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| “ | Christine: Are you going to kill me now too? Phantom:Everyone dies... I only choose the time and place for a few. Christine: When do you choose for me? Phantom:This is either a wedding march or a funeral mass. You decide which. |
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| ~ The Phantom giving Christine a choice to either marry him or he will kill her. |
The Phantom of the Opera is the titular main antagonist of the 1989 film of the same name. Unlike his counterpart, who is portrayed in a much more sympathetic and tragic way, this phantom is an evil serial killer, who is much more evil and violent than the original phantom.
He was portrayed by actor Robert Englund, who also played Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, the Riddler in Justice League: Paradise Lost, Anti-Pops and the Stag-Man in Regular Show, Lucifer in Married with Children, Bill Gartley in The Mangler, Scarecrow from Injustice 2, and the Riddler in the animated series The Batman.
Biography[]
Past[]
The Phantom's original name was Eric Destler. He was a young composer who was trying to write a new opera. When he was practicing one day, he was approached by a man who told him he could make Eric's music as famous as that of Beethoven and Mozart. In return, however, Eric would have to sell his soul to Satan. Eric agrees. However, Satan only promised to make Eric's music famous, not Eric himself. The Devil mutilated Eric's face and told him that while people would love his music, no one could ever stand to love Eric for himself again.
All the skin on Eric's face falls off, and Eric starts skinning people, so he can sew their skin on himself, however over time the skin decomposes so he must constantly agonizingly remove and replace it.
The Phantom of the Opera[]
Christine Day lives in New York City in 1989. While trying to find a piece to perform at an opera audition, she finds a piece called Don Juan Triumphant by Eric Destler. While performing at her audition, she is knocked out and transported to London in 1881. Christine's identity changes mysteriously, she know is an opera singer who has no knowledge of her life in 1989.
Meanwhile, The Phantom meets Christine in her dressing room and tells her that he is her "angel". He tells her he will teach her how to become one with the music.
The Phantom does everything in his power to make Christine advance in her career. He kills a stagehand for injuring Christine and blaming Eric, and stores the corpse in the dressing room of the main actress of the show. She becomes so shocked she can't perform, and Christine takes her place.
When a critic writes a bad review of Christine's performance, The Phantom kills him in a bathhouse by crushing his skull with a wet towel combined with smashing his head into a wall. The Phantom continues to help Christine with her music and is falling in love with her. At one point he discovers the new flesh on his face is once again starting to putrefy and so must painfully remove it to mournfully gaze at his now hideous visage. He then forces her to marry him and tells her she is now one with the music. Christine, however, is already engaged.
The Phantom finds out about Christine's fiance and kidnaps her, having decapitated her rival, leaving her severed head to be discovered as a means of distraction. Pursued by her fiance and police led by Inspector Hawkins aided by former friend the rat-catcher a confrontation leads to the deaths of rat-catcher, both police officers and Christine's fiance with a fire breaking out as Hawkins battles Eric. In the commotion, Eric is trapped by the flames as Christine is transported back to New York City in 1989. The producer of the show, Mr. Foster, gives her the part she was trying out for, and invites her to his apartment.
While there Christine finds a copy of "Don Juan Triumphant" and figures out that Mr. Foster is the Phantom. After a confrontation, Christine tears off the Phantom's mask to reveal his true face which is now badly burned caused by the inferno back in 1881. Struggling to breathe from the past smoke damage Eric responds he's been waiting for her to come back to him by reincarnation and they still have a bargain before she stabs him with one of his surgical tools. She runs out of the apartment with his music. She tears up the music, thus killing the Phantom the only known way, by destroying his music. However, after hearing a busker performing "Don Juan Triumphant" she discovers there are still copies of Eric's work still out there meaning he may be able to return once again from the dead
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Trivia[]
- Unlike other versions of the Phantom of the Opera, this incarnation of the Phantom is by the darkest incarnation to date.
- A sequel title: "The Phantom of New York" was planned but got cancelled due to low Box Office performance.
External Links[]
- The Phantom of the Opera on Pure Evil Wiki