History Headscratchers / TheMask

* Why did The Mask need to rob a bank? He can create objects out of nothing couldn't he just create all the money he wants?

* How on earth does Calloway connect Stanley to the robbery in the first place? I mean let's walk through his logic for a minute. He knows that Dorian Tyrell's people were part of a botched bank robbery and shootout. He's got them dead to rights on that due to the corpse in Tyrell's office. And then, on the floor of the high end night club below that office - which just hosted at least a few dozen legitimate customers - he spies a scrap of fabric...which he immediately identifies as a scrap of Stanley's Pajamas, and because of this he concludes that Stanley must have been the unidentified robber in the mask. To repeat...he somehow concludes that it makes perfect sense for Stanley Ipkis to be at the Coco Bongo ''in his pajamas'', and that because he was in the Coco Bongo in his pajamas (alongside the other more formally dressed patrons), he must have been at the robbery across town...as the unidentified robber they have on camera in a yellow zoot suit. ...Seriously, what?

*** Except that there's no reason to believe those pajamas, or even the fabric, is unique. Calloway would need more than a scrap of fabric to implicate Ipkiss. Even adding in the fact that Ipkiss works at the bank wouldn't be enough.
*** He found a scrap of torn pajamas, he wanted to see the pair Ipkiss had. If the torn piece matched up, you got a glass slipper thing. When he want to question him, Ipkiss was clearly nervous and evasive and gave a lame story about the pajamas getting stolen. Any cop would see he was lying. And that was TWICE now, because any cop would've known he wasn't being fully truthful the previous day when asked about his landlady firing at the prowler in the same GREEN MASK! None of these things are enough to prove Ipkiss did it, but they're enough to make him wanna keep looking into it, and he just keeps finding more and more pieces that link Ipkiss to all of this mess. It's just this slowly mounting pile of evidence. And even if a decent lawyer could've ultimately gotten Stanley off, the problem was that he needed to get out of jail THAT NIGHT because he needed to stop Dorian and Tina's life was in danger.

* When Peggy betrays Stanley by handing him over to Dorian and his men for $50,000, she smugly explains herself to Stanley in a malicious manner, not unlike right before Dorian arrived when she gave Stanley those positive affirmations only to afterwards admit that she was being insincere and therefore didn't think highly of him at all. And yet, when Dorian's men prepare to force Stanley into talking, she immediately becomes concerned and says to Dorian "You said you wouldn't hurt him!" If she didn't care for Stanley and was borderline sadistic in her betrayal, why the sudden 360?

* When Peggy betrays Stanley by handing him over to Dorian and his men for $50,000, she smugly explains herself to Stanley in a malicious manner, not unlike right before Dorian arrived when she gave Stanley those positive affirmations only to afterwards admit that she was being insincere and therefore didn't think highly of him at all. And yet, when Dorian's men prepare to force Stanley into talking, she immediately becomes concerned and says to Dorian "You said you wouldn't hurt him!" If she didn't care for Stanley and was borderline sadistic in her betrayal, why the sudden 360? Her behaviour is really inconsistent in this scene.

* When Peggy betrays Stanley by handing him over to Dorian and his men for $50,000, she smugly explains herself to Stanley in a malicious manner, not unlike right before Dorian arrived when she gave Stanley those positive affirmations only to afterwards admit that they were insincere and therefore didn't think highly of him at all. And yet, when Dorian's men prepare to force Stanley into talking, she immediately becomes concerned and says to Dorian "You said you wouldn't hurt him!" If she didn't care for Stanley and was borderline sadistic in her betrayal, why the sudden 360? Her behaviour is really inconsistent in this scene.

* After the Cuban Pete song and dance number, why does Stanley take the mask off instead of conjuring up some wacky vehicle to escape from the militia of cops who are after him?

* If Loki's spirit is in the mask, how could Pretorius replicate that in "Sister Mask" for the MindControlDevice?

*** He found a scrap of torn pajamas, he wanted to see the pair Ipkiss had. If the torn piece matched up, you got a glass slipper thing. When he want to question him, Ipkiss was clearly nervous and evasive and gave a lame story about the pajamas getting stolen. Any cop would see he was lying. And that was TWICE now, because any cop would've known he wasn't being fully truthful the previous day when asked about his landlady firing at the prowler in the same GREEN MASK! None of these things are enough to prove Ipkiss did it, but they're enough to make him wanna keep looking into it, and he just keeps finding more and more pieces that link Ipkiss to all of this mess. It's just this slowly mounting pile of evidence. And even if a decent lawyer could've ultimately gotten Stanley off, the problem was that he needed to get out of jail THAT NIGHT because he needed to stop Dorian and Tina's life was in danger.