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9 Reasons Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm Is The Best DC Film Of All-Time

While most of the Internet will have you know that Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight or Tim Burton's Batman is the greatest DC film of all-time, I'm here to tell you that they're wrong. Yes, come at me, Internet bros, because the title of the best belongs to the 1993 masterpiece known as Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
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Published: Jun 22, 2017 07:05 pm

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Crafting The Joker’s History

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At the point in time of this film’s release, many of us still had Tim Burton’s depiction of the Joker as being the former mobster Jack Napier at the back of our minds. Truth be told, it’s actually my favorite “backstory” of the Clown Prince of Crime as it adds credibility to his lust for killing. I’m sorry, Alan Moore, but while The Killing Joke is a great book overall, the whole failed comedian shtick is blah.

In Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, the Joker was shown to be one of Salvatore Valestra’s thugs, implying he was responsible for the murder of Carl Beaumont. I don’t know about you but I geeked out seeing the Ace of Knaves without his trademark outfit and makeup in the flashback sequences. It added some, dare I say, humanity to him.

It might not be a huge origin story for him, but it’s still some history for a notoriously enigmatic character. What this movie showed us is that we don’t need a full from birth to clown rundown of his past; we just want to know a little bit more about him.

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Sergio Pereira
Sergio is an entertainment journalist who has written about movies, television, video games, and comic books for the likes of Screen Rant, CBR, Looper, IGN, Thought Catalog, and Fortress of Solitude. Outside of journalism, he is an award-winning copywriter, screenwriter, and novelist. He holds a degree in media studies and psychology.
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