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The Mask (Comic Book)
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The Mask is a comic book series best known as the inspiration for that film where Jim Carrey was even more of a live-action cartoon character than usual. Unlike the movie, the comic book is not harmless slapstick, fitting much better in the comedy horror genre.The story of the comics begins when Stanley Ipkiss, a seemingly nice guy with repressed violent thoughts, buys a green mask (really a semi-living artifact stolen from a tribe in Africa) for his girlfriend, Kathy. Putting the Mask on that night and suddenly changing into a green-headed being with near-infinite powers, Stanley spends the next several months killing anyone he dislikes and becoming increasingly militant and deranged, until a final showdown with police and his girlfriend leaves him dead. The Mask ends up in the hands of policeman Lt. Mitch Kellaway, who becomes the next "Big Head", carrying out similar murders against anyone he dislikes, until he finally realizes what's happening. The stories over the years follow the Mask itself as it goes from owner to owner, usually pursued by Kellaway as he is one of very few who knows the truth behind Big Head's character.The Mask series is composed of:Main series The Mask #0 (also known as The Mask: Mayhemnote This is because it was part of the Mayhem magazine, a Dark Horse Presents-like anthology) The Mask 1-4 The Mask Returns The Mask Strikes Back The Mask: The Hunt for Green October The Mask: Southern Discomfort The Mask: Toys in the Attic The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance to the MaskSpecials and Spin-Offs The Mask: Official Movie Adaptation - Comic-Book Adaptation of The Movie Adventures of the Mask - Another one, but for the animated series The Mask: Virtual Surreality - Compilation of original stories based on The Mask. Walter: Campaign of Terror - Spin-Off dedicated to Walter. Notably the last Mask-universe comic done by the original duo of of John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke. Short stories appeared in Dark Horse Presents and A Decade of Dark Horse: Night of the Return of the Living Ipkiss... Kinda Angry Young Mask No Mask Is an Island (this story is Canon, being the bridge between Toys in the Attic and Joker/Mask) Itty Bitty Mask - Part of the Itty Bitty series by the creators of Tiny Titans The Mask: Omnibus - Two volumes that compiles the main series and World Tour as well the short stories in the vol.2Crossovers The Mask: World Tour - Big Head goes to visit the Shared Universe of Comics' Greatest World Grifter and the Mask Lobo/Mask The Mask/Marshal Law Joker/Masknote Batman and Harley Quinn also appear, by the way (the only canonical crossover story, occuried after Toys in the Attic)Adaptations to other Media The Mask - The Movie starred by Jim Carrey as Big Head The Mask for SNES based on the movie was made The Mask - Animated continuation of the movie that also added content from the comics (mostly Walter) Son of the Mask - Second movie and considered as the Franchise Killer. Also received a video game for cellphones Various Fan Films were made: The Mask Strikes Back (2009) Return of the Mask (2014) Night of the Mask (2017) The Mask (2017) Revenge of the Mask, which consists of 4 short films: Rise of the Mask (2018) Revenge of the Mask (2018) Revenge of the Mask 2 (2019) Rise of the Mask: Odin's 9 (2020) The F**king Mask (2019) The Mask: Gone Viral (2024, currently in production) The Mask: The Origin - A 1995 CD-ROM Motion Comic with The Mask: Mayhem animated and voiced, by Cyber Comics and Cambrix Publishing | |
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Fan Film | |
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Fan Film: Various has been released, most of them are made as sequels for The Movie: In 2017, director Jason Gerbay released a long-awaited fan-reboot based on the comic, both borrowing elements from it and creating a new story entirely. The film revolves around a married couple and their friend finding the titular item and using it for their personal gain. It can be seen here. Also before this, in 2014 received another fan film, called Return of the Mask based on The Movie. And before those two, there's also The Mask Strikes Back (nothing to do with the comic book arc) made by the same team who made the fan film Batman: Duality. | |
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Secret Identity | |
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Secret Identity: Subverted as the Mask changed hands quite often, though as far as most of the police and media knew, it was the same killer each time. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Emily, Ray Tuttle's daughter, once she decides to put on the Mask and give the bullies at school and the Nazis torturing her dad what's coming to them. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: In the early comics, pretty much everyone is a villain. The rare exception might be Walter who is still more of an Anti-Hero along with Masked Kellaway and Masked Kathy who are heroic unlike Stanley. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Walter. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: 'I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask' has one, where Big Head comments on his success as a "dark horse" candidate (in a Dark Horse Comics publication). He even turns to the reader and asks if they get it. | |
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The Juggernaut | |
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The Juggernaut: Walter. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Oh sure, at first being the Mask is fun, but by the end of it you become so Ax-Crazy it's not even funny. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Mostly from the cartoonish ways Big Head offs his victims. His sense of humor also falls into this category more times than it doesn't. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: While it's hard to think this could apply to the original Mask comics... they were actually the product of John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke fleshing out and adapting Mike Richardson's original "Masque" concept. Most of the original ideas remained intact, however. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: In The Mask Strikes Back, a reference is made to Big Head wearing a yellow zoot suit, which is part of the film version's Iconic Outfit but which the comic book version is never seen wearing (except in some of the crossovers). | |
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He Who Fights Monsters | |
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He Who Fights Monsters: Several characters have donned the mask with the intention of using its powers only for good, but Big Head's personality always takes over sooner or later. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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The Mask Strikes Back series, which was made shortly after the film, tones down the violence to a more cartoon-like fashion. Also, unlike the other wearers of the Mask, the four kids don't use it for revenge and take it off before they become Ax-Crazy. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Being a Villain Protagonist, expect there to be stories where Big Head comes out on top, but the biggest instance would have to be I Pledge Allegiance to The Mask. Big Head successfully gets into office and immediately begins running America as his own personal kingdom. He comes within an inch of pushing the button to start a nuclear war against the rest of the planet before his previous wearers make a suicide mission to kill him. In the chaos, they all get killed and the Mask is seemingly destroyed... only for its ethereal image to rant to the reader that they don't need it anymore, and they can create all the chaos he wants without it riding their faces. The very last panel? A shot of the Statue of Liberty with Big Head's face telling the reader "go fuck yourself". | |
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I Am Not Shazam | |
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I Am Not Shazam: Before the film came out, the green-headed character was The Big Head Killer, not The Mask. | |
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HammerSpace | |
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Hammerspace: Characters often wonder where Big Head gets all of his weapons. That's assuming the Mask isn't literally creating matter from nothing, anyway (and even Kathy - while wearing the Mask - wonders where her own weapons came from). | |
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G-Rated Stoner | |
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G-Rated Stoner: One of the four friends of The Mask Strikes Back is Hugo, a former stoner who mantains the stereotype (especially the baggy eyes and clothes) despite continuously saying he left "that" behind a year ago. | |
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Can't You Read the Sign? | |
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Can't You Read the Sign?: At one point, Big Head reveals a bomb (that he himself pulled out from Hammerspace, no less) with the text "Warning: Do not strike with hammer" on it. Guess what he does. | |
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Stable Time Loop | |
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Stable Time Loop: Lobo/Mask. Lobo is hired to hunt down the "Ultimate Bastich", a being that destroyed numerous planets and killed billions. He's led to Earth, the last known location and finds Big Head, who, after a lengthy fight, admits it was his last wearer. After a lengthier galactic hunt, Lobo takes the Mask himself, ends up going through a wormhole, and after being offended by a child's crayon drawing, obliterates numerous worlds. He'd been hired to hunt himself. The loop was broken at the end of the issue, however. | |
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The Jekyll Is a Jerk | |
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The Jekyll Is a Jerk: Loss of Inhibitions or not, quite a few Mask users are seen to be total jerks even without the Mask, most prominently Stanley Ipkiss. Unlike his movie counterpart (who had the benefit of both Adaptational Heroism and Adaptational Nice Guy) Stanley was petty, jerkish, and cowardly; becoming Big Head just made his sick dreams come true and while he's nowhere near as Ax-Crazy as Big Head, he's enough of a Psychopathic Manchild to gloat over what he did even once he removed the Mask. | |
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SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Unlike the Jim Carrey film, the comics, especially when they started, were INSANELY cynical and mean-spirited. Most characters were corrupted by greed, power, and selfishness in a already Crapsack World. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: The Mask. | |
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Reality Warper | |
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Reality Warper: The Mask gives this ability to its wearers. Stanley!Big Head was able to stop a several story fall by 'slamming on the brakes', one of the teenagers with the Mask created pyrotechnics from thin air, and that's not even covering the hammerspace or shapeshifting that the Mask confers. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: Especially in the early comic issues. | |
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Spin-Off Babies | |
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Spin-Off Babies: Itty Bitty Mask miniseries. | |
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Power Makes Your Voice Deep | |
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Power Makes Your Voice Deep: While it's hard to depict, Big Head's angular voice bubbles and scratched out lettering indicates a monster-like tone of voice that characters often comment on. The CD of the first two series shows that Big Head can also make his voice very high. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Some mask wearers such as Kathy, Kellaway, Eric Martins, Ray Tuttle and his daughter Emily are chaotic like the rest of the mask personas, but unlike the others, they tend to have more control of their actions and even have the ablilty to feel gulity when they go too far. They can be heroic as well, and do their best to keep innocent people away from their fights. They also care about their loved ones, such as Eric, who went on a rescue mission to save his sister from people who wanted to sacrifice her, and Ray and Emily, the latter of whom also saves a bunch of kids from being bullied, empathizing with them due to being a victim of bullying herself. | |
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Rebus Bubble | |
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Rebus Bubble: Shown when Kathy briefly mulls over the relationship between the mask and Big Head. | |
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President Evil | |
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President Evil: I Pledge Allegiance to The Mask is about a politician who wears the Mask and goes to make Big Head a presidential candidate. | |
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Honey Trap | |
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Honey Trap: Kathy uses this to get close to the mobster wearing the Mask and get it away from him. | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome | |
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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Played with with Kellaway in The Mask Returns. He gets shot down by mobsters while trying to find the Mask, but isn't killed. He spends the rest of the story arc in a coma, but he gets better for the next arc. | |
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Petty Childhood Grudge | |
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Petty Childhood Grudge: One of Big Head's first victims is a school teacher who bullied Stanley when he was a kid. Stanley held onto that grudge well into adulthood, with the Mask allowing him to finally settle the score. | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: Issue 3 of I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask starts with one. During a flashback that happens 2 years prior to the events of the story, Big Head takes out a group of Neo-Nazis, and we then see who was the wearer of the Mask this time; it’s Lionel Ray, Kellaway’s former partner. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4eb5691c | type |
Squashed Flat | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4eb5691c | comment |
Squashed Flat: After Stanley first puts on the Mask, he's run over by a car and flattened, complete with hideous amounts of blood. But he's just fine. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4eb5691c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4eb5691c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_4eb5691c | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Stanley!Big Head disguised himself as an elderly woman and a police sergeant to deadly effect. When he reverts back to his original form it involves ripping off the disguise which is depicted as if he's ripping off his skin. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_504a1991 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Big Head brings out a person's psychotic tendencies towards people who've wronged them, or adds them if they don't have any, especially Stanley!Big Head. He killed his old primary school teacher for embarrassing him as a child and ran over someone because they owed him sixty dollars. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_50b05d30 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The first person to wear the Mask, Stanley, is the last one to have it at the end of the comic's run. (Sure, it's a dead body, but it counts.) | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5313c266 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5d5cc3fd | type |
Through the Eyes of Madness | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: In The Mask Strikes Back we see what the world looks like from the point of view of someone wearing the Mask. Well, sort of. One of the four boys, Hugo the junkie, follows the logic of shapeshifting to its end, using the mask's powers to make him look and sound completely normal. Given the mask's established personality, it's possible the Mushroom Samba that ensues is the mask's revenge for being stifled. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5d5cc3fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5d5cc3fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_5d5cc3fd | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Although Walter isn't a superhuman in a comic book sense, his large build and brute strength is enough for him to fight toe-to-toe with Big Head, even hurting him on multiple occasions, and once even beating Kathy!Big Head by surviving whatever she threw at him and outlasting her until she just gave up. Lt. Kellaway has fought against Big Head with nothing more than police training and indomitable will. Lampshaded when he faced off with a group of high-tech mercenaries with nothing more than a pistol. In Joker/Mask there's Batman fighting against Joker!Big Head (if The Joker alone is already dangerous, here becomes up to eleven). | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6411dac8 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: A group of neo-Nazis show up to claim the Mask in The Hunt For Green October. Goes about as well for them as you'd expect. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_697b5232 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6add177d | type |
Puff of Logic | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6add177d | comment |
Puff of Logic: The zombified Stanley after Kathy points out that he didn't have the Mask on, and thus couldn't have returned as Big Head. Or at all. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6add177d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6add177d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6add177d | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6cc39b20 | type |
Puppeteer Parasite | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6cc39b20 | comment |
Puppeteer Parasite: The Mask itself is a semi-living entity that can speak. Anyone who wears it is initially in control, or so it seems, as they seem to be fully aware of what they're doing with their new powers. However, they're quickly driven to murder and violence and after only a short time find their own minds being subdued as the Mask takes control. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6cc39b20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6cc39b20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_6cc39b20 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: In the Joker/Mask covers, The Joker and Big Head appear together as if they were a Big Bad Duumvirate, when in reality it's just Joker!Big Head (or the Joker with the mask on). Granted, one of Joker's henchmen also briefly puts on the mask and becomes Big Head at the beginning of the first issue, so the two still get to appear together during the comic, albeit only in one issue. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7315fd38 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: People who wear the Mask are just tools used by the Mask itself. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_733e007a | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | type |
Police Brutality | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | comment |
Police Brutality: Kellaway!Big Head went on a massive killing spree to off drug dealers, mobsters, and anyone else he felt the system let slip through. He only snaps out of it when he is about to kill his partner by shoving a lit stick of dynamite down his throat. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_744e3311 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_77d826c7 | type |
Stern Teacher | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_77d826c7 | comment |
Stern Teacher: Stanley's old teacher was one, even to the point of doing the same to students now as she did to Stanley as a boy... right before Stanley!Big Head entered the classroom and killed her in front of the children. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_77d826c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_77d826c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_77d826c7 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: Explicitly observed by Batman in Joker/Mask; where the Mask normally brings out the wearer's repressed desires, since the Joker "wears his innermost desires on his sleeve", all the Mask does is basically make him unstoppable. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7870735b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7870735b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7870735b | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Zig-zagged. Big Head's shtick includes re-creating cartoony injuries like Squashed Flat, Torso with a View, etc; when they happen to him, it's played straight, but when they happen to other people it's subverted with realistic amounts of blood and pain. However, even some of the latter is played for Black Comedy. Depending on who's wearing the mask, though, the injuries can sometimes have cartoony effects on normal people, too, such as Ricky blowing up a police station... but leaving all cops inside intact, but with the old cartoony "covered with soot" effect, which they even comment on. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_78c895c8 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_78c895c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_78c895c8 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de | type |
Laughably Evil | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de | comment |
Laughably Evil: Big Head might be a killer who does things to people that may lead to a Moral Event Horizon, but he is funny while doing it. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7c9933de | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | type |
Establishing Character Moment | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: Stanley!Big Head notes that he could use his powers to help others. "But first..." Cue him slaughtering a gang that pestered him earlier. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Stanley Ipkiss as Zombie!Big Head in the Night of the Return of the Living Ipkiss...Kinda short story. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: While Stanley just wanted revenge for all those who did him wrong, Kellaway really wanted to use the Mask for good. Let's just say Big Head had other plans. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_898ff050 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf | type |
The Voiceless | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf | comment |
The Voiceless: Walter never speaks. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ec0abf | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Rapaz, a drug dealer and a mob hitman Kellaway!Big Head had to contend with. However, while some of Big Head's victims are assholes, his actions are so extreme that even the assholes mostly don't deserve what happens to them. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8f0c88f | type |
Invincible Villain | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8f0c88f | comment |
Invincible Villain: Being a borderline Reality Warper in a setting with little to no competition, Big Head is effectively unbeatable. Walter is the closest thing he has to a peer in combat, and even then, the big guy's record against him is pretty awful. Most of the time, when even large numbers of well-armed people try to engage him, what follows is an extravagant showcase of brutality. Several comics involve the idea that the only good way to get rid of Big Head is to get him to take off the mask and then either kill the user or convince them not to put it on again (which is difficult, to say the least). Even then, this is a temporary measure, as the mask itself is indestructible and has an unerring tendency to find new wearers. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8f0c88f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8f0c88f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_8f0c88f | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | type |
Hero-Worshipper | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | comment |
Hero-Worshipper: The four boys from The Mask Strikes Again are all fans of Big Head and follow his "feats", especially the anarchist Rick, who even has a drawing/picture of Big Head in his jacket. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_91652846 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_95ef5b0d | type |
Symbol Swearing | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_95ef5b0d | comment |
Symbol Swearing: Despite heavy bloodshed and gore, actual cursing was censored in the books. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_95ef5b0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_95ef5b0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_95ef5b0d | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_98b42372 | type |
God of Chaos | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_98b42372 | comment |
God of Chaos: In general the series is about the eponymous Mask made by magical African Indians (in The Movie was made by the god Loki) who converts its wearer into "Big Head", a unstoppable agent of chaos capable of blowing an entire city to ashes, depending on the user of course. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_98b42372 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_98b42372 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_98b42372 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9a1d239e | type |
Been There, Shaped History | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9a1d239e | comment |
Been There, Shaped History: Kathy has a dream which demonstrates the Mask being used for an African tribal ritual. Whilst it takes place at least close to the modern day, it's not too hard to believe it's been going on for longer. Since whoever wears the Mask becomes a living cartoon character, it can be inferred that this ritual is the inspiration for cartoons in general. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9a1d239e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9a1d239e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9a1d239e | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9c1d1e31 | type |
Black Box | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9c1d1e31 | comment |
Black Box: At one point in I Pledge Allegiance, an exact replica of the mask is magiteked out of a mystical green material from Scandinavia and 3D printing technology. Despite matching the composition of the original, it does nothing. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9c1d1e31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9c1d1e31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_9c1d1e31 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Kellaway is just able to snap out of Big Head's influence when he realizes he is nearly killing his partner and friend, causing him to see the horrors of his actions and get rid of the Mask from himself. Ray Tuttle has this reaction as well in The Hunt for Green October, after learning one of his victims died of a heart attack. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Gina Mazarin, the Jerkass lawyer from "Toys in the Attic" who made and sent the spiteful non-invitation that made Aldo don the Mask and murder her high school thespian colleagues, never gets any comeuppance because the police get to Aldo and give him a Suicide by Cop, preventing her from becoming his final victim. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a70223 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a70223 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_a70223 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_aa377ec8 | type |
Episode of the Dead | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_aa377ec8 | comment |
Episode of the Dead: Night of the Return of the Living Ipkiss...Kinda, a mini chapter in which the mask buried in Ipkiss' graveyard takes his corpse to come Back from the Dead as Zombie!Big Head. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_aa377ec8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_aa377ec8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_aa377ec8 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ac12cde1 | type |
Bully Hunter | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ac12cde1 | comment |
Bully Hunter: "The Hunt for Green October" features a father scaring off his daughter's bullies while going out to get revenge on the man who didn't take responsibility for the death of his wife. The daughter later gets to actually put on the Mask and beat them down after one too many public humiliations at school. She also viciously eggs some nasty boys who were egging other kids. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ac12cde1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ac12cde1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ac12cde1 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Big Head is this, but it varies between wearers. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_b17f6a27 | type |
I Did What I Had to Do | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_b17f6a27 | comment |
I Did What I Had to Do: Kellyway says this when they try to stop Stanley!Big Head by sideswiping his car into a wall at 90kph, despite the fact there is someone else trapped in the back. It doesn't stop Big Head. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_b17f6a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_b17f6a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_b17f6a27 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | type |
Slasher Smile | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Whoever the user is, they sport a few great ones while wearing the mask. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bd4264a3 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bddaae25 | type |
Lost Tribe | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bddaae25 | comment |
Lost Tribe: The Mask itself originally belonged to an unnamed African tribe, which used it in their rituals. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bddaae25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bddaae25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_bddaae25 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb | type |
Weaksauce Weakness | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: Walter is nigh-invincible... but his head is too big for the Mask to fit. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c09dbbbb | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | type |
Legacy Character | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | comment |
Legacy Character: Whoever finds the Mask becomes the next Big Head (except Walter, who's immune to the mask, for the surprise of all.) | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_c9e5a0db | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_caf89e54 | type |
Taking You with Me | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_caf89e54 | comment |
Taking You with Me: A heavily injured Nazi tries to pull this on Big Head using an Explosive Barrel. Subverted: Big Head, being immortal, is left unscathed, so all it ends up doing is killing him and his wounded, but still living, comrades. Exactly why he thought this would work is unclear, given how they'd previously shot Big Head with a missile barrage to no effect. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_caf89e54 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_caf89e54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_caf89e54 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Walter blasts Kathy!Big Head with both barrels of an elephant gun. For a being enhanced with the powers to bend reality and shrug off fatal injuries, Kathy stayed down for the count long enough to make us think she was dead. This also happens the first time we see Walter as he gives Kellaway!Big Head quite a harsh beating that actually stuns him. We ARE talking about a being that gives entire police precincts the runaround here! | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cc4d190a | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce323098 | type |
Self-Mutilation Demonstration | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce323098 | comment |
Self-Mutilation Demonstration: Kellaway!Big Head shoots himself through the hand to test out the Mask's powers. He aims the gun against his head at first, but changes his mind due to possible consequences. Rick!Big Head cracks himself over the head with a giant mace to prove the Mask's powers to his friends. Walter would also mutilate himself just to screw with people. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce323098 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce6555f0 | type |
Lighter and Softer | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce6555f0 | comment |
Lighter and Softer: The Mask Strikes Back series, which was made shortly after the film, tones down the violence to a more cartoon-like fashion. Also, unlike the other wearers of the Mask, the four kids don't use it for revenge and take it off before they become Ax-Crazy. Adventures of The Mask comic series is this as it is a part of the animated series and it features The Mask who is a Cloudcuckoolander and also a good-hearted superhero instead of Big Head who is a violent Anti-Hero and a supervillain sometimes as well. The 2014 Itty Bitty Mask mini-series turns this up to eleven, specifically a comic aimed at small children with no violence whatever. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ce6555f0 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Starting with Stanley, any Big Head is prone to this. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ceec4df5 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf168867 | type |
The Corruption | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf168867 | comment |
The Corruption: The Mask itself can and will corrupt anyone and everyone that wears it. See Ax-Crazy above. Some people do realize when they're about to cross the line (Kathy, for example, does an admirable job of holding on to her sanity as Big Head), but that's not always the case, as proven by Stanley when the homicidal impulses provided by the Mask bleed into his normal persona. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf168867 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: The post-Strikes Back comics typically feature Kelloway finding out that the mask has made its way to another city and traveling there to help the local cops stop it. You'd think Big Head would be a known quantity by this point but somehow the locals always chalk his warnings up to craziness. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_cf92fea8 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d59f277b | type |
Un-Installment | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d59f277b | comment |
Uninstallment: A story arc showing what happened to Kathy between Stanley's death and her handing over the Mask to Lt. Kellaway (including what would have been the first appearance of Walter) was planned but never published. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d59f277b | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | type |
Dark Action Girl | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: Kathy when she gets the mask, although since she's up against the mob and takes the mask off before she loses complete control, the "dark" part is somewhat debatable. Vanessa, the Nazi assassin from The Hunt for Green October is a more straight example. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d5b3df2d | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d9ffec82 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d9ffec82 | comment |
Curbstomp Battle: At the end of the first two series, this is what happens to the cops when they try to stop Big Head. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_d9ffec82 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_dcb9c541 | type |
Ship Tease | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_dcb9c541 | comment |
Ship Tease: A moment between Kathy and Kellaway in the fourth comic. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_dcb9c541 | featureApplicability |
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| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_dcb9c541 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e1ba59f3 | type |
Voice Changeling | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e1ba59f3 | comment |
Voice Changeling: Big Head can mimic anyone's voice to impersonate anyone. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e1ba59f3 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: The artist Doug Mahnke's pencilling style evolves quite a bit throughout the first album. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | type |
Gorn | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | comment |
Gorn: Big Head's bloody trail of victims are depicted with realistic gore and without censorship, as are Walter's self mutilation habits. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e542d889 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e663d3ef | type |
Only a Flesh Wound | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e663d3ef | comment |
Only a Flesh Wound: Big Head suffers injuries and bleeds profusely, but ignores almost all of it. Though being a magical artifact that can bend reality, Big Head can instantly re-grow and regenerate anyway. In some cases, Big Head's been known to turn severed pieces into clones. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e663d3ef | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e888fbd8 | type |
No Man Should Have This Power | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e888fbd8 | comment |
No Man Should Have This Power: Kathy gives the Mask to Lt. Kellaway for safekeeping after trying and failing to destroy it. When he finds he can't trust himself with it, he buries it in concrete (which of course only keeps it down until the beginning of the next story arc). | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_e888fbd8 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac | type |
Groin Attack | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac | comment |
Groin Attack: Used by Stanley!Big Head against a police officer who stumbled upon him after the massacre. By shoving an Uzi down his pants and firing. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eb6da8ef | type |
Crossover | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eb6da8ef | comment |
Crossover: Lobo VS. The Mask. Which ultimately leads to Lobo wearing the Mask. Carnage ensues. At least, more carnage than when they were fighting. Grifter VS The Mask, in which the Wild CATS Wild Storm member has to find a MacGuffin to Las Vegas, where another user of the Mask appears. Also Joker/Mask, though it seemed to be in its own hybrid canon that combined the comics and cartoon into one. The story goes canonically after all the comic book arcs and ends with Kellaway burying the mask in Ipkiss' graveyard. There is also Mask/Marshal Law. The Mask: World Tour which features where Big Head travels through Comics' Greatest World. Ghost also made an appearance in an issue of Adventures of the Mask. Also, there's a cameo in this issue◊ where Big Head is one of the children's costumes with Hellboy and Madman. In one issue of SpyBoy, The Protagonist's grandpa (who's a former spy) is seen watching TV in his house when a group of ninjas attack him. It's shown that he was watching the movie on TV, with Big Head appearing with his yellow outfit. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_eb6da8ef | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_efc76140 | type |
Motion Comic | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_efc76140 | comment |
Motion Comic: The Mask: The Origin released in 1995 is an interactive CD-ROM adaptation of Big Head's Origin Story (The Mask: Mayhem) but animated and with voices (and very rare to find nowadays.) | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_efc76140 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f2d75f85 | type |
Evil Mask | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f2d75f85 | comment |
Evil Mask: Eyup, what with all the murdering and corrupting people and what not. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f2d75f85 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa | type |
Would Hit a Girl | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa | comment |
Would Hit a Girl: Naturally. See Those Wacky Nazis. | |
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| The Mask (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f5190cfc | type |
Shapeshifting | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f5190cfc | comment |
Shapeshifting: The Mask conferred this power on its wearers in the comics. Stanley!Big Head disguised himself as an elderly woman and a police sergeant to deadly effect. When he reverts back to his original form it involves ripping off the disguise which is depicted as if he's ripping off his skin. In The Mask Strikes Back, the junkie Hugo uses the mask as disguise instead becoming Big Head, first as a typical officeman and later as himself. That doesn't help the other unfortunate side effects he suffers from, however. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f5190cfc | featureApplicability |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f5190cfc | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Yes, there is one. Ray and Emily, at the end of "The Hunt of Green October", use the money they got from the Nazis to leave Sky City behind and start anew somewhere else. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f64a9cf7 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121 | type |
Mushroom Samba | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121 | comment |
Well, sort of. One of the four boys, Hugo the junkie, follows the logic of shapeshifting to its end, using the mask's powers to make him look and sound completely normal. Given the mask's established personality, it's possible the Mushroom Samba that ensues is the mask's revenge for being stifled. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121 | featureApplicability |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fc7c4f92 | type |
Canon Immigrant | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fc7c4f92 | comment |
Canon Immigrant: After the movie, in the last few remaining comic appearances The Mask had, Big Head took to wearing a variation of the iconic yellow suit from the movie and cartoon universe, even though the user wasn't Stanley. | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fc7c4f92 | featureApplicability |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fc7c4f92 | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: This: | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_fe0330fb | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5 | type |
Pet the Dog | |
| The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Stanley!Big Head helps a small kid who's being bullied by two others, by hitting the bully on the head hard enough to raise a lump. | |
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The Mask (Comic Book) / int_ff7f34c5 | |
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ItemName | |
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