Line #3 Awesome/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm


1	'''WARNING:''' Spoilers are unmarked.
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3	!!The film
4	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/birthofbatman_2.png]]
5	[[caption-width-right:350:''And thus is born this weird figure of the dark... This avenger of evil. '''The Batman.''''']]
6	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgDpesd428 opening]] is purely awesome!
7	* Bruce foiling an armored car robbery while disguised in [[BetaOutfit a black ski-mask]] and [[CivvieSpandex leather jacket]] in a {{flashback}}.
8	* Bruce running up the front of a motorcycle and punching the thug off in one smooth motion in another flashback.
9	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxw-L2WyyY The birth of Batman]]. The awesome music (titled "The Birth of Batman," to boot), mixed with a simultaneous usage of TearJerker, makes it probably the most incredible showing of Bruce's first donning of the cowl ever.
10	-->'''Alfred:''' ''[[[NotSoStoic startled]]]'' My... ''God''!
11	** InUniverse, it's the moment when Bruce finally obtains what he needs to strike fear into his enemies.
12	** And the first person he strikes fear into is the person who is supposed to know him the best.
13	* AssholeVictim or not, Buzz Bronski puts up a decent fight before the apparent supernatural nature of his attacker makes his nerve desert him. Specifically, he gabs a pick axe from a wheelbarrow and charges his assailant. Then, when the tip of the tool gets chopped off, he hurls the wooden stake at Phantasm.
14	* Joker murdering his former boss, then taking on Batman and holding his own when the Phantasm arrives to kill him.
15	* Joker infecting Reeves with his Joker gas and leaving him hospitalized. No one liked that {{Jerkass}} anyways.
16	* The Joker tries to flee on a JetPack but Batman catches up with him and the two struggle in the air until they crash into the globe of the derelict World's Fair. The two survive, and Andrea grabs the Joker to complete her revenge once and for all. At that very moment, the explosives the Joker planted everywhere in the fair blow up like hell on Earth, and the Joker utters perhaps his most epic EvilLaugh in the entire DCAU canon. Andrea then [[SmokeOut smokes out]], taking the Joker with her. The ground crumbles under Batman's feet, making him fall into the sewers. He is then dragged away by the current and emerges far away into safety to contemplate the explosions.
17	** Shirley Walker's [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic amazing soundtrack]] just adds to the scene's epic-ness through and through, the choirs especially.
18	* The final scene, pure and simple. Seeing Bruce stand on the building edge looking out into the night and knowing that he is and always will be Batman. Then the music swells up and the Bat Signal lights up the sky. Creator/BobKane and Creator/BillFinger's vision perfectly displayed.
19	* The sound effect used here for the grapple when Batman fires it off is sublime. The grapple’s never sounded better before or since.
20	* A downplayed moment for the Joker, who not only managed to solve the mystery of the Phantasm's identity, but is implied to figured it out ''before Batman''! Mr. J may be crazy, but he ain't stupid.
21	* Siskel and Ebert refused to review the movie, believing the cartoon superhero movie would be beneath their notice. Later, they would relent and watch the movie. Subsequently, they admitted they were wrong to disregard the movie and gave it very high marks, even declaring it was superior to Film/BatmanForever which was in theaters at the time.

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