Fantomex FAQs
Q76: How does his nervous system and/or powers work?
A76: 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 first exhibited this ability once by inducing this state in order to remove several bullets from his body in New X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (written by Grant Morrison).
He has often exhibited a form of telepathy he refers to as "misdirection", which allows him to create realistic and immerse illusions on a variety of scales. His misdirection is powerful enough to fool large numbers of people, including all of the Final Horseman at once in Uncanny X-Force #4 (written by Rick Remender) and makes it impossible for even the most powerful and experienced telepaths to read his mind, including Jean Grey and Professor Xavier and Jean Grey in New X-Men (vol. 1) #129 (written by Grant Morrison), as well as Psylocke numerous times during Uncanny X-Force series. It is still unclear how these psychic abilities work, specifically, but it would likely be related to his unique nervous system…
Fantomex's 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. E.V.A. is capable of independent thought, but acts as Fantomex's primary external nervous system. They share each others’ thoughts as well as emotions, and she has proven able to regenerate from massive injury in time, as proven after she was badly damaged in both New X-Men (vol. 1) #145 (written by Grant Morrison ) and Weapon X (vol. 2) #25 (written by Frank Tieri). His secondary nervous system is located in his body, but is not as 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. He has a chip implanted in his brain preventing him from worshiping anything, making him an atheist by anatomic design (as stated in Dark Reign: The List- Wolverine #1, written by Jason Aaron).
Q77: What is "The World"?
A77: “The World” was first alluded to by Fantomex in both in New X-Men (vol. 1) #129 and New X-Men (vol. 1) #130 (both written by Grant Morrison) as Fantomex made mention of the place where he and Weapon Twelve were raised. He claimed there were places run by the military industrial complex where mutant experiments were raised and generations of iterations of living biological weapons in the form of super-sentinels bred to kill all mutants could be furthered in incubation units where time was sped up within them artificially.
In New X-Men (vol. 1) #143 (also written by Grant Morrison), Fantomex took Wolverine and Cyclops to the World where it was temporarily located, somewhere in Great Britain at that moment, to stop an assault by A.I.M. scientists attempting to steal its secrets, and then confront Weapon XV, Ultimaton, inside. Further attempts by villainous forces to exploit the world for their own means have been attempted by the likes of Norman Osborn and H.A.M.M.E.R. in Dark Reign: The List- Wolverine #1 (written by Jason Aaron), the entity known as “Father” during the “Deathlok Nation” storyline (written by Rick Remender), and as Clan Akkaba during the “Dark Angel Saga” (also written by Rick Remender).