![]() Imhotep presented himself as a calm, charismatic, and sophisticated man, but it was a facade of an embittered soul who will do anything to be with his love, even if he has to turn her current incarnation to an undead being like him and killing those who stood in his way. You will not remember what I show you now, and yet I shall awaken memories of love. With more horror films and other mass media in the 20th century popularizing the idea about both curses associated with mummies (particularly Egyptian ones) and concept of mummies rise as undead monster, The Mummy's characterization began to taking more sinister turn as the character's ambition expanded to world domination and possessing additional dark powers stemmed from very maladies that keeping him/her alive as an undead being. ![]() ![]() With the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922, alongside notions of a curse associated with mummies and process of mummification on deceased Egyptians in the past, The Mummy is conceived as one of Universal Monster's iconic characters, depicted as cursed undead being and reanimated mummy who awakened by desecration of his/her grave and proceed to wreak havoc on humanity.
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