Characters / The Mummy Trilogy

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Rick O'Connell

Rick O'Connell

"You know, a couple of years ago, this would have seemed really strange to me. "

Played By: Brendan Fraser, James Horan (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

"Oh, I hate mummies."

The main character. An adventurer who served in the French Foreign Legion and eventually learns that he's a reincarnated warrior on a mission to save the world.

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• Accidental Truth: He was the only one to theorize the reason for Imhotep's punishment, was because he got frisky with the Pharaoh's daughter (actually Seti's mistress, but it was a good guess). Evy dismisses it though until the Medjai confirmed it.
• Action Dad: In the second movie, combined with Papa Wolf when Alex is kidnapped and Rick pulls out all the stops to save him.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: After marrying Evy and following on her expeditions.
• Always Know a Pilot: He is friends with Winston Havelock, a veteran pilot of the Great War. Late in the film, Rick recruits Winston to fly Jonathan, Ardeth, and Rick himself to Hamunaptra in pursuit of Imhotep, who has captured Evelyn.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To Imhotep, after he mistakes Evelyn for Anck-Su-Namun and later tries to sacrifice her to resurrect Anck-Su-Namun.
  • Rick also has Beni Gabor throughout the first film. Beni was Rick's former comrade in the French Foreign Legion before leaving him for dead. Three years later, Rick and Beni are guides for rival expedition teams to Hamunaptra until Beni defects to Imhotep's side and assists the undead priest in his plans to sacrifice Evelyn.
• Badass Boast: He tells Imhotep "I'll be seeing you again" after the latter takes Evelyn captive at Cairo, indicating his intention to rescue Evy from Imhotep.
• Battle Couple: With Evy in the sequel films, where the couple gets to kick plenty of ass side-by-side.
• Big Damn Heroes: In the first film, he breaks into Evelyn's room with a cat in tow to save her from Imhotep.
• Big "OMG!": His reaction upon seeing the sandstorm Imhotep conjuring to attack the plane he is on.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: A tough, brash ex-Legionnaire who swears "every damn day," but also a loving and devoted husband and father.
• Buffy Speak: In the second fim, he refers to the Spear of Osiris as "the gold stick thing."
• The Chosen One: He later finds out in Mummy Returns that he may be a reincarnated Medjai destined to protect Evy who is the reincarnated Pharaoh's daughter. While also destined to kill the Scorpion King.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Mentions in the second movie he grew up in an orphanage in Cairo.
• Deadpan Snarker: Even about to be hanged:
  Hangman: Any last requests, pig?
  Rick: Yeah, loosen the knot and let me go.
• Determinator: He just keeps going no matter how many times he's knocked down.
• Fantastically Indifferent: Definitely by the second movie, he's come to accept he's smack dab in the middle of very supernatural messes and just rolls with it (i.e. shoot at whatever's trying to kill them and/or needs to be killed to fix the mess). Best summed up in that movie when he and Ardeth witness Imhotep's second resurrection from their hiding spot
  Rick: (to Ardeth) You know, couple of years ago, this would've seemed really strange to me.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: Played with; as a career soldier, he's no exception to the old saw, "No atheists in foxholes". He knows how uncertain life is, and so is quite willing to believe in curses and that one should not be incautious when it comes to a MacGuffin called "The Book of the Dead." On the other hand, that same cynicism means he has no patience with "good" superstitions; it takes seeing his own face on an ancient wall painting to to convince him of his own heroic destiny after spending a movie length denying he is The Chosen One.
• Forceful Kiss: He forcefully kisses Evelyn through his prison bars after having her lean close to his cell.
• Genre Savvy: By the time of the second movie, he's picked up enough to know undead mooks never use doors when a wall or window will do.
• Happily Married: To Evy in the second film and onward, where they raised their son into adulthood and remains faithful to each other over the years.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Goes from an almost caveman look (unshaven, wild-haired, dirty and clothes torn) in his first scene to a clean and nicely-dressed gentleman in his second, to the point that it takes Evy a couple of seconds to recognize him from the prison.
• I Warned You:
  • In the first film, Rick is wary of Evy reading the Book of the Dead's incantations, but Evy dismisses him, stating that "no harm could come from reading a book." Evy ends up awakening Imhotep as a result, and when they escape, Rick explicitly states, "Didn't I tell you not to play around with that thing?"
  • Gets a Call-Back in the sequel, when Rick and Evy are exploring a tomb and find a treasure chest. Sure enough, opening it sets off a trap that nearly kills them.
    Evelyn: It's only a chest. No harm ever came from opening a chest.
    Rick: Right, and no harm ever came from reading a book. Remember how that one went?
• Indy Ploy: Almost all of his plans are done impromptu or with very little analysis.
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: When he is asked by Evy why he kissed her at the prison, he response is telling her it was because he was about to be hanged, and gives her the trope name word-for-word.
• Legion of Lost Souls: He starts the first movie in the French Legion, where he's the only one of his platoon to get spared by the Medjai once they entered Hamunaptra given Imhotep started manifesting in the sand below him.
• Mr. Fanservice: The few times we see him without a shirt, he is in very good shape.
  Mr Sunday Movies: Because, in this movie, Mason, they should've called him bloody Ripped O'Connell, am I right?
• No-Sell: He believed that something unholy was afoot going into Hamunaptra, so far from pissing his pants at the sight of a voracious, screaming mummy, he simply shouts right back and blasts it with his shotgun.
• Papa Wolf: Do not harm his son.
• Save the Villain:
  • At the end of the first film, as they're escaping the collapsing Hamunaptra, Rick tries to help Beni escape, but can't pull him out in time before the door seals him in.
  • In the novelization of the second film, Rick feels so sorry for Imhotep over Anck-su-namun abandoning him to save her own skin that he actually tries to help save him. Instead, Imhotep voluntarily lets go, allowing himself to be dragged off to the Underworld.
• Strategy, Schmategy: Most of the time Rick's only 'strategy' is to go into a situation guns blazing until everything he's fighting is dead, relying on Evelyn in particular to find an alternate when they're facing an immortal foe who can't be killed by conventional means.
• Taking You with Me: Invoked twice in the first film.
  • During the Mexican Standoff with the American expedition, when Beni boasts there's 15 of him and only 4 on Rick's team, Rick levels one of his guns at Beni, indicating he'll kill him first before Evelyn tells him to stand down.
  • After being disarmed by Ardeth, Rick lights a stick of dynamite and threatens him with it, prompting Ardeth to retreat.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: He's very attractive and has a good deal of sarcasm and dry wit to his character, and makes jokes at several people such as Beni. He's also quite big at a solid six foot three.
  Jonathan: Er..- sorry Evy, he's... er... a bit tall.
• Villain Killer: He killed Imhotep in the first film, and the Scorpion King in the second film. In the third film, he kills the Dragon Emperor alongside Alex.
• Walking Armory: Carries at least two pairs of revolvers and semi-automatics on him at all times, in addition to a typical shotgun and a ever-present duffelbag, car trunk or travel chest filled with guns, ammunition, explosives and knives. Alex in the third movie is shown to have taken up this habit, with Rick preferring the pre-war classics and the son favouring more advanced WWII-period weaponry.

Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell

Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell

"Having an encounter with a three thousand year old walking talking corpse does tend to convert one!"

^{Click here} to see her after she Took a Level in Badass in The Mummy Returns

^{Click here} to see Maria Bello's version of the character from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Played By: Rachel Weisz (first two films); Maria Bello (Tomb), Lani Minella (The Mummy), Jennifer Hale (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

"Look, I may not be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. I...am a librarian."

A librarian who finds herself spearheading a journey to Egypt.

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• Action Mom: She has already become this upon having Alex, able to mix the combat skills of her past life with some of the combat training she's received from Rick.
• Agent Scully: Evy is initially skeptical about the curses on Hamunaptra, stating that if she can see it and touch it, then it's real.
• Back from the Dead: In the second film, she's fatally stabbed in the gut by Anck-su-namun near the end and dies in Rick's arms. Alex resurrects her shortly afterwards using the Book of the Dead.
• Badass Bookworm: A librarian by profession and very well-read, but (at least in the second movie) perfectly capable of kicking your arse.
• Badass Driver: In the third film, Evy does a good job driving after a chariot whose passenger is throwing fireballs.
• Big "NO!": She has this reaction right when Rick is about to be hanged.
• Brainy Brunette: She starts as a Hot Librarian, and is both The Smart Girl and Only Sane Woman compared to the gung ho Rick and the less than savory Jonathan.
• Came Back Strong: After she is resurrected in the second film she regains all of her memories of being the Princess Nefertiri, including the fight training. Since she also still has all her memories of her life as Evy, including the moves she's learned from Rick, this allows her to combine the two and beat Anck-su-namun when they were pretty evenly matched back in the ancient times.
• Curiosity Killed the Cast: She reads from a book that sets off the events of the first movie, and that conveniently prevents the production company from having to pay more actors.
• Deadpan Snarker: Less on the face than the rest of the cast, but still is quite snarky.
• Designated Girl Fight: With Anck-su-namun in the first two films. Justified in both. In the first, Ankh-su-namun needs to kill Evy to become immortal (and then the guards summoned by Jonathan have no qualms about attacking her). In the second, Evy has fought her before in their past lives so she's the best qualified to take her out. Jonathan tries to fight Anck-su-namun but she clearly outclasses him.
• Determinator: Takes responsibility for raising Imhotep and putting him in his grave again in the first film, no matter how dangerous it is. She also risks her life to rescue Rick from hell near the end of the second film.
• Disney Death: She gets stabbed near the end of the second film and subsequently dies, but they use magic to bring her back.
• Groin Attack: She knees a random Mook in the family jewels during the fight at the mansion in the second movie.
• Happily Married: To Rick in the second film and onward.
• Hot Librarian: Starts as one who wanted to become an Adventurer Archaeologist.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In the third film, Evy spends a while fighting The Emperor and Choi while wearing a fancy pink evening gown. She displays some good martial arts moves and pulls a knife from her garter belt at the start.
• Kiss of Distraction: On Imhotep in the first movie, causing him to lose his concentration and freeing the plane with Rick, Winston, Jonathan and Ardeth on it from Imhotep's giant sandstorm.
• Lady of Adventure: Unintentional in the first movie. Deliberate by the second. The third has her becoming a novelist based on her adventures, only to be brought back in for one more.
• Letting Her Hair Down: By the second movie, she wears her hair down in contrast to her keeping it tied in the first.
• Loony Librarian: A downplayed example. She is a librarian who, while highly intelligent, is also slightly eccentric and extremely clumsy. This is exemplified in her first scene, where she accidentally knocks over an entire library of bookcases like dominoes.
• Mama Bear: Do not harm her son.
• Morality Pet: To Jonathan; he's a coward most of the time, but he will step up when his sister is in danger.
• Ms. Fanservice: After undergoing Adrenaline Makeover, she starts dressing less conservatively. In the second movie, we see her previous incarnation Princess Nefertiti fight her stepmother in a golden bikini.
• Nerd Glasses: She's a librarian with interest in Egypt and wears glasses. Which she loses once in the desert in the first film.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She manages to bring down an entire library in a few seconds in the first film, and the curator gives her a The Reason You Suck speech. Later, after her reading from the Book of the Dead has brought Imhotep back to life, Ardeth joins him.
  Curator: [We Medjai] are sworn at manhood to do all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
  Ardeth: And now, because of you, we have failed.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She is way too eager about describing the mummification process to Rick, especially the bit about what they do to the brains.
• Proper Lady: She's prim, sensible, with very good manners (to the point that once Rick jumps on her reading, Evy's response is "The only thing that scares me, Mr. O'Connell, are your manners."). Changes to Spirited Young Lady with Maria Bello's Evy.
• Reincarnation: It is revealed in the second film that she is this for Nefertiri, who has guarded the bracelet of Anubis back in ancient Egypt.
• Tempting Fate: "No harm ever came from reading a book." As it turns out, quite a lot of harm comes from reading that one.
• Walking Disaster Area: Her first scene has her bring down every shelf in the library, and judging by her boss's reaction this isn't anywhere near the first time she's made a mess, given he looks about in horror and stops dead when he sees Evy standing the middle of the disaster zone.
  Curator: Give me flies, frogs, locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!

Jonathan Carnahan

Jonathan Carnahan

"Be quiet Alex! If there's going to be any hysterics, they'll come from me!"

Played By: John Hannah, Ryan Drummond (The Mummy), Dee Bradley Baker (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

"I say, bloody good show, chaps! And did I panic? I think not!"

Evelyn's greedy and cowardly older brother.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: During the first two films, he manages to keep hold of crucial items for their future efforts- the key to Hamunaptra and the Spear of Osiris- without knowing their true significance until much later.
• Action Survivor: For the most part. He's not a fighter, but has some fine shooting skills, not to mention Deus ex Machina levels of luck.
• Big Brother Instinct: As cowardly and bumbling as he may be, do not mess with his sister.
• Cool Uncle: Jonathan is clearly fond of his nephew of Alex, who is also fond of him.
• Cowardly Lion: He flees from danger, unless the people he cares about are in trouble. Then he shows himself as surprisingly brave and capable.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Is clearly outclassed as a fighter by Anck-Su-Namun in the second film, but manages to get a few hits in, surprising both of them. In the end, though, Anck slashes at him and is about to kill him when Evy stops her in the nick of time.
• Deadpan Snarker: Frequently.
  Evy: What do you suppose killed [the Warden]?
  Jonathan: Did you ever see him eat?
• Headbutt of Love: Tends to use it as a comforting gesture: To his sister in the first movie and his nephew in the second.
• Hidden Depths: Jonathan may seem like your standard Plucky Comic Relief, but as the entry below details, he's far from incompetent.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Jonathan is a greedy, lecherous and deceptive but he's not a bad guy at all. He dearly loves his sister and will do anything for her and when the chips are down, he can be just as brave as Rick.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Jonathan may be a ridiculously greedy, swindling Plucky Comic Relief, but he is also a crack shot with a rifle, a skilled pickpocket, and disturbingly competent with a book of ancient spells. When the first reanimated mummies appear in the treasure room and his two-shot derringer proves almost useless, he promptly pulls the revolvers from Rick's holsters to continue shooting. Then when Evy's in danger, Jonathan orders the guard mummies to kill Anck-su-namun without any hesitation.
• Little Useless Gun: Jonathan is shown carrying a derringer in a few scenes during the first film but it turns out to be ineffective even against the Made of Plasticine mummies, so he switches to Rick's revolvers instead.
• Lovable Coward: Ties in with being the Plucky Comic Relief. Jonathan will be the first to admit he's not brave and is usually the first to suggest just running from danger, never fighting unless someone he cares about it in danger.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: By the second movie. When Rick stumbles upon Jonathan about to be murdered by Anuck-su-namun (having only shown up to talk to Jonathan about using their house for booty calls while he and Evy were away), he deadpans that knowing Jonathan, he probably deserves being murdered.
• Only in It for the Money: Pretty much his motivation throughout the first film. In the sequel, when it's revealed that the family are now quite well off, he's seen quite relishing in his new-found wealthy lifestyle. His greed actually saves the world when he repeatedly steals the Spear of Osiris, which Rick uses to kill the Scorpion King.
• Papa Wolf: Do not harm his nephew.
• Percussive Pickpocket: A very adept pickpocket, especially in the first movie where he steals the Key from Rick, a Medjai who was on fire and Imothep. In the latter two cases, it's them bumping into him that allows for the pickpocketing to happen.
• Plucky Comic Relief: A frequent source of humour who sometimes gets dangerous.
• Sidekick: A textbook example of one.
• The Smart Guy: Evy and Alex are both quite intelligent too, but Jonathan is the most resourceful.
• Would Hit a Girl: He sucker-punches Anck-su-namun at one point in the second movie. Justified given that she was trying to kill him and she just murdered his sister right in front of him. He also set the soldier mummies loose on her at the end of the first film.
• Zombie Gait: Fakes being one of Imhotep's followers on the streets of Cairo to get the car.

Alex O'Connell

Alex O'Connell

Freddie Boath as Alex in The Mummy Returns

^{Click here} to see Luke Ford's version of the character from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Played By: Freddie Boath (Returns), Luke Ford (Tomb), Oliver Kindred (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy Returns | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

(To Imhotep) "My dad is going to kick your arse."

Rick and Evelyn's son.

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• Brats with Slingshots: In the second film, played to amusing effect against Lock-nah.
• Bratty Half-Pint: In fairness, he's been abducted by Imhotep's cultists and knows they can't do a damn thing to him, while he's under no obligation to make things easy for them. And he's enjoying every minute of it.
• Chekhov's Skill: Like his uncle Jonathan, Alex is established early on as learning how to read hieroglyphics. This eventually pops up after Evy dies and they need to resurrect her using the Book of the Dead... written in hieroglyphics.
• The Chosen One: To use the bracelet of Anubis. Well he chose himself really.
• Deadpan Snarker: He sure does take after his father.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: The plot of the second movie kicks off because he decided to put the Bracelet of Anubis on for a laugh.
• Generation Xerox: By the time of the third film, Alex becomes an archaeologist and an adventurer like both of his parents.
• He Is All Grown Up: In the third film. He even inherits his father's knack for accidentally unleashing the undead.
• Idiot Ball: As Rick lampshades, what the hell was Alex thinking when he decided to go and uncover the Emperor?! It's not like his family haven't had a long history dealing with curses and mummies... does it ever end well?!
• In the Blood: Alex is not the first person in the family to be a Disaster Domino.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a brat, but he actually has a good heart and is rather smart.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Lin. Although Lin is about the same age as Alex, she and her mother had been rendered immortal for 2,000 years due to the power of Shangri-La's waters. Of course, her mother took care of the problem by sacrificing their immortality in order to summon an undead army to stop the Emperor.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He inadvertently awakens the Dragon Emperor from his tomb simply by digging him up. Of course, he was being manipulated into doing so at the time, so it's a given.
• The Smart Guy: He is intelligent far beyond his years, a trait his parents never hesitate to acknowledge. He is able to speak and read Ancient Egyptian better than Jonathan having been taught by Evelyn and is able to use the Book of the Dead to resurrect her when she is killed by Anck-su-namun.
• Tag Along Kid: He was kidnapped by Imhotep for the majority of the second film and needs to be rescued by his parents, but subverts it later on when he uses the Book of the Dead to resurrect his mum.
• Too Dumb to Live: His stupidity for waking up the Emperor in the third film.
• Took a Level in Badass: He and Rick slew the Dragon Emperor.

Imhotep and his followers

Imhotep

Imhotep

"Death is only the beginning."

^{Click here} to see his mummified form.

Played By: Arnold Vosloo, Kai Vilhelmsen (The Mummy) Jim Cummings (The Mummy: The Animated Series), Kevin Michael Richardson (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns

"The sands of time have already begun to pour against you."

The Big Bad of the first two movies of the Mummy trilogy.

Back in ancient Egypt, Imhotep was the High Priest of Osiris and the trusted advisor of the Pharaoh Seti I, becoming a close confidant and friend of the man. Despite this, Imhotep formed a hidden romance with the Pharaoh's mistress, Anck-Su-Namun, the two taking many precautions to keep their love a secret.

One night, however, the two had chosen to no longer live in secrecy and decided to assassinate Seti I. While they succeeded in their task, their acts of treason were witnessed by the Pharaoh's daughter, Nefertiri, who managed to alert the loyal guards of her father, the Medjai. Forced to flee, Imhotep could only watch in grief as Anck-Su-Namun committed suicide in front of the approaching guards.

With the intent of bringing his love back to life, Imhotep and his priest stole Anck-Su-Namun's body away to Hamunaptra. Utilizing the sacred Book of the Dead, Imhotep almost succeeded in his dark task before the process was interrupted by the arrival of the Medjai, who proceeded to arrest the high priest and his followers. While his priests were mummified alive, Imhotep was given a much worse fate for his crimes.

With the legendary Hom Dai placed on him, Imhotep was cursed with unholy powers and the effect of bringing about the Ten Plagues of Egypt if he were brought back to life before being mummified alive along with dozens of flesh eating scarab beetles within his sarcophagus, feasting upon him for many years.

Once resurrected, his set goal of once again resurrecting his lost love began anew.

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• Adaptational Badass: He is far more powerful than his original counterpart from 1932.
• Affably Evil: Imhotep is a fairly polite, friendly guy who drains people as part of his plan and kills those who get in his way.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Towards the end of the second film, when Imhotep is hanging onto a ledge, about to be Dragged Off to Hell, be begs Anck-Su-Namun to help him. She refuses, choosing to flee in an attempt to save her own life.
• Alas, Poor Villain: For all his evil, Imhotep just wanted to be with his lover and he suffered greatly for that love. In the second movie's ending, Imhotep is clinging to a ledge over a hellish abyss and calls out to Anck-Su-Namun for help. Despite genuinely loving Imhotep, she ultimately values her new life more and abandons him. Imhotep is completely devastated; he looks at Rick and Evy^note Rick having been in the same predicament as Imhotep but warning Evy to flee only for her to risk her life to save his, gives them a jealous and respectful look, and lets go of the ledge to fall to his death. Ultimately, everything Imhotep went through was for nothing.
• And I Must Scream: The Hom-Dai cursed Imhotep with eternal life, which involved cutting out his tongue, getting wrapped in bandages, and entombed alive in a sarcophagus filled with flesh-eating scarabs, ensuring that he will endure the agony of his wounds for all time. Worse in the novelization, which has the latitude to go into deeper detail about the curse without pacing or rating issues. It seems that the curse was designed to work in a twisted mockery of the "circle of life"- Imhotep is eaten by the scarabs, and eventually becomes so ravenous that he begins eating them, they eat him all over again...
• Anti-Villain: He was motivated by love rather than power or control.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Rick O'Connell is this to Imhotep and is the main reason Imhotep's plans fail. In the first film, Rick pursues Imhotep to Hamunaptra after the evil priest takes Rick's Love Interest, Evelyn, as a captive with the intention of sacrificing her. Rick frees Evelyn from a sacrificial altar before Imhotep can complete the ritual (but not before Imhotep kills Rick's friend, Winston Havelock), and delivers the killing blow to Imhotep after Evelyn strips him of his immortality. In the second film, Rick pursues Imhotep to Ahm Shere after he kidnaps Rick's son, Alex, and thwarts Imhotep's attempt at world domination by killing the Scorpion King before Imhotep can do so.
  • Imhotep has Evelyn as well. During the first film, he attempts to sacrifice her to bring Anck-Su-Namun Back from the Dead, while Evelyn considers it her responsibility to take down Imhotep because she resurrected him in the first place. Evelyn does so by chanting the incantation that makes Imhotep mortal again, allowing Rick to kill him. After being resurrected in the second film, Imhotep is furious upon recognizing her, and tries to have her burned alive. Later in the second film, it is revealed that Evelyn is the reincarnation of Princess Nefertiri, who sent the Medjai to stop Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun in a futile attempt to prevent the murder of Nefertiri's father, Seti, leading to Anck-Su-Namun's suicide.
  • To the Medjai in general. They are indirectly responsible for the death of his lover Anck-Su-Namun, who took her own life to avoid being taken alive by them. Shortly afterwards, they thwart Imhotep's attempt to ressurect her, before having Imhotep's priest mummified alive and Imhotep himself subjected to the Hom-Dai. The Medjai spend the next three thousand years trying to prevent Imhotep from being released, and when they eventually fail, they team up with Rick and company to put a stop to him once again.
• An Arm and a Leg: Near the end of the first film, he gets his arm cut off by Rick. However, thanks to his powers, Imhotep is able to reattach it to his body.
• Back from the Dead: Twice so far. The first time, he is revived by Evy unwittingly reading the passage from the Book of the Dead to resurrect him, and the second time he is revived by his cult doing so.
• Badass Preacher: Imhotep was the high priest of Ancient Egypt and, post revival, an absolute Walking Wasteland. Even without his powers, he's still a skilled swordsman and fighter.
• Bald of Evil: Vosloo is noticeably bald, and he had to have his body waxed for Imhotep, necessitating this.
• Benevolent Boss: First film only. He bows his head in reverence upon bringing his loyal priests back; he also keeps his word to Beni and is surprisingly candid towards him concerning the details of his Evil Plan, which might be because Beni is the first person he can talk to after 3000 years or so. He goes in the opposite direction in the sequel, treating his disposable human followers with apathy and sneering at his highest servant's death at the Scorpion King's hands... er, pincers.
• Big Bad: For the first two movies and the Revenge of the Mummy theme park attractions.
  • In the first film, he seeks to regenerate his body and resurrect Anck-Su-Namun, unleashing various plagues upon Cairo in the process. Once he fully regenerates, he takes Evelyn back to Hamunaptra to perform the sacrificial ritual necessary to revive his lover.
  • In the second film, he plans to kill the Scorpion King, which would transfer command of the Army of Anubis over to him, and use it to Take Over the World.
  • In the Revenge of the Mummy attractions, he attempts to take the riders' souls.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With the Scorpion King in the second movie.
• Big "NO!":
  • In the first film's prologue, he lets one out after the Medjai stop him from resurrecting Anck-Su-Namun.
  • Also his reaction when Rick impales the Scorpion King with the Spear of Osiris.
• Blind Without 'Em: In the first movie Imhotep is extremely near-sighted as a consequence of swiping Burns' eyes, and with Burns' glasses having been shattered he has trouble seeing things unless he's right in front of them. This facilitates him initially mistaking Evy for Anck-Su-Namun.
• Body Horror: Most of the time, he's a walking, rotting mummy, and needs to absorb the fluids from living humans to restore his human form.
• Brought Down to Badass: After losing his powers, Imhotep faces Rick himself in an even one-on-one duel, armed as well as unarmed. While he doesn't face the Scorpion King himself, he does throw the Spear of Osiris at the monster's chest, missing only because Rick catches the spear.
• Brought Down to Normal: Imhotep is appropriated of his powers by Anubis who apparently wants him to face the Scorpion King like a mortal.
• Bugs Herald Evil: Immediately after Imhotep is awakened, a swarm of locusts flies over Hamunaptra.
• Buried Alive: Imhotep is buried alive underneath the Statue of Anubis, with flesh-eating scarabs for company.
• Came Back Strong: While undergoing the Curse of the Hom-Dai was an agonizing way to die, it turned Imhotep into an undead borderline Humanoid Abomination with superhuman strength, nigh-invulnerability, the ability to conjure the Biblical plagues of Egypt, to turn into and control sand, brainwash people, and to reanimate and control other mummies. One he consumes enough vitality to rejuvenate himself, he loses his few remaining weaknesses and is stated to have the power to easily conquer the world.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: When Beni gets lost in the tunnels of Hamunaptra, the recently resurrected Imhotep is about to kill him as the cowardly Beni prays to various gods in an attempt to ward him off. When Beni starts to pray in Hebrew, Imhotep recognizes the language and instead forces Beni into his service, since having someone around who can actually understand him would be useful to someone who's planning to conquer the world (plus Beni knows the guys who have the canopic jars).
• Composite Character: While the punishment of being mummified alive for trying to revive their beloved is a part of both Imhotep and Kharis' backstory, the removal of the tongue comes from the latter only. The existence of a cult that awakens him is also here to making parallelism with Kharis, but Imhotep is their master, which is the contrary with the cult and Kharis.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: After being captured the the Medjai in the prologue of the first film, he has his tongue removed, is wrapped in bandages, is placed into a coffin before having flesh-eating scarabs poured over him, and is Buried Alive with the scarabs.
• Crystal Prison: After being vanquished at the end of the first movie, he is returned to his corpse state and encased in an amber-like resin which he is freed from at the beginning of the second movie.
• Curse of the Pharaoh: He is "bound by sacred law" to kill anyone who opens the chest containing the Book of the Dead.
• Cursed with Awesome: The nature of the Hom-Dai: you're made immortal and trapped in a sarcophagus with flesh-eating scarab beetles for all eternity. A harrowing Fate Worse than Death... unless someone is dumb enough to 1) unlock your coffin, 2) open the cursed chest, and 3) read from the Book of the Dead. Then you get superpowers like telekinesis, the ten plagues, and elemental control. You are basically a physical god.
• Deadly Dust Storm: Thanks to his Sand Blaster abilities, Imhotep has the ability to turn into or create one, such as the storm he created to swallow the plane Winston flew to transport Rick's party.
• Dragged Off to Hell: His ultimate fate, though he willingly let himself fall into the underworld after his lover abandoned him.
• The Dreaded: The Medjai are doing everything in their power to prevent Imhotep's resurrection so that his curse will not bring destruction to everything.
• Dying Vocal Change: In the first film, his voice returns to the supernaturally-deep rumble he possessed back before he regenerated, as he slowly decomposes back into a mummy.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Can take the form of a sandstorm.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He deeply loves Anck-Su-Namun. She's also the main reason why he's been cursed.
• Evil Counterpart: To Rick, they are completely in love with one person and would do anything for that person, however, Rick is the more honourable person as he pursues his love in a righteous manner whereas Imhotep pursues his love through deceit and murder.
• Evil Laugh: He lets out a sinister laugh upon being told it is the Year of the Scorpion.
• Evil Sounds Deep: In his mummy status, his voice is deeper and guttural than his normal one. This also applies to when he is voiced by Jim Cummings and Kevin Michael Richardson.
• Evil Wears Black: Imhotep has a preference for wearing a black cloak, both before and after he was cursed.
• Eye Scream: In the first movie Imhotep rips out Mr. Burns' eyes, which results in him being afflicted with Burns' near-sightedness.
• Facial Horror: In one of Imhotep's later stages of regeneration, his body is mostly intact aside from his mouth which is rotted and part of his neck.
• Faux Affably Evil: Is often polite to his enemies... before killing them. Case in point thanking Burns for his hospitality before revealing his intention to consumate the curse.
• Finger Wag: He does this to Alex after thwarting the latter's attempt the escape him at Karnak.
• Forceful Kiss: In the first film, he attempts to kiss a disgusted Evelyn in Mr. Burns' quarters, only to stop when he spots a cat, prompting him to flee. He later successfully kisses Evelyn while she is sleeping, which causes Imhotep's face to partially rot, much to her horror when she wakes up.
• Forgot About His Powers:
  • In the first film, Imhotep uses his powers to brainwash the people of Cairo into doing his bidding, but apparently doesn't bother trying to brainwash Rick or any of his allies.
  • When Jonathan uses the Book of Amun-Ra to gain control of Imhotep's Elite Mooks and orders them to kill Anck-Su-Namun, Imhotep tries to regain command of his soldiers by taking the book from Jonathan by force instead of simply using his powers to take out the soldiers.
• Freudian Excuse: Love Makes You Evil, followed by Fate Worse than Death.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Was just a priest (admittedly the High Priest of Egypt), but after murdering the Pharaoh, he attempts to resurrect someone from the dead and gets cursed to be a walking mummy, which gives him a lot of power if he is released.
• Go Out with a Smile: Imhotep's last act before he lets go of the ledge and lets himself fall into hell is to shoot Rick and Evey a look that suggests a mixture of jealousy and genuine admiration. As if to say "You have what I suffered for three thousand years for. What I thought I had. I am glad that you were wiser than I."
• Grievous Harm with a Body: During his confrontation with Rick in Burns' quarters, Imhotep tosses Rick into the air, causing him to crash into Jonathan, Henderson, and Daniels.
• The Heavy: In the second film. Although he is part of a Big Bad Ensemble with the Scorpion King, Imhotep is by far the more active of the two villains.
• Hero Killer: Most of the main cast dies at his hand in the first film: the Pharaoh, Burns, Dr. Chamberlain, Henderson, Daniels, Dr. Bey, and Winston.
• High Priest: In his original life, he was the High Priest of Pharaoh Seti I. Even thousands of years after Imhotep and his priests are executed by the Medjai, his priests continue to serve him faithfully upon their awakening.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Over the course of the first film's prologue, he goes from being Pharaoh's High Priest to a condemned criminal cursed to spend eternity as a Sealed Evil in a Can.
• I Gave My Word: He promises Beni great wealth in exchange for his service in the first film. Towards the climax, he allows Beni to plunder Hamunaptra's vast treasure room to his heart's content.
• I Lied: Imhotep offers to spare the lives of Rick, Jonathan, Ardeth, and Terence if Evelyn allows herself to be captured. After Evelyn does so, Imhotep orders his thralls to kill them anyways.
• Immune to Bullets: Ardeth warns that "no mortal man can kill this creature". This is used to show off Imhotep's regenerative abilities; when Rick shoots Imhotep just after he awakens he's knocked down but gets up after a minute, while after consuming just one of the Americans, he wades through a barrage of gunfire from Rick before tossing him across the room.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After the Book of Amun-Ra is used to take away his immortality, all it takes is Rick running a sword through his stomach to finish him off.
• Invincible Villain: At least if you can read and talk in the Ancient Egyptian language, and if you have the Golden Book of Amun Ra, or if you are Anubis, Imhotep is completely invulnerable and immortal.
• Karmic Death: His death in the second film, while tragic, mirrors his own Lack of Empathy, seeing everyone as an obstacle or a pawn to his means and caring little about what happens to even his own followers. He dies knowing that the one person he does care about would not risk themselves for him either.
• The Kingslayer: He assassinates Pharaoh Seti I with the aid of Anck-su-namun.
• Knight of Cerebus: The adventurous and witty tone runs out the window once he appears.
• Large Ham: Most of it in Ancient Egyptian, however. Jim Cummings also hams it up in the animated series.
• Leaking Can of Evil: Even while sealed away in his sarcophagus, Imhotep was still able to cause his visage to appear in the sands of Hamunaptra at the beginning of The Mummy, scaring away the Medjai who were about to kill Rick.
• Leitmotif: The first film gives him a foreboding one in minor key that changes instrumentation as the film progresses. It starts out in muted trumpet during the prologue then progresses to french horn as he works his way through the American expedition, and finally booming low-brass as he's fully regenerated.
• Love Makes You Evil: It was his love for Anck-su-namun that led him to both assist her in murdering Seti and try to bring her back from the dead, two crimes that were apparently enough of an insult to the gods/God to justify both mummifying him and his servants alive and to give him the curse of the Hom-Dai, which makes him undead. He tries the resurrection thing again in the first film, and has better luck in the second, but after Anck-su-namun abandons him, he willingly removes himself from the world and descends to Hell.
• Malevolent Masked Man: He is shown wearing a mask on a couple of occasions.
  • In the first film, he wears a mask when meeting a blinded Mr. Burns in the latter's quarters. Imhotep removes it shortly before killing Burns.
  • In the second film, he wears a mask again during a meeting with Alex, a child who Imhotep's minions kidnapped.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • In the first film he coaxes Beni into his service by playing to his greed, specifically telling him that the Book of the Dead was worth its weight in gold.
  • At the climax of the second film when the Scorpion King emerges, Imhotep uses the language barrier to his advantage by declaring himself a servant and siccing the Scorpion King on Rick by telling him that Rick was going to kill him, while waiting to kill the Scorpion King and take control of the army of Anubis.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's a well built and handsome man with a lot of Shirtless Scene. Of course, even fully regenerated he retains his Volumetric Mouth, which can come off as even more terrifying than when he did it as a rotting corpse.
• Murder Into Malevolence: Imhotep wasn't entirely virtuous before his death, as he murders his own pharaoh because of his love for the latter's mistress. However, said mistress declares "my body is no no longer his temple" immediately before committing suicide, implying that Seti forced Anck-su-namun to be his lover. However, after Imhotep is subjected to to the Hom-Dai and imprisoned for three thousand years, he comes back as a "bringer of death," killing, attempting to kill, or other endangering multiple people because he needed their flesh to regenerate his body (due to their presence when a cursed chest was open), because he needed a Human Sacrifice to revive his lover (In Evelyn's case), because they were trying to stop Imhotep, or simply because they were in the vicinity of the plagues Imhotep is causing, or for no particular reason (such as when he tries to kill Beni, who wasn't bound to Imhotep's curse or a threat to him, before realizing the latter can be useful).
• Near-Villain Victory:
  • Twice in the first film. First, the soldier mummies are about to stab Rick when Jonathan takes control of them. Then after Anck-su-namun's mummy is killed by the soldier mummies, he picks up Rick, starts thrashing him around, and was opening his mouth to drain his organs and fluids when Evy invokes the spell to take his powers.
  • In the second film, Imhotep nearly succeeds in killing the Scorpion King with the Spear of Osiris, which would have given him control over the Army of Anubis and allowed him to Take Over the World.
• Neck Lift: Does this, often before killing people by draining their fluids and life.
• Necromancer: Imhotep is able to bring mummies to life to do his bidding, as shown when he raises his mummified priests near the end of the first film and opens an urn in the museum during the second film, using the contents to create a quartet of soldier mummies to chase Rick, Evelyn, and Ardeth.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He cannot be killed by mortal weapons without Divine Intervention to make him vulnerable again. In the first film, the main characters have to read from the Book of Amun-Ra in order to defeat him. The book doesn't even kill Imhotep outright, instead summoning Anubis to strip Imhotep of his immortality. In the second film, Anubis takes the initiative to remove Imhotep's powers, including his invulnerability, to prevent him from taking advantage of them against Anubis' servant, the Scorpion King.
• Not So Above It All: Even he has a bit of sarcasm in him. In The Mummy Returns he scares the trio of bandits who open fire at him with predictable results, but Imhotep, amusingly enough, pretends he's feeling getting shot by mockingly flailing his body after he gets shot several times by the panicked bandits.
• Oh, Crap!: When he sees Evy's cat in the first movie, he gasps and flees in terror. Since ancient Egypt saw cats as guardians of the underworld and Imhotep was still a mummy when he saw the cat, it's understandable why he was so afraid of it.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • In the first film, he kills the Egyptologist Dr. Allen Chamberlain to regenerate his own body. Dr. Chamberlain was a Bad Boss who made several workers open a compartment he correctly suspected was unsafe to open, leading to the workers being sprayed by pressurized salt acid. He also killed Chamberlain's American associates Burns, Henderson, and Daniels, who agreed to Chamberlain's idea to have the workers open the compartment.
  • In the second film, he regenerates his body by killing Red, Jacques, and Spivey, a trio of henchmen who attempted to murder the O'Connells at the beginning of the film, and would later go on to kill two guards offscreen to obtain the cursed chest that would ultimately seal their fates.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He is said to bring calamities and plagues if he were to awaken and he certainly lives up to this trope. Imhotep brings forth the Egyptian plagues in the first movie, raining down Cairo with hailfire, covering it with clouds of locusts and diseases that leaves its people enslaved to his will, and he can manipulate the elements such as summoning a sandstorm or water wave for great destructive effect.
• Pet the Dog: He's willing to pay Beni with a huge amount of gold for his service.
• Picky People Eater: Imhotep can only regeneate his body by assimilating the body parts of people who are present when a specific cursed chest is opened.
• Plaguemaster: As a result of being cursed with the Hom-Dai, he carries the Ten Plagues of Egypt with him. For example, he can summon a swarm of flies out of his mouth, and he can enslave people afflicted by "boils and sores."
• Pragmatic Villainy: Shows mercy to Beni after finding out he can speak Hebrew- more out of a sense of needing a translator until his powers are cemented than anything.
• The Punishment: His curse had the side effect of turning him into an immortal flesh-eater with superpowers beyond the ken of mortal men and is practically unbeatable.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: In the first movie, in his incomplete state he's forced to flee in terror whenever he finds himself in the same room as a cat, because cats are the guardians of the Underworld. Terence Bay warns that the effect will disappear if Imhotep is fully restored to life, a goal which Imhotep reaches.
• Sand Blaster: As a result of being subjected to the Hom-Dai, Imhotep was granted "power over the sands." He has the power to create sandstorms, and to turn into sand himself.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Imhotep was buried alive in a sarcophagus with flesh-eating scarab beetles to keep him company in olden times. No wonder he comes back extra evil thanks to the accidental reading of the Book of the Dead.
• Slasher Smile: He sports one with his rotted mouth when cornering Daniels, the final person he needs to kill to become fully regenerated.
• Stripped to the Bone: He inflicts this on a female ride attendant in the Florida version of Revenge of the Mummy.
• Super-Strength: One of the powers received from the Hom-Dai is the "strength of ages." Whenever Imhotep winds up in close-quarters combat, he resorts to tossing his foes (namely Rick) across the room.
• Take Over the World: His goal in the second film. He plans on accomplishing this by taking command of the Army of Anubis from the Scorpion King.
• Tongue Trauma: In his original life, his tongue was removed as part of the Hom-Dai. After being reurrected, he replaces it by ripping out Mr. Burns' tongue.
• Tragic Villain: He just wanted to be with his loved one. Who leaves him to die in the end, rendering all his efforts and suffering moot.
• Troll: Why else would he put Lock-Nah in charge of watching after Alex if not for kicks.
• Undead Abomination: Imhotep's curse gives him Super-Strength, power over the sands, and invincibility. It also requires that he eat/absorb the organs and fluids of whoever resurrects him, and possibly anyone else he may desire. The Medjai don't consider Imhotep to be a human being, referring to him only as The Creature. It's heavily implied that the reason for this is because the nature of the Hom-Dai curse has completely changed him into some kind of demonic being instead of simply a reanimated corpse.
• Ungrateful Bastard: In the second film, he is a Bad Boss to the cultists who brought him Back from the Dead. He doesn't even lift a finger to save Baltus Hafez, who is begging Imhotep for help, from being killed by the Scorpion King, despite Hafez being the one who directly read from the Book of the Dead to revive Imhotep.
• Unperson: There doesn't seem to be any sort of record of Imhotep after his regicide and his sarcophagus was listed as "He who shall not be named".
• Unskilled, but Strong: In the first film, thanks to still figuring out how to use his powers, and even then in very specific circumstances. Imhotep shows creativity at a distance like the 10 plagues, creating sandstorms, and raising mummies to distract the heroes, but up-close in a fight when it's just him versus Rick and Jonathan, he limits himself to just using his Super-Strength and Healing Factor by tossing Rick around the room, reattaching lost limbs, and attempting to strangle Jonathan when he could easily use another power.
• Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: The first film's first act starts out like a witty adventure comedy genre copycat of a Indiana Jones movie, but then when Imothep appears, the horror genre outweighs the adventure genre.
• Villainous Valor: Most apparent in the second movie, when he decides to try fighting the Scorpion King after Anubis takes away his powers, and even fights Rick to a standstill. Of course, he changes his mind when the Scorpion King turns out to be massive scorpion-human chimera, and chooses to trick him into attacking Rick instead. Of course, he's still awesome before then as well.
• Volumetric Mouth: In his undead state he is able to unhinge his jaw and open his mouth to an inhuman extent. He is still capable of this even after being fully regenerated, as he demonstrates to Rick towards the end of the first film.
• Weaksauce Weakness: In Egyptian mythology, cats were the guardians of the underworld and warded off evil spirits. Until Imhotep was restored to his full power, he was terrified of them and could be scared off by simple house cats. He shrugged this off when fully restored.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is afraid of cats while he is in his undead state, as they are the guardians of the Underworld. He loses this fear once he is fully regenerated.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The worst part is that Imhotep isn't even trying to destroy the world, it's just that he's cursed to bring the Ten Plagues of Egypt when he resurrects (the first time at least; they don't come with him in the second film). Of course, this is tempered by the fact he doesn't seem to particularly care that his presence is tearing Egypt apart...
• Worthy Opponent: One of his lines to Alex during their encounter implies that he views Rick as this. Makes sense, given that Rick was the one who thwarted him the first time.
• Would Hit a Girl: In the first film, he tries to sacrifice Evelyn in order to bring his lover, Anck-su-namun, back to life. In the second film, he eagerly tries to have his minions burn her to death, and later on, he tries to kill her himself by summoning a giant wave to destroy the dirigible she is on board.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: In Revenge of the Mummy, he attempt to take the riders' souls. In the Florida version, he does this to Reggie.

Anck-su-namun / Meela Nais

Anck-su-namun / Meela Nais

"Put your mask on. Let's not scar that pretty face."

Played By: Patricia Velásquez, Kath Soucie (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns

"What a bright little child. Your mother must be missing you terribly. If you wish to see her again, you better behave."

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• Adaptational Badass: In The Mummy (1932), her original counterpart was a high priestess of Isis, and despite she summon Isis to defeat Imhotep, she was a non-action character. Here she was Pharaoh's mistress, but also his bodyguard. She is also very skilled in combat.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Of course, there are a few times when she loses her cool, mainly when it concerns Imhotep.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • To Evelyn. In Ancient Egypt, Evelyn's previous incarnation, Princess Nefertari, was Anck-su-namun's sparring partner. Nefertari later witnesses her and Imhotep assassinating Nefertari's father, Seti, prompting her to spur the Medjai into action. The Medjai corner Anck-su-namun, prompting her to take her own life. Anck-su-namun spends the climax of the first film trying to murder Evelyn, who was Imhotep's designated Human Sacrifice for Anck-su-namun's resurrection. Late in the events the second film, Anck-su-namun stabs Evelyn, temporarily killing her. Upon being resurrected, Evelyn faces Anck-su-namun in a duel, with Evelyn cutting Anck-su-namun and pursing her through the pyramid when she flees.
  • She also has an antagonistic relationship with Jonathan Carnahan, Evelyn's older brother. Towards the end of the first film, Jonathan uses the Book of Amun-Ra to have a group of mummified soldiers kill Anck-su-namun, who was trying to kill Evelyn at the time. In the second film, Anck-su-namun's reincarnation, Meela Nais, tries to murder Jonathan with an Egyptian asp. After Anck-su-namun murders Evelyn, Jonathan challenges her to a fight, and despite being outclassed by her, he manages to keep her busy long enough for his nephew Alex to bring Evelyn Back from the Dead.
• Ascended Extra: The character Anck-Su-Namun is given more insight in the second film in contrast to the first film.
• The Baroness: Sexpot variant.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Having abandoned Imhotep in favor of her own life, she stumbles and falls into a swarm of scorpions (and possibly the flesh-eating scarab beetles) as she is fleeing. The scorpions/beetles crawl all over and inside her, choking her dying screams as they sting her to death and/or devour her alive.
• Cute Monster Girl: Her mummy form averts this. She looks exactly as you'd expect a 3000-year-old mummified corpse to look.
• Dark Action Girl: In modern times and in ancient Egypt.
• Decomposite Character: Her name is similar to her 1932 counterpart, but the heroine wasn't her reincarnation in the first film, but the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess.
• Designated Girl Fight: With Evy whenever they encounter each other. Their incarnations have been enemies since Ancient Egypt, Anck-Su-Namun's mummy makes a beeline for Evy at the end of the first film, and they face off again at the end of the second.
• Dirty Coward: Imhotep begs for her help in the second film, and she runs away on him, which contradicts her past incarnation's devotion to him when she willingly kills herself in his name suggesting that maybe Meela and Anck-Su-Namun are not the same person after all.
  • Or worse, that Anck-su-namun was always like this. While she did kill herself for Imhotep, it was with the idea that he would resurrect her so they could be together. When faced with a real and pressing danger with no guarantee she would make it out safely, she chose her own skin.
• The Dragon: To her lover, Imhotep, in the second movie.
• Driven to Suicide: She stabbed herself the first time she died.
• Eaten Alive: Her fate, after abandoning Imhotep. She trips and falls into a pit full of scorpions that proceed to swarm all over her body and devour her alive.
• Evil Counterpart: To Evelyn as both are Ancient Egyptians who were reincarnated, also whereas Anuck-Sun-Namun's love for Imhotep is subjective on whether he can help her or not. Evelyn loves Rick from the core of heart and would risk her life for him without a second thought.
• Faux Action Girl: Downplayed. While both incarnations can fight, whenever she's in a situation where she's not entirely in control of the fight, she's quick to either run for it or find a way to tip the scales in her favor.
• Killed Off for Real: Anck-su-namun dies well, killing herself in the face of Pharaoh's guards with the defiant cry 'My body is no longer his Temple!'. Meela doesn't do nearly as well, dying a Cruel and Unusual Death after abandoning Imhotep. After the second death, the character is officially gone for good.
• Lady Macbeth: To Imhotep.
• Ms. Fanservice: Both in Ancient Egypt and the modern day, as Meela's first encounter with Jonathan has turn up the charm while wearing a gorgeous dress.
• Reincarnation: Meela is the reincarnation of Anck-Su-Namun.
• A Sinister Clue: The vicious Anck-Su-Namun mummy wields her dagger left-handed.
• Smug Snake: Very. Anck and later Meela just cannot resist rubbing it in when she thinks she has the upper hand.
• Statuesque Stunner: Anck-su-Namun and Meela are Ms. Fanservice characters played by the 5'9" Patricia Velasquez, who was a model in real life.
• Stripperiffic: Especially in Ancient Egypt. Where does her outfit begin or end with all that paint?
• Uncertain Doom: What happened to Meela after Imhotep finally ressurected Anck-su-namun? It's very unclear but it appears that her memories and personality were completely overwritten by her ancient self. Either way, Meela's body died for sure when she fell into that pit of scorpions in Ahm Shere.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Probably justifiable as Anck has spent most of that time dead, but when she and Evelyn fought in the second film, Anck was totally reliant on her combat training from Egypt whereas Evelyn was able to take her by surprise with some tricks she'd learned from Rick since their marriage.

Beni Gabor

Beni Gabor

"Oh, your strength gives me strength."

Played By: Kevin J. O'Connor

"It is better to be the right hand of the Devil than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune."

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• Accidental Hero: One of the pieces he took from Hamunaptra turned out to be the Spear of Osiris, the weapon that is later used to kill the Scorpion King in the second film.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he meets Imhotep in the tomb, he goes through Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and then Jewish chants in an attempt to gain some divine immunity. The last one convinces Imhotep to spare his life and enslave him, since he recognizes the Jewish chant as being from Egypt's slaves like in the Bible.
• Ambiguously Jewish: Knows fluent Hebrew for no apparent reason. Though he does know a bit of many languages, Hebrew (and English) are the only ones he's shown communicating with.
• Arc Words: Rick tells him "Goodbye, Beni" twice, (Thrice if you count the camel race) first when he throws him off the boat, and then again when he gets trapped in the sinking tomb despite Rick's attempt to save him.
• Artistic License – Linguistics: While knowing Hebrew is plausible, both modern and ancient Hebrew would not be intelligible with the Exodus-age Hebrew that Imhotep might be familiar with, which is older than the 13th century BC.
• Being Evil Sucks: He serves Imhotep purely out of fear and greed, and he clearly loathes every minute of it, except the part where he taunts the eyeless Burns, perhaps because he blames Burns and his fellows for unleashing Imhotep. By the end of the movie, he finds out being the toady for an undead dark wizard is really not all it's cracked up to be.
  Beni: I need a new job.
• Butt-Monkey: Beni's not exactly the most enviable character in the first movie; he gets thrown off a boat, finds himself on the wrong side of the Nile, gets forced into servitude by Imhotep, gets beat up multiple times, and finally gets trapped in Hamunaptra as it's sinking, just before getting Eaten Alive by scarabs.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Every chance he gets. During his very first scene, his first action upon finding a place to hide is to close the door on Rick.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Having spent the movie betraying everyone, he faces a slow death by dehydration and starvation after being trapped in Hamunaptra's treasure chamber. That's bad enough, especially given that the single torch he has is going out. But then, the scarabs show up...
• Death by Materialism: Beni had already taken enough riches that Rick and Evelyn could well afford a freaking estate in London years later. But he just needed to get more, and activated the trap that brought it all down. And if he had dropped the heavy bag he was carrying earlier, he might have made it before the door sealed him in.
• Devoured by the Horde: He is eaten alive by a swarm of scarabs.
• Dirty Coward:
  "It is better to be the right hand of the Devil than in his path."
• The Dragon: To Imhotep in the first movie.
• Emergency Multifaith Prayer: When coming face-to-face with Imhotep, Beni tries to protect himself from Imhotep's wrath with Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Jewish prayers; when the last one comes out in Hebrew, Imhotep recognizes it as the language of the slaves, decides he is useful, and recruits Beni as his minion.
• Establishing Character Moment: During the Battle at Hamunaptra in the present, Beni elects to flee at first instinct and abandon his fellow Legionnaires (Rick included) to die at the hands of their enemies. This foreshadows his later decisions and actions once more problems arise.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As vile as he may be, Beni flinches and shuts his eyes as Imhotep sucks Daniels' body dry. He also shows his devotion to Imhotep is out of fear, taking advantage of his lack of understanding English to insult him after seemingly killing Rick.
• Evil Counterpart: He's basically Jonathan (comedic, greedy and cowardly) without his redeeming qualities (like Big Brother Instinct, genuine kindness and friendship to those he gets close to and surprising bravery when the chips are down).
• Evil Former Friend: He and Rick were friends during their time serving in the legionnaires, though Beni leaving Rick to die to save his own skin quite thoroughly killed that. By the time they meet again three years later, there is clearly no love lost between them. That said, Rick does try to save Beni when Hamunaptra collapses, though he is unsuccessful.
• Fatal Flaw: Mix of being a Dirty Coward, Greed, and his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. This ultimately leads to his Cruel and Unusual Death at the end of the film.
• Greed: Beni demonstrates the insatiable nature of unfettered greed, always wanting more no matter how much he already has. His constant and overwhelming desire for more material wealth ends up biting him in the ass big time.
  • The worst part is how avoidable his fate was; Had he left with the treasure he already had on the camel, he would've been set for life. But Beni just had to go back for an even larger bag.
• Hate Sink: Unlike Imhotep, a genuinely cool villain with a tragic past, Beni is a mere sniveling coward, backstabber and greedy scumbag who cares only about himself.
• Hidden Depths: Beni is a greedy, untrustworthy slimeball, no question, but he shows that he's not stupid. He demonstrates enough knowledge of travelling to the desert to lead the Americans and has a surprising knowledge of ancient languages, knowing Hebrew and acting as Imhotep's translator.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He just can't resist going back for even more treasure and ends up accidentally setting off the trap that causes the temple to seal, trapping him inside to meet his grisly fate.
• It's All About Me: Beni is always and forever his own first priority and will work with or betray anyone who he thinks can help him or keep him alive.
• Karmic Death: Lampshaded by Evey, who tells him his character type always comes to a Cruel and Unusual Death.
  Beni:...They do?
  Evey: Oh, yes. Always.
• Kick the Dog: Helping Imhotep out of cowardly self-preservation is one thing, but mocking poor Mr. Burns over his traumatic encounter with Imhotep was just another unnecessary layer of cruelty altogether.
• Large Ham: Very much so. Kevin J. O'Connor was clearly having a wonderful time in the role.
• Laughably Evil: For being a Butt-Monkey.
• Legion of Lost Souls: Was part of the same unit as Rick. He survived by hiding in a building while everyone else was getting shot by the Tuaregs.
• Properly Paranoid: Beni wears the symbols of dozens of different religions, seemingly to cover his bases. In the face of Imhotep, hungry for mortals to restore himself, he pulls out quite a few and prays. This actually saves his life when he takes out the Star of David and begins praying in Hebrew — Imhotep foreseeing the need of a translator. Crosses into some Crazy-Prepared territory as well.
• The Renfield: He's mostly there to help Imhotep find what he's looking for, and failing badly at that.
• Slimeball: Beni is a greedy, sniveling Jerkass who would sell out anyone to save his own skin.
• Small Role, Big Impact: In the sequel. He's already been dead for ten years and is only mentioned in passing by the heroes, but his looting of Hamunaptra actually proves to be vital when it's revealed that one of the treasures he took from there was the Spear of Osiris, the very weapon needed to kill The Scorpion King.
• Smug Snake: After becoming Imhotep's minion. Granted he was already this before he bumped into Imhotep, as shown when he boasts to Rick during the Mexican Standoff that his side wins because there are more people with him than there are with Rick.
• Sycophantic Servant: To Imhotep, although it's more out of fear and greed than genuine devotion.
• Yiddish as a Second Language: Knows enough Hebrew to translate for Imhotep.

Baltus Hafez

Baltus Hafez

"You two must sacrifice yourselves for me. You shall be rewarded in Heaven!"

Played By: Alun Armstrong

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• An Arm and a Leg: The scorpion statue sucks off his arm.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Hafez is presumably Egyptian, however, his accent sounds more like an ambiguous meld of Italian and Romanian if anything.
• Dirty Coward: To two of his last minions as they're being chased by undead killer monkeys:
  "You two must sacrifice yourselves for me. (runs off) You shall be rewarded in heaven!"
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The Scorpion King rips him into at least three pieces.
• Hand in the Hole: And he isn't happy when he pulls it back out and sees the state of it.
• Killed Off for Real: By the Scorpion King.
• Mysterious Past: Where did he come from? How does he know about and why does he worship Imhotep and wants him to conquer the world? What is his relationship with Meela Nais and Lock-Nah? We never find out.
• Wicked Cultured: He is a museum curator, reads Ancient Egyptian, and has his own cult of Imhotep worshipers.

Lock-Nah

Lock-Nah

"When the time comes, I shall truly enjoy killing you."

Played By: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ^{Other Languages} Thierry Desroses (European French)

"Not bad...for a Medjai."

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• Arch-Enemy: To Ardeth Bay.
• Badass Normal: Unlike the other fighting villains, like Imhotep and Anck-su-namun, Lock-nah is just an ordinary man who can keep up with Ardeth Bay in a duel.
• Black Dude Dies First: He is the first of the main villains to be killed.
• Blood Knight: A rather dark example. Lock-Nah is more excited at the prospect of hurting people as opposed to fighting them.
• The Brute:
  Meela Nais: "And the Book of the Living... takes life away."
  Lock-Nah: "I thought that was my job."
• Child Hater: If his behavior toward Alex is anything to go by.
• Cold Sniper: Shoots Ardeth Bay's falcon out of the sky.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has a few moments.
  (Lock-Nah stabs his knife right between Alex's fingers)
  Alex: Whoa, that was amazing! Perfect aim.
  Lock-Nah: What are you talking about? I missed.
• The Dragon: To Hafez. A skilled fighter and an imposing villain.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje portrays the character with a rich, bass voice.
• Guns Akimbo: During the shootout at the museum, Lock-Nah is shown wielding a Mauser C96 in either hand.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He can go from calm to extremely angry with minimal provocation.
• Mysterious Past: He and Ardeth know each other, but we never find out how. Same with how he met Hafez and Meela/Anck.
• Noodle Incident: We never know what happened between him and Ardeth.
• Psycho for Hire: He relishes in the violence he inflicts.
• Scary Black Man: He's tall, burly, a weapons expert and has quite the scary scowl.
• Slashed Throat: Courtesy of Ardeth Bay.
• Villainous Friendship: He and Anck/Meela seem to like each other. That dialogue under The Brute above is pretty casual.
• Would Hurt a Child: He strikes in temper a few times. He also comes scarily close to chopping Alex's arm off.

Red, Jacques, and Spivey

"Red" Willits, Jacques Clemons, Jacob Spivey

Played By: Bruce Byron (Red), Joe Dixon (Jacques), Tom Fisher (Spivey)

A trio of thieves hired to steal artifacts for Baltus Hafez.

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• Agent Mulder: Jacques is a strong believer in the curses and spells on certain artifacts and repeatedly warns his comrades not to disturb such artifacts. While Red and Spivey (particularly the latter) are dismissive, Jacques turns out to be right and all three wind up dead because neither of them listened to his warnings about the curse on the chest needed to restore Imhotep.
• All There in the Manual: Red's last name in the novelization is Willits.
• Bald of Evil: Red is a balding man and ruthless thief.
• Big "NO!": Jacques when Spivey opens the chest, which dooms all three of them.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: All three have their fluids and organs absorbed by Imhotep.
• Defiant to the End: Red and Jacques spend their last moments shooting at Imhotep after he absorbs Spivey.
• The Ditz: Spivey, who ignores all of Jacques' warnings and has to be reminded not to shoot Red in a Mexican Standoff.
• Freudian Trio:
  • Red is the Ego, the leader who is equally greedy and cautious.
  • Jacques is the Superego; he is the most superstitious and cautious.
  • Spivey is the Id, the ditzy one who disrepects Jacques.
• Genre Savvy: Jacques knows how to read hieratic while Red references the fates of Burns, Henderson, and Daniels in the first film, making both of them wary of the chest they were hired to steal. Doesn't save them though.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: Have very little use or characterization outside of being comic relief bad guys, and are unceremoniously killed off halfway through the story.
• Offscreen Villainy: Red mentions murdering a pair of guards when they stole the chest from a museum.
• Perma-Stubble: Rough mercenaries Red and Jacques both have a day's worth of stubble, with the latter's in more of a goatee.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: All three of them wield revolvers as their main sidearms; Red carries a Smith & Wesson Military and Police (early version of the Model 10) and both Jacques and Spivey use Webleys. Red also carries a Browning Hi-Power as a backup sidearm.
• Sinister Scimitar: Jacques' backup weapon is a short curved sword.
• Terrible Trio: A trio of thieves/mercenaries working for the villains.
• Would Hurt a Child: None of them have any qualms about hurting Alex, most notably Jacques who kicks away a scaffolding Alex is standing on.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: All three are locked in a room and cursed so that Imhotep will absorb their fluids and organs.

Priest Mummies

Priests of Osiris while Imhotep was High Priest and entombed with him when he was cursed.

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• Bald of Evil: Like their master, their heads are shaved.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Killed by being mummified alive.
• Detachment Combat: Their limbs are still capable of movement even after being severed, as shown when two upper halves grab Rick and try to hold him in place while another mummy tries to crush him with a large slab.
• Genre Throwback: Their shambling, shuffling gait is a reference to earlier depictions of mummies and contrasting the more "gooey" Imhotep.
• Inside a Wall: The first two mummies Imhotep awakens were buried in a wall at Hamunaptra.
• Made of Plasticine: Being dried corpses without special skills or strength, these mummies are much more fragile than Imhotep and are easily smashed apart by Rick, Ardeth, and Jonathan. Even a simple kick is enough to split them in half.
• Sinister Minister: All of them were party to Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun's murder of the Pharaoh and watched with rapt attention as it happened.
• Undying Loyalty: To Imhotep, as they participate in both rituals to resurrect Anck-su-Namun and bow to Imhotep as he awakens them for the first time in thousands of years.

Soldier Mummies

Mummies of soldiers that guarded Hamunaptra.

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• Died Standing Up: Implied since they emerge from a large closet door ready to fight and were seen standing up when it opened.
• The Dreaded: Rick is decidedly apprehensive whenever they show up. His reaction when Imhotep creates four of them in the second film is "Oh no, not these guys again."
• Dual Wielding: One of the soldier mummies wields a khopesh in each hand.
• Elite Mooks: They're much faster, stronger, can jump pretty far, Wall Crawl, and wield weapons, making them more dangerous than the priest mummies. However, they're just as fragile as the priest mummies.
• Glass Cannon: Faster, stronger, and more skilled than the priest mummies, but just as fragile.
• Leitmotif: Represented by fast but orderly xylophone in the score.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: All of them carry shields, save for the one mummy who carried a khopesh in each hand.
• Sinister Scimitar: Several of them wield khopeshes.
• Squashed Flat: One gets taken out when Rick cuts a pulley line to escape; the line is attached to a cage which falls and crushes the hapless soldier.
• Super-Strength: Can flatten cars by just walking on them.
• Undying Loyalty: To whoever summons them (provided they read the whole summoning inscription).
• Volumetric Mouth: Like Imhotep, their jaws can open much wider than a normal man's.
• Wall Crawl: Several of them pursue Rick by jumping on the walls and running across them.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Imhotep creates four of them to chase after Rick and co. through London in the second film. Three are destroyed in the ensuing chase, but the fourth is unaccounted for.

The Dragon Emperor and his followers

The Dragon Emperor

Emperor Qin Shi Huang

"I raised you for one purpose: to enforce my will on the entire world!"

Played By: Jet Li

"Today you awake to a world in the grip of chaos and corruption. I will restore order. I will retake what is mine. I will crush any idea of freedom. I will slaughter without mercy. I will conquer without compassion. I will now lead you past the Great Wall. Once you cross, you will be indestructible."

The Big Bad of the third film.

A ruthless Chinese warlord who succeeded in becoming the first Emperor of China, Huang was a merciless tyrant who led his troops on a unrelenting campaign of power through ancient China, killing any resistors or assassins along the way. After some time, however, his interests turned to seeking a way to preserve his youth in hopes of extending his reign beyond the normal human life span.

As such, he sought the assistance of a witch known as Zi Yuan, who held the secrets of immortality. After his horrific betrayal of the sorceress though, Huang and his men were cursed to forever be mummified as terra-cotta for centuries until his resurrection.

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• Ambition Is Evil: He was once one of many kings fighting each other for power, except he went further by aspiring to become Emperor. And even after gaining that goal, he felt that being ruler in one lifetime was not enough and sought to become immortal next.
• Arch-Enemy: To Zi Yuan, the Hot Witch whose lover, General Ming (who was the Emperor's own lieutenant), the Emperor had executed after she spurned his advances. Zi Yuan, in turn, cursed him to become a terracotta mummy, and spent the next two thousand years trying to prevent his return.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Even before he became a mummy, he fended off two assassins all by himself, while previously sleeping with his sword rested on his feet. He also learned magic from his councilors.
• Ax-Crazy: He's a very composed individual, but he reveals an incredibly warped, violent, and sadistic streak on occasion, and being cursed for thousands of years has only worsened his insanity.
• Big Bad: Of the third film.
• Bilingual Dialogue: He communicates in his native Chinese language, as evident when he doesn't understand Zi Yuan's curse, which she spoke in Sanskrit.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He doesn't have any goal beyond becoming immortal and ruling the world forever.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Imhotep was an Egyptian priest whose main goal was to reunite with his lover, and he gained immortality and powers through the curse cast upon him as punishment. Qin Shi Huang is a Chinese warlord whose main goal has always been conquest, and he actively sought immortality and learned to control the five elements before he was tricked to receive a curse upon himself. Ironically, it was for killing General Ming, the lover of the witch he was trying to gain immortality from.
• The Dreaded: He is a feared and power-hungry conqueror, before and after he was cursed.
• Et Tu, Brute?: He accuses his general, Ming, of this. No one really feels for him, given he quarters the man over a woman whom then he stabs For the Evulz.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone refers to him as the Dragon Emperor, never using his name, Qin Shi Huang.
• Evil Is Petty: He would have gotten what he wanted if he just let Ming and Zi Yuan marry. Seriously, the guy was First Emperor of China! And he wasn't even in love with Zi Yuan. The first thing he does when he sees Zi Yuan and recognizes Lin as her daughter is say she'll be his and kidnapping her.
• Evil Overlord: First emperor of China, and an absolute bastard.
• Final Boss: He is the final antagonist to be defeated in the trilogy.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Once just one of many kings, he became the first Emperor of China and a powerful dark mage before becoming cursed into an undead terracotta warrior and then a borderline Physical God that can only be killed through one method.
• Historical In-Joke: The real Qin Shi Huang was driven insane because he believed drinking mercury would extend his life. Not a wise idea.
• Immortality Seeker: The Emperor's interests of conquest extended to conquering mortality in his later life.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Rick and Alex are able to stab him with the dagger in both the front and back, connecting the two pieces in his heart and starting his death throes and liquidation.
• Kirin: He transforms into a kirin-like beast to fight the O'Connells from up close in the finale, and would've won if Rick didn't manage to stab his side with the enchanted dagger, reverting him back to human form.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Before being even cursed, he was taught by mystics to manipulate the Chinese elements and is one hell of a martial artist.
• Scaled Up: Towards the end of the film, he possesses the ability to turn into a black, three-headed dragon after bathing in the waters of Shangri-la.
• Villainous Valour: Rick challenges the Emperor to "fight like a man". The Emperor obliges.
• Voice of the Legion: The Emperor speaks with a demonic voice in his mummified form.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: After bathing in Shangri-La, he becomes a three-headed dragon, and takes a behemoth form to attack people.
• Would Hit a Girl: He tried to kill Zi Yuan for her betrayal by falling for Ming instead of him. He actually succeeds the second time.

General Yang

General Yang

"Only the pure of heart would sacrifice themselves for the one they love."

Played By: Anthony Wong

"Soldiers! Soon, all our training and sacrifice will bear great fruit. It is my dream to raise our Emperor from his tomb. Only he can bring order out of this chaos. Soldiers, tonight our great battle begins!"

The general of a monarchist cult dedicated to the goal of returning Emperor Huang to life, Yang believes that with the help of the resurrected warlord, the turmoil brought about after the Second World War that has left China in a state of turmoil can finally be resolved.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: He gets caught in some wooden gears. As he's being chewed up, Choi rushes forward, grabs his hand and fruitlessly tries to pull him out. He yells at her to leave him, but she refuses to let him go and they die together.
• Anti-Villain: Yang believed that the Emperor, if resurrected, could resolve the turmoil brought about by the Second World War and restore China to its former glory.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Getting crushed to death by wooden gears. Whatever his flaws, he didn't deserve to die like that.
• Face Death with Dignity: His final words is telling Choi to let go and save herself. She chooses to follow him.
• A Father to His Men: Mostly towards Choi.
• Four-Star Badass: He's a martial artist and nearly kills Alex before the Yeti come to his rescue. Then the Yeti holds him up and roars at him. Yang punches the Yeti on the nose, and survives being thrown almost over a cliff and then the following snow avalanche. Then during the battle, he and Choi survive getting bombarded by Mad Dog and Jonathan's plane. It takes throwing him in wooden gears and being crushed to put him down.
• Renegade Russian: He is a Chinese general who wants to bring back the Dragon Emperor so that he can restore their country back to their lost glory. In a unique twist, he is not a Chinese Communist but a general serving the then-ruling Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, who came to power in 1928 after the successful completion of the Northern Expedition that ended the Warlord Era of the Republic of China. Said government is also the descendant of the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the last Chinese emperor.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Yang isn't necessarily out to Take Over the World, or even self-benefit. He just believes the Dragon Emperor can restore China back to order and glory.

Choi

Choi

Played By: Jessey Meng

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• Alas, Poor Villain: After Yang gets caught in some wooden gears, Choi refuses to abandon him and perishes with him.
• Face Death with Dignity: She chooses to get crushed alongside Yang rather than abandoning him.
• Red Right Hand: She sports a lighting-shaped scar on the right side of her face, and serves as Yang's right-hand woman.

Roger Wilson

Roger Wilson

Played By: David Calder

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• Affably Evil: How much of his friendliness is genuine is ambiguous.
• Evil Mentor: Wilson nurtures and encourages Alex's archeological aspirations, but is just using him to find The Emperor's tomb for selfish reasons.
• Off with His Head!: By the Emperor. With his bare fingers. On fire!
• Poor Communication Kills: Thanks to him not speaking Chinese, the Dragon Emperor mistakes Roger for being an enemy, and promptly decapitates him. It didn't help that Yang wasn't able to tell the Emperor he was a valuable ally.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When he awakens the Emperor, he tries to climb on the chariot with Yang, but the Emperor simply decapitates him for his trouble. Of course, that MIGHT have been because the Emperor doesn't understand English and mistook him as an enemy. Yang didn't exactly have time to introduce everyone.

Medjai

In General

The Medjai

The former bodyguards of the Pharaohs, they are an order of warriors sworn to protect Egypt and the world from the likes of Imothep and the Scorpion King.

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• Badass Army: They certainly hold their own against hordes of Anubis warriors who can only be killed by decapitation.
• Booby Trap: It's implied they rigged the salt acid trap to the vault containing Anck-Su-Namun's canopic jars.
• Cool Sword: They all wield some wicked-looking swords.
• Crossover Cosmology: They are descended (either literally or as an organisation is not clear) from the Pharaohs' bodyguards and are well aware of the power of the Ancient Egyptian gods but they are also Islamic. They at least seem to see no conflict in this.
• Dark Is Not Evil: They wear black desert robes and look fairly sinister. They're still the good guys.
• Good Is Not Nice: They kill anyone who come across Hamunaptra, as they can't risk them freeing Imhotep by mistake. Later subverted in that Rick, Evy, and Jonathan are all allowed to live following Imhotep’s defeat in the first film, while in the second film they had clearly spared the lives of Imhotep's followers when the latter came to dig up Imhotep, if only temporarily while the Medjai attempted to discover their plans.
• Hero Antagonist: Starts out as this in the first film towards the protagonists, but when Imhotep revives, they (mostly their leader Ardeth) act as their allies.
• Idiot Ball: They let Imhotep's followers dig up Hamunaptra and recover his body just to discover what they are up to rather than stop them before resurrecting the Creature again.
• Knight Templar: A Muslim varation, they seek to keep the world safe regardless of the costs.
• Men of Sherwood: In the second film, they prove to be competent allies against the Army of Anubis, managing to hold them off long enough for Rick to kill the Scorpion King and send the Army back to the underworld for good.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: All things considered, it was the very first order of Medjai created in ancient Egypt who initially cursed Imhotep creating the very danger that could potentially, if not most certainly, destroy the world. In hindsight, given humankind's own often times disastrous curiosity, damning and burying one of society's worst derelicts only for him to become a walking, talking apocalypse unto himself several millennia later in an age which has next to no real defenses against such monumental threats in the first place, due in small part to modern society relegating ancient curses to fables and fairy tale most likely wasn't the best of ideas.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Ardeth mentions that the Medjai managed to scare off Imhotep once before he could finish absorbing Burns.
• Praetorian Guard: Started out as the bodyguards of the Pharaohs.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Are willing to kill anyone who approaches Imhotep's tomb, but unlike most examples, they are quite justified in doing so.

Ardeth Bay

Ardeth Bay

"If a man does not embrace his past, he has no future."

Played By: Oded Fehr, Kai Vilhelmsen (The Mummy), Michael Gough (The Mummy Returns)

Appearances: The Mummy (1999) | The Mummy Returns

"There is a fine line between coincidence and fate."

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• Arch-Enemy: To Lock-Nah.
• Badass Bandolier: Has plenty of those, carrying both bullets and daggers.
• Big Good: He is the leader of the Medjai dedicated to protecting the world from the likes of Imhotep and the Scorpion King.
• The Big Guy: Of O'Connell's group.
• Cool Sword: A curved blade which he's quite skilled with.
• The Comically Serious: Rick (to Ardeth) "You, lighten up."
• Dark Is Not Evil: Always dresses in black, like his fellow Medjai.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
  Ardeth: This was my first bus ride.
  Ardeth: Why don't you people ever keep your feet on the ground?
• Decomposite Character: Ardeth Bay was the cover identity of Imhotep in the 1932 film. Doubles as a Mythology Gag.
• Dual Wielding: Carries at least two swords, as shown during the camp attack when Rick shoots his sword out of his hand and Ardeth draws another in a second.
• Facial Markings: He has tattoos across his forehead and both cheeks. But unlike most examples of the trope, they're just clan markings.
• Hero Antagonist: For the first half of the movie, he and the other Medjai use lethal force to guard Hamunaptra from anyone and everyone who comes across it — attacking Rick's military unit, attempting to assassinate the expedition to the cursed city by destroying their boat, and attacking the expedition in the night. Once Imhotep is unleashed, however, Ardeth joins Rick, Evy, and Jonathan in trying to put him back in the ground.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. He charges into the horde with only an empty shotgun to buy time for Rick and Jonathan to save Evy and kill Imhotep. Once this is done and they make it out of Hamunaptra, he is seen to have survived. In the script he did actually die, but while filming Stephen Sommers liked the character too much to kill him off.
• Insistent Terminology: Ardeth insists on calling Imhotep 'the Creature' instead of by his name as every other character does.
• More Dakka: "I prefer the Thompson." Late in the first film, he takes the Lewis machine gun from Winston's plane after it crashes and uses it against Imhotep's mummified priests for the first half of the climax.
• Mr. Exposition: In the first film, he's the one who knows about Imhotep's true nature and the extent of his abilities. In the second film, he explains the prophecy surrounding Rick and the Scorpion King.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's quite easy on the eyes, acting as fanservice with fighting scenes and an alluring accent.
• No Name Given: His name is never mentioned in the first film.
• Not So Stoic: Generally conducts himself with dignity and aloofness, but grins like a maniac when strapped to Winston's plane wing and is clearly having the time of his life.

Dr. Terrence Bey

Dr. Terrence Bey

Played By: Erick Avari

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• Big "YES!":
  Evy: And do you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
  Dr Bey: To stop this creature? Let me think... (together with Ardeth) YES!
• Deadpan Snarker: "Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!" There's also the sequence where he and Ardeth are held at gunpoint and Dr. Bey asks if they're willing to listen to what he has to say or if they want to shoot him.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: He elects to stay behind and fight the brainwashed Imhotep cultists. He is overwhelmed and killed, but he takes down a few before he goes.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His burning the map that leads to Hamunaptra right in front of Evelyn was likely him trying to destroy any way someone unaffiliated with the Medjai could find the city. Had he not done that and simply act like he'd look into it, Evelyn would have trusted him with the box that held the key, thus preventing her from going to Rick to find Hamunaptra and freeing Imhotep in the first place.

American Expedition

Dr. Allen Chamberlain

Dr. Allen Chamberlain

"They're led by a woman. What does a woman know?"

Played By: Jonathan Hyde

"What have we done?"

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• Asshole Victim: The only one of the doomed expedition members with no redeeming qualities.
• Big "NO!": Yells this when Imhotep's roar sounds, followed by another quote below.
• British Stuffiness: The British Egyptologist is both sexist and annoyingly smug. Unlike his American associates, he's lacking in sympathetic qualities.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: "You must not read from the book!"
• Four Is Death: Dr. Chamberlain and the three Americans are guilty of opening the cursed chest with the Book of the Dead needed to bring Imhotep back to Earth with; he's the second man that Imhotep tracks down.
• High-Class Glass: He sometimes wears a monocle, which makes him look a bit more distinguished.
• Jerkass: He is both sexist and annoyingly smug.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Chamberlain is maybe a smug sexist, but he was right that Evy should not read from the Book of the Dead otherwise Imhotep would rise and the Expedition members who opened the chest (including Chamberlain himself) would be doomed as Imhotep's regeneration victims (though he shouted this at her after she had already read from the book and brought Imhotep back to life).
• Killed Off for Real: The second of the four men that is sucked dry by Imhotep, who then takes his canopic jar and the Book of the Dead from him.
• Killed Offscreen: Rick's group is looking for this guy before Imhotep finds him. They get distracted by Beni in Chamberlain's office, and only hear his screams and see the corpse Imhotep left behind, with Imhotep taking the Book of the Dead from his hands along with the canopic jar.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Word for word once the locusts that make up the first plague swarm the camp upon Imhotep rising (he's covered in the bugs when he says this).
• Non-Action Guy: Dr. Chamberlain is strictly a civilian and unlike Jonathan and Evy who can at least handle weapons, he cowers behind his American employers during the boat shootout and runs for cover during the camp shootout.
• Only Sane Man: Of his expedition and arguably overall, being the only one to take the curse seriously before Imhotep was released.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Dismisses the protagonist's chances because they're "led by a woman".
• We Have Reserves: Is perfectly willing to let his hired workers open the trapdoors first, to spare himself and his partners the booby traps (they subsequently get sprayed by acid, though he did save the lives of his American comrades doing this).

Mr. Burns

Mr. Burns

"We're gonna find it, boys, and we're gonna make history."

Played By: Tuc Watkins

"Without my glasses I can't see the deck to cut it, now can I, Daniels?"

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• Blind Without 'Em: Played for horror instead of comedy, since his glasses break and he's accidentally left behind while everyone is fleeing into the crypts; he's left shuffling along trying to find his way out, and can't make out the shape sneaking up on him — until Imhotep's right behind him...
• Eagleland: Part of the American expedition, and the first of them to be killed by Imhotep.
• Eye Scream: "My eyes! My eyes!"
• Four Is Death: Burns is one of the four guys in the vicinity of the Book of the Dead chest when it's opened, and doesn't even make it to the end of the night before the curse of the chest comes for his eyes and tongue. Imhotep then follows everyone to Cairo and makes Burns Victim No. 1.
• Guns Akimbo: Burns carries a Colt M1911 semi-automatic and a Webley Mk V revolver as a backup, though unlike his companions he doesn't use both at once.
• Killed Off for Real: With Beni's help, Imhotep corners Burns and "finishes the job" he started on him in Hamunaptra.
• Killed Offscreen: Loses both his eyes and tongue and then his life offscreen.
• Nice Guy: He seems to remain on friendly terms with the heroes even though they're supposed to be in competition.
• Oh, Crap!: When he realises that Imhotep has come back for the rest of him.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The first victim of Imothep.
• Tongue Trauma: "My tongue! He took my tongue!"

Mr. Henderson

Mr. Henderson

"Say, O'Connell, what do you think these babies will fetch back home?"

Played By: Stephen Dunham

"Hamunaptra, Daniels. That's all you gotta keep telling yourself. Hamunaptra."

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• Boisterous Bruiser: Of all the Americans, he's the most stereotypically American.
• Don't Ask, Just Run: When he runs into Rick and Jonathan, with the scarabs not far behind.
  Mr. Henderson: Run you sons of bitches! RUN!
• Eagleland: He is, for all intents and purposes, a cowboy.
• Expy Coexistence: In terms of appearance and sharpshooting skills, he's this of O'Connell, but with a cowboy getup. Kinda funny, since they're in the same film together. Helps that his actor Stephen Dunham was Cast the Runner-Up for O'Connell before Brendan Fraser was ultimately cast.
• Four Is Death: One of the four hapless men who is around the chest with the Book of the Dead when it's opened, and the third member of that group to be killed by Imhotep for it.
• The Gunslinger: Henderson's favorite style of fighting is to fire off as many rounds at a target as possible.
• Guns Akimbo: Carries a pair of Colt Single Action Army revolvers with 4.75-inch barrels.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Henderson brings out a pry bar to open the vault containing the cursed chest and nearly melts himself with acid before being stopped by Dr. Chamberlain.
• Sacrificial Lion: He's an O'Connell expy who died while on guard duty protecting Evy.

Mr. Daniels

Mr. Daniels

"All the money we're payin' you, there better be something under that sand."

Played By: Corey Johnson

"Stupid superstitious bastard."

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• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Attempts to beg for his life by giving his jar up to Imhotep. It winds up being for naught, as Imhotep sucks his body fluids away.
• Alliterative Name: Daniels' first name is given as David in subtitles.
• Coat Cape: Daniels gets shot in the left arm during the camp shootout and spends the rest of the film wearing his jacket with one arm out.
• Eagleland: One of the American explorers who usually has a tie on him.
• Four Is Death: Daniels is one of the four guys who helped open the chest with Anck-su-namun's canopic jars and the Book of the Dead in it, and while he stays alive a bit longer than the other three, he still dies by Imhotep's hand, even as he attempts to give his canopic jar back.
• Guns Akimbo: During his Last Stand he uses both his Colt New Service revolvers before he runs out of bullets.
• Killed Offscreen: Daniels attempts to appease Imhotep with his canopic jar, but the mummy sucks him up as the camera changes to Beni's face.
• Knight in Sour Armor: After they return from Hamunaptra, with Burns having his eyes and tongue ripped out.
• Last Stand: When he's pulled off the car as the heroes try to escape, Daniels decides to go out swinging, gunning down about eight of Imhotep's henchmen before running out of ammo. Then Imhotep himself arrives...
• Mauve Shirt: The last of the Americans to survive, and after his death, Imhotep is fully regenerated.
• No Social Skills: At least according to Dr. Chamberlain in the novel.
  Dr. Chamberlain: Mr. Daniels, no disrespect meant but you have the social skills of a drill sergeant.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Wields a pair of Colt New Service revolvers as his main weapons.
• Sacrificial Lion: The last of the Americans to survive and sharpshooting-wise formidable.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Daniels shows some concern for the others and helps fight the mummy, but he's also a greedy, curt, and sometimes cowardly tomb raider.

Other Characters

Gad Hassan

Gad Hassan

Played By: Omid Djalili

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• Asshole Victim: No one was all too sad for his death, but more interested in how.
• Death by Materialism: He wanders away from the group to nick some treasures, and ends up torn up from the inside and slammed into a stone wall for his greed.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He's a warden who's only every referred to as the Warden by the other characters.
• Fat Bastard: He's quite thick set and is by far the most despicable of Rick's group, trying to have Rick killed for sport at the prison.
• Jerkass: He tries to extort sex with Evy in exchange for Rick's release; it takes a deal to split treasure to prevent him from hanging Rick, a deal that was effectively rendered moot with his death.
• Killed Off for Real: By slamming his head into a stone wall after a scarab burrows into his brain.
• Large Ham: Has very few lines delivered below shouting level.
• Waking Non Sequitur: When the good guys are crossing the desert on camel-back, they continue on through the night, some of them sleeping while riding. The Warden's loud snoring disturbs Jonathan, who smacks him with his riding crop, causing the warden to snort awake and cry out, "No more goat soup!"
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He hates bugs, as he's quick to declare.

Capt. Winston Havelock

Capt. Winston Havelock

"You know, O'Connell, ever since the end of the Great War, there hasn't been a-a single challenge worthy of a man like me."

Played By: Bernard Fox

"I just wish I could've chucked it in with the others and gone down in flame and glory instead of sitting around here rotting of boredom and booze. Cheers."

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• Ace Pilot: British Airforce pilot, and a veteran of WWI.
• The Alcoholic: Spends all his time drinking because he couldn't have a warrior's death like so many of his friends.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: An interesting inversion; as an ace pilot, Winston's greatest wish was to die a heroic death going down with his plane in a blaze of glory. When this exact thing finally happens, years after WWI has ended, he goes down with a hearty laugh and, when Rick checks his pulse after the crash, Winston's corpse still has a visible smile on his face.
• Catchphrase: The quote about "rotting of boredom and booze" appears to be this, as Rick mimics him verbatim.
• Death Seeker: For years he often wished he'd gone out in "a blaze of glory." like so many of his friends. He finally manages to get his wish, thanks to Imhotep crashing his plane.
• Die Laughing: "Here I come, laddies!"
• Disposable Pilot: He dies after Imhotep crashes his plane in the desert. THEN he sinks with his plane in quicksand.
• Go Out with a Smile: After getting the glorious death he always wanted.
• Improbable Age: An 'improbably old' version. Capt. Winston Havelock is a retired Ace Pilot from the First World War. However the first film is set less than a decade after that war ended and Capt. Havelock is visibly over sixty (his actor Bernard Fox was seventy one at time of filming.) Even assuming he joined the Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of war in 1914 he'd still have been deep into middle age during his combat career.
• Retired Badass: Winston is officially a retired war pilot.
• Sacrificial Lion: Was willing to put his life on the line to help Rick rescue Evy and defeat Imhotep.

Izzy

Izzy

Played By: Shaun Parkes

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• Action Survivor: He'd much rather NOT work with Rick again.
• Casual Danger Dialogue: As he and the others are about to be overtaken by a Giant Wall of Watery Doom.
  "Well that's not good."
• Eyepatch of Power: Subverted when it turns out he just wears it to look "more dashing."
• Noodle Incident: "Remember that bank job in Marrakech?"
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Izzy manages to repair his dirigible and retool it to run on hot air (rather than gas) despite asserting himself it would be impossible. Offscreen, and just in time for a Big Damn Heroes moment, of course.
  "If anyone can fill this thing up with hot air, Izzy, it's you."
• Shot in the Ass: Izzy' main grievance with Rick stems from getting shot in the arse the last time he got involved with him, he brings it up three times no less.
• The Sixth Ranger: He joins the group to help Rick rescue Alex. After some convincing.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Winston from the first film.

The Scorpion King

The Scorpion King

Played By: Dwayne Johnson

The true Big Bad of the second film. He (or an ancestor) later got an eponymous Spin-Off film series, see here for its characters.

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• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: He was leader of an entire army, and its most Badass warrior (thus the only one to survive when they were defeated and banished to the desert).
• Back from the Dead: He's scheduled for a resurrection, thanks to his deal with Anubis.
• Big Bad: Of The Mummy Returns, although he doesn't turn up until the climax.
• Big Bad Ensemble: With Imhotep, who is brought back to life for the second time just to destroy the Scorpion King.
• Body Horror: Half-Man and Half-Scorpion.
• Card-Carrying Villain: His awakening is followed by The End of the World as We Know It. Of course, it might not be HIS will, but Anubis's.
• The Dragon: While he's the Big Bad of the movie, he's a servant of Anubis.
• The Dreaded: A ferocious warrior who wishes to conquer the entire world, and his literal monstrous transformation strikes fear into anyone, even Imhotep.
• Fallen Hero: Implied, until his Deal with the Devil (or rather Anubis).
• Identical Grandson: It's since been retconned that the Scorpion King who fought Rick was a descendant of the original hero by the same name, presumably to avoid the above for the latter after his Spin-Off came out.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The only way to kill the demon Scorpion King, and one must use the Spear of Osiris and ram it through him; they then have the option of enslaving him and his army or ordering them off the Earth.
• Killed Off for Real: By Rick, who destroys him.
• Large and in Charge: He leads an army and is played by Dwayne Johnson.
• Only Known By His Nickname: In The Mummy Returns he is only called by his title. The Scorpion King reveals his (or an identical ancestor's) name is Mathayus.
• Scorpion People: He was transformed into a being with the body of a giant scorpion, a pair of scorpion claws attached to his waist and another pair of claws instead of arms after Anubis claimed his soul.

Army of Anubis

Army of Anubis

Played By: Computer-generated animation

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• Dark Is Evil: They are dark-skinned Egyptian demons that emerge from black sand.
• Double Weapon: Many of them carry double-bladed axes.
• Keystone Army: The Army of Anubis is tied to the Scorpion King thanks to his deal with their deity. If he is defeated by someone, they will have the power to overwhelm the world using its army or to send it back to the Underworld.
• The Legions of Hell: The Egyptian equivalent at any rate, considering they are coming from the Underworld.
• Non-Human Head: All of them have jackal heads and humanoid bodies.
• Off with His Head!: According to Ardeth, the only way to dispatch a soldier of Anubis is to decapitate it.
• We Have Reserves: It’s said that there are as many Anubis soldiers as there are grains of sand in the desert.
• Zerg Rush: Their main method of attack seems to be just charge and overwhelm the enemy through sheer weight of numbers. Justified in that they're a demon army and don't really have to strategize beyond "send wave after wave until the enemy is overrun and wiped out."

Zi Yuan

Zi Yuan

Played By: Michelle Yeoh

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• Big Good: She is the one who first defeated Dragon Emperor and has been trying to stop his return ever since.
• Heroic Sacrifice: She pushes herself into the Dragon Emperor's sword to get the dagger from his belt so Rick can kill him. Even before that, she sacrificed her and her daughter's immortality to create an undead army to oppose the Emperor's own forces.
• Hot Witch: She is attractive enough to make the Dragon Emperor and his general Ming fall in love with her.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Willingly pushes her entire body into Huang's sword to retrieve the dagger needed to kill him.
• Lady of War: She leads the undead army into battle against the terracotta legion.
• Love Triangle: Between her, Ming, and Huang. She chooses Ming, which is only the start of the conflict.
• Magic Knight: She may be a witch who is skilled in sorcery, but she's no slouch at swordplay either.
• The Mourning After: Zi Yuan's lover, General Ming, died 2,000 years ago. She still misses him and has never moved on.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: Her lover, General Ming, is sworn to serve The Emperor, who lusts after Zi Yuan and is a Green-Eyed Monster.
• Together in Death: After giving up her immortality to revive an undead army to combat the titular Dragon Emperor (which, ironically, also includes her dead lover), she dies at the hands of said Emperor and finally joins Ming in death.

Lin

Lin

Played By: Isabella Leong

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• Action Girl: She's every bit Alex's match in combat.
• Distaff Counterpart: She's the female Chinese version of Ardeth Bay, being the deadly Ms. Exposition who explains to the heroes what they're up against and tries to keep the tomb shut.
• Exact Words: Lin tells the heroes that her family has spent centuries guarding the Emperor's tomb. This is true, but implies dozens of generations of guardians rather than just Lin and her mother (as they are both immortal).
• Lovely Angels: With Evy in the third film.
• Mayfly–December Romance: With Alex. Despite looking the same age as Alex, she's over 2,000 years old and immortal. And she doesn't want to watch him grow old and die and then mourn him like her mother does her father. But that changes in the finale.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Upon realizing she is in love with Alex. Fortunately, her mother took care of the problem by raising the undead army.

General Ming Guo

General Ming Guo

Played By: Russell Wong

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• Back from the Dead: Ming is resurrected to lead the undead army against the Emperor.
• The Dragon: He was the Dragon Emperor's General and oldest friend. Didn't stop him from quartering Ming on a whim.
• Gory Discretion Shot: We see Ming being chained to 4 carriages, but it cuts to Zi Yuan's face right before we see anything, but her face says it all.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The Dragon Emperor has him drawn and quartered before he gets cursed.
• Love at First Sight: Heavily implied with Zi Yuan.
• Love Triangle: With his best friend Huang over Zi Yuan. It gets him killed.
• Villainous Friendship: With the Dragon Emperor.

Pharaoh Seti I

Pharaoh Seti I

Played By: Aharon Ipalé

The Pharaoh during Imhotep's life and Nefertiri's father.

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• Adaptational Dye-Job: The historical Ramesses II was red-haired, meaning both of his parents were. The film's Seti I, on the other hand, is as dark-haired as any other Ancient Egyptian in fiction.
• Bald of Authority: A bald Pharaoh and king of Egypt.
• Chekhov's Gun: His sword was kept in Hamunaptra after his death and eventually used by Rick against the mummies in the climax of the first film.
• Choice of Two Weapons: Shown carrying a sword and dagger. Both weapons are used to kill him.
• Et Tu, Brute?: His reaction when Imhotep draws his sword on him.
  "Imhotep?! My priest!" [Anck-su-Namun stabs him in the back]
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: Anck-su-Namun and Imhotep stab and slash him several times before he falls over dead.
• In the Back: Anck-su-Namun stabs him in the back as the first blow.
• Large and in Charge: Seti was a physically imposing man, even standing taller than the 6'2" Imhotep.
• Plot-Triggering Death: His murder at Imhotep and Anck-su-Namun's hands kicks off the plot.
• "Rashomon"-Style: Two different sides of Seti are shown in the flashbacks. The first film shows him as a jealous man whose paranoid behavior led to his death (he had Anck-su-Namun painted gold and when he saw it smudged, realized it was Imhotep, which caused his death), while the second shows him as a loving father to Nefertiri and in love with Anck-su-Namun.
• Retcon: The first film depicted him as an entitled man whose jealousy flared up when he noticed someone touched Anck-su-Namun, which gives sympathy points to Imhotep's murder of him. The second film makes him a kinder man who genuinely loved both Anck-su-namun and his daughter, while Imhotep is more blatantly evil in the sequel.

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