Fantômas declaring victory.
Fantômas was a notorious French criminal mastermind and terrorist. Fantômas closely guarded his true identity; few early acquaintances of Fantomas who lived to tell the tale could not between them give an accurate description of the man, or possibly even his gender.
He was a member Les Hommes Mystérieux, and was generally considered to be the most dangerous member. Mystérieux fought the League at the Paris Opera House. Prior to the fight, Fantômas had planted explosives beneath the building. When he encountered Mina Murray and A.J. Raffles, Fantômas uttered "I win," just as he detonated the explosives.
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Fantômas was created by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain and appeared in forty-three novels from 1911 to 1963. He is "the Lord of Terror" and "the Genius of Evil," a French crime boss with who murders with abandon and aplomb. Fantomas is a master of disguise and no one ever knows what he looks like. He is often on occasion impersonated by his daughter Hélène.
The character is widely believed to have been influenced by Erik from Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. It's also possible that Alan Moore included a scene underneath the Paris Opera House in order to imply that Fantomas was indeed none other than the eponymous specter.