Dorian Tyrell

Dorian Tyrell is a fictional character and the main antagonist on Chuck Russell's The Mask. He is portrayed by actor Peter Greene.

Storyline
At the start of The Mask, we see Dorian Tyrell is a gangster who works for Niko, the head of the Mafia in the fictional city of Edge (Edge City). His job is to oversee the management of Niko's Casino/Club, the Coco Bongo. But as he states in the film, Tyrell is tired of taking orders from Niko, and plans to get rid of him in order to ascend to the Mafia Top.

Carrying out his sinister plot step by step, Dorian has his girlfriend, Tina Carlyle, go to the local bank and use her handbag as a camera so that Tyrell, who is on the top floor of the Coco Bongo and is getting a view of the bank's security system via Tina's handbag. Tyrell then organizes for his right-hand man (and best friend), Freeze, rob the bank in order to obtain the cash necessary for their rebellion against Niko.

But later on, Tyrell's criminal activities bring unwanted attention from the police, and after the Coco Bong is almost closed down by the police, Tyrell is taken by Niko's thugs to see Niko himself, who scares Tyrell by playing golf with the tee in Tyrell's mouth and cuttung Tyrell's lip. Tyrell is then told by Niko that he will be given a week to leave Edge City. Otherwise, Niko will personally pistol-whip Tyrell with a Nine-Iron Golf Club.

That night, Tyrell's men (Freeze, Eddy, Orlando, a black man, and a Chinese man) prepare to rob the bank, while Tyrell stays in the resturaunt of the Coco Bongo in full view. But later on, Tyrell's men return with a mortally wounded Freeze, and Tyrell asks Freeze what happened. Freeze informs Tyrell that someone robbed the bank before them and set off the burglar alarm, luring the police and getting Freeze shot in the stomach. Freeze then dies.

Tyrell then roughly asks Eddy who was the one responsible, and the terrified Eddy points to a green-faced, smartly dressed man (The Mask/Stanley Loki Ipkiss) who is dancing like mad with Tina, who was performing at the time. Tyrell and his men then scare the customers out of the Coco Bongo and interrogate The Mask, who fools around with them. While Tyrell and his men shoot at the Mask, they are interrupted by police when Lt. Mitch Kellaway intervenes and accuses Tyrell of having his men rob the bank (they identified them as Tyrell's men). Tyrell and his men are then cuffed by Kellaway and taken to the police station, where they stay for the night.

But due to the fingerprints at the crime scene not matching those of Tyrell's men, Tyrell and his men are released. However, Tyrell doesn't give up there, and he puts a $50.000 bounty on the Mask's head.

Eventually, Tyrell and his men are lead by Peggy Brandt to the Mask's true identity, Stanley Ipkiss, who is on the run from the police and has a wooden mask. Having his men dangle Stanley over a Newspaper Printing Machine (despite Peggy begging them not to), Tyrell demands to know how the wooden artifact works. After being told, Tyrell puts the mask on, and then he transforms into the Mask, not a smartly-dressed wackyman, but a bulkier, invincible and green-faced version of himself with an extremely deep voice: Dorian Loki Tyrell.

Tyrell then makes a fake green mask and hands Stanley over to the police with it, ending the search for the green-faced rogue.

The next day, Tyrell hears that Tina has visited Stanley in the police station, and he and his men corner her in the streets by gunpoint. As Tyrell warned Tina not to betray him earlier, Tyrell then changes his rebellion plans, planning to kill Tina in the process.

That night, Tyrell, once again as Loki Tyrell, barges into the Coco Bongo along with his men and faces Niko's gang in a bloody gunfight. Unharmed by the bullets, Loki Tyrell challenges Niko to a shoot-out, letting Niko shoot him. But the attempt backfires, literally, and Niko is killed. Tyrell then proceeds to use a super-bomb to destroy the Coco Bongo, taking Tina and many other innocent lives with it, unaware that Stanley has escaped from the police station and, aided by a reluctant Kellaway, is coming to find him for a final confrontation.

When the sneaking Stanley is captured by Orlando, Tina, tied to an artificial tree next to the bomb, tricks Tyrell into removing the mask for one last kiss from the man she once loved. As Tyrell kisses her, Tina kicks the mask out of his hands, and a fight begins, which involves Stanley's dog, Milo, getting the mask on and turning into a super-dog and attacking Tyrell's men.

Meanwhile, as the bomb counts down to explode, Tyrell and Stanley fight and even battle, until Tyrell is smashed into the gambling machines.

After Stanley finally gets the mask back, swallows the bomb and frees Tina, Tyrell attemps to kill Stanley from behind with a penknife. But Stanley, using his Loki powers, paints a flush on the tree, and pulls it just as Tyrell jumps into the fountain next to the tree. The flush works like a real one, and Tyrell is flushed away into the sewers, followed by his penknife.

Due to the penknife pointing downwards while following Tyrell, it is implied that it stabbed Tyrell somewhere in the body, and that Tyrell died alone in the sewers on blood-loss.

Dorian Tyrell
This is Tyrell's original human form. Here, he is an ordinary human being, with no special abilities and advantages over his opponents.

Dorian Loki Tyrell
This is the form Tyrell takes when he dons the mask of Loki. He becomes a bulky, green-faced man with a deep voice. Here, he has gained many superhuman abilities, but only one is revealed in the film, which is his invulnerability to any normal attack, including gunshots. But it has been implied that he may be able to fly and control Ki, but this has not been confirmed.