Government Guy is a one-time villain character and main antagonist of The Mask: The Animated Series season 2 episode, Future Mask. He is the future mayor of Edge City, but rules it like an oppressive dictatorship with an army of robot soldiers. He's a skinny, meekish politician who speaks with a Southern accent, but technically skilled since he can build a robot army. He desires to obtain The Mask to become a strong, powerful being. He was defeated at the end when Stanley Ipkiss' Mask traveled to the future to get revenge for one of his robots ruining his pants and freeing 23rd Century Edge City from his rule.
Biography[]
In 23rd Century Edge City after a thermonuclear crisis, Government Guy found the Mask of Loki, hundreds of years after Stanley Ipkiss kept it, and uses it to power everything in Edge City. It allowed him to gain absolute control of the city, including banning everything that is fun and creating an army of robots to enforce them, leading to a small rebellion trying to overthrow him.
He sends one of his robots, the Pulverizer, back to the 20th century to retrieve the mask of that era (which was currently being worn by Stanley), but it is easily overpowered and dismantled by The Mask, forcing it to retreat. However, The Mask discovers a tear in his pants, infuriating him enough to build a time machine and chase after the robot into the 23rd Century. After having a run-in with policing robots, The Mask runs into Government Guy, who tricks The Mask into thinking the rebels were responsible for the robot attacks, then takes him to their hideout, the rundown Coco Bongo (much to The Mask's horror and fury upon seeing its poor state). The Mask captures the rebels and hands them over to Government Guy and his robots before heading off into the city.
As The Mask continues to explore the futuristic Edge City, Government Guy reveals his true colors when he accompanies his robots in capturing him, but The Mask is saved in the nick of time by the female rebel leader, who avoided capture. After the leader explains the events that led up to Edge City's current state, Government Guy and his robots storm the Coco Bongo hideout and hold the two captive, while revealing the future mask's hiding place underneath the club.
After revealing his plans to acquire true strength, he orders the repaired and improved Pulverizer remove The Mask's face in order to finally have the mask's power, but The Mask easily outwits them only to be subdued by the other robots, only to be saved by the rebel leader, who throws the disco ball at the future mask's containment unit, causing Edge City to lose power. The Mask takes advantage of the darkness and plants fake masks on the robots, causing the Pulverizer to shoot at its comrades before turning his laser on himself when The Mask puts another fake mask on him, causing him to explode and sending Government Guy flying and landing next to the future mask.
At first, he recoils in fear, believing the future mask was still radioactive, but then he discovers that the mask was green due to mold as a result of being in the basement for so long. He dons it, transforming into a large, musclebound brute. However, in spite of having all the physical strength he desired, even managing to land a few hits on The Mask, his ban on creativity became his undoing, resulting in him quickly losing due to Stanley's better understanding of the mask. Stanley (as The Mask) removes the mask with a plunger from the Government Guy's face and uses a bow to shoot the plunger with the mask attached, and it falls deep into a lake, ending the Government Guy's reign over Edge City. The city's power is also restored when The Mask simply plugs a power cord back into its outlet.
As punishment, he is forced to fix The Mask's pants and turn the music on while The Mask dances with the rebels and his former robot army, slowly bringing fun back to Edge City's future.
Trivia[]
- He's a parody of American businessman and independent U.S. presidential candidate, Ross Perot, who served as an independent candidate for the 1992 presidential elections and for the Reform Party platform in 1996, during The Mask: The Animated Series' original run time on television.
- When he puts on the mask, he doesn't do the tornado effect but transforms into his Mask persona right after like how Stanley would on Counterfeit Mask except the fact that it was during the time that Stanley was falling off Peggy's car to his doom.
- He is the only wearer other than Chet Bozzack to wear the mask at the same time as Stanley, but that only happens when Stanley is wearing the mask from the past, while the Government Guy is wearing the mask from his time.
- Government Guy and his mask persona do not share the same voice actors. The former was voiced by Frank Welker and the latter by Kevin Michael Richardson.