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* OffModel: When The Mask is chasing Pretorius at the end of the episode, the back of his head is flesh-colored rather than green.



* {{Papa Wolf}}: Stanley and The Mask care a lot about Milo and let’s just say that Pretorius regrets ever making them hurt Milo.

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* {{Papa Wolf}}: PapaWolf: Stanley and The Mask care a lot about Milo and let’s just say that Pretorius regrets ever making them hurt Milo.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Milo knew from the start that the Sister Mask wasn't what it seemed, as he immediately started growling and chewing on it. Stanley unfortunately ignored this, kickstarting the episode's conflict.

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* EvilDetectingDog: Milo knew could tell from the start that the Sister Mask wasn't what it seemed, as he immediately started growling and chewing on it. Stanley unfortunately ignored this, kickstarting the episode's conflict.
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* EvilDetectingDog: Milo knew from the start that the Sister Mask wasn't what it seemed, as he immediately started growling and chewing on it. Stanley unfortunately ignored this, kickstarting the episode's conflict.
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* KickTheDog: When Pretorius had control of the Mask, he made the Mask kick Milo. Stanley wasn't happy about that, and when he got his revenge, he [[spoiler: turned the Sister Mask on Pretorius, made him become a soccer ball and then made him kick around his robot body and his own henchmen]]. He even nearly calls out this trope word-for-word:

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* KickTheDog: When Pretorius had control of the Mask, he made the Mask kick Milo. Stanley wasn't happy about that, and when he got his revenge, he [[spoiler: turned the Sister Mask on Pretorius, made him become a soccer ball and then made him kick around his robot body and his own henchmen]].henchmen. He even nearly calls out this trope word-for-word:
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* KickTheDog: When Pretorius had control of the Mask, and made the Mask kick Milo. Stanley wasn't happy about that, and when he got his revenge, he [[spoiler: turned the Sister Mask on Pretorius, made him become a soccer ball and then made him kick around his robot body and his own henchmen]]. He even nearly calls out this trope word-for-word:

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* KickTheDog: When Pretorius had control of the Mask, and he made the Mask kick Milo. Stanley wasn't happy about that, and when he got his revenge, he [[spoiler: turned the Sister Mask on Pretorius, made him become a soccer ball and then made him kick around his robot body and his own henchmen]]. He even nearly calls out this trope word-for-word:
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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Pretorius tries to control the Mask into killing Peggy, he has this to say.
-->'''Mask:''' Hey Pretorious, I hate the press too, but this seems a ''[[{{Understatement}} little]]'' extreme!
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* InterchangableAsianCultures: The Mask briefly addresses Walter as Walt[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics -san]]

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* InterchangableAsianCultures: InterchangeableAsianCultures: The Mask briefly addresses Walter as Walt[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics -san]]-san]] when they are fighting, despite using kung fu against him in a Chinese restaurant.
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* CardCarryingVillain: DoubleSubverted. Pretorius insists that he’s not evil, just that he has a MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate because he doesn’t mind that his work as a "chaos theorist" puts innocent lives in danger. Once he wears the Mask, he gains the clarity to realize that he is an evil scientist after all.


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* TheFantasticFaux: Though a team of such never actually comes to be, Pretorius wants the meteor fragments to give his minions powers so he can make one "just like in [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the comic book]]."


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* InterchangableAsianCultures: The Mask briefly addresses Walter as Walt[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics -san]]


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* OffModel: When The Mask is chasing Pretorius at the end of the episode, the back of his head is flesh-colored rather than green.
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* AndIMustScream: Under the control of the Sister Mask, The Mask is fully cognizant of his actions but helpless to prevent the controller from puppeteering him.


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* NighInvulnerability: Pretorius specifically seeks to use The Mask’s invulnerability to get past the military security.


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* ShoutOut: The meteor fragments Pretorius seeks give the same powers as the team from the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' comics, a fact Pretorius lampshades.
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Although the Sister Mask ''could'' be one in theory, due to the HeroicWillpower of Stanley Ipkiss as The Mask, it prevents it from being too much of a story-breaker
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* StoryBreakerPower: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Although the Sister Mask ''could'' be one in theory, due to the HeroicWillpower of Stanley Ipkiss as The Mask, it prevents it from being too much of a story-breaker
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* BlatantLies: Pretorius claims to Mask in his lab he is not evil who serves as the main antagonist of the series.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Peggy has her moments especially at the Edge City museum.

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* HeroicWillpower: Stanley Ipkiss tries to resist the sister mask, and it works insofaras The Mask refusing to hurt or kill people.

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* HeroicWillpower: Stanley Ipkiss tries to resist the sister mask, and it works insofaras in so far as The Mask is refusing to hurt or kill people.



* StoryBreakerPower: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Although the Sister Mask ''could'' be one in theory, due to the HeroicWillpower of Stanley Ipkiss as The Mask, it prevents it from being too much of a story-breaker power.

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* StoryBreakerPower: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Although the Sister Mask ''could'' be one in theory, due to the HeroicWillpower of Stanley Ipkiss as The Mask, it prevents it from being too much of a story-breaker power.story-breaker
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* {{Papa Wolf}}: Stanley and The Mask care a lot about Milo and let’s just say that Pretorius regrets ever making them hurt Milo.

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* AndThisIsFor: Stanley has this moment after getting the sister mask onto Pretorius and bounces him around the room like a pinball.
-->'''Stanley:''' This is for making me [[KickTheDog kick my dog]]! […] And this… this is for dashing my hopes of actually being able to control the Mask someday!



-->'''Stanley:''' And that's for making me kick my dog!

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-->'''Stanley:''' And that's This for making me kick my dog!
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pretorius had no idea that his sister mask would be used against him when he asked Stanley Ipkiss/TheMask to KickTheDog.

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pretorius had no idea that his sister mask would be used against him when he asked Stanley Ipkiss/TheMask Ipkiss/The Mask to KickTheDog.

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* CombatTentacles: When Pretorius wears the Mask, these come out of his head as he tries to eat Peggy and Stanley.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: Pretorius had no idea that his sister mask would be used against him when he asked Stanley Ipkiss/TheMask to KickTheDog.



* HeroicWillpower: Stanley Ipkiss tries to resist this.

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* HeroicWillpower: Stanley Ipkiss tries to resist this.the sister mask, and it works insofaras The Mask refusing to hurt or kill people.
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* MythologyGag: During the ChaseScene, Peggy refers to Pretorius as "Big Head", a reference to the original comic-book version of The Mask.

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* GlowingRedEyesOfDoom: As The Mask, Pretorius has these since he has red eyes.

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* GlowingRedEyesOfDoom: GlowingEyesOfDoom: As The Mask, Pretorius Pretorius's has these since he has this, which are also RedEyesTakeWarning because of his original red eyes.


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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As The Mask, Pretorius's red eyes get mixed with GlowingEyesOfDoom.

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* FloatingAdviceReminder: A rather ''literal'' one; Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask ''sees'' Pretorius as a hallucination from The Mask when he has put it on, just to inform him that Pretorius is in control.



* GiantSpider: When Pretorius gets the mask on, he becomes one.
* GlowingRedEyesOfDoom: As The Mask, Pretorius has these since he has red eyes.
* HeroicWillpower: Stanley Ipkiss tries to resist this.



* MinimalistCast: No new VillainOfTheWeek in this episode, just Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, Peggy Brandt, Milo the Dog and Pretorius.

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* MinimalistCast: No new VillainOfTheWeek in this episode, just Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, Peggy Brandt, Milo the Dog and Pretorius.Pretorius and his henchmen.


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* StoryBreakerPower: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Although the Sister Mask ''could'' be one in theory, due to the HeroicWillpower of Stanley Ipkiss as The Mask, it prevents it from being too much of a story-breaker power.
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* TheSociopath: Pretorius notes, while in his form as The Mask, that he has no limits, and his Mask persona reflects this.
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* NightmareFace: Pretorius wearing the Mask is ''creepy'' as hell.

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Pretorius creates a sister mask to turn Stanley Ipkiss into a living puppet.

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Pretorius creates a sister mask to turn Stanley Ipkiss into a living puppet.puppet and steal a meteorite.

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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Stanley Ipkiss would never get away in RealLife with stealing the sister mask from the museum, even if Pretorius planted it there.
* BigNo: Pretorius lets one out when turned into a soccer ball.
* ChaseScene: A much DarkerAndEdgier version, with the GiantSpider version of Pretorius trying to ''kill'' Stanley and Peggy.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the series has had some ''dark'' episodes, this is undoubtedly one of the darkest. The next episode was equally as dark, and three episodes later we get a BreatherEpisode.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: It seems as though, although the Sister Mask is evil, The Mask ''will not'' hurt children or soldiers, even when Pretorius tries to control him this way.
* ForScience: The sole motivation of Pretorius this episode is to gain a meteorite with unusual properties.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Pretorius ended up getting the Sister Mask put onto him resulting in him being turned into a soccer ball.
* KickTheDog: When Pretorius had control of the Mask, and made the Mask kick Milo. Stanley wasn't happy about that, and when he got his revenge, he [[spoiler: turned the Sister Mask on Pretorius, made him become a soccer ball and then made him kick around his robot body and his own henchmen]]. He even nearly calls out this trope word-for-word:
-->'''Stanley:''' And that's for making me kick my dog!
* MindControlDevice: The sole aim of the sister mask was to be used to control someone's movements.
* MinimalistCast: No new VillainOfTheWeek in this episode, just Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask, Peggy Brandt, Milo the Dog and Pretorius.
* PeoplePuppets: The intent of the Sister Mask was so Pretorius could remote-control Stanley Ipkiss/The Mask's movements.
* VillainEpisode: Although Stanley plays a role in this episode, it's focused around Pretorius' use of the sister mask to control him.
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