Longtime fans of Jim Carrey’s movies know a different, more sanitized resolution, in which the mechanics get roughed up but survive. Leaving behind a trail of corpses is how the Mask gets his laughs in Mayhem, a short-lived anthology series published by Dark Horse Comics back in 1989. One of them is hanging from the ceiling, tangled up in a chain with tools sticking out of his head, blood oozing from the wounds the other has had an entire muffler stuffed into his mouth, his head cartoonishly warped into the shape of the car part, his eyes bulging and bloodshot. When we see the garage later, police are there surveying a murder scene-the mechanics have been savagely slain. What happens next is probably less familiar. “I’m not going to pay a lot for this muffler,” he says in a menacing tone. Then, suddenly, a guy wearing a snot-green mask, a garish jacket, and a toothy grin shows up in their shop, holding a muffler and sounding like one of those hapless clients out for revenge. Here’s a scene that should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Mask: Inside of a garage, two dirtbag mechanics are yucking it up, kidding about the various ways they’ve screwed over their customers-puncturing somebody’s brake lines, ignoring a cracked gasket to make sure the chump has to come back.
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