The Mask (1994 film)

**The Mask** serves as the titular character of the 1994 live-action movie adaptation of the comics with the same name, *The Mask*. He is the alter-ego of Stanley Ipkiss who is basically what he turns into whenever he puts on an ancient powerful mask and is established as a jovial green being who does what he wants.

He was portrayed by Jim Carrey.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He manages to evade the bullets shot at him by Mrs. Peenman by jumping up and down from the ceiling to the floor like a cartoon before getting out of the building.
* He outwits a gang trying to attack him by honking one of their member's noses and pulling his underwear over his head and shoving him to the other gang members before escaping to an alleyway.
* He then manages to outwit the entire gang by challenging them to chase him before tricking them into letting their guards down by posing as a circus balloonsman making balloon animals and giving them to them and then making a tommy gun out of a balloon which he uses to shoot at them to get them to run away.
* He successfully robs a bank without getting caught before using the money to buy himself a good-looking expensive car and flinging it in the air to get into the Congo Bongo.
* He changes the outfits of a few people in the band playing at the Congo Bongo and has them play Hey Pachuco!, putting on a hell of a show himself through the dance moves and stunts he performs with Tina and manages to charm her to the point of getting to kiss her at the end of the dance while also managing to charm the crowd by entertaining them with the dance moves as well as getting some of them to sing along in the song.
* He evades the bullets shot at him by one of Dorian Tyrell's men through cartoonish moves he uses with his powers while transforming into random people and making comical pop-culture references before making some references to other films while pretending to die after being shot by one of the bullets which causes him to get an Oscar instantly breaking the 4th wall in a comedic fashion before escaping the scene by bouncing up and down in a cartoonish way while evading Dorian Tyrell and his henchman's bullets.
* He then, while not at first, manages to charm Tina a bit again at the park succeeding with a cigarette drawing in the form of a heart pierced by an arrow after she rejected his advances initially in the scene.
* It is revealed that he managed to seduce Lieutenant Calloway's wife as shown by the picture he had of her in his pockets.
* He outwits Lieutenant Calloway and his assistant Doyle by putting the handcuffs they put him in onto their hands before smacking them a bit and escaping them.
* He escapes the dozens to hundreds of other cops brought to the park scene by putting on a musical performance cover for the song Cuban Pete and manages to manipulate the cops and essentially play them like a fiddle into dancing and singing along with the song before making his getaway.
* He tricks Dorian Tyrell's men and plays them like a fiddle by pointing fake guns at them which they believed to be real causing them to run away before then revealing to the audience that they're fake by showing that they only unleash flags saying "Bang" rather than actual bullets.
* He saves Tina and essentially the entire casino that Dorian Tyrell rigged to blow up with explosives by swallowing the explosives whole.
* He then outsmarts Dorian Tyrell by flushing down the pond he got in into a drain right underneath it which caused him to be killed by the knife he had in his hands as it flew into the air and landed point-side onto him.
* He has plenty of laughable and funny moments that make him likable. As well and iconic lines like:
	1. "It's party time! P-A-R-T Y? Cause I gotta!",
	2. Him moving his eyes out like a cartoon and making cartoon noises when Mrs. Peenman came out and spotted him,
	3. Him cartoonishly bouncing up and down from the ceiling to the floor while evading Mrs. Peenman's bullets and jumping out the window and falling to the street and landing like a cartoon before saying "Look ma! I'm roadkill! Haha!",
	4. Him saying "I think he wants to communicate" to the audience before honking a horn really loudly at a driver rudely honking at him to destroy his car's windows,
	5. Him saying "As a matter of fact I do, tubby! Look at that! It's exactly 2 seconds before I honk your nose and pull your underwear over your head!" before doing exactly just that to a random gang member in response to him under a facade asking him what the time is and then goading the other gang members into chasing him in a comedic fashion,
	6. Him posing as a circus balloonsman making balloon animals to the gang before unleashing a balloon Tommy gun onto them,
	7. Him saying "Hold on to your lugnuts! It's time for an overhaul!" before attacking and injuring a couple of car dealers who ripped him off,
	8. Him making cartoonish expressions like a jawdrop and transforming into a wolf and howling while falling in love with Tina at the Congo Bongo,
	9. Him saying "Let's rock this joint!" before having the band there play "Hey Pachuco!" and performing some dance moves and stunts with Tina,
	10. Him turning into a cashier and telling Dorian Tyrell that he's got 17.45% and t-bills amortized over the fiscal year,
	11. Carrying 8% in stocks and bonds carry the 9 to a 5 diverse national product fortunately while printing a receipt out of a cash register in response to him asking him where the money he robbed from the bank is,
	12. Him dodging Dorian Tyrell's henchman's bullets by cartoonishly moving left and right before moving up and down and then transforming into various people while making pop culture references,
	13. Him pretending to die in Dorian's henchman's arms while making various movie references before pretending to go unconscious and then breaking the fourth wall by accepting an Oscar award from the audience for his performance,
	14. Him escaping Dorian Tyrell and his henchman by jumping up and down cartoonishly and exiting the scene,
	15. Him greeting Tina at the park while speaking French and trying to seduce her,
	16. Saying to the audience "She is so coy, I love it!" when Tina kicks him in the groin rejecting his sexual advances,
	17. Him trying to seduce Tina some more while speaking French with lines like: "Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny, Je t'adore! Je t'adore!,
	18. Shooting the window I don't care" while on top of Tina on the bench,
	19. Him forming a heart with smoke from his cigarette and then forming an arrow being shot through it with the smoke for her managing to charm her before saying "And now like Napoleon, I will divide and conquer",
	20. Him saying "Merde" when the police arrive,
	21. Him literally freezing himself when Lieutenant Calloway says "Freeze!" and when Lieutenant Calloway tells him to put his hands behind his head,
	22. Him saying in a French accent while frozen, "But you told me to freeze" and then literally unfreezing when Calloway tells him to,
	23. Saying "No! It wasn't me! It was the one-armed man!" when being told by Lieutenant Calloway that he's under arrest before saying "Alright, I confess! I did it, you hear! And I'm glad, glad I tell ya!" and then saying "What are they gonna do to me, Sarge? WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO?!" while pretending to be frightened,
	24. Him saying that he has a permit for a bazooka to a cop searching his pockets,
	25. Him saying "Geez, I figured you'd have a sense of humor. After all, you married her!" to Lieutenant Calloway when the picture of is wife was pulled out from his pockets and then handcuffing them and slapping him and Doyle multiple times and saying "That's gotta hurt!" before making a comedic noise and exiting the scene,
	26. Him closing the doors on the park and shutting it with nailed wood before making a comedic expression when he sees the cops surrounding him,
	27. The whole Cuban Pete scene where he dresses up as Cuban Pete and sings the song in a Spanish accent while tricking the cops into singing and dancing along, him jumping out of the fountain that Stanley fell into to put on the mask and saying to Dorian Tyrell's men after they shot him, "Did you miss me?" and then drinking something which pours out of the holes from the bullets in his body saying "I guess not!",
	28. Making a reference to Dirty Harry saying "Now you just have to ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punks?" before pulling out fake guns to trick them,
	29. Him swallowing the explosives Tyrell set in the casino whole and then burping fire and saying "That's a spicy meatball" in an Italian accent afterwards,
	30. Him saying "This guy's incorrigible!" when Dorian Tyrell attempts to attack him and flushes him down a drain by making a toilet flush lever with magical paint, him making a reference to "The Cincinnati Kid" by saying "You were good, kid, real good. But as long as I'm around, you're only second best, you see" after defeating Tyrell, etc.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He destroys a driver's car's windows by honking a really loud horn that produces soundwaves so big that they destroyed them for rudely honking at him.
* He attempts to kill the gang that was chasing them by shooting at them with a balloon Tommy gun after tricking them into letting their guard down by posing as a circus balloonsman.
* He severely assaults and injures a couple of mechanics who had ripped him off with them winding up having metal pipes sticking out of their asses by the end.
* He robs a bank in order to get enough money for the Congo Bongo.
* He commits the crime of resisting police arrest by escaping the handcuffs Lieutenant Kalloway put him in and putting him and Doyle in it before escaping and then outwitting the other cops and escaping afterwards as well.

## External Links

* The Mask at the Villains wiki
* Stanley Ipkiss at the Heroes wiki
* Stanley Ipkiss at the Near Pure Good wiki