Fantasio

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• For the character from the 2006 TV series, please see Fantasio (2006).

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Basics
Name	Fantasio
Other Names	Kwabbernoot (Dutch) Kvik (Danish) Fantazjo/Fantazjusz (Polish) Nicke (Swedish) Kvikk (Norwegian) Valur (Icelandic) Phan Tân (Vietnamese)
Age	Unknown
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Blond
Character Voicing	Teddy Lee Dillon (English) Patrick Guillemin (French) Wiebe-Pier Cnossen (Dutch) Dick Eriksson (Swedish)
Moe Points	Reporter, adventurer, superhero, freckles, boss
From	Belgium
Active in	Worldwide
Related Characters
Partner: Spirou Cousin: Zantafio Rival: Seccotine

Fantasio is a main character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou & Fantasio, published by Dupuis.

Introduction

Fantasio was created by Jean Doisy in 1942, as a puppet, but with a different design, then molded into his definitive appearance by the cartoonist Joseph Gillain, aka Jijé, in 1944, as a recurring character in Spirou's strips. He quickly became the deuteragonist of the comic, serving as a comic relief to contrast Spirou's seriousness.

Fantasio was also a recurring character in Gaston, another comic strip, in which he served as the boss of Gaston Lagaffe, the main character. However, he left the strip to accompany Spirou in his adventures, passing the torch of that role to another character, Léon Prunelle.

Personality

Fantasio was formerly a reporter for the fictional Moustic newspaper, now he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal de Spirou, the magazine in which his and Spirou's adventures are published. He is easily irritable, as shown and during his appearance in Gaston Lagaffe, whenever Gaston does one of his "gaffes" (disasters caused by his clumsiness). Despite this, he also has an "eccentric" side to him, to contrast with Spirou's "grounded" personality.

History

In Spirou and the Heirs, he and his cousin Zantafio had t participate in three challenges to see who would keep their uncle's fortune: create an original invention, win a race, and capture a Marsupilami.

In The Marsupilami Thieves, he and Spirou returned to Palombia to free the Marsupilami that Fantasio caught.

In The Rhinoceros' Horn, Fantasio, after having a story denied for the Mosquito newspaper, he invites Spirou to simulate a robbery at a department store so that he can have a story for the journal. There, they find Behring, locked inside a close, who tells them about the blueprints for a new vehicle from the company Turbot. which were hidden inside a rhinoceros' horn.

In The Dictator and the Mushroom, he, Spirou and the Marsupilami traveled to Palombia, which was under the tyrannical rule of General Zantas, who wanted to start a war with the neighboring Republic of Guaracha. The general made Spirou and Fantasio members of his army, and they used this opportunity to use the Metomol, one of the Count of Champignac's infentions, to neutralize Zantas' army and military equipment.

In Running Scared, he and Spirou went on an expedition to Touboutt-Chan to investigate the fate of Adrien Maginot and Gunther Sigfried, two explorers who went on an expedition to find a lost region in that country, the Valley of the Exiles, in 1938. But their lectures on the subject scare the audience away, leaving them with no money. Along with Spirou, he had to fund a way to scare the patients of Dr. Placebo, who wanted to prove his theory that fear could cure hiccups.

In Valley of the Exiles, after being bit by the Furax Volans mosquito and being infected by the "hostiliase furiasis" illness, he became extremely aggresive and enraged, with no capacity for reasoning, and attacked Spirou while at the same time discharging all his rage toward him: while Spirou always got all the credit, he was only reduced to a supporting role. He later returned to his senses.

In Spirou in Moscow, he and Spirou were enlisted to the KGB in Russia to fight Prince Tanaziof, who was catually Zantafio in disguise.

In Tough Luck Vito, Fantasio found himself depressed after their trip to New York.

Anecdotes

• Fantasio trained Spirou for a boxing match.
• He became a superhero to rival SuperGroom, named Fantastik.

Trivia

• During the first years of Spirou & Fantasio's run in Germany, the character was renamed Ferdinand, then Pit, until he reverted to his original name.
• Fantasio took on various jobs before settling as a reporter.^{[citation needed]}