film beginning a relationship with Selina Kyle. Rachel is said to be loosely based on Julie Madison. Animation Andrea Beaumont (the Phantasm): In the animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, most of the relationship between Bruce and Andrea is told through flashbacks. Andrea was a major factor during Bruce's struggle into becoming Batman. Bruce admitted that the pain of his parents' death had lifted due to Andrea. Bruce decided to abandon his oath and proposed to Andrea. However, Andrea reluctantly gave back the ring the next day and went to Europe with her father, due to complications from the latter's criminal ties to the Valestra mob, though in the letter she lied to Bruce by saying she was young and needed more time, finally pushing him into becoming Batman upon losing his chance at a normal life. Bruce meets Andrea again in the film and is crushed by the discovery of her being the Phantasm, out to avenge the death of her father at the hands of the Valestra gang, primarily the member who killed her father and who would eventually become Batman's greatest enemy the Joker. She next appears in the comic book sequel to the film, where she helps Bruce one more time in stopping Arthur Reeves who was rendered insane by Joker's toxin and then returns in the comic book series Batman Adventures: Shadows and Masks where she tries to infiltrate Black Mask's organisation on the secret orders of the Red Hood (who would later have been revealed to be her supposedly deceased mother, Victoria had the storyline been resolved) and visits Bruce at Wayne Manor asking him not to interfere though he coldly rebukes her, calling her a killer and she later fights Batgirl. She would return decades later, following Bruce's retirement from crime fighting, being hired by the latter's former associate from his Justice League days Amanda Waller to help create a new Batman by murdering the parents of an 8-year-old Terry McGinnis. She initially agreed but backed down later on, angrily citing that doing so would dishonor all that Bruce stood for, although Terry would still become the new Batman by a cruel twist of fate. She later returns in the Batman Beyond comic book universe in "Mark of the Phantasm", where she is hired by Waller again to kill Jake Chill a.k.a Vigilante (the great-grandnephew of Joe Chill, who murdered Bruce's parents)