The Mask - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

In the original comics, the mask has superhuman physical attributes and intelligence, a healing factor, the ability to look like other people, and the ability to create objects out of the air. A perfect example to The Mask almost omnipotent powers happened when The Mask managed to swallow whole an entire hulking alien mutant invader by shapeshifting his head and mouth to giantic sizes. The Alien found himself bounded by the chains in the cave like stomach system of The Mask and he encountered a cannibal caricature of The Mask, ready to devour him alive in his own stomach.

In the other media, the mask's reality warping powers are more powerful, and it has more cartoon physics-style abilities, such as:

• Superpowers mimetism
• shapeshifting: powers include elasticity, self transmutation, duplication, biological manipulation and size-shifting
• In the animated series, the mask is portrayed as invincible. Being almost completely impervious to attacks from his foes. The only exception to this is when he gets sick with a cold.

The Mask also travels in a similar way to The Flash, by propelling himself to tornado speed. It is proven to be a devastating combination of brute force and speed that he instantly killed 11 cops when the tornado hit them.

His only weakness is also his strongest weapon, a very unstable condition of mind. The Masked indiviudal completely goes insane after transformation and another person may persuade him to remove the mask.