Brian and the Eeveelution Family's Adventures of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

***Brian and the Eeveelution Family's Adventures of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm*** is an upcoming Family Guy/Eeveelution/Warner Bros. Pictures crossover to be made by Hiatt Grey.

## Plot

A young Bruce Wayne meets Andrea Beaumont while visiting his parents' grave, and they form a deep mutual attraction. That night, in one of his first crime-fighting attempts, Bruce foils an armored car robbery but is discouraged because the criminals did not fear him. Bruce proposes marriage to Andrea, who accepts. However, Andrea mysteriously leaves Gotham with her father, businessman Carl Beaumont, ending her engagement in a Dear John letter. Heartbroken, Bruce becomes Batman over the course of ten years.

Batman confronts a group of Gotham City crime bosses led by Chuckie Sol, who are intending to launder millions of counterfeit dollars in a casino. As Sol escapes to his car, a cloaked figure called the "Phantasm" attacks him; Sol is killed when the Phantasm causes him to drive out the side of a parking garage and crash into a neighboring building. Batman is seen at the scene and is blamed for killing Sol. Councilman Arthur Reeves, who is corrupt and on Sol's cabal's payroll, vows to have Batman arrested.

The Phantasm murders another gangster, Buzz Bronski, in the same cemetery Bruce met Andrea. Buzz's bodyguards see the Phantasm flee the scene and mistake it for Batman. Batman investigates Bronski's death and wanders to his parents' tombstone, encountering Andrea. She is startled by Batman's appearance and realizes who he is. Batman finds evidence linking Carl Beaumont with Sol, Bronski, and a third gangster: Salvatore Valestra. He breaks into Valestra's home and finds a picture of Bronski, Valestra, Sol, and Beaumont seated at a table. When he visits Andrea to get more answers, she rebuffs him. Meanwhile, Valestra, believing Batman killed the others and will come for him next, turns to Reeves for help, who rebuffs him. Valestra then contacts his former henchman, the Joker, for help.

The Phantasm arrives at Valestra's mansion but finds the gangster dead by Joker's hands, and through a camera strapped to Valestra's corpse, Joker discovers the murderer is not Batman. The Phantasm escapes as the mansion explodes due to a bomb planted by Joker. Batman pursues and fights the killer but is interrupted by the police and rescued from arrest by Andrea. Andrea later explains she and her father were hiding in Europe from Valestra's mob, from whom he embezzled money; her father repaid everything, but they put out a hit for his death anyway. Believing Andrea's father to be the Phantasm, Bruce ponders resuming his relationship with her and giving up Batman. Looking at the photo of Bronski, Valestra, Sol, and Beaumont, he sees Valestra's chauffeur in the background; Bruce realizes to his horror the chauffeur is actually the man who would become the Joker. Joker visits Reeves to press him for information about the Phantasm; Believing Reeves to be the killer, he poisons him with his laughing venom. Reeves is taken to the hospital, where Batman interrogates him. Reeves confesses he helped the Beaumonts escape but later betrayed their location to Valestra's mob after Carl declined to help fund his first election campaign. At this point, both Batman and Joker have now deduced the Phantasm is Andrea.

Andrea tracks down Joker, her last target, to his hideout in Gotham's abandoned World's Fair to kill him. Joker fights her, but before he can kill Andrea, Batman arrives and begs Andrea to give up her quest. She refuses and disappears. After Batman and the Joker battle to a stalemate, with the fair about to be blown up, Andrea returns and seizes Joker, bidding Batman goodbye before vanishing with the maniacally laughing clown, and Batman barely escapes the explosions. Alfred later consoles Bruce, telling him no one could have helped Andrea. Bruce finds her locket, containing a picture of himself and Andrea, in the Batcave. Meanwhile, Andrea departs from Gotham on an ocean liner, feeling completely lost. Heartbroken again, Batman resumes his crime-fighting duties after he is cleared of the accusations against him.

## Trivia

* The Griffin Family (Peter Griffin, Lois Griffin, Chris Griffin, Meg Griffin, and Stewie Griffin), Glenn Quagmire, Cleveland Brown, Joe Swanson, Little Bear, Duck, Cat, Owl, Hen, Emily, Lucy, Blythe Baxter, Zoe Trent, Pepper Clark, Penny Ling, Vinnie Terrio, Sunil Nevla, Minka Mark, and Russell Ferguson guest star in this film.