Sun Wukong (RWBY)

Sun Wukong, also known as Sparky and Monkey Boy, is a character from the RWBY series.
== Charactah Account ==
A monkey Faunus and leader of Team SSSN. Originally from Vacuo, he immigrated to Mistral, where he became a student at Haven Academy. He has a romantic interest in Blake and assists Team RWBY in investigating the activities of the White Fang and Roman Torchwick. His Semblance lets him generate clones of light.
Sun is shown to be fun-loving and mischievous, with little regard for the law - stowing away on a ship, thanking the crew for the ride during his escape, throwing a banana peel in a detective's face and stealing apples. He has a lot of self-confidence, referring to himself as a "great stowaway". He also has a strong crush on Blake Belladonna.
In conversation, Sun is very laid-back and casual. This translates to his choice of clothing - he heavily dislikes wearing formal attire. He is also kind and patient. When first meeting Blake, he is willing to listen to her story and waiting for her to open up for nearly two days, bearing with her "small talk and weird looks". He is not afraid to give his opinion and has a dislike for those who regard themselves as "holier than thou" or "use force to get whatever they want", such as the White Fang.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* RWBY: Ice Queendom
=== Comics ===
* RWBY
=== Literature ===
* RWBY: Before the Dawn
=== Manga ===
* RWBY
* RWBY: Ice Queendom
* RWBY: Official Manga Anthology
* RWBY: The Official Manga
=== Video Games ===
* RWBY: Amity Arena
=== Web-Animation ===
* RWBY
* RWBY Chibi
* RWBY Chibi Season 2
* RWBY Chibi Season 3
* RWBY Volume 2
* RWBY Volume 3
* RWBY Volume 4
* RWBY Volume 5
* RWBY Volume 6
* RWBY Volume 8
== Trivia ==
* Sun alludes to Sun Wukong from the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. For more information on this allusion, as well as other choices the creators made for this character, see Sun Wukong/Behind the Scenes. In "Of Runaways and Stowaways", he even makes a joke about a "Journey to the East".
* The character Sun Wukong is most commonly associated with the color gold. Incidentally, "Sun" is also the English word of the star of our solar system, which is associated with the color yellow.
* Sun Wukong is normally pronounced as "Suen Woo-cong", though as with many foreign names, this is not the case in RWBY.
* Sun's surname was originally spelled as "Wukon" in the Volume 1 credits.
* Miles Luna wrote the majority of Blake's scenes in Volume 4. When Blake is slapping Sun in "A Much Needed Talk", Miles only intended it to be softer slaps on the shoulder, so he was quite surprised by the end result.
* In the teaser trailer for Camp Camp, another animated series produced by Rooster Teeth, a figurine of Sun was briefly seen in the cubicle belonging to "Yssa".
* At the Death Battle Panel (RTX 2017) it was announced that Sun Wukong would be featured in a DBX against Kim Wu of the Killer Instinct Series and be animated by Torrian Crawford. A work in progress portion of the fight was shown on Rooster Teeth's 2017 ExtraLife livestream. The fight however was later canceled.
* In Episode 4 for gen:LOCK, another animated series produced by Rooster Teeth, one of the main characters, Kazu Iida, can be seen dressed as Sun in the Ether.
* Michael Jones and Kerry Shawcross, the voice actors of Sun and Neptune Vasilias respectively, have made it official that the ship name for their characters is "Sea Monkeys".
* Many Faunus have additional elements or traits in their design that tie into their animal traits: Sun Wukong likes climbing trees and ate a banana in his first appearance.
* Kerry Shawcross revealed that, contrary to popular belief, they didn't remove Sun's abs when they switched over to Autodesk Maya. They actually made Sun's model more muscular and his abs would be picked up by lighting and shadows instead.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sun Wukong at RWBY Wiki
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