History Film / ThePhantom

* {{Novelization}}

* AdaptationExpansion: Rob [=MacGregor=]'s {{Novelization}} contains a very lengthy prologue, expanding ''greatly'' on the one from the movie, telling about the journey of the merchant ship ''Miranda'', where it came from and where it was going, etc., before its fateful encounter with the Sengh Brotherhood that left the captain's son (who eventually becomes the first Phantom) the sole survivors.

* AdaptationExpansion: Rob [=MacGregor=]'s {{Novelization}} contains a very lengthy prologue about the journey of the merchant ship ''Miranda'', where it came from and where it was going, etc., before its fateful encounter with the Sengh Brotherhood that left the captain's son (who eventually becomes the first Phantom) the sole survivor.

* WouldHitAGirl: The Phantom has absolutely no compunctions about punching Sala right in the face when rescuing Diana.

* EffortlessAmazonianLift / OverTheShoulderCarry: A [[BoundAndGagged restrained]] Diana Palmer gets this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4NJT8MuLI treatment]] from Sala when she is [[DamselInDistress captured]].

* EffortlessAmazonianLift / OverTheShoulderCarry: A [[BoundAndGagged restrained]] Diana Palmer gets this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa4NJT8MuLI treatment]] from Sala when she is [[DistressedDamsel captured]].

** Diana also does it to a [[{{Mooks}} Mook]] on the ship.

* OhCrap: Charlie right before [[spoiler:getting blasted by the pirate cannon.]]

* RingOfPower: The Phantom's ring [[spoiler:which has the fourth Skull of Touganda.]]

* TheMovie: The Phantom's movie debut.

* TheMovie

Even though some fans responded well to the film, and Creator/RogerEbert gave a favourable review, it bombed at the box office. It earned $17,323,326 in the United States market, the 93rd most successful film of its year. But that failed to even cover its budget. At least, it has since sold well on VHS and DVD.

** Diana figuring out the Phantom's secret identity is foreshadowed in the scene at the newspaper office where Kit talks and poses exactly like the Phantom did just a few scenes before.

''The Phantom'' is a 1996 film based on the long-running [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom comic strip of the same name]]. It stars BillyZane as the Phantom, Kristy Swanson as his love interest Diana Palmer, Treat Williams as the villain Xander Drax, and Catherine Zeta Jones as DarkActionGirl Sala.

''The Phantom'' is a 1996 film based on the long-running [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom comic strip of the same name]]. It stars Billy Zane as the Phantom, Kristy Swanson as his love interest Diana Palmer, Treat Williams as the villain Xander Drax, and Catherine Zeta Jones as DarkActionGirl Sala.

* CrystalSkull

** In another Guran walks in on Kit claiming he heard voice''s''. Plural.

* MurderousThigs: A RareMaleExample. The Phantom does this to two {{Mooks}} in Drax's building.

** In another Guran walks in on Kit claiming he heard voice''es''. Plural.

* YouKilledMyFather: Drax's head mook is the man who killed the previous Phantom. He spends much of the movie disturbed by the discovery that the man he killed is apparently still in business. Kit explains the truth to him at the onset of their inevitable final duel.

* EyeScream: Drax's punishment for an underling who talks to a reporter is tricking him to use a modified microscope which produces blades to its user's eyes when adjusted.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: After growing angry with the way Drax's goons were treating them both, Sala abruptly switches gears and starts helping Diana on the grounds that "us girls gotta stick together."

** Another thing about The Phantom's costume in the movie is that it's even designed to "change color" depending on the lighting. It can shift from bright to dark purple, red, grey, or blue in a ShoutOut to how various publishers over the world change the color of his costume based of preference.