User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 562 - THE VILLAIN 2 (Mask De Masculine is a Mexican luchador in a German army)/@comment-1332195-20131217220143/@comment-14244059-20131219010532

@ Tom

Xilinoc has already pointed out that Mask has never stated he needed to hear the cheer, only that people cheer for him. It hasn't been explained in full how his power, The Superstar, works but I'll be brazen enough to assume that it has to do with absorbing positive morale boosting from bystanders, thus giving Mask a power boost himself.

Does this make sense? No, but then again Driscoll gained more power just by killing enemies. The Sternritter have powers that have yet to be explained in full and don't even completely make sense.

Either way, I think Xil's onto something; Mask is obviously a purposely hammy character for whatever reason, whether he's a parody of character archetypes or not. His power is ridiculous on purpose for the sake of comedy and hamminess, at least that how it seems to me. In my opinion, he's a character that's not meant to be taken too terribly seriously and everything he does should be taken with a great deal of belief suspension.