a cliff.
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Bishop, Colossus, Cannonball, Magik, Mirage, Wolfsbane, Storm, Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), Warpath, Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Professor X, Wolverine (Logan), Rogue, Lockheed
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