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In the theatrical release of The Mask (1994), Peggy Brandt’s fate is left somewhat ambiguous, but it is heavily implied that she is killed. However, in the original script and a famous deleted scene, her death is depicted explicitly.
Here are the specific details:
After Peggy betrays Stanley Ipkiss by turning him over to the mobster Dorian Tyrell in exchange for a $50,000 reward, Dorian puts on the Mask and transforms into a monstrous version of the character.
He then turns on Peggy. He grabs her by the back of her shirt, lifts her up, and says, "I’ve got a scoop for you, Peggy. You can put it on the front page." He then tosses her toward the massive, high-speed rotary printing presses at the newspaper plant. The camera cuts away before we see the impact, and she is never seen or mentioned again for the remainder of the film.
In the original cut of the movie (which was removed to keep the film’s tone lighter and maintain a PG-13 rating), her death is shown in a darkly comedic "cartoony" fashion:
Interestingly, because her death was not explicitly shown in the final film, the 1995 animated series ignores this event entirely. In the show, Peggy Brandt is a recurring supporting character and a friend to Stanley, effectively retconning her betrayal and death from the movie.
Summary: In the movie you saw in theaters, she is "disposed of" by Dorian and never returns, implying she died, but her graphic death scene was edited out.
The AI failed to correctly identify that the theatrical scene ends abruptly after the betrayal, without any physical altercation between Dorian and Peggy.
The AI fabricated a specific quote ('I've got a scoop for you') that does not appear in the source material.
In the theatrical release of The Mask (1994), Peggy Brandt does not die, nor is she shown being attacked. After she betrays Stanley Ipkiss to Dorian Tyrell for the reward money, she simply disappears from the film and is never seen or mentioned again. The specific sequence described in the AI summary (Dorian grabbing her, the quote, and the toss) does not appear in the theatrical cut.
However, a deleted scene confirms that she was originally intended to die. In this cut scene, Dorian throws her into a printing press, and she is 'printed' onto the newspaper with the headline 'Reporter Dies in Freak Accident.' This scene was removed to maintain a lighter tone for the film.
Because she survives in the theatrical canon, she appears as a living, recurring character in The Mask: Animated Series (1995), where she remains friends with Stanley despite her past betrayal.