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He doesn't really care if he's attacking genuine [[Grave Robbing|graverobbers]] or [[Adventurer Archaeologist|archaeologists who want to put him in a museum]]. He just knows that they are [[Due to the Dead|defiling his tomb]]. He's not smart or powerful, but when his icy hand grips someone's shoulder, even the manliest of men will let out a [[Screams Like a Little Girl|girlish scream.]] Sometimes he can announce his entrance with "[[Who Dares?]] to disturb my sleep?!" or something similar.

 

 

The Mummy [[Monster Mash|completes]] the classic quartet of [[Dracula]], [[Frankenstein's Monster]], and the [[Wolf Man]]. The four are the famous villains of the 1930s [[Universal]] [[Universal Horror|monster movies]].

When seen in kids' shows, brace yourself for a [[Hurricane of Puns|punnicane]] along the line of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"I want my 'mummy'!".]]

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'', the mansion is one night attacked by the mummy army of Pharao. They are weak but there are [[Zerg Rush|so damn many of them]]. [[It Got Worse]] - Hime is ill and went to sleep in the middle of the battle so Hiro, Riza and Flandre have to fight the whole army by themselves.

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'': Makoto Shishio is definitely a nod to this trope, despite being very alive. Another nod is in that he doesn't have a place in the current, peaceful era.

* Mummymon from ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''

 

== Comic Books ==

* DC's Creature Commandos have occasionally had a mummy on the team.

* King Yod in ''[[Megalex]]''

 

== Film ==

* A Hungarian comedy, ''The Mummie Strikes Back'', has a spy dress up as a mummy, and hide in a sarcophagus in the museum. He scares the living daylight out of a staff member the first time they meet. [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|She gets used to it eventually, and even says hello to the bandaged man]].

* The first part of [[Tales from the Darkside]] features Steve Buscemi as an [[Insufferable Genius]] who uses an ancient mummy to wreak bloody revenge on his classmates.

 

== Literature ==

* At least two ''[[Goosebumps]]'' books prominently feature mummies....except in both cases [[Covers Always Lie|the mummies barely appear in the book.]]

** In the recent ''Who's Your Mummy?'', the mummies {{spoiler|aren't even the villains, they're the victims}}.

* Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s ''Lot No. 249'' tells the tale of ultimate nerd revenge in the form of an auction-bought mummy and an occultist student. It ends quite not so badly as the setup might lead to expect.

 

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "Pyramids of Mars" features robots disguised as mummies.

** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Are you my mummy?]]

* There was an episode of ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' where Herc takes a trip to Egypt and, naturally, has to deal with a mummy. It was tough enough to trade blows with him.

* One episode of ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' recounted how the Cryptkeeper's parents—a living male carnival freak and a female mummy—got together. No, [[Squick|she wasn't animate]] when Crypty's dad got locked in a closet with her overnight.

 

== Music ==

** [[All There in the Manual|According to his backstory,]] he was an Egyptian Pharaoh who moonlighted as an assassin, killing his political rivals when they caused trouble, but one of them fought back and gave him a disfiguring scar that drove him to insanity. He had all his palace staff likewise disfigured and ate the hearts of all who resisted. Eventually he was entombed alive, and when he was dug up in the 1920s, he was ''really'' hungry.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* Mummies frequently popped up in ''[[The Far Side]]''. One comic has a man suffer the mummy's wrath in a bathroom for mistaking funereal wrappings for toilet paper.

* A memorable Gahan Wilson cartoon in Playboy had Egyptian priests in a modern day hospital putting a patient in a full body cast into a sarcophogus while he says "I think you guys are making a mistake."

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** It's also an exception to the "nearly mindless" rule-a cleric (usually an evil one, but not always) can opt to become a "mummy lord" which, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as the name might suggest]], combine the powers of normal mummies with all of their living intelligence and [[Functional Magic]].

** Like the majority of spooky monsters, mummies got the upgrade-and-customization treatment for the [[Ravenloft]] setting. They were described in ''Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead'', in which their name was changed on the grounds that "mummy" automatically calls to mind ancient Egypt, and not every such undead has to be from that style of culture. (Just ask the Dragon Emperor, above.)

* The mummy template from ''[[GURPS]]: Magic'' is actually worth negative points because they're easy to kill and incapable of any real thought. The Whight template is similar and far more intimidating.

* The Pharon from ''[[VOR: The Maelstrom]]'' are an ''entire [[Exclusively Evil]] species'' of mummies, complete with ''[[Everything's Deader with Zombies|zombie slaves]] [[Equal Opportunity Evil|from all manner of organic species]]...''

 

== Video Games ==

* The Draugr in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' are essentially Nordic mummies. You can even find their embalming equipment lying around as you raid their tombs. They come in both as brainless monster and powerful [[Our Liches Are Different|lich-like]] varieties.

 

* In the webcomic ''[[Muertitos]]'', mummies are the ruling class of the undead world. They mostly act like yuppies (although we rarely see any others except Ankhmutes and her mother, so who knows). Also, only mummies are allowed to vote.

* The first chapter of ''[[The B-Movie Comic|The B Movie Comic]]'' was "Revenge of Rutentuten", a mummy story a la [[Hammer Horror]].

* A mummy is the new [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p01/ deputy mayor to Archibald, King of the Hobos], in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.

 

== Web Original ==

** In the opening for Treehouse of Horror XX, a mummy dresses up as [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack Sparrow]] to attend the costume party but is attacked by his wife when she finds he was cheating on her.

* In the ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' episode "Night of the Living Monster Bots", [http://images.wikia.com/megaman/images/a/a5/Cartoonmummybot.jpg a mummy is one of the titular bots].

{{quote|'''Dick:''' Yes, Irwin's mom is actually a mummy. Nobody can tell you who to fall in love with, but we've managed to make it work all these years. Leaving a whole lot of questions that don't need to be answered.

'''Mandy:''' Eh, works for me.

 

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[[Category:Undead Index]]

[[Category:Index of Fictional Creatures]]

[[Category:Horror Tropes]]