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Conroy remains the definitive study in how to do different voices for Batman and Bruce Wayne without sounding throat-impaired, and he delivers both the most vulnerable take on Bruce and his most forcibly controlled Bat-facade, only occasionally lashing out at Alfred (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) because he can get away with it. Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, and Dick Miller are among the special guest voices, and exactly the sort of character actors you’d hope would show up in any kind of Batman movie. One of the better scenes from the 4K (image approved for this review by Warner Bros.)

Just to make things even trickier for all involved, one of the mobsters on Phantasm’s hitlist has since become the Joker ( Mark Hamill, darkly channeling Cesar Romero in a manner that most fans seem to like more than I). This time around, as she well knows, he’s kind of married to the cape, so the connection is not so easily restored. She promptly shows back up in Gotham to manage dad’s affairs and stoke sparks with Bruce once more. The victims all connect to the father of Bruce Wayne’s former true love Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany).
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Loosely based on elements from the comics Batman: Year One and Batman: Year Two, whose villain the Reaper served as a proto-Phantasm, the movie sees Batman challenged by a spooky, new caped vigilante in town who kills people, leading many to believe Batman’s gone nuts.

Superhero stories are power fantasies for the disempowered, and while the live-action movies at the time depicted Bruce finding love and family figures, Mask of the Phantasm makes him, and by extension the viewer, feel stronger with fewer attachments, even as there’s a heartbreak at the root of it. If directors Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm and writers Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Martin Pasko, and Michael Reaves had specifically planned to appeal to dateless teen boys (as I was at the time), they couldn’t have done much better than to offer up a plot in which young Bruce Wayne ( Kevin Conroy) gets cruelly, casually dumped so hard that he leans all the way into the life of a scary loner hero. Buy Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K on Amazon
