Phantom was always memorable for me as it began my re-discovery of musical theatre. Here I feel he still deserves love, but he needs someone who doesn't care if they might get a little abused or come home and find a dead body.

I want to like him and have him win in the end of the movies/plays. I think that anyone who has seen the play or watch the movies might have a hard time connecting to this version (the original) of Erik. It is much too easy for him to choose the easiest/darkest choices (torture or killing) to obtain his goals. I want him to have a happy ending, but he is so broke. After reading the story, I found that he was much more intelligent and skilled, and his story was much more sorrowful. I thought of him more as a poor soul who was disfigured and deformed, a man with a poor lot in life. I had never read the book (before now), I had only seen the movies so I never really thought about Erik as a hideous beast. I want him to have a happy ending Our villain who was abused and used as a freak show attraction in a gypsy circus, finds it easy to inflict pain on others.

Our villain who was abused and used as a freak show attraction in a gypsy circus, finds it easy to inflict pain on others.

Miss piggy phantom of the opera book