- Wasn't Loki trapped inside the Mask before? As a half-assed answer to this, the sequel declares the source of this plot point (Dr. Neuman) to be unreliable, and retcons the Mask's history in the first scene, so as to get it out of the way and get right to the new stuff. In The Mask, it's Neuman who delivers the exposition regarding the Mask's connection to Loki. In the beginning of the sequel, Neuman returns to relate Loki's back-story to a museum tour group, ending it with Loki's binding. The actual Loki happens to be in the group, disproving (and loudly objecting to) Neuman's mythology.
- But even that was a massive retcon. There was a scene filmed for the first movie, though cut for time, showing vikings carrying the wooden mask across the ocean and burying it because it had Loki himself trapped inside. The comic adaptation of the film also includes this same scene with enough exposition to confirm that, yes, Loki himself was sealed away.
- So the mask removes all inhibitions and self-control. Why is it that until now no one, throughout the entire history of man, got the mask, got laid, and made a God-Baby?
- Because up until that point, everyone who had gotten the Mask either became insanely greedy, violent or lustful for the sake of lust; Tim was the first one whose biggest hang-up wasn't any of that but specifically having a baby.
- For someone who is really pissed about Loki's mask causing so much trouble for humans, why doesn't Odin just possess Tim and grab the mask from his home at... well, any point he likes?
- Presumably Loki created the mask to prevent Odin from simply finding it at a distance; Odin was only aware of Alvey because the baby didn't have any of the protections that stopped Odin finding the mask that way.
- Why does Alvey use his powers to make references to things he couldn't possibly yet know about? note
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