Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-241978-20140407150551/@comment-241978-20140417161842

Yeah, Verdona was disappointed Ben didn't have powers, and Sunny's parents are mentioned in the plural. So anodites can be male. There's probably an alternate timeline where Ben has anodite powers.

Although it's really weird that Sunny parentage isn't explained. Her surname is Tennyson according to the credits, which means that either her father is the third son of Max who is oddly never mentioned or that anodites don't use surnames and it's her mothers maiden name, and her mother is never mentioned by the Tennyson family either. If the credits were a production error, then that means Verdona had a relationship with another man at roughly the same time she did with Max since Sunny is the same age as Gwen and Ben, which is odd considering that she still has strong feelings for Max and openly wishes that he was an anodite because of his great mana.

So I'm assuming that Sunny's half-human dad/mom is the black sheep of the family to explain why no one ever mentions him/her. Since the real reason is because the producers made Sunny up for that episode without thinking about how this would affect the Tennyson family dynamics we already saw so far. Although they don't seem to blame Sunny for what her Tennyson parent did and are probably on good terms with her pure anodite parent.