Batman: The Animated Series
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Mask of the PhantasmEpisode Number: 86 Season Num: 5 First Aired: Saturday December 25, 1993 Prod Code: n/a |
Bruce Wayne must face his past as Batman faces the shadow of it in this feature about vengeance gone wrong.
| Writer: | Michael Reaves, Martin Pasko, Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Alan Burnett |
| Director: | Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski |
| Star: | Lloyd Bochner (Mayor Hamilton Hill), Edward Asner ((voice) Roland Daggett), Bob Hastings (Commissioner Jim Gordon), Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (Alfred Pennyworth), Kevin Conroy (Bruce Wayne / Batman) |
| Recurring Role: | Richard Moll (Harvey Dent), Jeff Bennett (Additional Voices), Marilu Henner (Veronica Vreeland), Robert Costanzo (Detective Harvey Bullock), Loren Lester (Dick Grayson / Robin), Neil Ross (Additional Voices) |
| Guest Star: | Dick Miller (Charles 'Chuckie' Sol), Abe Vigoda (Salvatore 'Sal the Wheezer' Valestra), Arleen Sorkin (Bambi), Dana Delany (Andrea Beaumont), Hart Bochner (City Councilman Arthur Reeves), Stacy Keach (Carl Beaumont/Voice of The Phantasm), John P. Ryan (Buzz Bronski), Robert Costanzo (Detective Harvey Bullock), Mark Hamill (Jack Napier/the Joker), Peter Renaday (Additional Voices), Pat Musick (Additional Voices), Charles Howerton (Additional Voices), Thom Pinto (Additional Voices), Ed Gilbert (Additional Voices), Jane Downs (Additional Voices), Vernee Watson-Johnson (Additional Voices/Woman at Party/Reeves' Secretary) |
This was nominated for a Annie Award for Best Animated Film.
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This movie was actually supposed to be the first in a series of BTAS movies, but subsequent production never got underway for any sequels.
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Siskel & Ebert gave this movie 'Two Thumbs Up' in 1995, two years after the movie was released.
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Alfred's line at the end of the film -- "Vengeance blackens the soul, Bruce" -- is the only time in the entire animated continuity that Alfred calls him by his first name, not by the usual title of Master Bruce.
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Vreeland and the women that are fawning over Bruce in the begining also appear in "Holiday Knights."
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[At Bruce's parents' grave]
Bruce Wayne: It doesn't mean I don't care anymore. I don't want to let you down, honest, but... but it just doesn't hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can't you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it's different now!
[thunder and lightning]
Bruce Wayne: Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't count on being happy.
[thunder and lightning]
Bruce Wayne: Please! Tell me that it's okay.
Andrea Beaumont (edit) Arthur: What do you want?
Joker: To find out who's iced the old gang.
Arthur: Haven't you read the papers? It's Batman.
Joker: (Presses his joy buzzer) Wrong. It ain't the bat. Nope, nope, nope. I've seen the guy. He looks more like the Ghost of Christmas Furture. No where near as cute as Batboy. (edit) Joker (to the Phantasm): Whoops! Ha! I guess the joke's on me. You're not Batman after all. Looks like there's a new face in Gotham and soon his name will be all over town... to say nothing of his legs, and feet, and spleen, and head... (edit) (Talking about Andrea)
Bruce: I couldn't save her, Alfred.
Alfred: I don't think she wanted to be saved, sir. (edit) Joker: For once, I’m stuck without a punch line. (edit)
Bruce Wayne: It doesn't mean I don't care anymore. I don't want to let you down, honest, but... but it just doesn't hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can't you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it's different now!
[thunder and lightning]
Bruce Wayne: Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't count on being happy.
[thunder and lightning]
Bruce Wayne: Please! Tell me that it's okay.
Andrea Beaumont (edit) Arthur: What do you want?
Joker: To find out who's iced the old gang.
Arthur: Haven't you read the papers? It's Batman.
Joker: (Presses his joy buzzer) Wrong. It ain't the bat. Nope, nope, nope. I've seen the guy. He looks more like the Ghost of Christmas Furture. No where near as cute as Batboy. (edit) Joker (to the Phantasm): Whoops! Ha! I guess the joke's on me. You're not Batman after all. Looks like there's a new face in Gotham and soon his name will be all over town... to say nothing of his legs, and feet, and spleen, and head... (edit) (Talking about Andrea)
Bruce: I couldn't save her, Alfred.
Alfred: I don't think she wanted to be saved, sir. (edit) Joker: For once, I’m stuck without a punch line. (edit)
Newspaper Headline
Radomski to press "I'm innocent!"
Eric Radomski is one of the creators of the series (edit) One of Valestras pictures show him with Mayor Hill (edit) Seen on Batman's computer:
O'Neil Funding Corp.
Adams Tool and Die
Puckett & Peterson
The companies are named for comics writers and artists. O'Neil & Adams worked on many DC books including Batman. Puckett and Peterson wrote on the most recent incarnation of Batgirl. (edit) Regarding the Jake Napier alias, the TNBA episode "Beware the Creeper" states that the Joker utilized many a different alias, among them Jack Napier. Thus, in BB: ROTJ, Batman didn't know the real identity of the Joker. (edit) They never really have explained what happen to the Joker. The assumption is that Batman's love rejects revenge and turns in the Joker. It's also not explained how Batman clears his name. Interestingly, Batman figures out that the Joker is Jack Napier, hitman, but when he looks up the Joker in BB: ROTJ it says "identity unknown." (edit)
Radomski to press "I'm innocent!"
Eric Radomski is one of the creators of the series (edit) One of Valestras pictures show him with Mayor Hill (edit) Seen on Batman's computer:
O'Neil Funding Corp.
Adams Tool and Die
Puckett & Peterson
The companies are named for comics writers and artists. O'Neil & Adams worked on many DC books including Batman. Puckett and Peterson wrote on the most recent incarnation of Batgirl. (edit) Regarding the Jake Napier alias, the TNBA episode "Beware the Creeper" states that the Joker utilized many a different alias, among them Jack Napier. Thus, in BB: ROTJ, Batman didn't know the real identity of the Joker. (edit) They never really have explained what happen to the Joker. The assumption is that Batman's love rejects revenge and turns in the Joker. It's also not explained how Batman clears his name. Interestingly, Batman figures out that the Joker is Jack Napier, hitman, but when he looks up the Joker in BB: ROTJ it says "identity unknown." (edit)
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Mask of the PhantasmSuperb "Revealing" This episode chronicles the life of Batman. There are many flashbacks, reveling a lot about Bruce's past and his relationship with Andrea Beaumont. It even reveals part of the Joker's past. Continue » Posted Aug 16, 2005 5:10 pm PST |
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