Fantomex goes on trial for shooting a kid in the the head

[flint_marko]

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[janegray]

You make it sound like Fantomex strolled up to a kindergarten and shot a random harmless child for shit and giggles.

Child!Apocalypse might have been rehabilitated, but I hardly think Fantomex is a monster for deciding that he'd rather not risk the death of 6 billion people (including countless children) for the sake of saving a single likely-irredeemably-evil child.

In any case, even criminals have rights. IRL, you can't just lynch a guy even if he is a childkiller, even if he killed a random innocent child for the lulz: the criminal deserves a fair trial by a legitimate legal body, and those people sure as hell are not it (as somebody pointed out, "a completely unaccountable, nonelected body of people from an organization [Fantomex] was not a citizen of, who's laws had never been made available to [him]").

Heck, isn't Fantomex French? Then he should be tried by a French court. And as France doesn't have the death penalty, he might be condemned to life in prison, but he couldn't be condemned to death, let alone to being erased from existence.

[salinea]

Fantomex' Frenchness is entirely faked. Since he was grown in an artificial environment by a shadowy criminal organisation, I don't think he has the nationality of any country. Also I don't believe this is how law works. It tends to be a "judged in the country in which the crime has been committed". In this case, though, the jurisdiction is hazy since they were on the moon. Maybe this specific tribunal is actually the one with the most say on the situation.

[flint_marko]

Child!Apocalypse might have been rehabilitated, but I hardly think Fantomex is a monster for deciding that he'd rather not risk the death of 6 billion people (including countless children) for the sake of saving a single likely-irredeemably-evil child.

Except his actions in killing Apocalypse led to the creation of Dark Angel, who nuked an entire town among other things. So he only made things worse.

Furthermore, he's already taking a big risk anyway in cloning the child Apocalypse to see if it's possible he can be rehabilitated.