Knowing that those who have fallen prey to Weapon XII's influence are lost, Fantomex kills Darkstar and all others who are mentally connected to the creature.
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Packed full of people and animals that Weapon XII has turned into mindless slaves, confusion runs rampant. The three speed away in E.V.A., leaving the house and elderly woman behind.įantomex then leads Professor Xavier and Jean Grey to the Chunnel disaster. Finished, he asks Professor X and Jean Grey to accompany him back to the Chunnel in an effort to destroy Weapon XII. After submitting his proposal, he puts himself in a light hypnotic trance and removes the bullets that riddle his body.
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In fact, he tells the two that he has stolen sensitive information about the Weapon Plus project while in the Channel Tunnel, and offers to sell it to Professor Xavier for $1 billion. While there, he introduces them to his mother and continues to describe his success as a thief. (named, in yet another reference, after Diabolik's lover Eva Kant) to take Professor X and Jean Grey to his home in France. However, they agree to aid him, and after escaping the soldiers who surround the building, Fantomex uses his ship E.V.A. Neither Professor X nor Jean Grey are able to verify his claims due to his ceramic mask, a device that blocks their mental probes. Fantomex explains to Professor X and Jean Grey that he is being hunted because he is one of the most wanted thieves in Europe. Bleeding profusely from bullet wounds, he asks for asylum, which Professor X grants him. He claims to be a mutant thief with the ill-defined power of misdirection. He's developed a French sense of identity and persona whereas his experiment designation at the World facility was "Charlie Cluster-7", he usually goes by the name "Jean-Phillipe".ĭuring his first appearance, Fantomex seeks a safe haven at the X-Corporation in Paris while fleeing from authorities. Although his nationality is technically British as the World was located in England, Fantomex claims he was raised in a virtual France with imperfect programming. Like the rest of his people, he was born and raised in the World, a man-made environment designed to create super-sentinels, media-friendly mutant-hunters modeled after Saturday morning cartoons. His mother, a member of this race, became pregnant when she was fertilized with nanomachines, resulting in the birth of Fantomex. Weapon Plus created a population of technorganic organisms whose living tissue was fused with Sentinel nanotechnology at the cellular level. Fictional character biography Origin įantomex was created by the Weapon Plus Program to serve as a super-sentinel against Earth's mutant population. Fantomex's was added to the roster of the fourth volume of Astonishing X-Men with his apparent death in issue #6 and final appearance in issue #7. Fantomex returned to the X-Men in The Uncanny X-Men vol. Fantomex then was added to the short-lived X-Force vol.
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That series ran for 35 issues and explored Fantomex's background and developed his character. įantomex then made sporadic guest appearances with the X-Men until October 2010 when he has a permanent member of the new Uncanny X-Force with Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña as the creative team. In this series, the character of Fantomex is a more literal take on the Diabolik character, with a storyline less influenced by traditional superhero plots, skewing more towards the concepts of intrigue and James Bond-tinged adventure. The series does not take place in current Marvel continuity, and the character is not affiliated with any other Marvel characters. In July 2013, Marvel announced the character's first solo series, Fantomex MAX, written by Andrew Hope, and illustrated by Shawn Crystal. In addition, his Weapon X designation-"Weapon XIII"-is a reference to the secret agent protagonist of the Franco-Belgian comic XIII. Fantomex's name, Jean-Phillipe, is a reference to actor John Phillip Law, star of Danger: Diabolik. The character of Diabolik was in turn loosely based on the character Fantômas, the subject of a series of early-20th century French detective thrillers and a popular Mexican comic book adaptation, whose name is more directly reflected in Fantomex's own name.