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The Phantom (Comic Strip)

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The Phantom (Comic Strip)	comment	By some accounts the first costumed superhero in comics, the Phantom was created by Lee Falk (creator of Mandrake the Magician) in 1936 for King Features Syndicate and has been fighting evildoers on Newspaper Comics Pages around the world ever since.In Darkest Africa, in a secret valley guarded by sinister blowgun-wielding pygmies, dwells the Phantom. Immortal, implacable, foe to all evildoers, pirates especially: criminals everywhere speak in hushed whispers of the Ghost Who Walks, the Man Who Cannot Die.Except that, well, he can. And has, repeatedly. The current Phantom is the 21st of the line, continuing a tradition begun four centuries ago when his forefather washed up on a lonely African beach, the sole survivor of a pirate attack, and was nursed back to health by the sinister pygmies (who are actually quite nice once you get to know them). He is just a normal man, with no supernatural powers (save his skull ring, which forever leaves its imprint on anyone he punches) — but, much like in Batman, criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot, and they're much easier to beat if they're already afraid of you.The Phantom has no Secret Identity. Each man who takes up the mantle forswears all former attachments and becomes all-Phantom, all the time, from that day forth. When he needs to walk the streets as an ordinary man, he puts an "ordinary man" disguise over it. The disguise has a name, "Mr. Walker", (i.e., "The Ghost Who Walks") but is otherwise a cipher. How he negotiates airline booking desks and customs checkpoints has never been revealed, although obviously the Bangallan government facilitates the situation, as the Phantom works closely with Bangallan authorities. He has a wolf companion, Devil, and had an ongoing on-and-off relationship with his Love Interest Diana Palmer until they married.Developed during the Golden Age, and written by a single author for over sixty years, The Phantom is a bit of a living fossil. Representations of women and minorities have become more sophisticated, but it has never tried to become darker or more realistic.By mid 2000s, though you could still find further issues from Moonstone, the current publisher, those were rare, too expensive due to low sales, and new releases were few and far in between. Since then, other publishers have stepped in and released new series as well as continue the newspaper comic.The Phantom has been adapted for film twice. A 1943 film serial starred Tom Tyler as the Phantom and Ace the Wonder Dog as Devil. Better known (if not better regarded) is the 1996 film starring Billy Zane as the Phantom, Kristy Swanson as Diana Palmer and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Sala.The Phantom has had three Animated Adaptations. He appeared in the 1972 special The Man Who Hated Laughter and the 1986 series Defenders of the Earth, both of which teamed him up with other King Features characters. In 1994 he got his own show, the Cyberpunk-ish Phantom 2040. He's also the subject of a Syfy miniseries. Dynamite Comics has also revived the character with their Kings Watch miniseries, leading into a solo series where Lothar takes over the role of the Phantom while searching for the actual heir to the identity (the previous Phantom having taken it on his predecessor's deathbed, then performed a Heroic Sacrifice to prevent more of Ming the Merciless' forces from invading Earth). Also from Dynamite, but in a separate continuity is the Darker and Edgier The Last Phantom.On April 26, 2023, it was announced that a Beat 'em Up official video game is in development, and it's scheduled for release in 2024.Adaptations and spin-offs with their own trope pages include: Defenders of the Earth Phantom 2040 The Phantom (1943 film serial) The Phantom (1996 film) The Last Phantom The Man Who Hated Laughter
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: While the Ghost Who Walks is feared over the centuries, the Walkers generally keep a low profile wherever they go, allowing them to keep outsiders from being suspicious.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1086f287	type	Sure, Let's Go with That
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1086f287	comment	Sure, Let's Go with That: The Phantoms did not actually cultivate the legend of their immortality on purpose, by the time of the fifth Phantom, the jungle tribes, except the Bandars, belived that the person under the mask was still the same man as a century and a half before, since they looked the same. The Phantoms decided to simply go with it as it proved to be a valuable tool against crime.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_112890b3	comment	An excellent example of the central concept, though slightly less than typical for not having a proper Secret Identity.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_117d2e1f	type	Fauxshadowing
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: The first story arc features an Upper-Class Twit named Jimmy Wells, who occasionally drops hints that there's more to him than people think, and who tends to make excuses and leave quickly when something exciting happens; the clear implication is that he's the foppish alter-ego of the Phantom, like Lamont Cranston in The Shadow (or Bruce Wayne in Batman, except this was before Bruce Wayne had been invented). Eventually, the Phantom decides to reveal his true identity to Diana — and he's somebody completely different. It's generally assumed to be a case of an Aborted Arc, where the writer originally did intend Jimmy Wells to be the Phantom but then had a more original idea partway through.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Eric Sahara, otherwise known as the Nomad.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_13b3655d	type	Geographic Flexibility
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_13b3655d	comment	Geographic Flexibility: The Phantom's home is somewhere in the jungles of Darkest Africa, near the fictional nation of Bangalla. Although various details over the years have narrowed the possibilities down, the precise location and layout of the region deliberately remain vague. (And this is without going into the fact that until the 1960s, Bangalla was called Bengali and was in India, and in the very earliest Phantom stories his home and the pygmy tribe were situated on an Indonesian island.)
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: In the Scandinavian version, during the mid-90s, the Phantom's native Bangalla was taken over by the ruthless dictator and voodoo sorcerer Lubanga, who murdered or drove mad several minor supporting characters. Violence by all parties was also depicted more graphically in this period; see the note above on Blasting It Out of Their Hands. Particular mention goes to the Heart of Darkness ongoing storyline, in which the Phantom's enemies included neo-Nazis and a horrific, apparently immortal serial killer.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Recurring villain Chatu/"The Python" was experimenting on bats in order to start an Ebola epidemic. The only person he managed to infect was himself, and he needed the Phantom to rescue him from painful death. A few months after this embarrassing failure, Chatu orchestrates a terrorist attack (from his prison cell) and had his men abduct Diana, leaving the Phantom thinking she'd died in the attack.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_17930662	type	Beware the Skull Base
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_17930662	comment	Beware the Skull Base: Inverted. The comic features the Skull Cave, but this is a famous hideout for superheroes, not supervillains.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: The Phantom who founded the Jungle Patrol single-handedly defeated the legendary pirate Redbeard and his three lieutenants in single combat. Upon defeat, they swore allegiance to him and became the Patrol's first commanders.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Despite the built-in opportunity to go the Legacy Character route.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19d8d325	type	Darkest Africa
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19d8d325	comment	Darkest Africa: Where Bangalla is located. In the beginning it was in South Asia.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19dcd4bc	type	Sand in My Eyes
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_19dcd4bc	comment	Sand In My Eyes: In "The Fourth Son", the title character (the fourth son of an earlier Phantom) starts sobbing when his elder brothers leave to attend school. When his mother reminds him that his father thinks boys shouldn't cry, he claims between sobs that he's not crying, he just has a bug in his eye.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1b901025	type	The Fagin
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1b901025	comment	The Fagin: The Phantom once encountered such a man leading a crew of pickpockets in Africa in the "Black Fagin" storyline.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1ddc03c1	type	Breaking Bad News Gently
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1ddc03c1	comment	Breaking Bad News Gently: In "Fathers and Sons":
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: People saving the Phantom occasionally get the good mark printed on them (or sometimes in the form of necklaces or other jewelry) in return. Later Phantoms tend to return favours to people who have the mark — or their descendants — in kind.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_23ca8dff	type	Fantastic Nature Reserve
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_23ca8dff	comment	Fantastic Nature Reserve: The island of Eden, populated by many peacefully coexisting animals; the carnivores eat fish and have never tasted blood. As well as a single genuine unicorn, a dinosaur and whole family (male, female, single offspring) of semi-sentient prehistoric man-creatures.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_23cc7485	type	I Want Grandkids
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_23cc7485	comment	I Want Grandkids: Not that it's mentioned often, the current Phantom is married with two kids, but every Phantom is expected to father an heir to continue their legacy. The biggest difference that Phantom has from most examples of this is that the pressure is coming from beyond the grave not just his father, but his grandfather, and great-grandfather, and so on.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: You get the occasional villain like this, most notably the mercenary Goldhand who, you guessed it, had a prosthetic hand made out of gold. Another villain had an iron claw due to having his hand cut off for thievery under Islamic law.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: 21 generations and counting.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_28429e5c	type	Irisless Eye Mask of Mystery
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_28429e5c	comment	Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery: The Phantom is the Trope Maker, preceding Batman by three years. Falk stated that his inspiration was from busts and statues of Greek and Roman deities which lacked irisesnote (though it should be noted in the case of the Romans that they did indeed paint their statues, eyes included, but that the paints had worn off after thousands of years.), thus making "the look of them feel a bit inhuman, which made a great addition to his character".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: It is almost weird that most of the training shown of the young Phantom-to-be are of him learning martial arts or sharpening his senses by doing something while blindfolded, seeing as he is so good at lying, acting, and strategizing.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The criminals of Bangala are terrified of the Phantom, even if they've never encountered him in person. Hell, his reputation has reached all over the world, with criminals and pirates of all creeds often having second thoughts when they hear that he's around. An unusually poignant example is one story where the 16th Phantom's twin children are kidnapped alongside a group of natives, and one of the criminals notices that they're wearing pendants with the Phantom's Good Mark. He tells his boss, who was going to have the boy killed and the girl put in his harem, about how an unusually cruel slave auctioneer once released a slave just because she carried the Good Mark, and the boss decides that it'd be foolish to take any risks and just has them imprisoned instead.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2b5c636d	type	How Unscientific!
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2b5c636d	comment	How Unscientific!: The Phantom occasionally (as in, maybe once every few decades) had encounters with visiting aliens.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Several stories have tags showing how one of the Phantom's feats grows in retelling and becomes part of the legend of The Ghost Who Walks. For instance, in one story, the villains attack the Phantom in a tank, which results in the jungle tribes spreading a story about the Phantom single-handedly defeating a fire-breathing dragon.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2d2c26c1	type	Daddy's Little Villain
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2d2c26c1	comment	Daddy's Little Villain: Sandal Singh, the current President of Bangalia, and secretly the new head of the Singh Brotherhood, after the death of her father Dogai Singh, the original arch enemy of the 21st Phantom.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Not directly, anyhow. The Phantom doesn't kill, but he doesn't lose much sleep over criminals who end up dead and doesn't go out of his way to save everyone he crosses paths with. There are at least two recorded instances of the Phantom fatally shooting someone, and unlike many other superheroes this has apparently never been retconned.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2fb61faa	type	Statuesque Stunner
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_2fb61faa	comment	Statuesque Stunner: Princess Vhatta in "The Fourth Son".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_319cc4d7	type	Low Fantasy
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_319cc4d7	comment	Low Fantasy: Mostly, the Phantom's series is a fairly mundane setting. But, fantastical elements do creep in now and then. For example, recurring island of Eden houses, as mentioned above, an honest-to-goodness unicorn, a living stegosaurus, and a family of primeval humanoids. Magic has repeatedly shown up, as in the story of it being used to regenerate one Phantom's gouged-out eyes. Monsters and weird humanoids have appeared in some stories. There's even been a couple of encounters with aliens!
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The Phantom is traditionally opposed by the current leader of the Singh Brotherhood; the 21st Phantom first battles Dogai Singh, and later, his daughter Sandal Singh. Other notable enemies include the mercenary Gold Hand and the evil President Lubanga.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_35e3383a	type	Pirate Girl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_35e3383a	comment	Pirate Girl / Sky Pirate: Sala
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Every story arc of the newspaper strip would begin with the Phantom's origin story. Not as in "they retell the story every time"; they had one strip showing the story and they would just rerun it every time a new arc was beginning (though it did get an update every decade or so).
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_37cee864	type	Real Award, Fictional Character
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_37cee864	comment	Real Award, Fictional Character: Diana is an Olympic medalist in diving.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a234e46	type	Runaway Bride
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a234e46	comment	Runaway Bride: Diana, at the end of the 1947 story arc "Romance", does a runner from a posh society wedding after realizing that she's making a mistake and that the Phantom is the one for her after all.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a2c615c	type	Shark Pool
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a2c615c	comment	Shark Pool: The Singh Brotherhood has one, as shown in the very first story.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3a4522df	comment	PietÃ Plagiarism: One of the covers of the story The Ghost Who Died Twice has one Phantom being held this way by his son.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	The Nomad has this as his main gimmick as well. We the readers do get to see his face, of course, but in-universe he goes to great pains to make sure NOBODY knows of the connection between his criminal self and his civilian persona, Eric Sahara, to the point of killing informants shortly after they've delivered valuable information to him.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3d5547b0	type	Perfect Poison
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3d5547b0	comment	Perfect Poison: The Bandar's iconic poison, which is made from a special type of berry that only grows in the jungle, and causes almost instant death. The Bandars use Poisoned Weapons (usually arrows) treated with the poison, and even a scratch means certain doom. However, it has to be both completely pure, and properly brewed, otherwise it loses its potency. The Phantom uses a dilluted version on the Skull ring, which only causes some scarring, and in one story, the victim was just knocked out for a few minutes because the poison hadn't finished fermenting.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: An interesting variation. While the Walkers, despite having lived in Bangalla for over 400 years aren't part of the nearby Bandar tribe, they are their closest allies, and live comparable lifestyles, the Phantom's best friend is Bandar tribesman Guran, and the Walker children grow up alongside the Bandar children.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_40217655	comment	Explorer and Olympian Diana Palmer, though sometimes the plot required her to be somewhat less badass.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4348c929	type	Early Installment Character-Design Difference
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4348c929	comment	Early Installment Character-Design Difference: The Phantom's outfit evolved a bit over the course of the newspaper strip's first story arc, before finally settling on the appearance it has had ever since. One conspicuous difference is that on his very first appearance he wore a pair of gloves that quickly disappeared from subsequent outings. As the daily newspaper strip was in black and white, it was not obvious what color the Phantom's suit was, although there was occasionally dialogue mentioning that it was gray. When the color Sunday strip started, the suit came out as a grayish-purple color, which evolved over time into the definite purple that it's now accepted as having always been.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: The Phantom costume was designed to resemble a demon feared by a malevolent tribe that had enslaved the tribe that rescued the first Phantom after being shipwrecked in Bangalia and worn as a form of psychological warfare when freeing the enslaved tribesmen.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: The Phantom has found himself in some sticky situations on occasion resulting in his various allies having to bail him out in various ways.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_487cb7a7	comment	Clue from Ed.: Every single time "Mr. Walker" is mentioned, Ed reminds us that the name is derived from "The Ghost Who Walks". As such it doubles as Viewers Are Goldfish.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: While Julie performed well as a standin for her brother as the Phantom, it's VERY obvious that it's a woman wearing the form-fitting costume. Aside from her slimmer musculature, she didnt even tie her breasts down!
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Being raised in a jungle with Everything Trying to Kill You can do that to a guy.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4c554daf	type	President Evil
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4c554daf	comment	President Evil: The Scandinavian comics have twice had Bangalla taken over by evil presidents: In the 90s, Bangalla got taken over by tyrant cum voodoo sorcerer Kigali Lubanga. Unlike previous coup-happy generals and assorted single-issue conquerors, Lubanga was a Villain with Good Publicity who won a reasonably fair election against his good-guy opponent. The Phantom then spent the next couple of years in opposition to the government, authorities and public opinion, before the people realized their country was gradually being turned into the People's Republic of Tyranny and rebelled, reinstating the old president. In more recent times, the guy was ousted again after Lubanga made his comeback as the leader of an evil cult and tried (but quickly failed) to resume his old reign. The new President Evil is, instead, Sandal Singh, daughter of the Phantom's perennial Arch-Nemesis Dogai Singh, the leader of the Singh Pirate Brotherhood. Interestingly enough, Sandal has been shown to be quite capable as president, and unlike Lubanga hasn't made any overt moves to turn Bangalla into a dictatorship. Of course, she's still also the head of the Singh Brotherhood...
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Played straight pretty much every time, except in the '90s when the Scandinavian version went for a period of Darker and Edgier (if a comparatively mild one).
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: One historical Phantom adventure set during the Renaissance, involves the current Phantom getting involved in a feud between three brothers who have split up their father's kingdom between them, and are constantly trying to conquer the others' lands. The storyline concludes with every single named character dead, including the woman the Phantom has fallen in love with, and leaves the Phantom to bury the dead alone before returning in grief to Bangala. Another Downer Ending involved the second Phantom and his unknown half brother Renee, the son of the first Phantom and a French noblewoman. After his father's death, the new Phantom is contacted by Artois, a friend of said woman, and through him finds out that Renee is a prisoner of the catholic inquisition for his involvement with the Protestant movement. The Phantom rescues him, but Renee is eventually killed in the Hugenot massacre which they had failed to prevent, and nearly every character in the story aside from Renee's mother is killed in the riots. All that is left for the Phantom is to bring Renee back with him to Bangala and bury him with the father he never knew.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Early stories placed the nation of Bangalia in southeast Asia, likely inspired by the real world country of Bangladesh. The first Phantom is an in-universe example. He never actually called himself the Phantom, instead he called himself the "Avenger". The name Phantom as well as the iconic rings were both creations by his son, the second Phantom.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_50c23153	type	Cave Behind the Falls
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_50c23153	comment	Cave Behind the Falls: The Skull Cave lies in a valley that has to be entered through a waterfall.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_521144cf	type	Challenging the Chief
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_521144cf	comment	Challenging the Chief: In olden times, the jungle tribes were united under a high chief who ruled until he was challenged and killed in single combat. An earlier Phantom gained the loyalty of the tribes by successfully challenging the high chief (but sparing his life, of course). In modern times, the challenge has evolved into an annual friendly wrestling competition in which all the tribes send their best to fight for the honour of coming second to the Phantom.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: The Phantom doesnâ€™t drink alcohol, when they enter a bar situation their drink of choice is a glass of Milk.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5c04772f	type	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5c04772f	comment	Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: In the '80s and '90s, in the Swedish edition, on rare occasions.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5e4fa749	type	Crossdresser
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5e4fa749	comment	Crossdresser: Before he became the Phantom, the third Phantom was an actor playing Juliet. His father was apparently more upset the fact that his son ran away from school to become an actor than about his costuming choices, since actors were not well respected in those days. As he puts it, "There's nothing lower than that, like a vagabond."
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5f5aa5af	type	Bulungi
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_5f5aa5af	comment	Bulungi: Bangalla plays with this. It was an English colony when the series started in the 1930s, transitioned to self-rule in the 1960s, and handled the transition to the post-Colonial age better than most. The capital of Mawitaan (formerly Morristown) is a modern city, but there are still deep jungles and parched savannas a-plenty.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Several times, from both the Phantom and Diana on various occasions, as part of the ongoing relationship plot.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Not so much with Mary Poe, who was only after avenging her father, the pirate Black Poe. She did make her alias Mary Read, so maybe she wanted to get caught.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: The viewer can't tell due to the mask, but he's apparently very good at this along with a really scary voice. There's even an ancient jungle proverb about how the Phantom's glare/voice turns blood to ice.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Not all the time, but a lot of the stories told about past Phantoms are more enjoyable if you know your world history. The Swedish comic book would often have a condensed version of the relevant historic events in it.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: A major reason why it took the Phantom and Diana so long to get married — they loved each other, and both knew it, but when it came to actually popping the question, the Phantom's otherwise undauntable nerve failed him. The 1947 story arc "Romance", for instance, begins with a sequence in which the Phantom works himself up to pop the question several times, only to chicken out and change the subject each time, to Diana's mounting irritation. (Then he hits on the idea of buying a ring and letting it do the talking — and that leads, by a series of steps each straightforward in itself, to the Phantom trapped on an abandoned ship that's about to be blown up, and Diana swearing never to speak to him again.)
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: In the first issue of the 1989 comicbook series, a group of bandits posing as British soldiers raid an African village and are summarily crushed by the titular hero. When the bandit chief protests they are authorized by the Queen, the Phantom coldly replies he is the only authority figure that they should be worried about.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_674586f6	type	Trouble Magnet Gambit
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_674586f6	comment	Trouble Magnet Gambit: A storyline explaining the disappearance of George Bass has the 13th Phantom sailing with Bass on his final voyage, which was a secret mission for the British crown. At the end of the mission, Bass is sailing his renamed ship to rendezvous the British fleet off the coast of France. However, a traitor on board secretly lowers the British ensign Bass if flying and runs up the French tricolour. This causes Bass' ship to be fired on and sunk by the British fleet.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The Phantom's title as "the man who cannot die" is doubly ironic as not only has he died numerous times, but most Phantoms tend to die young, only living long enough to sire and train an heir before their child has to take the mantle.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6a36abe2	type	Hollywood Natives
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6a36abe2	comment	Hollywood Natives: Pretty much every native tribe the Phantom ever encountered, to a greater or lesser extent, although the depictions have tended to become more nuanced as the series goes on.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6a643799	type	Expressive Mask
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6a643799	comment	Expressive Mask: It hides his eyes, but is apparently very flexible, and allows for a solid Death Glare.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: Jungle Patrol is a heroic version of this trope, largely being made up of ex-mercenaries and trained volunteers. Originally led by repentant pirates given a new lease on life by the Phantom, they've over time evolved into a mix of a private police force and conservationist movement, which still answer to him in secret. They also continue to serve as one of the Phantom's allies, providing him intel and backup even if the rank-and-file don't always realize it.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6e65655f	type	Rejected Marriage Proposal
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_6e65655f	comment	Rejected Marriage Proposal: Diana had to turn down several proposals from various villains and Romantic False Leads before she married Kit. She even turned down at least one proposal from Kit, because she'd found out that he'd been unthinkingly assuming she'd be a stay-at-home mom once they married, and she refused to marry him until he updated his thinking.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: Every time Diana has to defend herself, we are reminded by a caption that she is a former Judo champion.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: A handful of Phantoms have tried to find lives outside of the mask, like the third one (who first wanted to be an actor), but they nearly always find themselves drawn back in, usually because they can't stand to see the injustice around them go unpunished. In one historical adventure featuring the 18th Phantom, which revolved around a pirate slaver working with a British governor, the governor is shown to be vaguely uncomfortable with the deal, but is both weak-willed and greedy, and tries to pass off any responsibility on his part that "we all just play our parts in history" (notably, one of the defendants at Nuremberg used the same defence. It didn't work for him either). He gets off relatively easy—the Phantom just punches him in the face, leaving him with the Evil Mark, and tells him it'll serve as a reminder that, fate or not, he'd better still try or else! The ending implies he takes it to heart.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: An odd variation occurs with the Australian covers — they generally do show events that actually occur in the story (since, to keep design costs down, most of them are direct copies of actual panels), but they're apparently coloured by somebody who hasn't read the story. Sometimes this doesn't matter. Sometimes it does; examples range from a Fiery Redhead being depicted with black hair to several instances of African characters being given yellow hair and pink skin, as well as one instance where a criminal aviator's leather flying helmet was coloured purple, resulting in a cover that appeared to show the Phantom shooting an innocent bystander.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_734d969c	type	Badass Arm-Fold
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_734d969c	comment	Badass Armfold: The Phantom often poses this way.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The Phantom is a rare example of a superhero whose costume color is radically different from country to country. His most well known getup is the purple costume which he wears in most non-comic media as well as in American and Australian comics, among others, though it was originally intended to be grey. In Scandinavia, his costume was originally rendered as blue with red trunks due to technological limitations but proved popular enough that it never got changed. In Mediterranean as well as South American countries, The Phantom's tights are bright red. In New Zealand, his costume is a dull yellowish-brown color.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Endemic since the time of the first Phantom. Of course, 20 generations of Legacy Character doesn't happen without the occasional someone averting this trope.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_77059ab0	type	The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_77059ab0	comment	The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others: Often averted. In the finale of the second story arc of the serial strip, The Baroness shoots him in the chest at point-blank with what looks like a heavy-caliber pistol, and he doesn't raise an eyebrow. (Although this is treated as an extreme case; in context, it convinces the villainess that he really is the Ghost Who Walks, and when he sees a doctor about it later, the man considers it a medical miracle that he's alive, never mind up and running.)
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_777c0033	type	Technical Pacifist
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_777c0033	comment	Technical Pacifist: The Phantom does use guns, but is apparently such a great shot that he almost never needs to shoot people - see Improbable Aiming Skills, Blasting It Out of Their Hands. He does shoot people in self-defense on occasion though, especially if they start shooting first.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_77e8d49d	type	Clingy MacGuffin
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_77e8d49d	comment	Clingy MacGuffin: A very mild example. The two rings of the Phantom tend to find their way to the Phantom's son regardless of where the Phantom dies. How much of this is mere good luck and how much spooky voodoo is not specified.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_781f2467	type	Shooting Superman
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: One story has a criminal attempt this, and seeing the Phantom not even flinch at being shot, gives up and pleads mercy. The Phantom later reveals he was bluffing, the bullet hit him in the arm, but he was able to ignore the pain and keep up his faÃ§ade.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_79631cf	type	Hungry Jungle
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_79631cf	comment	Hungry Jungle: Downplayed; the comics never shy away from portraying just how dangerous the jungles of Bangalia really are, and on the occasions when untrained outsiders wind up there, they better hope the Phantom finds them before the wildlife does. However, for the native tribes and the Phantom's family, who have lived in the jungle for centuries, it's far less deadly since they know how to survive and even thrive there.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: The Phantom's unmasked face is never shown. There is a legend that "He who sees the face of The Phantom... dies a slow and horrible death", and although his close friends and family are shown to be immune, apparently readers aren't. And there's always an African mook around to warn the villain not to remove the mask and scare the other mooks into leaving the room. The villain himself will usually profess not to be impressed by these African superstitions — but there's never been more than a handful who haven't lost their nerve at the last moment and decided to leave the mask on, and they all died a horrible death not long after. This goes so far that The Phantom has actually been arrested by the police, tried in a court of law and put in a psychiatric institution once... And at no point during the process did anyone remove his mask. It looks like the legend in question only applies when the mask is forcibly removed. The Nomad has this as his main gimmick as well. We the readers do get to see his face, of course, but in-universe he goes to great pains to make sure NOBODY knows of the connection between his criminal self and his civilian persona, Eric Sahara, to the point of killing informants shortly after they've delivered valuable information to him.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: Rhodia's apartheid regime. In all the Scandinavian Phantom stories it featured in the 1970s and onwards, it was an ever-present Greater-Scope Villain that was constantly scheming to expand its power and influence while keeping its system of apartheid at home, and the Phantom often had to battle agents of the Rhodian government, including the Rhodian secret agent Miss Mist (real name Sarah Cartwright) before her heel-face turn. This culminated in the 1990s with Rhodia helping Kigali Lubanga win the Bangallan presidential election. When Lubanga turned against his Rhodian benefactors, Rhodia responded by engineering his downfall as part of their plot of invading Bangalla and turning it into a vassal state of Rhodia, which failed thanks to the actions of the Phantom and the Jungle Patrol. By 2012-2013 an increasingly outnumbered and demoralized apartheid regime was stuck fighting a losing war against the black Rhodian Liberation Army, which steadily took over more and more of the country until only Marcusburg, the capital was left, which was then followed by the fall of the regime.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7d24907e	type	SkyPirates
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7d24907e	comment	Sky Pirates: Sala and the Sky Band
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7fd142ef	type	Shared Universe
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_7fd142ef	comment	Shared Universe: It's well established that The Phantom exists in the same universe as fellow Lee Falk-creation Mandrake the Magician, with Mandrake having had several cameos in the Phantom's comics, including at his wedding.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Until each Kit leaves the cave they either don't know anything about or understand the concept of money. The twenty-first Phantom carried around a bag of stones his father gave him not knowing why until he heard his uncle complain about tuition costs months latter. The same story had a very young Kit playing with the gold like they were building blocks.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_845789b0	type	Superhero
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_845789b0	comment	Superhero: Although he has no magic, just lifelong training in anything that might prove useful in his line of work, he still has a skintight suit and what might be termed super strength. A jungle proverb has it that he is as strong as ten tigers, but to be fair the Phantom who inspired that proverb defeated the tigers mostly by outsmarting them.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_84609623	type	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_84609623	comment	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: At least once, in the 1947 story arc "Romance", Diana's entanglement with a Romantic False Lead went so far that she ended up doing a Runaway Bride to get out of it; the Phantom had stood aside, since it seemed to be what she wanted, but he did give the groom-to-be the "You're marrying the finest girl in the world, and if you do anything to hurt her..." speech.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_84a1984d	type	Legacy Immortality
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_84a1984d	comment	Legacy Immortality: The Skull Oath includes a promise that all male descendants shall inherit The Call.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: What most people see the Phantom as. Since nobody knows it's actually a family lineage of different Phantoms, who are just very well-trained men, to outsiders the Phantom instead appears as some kind of vengeful, immortal jungle demon that's lived for centuries and who permanently marks his enemies with a skull-shaped scar.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: One of the classics - The Oath of the Skull, sworn by the first Phantom on the skull of his father's murderer, and repeated by each of his successors in turn:
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: The third Phantom originally rejected the legacy and ended up becoming an actor under Shakespeare, but eventually found himself taking on the cowl anyway after his wife was murdered.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8cb844c6	comment	The Phantom's unmasked face is never shown. There is a legend that "He who sees the face of The Phantom... dies a slow and horrible death", and although his close friends and family are shown to be immune, apparently readers aren't. And there's always an African mook around to warn the villain not to remove the mask and scare the other mooks into leaving the room. The villain himself will usually profess not to be impressed by these African superstitions — but there's never been more than a handful who haven't lost their nerve at the last moment and decided to leave the mask on, and they all died a horrible death not long after. This goes so far that The Phantom has actually been arrested by the police, tried in a court of law and put in a psychiatric institution once... And at no point during the process did anyone remove his mask. It looks like the legend in question only applies when the mask is forcibly removed.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: Every Phantom looks exactly like the first (it's implied that there is minor variations in height and size, but the costume tends to hide any real distinctive differences), except in occasional stories where the diversion is a central plot point, such as the tale of the Thirteenth Phantom, who was extraordinarily short.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8e4c7eb3	type	Superhero Sobriquets
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_8e4c7eb3	comment	Superhero Sobriquets: The Ghost Who Walks, The Man Who Cannot Die, because of all the people who have killed him only to meet him again, either as a later Phantom or as himself after surviving seemingly fatal damages. Sometimes it's an old person who tells their grandchild they saw the Phantom when they were the grandchild's age, and the Phantom doesn't look older than he did at the time. One story has it the first Phantom called himself the Avenger, and only became the Phantom because one of his enemies thought he was his murdered cousin risen from the dead.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_927d9def	type	Scarecrow Solution
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_927d9def	comment	Scarecrow Solution: The Phantom's usual tactic. He relies far more on cunning and guile than his fists.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_93c3c1a0	type	Monster Modesty
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_93c3c1a0	comment	Monster Modesty: The Croccos wear loincloths (and are either a Single-Gender Species or an aversion of Non-Mammal Mammaries), but since they live in the ocean... where do they get the cloth?
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The title character of the storyline "Princess Valerie" has the name and appearance of Lee Falk's eldest daughter.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The Phantoms in any era often found themselves opposing various evil counts and barons while travelling in Europe, especially during the early generations of the dynasty when the continent was littered with various small kingdoms and city-states. Of a more specific note is Sir Thomas Moore, an enemy of the first Phantom who plotted against Henry VIII, and murdered the Phantom's mother in an attempt to cover his tracks by killing a boarder she hosted, the alchemist Paracelsus.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9826b657	type	Multilayer FaÃ§ade
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9826b657	comment	Multilayer FaÃ§ade: The secret leader of the Jungle Patrol is The Phantom itself - the masked superhero identity, rather than its mundane counterpart "Mr Walker".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Whenever a Phantom meets a group of people that had a history with a former Phantom, they will helpfully inform him of what happened the last time "he" was there, even though they think he is the same guy. Slightly justified in that the Phantom is believed by outsiders to be one immortal man, not a line of sons taking up the father's mantle upon his death, and it's not entirely unfounded that a very ancient being would need reminding of who someone he met many years ago is.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The Numerous stories of the current Phantom's ancestors used to start with a page or two of the 21st Phantom finding a reason to read the story, and then ending with an commentary from him and the people he read it to. This was later replaced with a simple text box at the beginning that states [A story from the Nths Phantom's Time]
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9df812ad	type	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9df812ad	comment	Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: "The Fourth Son" tells the tale of the shortest Phantom (five foot two and a half), who winds up marrying a six-foot Amazonian Beauty.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: The Bandars have traditionally been in on the true nature of the Phantom ever since they saved the original one, and he helped them free themselves from another tribe that had enslaved them. Also in the Scandinavian comics, Dr Axel, a local doctor who has treated the modern Phantom and his family on a few occasions.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9f9b5a20	type	Arbitrarily Large Bank Account
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9f9b5a20	comment	Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Between the dowries of the princesses the various Phantoms have married, chestfuls of gold and jewelry given as gifts, and that they live mostly off the land, the Walkers are very well off.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	In a 2018 storyline, the current-time, teenage Heloise, while at boarding school in New York City, realizes that her room-mate Kadia is the unknowing daughter of an international crime boss known as â€œthe Nomadâ€�, while out to dinner with them both. The Nomad believes she's a spy sent by President Luaga, and arranges for Heloise to be framed and arrested as a terrorist, and then turned over to him by corrupt officials so he can take her out of the country to torture her for information as he chooses. Heloise then brings down the small plane they're on, complete with Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, turns him over to a rather bewildered honest cop, and runs before she can be arrested for said plane crash. (She also does all of this in a Little Black Dress and heels!) She escapes being arrested and gets Kadia to the Embassy for sanctuary in the nick of time to avoid the reprisals of the Nomad's syndicate and arrest by numerous law enforcement agents. Noteworthy in this case: She did such a spectacular and effective job of taking down the Nomad that when her brother Kit (who's off training in a monastery on the other side of the world) hears the news of the Nomad's defeat and arrest, he assumes it was done by their father, even writing in a letter something about being able to recognize the Phantom's work when he hears about it. Heloise may never wear the Phantom costume, but she's proven she's just as worthy a successor to the name.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a0396574	type	Rogues Gallery
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a0396574	comment	Rogues Gallery: As a series and franchise that's over 80 years old by this point, the Phantom has amassed a rather sizable list of foes across various media. In the newspaper strips and the comic books his foes consist of the Singh Brotherhood, Eric "The Nomad" Sahara, Chatu "the Python," Skul and his terrorist organization T, Goldhand, the Sky Band, Kigali Lubanga and his father Bawuko, the Iron Hand, General Tara and his right-hand man Major Isaru, the Black Carnation, Bullets, Ali Gutaale, General Bababu, the High Priest of Kua, and Manuel Ortega.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: The hero and his love interest meet for the first time in the first story arc, until Lee Falk wrote the story of "The Childhood of the Phantom" and included a scene where they met briefly years before when they were both children.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: A borderline example, perhaps, but in the very first news strip adventure ("The Singh Brotherhood"), when we first meet Sala, she appears only as the pirate king Kabai Singh's useless mistress. She's gradually established as smarter and more manipulative, and in the end she's the one to tell Kabai he's outlived his usefulness and kills him. Turns out she was really a double agent for the Sky Pirates under deep cover who sabotaged Kabai so the Phantom could destroy his organization because it competed with hers...
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: He wears purple Spandex.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a22c6d89	type	The Evil Prince
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a22c6d89	comment	Diana in the Scandinavian version in the 1970s was captured by the Prince of Jamadan for his harem and made to wear a revealing outfit for the rest of the story.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a2b07c69	type	Afraid of Doctors
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a2b07c69	comment	Afraid of Doctors: When a missionary doctor first arrived in Bangalla, he was distrusted by the natives. However, when their shaman routinely failed to cure their ills, the natives began coming to the genial, methodical doctor.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: One historical Phantom had his eyes poked out with hot irons while being held captive by the beautiful but sadistic Lala Singh, a high ranking female Singh pirate. He would later have them returned to him through magical means.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a67a8d91	type	Bluffing the Advance Scout
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a67a8d91	comment	Bluffing the Advance Scout: In the 1970s story The Blue Giant, alien advance scouts land to check out whether humans are a good prospect for invasion. After encountering the Phantom, they decide that if all humans are like him, the planet's best left alone.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a8f3f520	type	Death Is Dramatic
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_a8f3f520	comment	Death Is Dramatic: The number of Phantoms who have died without having the time to dramatically pass on the rings to their son while on their deathbed (usually back in the Skull Cave, no matter where in the world they've been mortally wounded and apparently keeping themselves alive on sheer willpower), can be counted on one hand.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_aaff69d0	type	Unexpected Successor
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_aaff69d0	comment	Unexpected Successor: The thirteenth Phantom was a fourth child, and sickly as a child on top of it (even though he became one of the most heavily built phantoms by working himself to the bone, his adult height was about 5'2''). He was, however, the only son around when his father was killed and thus able to recite the skull oath.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ab173426	type	Ruthless Modern Pirates
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ab173426	comment	Ruthless Modern Pirates: Being as he is the scourge of piracy, the modern-day Phantom has encountered modern-day pirates from time to time.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: Several historical adventures set before the Phantoms existed take place like this, among them the events that led to Excalibur and an arrow that once belonged to Robin Hood coming into their possession. One adventure involving a magical genie ends like this, where the Phantom is mortally wounded at the end of the story, but is saved by the Genie despite having used up his three wishes. He later awakens on the beach where the story began, and isnt sure whether any of it really happened. Evidence in favor: he has in his hand a piece of a puzzle that he found in the "dream". Evidence against: he has his eyes back.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Phantom can pull the occasional stinging zinger, usually in response to criminals doing some rather foolish things in opposition to him. In one story, for instance, he gives quite a biting reply to a cult leader who thinks a little too highly of himself.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: One storyline from the 80s involves a super virus released after a plane crash killing all life in Bangala, including, it's implied, the Phantom's wife and children. It turns out to be a fever dream Phantom is having, but later revealed to be a premonition of the future, leading him to prevent the terrorist attack that caused the plane crash, and disposing of the virus into a volcano.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: In the 1947 story arc "Romance":
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: In the 1947 story arc "Romance", the Phantom goes to buy an engagement ring so he can propose to Diana, which leads, by a series of steps each straightforward in itself, to the Phantom trapped on an abandoned ship that's about to be blown up, and Diana swearing never to speak to him again.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: All Phantoms are this, being trained from birth both by their parents and by various tutors and trainers from around the world for their eventual role as the Phantom. Yes, even female children receive training. Just in case (and that case has come up once or twice - see the Action Girl entry below).
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Of a sort. The Phantom line and the Singh Brotherhood are sworn enemies, and have a centuries long feud, with each side often claiming the life of the head of the other, which in turn just leads to a new Phantom, or a new Singh leader arising.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: In French, the series is sometimes referred as "Le FantÃ´me du Bengale" ("the Phantom of Bengal"), because of some confusion between the African fictional country of Bangalla and the real-life India region of Bengal
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_bc281366	type	Costume Copycat
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_bc281366	comment	Costume Copycat: In the early newspaper comics, at least two different stories in which a convict on the run finds and steals the Phantom's clothes while the Phantom's having a swim. Fantomen has done both the "criminal wears a replica of the Phantom's outfit to divert suspicion" and the "hero in distant land, inspired by tales of the Phantom, wears a replica of the Phantom's outfit" plots at various times. In fact, this was how a historical Phantom met his wife.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Most villains hearing about the Phantom for the first time just assume he is some jungle myth that only superstitious jungle tribes believe in.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Devil, who is a wolf. In the jungle, also his horse Hero.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c011cd29	type	Path of Inspiration
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c011cd29	comment	In more recent times, the guy was ousted again after Lubanga made his comeback as the leader of an evil cult and tried (but quickly failed) to resume his old reign. The new President Evil is, instead, Sandal Singh, daughter of the Phantom's perennial Arch-Nemesis Dogai Singh, the leader of the Singh Pirate Brotherhood. Interestingly enough, Sandal has been shown to be quite capable as president, and unlike Lubanga hasn't made any overt moves to turn Bangalla into a dictatorship. Of course, she's still also the head of the Singh Brotherhood...
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Sir Thomas Moore survives his supposed death after his battle with the first Phantom, but is left paralyzed and hideously disfigured, reduced to moving around in a wheeled cabinet-like contraption, an early precursor to the wheelchair.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2475826	type	FanFiction
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2475826	comment	Fan Fiction: This picture◊ is worth at least a thousand words.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Subverted. When Sandal Singh informs him that her son is his after she took advantage of him when he was mostly unconscious with fever, he is visibly upset.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2e295cd	type	Curse
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2e295cd	comment	Curse: "He who sees the face of The Phantom dies a slow and horrible death." This is an ancient jungle saying that pops up reasonably often in the comic, it's a rule in the comic's narrative itself that any villain who ends up seeing The Phantom without his mask is disposed of, and this one curse is just about the only consistent instance of something resembling "magic" occurring in the comic. The Phantom's friends and family seem immune to it though.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2e3f1b4	type	Affluent Ascetic
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c2e3f1b4	comment	Affluent Ascetic: The Walkers are undoubtedly wealthy. On the other hand, aside from some personal luxuries and whatever hardware the Phantom needs, they live rather modestly, at best not much better than their Bangallan neighbors. Meanwhile, their children don't even know the concept of money until after they see the world.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c368b650	type	Sports Hero Backstory
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c368b650	comment	Sports Hero Backstory: Diana is not just athletic and good at swimming, she's a Olympic medalist.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: The 17th Phantom once fought a cruel witch doctor who had the reputation of being unkillable, and liked to force his victims to eat a type of lethally toxic legume with him, with him surviving while the other man died in agony. The Phantom figured out that the witch doctor broke the skin of one of the legumes, then ate the intact one himself, which kept the poison from entering his system. The Phantom outwitted him by taking the intact legume before the doctor could eat it, leaving the villain with the option of either admitting defeat or committing suicide. The witch doctor wussed out, earning him the scorn of his former followers, and the Phantoms own myth of immortality was just made stronger.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: In "The Veiled Lady", a biologist mounts an expedition to the eponymous mountain. In an early scene, biologist and assistant meet with Colonel Weeks of the Jungle Patrol to arrange permits, and Weeks initially assumes that the man is the biologist and the woman is the assistant.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Every Phantom is the son of the previous one, and all 21 generations of Phantoms look pretty much identical to those before and after, which definitely helps sell the idea of the Phantom being one supernatural, immortal being.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c6074d96	type	I Am Spartacus
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c6074d96	comment	I Am Spartacus: In "Hooded Justice" (one of the Scandinavian arcs), the fifth Phantom is transported back in time to 12th century Nottingham where he takes on the role of Robin Hood. The Sheriff captures Maraian and declares she will be executed if Robin Hood does not present himself. The Phantom steps forward and declares he is Robin Hood. Then each of the Merry Men planted throughout the crowd claims that he is Robin Hood. The Sheriff's men attempt to arrest everyone and the confusion allows the Phantom to rescue Marian.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: An early 2000 story arc in the newspaper dailies dealt with criminals recovering millions in Belgian jewels from a steamboat called The African Queen that had crashed in an impossible to navigate river, killing both on board.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c9e5a0db	type	Legacy Character
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_c9e5a0db	comment	Legacy Character: Although the main continuity has focused on the same person from beginning to present day, many episodes are about the lives and adventures of previous Phantoms, and the legacy is strong.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The same women have been said to have been married to consecutive Phantoms, such as princess Pura having been married to either the third or the fourth, depending on the story; a woman named Flame Stanbury married either the eighth or ninth Phantom, and so on. Also, the Jungle Patrol was founded by either the fifth or the sixth Phantom.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cccfa535	type	Blindfolded Trip
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cccfa535	comment	Blindfolded Trip: In the 2019 Sunday Strip "The Spy Ship", Heloise Walker blindfolds her friend Kadia when she takes her to the Bandar Village.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Almost to the level of Agent Scully, the Phantom is a skeptic to the extreme. Sometimes justified in that the supernatural events he witnesses are juuuust ambiguous enough to cast doubt, but usually he seems to be skeptic just for the sake of it.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: A character during the very first story arc correctly deduces the truth about the Phantom, that it is a hereditary title passed down through generations, but no one else even believes the Phantom exists.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: At one point in the 1974 story arc "The Normal Life", a character is castigated for his foul language; the strongest word he is actually seen to use is "creep".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d2112212	type	Proto-Superhero
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d2112212	comment	Proto-Superhero: Since 1936. He predates Superman and the rest of DC.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d5522f3a	type	Non-Powered Costumed Hero
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d5522f3a	comment	Non-Powered Costumed Hero: An excellent example of the central concept, though slightly less than typical for not having a proper Secret Identity. The one "superpower" he does have (as revealed by a blood test when he is held captive) is that his blood contains antibodies for every disease known to man, thus enabling him to live a long and healthy natural life.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d635e82c	type	Highly-Visible Ninja
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d635e82c	comment	Highly-Visible Ninja: The Phantom's stealthy jungle-ninja suit is purple. (Lee Falk intended it to be gray, and the early black-and-white dailies occasionally have dialogue saying so. When the color Sunday strip started up, it became purple, either due to editorial decision or a printing error.note It could have been worse. DC Comics used to be plagued with a color registration problem that caused certain shades of gray to be printed as hot pink. Falk eventually gave in and wrote in a handwave that it was purple because the Phantom's look was intended to evoke a particular idol worshipped by the jungle tribes.) Meanwhile, various international publications have depicted him in a range of colors, from a dark blue in Sweden to a short-lived Italian comic that showed his costume as a mixture of bright red, green, and orange.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Every Phantom is trained in combat, jungle survival and shooting by their father, and often have careers in the military prior to taking up the mantle.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d7bc08e9	type	Superhero Packing Heat
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d7bc08e9	comment	Superhero Packing Heat: Has two guns in his gunbelt. Rarely misses with either hand.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d7cdaa5c	type	Blank White Eyes
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d7cdaa5c	comment	Blank White Eyes: The Phantom literally invented this superhero costume clichÃ©, supposedly inspired by the blank white eyes of ancient Greek statues.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: Sala's Sky Band.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Explorer and Olympian Diana Palmer, though sometimes the plot required her to be somewhat less badass. Sala, who was a pilot, spy, crack shot, and second in command of the Sky Pirates. Julie, the twin sister of the 17th Phantom, who filled her brother's place on several occasions when he was unable to wear the Phantom costume. Flame Stanbury, who donned the costume in a bid to encourage an uprising against a tyrant, and ended up marrying the real Phantom. In a vision of the future that Moz the storyteller had, Heloise Walker, daughter of the 21st Phantom, is quite badass. In a 2018 storyline, the current-time, teenage Heloise, while at boarding school in New York City, realizes that her room-mate Kadia is the unknowing daughter of an international crime boss known as â€œthe Nomadâ€�, while out to dinner with them both. The Nomad believes she's a spy sent by President Luaga, and arranges for Heloise to be framed and arrested as a terrorist, and then turned over to him by corrupt officials so he can take her out of the country to torture her for information as he chooses. Heloise then brings down the small plane they're on, complete with Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, turns him over to a rather bewildered honest cop, and runs before she can be arrested for said plane crash. (She also does all of this in a Little Black Dress and heels!) She escapes being arrested and gets Kadia to the Embassy for sanctuary in the nick of time to avoid the reprisals of the Nomad's syndicate and arrest by numerous law enforcement agents. Noteworthy in this case: She did such a spectacular and effective job of taking down the Nomad that when her brother Kit (who's off training in a monastery on the other side of the world) hears the news of the Nomad's defeat and arrest, he assumes it was done by their father, even writing in a letter something about being able to recognize the Phantom's work when he hears about it. Heloise may never wear the Phantom costume, but she's proven she's just as worthy a successor to the name.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: Various villains, beginning with the Singh Brotherhood in the very first story arc.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Recurring concept, as torture technicians are often employed by whatever Big Bad the Phantom is currently fighting, only a scant few are named, such as Cyclops and Maestro Morte.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dc5b65e3	type	Make Games, Not War
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dc5b65e3	comment	Make Games, Not War: Several stories feature the Jungle Olympics, an annual sporting event founded by a past Phantom as a proxy for the wars the jungle tribes used to fight. It's a running joke that the tribes have found many of the sports insufficiently challenging, and have added spikes, red-hot coals, and dangerous animals to make them more interesting.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dda99fa8	comment	The second Phantom found himself chained to one of these shortly after becoming estranged from his son and undergoing a Despair Event Horizon. After recieving a vision of his father, the First Phantom, who showed him the misery of the people trapped under the reign of the tyrant who imprisoned him, he regained his heroic spirit, and began using the nights to wear away the chain he was imprisoned with using the wheel. Finally, the chain was weakened enough to allow him to snap it, and attacked the guard who kept watch over him during the days, allowing him to flee. Rather than escaping, he chose to take the place of another prisoner, kept isolated in a cell and forced to wear an iron mask, because said prisoner was the legitimate ruler of the country. The Phantom stayed behind, allowing the prisoner to mount a rebellion.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ddf56e0a	type	Amoral Afrikaner
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Amoral Afrikaner: Colonel Zwaart, a former mercenary from South Africa who commands the Prince of Jamadan's royal guards. Thanks to his support, the evil Prince Asad is able to seize all power for himself from the tiny country's elected parliament once he ascends the throne. In the Scandinavia-made adventures, Rhodia generally serves this purpose. Its apartheid regime greatly resembled South Africa's, and its capital Marcusburg stood in for Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city. Many white Rhodians also have Afrikaner-style last names, like Van Basten and Leeuwenhoek.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_df04089a	type	Lineage Comes from the Father
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_df04089a	comment	Lineage Comes from the Father: The mantle of the Phantom has been passed on from father to son, though daughters are also trained the exact same way just in case.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_df33a778	type	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_df33a778	comment	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Literally every costume ball any Phantom has ever been on.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Several. With a history spanning back to the 17th century and a lot of stories to choose from, the Phantom has had his finger in lots of background events throughout history. Among others, he was involved in the French Revolution, helping the Dauphin escape the guillotine; he befriended Nostradamus, who was the one who gave him the Skull Ring; and he helped the British defeat the Spanish Armada by time travelling and helping to vanquish Mordred from Camelot.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e26f04b4	comment	A sinister version was used in a series of Scandinavian stories from the 80's, revolving around the last survivor of the Tinpeni tribe, a tribe of black magicians who used enchanted drums to hypnotize members of the surrounding tribes and force them into slavery or death. Eventually, the tribes banded together and massacred the Tinpeni, but one man and his son survived, and they salvaged one of the cursed drums. The man trains his son in the use of the drum, and in present day, he attempts to get revenge on the tribes who wiped out his people, but is stopped by the Phantom. A sequel story from 2020 had him return.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e276cd	type	The Cowl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e276cd	comment	The Cowl: Definitely the "scares the villains in the dark" kind of superhero.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: A curious Composite Character version in the Norwegian translation, where Diana is named "Sala" and is considered the same character as Sala the Sky Pirate. This change has its origin in the early 1940s, when the Phantom comic was published as a serial in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. One of the earliest translated storylines featured Sala and her Unresolved Sexual Tension with the Phantom, and the very next storyline translated was the first time Diana appeared in the Norwegian translation. Rather than risk leaving the readers confused as to who this Diana was and why she was talking about marriage, the translators simply changed her name to "Sala" and treated her as the same character. Nowadays, Norwegians have known her as "Sala" for so long that it's unthinkable to change the name back.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: The 1994 Marvel comic featured the Next Sunday A.D. 22nd Phantom, who had wrist bands containing a pocket computer and other gadgets. In other words, a more primitive version of Phantom 2040's "analytical".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e4f5affb	comment	The Chew Toy: The 4th Phantom is considered by his descendants to have been plagued by misfortune. He ended up losing the iconic Skull Ring to a conspiracy led by a Jesuit priest, and had to wear a replica for the rest of his life, with the ring eventually being regained by his son, lost the love of his life to the Black Plague, and contracted the disease himself, narrowly surviving, but was left with horrific scars all over his face from the boils.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: The Third Phantom went through a period of this, demanding to know why his father had essentially decided his life for him from birth, and ended up running away and joining Shakespeare's theater troupe in London. He eventually decided to take up the cowl anyway after his wife was murdered and returned home just in time before his father died from wounds inflicted by pirates.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e692a3ae	type	Lactose over Liquor
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e692a3ae	comment	Lactose over Liquor: Anytime The Phantom goes to town in the guise of Mr. Walker, to extract information, he will invariably visit the grungiest bar in the seediest part of Morristown and order milk. Nobody ever mocks him for it... more than once ("It is good for the bones" [starts breaking bones]). And they will always have a bottle handy.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e8a56ee7	type	Steven Ulysses Perhero
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e8a56ee7	comment	Steven Ulysses Perhero: According to a later retcon, "Walker" is the actual surname of the first Phantom, and thus of every Phantom since. This hasn't stopped Ed telling us that it's derived from "The Ghost Who Walks".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Singh Brotherhood takes members of all races (though being centered in the Pacific region, most of them are either middle eastern or asian), and doesnt care what gender you are either, as many high-ranking Singh are women. Same with the graverobbing Vultures.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In 2019 storyline "The Spy Ship", Heloise Walker invites her friend Kadia to visit the Bandar village. As Kadia is hearing stories from the Bandar, Heloise sneaks out to greet her father. When she returns and Kadia asks where she has been, Heloise states she ran into someone who had a story to tell.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Once in a fight with the Singh, the Phantom gets shot in the neck and needs surgery to remove the bullet from his spine. During the surgery/coma he dreams a vividly detailed version of his origin story that spans several issues. The reader knows all along that it is just a dream.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_eafe9e0e	type	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_eafe9e0e	comment	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: At least twice, both times to set up a Costume Copycat plot.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Among the tribal leaders invited to attend the Phantom's wedding is Lothar, the Scary Black Man sidekick of Lee Falk's other famous character, Mandrake the Magician. (Mandrake himself also attends.)
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: The thirteenth Phantom's wife was from a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Mongols (who decided to start raiding sub-Saharan Africa some 400 years after the Mongol Empire fell) and used this trope to avoid Arranged Marriages imposed by her father. When the future Phantom defeated her in a wrestling match as part of Combat by Champion, she decided to marry him.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f018c5cf	type	Offhand Backhand
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: The Phantom delivers one to a hoodlum sneaking up behind him in "Whirlpool Channel".
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f1731583	type	Wheel of Pain
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f1731583	comment	Wheel of Pain: In "The Chain", featuring the twentieth Phantom trying to free his fiance from an evil sultan who wants to force her into marriage. In one of the Paracelsus arcs, the First gets this in a torture chamber. The second Phantom found himself chained to one of these shortly after becoming estranged from his son and undergoing a Despair Event Horizon. After recieving a vision of his father, the First Phantom, who showed him the misery of the people trapped under the reign of the tyrant who imprisoned him, he regained his heroic spirit, and began using the nights to wear away the chain he was imprisoned with using the wheel. Finally, the chain was weakened enough to allow him to snap it, and attacked the guard who kept watch over him during the days, allowing him to flee. Rather than escaping, he chose to take the place of another prisoner, kept isolated in a cell and forced to wear an iron mask, because said prisoner was the legitimate ruler of the country. The Phantom stayed behind, allowing the prisoner to mount a rebellion.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f3763fcb	type	Jungle Drums
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f3763fcb	comment	Jungle Drums: Frequently appear as a method of sending long-distance messages in the African jungle. A sinister version was used in a series of Scandinavian stories from the 80's, revolving around the last survivor of the Tinpeni tribe, a tribe of black magicians who used enchanted drums to hypnotize members of the surrounding tribes and force them into slavery or death. Eventually, the tribes banded together and massacred the Tinpeni, but one man and his son survived, and they salvaged one of the cursed drums. The man trains his son in the use of the drum, and in present day, he attempts to get revenge on the tribes who wiped out his people, but is stopped by the Phantom. A sequel story from 2020 had him return.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: He's not crazy about it, but since he, and his predecessors, have fought female villains quite a bit, The Phantom IS willing to use force against women. However, there's no record of him ever putting the Evil Mark on their faces like he does with nearly every male villain he fights, so presumably he's not comfortable punching a woman in the face.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f8117297	type	Go-Go Enslavement
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f8117297	comment	Go-Go Enslavement: Diana in the Scandinavian version in the 1970s was captured by the Prince of Jamadan for his harem and made to wear a revealing outfit for the rest of the story. The 11th Phantom's wife Renata in the 18th century when she was kidnapped by Red Sea pirates, shipwrecked and sold into slavery in Yemen, beliving her husband had drowned in the shipwreck. Nothing happens to her, as she is unknowingly pregnant, and her new owner balks at having been sold a pregnant slave and just has her locked up in a tower. By the time her husband finds her, she has given birth, and presents him with his son. Mary Poe attempted this on Jeanette Walker, born Lafitte, but no one at the auction had the courage to bid on the wife of the Ghost Who Walks.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: At one point, Phantom and lifelong friend Luaga have a falling out after the disastrous presidential elections, Diana and the Phantom separate, and Lubanga is in control of the country.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: His faithful companion Devil is actually a wolf. On several occasions an official informs the Phantom (or, more usually, "Mr. Walker") that he can't bring his dog with him, and the Phantom breezes past, saying "Oh, that's all right, Devil isn't a dog..."
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_faa71569	type	Romantic False Lead
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_faa71569	comment	Romantic False Lead: Most notably Lieutenant Byron.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fd8e62fc	type	Underwear of Power
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fd8e62fc	comment	Underwear of Power: Arguably the Trope Codifier, especially in countries where he is still popular. He wears red-and-black striped trunks over his purple spandex. In several stories this is the only thing he wears aside from his hood/mask, boots, and gunbelt.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: The ongoing soap opera of the Phantom's relationship with Diana Palmer, whom he met, rescued, and fell in love with on his first published adventure. Unlike most superhero romances, by the end of the first story arc the Phantom had already revealed his superhero identity and offered to show Diana around his secret lair, but the course of true love does not run smooth: she thinks she's been paralysed so she calls off the relationship, he thinks she's chosen the Romantic False Lead over him so he goes back to the jungle to brood, her mother disapproves, the latest Damsel in Distress wants him for herself, lather rinse repeat, he's afraid to propose in case she says no, he's afraid to propose in case she says yes and then finds out that the Phantom's wife traditionally stays in the Skull Cave doing housewifey stuff... After forty years of this, they finally got married in 1977.
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The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: There's such a strong taste of this it can be rather uncomfortable, though this has been downplayed with the passage of time. Especially when it sinks in that, despite the fact the Phantoms have been living in Africa for centuries, they still have white skin. In fact, no historical Phantom has ever been said to marry an African woman (although the 19th came close, and several of the historical Phantoms' wives were South European or Asian). His continued Caucasian appearance seems to coast by due to Grandfather Clause. This was especially prevalent in the early decades of the strip, with the African tribes being portrayed with the usual finesse common to comic books of the '50s and '60s. That said, this has thankfully lessened a lot since then, with The Phantom, the Bandars, and the other tribes being portrayed as allies and friends rather than semi-servants like in the comic's early years. His design is also unchanged from the time when he was just supposed to be a rich, American, Bruce Wayne-type vigilante, and not a what-if-Zorro-was-more-like-Tarzan sort of hero.
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CostumedNonsuperHero	seeAlso	The Phantom (Comic Strip)
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Darkest Africa / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Death by Origin Story / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Death by Secret Identity / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Diesel Punk / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Domino Mask / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Don't Wake the Sleeper / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Dork Knight / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Dream Apocalypse / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Edible Treasure / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Encyclopedia Exposita / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Eternal Hero / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Expressive Mask / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Eyes Out of Sight / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Fantastic Nature Reserve / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Fauxshadow / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Forgotten First Meeting / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Frazetta Man / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Generic Graffiti / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Genie in a Bottle / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Giant Mook / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	God Guise / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Gold Fever / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Gossip Evolution / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Grandfather Clause / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	He Who Must Not Be Seen / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Heir Club for Men / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Heroes Fight Barehanded / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Heroic Lineage / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Hidden Eyes / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Hollywood Natives / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	How Unscientific! / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	I Am Spartacus / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	I Want Grandkids / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Identical Grandson / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Impossible Task / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Inconsistent Coloring / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Irisless Eye Mask of Mystery / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Jungle Drums / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Jungle Opera / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Kicking Ass in All Her Finery / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lactose over Liquor / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Legacy Character / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Legacy Immortality / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Let No Crisis Go to Waste / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Like Goes with Like / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Lizard Folk / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Loves My Alter Ego / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Make Games, Not War / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mark of Shame / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mary Suetopia / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mighty Whitey / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mind-Control Music / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Multilayer FaÃ§ade / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	My Grandson, Myself / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Neutral Evil / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Neutral Good / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	No Cartoon Fish / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	No One Sees the Boss / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Noble Wolf / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Non-Powered Costumed Hero / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Not Quite Dead / int_3106477d
Notable Swedish Monarchs	seeAlso	The Phantom (Comic Strip)
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	One-Episode Wonder / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	President Evil / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Proto-Superhero / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Purely Aesthetic Glasses / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Purple Is Powerful / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Rejected Marriage Proposal / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Right for the Wrong Reasons / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Robbing the Dead / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Rope Bridge / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Ruthless Modern Pirates / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Salvage Pirates / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Secret-Identity Identity / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Self-Defeating Prophecy / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Self-Made Myth / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Shooting Superman / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Single Line of Descent / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Skeptic No Longer / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Solid Gold Poop / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Speech-Bubble Censoring / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Sunday Strip / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Superhero Packing Heat / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Superhero Sobriquets / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Superheroes Stay Single / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Swarm of Rats / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Tarzan Boy / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Televised Torture / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Ace / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Baroness / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Cat Came Back / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Cowl / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Faceless / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Fagin / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Great Depression / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Musketeer / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Noun Who Verbed / int_3106477d
ThePhantom	seeAlso	The Phantom (Comic Strip)
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Phoenix / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Strength of Ten Men / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Syndicate / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Teetotaler / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Un-Reveal / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	The Usual Adversaries / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Torture Cellar / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Trial by Ordeal / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Trouble Magnet Gambit / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Unmoving Plaid / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Villainesses Want Heroes / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Wheel of Pain / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Whip of Dominance / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Who Wants to Live Forever? / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Whole Costume Reference / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Worthless Treasure Twist / int_3106477d
The Phantom (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	You Cannot Kill an Idea / int_3106477d

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