Sunny

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Sunny is Gwen and Ben's Anodite cousin who appears in the episode Girl Trouble. She is also Verdona's granddaughter.

Appearance

In Ultimate Alien, in her human disguise, Sunny was the spitting image of Gwen, with the exceptions of her having black hair that hung free, instead of red hair in a ponytail, and dark blue eyes rather than green eyes. Her lips, height, and facial features were identical to Gwen's. She wore a purple T-shirt, a black mini-skirt and black leather boots.

Like Verdona, she was able to switch between her human and Anodite forms; however, unlike Gwen, she did it much more freely, where she literally takes off her human skin like taking off a costume. Interestingly, despite it only being a disguise, Antonio recognizes it immediately (suggesting she's worn it before on other planets).

In Omniverse, in her human disguise, Sunny is the spitting image of Gwen again, right down to the attire, only with black and purple theme colors for the attire. Her lips are black and she has purple eyes instead of green eyes. She wears purple glasses.

Sunny's Anodite form

Personality

Being an Anodite, Sunny is a free spirit that cannot be caged. However, it turned her into a spoiled brat.^[1][2]

Also, she has little to no regard to what is around her and will often attack anything just for the sake of fun, and has limited self-control. Additionally, she seems to hate it when people do fun things without her.

She also hates people who tattle to her parents.

Sunny has respect (and slight fear) of her grandmother Verdona.

When Verdona stated that Gwen is her favorite grandchild, this made Sunny angry, showing a jealous side of her.

She is quite flirtatious and has had eyes for other men besides her boyfriend Antonio; particularly Kevin.

History

Background

Sunny was playmates with Gwen in their toddler days, though the full extent of their history is currently unknown.^[2]

Ultimate Alien

Sunny was banished to Earth by her parents because she was dating and in love with an alien named Antonio, who appeared to be disliked by the family for hanging out with a bad crowd.

She was exiled to Frank and Natalie's house for the summer (much to Natalie's chagrin and Gwen's annoyance). But when she caused more trouble on Earth than she did on Anodyne (almost unleashing a nuclear explosive on Bellwood), Verdona fetched her and took her back to their home planet.

Omniverse

Sunny reappeared in The Most Dangerous Game Show, where she is among the contestants to compete for Ben's hand in marriage. However, she was quickly eliminated before the competition started after Ben told Zenith that they were cousins.

Powers and Abilities

Sunny is an Anodite and, like Gwen and Verdona, is able to freely manipulate mana.

Sunny seems to be an "energy being", in that she does not have an innate body aside from her Anodite form.

Sunny has a broader knowledge and more control over mana than Gwen, and she can make a human body for her Anodite form to inhabit. This is due to that fact that she was presumably trained in the use of her powers, unlike Gwen who is self-taught.

As opposed to Gwen, Sunny can fly and can easily destroy several Robots from Dimension 12.

Also, during her fight against her cousin, she proved to be able to absorb or "shatter" Gwen's energy attacks.

Sunny possesses enhanced strength, like other Anodites.

In her Anodite form, Sunny is able to use her hair for a variety of purposes, such as grasping beings and objects, and attacking others.

Weaknesses

Being an energy being, Sunny is vulnerable to having her powers absorbed by a being with absorption capabilities, such as Kevin Levin or Michael Morningstar.

However, she does have a great fear of her grandmother Verdona as her powers dwarf those of Sunny's. She is also fearful of her due to her status as the family's matriarch.

Appearances

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

Season 2

• Girl Trouble (first appearance)

Ben 10: Omniverse

Season 8

• The Most Dangerous Game Show (first reappearance; cameo)

Love Interests

Antonio

Sunny and Antonio have a deep love for each other, and are not ashamed of demonstrating it; even to the extreme. She flauntingly brags about him from time to time; which annoys anyone unfortunate enough to be within earshot of her.

Sunny's parents do not like her hanging out with him; assuming that he is a bad influence on her (ironically this doesn't seem to be the case, as Sunny is shown to be a lot worse than him). They sent their daughter to Earth as an attempt to separate the couple.

Antonio is basically Sunny's slave, and he does whatever she tells him to. Sometimes when he looks at her, he gets dazed.

Sometime before The Most Dangerous Game Show, Sunny and Antonio broke up.

Kevin Levin

Despite her apparent love for Antonio, Sunny is quite flirtatious and is not above philandering with other men; particularly Kevin, whom she teasingly refers to as "Muscles" which Kevin enjoys. Gwen reprimanded her for this. Still, she tries to sway him from his relationship with Gwen by saying "What do you see in her, Muscles? She's such a goody-goody! Wouldn't you have more fun with a wild girl?" When Gwen yells "I'm right here Sunny," Sunny pretends she doesn't like Kevin by talking about Antonio.

Trivia

• Sunny and Albedo share many similarities.
  • They are counterparts of Ben and Gwen respectively, both in appearance (with inverted color scheme) and powers (both are stronger than the heroes).
  • Both are jealous of their counterparts.
  • Both have the same voice actor/actress as their counterparts.
• Sunny is also similar to Charmcaster, as both are primarily Gwen's enemies with similar powers to her.
  • Both fear a relative of theirs (Hex for Charmcaster, Verdona for Sunny).
• Unlike Gwen, whose mana projection is translucent pink in color, Sunny's has a brighter, opaque one.
• If Sunny's Anodite form, nicknamed 'Unlucky Girl', appeared in Omniverse, it would resemble Gwen's Anodite form with the color scheme changed, just like her human form in the series.^{[DJW 1]}
• Sunny is based on Serena from Bewitched.^{[MW 1]}
• Sunny bears a resemblance to both Mandy from Totally Spies! and Blackfire from Teen Titans (both in appearance and personality). She also bears similarity to the Bewitched character Serena, in that she looks identical to her cousin (except for the fact that she's a brunette instead of a redhead) and also has a remarkably different personality than her cousin.

References

Crew Statements

Derrick J. Wyatt

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