Fantomex

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Fantomex in X-Force v4 #4.

Fantomex is a make comic character that features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Charlie Cluster-7 in New X-Men v1 #143.

Fantomex was a product of the clandestine Weapon Plus program that was developed a breed of super-sentinel that was to be used against Earth's Mutant population. Weapon XIII was created at the secret facility known as the World where he was bred from a population of techno-organic organisms whose living tissue was merged with Sentinel nanotechnology on a cellular level. The subject's mother was a member of this civilization and she became pregnant and was fertilized with nanomachines leading to the birth of Charlie Cluster-7. Inside the World, the subject who later took the name of Fantomex was raised in a man-made environment designed to create media-friendly Mutant hunting super-sentinels. He grew within a virtual France setting that had imperfect programming despite the World being situated in England.

During his development, the figure known as Mother was known to had briefly visited him where she instilled in him values that were counter to the ruthless Mutant hunting programming of the World. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #5)

On one of his missions, he was partnered with fellow Weapon Plus agent known as the Skinless Man but later abandoned his comrade to be captured.

Assault on Weapon Plus

Master thief in New X-Men v1 #129.

Fantomex later sought refuge from the authorities at the X-Corporation branch in Paris. Once there, he encountered Professor X and Jean Grey where he claimed that he was a Mutant thief. Suffering from bleeds caused by bullet wounds, he requested asylum that was granted by Xavier. Fantomex claimed that he was being hunted as he was the most wanted thief in Europe but the two X-Men were unable to corroborate this as they were unable to use telepathic probes as his mask blocked such attempts at reading his mind. Despite this being the case, they aided him and helped him escape from the soldiers that had surrounded the X-Corporation building. With his ship E.V.A., he managed to take Professor X and Jean Grey to his home in France where he introduced them to his 'mother'. It was then that he revealed that he had stolen information from the Weapon Plus program whilst in Chunnel and offered to sell this data to them in exchange for $1 billion. After treating his wounds, he asked the pair to accompany him to Chunnel in order Weapon XII with the two departing onboard E.V.A.

Dark Reign

Afterwards, Wolverine along with Noh-Varr approached Fantomex where they informed him that forces from H.A.M.M.E.R. sought to acquire the abandoned World facility. The three decided to deny the organization the facility where they infiltrated the structure only to face its inhabitants that were under the control of the Weapon Plus project known as Allgod. (Dark Reign: The List - Wolverine v1 #1)

X-Force

Fantomex in X-Force v4 #12.

Wolverine later recruited Fantomex to join a new incarnation of X-Force where he offered him a place that he could do good. The team was co-led by Warren Worthington III and consisted initially of them alongside Psylocke and Deadpool. (Wolverine: Road to Hell v1 #1) Their first assignment was to find an eliminate a newly created clone of Apocalypse that had been bred by Clan Akkaba. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #1) He joined the team on their mission where they helped free Deadpool who had been captured by the secret society. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #2) They pursued their quarry who had relocated on-board Ship and departed for the Moon leading to a confrontation with the Final Horsemen that were protectors of the reborn Apocalypse. The team were overwhelmed by their attackers and nearly killed but Fantomex used his misdirection powers to make their enemies miss them allowing them to escape to continue their mission. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #3) Alongside Wolverine, he used his powers of misdirection to cause Akkaba's Ship to prevent its matter jump to another site and helped strand the Final Horseman on another planet. Fantomex and Wolverine then arrived in the inner sanctum to find that Apocalypse was in the form of an innocent young boy. Psylocke moved to protect the child as she intended to have him taken elsewhere to be raised in peace to prevent him from adopting his former persona. This was opposed by Angel who battled his comrades as he intended to murder the child but could not commit the act. As X-Force prepared to exist with the child, Fantomex fired a bullet into the head of the young En Sabah Nur thus killing him with the team then departing on E.V.A. before Ship jumped to another site. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #4) Afterwards, he returned to his home in the French Alps where he was investigating strange activity within the World. He noted that some unknown presence had been manipulating the technology within the laboratory to create a new danger that was Project: Infinity. Philips home was then attacked by a horde of alternate reality Deathlok warriors that were tasked with securing the World and protecting Infinity. In their attack, they destroyed Fantomex's home, stole the World and killed Mother with Philip barely surviving due to the actions of E.V.A. which was when he encountered Deathlok Prime. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #5)

Through the White Sky facility, the members of X-Force managed to restore Fantomex to life but the technology detected three brains in the subject. As such, it mistakenly believed that there were three subjects and grew a clone for each of his three brains. Thus, Fantomex was regrown but his secondary and tertiary brain formed the female Cluster along with the villainous Weapon XIII.

Xavier then approached him with the idea of a trade allowing the Professor to exist in the material world in the others body with Fantomex agreeing. As a result, Fantomex's mind resided in an idyllic spot within the astral plane whilst Xavier was reborn in his body whereupon he took the name of X. In an effort to check Fantomex, Psylocke went into the astral plane where she found him there and confirming X's proposal to him. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #7) X had used Fantomex's body as building material in the creation of a vessel for his consciousness thus it served as a brand new body for himself. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #9)

Overview

Personality and attributes

After being raised in a France setting in the World, Fantomex developed a French sense of identity and persona.

He considered altruism being counter to his nature as he was ultimately a mercenary. Jean-Philipe claimed that he stole for the adventure, adrenaline, sex, sport and other pleasures. However, Wolverine believed Fantomex stole to take his mind away from his purpose as an engineered weapon designed to kill Mutants. It was believed that it was a constant struggle to fight the nanoblood in his body that urged him to kill. (Wolverine: Road to Hell v1 #1)

Despite his origin, he was noted for a desire to do good which stemmed from ethics taught to him by Mother whose voice he could hear loudest in his mind. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #5)

Jean-Philipe was noted to had been deeply attracted to Psylocke. (Wolverine: Road to Hell v1 #1) This led to him flirting with her despite knowing that she was in a relationship with Warren Worthington III. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #1)

He came to earn Wolverine's trust by taking him to the World in an effort to showcase the manipulation done to him by the Weapon X program. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #7)

Powers and abilities

He was able to place himself into a light hypnotic trance in order to treat any wounds such as the removal of bullets that riddled his body.

This healing factor allowed him to repair injuries with nanotechnology and other machines that helped him manage pain. (Astonishing X-Men v4 #9)

Fantomex was able to draw on fight techniques from his multiple brains. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #7)

He kept by his side the World facility that was in a shrunken state thanks to technology taken from Doctor Doom. This allowed him to keep the laboratory portable and he could shrink to enter into it at anytime where he could make use of its various equipment. The time dilation effects within had caused the laboratory to create new life that was entirely of its own that developed in new and strange ways with millions of years of progress along with evolution coming to it. For a time, he kept Ultimaton as a guard as the super-soldier had been revived and made to serve Fantomex. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #5)

Notes

• Fantomex was created by Grant Morrison and Igor Kordey where he made his first appearance in New X-Men v1 #128 (August, 2002).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Video games

• In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Fantomex appeared as a character in the Facebook video game. It was said that little was known about the cunning thief due to his lies and telepathic illusions. According to his backstory, he was created by the same program that made Wolverine with him being artificially evolved in the virtual reality domain called 'The World'. He had superhuman reflexes, markanship and discipline that when combined with his sentient techno-organic ship E.V.A. made him both a dangerous enemy or ally.
• In Marvel: War of Heroes, Fantomex as Charlie-Cluster 7 appeared as a playable card in the video game.
• In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, Fantomex appeared on a card in the iOS video card game.

Appearances

• New X-Men v1:
• Uncanny X-Force v1:
• Wolverine and the X-Men:
• X-Force:
• Astonishing X-Men:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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