Dak, also known as Putty Thing, is a villain and one of the evil Mutant Duo called The Terrible Two in The Mask: The Animated Series.
The Mask: Animated Series[]
Dak appears for the first time along with Eddie in The Terrible Twos, reading comics in a slushy store. They are kicked out by rude and cynical cop Lt. Kellaway for loitering, stating that the place wasn't a library and that boys like them ruin the world. The boys decided to become a superhero like their hero, Insector the Bugman, by taking a bug with them into a nuclear plant to mutate, and then get their own back on Kellaway.
After getting radioactive, both realize that they have forgotten the bug and then both faint. An ambulance arrives to take them to a hospital but in the way the ambulance crashes, causing their stretches to fall and then and into tow different shops. Dak falls into a spackle shop and mutates to a putty monster, Eddie falls into an aquarium and mutates into a humanoid fish. While Dak has the ability to shapeshift and harden his body at will, Eddie doesn't have any special powers. To cheer him up, Dak takes him around the city to destroy things until they are confronted by the Mask on different occasions. Finally, they encounter Kellaway and as Dak was about to crash him, The Mask threatens to cook Eddie if he doesn't release the cop. After Kellaway is freed, The Mask throws Canola Oil to Dak, causing him to melt. After trapping him in a jar, the police arrives and takes the two mutants to jail.
They both escape in "Martian Mask", where they part off in a road trip to the beach, so Eddie can be in his element. They trip is interrupted by the Mask, who constantly tries to stop their journey. During a fight, their cars fall to the sea. Dak's body becomes unstable with salt water and after discovering Eddie can't swim despite being a fish, they are both easily captured and taken back to custody.
In "Santa Mask", they are shown as some of the villains who rob banks dressed as Santa Claus. They escape from prison along with Walter, Kablamus, and Don Julovit to terrorize the city but the Mask catches them and ties them up as Christmas present for the police.
They escape again at an airport on the way to jail in "The Good, the Bad and the Fish Guy", where Dak faces the Mask again. During the fight, Stanley loses his mask and it ends up in the possession of Eddie turning him into the all-powerful "Shark Dude". However Eddie decides to go solo as he now has the powers he has always wanted and is angry at his friend for calling him a lamerzoid. After seeing Stanley standing there, he calls him his new best bud. Knowing that Dak's co-operation is the only way to get the mask back, Stanley agrees.
Whilst Shark Dude is terrorizing the city, Dak finally manages to remove the mask from Eddie who is apologetic for his earlier actions but still angry with Eddie, Dak ends his friendship with him. Unknown to Dak, Stanley now as the Mask teams up with Fish Guy in an attempt to melt down Dak. Whilst still search for Stanley, the Mask pushes him into a vat of toxic waste which messes with his body structure for a time but then gives him the power of plutonium breath. The police capture the Mask and Eddie, but the Mask manages to escape.
Stanley then removes his mask and meets Dak again. They then go on a tour of "Bashing and Trashing". They pass a cement mixer, which gives Stanley an idea; he tells Dak that it would be awesome to destroy it from the inside. Gullible Dak sees this as a great idea and enters the mixer of the truck. Stanley then seals him in, planning to trap him until the police arrive.
However Stanley's dog Milo gets into the drivers part of the truck and turns on the mixer which puts Dak out of commission and turned into a solid statue.
He is send back to prison where he makes amends with Eddie. Suddenly a police guard arrives with a package addressed to the Terrible Two. The package opens to reveal the Mask who then further tortures them by turning Dak into a spinning bowl and putting Eddie in it (a preference to the term "fish bowl").
They are then seen in "Broadway Malady" rehearsing for a musical with Walter, Kablamus, Channel Surfer, and Phoney Frenchman for villain Sir Andrew Bedwetter. After the Mask defeats them, they are sent to prison again, rehearsing another musical where the green faced hero drops a chandelier on them.
Dak and Eddie's last appearance was at the beginning of the episode "Enquiring Masks Want to Know" where this time they escape from prison by Dak cleverly using his finger in the lock to make the shape of the key (an idea given to him by reporter Peggy Brandt who wanted a lead for her next big story).
The Mask defeats him again by causing him to smash his own foot with one of his Hammer Hands, making him jump high into the air on a massive trampoline with him landing with a tremendous splat that flattens him like a pancake and finally being placed in a spaghetti machine, turning his whole body structure into spaghetti with Eddie placed on top as the "anchovy". They are then sent to prison again.
Powers and abilities[]
After become Putty Thing, Dak has the power of elasticity, can shapeshift and harden his body at will. He also temporarily gained the power of plutonium breath after his body was merged with toxic waste.
However he is not invulnerable as he is shown to be weak against all the sources that make putty useless including Canola oil (which caused him to melt), Salt Water (which damaged his body structure) and being mixed with concrete (which put him out of commission), as well as his body can easily be damaged by other powerful beings such as the Mask.
Appearances[]
- The Mask: The Animated Series
- Adventures of the Mask
- Adventures of the Mask #6 (Mentioned only)
- Adventures of the Mask #12
Trivia[]
- Dak's appearance resembles Mike Myers' character Wayne Campbell from Wayne's World, with Putty Thing's powers being a pastiche of the Batman villain Clayface.