Fantomex
Fantomex is a make comic character that features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
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.
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
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.
X-Force
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. (Uncanny X-Force v1 #3)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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:
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