Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

A young Bruce Wayne meets Andrea Beaumont while visiting his parents’ grave. They begin a relationship while Bruce makes his first attempts at crime-fighting, where he succeeds at foiling robberies but is discouraged when the crooks do not fear him. Bruce is conflicted about whether to commit to his relationship with Andrea or defending Gotham City but eventually proposes marriage. Andrea accepts but mysteriously leaves Gotham with her father, businessman Carl Beaumont, ending the engagement in a Dear John letter. Heartbroken, Bruce assumes the mantle of Batman.

Ten years later Batman breaks up a meeting of Gotham crime bosses led by Chuckie Sol. As Sol escapes in his car he is attacked by a cloaked figure, the “Phantasm”; Sol is killed when the Phantasm causes his car to speed out of control and crash into a building. Batman is seen at the scene and is blamed for killing Sol, with councilman Arthur Reeves, who is corrupt and on the mob’s payroll, vowing to have him arrested. The Phantasm murders another gangster, Buzz Bronski, in the same cemetery Bruce met Andrea. Buzz’s bodyguards see the Phantasm flee the scene and mistake it for Batman. Batman investigates the scene of Bronski’s death and encounters Andrea, inadvertently revealing his identity to her.