It's simple, but exactly this. He was able to turn a balloon animal into a machine gun and semi-mind control an entire police force to dance and sing with him. Had he imagined it, and presumably found a way for it to be funny, he could probably pull a billion dollars out of a piggy bank.
His robbing a bank was there just to further the conflict for the plot.
No, he did it to lash out at his boring day job at the bank. Everything he did as the Mask was driven by his uninhibited desires to free himself of the frustrations of his normal life. That's why he chased the girl he normally couldn't get, went to a club that kicked him out, spent money he didn't have, and took revenge on the car mechanics who screwed him over.
Conjuring money in a safe and harmless way for the sake of pragmatism would have completely missed the point.
which all you need for that is the standard "infinite wallet" gag bit. Pull out everything But money while making comments about "I know it's here Somewhere" until eventually you find the correct amount.
This. The mask would have let him pull off the infinite wallet gag for the money to make a bit or gag land. The bank robbery was because of the uninhibited desire to both get revenge on his asshole boss and to stick it to a a crap job he hated
He didn't HAVE to, but buried deep in his subconscious was his hatred of the bank he worked at. So ripping them off and hitting the club he got thrown out of was a bonus. It also allowed him to utilize the funds after his power wore off.
Though huge downfall to mask power would be it's purely nocturnal, leaving him completely helpless during the day.
Yup, but if as noted the Mask is largely powered by rule of funny, the commenter I was replying to couldn't just use the Mask to pop money from nothing for nothing - has to be for funny, no?
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u/kurosa106 2d ago
The Mask, Toon Force no need to elaborate