The Mask not working on Walter might be the most unexpected moment in a series that's full of left turns and wild moments.

One of my favorite theories as to why the mask didn't work on Walter was because, it just didn't fit on his head

I always thought the mask never worked on Walter because the mask allows one to break their inhibitions to cause chaos, but that's just Walter's default state. He's never restrained himself or refused any urges, so what can the mask even offer someone like that?

I'd say Walter represents the one thing the mask can't handle: a tough crowd.

The mask is all about spectacle and showboating. Walter doesn't care. He doesn't acknowledge the mask's antics. He's just there to do a job. I think the mask knows that it can't control someone like that, so it doesn't latch on to him.

I also think this is why he just stands there when Catherine takes off the mask. He was hired to kill "Big Head," not this random woman. She yells at him to take it, but he wasn't there for the mask, he was there for Big Head. Now that Big Head is gone, he's not quite sure what to do.

Nothing in the comics will ever come as close to the horror that is son of the mask.

0:42 I'm now imagining a scenario of Death Note where Light Yagami gets the Mask and starts using it to kill criminals across Japan, and L basically has to go up against a Looney Tunes character. Someone should write that fic...

I always interpreted the Mask not working on Walter due to the fact that Walter has no... hidden darkness, so to speak. This doesn't mean he is good, it's just means that Walter is... Walter. He wears his darkness in his sleeves.

All of the Mask's bearers have hidden dark impulses,  inner demons and desires that the Mask brings to the forefront and amplifies to make its wearers into avatars of destruction and chaos.

Walter doesn't have any hidden darkness or inner sadistic desires, because Walter simply IS Walter. Walter is sincere in his brutality. If he wants to kill you, he kills you. So the Mask cannot bring anything to the surface and twist it, because it's already there.

Odin has a lesser known son named Vidar called The Silent. A god of physical strength and vengeance, he never speaks or engages with the other gods much, as he is of a single-minded nature. He spends every moment preparing for Ragnarock as he is prophesized to survive even the apocalypse, for there will surely be need of much vengeance in the aftermath.

The Mask in the comics is essentially the urban one ring to rule them all.

-Both slowly corrupts the wearer after some time

-Makes people addicted to it due to its inherit abilities

-Empowers the user to fit their goals

-Highly sought after by individuals who know of it

I'd be, A superhero! I could fight crime, cure diseases, create world peace!! BUT FIRST.....

Dang Jim Carrey got the powers of a God twice. Maybe more?

The way walter was handled is one of the best things in the comic. Hes almost like a force of nature. He comes in, does what he wants, others may try using him but walter does as he pleases and he gets what he wants. Almost exactly like the mask itself.

SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT THE MASK IN 2024🙏❗️

3:24 Willem Defoe would be good too. I guess they’re both too old at this point.

For walter not being able to use the mask I have three theories
1. He has nothing to hide. If we take the "logical" route in the real purpose of a mask is to pretend to be someone or something you aren't, like Halloween or dressing up for a convention as your favorite character like we see with other hosts for the mask. Walter is exactly who he wants to be, he's tenacious, vicious and downright disturbing in his approach to getting what he wants.

2. He cannot be corrupted. Not to say he's pure of heart, but rather he's as dark as he can or will ever be. If we use what was show to us in the comics the mask, regardless of strength of character, corrupts its host. Again, if we use previous examples the others had goals in mind of what they wanted to do with the power. Become a superhero, free animals, or even cause chaos the mask twists what their original goal was into something darker. And for Walter its just not doable somehow, he knows exactly how he wants something and the exact way to get it eventually.

3. Maybe the mask is sentient, it knows Walter is its antithesis and enjoys the competition. To make him its host would take all the joy it could ever get out of spreading chaos. Almost like playing a game, when you can do anything, make anything that has no consequences what's the fun in that? Or possibly it finds it funny to make the ONLY man that could take it from its host "forcefully" not viable is another sick joke it enjoys.

0:16 i was bout to say bro is not eminem😭😭😭😭

It's surreal to know how much darker and gruesome the original The Mask comics are compared to the Jim Carrey movie.

Wow I didn’t know “ The Mask “ had a  real origin 😭 2:11

The way I understood it, the mask simply removes limits. Limits of physics and limits of morality aren't any different to it. Walter isn't affected because he already breaks too many limits.

1:23 I did not know this, and now that I do, I really appreciate the fact that it was “thrown away” at the end of the movie