Sunspot Propulsion

> "You ever get the feeling there's something he's not telling us?"
>
> "All the time, dad, all the time."
>
> -Carrot Propulsion and Jet Propulsion talking about Sunspot in *The Grandest Canyon*

**Sunspot** is Jet's alien pet and a major character in *Ready Jet Go!*.

## Personality

Sunspot is a Bortronian pet, a kind of a cross between a dog, cat, rabbit, and raccoon. While he can't speak at all, he likes to imitate the sounds of various other animals and is very expressive through body language and facial expressions. He can be pretty wacky and he has a good sense of humor.

He’s usually way ahead of what the kids are doing, thinking, or realizing. He is good at everything. He is usually prepared for just about anything and pulls needed objects out of nowhere.

He can be gluttonous and has a rather big appetite for Earth food, including hoagies.

He despises bathtubs, though he'll take a bath if it's in a lake. It was revealed that he had great-great-great grandmother in *Sunspot and the Great Red Spot*.

His status as a mere "pet" may be somewhat of a put-on: He knows how to read and can follow conversations, but often seems confused about what behaviors are expected from a pet. He is not very good at playing fetch.

## Appearance

Sunspot is a Bortronian pet alien with bead-like brown eyes and orange fur. He has a long tail that resembles that of a raccoon's. It has brown stripes. Sunspot has long bunny-like ears that are brown on the inside. He has a white splotch on his belly that resembles a sun.

## Trivia

* Sunspot's species is actually called Sunspots. They get their name from the sunspots on the sun, as well as the fact that they have splotches on their bellies that look like suns.
* He has many secret talents such as playing the harmonica, the concertina, the pan pipes, the flugelhorn, and the drums. But, he mostly plays the electric guitar.
* He is a member of the Great Red Spot Club.
* He and Jet are the only characters to appear in every episode of the series.
* The only words he had said are "No, thank you", "I am lovable, aren't I?", in *Sunspot's Sunspot*, and "No" in *Total Eclipse of the Sunspot*.
* He was revealed to be 899 Bortronian years old in *Earthday Birthday.* This makes him about 150 years old in Earth years. About as old as a tortoise.
* In *Ain't No Mars Mountain High Enough,* he joined the Space Summit Society.
* "Sunspot's Sunspot" reveals that he has a connection to the sunspots on the sun.
* He seems to sing in the songs What Goes Up (Must Come Down) and Super Saucer, though he could have been lip-syncing.
* Most dubs keep Sunspot’s name in English, but some dubs translate or change his name:
	+ Finnish: Sputnik (a reference to the famous satellite)
	+ Hungarian: Napfolt (“Sunspot”)
	+ Latin American Spanish: Mancha Solar (“Sunspot”) However, in the Spanish dub of Space Camp, he goes back to being called Sunspot. However, the Spanish subtitles of the movie still use Mancha Solar because they are copy-pasted from the original English script.
	+ Latvian: Saules Zaķis (“Sun Bunny”)
	+ Polish: Promyk ("Ray of sunshine")
	+ Russian: Лучик (“Little ray of sunshine”)
	+ Uzbek: Uchqun ("Spark")
* His character was inspired by several other fictional characters and one real life person:
	+ Gerald McBoing-Boing from the UPA cartoon of the same name, because they both communicate using sound effects
	+ Snoopy from Peanuts, because they are very smart pets
	+ R2-D2 from Star Wars, because they are both independent
	+ Harpo Marx of The Marx Brothers comedy group, because they both are pantomimes.
* Sunspot is ambidextrous.
* Sunspot is allergic to comet dust.
* Sunspot has two different backstories. In the first one, seen in *Sunday Drive*, Sunspot has lived with the Propulsions since Jet was a baby. However, *Space Camp* contradicts this, and subsequently creates a second backstory, by showing a fully-grown Jet adopting Sunspot during a flashback in Brother From Another Sunspot Mother. It is unknown which one of these is the correct story.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CvQJlkWvBKM/?img\_index=1

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