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    Fantomex

    Character » Fantomex appears in 891 issues.

    Fantomex is a highly evolved and technologically advanced mutate, developed by the Weapons Plus program to be Weapon Xlll. He is highly cunning, skilled in misdirection, and has a ship that is an extension of his nervous system named E.V.A.

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    Origin

    Fantomex is one of the more recent creations of the Weapon Plus program. Fantomex was born and artificially evolved in The World, an artificial world made for creating super-soldiers using Sentinel technology. He was designed as Weapon XIII, has gone by the alias of Jean-Phillipe (or Jean-Phillipe Charles), and was designated the name Charlie Cluster 7 in The World.

    Creation

    Fantomex was created by Grant Morrison and Igor Kordey and first appeared in New X-Men #128 (2002).

    Character Evolution

    Fantomex is heavily based on Diabolik, an Italian comic book anti-hero. The name is borrowed from Fantômas, a French anti-hero whom Diabolik in turn is based on. Another reference to Diabolik is that both have partners named Eva / E.V.A.. After his debut he appeared occasionally to aide the X-Men during Nation X before Wolverine asked him to join Uncanny X-Force

    Major Story Arcs

    X-Corporation

    Fantomex
    Fantomex

    Fantomex first appeared seeking sanctuary in the X-Corporation while fleeing from the authorities, just after Professor X had announced to the world that any mutant could find such protection from them. He was able to break in unnoticed and sneak up on both Xavier as well as Jean Grey. Their telepathy was unable to detect anything in his mind except flowers due to the telepathic shielding he wore. He was badly injured from previously fighting and escaping from the authorities, and the building was quickly becoming surrounded by an international task-force charged with hunting him down. Fantomex said that he was a master mutant thief. Besides being able to tell them their own intentions by reading their body language he demonstrated an ability that he referred to as misdirection, which made the authorities around the building see a cloud of smoke surrounding the floors around them.

    He asks for asylum, is bleeding badly from a bullet wound, and Professor X grants it conditionally. He explains to Jean Grey and Professor X that he is one of the most wanted thieves in Europe. His mask stops them from reading his mind, and therefore from confirming his claims, but they agree to aid him. After escaping the building once it was surrounded by soldiers, Fantomex introduced E.V.A., his biological ship, and they use her to escape. He then takes Jean and Professor Xavier to his “home” in France, where he introduces them to his “mother” and continues to tell them about his life as a thief.

    In a large loft surrounded by immense historical relics of museum quality he tells them that he stole information from Weapon Plus, and offers to sell it to them for one billion dollars. Admitting he really didn't need the money, and understanding how bad the information he had was needed by the X-Men, he knew what Xavier's fortune was last valued at and was curious to see how he would act when given such a moral conundrum. He then puts himself into a state of auto-hypnosis, allowing him to perform self-surgery and removes the bullets he had received. He then offers a place for Professor X and Jean to accompany him to hunt down Weapon XII, and the three leave the house and the elderly woman.

    With the New X-Men

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    At this point several members of X-Corporation were in danger. Weapon Plus had staged an accident in the chunnel, releasing a mutant of unknown power. On the way Fantomex informs them of the true nature of the Weapon Plus program, including the Weapon X program. Until this point it was believed that the program that created Wolverine was named Weapon X. Fantomex told them that it wasn't 'X', but was the Roman Numeral for 10. Wolverine was created not as a single experiment in creating a living weapon, but was only the tenth generation of living weapons produced by the program. He described what he knew of the other stages of the program, including Huntsman who was Weapon XII. Huntsman was the mutant that was released into the chunnel, and had a bacterial mind which allowed him to integrate any living being he touched as an extension of his body. This network could continue to infect others. He said that Huntsman was engineered using nano-sentinel technology and artificially evolved in The World, a place where time could be artificially manipulated to speed up the evolutionary process.

    With Weapon X

    Fantomex and Wolverine
    Fantomex and Wolverine

    They finally arrived at the site of the disaster where Huntsman has already turned hundreds of humans and animals into mindless slaves. Fantomex then proceeds to kill off those under Huntsman's control in order to get to the train wreckage, knowing that there is no escape for them. When Fantomex and Jean Grey get to the wreckage there are two open pods, one which formerly housed Weapon XII, and the other for Weapon XIII. Fantomex’s mask had come slightly open at the back, allowing Jean to get a glimpse of his true identity. It turns out that Fantomex is actually Weapon XIII, and had escaped from the chunnel during the disaster. He assures Jean that, even though he is not the thief he told her he was, he was setting out to gain that reputation. He assures her that he intends to be no one’s soldier, and that despite everything she knew her posture told him that she found him too attractive to turn over to the authorities. Jean reluctantly allows him to escape as the authorities were arriving at the tunnel. While they were talking at the wreckage Professor X and Madrox were able to kill Huntsman. He later travels to Afghanistan to steal a list of the richest mutant slave traders, planning on using it as blackmail. While there, he discovers an unconscious Dust, and gives her to Wolverine, who he also encountered.

    Assault on Weapon Plus

    Fantomex later contacts Wolverine and offers him information on his past if he helps in the destruction of Weapon XV, the last Weapon created by Weapon Plus. Wolverine accepts the offer, and takes Cyclops with him. They go to The World. The three are defeated by Ultimaton (Weapon XV). They pursued him in E.V.A. to the Weapon Plus Space Station. Fantomex gives Wolverine the Weapon Plus Database, upholding his part of their deal, and Wolverine is shocked by what he did. He activated the self destruct mechanism on the space station before attacking (and killing) Ultimaton. Scott and Fantomex escape the space station before it explodes. Fantomex then helps the X-Men fight Xorn and his newly gathered Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

    Fantomex later tracked down John Sublime, the director of the Weapon Plus project, but when he went to his grave it was empty and only had the message "Roanoke." He traveled along with Wolverine and Agent Zero to Roanoke to search for answers. They are ambushed by Sublime’s men, and in an attempt to escape, Fantomex is shot down and presumed dead. He later reappears and helps Mystique against Quiet Man.

    Dark Reign

    Fantomex was on a mission to destroy a group of robotically resurrected corpses created by Norman Osborn when he encountered Wolverine and Noh-Varr. Wolverine became mind controlled by a robotic entity (created by Osborn and others) pretending to be God. Fantomex and Noh-Varr remained unharmed because neither believed in a higher power (Fantomex revealing he had gone so far as to have a chip implanted in his brain preventing him from worshiping anything, though he may have been lying). Fantomex held off the corpses and Wolverine long enough for Noh-Varr to reach the entity. He then told Noh-Varr that the only way to calm the entity down was to kiss it (because it was replicating a female's hormonal changes). Noh-Varr reluctantly did so and the threat was eliminated. Fantomex then ran off.

    Nation X

    Fantomex crosses paths with the X-Men once again after a number of Predator-Xs are sent in to kill them. The Predators-Xs were being controlled by a group of humans with mutant powers lead by Lobe who wanted to use the beasts as spies to study mutants to be able to evolve all humans to their level. Fantomex ran into a group of X-Men tracking a Predator through the sewers and was convinced to help them. He was instrumental in their success because the U-Men's leader Lobe knew about all the X-Men but knew nothing about Fantomex. E.V.A is able to destroy Lobe's database systems which stored all his gathered mutant information and was giving his side the edge. E.V.A also protects the X-Men from the deadly virus HX-N1. Lobe released it to allow him to escape. Fantomex is also able to take samples to provide a cure. Fantomex continues to remain close to the X-Men after helping to battle the horde of Sentinels that attacked Utopia after Hope Summers returned to the present.

    The Apocalypse Solution

    Uncanny X-Force
    Uncanny X-Force

    While breaking into the Tower of London, Fantomex uses his power of misdirection to sway two guards from guarding a door. He then asks E.V.A. to produce a lock; only to find that Wolverine has beat him to the stash. Fantomex loses the bet and owes Wolverine a case of Henri IV Dudognon Cognac and the two meet up with the rest of X-Force. When traveling across the Atlantic, he has some inappropriate banter with Psylocke which puts Archangel on edge. Upon arrival, they storm the temple of the Akkaba and Fantomex notes to himself that this is not the X-Men, “This is something quite different”. They are attacked by the horseman War who possesses Wolverine. Psylocke reads his mind and finds that it is filled with gruesome thoughts. Fantomex uses his misdirection to suggest to the monster that Psylocke is the girl for him. Having no room in his mind for such thoughts, War simply explodes. The team recovers their missing operative, Deadpool and evacuate just in time as the temple explodes. Their mission, to kill Apocalypse.

    Fantomex is seen being decapitated by Archangel in preparation for Apocalypse before Warren walks in and interrupts the simulation. He returns to tracking Apocalypse’s celestial technology with a sample of Cable’s blood while Deadpool “assisted”. They both agree on joining X-Force for the money. Fantomex locates Apocalypse on the blue area of the moon and they take off in E.V.A. Once they arrive, they are attacked by War who corrupts E.V.A’s mind and they crash into the moon. The team scatters while Wolverine and Fantomex take on War. Wolverine manages to keep him busy long enough for Fantomex to hit him with a grenade, knocking him into low level orbit. They turn around only to be taken down by Death and the rest of the regrouped Horsemen.

    Death hits X-Force with Bubonic Consumption, Pox and Black Death and Wolverine is the only one able to heal quick enough to take him down. Famine steps into his place and pins down Fantomex and Psylocke. Fantomex allows Psylocke to enter his mind and shut down his ears and pain receptors, however she is struck from behind by War. Pestilence turns around and begins to beat on Fantomex until he misdirects her to believe he is her father and disapproves of her. He breaks her jaw and goes on to save Wolverine who is taking a beating from Death, by switching him with Pestilence. Debris from Apocalypse's ship starts to fall and crush Wolverine and Fantomex as it begins to teleport. Wolverine demands Fantomex to misdirect the ship to believe it has already teleported and it works. They storm the ship and tear through several members of the Akkaba before Pestilence has bugs eat out Wolverine's brain and Death constricts Fantomex in a rug. Fantomex actually misdirected the whole thing and really had E.V.A. take Death, Pestilence and Famine to a hostile alien planet.

    As Fantomex & Wolverine head towards Apocalypse, they rejoin with Archangel and Deadpool. They break into Apocalypse's chamber only to find that he is only a child and Psylocke is already there with him. Archangel loses control and takes off after the child and tears through Wolverine and Psylocke to do so. Warren is ultimately unable to kill the child and as the team stands there leaning towards possibly saving the child, Fantomex buts a bullet between his eyes. The team board E.V.A. and return to Earth in silence.

    Fantomex and X-Force follow up on a call for help from the mutant Gateway in Australia. Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers are planning an attack on Utopia by sending suicide bombers to the island. As Wolverine, Deadpool and Fantomex approach one of the Reavers, he detonates and badly injures Fantomex. Fantomex spends the rest of the battle recovering from his wounds while the rest of X-Force stops Deathstrike and the Reavers.

    Deathlok Nation

    Fantomex vs. Deathloks
    Fantomex vs. Deathloks

    Fantomex is searching within the World when he discovers a sentient weapon called Weapon Infinity. He sets out to find its creator but first visits the woman who raised him in the French Alps. They are attacked by Deathloks merged with Cyclops, Elektra and other super heroes. His mother is killed and the world is stolen by Captain America-lok. Fantomex escapes in E.V.A. only to land and find the original Deathlok willing to aid him. They retake the World from Captain America-lok but are attacked again by X-Force-lok. They are able to escape again and are finally aided by the real X-Force. They learn that the future is taken over by Deathloks merged with all the heroes and used as a police force. To stop it they must travel to the World and kill the "Father". Fantomex expands the World as he, X-Force and Deathlok enter it to find Father. They split up and Deadpool pairs off with Fantomex. The two argue and split up when Fantomex is misdirected by Fantomex-lok into revealing the entrance to his lab. He is saved by Ultimaton his lab guard but attacked again by Wolverine-lok and Deadpool-lok. The two savagely beat down on Fantomex who is only saved when Deadpool finds and kills Father and all of his Deathloks disappear. Fantomex leaves his lab and it is revealed he is growing a child Apocalypse.

    After Deathlok Nation, the original Deathlok joins Uncanny X-Force & Fantomex gives him a tour of their base. They discuss whether or not they should destroy the World before it falls into the wrong hands as Fantomex asks that they lock it away. Fantomex and the team follow up on Deadpool who is checking out an army base and has gone silent. Before entering the base, Fantomex makes a snide remark towards Warren for his dependency on Psylocke who recons on the Astral Plane. Shadow King is revealed to be controlling everyone at the base which houses nuclear weapons. He takes control of Archangel, Deadpool and Wolverine and turns them against Fantomex who runs to protect Betsy. Fantomex is able to misdirect them and buy Betsy time to defeat Shadow King on the Astral Plane but not before he is able to find Warren's Death persona. With Shadow King defeated, his control over the base is released.

    Dark Angel Saga

    A reporter is approached by Shadow King, who brings him evidence and asks him to reveal the existence of X-Force to the public. The reporter calls his boss with the story who happens to work for Warren Worthington who in turn alerts him as well. Archangel kills the first reporter and is on his way to silence the second when Fantomex and the rest of X-Force arrive to stop him. Psylocke is able to incapacitate him long enough for them to contain him and return him to their base. The team asks Dark Beast to take a look at Archangel and he determines he is in his ascension stage and can only be saved by using a life seed from the Age of Apocalypse. Dark Beast escorts them to the Age of Apocalypse and to his lab where they retrieve his life seed. They are instantly attacked by Sunfire, Nightcrawler, Sabretooth and Wild Child. Fantomex misdirects Nightcrawler into believing he killed Deadpool and is able to knock him out. Sunfire destroys the life seed before they are able to explain and Dark Beast deserted them during the fight. The A of A X-men take X-Force to their underwater base to figure out their plan. Fantomex & Psylocke argue in private over whether her feelings for Warren are true and if she's denying herself her true feelings. She punches him in the face before kissing him passionately and storming away. They come up with a plan to take a life seed from a nearby fallen Celestial and return home by finding A of A Gateway. Fantomex, X-Force and the A of A X-Men storm the facility holding Gateway but are stopped by several doppelgangers known as the Black Legion as well as A of A Wolverine who is that universe's Apocalypse who Fantomex misdirects in an effort to escape.

    Trial of Fantomex

    In the wake of the Dark Angel Saga, Fantomex is attacked and arrested by the Captain Britain Corps. and taken to Otherworld to be put on trial for the murder of the child who would be Apocalypse. Presided over by Judge Saturnyne and prosecuted by Jamie Braddock. Fantomex's reason for being tried concerns his status as an omni-versal anomaly, as there are no alternate versions of Fantomex that appear anywhere in the Marvel multiverse, as well as his reputation as an unrepentant murderer. After a short show trial, Fantomex is sentenced to be executed via molecular deconstruction. As his sentence is carried out and he is injected with the anti-reality serum, Psylocke, who has stolen her Captain Britain suit, uses it's super strength and flight to free Fantomex. In order to stop the serum from erasing him completely, Psylocke brings him to the Forest of Sorrows where she makes a deal for his life. After he is saved, he confronts her about it asking what he did to deserve being saved, to which she states she doesn't know. He then reveals to her that he manipulated her so that she would doubt her love for Warren to enable her to kill him.

    As the two make their way to an Earth portal they are attacked the Skinless Man, Weapon III of the Weapon plus program, and old colleague of Fantomex. He asks Fantomex where his skin is, who is revealed to have stolen and used it to make sentient bullets. In return Skinless Man decides to skin Fantomex, beginning with his face, forcing Psylocke to watch. Before he can move on to the rest of Fantomex's body, Psylocke cleverly incapacitates the Skinless Man.

    Final Execution

    Fantomex and Betsy are able to escape but not before Betsy is forced to kill her own brother, Jamie through her brother Brian's hands. He attends the funeral at her side and after the service she decides to sleep with him. The next morning, Psylocke tries to leave without speaking to Jean Phillipe and denies that their night was anything more than a one night stand. Fantomex informs Logan he will be quitting X-Force and leaves for Paris. While home he hosts an extravagant party with all sorts of entertainment but still finds himself thinking of Betsy. Psylocke arrives and apologizes as the two spend the night together again. Fantomex realizes it is really Mystique in disguise as the two fight on the rooftop. Mystique poisons Fantomex, who loses his healing and misdirection, but he is able to escape. Jean Phillipe heads in search of Betsy, convinced X-Force is under attack. He finds her imprisoned by Shadow King and sacrifices himself getting her to E.V.A. It is the Skinless Man who ultimately tears out Jean's heart and kills him.

    The Last days of the Uncanny X-Force

    Alive and kicking
    Alive and kicking

    After the huge turmoil has ended, half the team head to the White Sky Facility. There, they are greeted by Deadpool & E.V.A. They bicker briefly, and during their conversation, smoke bellows out of nowhere. As it clears, it is revealed that E.V.A. had ressurected Fantomex. Standing tall and proud, earmarking the moment by saying 'You have got to be kidding me.' Back from the dead, for now at least, he hasn't, however, made the journey alone. Somehow the machine that revived him, has also made different bodies of Fantomex's other two brains, namely Cluster and Weapon XIII. Both these two 'clone-like' beings quickly took of moments after they appeared. Deadpool seizes the chance to make a comment about the interesting situation, while Fantomex calls for E.V.A to explain what exactly has caused things to go amusingly awry. Both Jean & Betsy then share a quiet moment in front of the others, but decide to retire from present company for some private time. Fantomex remarks that words that would confirm their newly (re)established relationship are 'Better left unsaid,' and left to interpretation.

    E.V.A is flying over the French Alps. Fantomex returns to his "home" and his "mother" is seen again despite vividly biting the dust not too long ago. The blind woman briefly wonders who Psylocke is, and comments that she has never met any of his girlfriends, thus he must like her a great deal. As the old woman returns inside with a new companion, both Fantomex & Psylocke remain outside in a light snow shower. Betsy ponders if this is real, or merely an illusion created by her walking enigma of a partner. Fantomex responds by remarking 'Is anything? What do I know? He then cracks one of his usual crude but lighthearted jokes. Then the snow starts to fall faster and heavier. Psylocke wishes for once to 'imagine a happy ending' as she leans in to kiss Fantomex. Then all fades to white, suggesting that she got her wish, and both parties are thoroughly content.

    The New Uncanny X-Force

    Some months later, Fanotmex joins a new incarnation of the Uncanny X-Force, this time lead by X-woman Storm. Betsy is also part of the group, but their relationship had begun to sour. The group's main mission was to track down Bishop in which they succeeded. They had a number of missions beforethe team had a run-inn with Cable's X-Force team, a different team alltogether. After their mission, both teams merged to form a new X-Froce group, including Fantomex.

    Losing his Mind

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    During his stay with the new X-Force team, consisting of Cable, Marrow, Dr. Nemesis and Psylocke, it is revealed that Fantomex's mind is in turmoil. Something short-circuited in his brain and Fantomex felled like he had to prove that he was the best in everything. This at first caused great anger between Fantomex and his former lover Psylocke. Things eventually came to a climax when the team was fighting a man named Volga, whom developed a superhuman-enhanchement. When Volga was defeated, Fantomex infected himself with the enhanchement and became even stronger, empowering his already demented views of thinking that he was the best. He started fighting his team-members and, after defeating X-Force, went on to destroy a number of strongholds of covered-agencies. Eventually, Cable's adopted daughter Hope managed to purge Fantomex from the enhanchement and it was Psylocke that put a psycic knife through his brains, making him fall down unconsious. He was then put into custody, but was rumored to make a speedy recovery, having his own mind back on track. He however did feel that his team had betrayed him, especially his former lover Psylocke.

    With the Uncanny X-Men

    After X-Force disbanded and after the events of Secret Wars, it was revealed that Fantomex had been recruited by Magneto to join his new team of X-Men. Although he was part of the team, which consisted of M, Sabretooth and Psylocke, he remained a covered-agent, with half the team not knowing about Fantomex's recruitment. When Psylocke found out that Fantomex had joined the team, she was very angry with Magneto. It eventually led to a confrontation between the two, in which Fantomex, still angry for how Psylocke took him out, even tried to kill Psylocke. He eventually left her helpless when he saw and even greater danger approaching.

    Personal Information

    Physical Attributes

    • Height: 5' 9"
    • Weight: 174 lbs.
    • Eyes: Blue
    • Hair: Black

    Status

    • Identity: Secret
    • Occupation: Mercenary, assassin; former super-soldier, thief
    • Citizenship: U.K.
    • Place of Birth: The World, London, England, U.K.
    • Marital Status: Single
    • Known Relatives: Unnamed mother (deceased), E.V.A (external nervous system), Genesis (Evan, "nephew")

    Personality

    Much like his nefarious illusions and knack for lying, Fantomex's personally is not singular but in fact dominated by three unique presences. Although it is not fully understood how this all came to be, what is clear is that for each brain the faux frenchman has, a different personality accompanies it. As revealed by Shadow King, the first brain and personality is 'Noble,' the second "mischievous" and the third, he inclined 'was such a vile place.'

    The 'Noble' persona is perhaps the real man, as it acted to save Psylocke from the machinations of the Shadow King and Skinless Man, going so far as to die for her if it meant securing her safety. The 'mischievous' identity is seemingly likely for his thieving streak and also nurturing side. And finally, the third brain likely holds the remaining 'volatile' identity, which encompasses the mutant hunting sentinel killer responsible for shooting dead a kid apocalypse, and whom he was originally programmed to be, before rebelling.

    It is suggested that these three wholly different 'identities' didn't exist in perfect harmony, and put him through a constant hell at all times. This is possibly a reason for why he wears the telepathic cancelling plates. Such was the extent of this chaotic, inner turmoil that James Braddock points out it stands to his credit that he barely yielded to the influences of such identities, and that it is a true testament to the kind of man he strived to be each day.

    These three identities/brains have recently been cloned from 'Fantomex Prime' and given a body each. Each of them now go by the names of Fantomex, Cluster and Jean-Phillipe.

    Powers and Abilities

    Acrobatic Marksmenship
    Acrobatic Marksmenship

    It is important to note that Fantomex has a history of misleading others, although his intentions are not always obvious. As with his early history, he claims many things about his powers that are not necessarily substantiated by evidence. Fantomex has exhibited a variety of mental powers, one of which is having the ability to enter himself into a state of "auto-hypnosis", effectively putting his body on auto-pilot in order to perform surgery and other delicate tasks on himself. He exhibited this ability once by inducing this state in order to remove several bullets from his body. Fantomex also boasts a mild healing factor of his own, but it lacks the potencey to heal damaged or destroyed bodily tissues like a face or a heart.

    Fantomex has an external nervous system named E.V.A. He claims to have produced E.V.A. through his mouth one day when he lost his voice while still in The World. She later continued to grow and changed form into a flying saucer. EVA is capable of independent thought, but acts as Fantomex's primary external nervous system. They share each others thoughts as well as emotions. His companion serves as an Externalized Picotech Neuroweapons-System, able to change and morph it's shape & size on a whim emerging from his mouth being the size of a tennis ball to enlarging to gargantuan mass about as big as a hot tub. Besides flying around in it and creating laser guns, Fantomex can also utilize his primary Neurological Structure as a dischargable artillery system wherein he can utilize her coils to lash and assail their enemies while she's still within his body or release a bio-electric discharge that sets the nervous system of those affected on fire. He can even ride around on his mini-saucer like a hover board as a means of transport. She also serves as his medical assist unit, enabling him to neruopsychically purge his system of physical and mental ailments which would impede his anatomical health.

    E.V.A.
    E.V.A.

    His secondary nervous system is located in his body, but is not advanced. When using his secondary nervous system alone he is only able to see the world in black and white. Aside from his more notable abilities, Fantomex possesses many other characteristics which are heightened beyond those of a normal human. He possesses Olympic-level strength, speed, stamina, and agility. He is an expert marksman, and is able to use this ability even when doing complicated acrobatic movements during a fight. He is also a skilled hand-to-hand combatant. Fantomex has stated he no longer carries any form of scent. The picotechnology implanted in his body prevents him from beliving in anything greater than himself or worshiping anything considered almighty (making him an atheist). But this serves a double edge sword as he is unable to comprehend anyone whose better at anything than himself, causing him to descend into madness if something occurs to ever contradict that philosophy.

    Fantomex is one of the most mysterious people in the Marvel Universe. He talks in a heavy French accent which leads many people to believe that he is French, but he has revealed to some that he speaks with the accent because he finds it distracts and annoys people. Regardless of the situation, Fantomex plays his cards very close to his chest, with his true motivations often left unknown until the moment he decides to tip his hand.

    Former Powers

    Perfected Fantomex
    Perfected Fantomex

    Fantomex once exhibited a form of psionic capacity he refers to as "misdirection", which allows him to create realistic and immersive illusions on a variety of scales. His misdirection is powerful enough to fool large numbers of people and even the most powerful and experienced telepaths, as evident when he showed Professor X and Jean Grey his home in the mountains complete with a variety of stolen goods and a woman he called his mother.

    He is also a master at reading body-language, able to discern up the intentions of those around him by simply observing posture, gestures, and facial movements.

    Fantomex once boasted three brains backed by his microtech enriched blood for the benefit of parallel and independent thinking. In the event his own brain were badly damaged, the other one of three consciousnesses could takeover in the event of needing autonomy while his body effected repairs on itself. He lost these attributes when the mind hive making up his Weapon Plus design was split among three clones, the illusion specialty going to Weapon XIII.

    Having copied a bootleg iteration of the Volga Effect from the digitized consciousness of Hope Summers. Fantomex went to work on tinkering with it's functionality in order to fix his damaged self without need of his counterparts Cluster and Weapon XIII. Initially thinking it was a wasted venture, he would gain absolute power the very second his former teammate Domino put a bullet in his brain. What he'd been missing was a total system reboot. He'd needed to die in order for the rewritten formula of the effect to take hold. With in hand he could now rewrite the unscience Volga used to empower his suicide troops in order to make himself invincible. Enabling the mentally damaged mutant killer to alternate his physical and scientifically altered microtech enhanced physiology on a dime. This enabled Charlie and E.V.A. to bestow upon themselves most any superhuman physical abilities they wished to have.

    Abilities like psychic energy manipulation for TK and ESP, Techno-Mechanical wings similar to Archangel, vastly augmented strength, speed, endurance, stamina and a healing factor powerful enough to regenerate from total body evisceration or durability to enable surviving temperatures as hot as the suns surface. He could fly at several times the speed of sound and/or light having been teleported off planet and soaring all the way back to earth without fear of burning on reentry.

    Because all of his abilities were programmable, Fantomex could upload and utlize entirely new powers on the fly. Giving him a polymorphic self-molecular alternatio for the purpose of increasing his size and mass. Along with gaining psionic shielding and concussive blasts. He could also make his wings razor sharp and discharge the feathers as razor edge flechettes to eviscerate his enemies. Due to having copied and perfected the originally flawed formula from Hope, Fantomex did't run the risk of self-destructing like all the others whom were subject to the Volga empowerment process. This coupled with his mallable genetics made him all but unstoppable. Fantomex would eventually lose the super soldier mojo when hope tricked him into forcing Eva to purge the neuropsychic taint imparted onto him by Hope when she infected him with all the dysfunctions and flaws of the whole X-Force team. Thus wiping his psionic biotech template clean of all of his enhancements on top of the conglomerated sense of materialized powerlessness.

    Weapons & Equipment

    Ceramic Armor: Fantomex wears a carbon fiber polymer fullbody suit both as his personal wear and combat gear. Said ballistic armor is near bulletproof and lightweight, affording him all but flawless mobility while out in the field. It has multiple holsters for withholding numerous weapons, equipment and gadgets which he makes practical use of during his moonlighting as both thief and mutant killing assassin.

    Face Mask: The helmet he uses to hide his identity comes equipped with telepathy-blocking ceramics. This in conjunction with his Misdirection abilities enabled him to resist mental probing by high tier psychics the likes of Jean Gray and Charles Xavier.

    Advanced Goggles:Cluster's mask came equipped with goggles with infrared and night vision capability.

    Various Munitions: Charlie cluster is an adept weaponer with an in-depth expertise of gunnery and armament utilization. He regularly make use of a pair of handheld guns with which Fantomex makes expert usage of while in a firefight. He also keeps a slew of other artillery types on his person such as laser pistols, high caliber assault rifles, rocket launchers, hand grenades, etc.

    Shrink Ray: Fantomex once stole a shrinking device from reformed supervillain and lord of Latvaria Dr. Doom. Utilizing it to shrink down the World in which he was fabricated in to pocket size, something he did to keep it on hand wherever he goes.

    Former Utilities

    Special Ammo
    Special Ammo

    Mutant Killing Bullets: For a brief time Fantomex made use of a special brand of artillery comprised of ceramic bullets coated with sentient super skin which had the ability to change and guide their own coarse to a desired target by the shooter. Designed by Sir James Braddock, the father of Psylocke and Captain Britain, the shaped ballistics had the appearance of faces distorted in agony upon them. They were unaffected by magnetism and could change or alter coarse on a dime in mid flight while zeroing in on a target. The munitions came from the dermal layer of a fellow former World Operative whom Charlie Cluster worked with at one time, he would continue use of the bullets until they eventually ran out. Every single individual slug having been scattered across the world as he made use of them throughout his various escapades.

    Bodyslide Gun
    Bodyslide Gun

    Teleportation Branedarts: Developed by Dr. Nemesis using Cable Bodyslide technologies. Fantomex was given custody of a special remote-teleportation pistol which fires luminescent darts at a target. Those tagged by the shooter are BFR'd to any chosen destination the system user has preset within their equipment drive. It is a variable range instant transmission armament that can be used to geo-leap an enemy or object from anywhere on the globe ranging from Beijing, China all the way to low planetary orbit and beyond. Fantomex made use of the weapon while fighting Volga's henchmen, battling his army while within a mobile experimental facility in the Sahara Desert.

    Creative Munitions
    Creative Munitions

    Cancer Bullets: Another specialized munition devised by Nemesis to stop an out of control Wolverine who'd been possessed by Demons. Similar to the shelling's in the Strikeforce X, both Fantomex and the good professor utilize bullets which carry a myriad cocktail of highly voracious virulent strains utilized to overload potent healing factors. While they weren't powerful enough to kill the overshadowed super mutant, they were strong enough to short out his regenerative abilities for a brief few seconds. The payload of every bullet is differentiated from slug to slug, but their creator states that bubonic plague, mouth cancer and flesheating bacteria's were thrown into the mix.

    Alternate Realities

    Days of Future Now (Earth-5700)

    Fantomex became the host of Sublime.

    Here Comes Tomorrow (Earth-15104)

    Fantomex has become one of Sublime's U-Men and is known as Apollyon the Destroyer.

    In Other Media

    Video Games

    Fantomex (far left) in UMVC 3
    Fantomex (far left) in UMVC 3
    • Fantomex makes a cameo appearance in Deadpool's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where he and the rest of X-Force are seen celebrating Wade's victory over Galactus.
    • Fantomex appears in the Marvel: War of Heroes mobile app game.
    • Fantomex appears as a playable character in Marvel Avengers Alliance.

    Merchandise

    Marvel Legends
    Marvel Legends
    • Fantomex was featured in Hasbro's Marvel Legends line as part of the Arnim Zola Build-a-Figure wave.
    • Diamond Select released a Fantomex Minimate as part of a two-pack with Mister Negative.
    • Fantomex was featured in the HeroClix figure game.
    • Hasbro later released an updated Fantomex figure as part of the Marvel Legends 3-pack alongside Psylocke and Nimrod.
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