Sunspot
Roberto da Costa was the wealthy son of a Brazilian business magnate. His life changed when his mutant powers manifested during a soccer game, outing him publicly. Though his dreams of inheriting millions and playing soccer at the Olympics were dashed, he became a superhero, an Avenger, the Supreme Leader of A.I.M., and an important leader of the world’s heroes in crises. He is also a billionaire. Aliases: Sunspot, Black Rook, Black King, Lord Imperial, Citiven V.
Powers
- Originally absorbs solar radiation to enter a powered-up state granting super strength
- After experiments overcharging him with solar radiation, gains greater invulnerability, ability to release and absorb energy, and flight (source)
- After contracting M-Pox, powering up drains years off his life and requires a regulator; rarely powers up for this reason (source)
- Needs a regulator to help manage powers after M-Pox (source)
- Rarely powers up due to life-draining effect of M-Pox (source)
Strength
- Craters the ground, throwing men off balance (prior to power amp) (source)
- Breaks a concrete wall (prior to power amp) (source)
- Busts through a wall (prior to power amp) (source)
- Crumples a car charging toward him (prior to power amp) (source)
- Busts through a wall while low on power (prior to power amp) (source)
- Smashes the floor to throw an opponent off balance (prior to power amp) (source)
- Beats up Axe, smashing him into a wall and reducing it to debris (prior to power amp) (source)
- Punches a tree apart (prior to power amp) (source)
- Strikes Cannonball blasting at him head on (prior to power amp) (source)
- Brings down a building ready to collapse by punching it in the right spot (prior to power amp) (source)
- Smashes through a wall, bringing it down (prior to power amp) (source)
- Punches Rockslide into the floor, splintering it (after power amp) (source)
- Punches part of a tree in half (after power amp) (source)
- Beats up the Maker (after power amp) (source)
- Staggers Red Hulk in a weakened state (after power amp) (source) (in a weakened state)
- Staggers a Hulk (after power amp) (source)
Lifting
- Partially holds up a collapsing building (prior to power amp) (source)
- Lifts an ice truck (prior to power amp) (source)
- Lifts a tree and uses it like a baseball bat on a boulder (prior to power amp) (source)
- Lifts a large section of debris (prior to power amp) (source)
- Lifts a large piece of metal debris (prior to power amp) (source)
- Holds up and spins a boulder on one finger before tossing it aside (prior to power amp) (source)
- Lifts a car (prior to power amp) (source)
- Rips up the ground 5 feet beneath the Blob to topple him over (prior to power amp) (source)
- Holds up a large brick structure (prior to power amp) (source)
- Flips over a giant monster (prior to power amp) (source)
- Holds a huge piece of machinery for over an hour without fatigue (after power amp) (source)
Throwing
- Throws an attacker across a soccer field during first power manifestation (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a giant robot into a mall while nowhere near peak (prior to power amp) (source) (while nowhere near his peak)
- Throws a car far enough away that its explosion is harmless (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a cargo truck (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a chariot into another chariot (prior to power amp) (source)
- Tosses a burning oak half a mile (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a large piece of metal (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a stoop (prior to power amp) (source)
General
- Flexes out of metal armor (prior to power amp) (source)
- Tears apart chains (prior to power amp) (source)
- Busts out of solid rock (prior to power amp) (source)
- Breaks out of chains (prior to power amp) (source)
- Restrains Namorita even while underwater (prior to power amp) (source)
- Holds back Devil Dinosaur for a while (prior to power amp) (source)
- Tackles Warlock through a window and into a street, throwing several cars aside (after power amp) (source)
- Tears off a thick metal prison door and uses it as a shield and weapon (after power amp) (source)
Statements
- Silver Samurai says he could not withstand a second blow from Sunspot (prior to power amp) (source)
- Smashes boulders the size of houses before they crush him (prior to power amp) (source)
- Punch is said to be strong enough to pulverize a fair-sized building (prior to power amp) (source)
- Says he possesses the power to level a building (prior to power amp) (source)
- Is said to be the equal of Peter Rasputin, the X-Men’s Colossus (prior to power amp) (source)
- Throws a haymaker that would have staggered the Hulk (prior to power amp) (source)
- Refers to himself as the strongest mutant on the planet and says he is Hulk-level (after power amp) (source)
Durability
- Takes a punch from a super strong cyborg and shrugs it off (prior to power amp) (source)
- Cannonball hits him across the room and he seems fine (prior to power amp) (source)
- Falls 3 stories and crumples a car but seems fine (prior to power amp) (source)
- Survives being trampled by horses and run over by a chariot, then gets up and trashes the chariot (prior to power amp) (source)
- Knocked out by a punch from Thunderbird, currently known as Warpath (prior to power amp) (source)
- Gets hit in the face with a cudgel and keeps fighting, winning his match without realizing he was hurt (prior to power amp) (source)
- Hit with an even larger cudgel and swatted a distance away, rolling with the blow (prior to power amp) (source)
- Takes a punch from Blob and stands back up (prior to power amp) (source)
- Takes punches from Wolverine (prior to power amp) (source)
- KO’d by a piece of debris (limitation, prior to power amp) (source) ([Limitation])
- Takes a punch from Reignfire, a more powerful version of Sunspot (after power amp) (source)
- Slammed into the ground by Caliban, empowered to be in Hulk territory (after power amp) (source)
- Takes a beating from a super fast Legion (after power amp) (source)
- Iron Man refers to him as invulnerable (after power amp) (source)
- Takes a punch from Red Hulk that sends him flying, Red Hulk in weakened state (after power amp) (source) (Note: Red Hulk is in a weakened state)
- Takes a punch from Thing and gets up only to be swatted under a tree (after power amp) (source)
- Takes a pummeling from the Scientist Supreme (after power amp) (source)
- Gets shot in the arm and is pretty pissed about it (source)
- Takes a slash to the head from Sabretooth but seems fine a moment later (source)
- Slashed in the face and fights through it but is downed by a slash to the torso (source)
- A super fast Legion slashes his side with a piece of scrap metal (source)
- Says that his charged up form is insulated, although he can feel the heat of a burning car (prior to power amp) (source)
- Unbothered by touching a burning oak tree to throw it (prior to power amp) (source)
- Feels his skin smoldering at Legion’s flame but pushes through it (prior to power amp) (source)
- Takes a dip in lava (after power amp) (source)
- Takes a lava bolt from Magma (after power amp) (source)
- Survives a large explosion (source)
Speed
- Dodges an energy beam from a short distance away (source)
- Sidesteps Cannonball blasting at him (source)
- Powers up and punches a tree before it falls on him (source)
- Dodges around a spear point to blitz his attacker (source)
- Instinctively rolls with the impact of a rocket fist hitting him (source)
- Dodges a laser (source)
- Dodges an energy blast (source)
- Powers up and avoids an electrical attack when a trap springs (source)
- Evades energy beams in a death trap room using Danger Room training from X-Men days (source)
- Shoots Iron Fist from dead on with an energy blast (source)
- Dodges one of Warlock’s tendrils (source)
- Dodges a punch from Red Hulk (source)
Flight
- Learns to fly (source)
- Flies for 3 and a half hours and only gets stronger (source)
- Flies while carrying Forearm, a large mutant (source)
- Catches up to Cannonball (source)
- Flies a bomb a safe distance away from a city before it explodes (source)
- Lifts a car while flying (source)
- Flies fast enough to catch a falling person despite their head start (source)
- Flies in tight circles fast enough to create a vortex that softens an aircraft’s landing (source)
Energy Projection
- After experiments to overcharge with solar radiation, releases an explosion that creates a massive crater (source)
- Tears through trees with concussive blast (source)
- Staggers War Machine with concussive blast (source)
- Downs Gideon with concussive blast (source)
- KOs Psylocke with concussive blast (source)
- Blasts Sugar Man back with concussive blast (source)
- Brings down a tree with concussive blast (source)
- Blasts Silver Surfer through a wall with concussive blast (source)
- Creates a small fire with thermal blast (source)
- Creates a semi-circle of flame with thermal blast (source)
- Shoots a gun out of a henchman’s hand with thermal blast (source)
- Could burn metal restraints to slag with thermal blast (source)
- Melts a gun with thermal blast (source)
- Burns through some machinery with thermal blast (source)
- Burns nanites out of Red Hulk with thermal blast (source)
Energy Absorption
- Sunlight immediately recharges him, filling him with so much life energy it stuns Selene (source)
- During an experiment to increase his powers, absorbs over 3000% of what his capacity was believed to be prior (source)
- Reabsorbs his powers from Reignfire (source)
- Can power up with any amount of solar radiation that leaks through a spaceship (source)
- Absorbs excess energy from Abomination alongside Captain Marvel (source)
- Absorbs the Scientist Supreme’s energy blast, energizing him enough to end their brawl (source)
Other Power Information
- After power amp, can stay powered up indefinitely and needs to adjust to learning to power down (source)
- Thinks he may need no other sustenance than solar energy (source)
- Can shift between an incendiary state and a pure-heat state (source)
Skill/Intelligence
- Was training for the Olympics in soccer (source)
- Says he has judo training (source)
- Trained by Gideon, which he finds easy because of his years of training prior (source)
- Months of strenuous conditioning and acrobatic training save him from serious injury (source)
- Outfights Argos (source)
- Learned to use a sword, although says it was a waste of time (source)
- Survives a death trap room designed to shoot lasers because of similarity to Danger Room sessions he is well versed in (source)
- Out-plots the Maker (source)
