10 Key Characters Created Specifically For Comic Book Movies

7. Dorian Tyrell (The Mask)

The use of Dorian Tyrell in the Jim Carrey movie The Mask was actually fairly understandable. In the comic books, the Mask really doesn't have a very recognisable or defined enemies - and the few antagonists he does have really don't cut it. Take Walter for example. In the comic books, Walter is a hulking mute man - but the fact is that he is merely a man. How can he truly be portrayed as a threat to a man who is essentially a living cartoon? Tyrell was created with the intention of giving Stanley Ipkiss a contrasting villain - someone who wants the Mask for all the wrong reasons and who becomes a monster when he wears it, and that's exactly what he was. The movie was both a critical and commercial success and the main antagonist has to be given some credit for that.