Backlash

Kenner toy photo of Gator with Dusty Hayes, a set that carries the Backlash mask
Gator with Dusty Hayes, a Kenner set that carries the Backlash mask.
Side
M.A.S.K.
Worn by
Dusty Hayes
Power
Makes an energy lash that repels attacks and sonic waves.
Vehicles
Gator, Afterburner
First appearance
The Deathstone (S01E01)

Backlash is the mask Dusty Hayes wears as driver of Gator, and the power is a lash of energy that repels what is thrown at him. The fan wiki says it can even turn aside Vanessa Warfield’s Whip, and adds that it creates sound waves as well. In Counter-Clockwise Caper he wears it while driving Rhino.

It is a first-season regular. The fan wiki lists it from The Deathstone onward, and in The Book of Power it is Backlash that gets Dusty out of the sand trap in the lost city of Mong Paco. Wikipedia’s list calls it a kinetic blast.

Kenner packed the mask with Gator in 1985 and with Afterburner in 1987, where Wikipedia says it is called New Backlash and makes a holographic clone, though our toy record for Afterburner lists just a Backlash Mask. The Vacuum mask that goes with Billboard Blast is the same sculpt in another color, according to the fan wiki.

Toys that carry this mask

Episodes

A fan wiki compiled this list of episodes where the mask appears; we have linked each one to our own guide but have not checked every entry against the picture. It runs to 24 episodes.

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Sources

Powers and episode lists are paraphrased from the pages above; where they disagree, the page says so.

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