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Regardless of his identity, the Phantom in ''The Canary Trainer'' is much more unhinged and bloodthirsty than in the original novel or play: For example, when killing Madame Giry's replacement with the chandelier, he kills "almost thirty men and women in the twinkling of an eye", just to ensure that he kills his main target.<ref name=Meyer-1993/>
 
The Phantom is also more psychologically disturbed, to the extent that he tells Holmes that he has been 'taught' not to speak without his mask, as his mother forced him to wear it whenever he wished to speak as a child. When Holmes knocks the mask off in their final confrontation he is then only communicates in snarls and other animalistic sounds.<ref name=Meyer-1993>{{cite book |last=Meyer |first=N. |author-link=Nicholas Meyer |orig-year=1993 |year=1995 |title=The Canary Trainer |quote=From the memoirs of John H. Watson as edited by Nicholas Meyer |publisher=W.W. Norton & Co. |place=New York, NY |isbn=0-393-31241-0 |page=158 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqBjvfe7wA4C |access-date=7 June 2016}}</ref>
 
===''The Angel of the Opera''===