Timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey). Unfortunately he's too gentle and is unable to handle confrontations. After one of the worst days he finds a mask which depicts Loki the Norse god of mischief. When he puts it on he becomes his inner self: a cartoon wild man. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills the friend of small time crime boss Dorian Tyrel (Peter Greene)he wants the green-faced goon destroyed.