History NightmareFuel / BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm

* The arrival of the Joker in Arthur Reeves office. Silhouetted in the doorway and illuminated by lightning with his trademark grin looking terrifying.

** The [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] Phantasm's {{Catchphrase}} is particularly chilling:

* The Phantasm killing Bronski after an intense ChaseScene by [[PrimalFear dropping him into a grave]], before [[SquashedFlat pushing an enormous angel-shaped headstone in on top of him]]. [[NothingIsScarier They didn't even have to show it]]: but you can ''[[GoryDiscretionShot hear]]'' it, and the horrified reactions of Bronski's {{mooks}} when they find his crushed corpse afterward [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath should tell you everything]]. It makes the Phantasm's line "Your angel of death awaits" more difficult when it was the statue of exactly ''that'' which kills Bronski.

** The [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] Phantasm's BondOneLiner is particularly chilling:

** Phantasm's BondOneLiner is particularly chilling:
-->''"Your angel of death awaits..."''

* Mark Hamill has stated he used this movie to delve in and get a good handle on the range of Joker [[EvilLaugh laughs]] he could make. They're all terrifying.

** Her BondOneLiner is particularly chilling:

[[caption-width-right:350:He sure looks happy, doesn't he?]]

* The Phantasm, who is basically as a cross of TheGrimReaper and [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]]. Especially her BondOneLiner:

-->''Your angel of death awaits...''
* Mark Hamill has stated he used this movie to delve in and get a good handle on the range of Joker laughs he could make. They’re all terrifying.
* The grinning corpse of the murdered Sal Valestra, as shown on the image on the right. Coupled with the Joker's demented rant at the Phantasm over a video camera, just before [[BoobyTrap he detonates a huge cache of explosives in the room]];

*** Immediately after, Joker plays it off like it was a joke but the way he says, “[[PreMortemOneLiner That’s what I like to see... a nice big smile,]]” you know something bad is about to happen. Sure enough, the next time you see Sal is the page image above, when the Phantasm stumbles across his remains.

* ComicBook/TheJoker infecting Arthur Reeves with his trademark toxin.

--->'''Doctor''': Councilman, please, you've got to control yourself!\\
'''Reeves''': ''I'm trying, for God's sake!''

** Similarly, after the Phantasm causes Chuckie Sol to wreck his car in what we're later told is a fatal crash, the vehicle's horn is blaring. We don't see what's causing it, but [[FridgeHorror the most likely culprit is Sol's dead body.]]

** Probably what makes it creepiest of all is how Joker *still* treated Andrea after he reveals herself to be The Phantasm. While you'd never expect Joker to show empathy, the man DID kill her father and knew that he was the main motivation for all of the gangster murders. Yet he still sexually jeers at her and does not for one moment show any semblance of regret for having murdered Carl.

* The WhamShot of Batman doodling over the random mob thug and realizing he's the Joker.

** And then there's what happens when Sal makes the mistake of grabbing the Joker and threatening him; Joker's mask of mirth melts into a twisted inhuman fury, and the background is replaced by a solid blood red. You know from that moment that Valestra's already dead.

*** Immediately after, Joker plays it off like it was a joke but the way he says, “That’s what I like to see... a nice big smile,” you know something bad is about to happen. Sure enough, the next time you see Sal is the page image above, when the Phantasm stumbles across his remains.

* The WhamShot of Batman doodling over the random mob thug and realizing he's Joker.

* Not only is the Joker more terrifying than in the regular animated series, but so are the normal 'plainclothes' gangsters who target Andrea and her father.

* The grinning corpse of the murdered Sal Valestra, as shown on the image on the right. Coupled with the Joker's demented rant at the Phantasm:

*** Immediately after, Joker plays it off like it was a joke but the way he says, “That’s what I like to see... a nice big smile,” you know something bad is about to happen. Sure enough, the next time you see Sal is the page image above, when the Phantasm stumbles across his remains and the tape-recorded rant above.

*** Immediately after, Joker plays it off like it was a joke but the way he says, “That’s what I like to see... a nice big smile,” you know something bad is about to happen. Sure enough, the next time you see Sal is the page image above.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Makes you want to laugh, doesn't it, Arthur?"]]

* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valestrapoisoned.png The grinning corpse of the murdered Sal Valestra]]. Coupled with the Joker's demented rant at the Phantasm:

** And when the Joker does the deed, we should mention the cinematography. The Joker [[EvilLaugh laughs demonically and maniacally]] while giving off a NightmareFace, as shown in the image above. He cackles evilly while having a soul-piercing look in his eye, and the lighting. Oh, God, the lighting. Then we see him pin Arthur to the table, and we see a close-up of his mouth as he continues to laugh.

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