In the context of Morrison's run (and I haven't followed Fantomex too closely since that) he was, apparently, designed as part of a Weapon Plus Program to be part of a highly marketable team of mutant hunting superhumans. Like, kids were going to grow up watching them as Saturday morning cartoons, and normalize hunting mutants in the popular consciousness, that way?
Anyways, Fantomex was going to be the cool stealthy loner type in the line-up, except that he went rogue, escaped, and spent a good chunk of his time in Morrison's run manipulating the X-men into helping him take out the Weapon Plus program (which they probably would have done anyways).
As part of that, he seems to have been aware, perhaps even somewhat self-consciously aware of his intended role, and in dialogue with it. He's the mysterious cool loner type because he was designed to be the mysterious cool loner type, but he's rebelling against his design, so he's taking to a further degree of absurdity as a sort of satire on himself and his creators.
Or that was my reading, anyways.
I enjoyed Fantomex as self aware 'cool loner type,' complete with his bizarre contradictory claims about his powers and backstory, but isn't he like... three people and a demonic dog now?
The... Hellverine, you say. Well, I guess they can't all be Lucifer or the First of the Fallen.



Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-MenFantomex was designed from the ground up to be the coolestJun 22, 2016 at 3:57 PM