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Why didn't Ralph wear a mask? Suit question: head/hands unprotected??

posted 13 years ago by Thread_Killer_of_IMDb
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Why didn't Ralph put something on his head/face to conceal his identity? Also, I'm fairly sure that everything that the suit covered was protected, but what about his hands and face? Don't remember if Ralph ever punched through a brick wall, but I remember him covering his face with his arms when being shot at. Seems like the aliens would have addressed that issue, unless there was something in the lost instructions book(s) that covered that topic.

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[–] BobH12370 12 years ago

I was going to ask the same question. I'm thinking that he was fully protected. But out or reflex he covered his head when someone started shooting at him.

They never really covered it in the show on how the suit worked. I do remember he used to have to expose part of it for it to work.

[–] mdmjuggler 12 years ago

There was no mask to enhance the fact that to most of the world, Ralph was supposedly insane and running around in a set of longjohns/a costume he made. It was a satire, and a great one at that.

Now the hands/head issue - to be succinct, the hands were protected (he even used them to heat items after rubbing them together), head not. Ralph is knocked unconscious twice in the series, and in one story gets drunk while wearing the suit.

That said both cases where Ralph is knocked unconscious, if we were in those situations we'd either had a severe concussion, or most likely would be dead. In the two cases he crashes head first into a train and the other he is in a room that gets blown up.