✰ || Stanley Ipkiss

Stanley Ipkiss is a shy, immature, and unlucky bank clerk working at the local Edge City bank. He is frequently ridiculed by everyone around him, except for his Jack Russell Terrier Milo, and his co-worker and best friend Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell, owner of the Coco Bongo nightclub, plots to overthrow his boss Niko. One day, Tyrell sends his beautiful, songbird girlfriend Tina Carlyle into Stanley's bank to record its layout, in preparation to rob the bank.

Stanley becomes attracted to Tina Carlyle and falling in love with her at first sight and she seems to reciprocate. After being denied entrance to the Coco Bongo, he finds a wooden mask near the city's harbour after mistaken it for someone down there and when spotted by a policeman, lies saying that it is his mask. He returns to his apartment building and when back inside his apartment puts the mask close to his face, which it starts to wrap itself around him, and he notices it glowing, so he decides to put it close to him again. Placing it on his face transforms him into a zoot-suited, green-faced, bizarre trickster known as the Mask, who is able to cartoonishly alter himself and his surroundings at will. The Mask goes out of the apartment, which he tries to creep down the hallway to avoid Mrs Peenman, then an alarm clock starts ringing out of his pocket and bouncing around, which The Mask takes out a mallet hammer out of his pocket to stop it ringing and he manages to smash it to pieces, but Mrs Peenman comes out and upon seeing each other in first sight, ends with the landlady screaming loudly and The Mask poking his eyeballs out and goes wild with them going around.

Mrs Peenman then takes out a shotgun and The Mask starts jumping up and down to avoid the shots, which he jumps out of a window and flattened himself on the ground, which he breaks the fourth wall and after getting up, which he gets himself back into shape, a car driver horns at him and he takes out his little horn blower which emitted a loud sound which shatters the windows of the car and leaving the driver in shock and disbelief. He then scares off a street gang that attempted to rob him by turning a balloon into a Tommy gun, and then he exacts revenge on Stanley's tormentors.

The next morning, Stanley encounters detective Lieutenant Kellaway and newspaper reporter Peggy Brandt investigating the Mask's activity of the previous night. To attend Tina's performance, he again becomes The Mask to raid the bank, inadvertently foiling Tyrell's plan in the process. At the Coco Bongo, The Mask becomes attracted to Tina and starts to fall in love with her at first sight like Stanley did, and he dances exuberantly with Tina, whom he ends up kissing. Following a confrontation with Tyrell, The Mask flees leaving behind a scrap of cloth from his suit that transforms back into Stanley's pajamas, while Tyrell is arrested by the police as a suspect for the bank robbery.

Based on the shred of cloth, Kellaway suspects Stanley to be the bank robber. Stanley later consults an expert on masks named Arthur Neuman, who tells him that the object is a depiction of Loki, the Norse god of darkness and mischief. The same night, Stanley transforms into The Mask and meets Tina at the local Landfill Park, which does not go well at first due to him being too strong towards her, but he manages to make up for it with his charm personality and his sweet nature, which got her to see what a kind and polite gentleman he really is.

They were about to kiss each other, but then the meeting ends up being interrupted by Kellaway, who attempts to arrest him. The Mask tricks a large group of police officers into joining him in a mass-performance of the Desi Arnaz song "Cuban Pete", The Mask manages to get away from them and he takes off his face and Stanley flees with Peggy, but she betrays him to Tyrell for a $50,000 bounty. Tyrell tries on the mask and becomes a malevolent green-faced monster. Forced to reveal the location of the stolen money, Stanley is kept hostage in one of the mob's cars while Tyrell's henchmen reclaim the money, and is later given to Kellaway, along with a rubber green mask, to be detained.

When Tina visits the despondent Stanley in his cell, he urges her to flee the city. Tina thanks Stanley for treating her with respect and tells him that she knew that he was the Mask all along. She attempts to leave the city, but is captured by Tyrell's enforcer Orlando and taken to a charity ball at the Coco Bongo hosted by Niko and attended by the city's elite, including Mayor Mitchell Tilton. Upon arrival, the masked Tyrell kills Niko and prepares to destroy both the club and Tina. Milo helps Stanley escape from his cell, and Stanley brings Kellaway as a cover and hostage in a desperate attempt to stop Tyrell.

After securing Charlie's assistance, Stanley is spotted and captured. Tina tricks Tyrell into taking off the mask, which is recovered and donned by Milo, turning the dog into a cartoonish pitbull who defeats Tyrell's men, while Stanley fights Tyrell himself. After recovering the mask, Stanley puts on the mask and The Mask uses his abilities to save Tina by swallowing Tyrell's bomb and flushing Tyrell down the drain of the club's ornamental fountain.

The police arrive and arrest Tyrell's remaining henchmen, while Kellaway attempts to arrest Stanley once again. Tilton arrives and debunks Kellaway's statements, announcing to everyone that Tyrell was The Mask all throughout. He then goes on to thank Stanley for saving lives and having Stanley free to go, then Tilton then tells Kellaway that he needs to have a serious meeting with him in the morning and all charges against Stanley are dropped. As the sun rises the following day, Stanley, Tina, Milo, and Charlie take the mask back down to the harbor. Stanley asks Tina if she is sure she isn't going to miss his other persona, but Tina throws the mask into the water, and she and Stanley kiss. Charlie attempts to retrieve the mask for himself, only to find Milo swimming away with it.