![]() ![]() ![]() The oil drums would explode the minute they met with her constructs shattering the glowing green objects. First, almost all member of the Justice League exist, but the League itself don't. This angered him beyond words since he worked hard to gain his level of popularity only to have it all come crashing down because someone saw through his lies. This virus was so powerful, even male members of the Justice League fell victim to it, such as Superman, Batman, the Flash, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern. Making matters worse, these events have inspired similar terrorists in cities across the county. Four years later Robin rescues the ghost boy dannyphantom. While investigating a disturbance Wonder Woman sees the carnage of a monster who sees himself as a judge jury and executioner. Titles of Books, Names on Signs, Dates, Locations. OC - Chapters: 12 - Words: 119,055 - Reviews: 185 - Favs: 174 - Follows: 162 - Updated: - Published: - id: 12177452 + Oracle or even the League, Bruce was surprised to see it was from Tim and even more surprised when he saw the case The heavy hitters of the Justice League were all down. Means Supergirl is maybe a year or two away. Having lost all to the alien invaders a little girl flees into the woods outside of Metropolis. He is upon him, bat ready to strike again. His opera is then performed on a stage much like the Paris Opera stage.Justice league male oc fanfiction. The Phantom appears on the staircase dressed as Red Death, carrying a copy of his new opera. The grand masked ball they attend was set on the Paris Opera’s Grand Staircase. Some claimed to hear ghostly whispers from Box #5, even when it was vacant.Īlthough the Christine-Phantom romance is fantasy, the characters of Erik and Christine may be based on actual people. Paris Opera performers hung a lucky horseshoe by the stage to ward off evil spirits. When Leroux wrote his novel, people also really thought that a pesky ghost was haunting the Paris Opera, just like the phantom haunts the opera in the novel and musical. Opera Garnier sculpture Grand Staircase Grand Foyer ceiling In Phantom, Leroux also uses a falling chandelier as a major plot point, a dramatic scene (described above) of kidnapping and senseless murder. In 1896, a counterweight fell from the real chandelier, killing a woman in the audience. The Paris Opera chandelier is also featured in Leroux’s novel. And there are actually tunnels, just as Leroux wrote. Though today it’s brightly lit, so not as eerily gloomy. The Phantom’s underground lake-lair is real, as I mentioned above. I won’t spoil the ending if you haven’t read the novel or seen the musical.īut many elements of Leroux’s novel, which is set in an opera house, come directly from the Paris Opera. A jealous Phantom is furious and begins terrorizing the opera house. He regales her with the title song Phantom of the Opera and Music of the Night.Ĭhristine’s star rises, and a handsome suitor enters the picture. He then kidnaps Christine, taking her by gondola to his watery underground lair full of secret tunnels. The phantom rigs a chandelier to fall on the audience as a distraction, killing people. The 7 ton chandelier in the Paris Opera house He becomes her “angel of music,” giving her complimentary singing lessons. He takes up residence in the underground lake beneath the theater.Įrik becomes obsessed with a young soprano, Christine Daaé. The novel stars Erik as the phantom, a disfigured composer who wears a mask to cover his face. His fantasy novel is an ingenious blending of fact and fiction, with the Paris Opera as a star character. In any event, for purposes of this article, I want to explain how historical events at the Opera Garnier inspired Leroux’s 1910 potboiler. Yet, the practical side of me always wonders where the Phantom got a horse and does he have a humidifier. It’s escapism, as its author Gaston Leroux, a true crime writer and opera critic, no doubt intended. But I can’t resist a lush high Gothic romance, even if the titular hero is a bit murdery. Image source: Her Majesty’s Theater Phantom of the Opera: Inspired by the Opera Garnierīy today’s politically correct standards, with its clunky plot, Phantom of the Opera may seem a bit dated or patriarchal. A key moment in the Phantom of the Opera musical. ![]()
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