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When seen in kids' shows, brace yourself for a [[Hurricane of Puns|punnicane]] along the line of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"I want my 'mummy'!".]]
 
See also: [[Mummy Wrap]].
* [[Mummy Wrap]]
 
{{examples}}
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* ''[[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 ==
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* DC's Creature Commandos have occasionally had a mummy on the team.
* King Yod in ''[[Megalex]]''
 
 
== Film ==
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* 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 ==
* Many mummies rise in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]''. And they're pissed off not because people are violating their tombs, but because their tombs are actually the reason their souls can't pass on to the next life in the first place. That, and returning to your body to find your organs had been removed would make anyone crabby.
* 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}}.
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* 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.
 
== Live -Action TV ==
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "Pyramids of Mars" features robots disguised as mummies.
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Are you my mummy?]]
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* 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 ==
* [http://k43.pbase.com/o6/40/326640/1/84262552.b7s2ls6G.REK107A.jpg Amen]{{Dead link}} of the Finnish metal band ''[[Lordi]]'' is a mummy. In the moving ''Dark Floors'', he also seems to have the power to create sandstorms out of thin air.
** [[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 ==
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* 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 ==
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* 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.
 
== Web Comics ==
 
== Webcomics ==
* 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]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514125739/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/the-mummy-returns/ This] [[Bug Martini|Bug]] comic ruminates on what it would be like to be the Mummy.
 
 
== Web Original ==
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