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"Arclight, use your shock waves! Target those weapons!"
―Magneto[src]

Arclight (born Philippa Sontag) was a mutant who had the ability to create shockwaves. She later joined the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Biography[]

Appearance[]

Philippa Sontag (aka Arclight) is a very thin and tall androgynous woman with no apparent signs of being able to speak. She has short gelled curly cue hair. She wears a fishnet tank top with a visible black bra underneath. Throughout the film she is seen wearing a black cropped leather jacket over it and tight gray pants with purple gloves on her hands. Her facial structure seems impassive throughout the film and hardly shows any form of expression.

History[]

Arclight joined the Brotherhood when Callisto and the other Omegas joined. She is seen alongside Callisto and Psylocke in the church where the mutants have a meeting about the cure. Magneto interrupts, giving a speech about why humans shouldn't be trusted. Callisto nods at Arclight to join her as she confronts Magneto.

She is then seen slightly jogging to catch up with the other mutants as they wait for Magneto and Pyro to free Mystique and recruit newer mutants.

Arclight is present when they try to recruit Jean Grey outside of her childhood home. She stands outside guarding the door from Wolverine and Storm. As Storm closes in with her swinging flight technique, Arclight walks toward her but soon realizes she's in trouble as she tries to dodge Storm, but ends up being struck by lightning that knocks her unconscious to the ground.

After coming to, Arclight returned to The Forest, where she finds Magneto arguing with Pyro and began following him across the undergrowth. She stood impassively behind Pyro and to the left of Callisto, while Magneto gave a speech to rouse all of the Omegas to action.

Battle of Alcatraz[]

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Arclight targeting the plastic guns.

Subsequently, Arclight joined the army for an assault on Worthington Labs, marching with the evil mutants on the Golden Gate Bridge. Magneto uses his powers to move the bridge and then proceeds to drop the bridge prompting her to briefly fall down with the others. Upon catching up with him, she prepared to charge at the enemy, but Magneto holds her and the other mutants back, insisting that "the pawns go first". Arclight watched the battle unfold with her usual impassive demeanor. As the soldiers aim to shoot the mutants on the bridge with the cure, she is seen ducking as the needles get near. Magneto stops them and Arclight is seen in shock trying catch her balance. As she finds her composure, she is roused to action when Magneto shouts orders at her to deploy her powers. She confidently walks to the front to prepare her shockwave. Her hams shake as she waits for Magneto to drop the barrier in front of them. She gasps loudly as she unleashes seismic charges with her hands. She blasted the plastic mutant cure guns to pieces.

Hassle

Arclight and Quill manhandling Worthington II.

Magneto made a silent gesture to Arclight and Quill to target Warren Worthington II and kill him. Both of them arrived in his chamber. He tried to flee, only for Psylocke to materialize out of nowhere and corner him. When Worthington confessed to inventing the cure, Arclight and Psylocke seized him and began to forcibly escort him to the roof. They were joined by Quill. The President begged for his life, but Arclight ignored him and threw him overboard. However, Angel intervened and rescued him.[1]

Death[]

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Arclight's death.

During Phoenix's destruction, Arclight, Quill, and Psylocke were terrified and fled the complex, attempting to leave the Golden Gate Bridge before it was too late. However, she made contact with them as they burst out through the doors. Arclight was instantly disintegrated and turned to dust, and the dust floated away and collided with what was left of Quill and Psylocke.[1]

Personality[]

Arclight was a sinister, cold, mysterious, emotionless, remorseless and devilish individual who would not hesitate to kill or in the very least brutally disarm anyone who stood in her way. She was arguably far darker in overall nature than even Magneto himself. She seemed to be only and completely committed to her cause, the Omegas, willingly joining the Brotherhood of Mutants when her mistress Callisto joined Magneto, in order to continue serving the Omegas. She was an extremely silent henchman who often stood by impassively while her new master tended to his affairs yet refusing to wander far from him.

Given her masculine facial features and hair, sexualized clothes, and tomboyish demeanor, she is considered to be androgynous.

Powers[]

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  • Shockwave Generation: Arclight could direct a wave of seismic energy by swinging her arms in front of her body and clapping them together. She could cause her shockwaves to target specific objects, such as when she used them to target the plastic mutant cure guns.

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Trivia[]

  • In the comics, Arclight is a member of the Marauders.
  • Although Arclight is 35 years old, Omahyra Mota was only 22 when she portrayed her.

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