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* [[Action Bomb]]: Cookie BaBoom (the Mayor's exotic dancer ex-girlfriend) in "Flight as a Feather" invokes this trope, but {{spoiler|ends up stripped of her suicide belts}}.
** Kablamus, meanwhile, is your garden variety self-detonating man with various "flavors" of explosions.
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: At least between the movie and the cartoon.
** Stanley, Milo the Dog, Mrs. Peenman (the landlady), Charlie (Stanley's womanizing friend and coworker at the bank), Lieutenant Kellaway, Kellaway's detective partner, Doyle, Mayor Tilton (who only had a small appearance in the movie), and Peggy (the tabloid writer) are in the cartoon version. Tina (Cameron Diaz's character) and Dorian (the villain from the movie) aren't.
*** Though we can assume that Dorian was likely drowned and Tina's relationship with Stanley didn't last as long as the ending implied, so their absences makes sense.
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* [[The Ahnold]]: The Mask himself on occasion, and one-time episode villain Sly Eastenegger
* [[The Alleged Car]]: Stanley still has "The Loaner" from the movie and Kellaway and Doyle have a green car that always clatters and backfires when they drive it and was attacked by reanimated dinosaurs with an appetite for metal (as seen in "Jurassic Mask").
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Happens between The Mask and Chronos in "What Goes Around Comes Around", and ends up squicking The Mask out so much that he has to literally get his head examined.
* [[Alternative Continuity]]: Strangely subverted, unlike almost all other movie to cartoon adaptations. We can simply assume that either Tina dumped Stan or Stan dumped Tina (which explains her not appearing in the cartoon). In the pilot, Peggy mentions having sold Stanley out to mobsters and Charlie asks if Stanley still has the mask after The Mask fails to stop a bank robbery. Stanley reminds him that he threw the mask away. The Coco Bongo's interior is very different but it may have been remodeled- for that matter, it may be under new ownership after Dorian's disappearance. Speaking of which, Dorian's absence may be explained by his fate in the movie, it may be assumed he died as a result.
*** There were some plans to bring Dorian Tyrell and Niko backs as ghosts who wreak havoc on the city and try to regain their criminal empires. They were even in talks with Peter Greene to voice Dorian!
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** The comic book series based on the cartoon is also this.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Cookie BaBoom. She looks like she could be African-American, but she has green eyes, which isn't found a lot in African-Americans. Could she be mixed, a Gypsy (she does bear a striking resemblance to Esmerelda from the Disney adaptation of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''), be wearing green contact lenses, was she originally going to be a white woman, is it a recessive gene, or just a case of "recycled character model" in which a white female character was recolored?
* [[Anti-Hero]]: The Mask is Type II. He's lazy and a [[Troll]], but usually does the right thing. Stanley on the other hand is rather weak and timid, so he falls into Type I.
* [[Arm Cannon]]
* [[Arch Enemy]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Good ol']] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Dr. Pretorius]], whose motives vary by the episode, but usually fall under inhumane experiments [[For Science!]]!
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Stanley finds a special "sister Mask" to be placed over the original one, which is said to give the wearer better control over his alter-ego. It turns out Dr. Pretorius created this sister Mask and planted it in a museum; it's actually a mind-control device.
* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: The Stinger, who gains the ability to command a large swarm of intelligent monster bees after mutating into a giant bee monster.
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** Whatever you do, don't mess with the Coco Bongo, mess with The Mask's clothes in any way or forget The Mask's birthday. This will cause The Mask to seek out revenge on the one responsible.
** Don't call The Stinger "Bee Boy" or "Mr. Bee".
** Don't make fun of Fish Guy in front of Putty Thing.
** Absolutely do not swipe anything The Mask intends to purchase. "He took my merchandise... BIIIIG mistake!"
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* [[Big Eater]]: In "To Bee or Not To Bee", a side-effect of The Stinger's [[Metamorphosis]] into a giant bee is now he needs an insane amount of honey to survive, which drives him to eat the contents of an entire Honey Chews factory in a single night and later enslave the entire city just so the inhabitants can manufacture more honey. Later, in "Convention of Evil", he has to have a pot of honey available at all times.
* [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]]: Gorgonzola the Cheese Witch from "Mask Au Gratin" and "Convention of Evil"
* [[Body Horror]]:
** Kablamus The Exploding Man.
** To a lesser extent, The Stinger, whose bee mutation is more than a little unsettling.
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* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: "Split Personality": After the Mask gets him and Stanely out of a trap designed to split them in half, Stanely asks [[Lampshade Hanging|why he didn't do that sooner]]. "Sense of jeopardy! Keeps them ''(points at the viewer)'' on the edge of their seats."
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Stanley Ipkiss (when he's not The Mask); when Stanley [[Becoming the Mask|becomes The Mask]], the usual butt monkeys are Mrs. Peenman (the grouchy landlady), Lieutenant Kellaway and his police partner, Doyle, Mayor Tilton, Eddie when he becomes Fish Guy, and any villain who gets in The Mask's way.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Quite often, usually ranging from lawyer-friendly cameos to shout-outs
** Much of the main cast may also count, as happened with [[The Real Ghostbusters]], none of them really look like the actors who played them, with only Charlie, Doyle and Peggy really getting anywhere close. This may have been to avoid paying for likeness rights. It's also possible that since the animated Ace Ventura(whose series ran in the timeslot following the Mask and even crossed over with it in an episode of each) actually was a clear caricature of Jim Carrey they wanted to make them distinct from each other.
*** Perhaps the funniest part of that is the fact Stanley looks quite a bit like the animatedPeter Venkman from Real Ghostbusters.
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** Putty Thing is basically a dumb teenager version of Clayface from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''.
** Another that crosses the line btween this and a mythology gag, while Lt. Kellaway doesn't even come close to resembling his film counterpart, he's practically a dead ringer for Kellaway from the comics.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: The Mask happened to have two memorable lines from the movie that gained this status. "Sssssmokin'!" and "Somebody stop me!" or a variation of the two managed to work their way into most of the episodes.
* [[Chained Heat]]: In "The Terrible Twos," Kellaway handcuffs himself to Stanley so that way if Stanley turns into The Mask, he'll know about it and have Stanley arrested. Stanley manages to distract him time and again, and eventually is let go so that he can personally handle the villains.
* [[Chess with Death]]: The Mask has a dance-off with the Devil to get Stanley's soul back.
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* [[Comically Invincible Hero]]: The Mask will bounce back from anything you can come up with. He's even [[Troll|pretended to be killed]] just to piss off or scare villains.
* [[Cool Car]]: The show often featured the ''Mask Mobile'', which also had a prominent role in the Mask toyline.
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* [[Crossover]]: With the ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' cartoon. The Mexican dub resulted in a case of [[Talking to Himself]] as both Stanley/The Mask and Ace Ventura were voiced by the same person.
* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Kellaway has one of these (with The Mask's picture as the dartboard) on the season two episode "Flight as a Feather"
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* [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]]: Biker boss and criminal Lonnie the Shark is actually the actor who plays Barnaby the Dinosaur, as seen in "Baby's Wild Ride"
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: "Flight as a Feather," when Kellaway and Doyle go to capture the Mask, the Mask {{spoiler|1=takes Cookie BaBoom -- who has been spinning around for at least two to three scenes -- and stops her so her naked body faces Kellaway and Doyle. While the Mask gets away, these guys melt right in front of her}}.
** The Mask often does this, particularly in "Love Potion No. 8 1/2" when he falls for the grouchy landlady Mrs. Peenman thanks to a carnival love potion sold to him by a gypsy.
* [[Dress Hits Floor]]: Cookie BaBoom does this in "Flight as a Feather." See [[Sexy Coat Flashing]].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Tempest in "Rain of Terror" and "Convention of Evil".
* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: According to Cookie BaBoom on "Flight as a Feather," Mayor Tilton's real name is {{spoiler|Mortimer}}.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]:
** When Fish Guy puts on the mask and becomes Shark Dude in "The Good, The Bad, and the Fish Guy."
** Lonnie the Shark (given his appearance) counts as well.
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* [[Fish People]]: Fish Guy. He can't swim worth a crap though.
{{quote|'''The Mask''': Not only are you a lame mutant, you're a lame ''fish''!}}
* [[Gargle Blaster]]:
** On "Split Personality," The Mask/Stanley goes to a tough guy bar and orders a red-hot, battery acid piledriver with extra formaldehyde in a dirty glass with a black widow spider riding on the olive. {{spoiler|They were out of olives}}.
** On "Flight as a Feather," the Mask poses as a bartender who turns two megatons worth of dynamite into a drink called the Bikini Cocktail.
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** A lot of the low-level, one-shot criminals in the series love using nuclear power (or dynamite) to annihilate themselves and the city.
** Nuclear power (with a dash of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]) is how Dak and Eddie became Putty Thing and Fish Guy respectively on the episode "The Terrible Twos."
* [[Implacable Man]]: Walter, a [[The Voiceless|silent]], [[Made of Iron|hulking thug]]. As in the comics, Walter is one of the only characters who can make The Mask feel pain.
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: When you're [[Comically Invincible Hero|the Mask]], nearly everyone ends up this way. But special nod goes to Putty-Thing and Fish Guy, who are both [[The Ditz|ridiculously incompetent]]. Fish Guy doesn't even have powers; he's a fish that can't swim or breathe underwater.
* [[Inevitable Waterfall]]: Happens to Stanley and Charlie while they're canoeing on a river in "Up The Creek".
* [[Inspector Javert]]: Kellaway, so very much - even more so than in the movie.
* [[Jewish Mother]]: Lt. Kellaway's mother, most certainly, in "The Mother of All Hoods". Which seems rather odd as Kellaway himself doesn't even seem to be Jewish.
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* [[Loud of War]]: "Flight as a Feather" had a scene in which The Mask uses a large boombox and a cassette entitled "The Mask's Greatest Hits" as a form of torture on Mrs. Peenman - first out loud, then through headphones.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: the real names of Kablamus, The Stinger, and The Tempest (see [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]). Also, {{spoiler|1=Cookie BaBoom, considering her method of suicide/homicide}}.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: The Mask regularly acknowledges the audience. When Kablamus tries to do it as well, Mask dismisses him as nuts.
* [[Missing Episode]]: All of season two never aired on CBS (only seasons one and three aired) and ABC Family (back when it was called "FOX Family Channel") banned the episode "Flight as a Feather" for [[Fan Service|the Cookie BaBoom sequence]].
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Pretorius, where his plans of mass destruction are usually in the name of science.
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: The appearance of the Mayor's suicidal stripper ex-girlfriend Cookie BaBoom in "Flight As A Feather." Also counts as a literal "[[Every One Remembers the Stripper]]" moment.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Kellaway and Doyle. Justified in that The Mask is simply too powerful for them to handle. Otherwise, Kellaway is a competent cop. Doyle is...[[The Ditz|not so much]].
* [[Pungeon Master]]: The Mask himself, as well as several of his adversaries.
* [[Real After All]]: In "Santa Mask"
* [[Rebus Bubble]]: In "Split Personality," when Stanley is thinking of what would happen if his old high school bully found and wore The Mask
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** The Mask's reaction to seeing Davida Steelmine perform magic tricks on the season three premiere "Magic."
* [[The Speechless]]: Walter doesn't say a single word, which just adds to his scariness.
* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]] and [[Punny Name]]:
** Kablamus's real name is Joe Blow.
** Tempest's real name is Fritz Drizzle, and The Stinger's real name is Buzz Stingman.
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* [[Trapped in TV Land]]: The season two episode "Channel Surfin'".
* [[The Voiceless]]: Walter (Pretorious's red-haired, Frankenstein's monster-esque hired goon)
* [[Trickster Archetype]]: The Mask's thrives on deflating his enemies' (or Lt. Kellaway's) egos.
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Stanley.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: The Mask's main power is to transform into something appropriate for the situation.
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Wearing The Mask while ill will screw up Stanley's powers and eventually kill him. So naturally, the city's attacked by a giant mucus monster while he's got a cold.
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