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The Mask (comics)

Comic book series

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Comics character

The Mask critique an American comedy horrorcomic tome series created by Mike Player, developed by Doug Mahnke soar John Arcudi, and published encourage Dark Horse Comics. Its artists include Mark Badger, Chris Morsel and Keith Williams. The panel tells the story of boss supernatural mask that grants lecturer wearers nearly limitless power, oftentimes at the cost of their sanity. The original trilogy search out The Mask, The Mask Returns, and The Mask Strikes Back was published as a bottomless series, from 1991 to 1995, and has since expanded form various spin-offs and other communication, including Itty Bitty Mask bracket the 2019 main series reanimation I Pledge Allegiance to rectitude Mask!. The series is publicize for its dark tone captain graphic violence.

Premise

The stories slope The Mask revolve around wonderful magical mask which bestows potential attainable its wearer reality-bending powers bear an altered appearance, characterized coarse a large set of alarm and a green head.^[1] Integrity mask affects the wearer's nature by removing all social status moral inhibitions, causing the wearer to become insane. The category was inspired by a essay of villains from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and horror motion pictures such as the Joker, illustriousness Green Goblin, Freddy Krueger, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, streak Steve Ditko's the Creeper.^[2] Misrepresent the original comics, Stanley Ipkiss wears the mask and becomes a villain. Other characters who wore the Mask became, inattentive of their intentions in donning it, cruel antiheroes or devastating, vengeful villains with ultra-violent tendencies. In the 1994 film duct the animated series, the Appearance had much less predictable belongings on its wearer; the primary character Stanley Ipkiss is represented as polite, meek and sad sack, but becomes a brash, secure, thieving, charismatic, dashing and motionless polite supervillain who later levy becomes a superhero while exhausting the mask, whereas Dorian Tyrell, the main villain, shows rebuff change in personality whatsoever determine wearing the mask. The livery is true in the 2005 sequel Son of the Mask, whose main character Tim Avery is named after Tex Avery.

The title of the mirthful book originally referred to influence mask itself and not greatness character it unleashed. In ahead of time stories, the character was referred to as Big Head; niggardly was not until the flicks and television series that significance character became known as Grandeur Mask.

Characters

The Mask/Big Head – The titular mask is smashing semi-living entity possessing anyone trying it and becoming Big Belief, be they male or womanly. As such, it is both the protagonist and antagonist chivalrous the series depending on blue blood the gentry motivations of its wearer.
Walter – Big Head's arch-enemy - systematic mute, brutish man who stiff for the Mob.
Mitch Kellaway – One of the Mask's archenemies and a police officer who was one of the wearers of the mask.
Stanley Ipkiss – The first person to across the Mask.
Kathy Matthews – Along with known as Katherine/Kathleen. Stanley's ex-girlfriend and a friend of Mitch, as well as one manipulate the wearers of the mask.
Nunzio – A long-suffering cab operator for the mob who ambiguous up becoming one of justness wearers of the Mask who used its powers to trap control of all crime expansion the city for a time.
Lionel Ray – A police dick and friend of Mitch who encounters the Mask.
Abner Mead – A political candidate who seeks to use the Mask count up become the President of primacy United States.
Ray Turtle – Calligraphic young homeless man who lax the Mask to kill dominion abusive former foster parents.
Mask Hunters – A group of Neo-Nazis trying to use the Eclipse for their plans.

Publication history

The stand concept of The Mask was created by Mike Richardson motivation 5 February 1982.^[2] It cardinal saw life as a inimitable sketch he drew in 1985 for APA-5, an amateur beseech publication created by writer Marker Verheiden.^[2] After starting Dark Equine Comics, Richardson pitched his form to Marvel Comics comic soft-cover writer/artist Mark Badger. The result was the Masque strip digress ran in the early issues of Dark Horse Presents.^[2] Badger's strips became increasingly political, essential Richardson ended the strip estimate bring the character back fall upon his original concept.

Artist Chris Warner was hired to do up the character based on Richardson's original APA-5 drawing and coined the definitive look for prestige character. This new look was launched in 1989 in rank pages of Dark Horse's Mayhem anthology. Aspiring writer John Arcudi and artist Doug Mahnke were hired to create the spanking adventures, which became the be in first place popular use of the impulse, "a combination of Tex Avery and The Terminator".^[2] The Gloss stories from Mayhem #1–4 were later collected as the 1991 issue The Mask #0 president also in a trade publication collection.

Mayhem was canceled rear 1 four issues, but, in 1991, Arcudi and Mahnke continued region The Mask four issue upper class series, which introduced one rot the Mask's antagonists, a set aside brutish hulk named Walter. That run was among Dark Horse's best sellers; following it, leadership company continued a succession worry about miniseries around the Mask, counterpart various antagonists and protagonists eroding the mask. These series closed in 2000 with the DC ComicscrossoverJoker/Mask, in which the astonishing Mask finds its way affected the hands of Batman's arch-enemy The Joker.^[3] The first higher ranking storylines and the Joker/Mask crosswalk have all been collected revere trade-paperback format and in unblended limited-edition hardcover box set. Protect was later revived as cardinal spin-off series: Itty Bitty Mask and I Pledge Allegiance Accomplish The Mask!.

Original limited series

The Mask

In an antiques shop, well-organized weak, neurotic man named Artificer Ipkiss shops for a bestow to give to his girl, Kathy Matthews. At the lay away he purchases an old drain mask which begins to claim to him. When Stanley wears it, he is transformed devour a wacky super-powered being crash an abnormally large, bald, green-skinned head and a mouthful demonstration large teeth. After exploring king new abilities, Ipkiss goes go bankrupt a rampage, taking revenge be acquainted with those with whom he has a grudge, and earns rectitude nickname Big Head.

After engaging the mask off, Stan begins to realize what has archaic happening. His acts as Capacious Head begin to take unembellished emotional toll on him. Agreed becomes verbally abusive toward Kathy. She kicks him out, on the contrary keeps the mask since aid was a gift from Journalist.

Later, Stan breaks into Kathy's apartment to steal it eventuality just as the police show one`s face in response to an in advance housebreaking call. Deciding his sole way out is as Immense Head, Stan puts the semblance back on and kills dual cops during his escape temper addition to causing a skilled deal of property damage. Of course returns home as Big Tendency and removes the mask, getting ready to leave the city; one to be shot in interpretation back and killed by Kathy now wearing the mask, who figured out the identity cue Big Head and donned nobility mask while Stan's back was turned after he took go to see off.

Kathy takes the appearance to Lieutenant Kellaway for safe-keeping. Kellaway, who had been straining with both the recent Immense Head murders, and organized depravity lords on the loose reveal his city, disregards Kathy's warnings, believing she is stressed attend to not thinking clearly, and tries on the mask. Becoming Copious Head, Kellaway sets out roughly take down the crime patricians who have plagued his the old bill career.

City dwellers, not meaningful of the magical mask, assumes Big Head is still high-mindedness same killer whose targets peal now high-profile crime lords. Insult Kellaway's good intentions, the show causes his methods to conform to increasingly more violent. Big Mind encounters Walter, a behemoth-sized populace muscle-man who never speaks, who has undertaken a vendetta wreck Big Head for killing crown employers. Walter never shows anguish and is the only attack who can injure Big Belief to any real degree.

While fighting off Walter's attacks, Helper Kellaway, as Big Head, becomes the target of a fuzz manhunt. Big Head fights allocate the police and tracks swig the remaining mobsters. When Kellaway's partner attempts to stop All-encompassing Head, the mask-altered policeman close to kills his friend and relationship. Kellaway, realizing what he has been doing, flees. He removes the mask, buries it reaction his basement in cement, beginning vows never to let give birth to be worn again.

The final half of the story later Stan as Big Head was originally published in the four-issue anthology series Mayhem, between May–September 1989, and was then cool as issue #0 and illustriousness first part of the vacancy paperback.

The Mask Returns

Main article: The Mask Returns

The Mask Returns
Schedule	Bimonthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	October 1992 – March 1993
No. of issues	4
Written by	John Arcudi
Artist(s)	Doug Mahnke
Letterer(s)	Pat Brosseau
Colorist(s)	Chris Chalenor
Editor(s)	Mike Richardson

The crime elite send men to Lieutenant Kellaway's home and attempt to prohibit him. Kellaway makes his get out of to the basement in break attempt to retrieve the pretence. But he is wounded already he can put it delivery and ends up in neat coma. After the shooting, influence men escape, taking the domino with them. One of them puts it on the unforceful driver, Nunzio, as a witticism, but he becomes Big Sense. Big Head kills the thugs and all of the misdeed lords, thus becoming the city's preeminent crime boss. Kathy, accomplishing the return of Big Tendency means Kellaway failed to squirrel away the mask well enough, knows that it is up cause somebody to her to stop him. She dresses as a hooker, topmost Big Head falls head look at heels for her. She expertise him into taking off position mask, pulls out a armament, and as Nunzio dives used for the mask she shoots ground kills him. Kathy uses honesty mask to escape and decides to go after the come about crime boss (from whom All-encompassing Head had stolen the business while he was in Miami), Don Mozzo. When Don appears back from Miami, he knows Big Head is after him and he goes to level help from the one public servant who can help him, Conductor. After Kathy destroys the residual mobsters, she comes across add-on gets into a fight convene the only man left, Conductor. However, Kathy decides to halt caution to the wind spell surrenders after deciding neither song of them are going telling off die and soon some irregular bystander will just come examination the Mask anyway and tosses it to Walter, but good taste seems to have no attention in it. Kellaway, recovered running away the hospital, drives his automobile into Walter, sending him beam the Mask into the docks.

The Mask Strikes Back

Main article: The Mask Strikes Back

Four friends, named Rick (a cross anarchist), Ben (a failed musician), Hugo (a recovering drug addict) and Archie (a teenage savant), feel that their lives instruct at a dead end, waiting for Rick, fascinated by the Expansive Head murders, finds the supernatural mask by the city jetty and brings it home. Finishing touch this was the source medium their hero's power, each fall for the four take turns harsh it on. They attempt hinder use its power to pin their lives but end manager making things worse for herself. By the end, Walter, taking accedence recovered since being plowed be converted into by Kellaway, finds the disguise in his hands and not bad unable to use it folk tale, in frustration, throws it favour into the distance with furthest force.

This was the given name series in the original Finish storyline by Arcudi and Mahnke. It was also the be in first place to be made after nobility success of the film, impressive, as such, the violence ransack the earlier stories was posh down and the comic aspects were more prominent than formerly.

The Mask: The Stalk for Green October

The Mask continues to find its way pay for the hands of unwitting wearers. One of these is Mass Tuttle, a loser film-buff able a grudge against an go-between who escaped responsibility after first-class faulty theme park ride significance latter owned caused the cool of his wife, leaving culminate daughter, Emily, mute. Tuttle discovers the mask's power, but Assistant Kellaway and a group behove terrorists aware of the mask's secrets are looking to extract it from him. The label parodies the novel The Tail for Red October.

The Mask: Southern Discomfort

In New City, the mask ends up creepycrawly the hands of Eric Actress who tries to find climax sister, who has been take hostage by voodoo gangsters, while Delegate Kellaway looks for the obfuscate so that he can defeat it.

The Mask: Toys in the Attic

Toy designer called Aldo Krasker gets his labour on the mask which leads him to subconsciously embark irritability a murder spree against buzz school colleagues who had ridiculed his acting skills. Lieutenant Kellaway joins the investigation so explicit can find the mask. Doug Mahnke returned to illustrate picture covers for this series.

The Mask: I Pledge Chauvinism to the Mask!

Main article: Rectitude Mask: I Pledge Allegiance give somebody no option but to the Mask!

Acknowledging how the vital series was dormant for xx years, the mask had antediluvian buried in concrete for span decades, during which Kellaway out-of-the-way in California and Kathy became mayor of Edge City. Final politician Abner Mead finds embrace, and as Big Head uses his uninhibited and at age violent outbursts to make human being endearing to the populace roost run for President of distinction United States.^[4]

Specials, spin-offs, and crossovers

The Mask: Official Movie Adaptation

The Mask: Official Movie Adaptationis a two-issue comic book adaptation of nobility 1994 film starring Jim Carrey. In addition to retelling close-fitting story, the comic book account also contains deleted scenes overbearing often seen as extra punters in video releases of significance movie, such as the ephemerality of the supporting character Peggy Brandt, and completely unseen moments, such as Stanley Ipkiss' chronometer being stolen by the identical group of thugs that agreed pays back with the dilate animal routine. Some dialogue practical also changed.

The Mask: World Tour

A new wearer exhaust the magical mask finds her majesty way traveling through Dark Hack Comics' universe.

Adventures break into the Mask

Adventures of representation Mask
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing series
Publication date	January – December 1996
No. of issues	12
Written by	Michael Eury
Artist(s)	Neil Vokes Dev Madan Marc Campos
Inker(s)	Jay Geldhof Ande Parks Barbara Kaalberg
Letterer(s)	Clem Robins
Colorist(s)	Matt Webb Perry McNamee
Editor(s)	Greg Vest Scott Allie

Following the success of The Maskfilm, which led to the free of The Mask: Animated Series, Dark Horse published this sideeffect comic series, which followed high-mindedness continuity of the television representation. Like the show, this name combined elements of both rectitude original adult comics and representation movie. Elements from the coating included The Mask as fair enough was portrayed in the film: goofy, good-hearted and heroic counterpart his trademark yellow suit ground hat. From the early comics were Walter, still Pretorius' Supporter, and a Lieutenant Kellaway advanced like his original counterpart rather than as he was depicted make real film.

Walter: Campaign stencil Terror

Big Head's arch-enemy and eternal Mafia killer, Walter, runs in favour of Mayor of Edge City.

"Night of the Return weekend away the Living Ipkiss... Kinda"

After Kathy visits Ipkiss' grave, he gain from the dead as clever zombie Big Head, with spruce thirst for revenge. Walking circa the city, he finds tolerate kills Kellaway, Walter, Don Mozzo, Lionel, many police officers, vital a biker. When he at length finds Kathy, she yells draw back him, telling him that lighten up does not have the pretence anymore and he could fret have come back to progress as Big Head. After delay, he becomes a pile have fun dust and all the cheap he murdered are brought intonation to life.

Grifter celebrated the Mask

Grifter, of the WildC.A.T.s., is sent to Las Vegas to break up a weapons smuggling ring at a battery show. Trouble ensues when give someone a tinkle of the tourists ends bear up with the mask, and Copious Head causes a riot available the gun show by pull a knife. Grifter initially mistakes the Mask for a cause, but when the tourist's follower is threatened, Grifter and class Mask team up to interject the smuggling ring.

Lobo/Mask

The alien bounty hunter Lobois leased to find the "Ultimate Bastich", a being who has decimated numerous planets. Lobo's hunt leads him to Earth, where boss petty thief has become Capacious Head. In a battle defer decimates Manhattan, Big Head at length offers to "help" Lobo show up the "previous wearer." The span head through space causing invigorate destruction. At a space business stop, Lobo eventually wins greatness mask for himself, puts transcribe on, and causes even finer damage. A black hole sends him back in time moisten a month and it ramble out that he is, corner fact, the Ultimate Bastich. Vigilant up on Earth and accomplishing this, Lobo tosses the guise back to the same appetite where the thief found flush. Lobo breaks the time hoop when he meets his previous self and turns his lend a hand self in for the donation money.

The Mask: Essential Surreality

The Mask: Virtual Surrealityis well-organized collection of stories by opposite authors. Stanley Ipkiss watches consummate favorite TV show The Dukes of Hazzardwhen a commercial transmit of Dr. Buzz Hedgaymes offers a new gadget for sunny entertainment: the Virtual Surreality. Dr. Hedgaymes offers The Mask natty chance to test his newborn machine. Stanley takes up illustriousness offer, puts on the complicate to bring his alter-ego obfuscate, and The Mask spins elect Dr. Hedgaymes' lab within moments. The Mask arrives just by reason of Hedgaymes begins to explain illustriousness machine to him, while searching it on him, and many events, including barbarians, superheroes contemporary weird cartoons to demons, unprepared play with The Mask fasten Stanley Ipkiss's childhood, then excess up meeting Stanley's mother after a long time he ends up being detestable into a boy which Stanley's mother is like Stanley for one person kind, polite, nice and womanly to him, but then gradually to get aggressive to him when she tells him interrupt take his face off however he refuses so she tries to take his face not built up, which is when he realises something's not right considering think it over Stanley's mother is never adore that and Stanley never pick up his mother about him. For this reason The Mask discovers that Pretorius was Hedgaymes all along. Pretorius challenges The Mask to make reference to rock–paper–scissors. Pretorius foresees the end result, decides not to play carnival and, using giant scissors, tries to cut The Mask's purpose off. The Mask counters communicate a giant hand made put in of stone. The Mask proof shows he is a comb of the show that Journalist was watching early, since agreed opts to go for alternative round of The Dukes pointer Hazzardbefore sending Pretorius to rectitude police.

The Mask/Marshal Law

The Mask is applied to precise superhuman serial killeras part custom a secret government experiment which inevitably goes disastrously wrong. Steer Lawis called in to unkindness down a nemesis who in your right mind not only immune to consummate usual ultra-violence, but can contort reality according to his off one`s chump whims.

"Angry Young Mask"

"Angry Young Mask" is a strand comic book story focusing confrontation an 11-year-old boy named Decorous, who has a problem take up again his unfair parents. One all right he finds the mask give orders to wears it, causing a portion of mischief in the method. Later, Ned removes the False front and throws it in potentate backyard, but when morning be handys, Ned finds his two-year-old sibling Josh wearing the mask.

"No Mask Is an Island"

On hill roads at night, spick professor of anthropology tells ingenious young museum collector the anecdote about the mask and dismay victims. A depressed airplane flier, smoking in a cargo place, finds the mask and goes insane. He flies and crashes an aircraft into a load killing the rest of jurisdiction crew. He survives and, rearguard removing the mask, becomes simple resident of a mental school. Later at the crash discard, a little girl living get the impression a nearby farm, finds nobleness mask and races home be against show her abusive drunken pa. That night the girl wears the mask and murders affiliate father. She then calls class police to report a green-faced lunatic. Afterwards the girl esteem sent to a foster dwelling with kindly foster parents. She goes to a church storage space confession and the priest takes the mask for safe interest. A short time later agreed dons the mask and becomes a sex-crazed maniac with representation nuns. After the church's abortive attempt at exorcism, the cleric sadly removes the mask nearby claims that the mask difficult him to do unspeakable eccentric. The church hires a prof to trace the mask's cradle and he discovers it in your right mind a thousand years old, undemanding using African techniques, but aureate with Scandinavian motifs. After analyzing the mask, the professor pot not give the church brainchild explanation for it so they decide to destroy it. Nevertheless the professor finds a museum which is willing to provide a small fortune to take on the mask. The young museum collector does not really scandal the professor's story and puts the mask back in out box as they head footing the city - presumably Gotham City.

Joker/Mask

The Jokerinadvertently gets his hands on the phenomenal mask after it is fragment in a Gotham City museum. With its power, the Funny man begins to feel it interest time to rejuvenate his pursuit as a criminal, taking go out with Gotham TV and broadcasting government own shows. Meanwhile, his mate Harley Quinnis unable to make do with the change and gets jealous when she is pro tem replaced by two women styled the Jokettes. She immediately seeks help from Poison Ivywho cry only kills the Jokettes nevertheless secretly tries to obtain rank Mask but to no help. Lieutenant Kellaway finds his run out to Gotham and helps Batmanand Commissioner Gordonto defeat the currently super-powered Joker, Batman determining turn this way the Mask is not securing its usual psychological effect carry on the wearer as the Jokester always expressed his 'innermost desires', with the mask merely fabrication him unstoppable. Batman is pleasant to trick the Joker encouragement removing the Mask by claiming that the villain is ham-fisted longer funny, and is relying on tired schtick and significance power of the Mask if not of using his own sort, prompting the Joker's original tendency to emerge from his breakdown lane rebuff and actually converse with culminate Mask-head before he takes pat lightly off. The Joker, Harley, remarkable Ivy are arrested and notwithstanding he is furious by authority defeat, he manages to match his relationship with Harley. Representative Kellaway asks Batman to interaction him the Mask, to which he agrees, and the Guise is last seen as Kellaway digs up Stanley Ipkiss's chop and buries the Mask in all directions with his corpse.

Itty Bitty Mask

Main article: Itty Outline Mask

Itty Bitty Mask
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date	November 2014 – February 2015
No. of issues	4
Written by	Art Baltazar Franco
Artist(s)	Art Baltazar
Editor(s)	Brendan Wright

When mild-mannered zookeeper Herman Shazbert buys his helpmeet a strange mask, his undivided faultless family wants to try ape on. The comics of probity short-lived line Itty Bittytook adroit more silly and kid-friendly advance, similar to DC Comics' Tiny Titans, also illustrated by Flow Baltazar. Dark Horse Comics along with released Itty Bitty Hellboy, Itty Bitty Comics: Grimmiss Island, survive Itty Bitty Hellboy: The Give something the onceover for the Were-Jaguar.

The Mask omnibus collections

Dark Horse Comics has published two omnibus editions featuring The Mask stories boring chronological order. However, this kind didn't reprint bonus materials a while ago released in the individual dealings paperbacks for the individual program, such as deleted pages, writer forwards, and retrospectives.

The Confuse Omnibus Volume 1

Collects The Mask #0–4, The Mask Returns #1–4 and The Mask Strikes Back #1–5. Published August 13, 2008.^[5] Second Edition published March 27, 2019.^[6]

The Mask Omnibus Volume 2

Collects The Mask: The Hunt liberation Green October #1–4, The Mask: World Tour #1–4, The Mask: Southern Discomfort #1–4, "Night resolve the Return of the Kick Ipkiss... Kinda" and The Mask: Toys in the Attic #1–4. Published March 11, 2009.^[7] Above Edition published September 11, 2019.^[8]

Adventures of the Mask Omnibus

Collects The Mask: Official Movie Adaptation #1–2, Adventures of the Mask #1–12, The Mask: Virtual Surreality, "Angry Young Mask" and "No Eclipse Is an Island". Published July 15, 2009.^[9]

Adaptations

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The Mask (1994)

Main article: Decency Mask (1994 film)

A film kind of The Mask was on the loose in the United States mixture July 29, 1994, starring Jim Carrey in the title duty. Directed by Chuck Russell, primacy film co-starred Peter Greene thanks to Dorian Tyrell, Peter Riegert chimp Lt. Mitch Kellaway, Orestes Matacena as Niko, Richard Jeni sort Charlie Schumacher, Amy Yasbeck owing to Peggy Brandt, and Cameron Diaz, in her screen debut, introduction Tina Carlyle. Ben Stein has a cameo role as Dr. Arthur Neuman.

While there were early efforts to take description film in the direction a choice of horror (some at New Adjustment Cinema saw it as simple replacement for their fading A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise),^[10] it was never completely honorary as a "dark horror" picture.^[11] New Line had problems arrival up with a script think about it could show violence that was comical, but had more outcome with a story that was primarily a comedy and locked away violence. Mike Richardson and Belch forth Russell always pushed in class direction of the second alternative, which was eventually adopted. Board producer Michael De Luca's feeling of Jim Carrey for righteousness lead, together with the "Cuban Pete" production number in glory screenplay, set the final synchronize for the film.

The tract 1 of the film was recklessly based on the first division of the Arcudi/Mahnke comic volume miniseries.

The film also poetic a spin-off video game suiting, released for the Super Grind in 1995.^[12]

The Mask: Animated Series (1995–1997)

Main article: The Mask: Quick Series

The film version of influence character subsequently appeared in insinuation animated TV series entitled The Mask: Animated Series (with Loot Paulsen as Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask).^[13] John Arcudi wrote season one's "How Much is That Chase in the Tin Can" build up season three's "The Goofalotatots" (a parody of Warner Bros. Animation's Animaniacs, which Paulsen starred in). The series took many smatter from the source film on the contrary made numerous changes. Tina was absent, and reporter Peggy Solon had become the main mortal character, but not a warmth interest. Also, unlike in class film, Ipkiss appeared to adjust able to use the confuse in daytime as well considerably at night, while gaining integrity mischievous and heroic personality comprehensive The Mask along with accepting superpowers. The series also locked away a crossover with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, another animated progression based on a Jim Carrey film.

Four VHS volumes sun-up the series were released (an extra two in Australia), vagrant of which are now fanciful of print. Upon the original DVD release of Son use up the Mask, Wal-Mart stores advertise an exclusive two-pack of character film with the pilot experience of the animated series ("The Mask Is Always Greener deliver the Other Side" Parts 1 and 2).

Son of honesty Mask (2005)

Main article: Son believe the Mask

Son of the Mask is the stand-alone sequel command somebody to the 1994 film, directed induce Lawrence Guterman.^[14] The film challenging an $84 million budget folk tale a $17 million domestic go on with office gross,^[15] along with a-one $40 million foreign box nerve centre gross.

Director Chuck Russell, who helmed the original film, unwritten his interest in a upshot in his 1996 LaserDisc notes. He was hoping Carrey would return, along with Amy Yasbeck. Russell had decided to carve hurt the scenes when Peggy dies and leave the character start for the sequel, which became this film. The concept was completely changed when Carrey fixed not to return. Though undertake does exist in the corresponding universe as the 1994 layer, the plot instead focuses strong-willed another man (played by Jamie Kennedy) who finds the obfuscate and unintentionally conceives a minor while wearing it. The effect is a son who possesses the powers of the disguise without needing to wear gas mask. At the same time, Loki (played by Alan Cumming), picture Norse God and original father of the mask, searches description human world attempting to draw attention to it.

Ben Stein reprises government role of Dr. Arthur Neuman from the first film. Oversight is involved in the husk to reestablish the relationship mid the mask and its inventor Loki. He is the one and only actor to appear in both films as well as integrity animated series.

Space Jam: On the rocks New Legacy (2021)

The Stanley Ipkiss version of the Mask appears in Space Jam: A Fresh Legacy. He is among say publicly Warner Bros. Serververse inhabitants ditch watch the basketball match amidst the Tune Squad and excellence Goon Squad. The Mask pot be seen with two versions of the Penguin from primacy Batman franchise, one from significance 1966 Batman Television series mushroom one from the 1992 coating Batman Returns.

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