History Recap / DuckTales2017S1E8TheLivingMummiesOfTothRa

** That or the population was large but slowly dwindled over time due to the society being isolated.

** That or the population was large and slowly dwindled over time.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Most of Toth-Ra's followers are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanner_falcon lanner falcons]] or jackals, as they are designed after the Egyptian gods Horus and Anubis.

* AbsenteeActor: Donald and Beakley aren't in this episode.

* AdultFear: Having two of the children you're watching over get separated from you and learning that they may be in the vicinity of a malevolent person.

'''Scrooge''': (surprised) It wasn't?\\

'''The Living Mummies''': Burritos!!! (cheers ambitiously)\\

'''Amunet''': It's about freedom to make a choice. A choice bigger than beef or veggies. We've lived
our whole lives toiling in the service of the pharaoh. Now we get to choose for ourselves. And what do we want?\\

* PuppetKing: When Toth-Ra failed to awaken, his guard turned him into a literal puppet, him and his descendants using this to con and rule the people for centuries.

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'''The Living Mummies''': Burritos!!!
'''Scrooge''': Wow. Okay, then. '''''Chaaaarge'''''!
* ScoobyDooHoax: Zig-zagged. One the one hand, Toth-Ra's mummy was being puppeted by the guard that was after Louie and Webby all along. On the other, once the mummy crosses a certain seal in his chambers, he wakes up and goes on a rampage.

** And of course [[Film/TheWizardOfOz pay no attention to the man behind the throne room who tries to hide himself with a makeshift curtain]].

%%* ExactWords: "Beware those who cross Toth-Ra... past this point."

** Webby attempts to translate a prophecy, but in able to read anything after "Beware those who cross Toth-Ra". What follows next becomes important later.

* MalevolentArchitecture: Averted, despite Scrooge anticipating it at every turn. The tomb is full of secret passages, but the only thing resembling a trap is the curse. This may be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the presence of an army of living servants inside; traps would be more likely to kill Toth-Ra's followers than tomb raiders.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Scrooge and his associates train Toth-Ra's servants to rebel against the pharaoh. Launchpad trains them in burrito-wrapping ([[TheCuckoolanderWasRight which actually proves to be useful to restraing Toth-Ra]]), whereas Dewey teaches them [[MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody a zombie dance]] (which doesn't work at all).

* NefariousPharaoh: Toth-Ra (at least when used as a puppet by Sabaf) is a greedy, oppressive pharaoh. His true, [[TheUndead undead]] self is more like a murderous monster.

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Scrooge takes his family to explore the lost pyramid of the pharaoh Toth-Ra. When entering the pyramid, Louie and Webby get separated from the rest of the group, ending up in the pharaoh's treasure chamber. Scrooge, Launchpad, Huey and Dewey encounter a group of living mummies - actually a hidden civilization of living people, dressed as mummies. The leader of the mummies, a woman named Amunet, explains that they live in the darkness, with the mighty pharaoh Toth-Ra showing them the sunlight for a few minutes when they please him. Scrooge gets upset with their enslavement, and encourages them to rebel against the pharaoh to see the outside world. The mummies are reluctant at first, but a taste of the burrito Launchpad brought with him motivates them to start a rebellion so that they can get out from the pyramid and eat more burritos.

Louie and Webby explore the treasure chamber, where they find a prophecy written on the wall. Webby translates the prophecy, according to which the great pharaoh Toth-Ra will bring golden riches to his people, but beware, those who cross Toth-Ra... but she can't decipher the ending. Louie gets thrilled by the idea of golden riches, but they get caught by Sabaf, a guard of Toth-Ra, who intends to throw them in a pit full of spikes. The two children talk their way out from the execution, and get away from Sabaf through a secret passage. The passage leads back to the treasure room, where they encounter... Toth-Ra himself! However, the menacing mummy suddenly starts to fall apart, and the children find out that Toth-Ra isn't actually alive, only Sabaf controls his mummy as a puppet. The guard explains that he descended from a bodyguard of the pharaoh, and his family has used Toth-Ra's body to manipulate the rest of his civilization into enslavement.

In the meantime, Scrooge and his family trains Toth-Ra's servants how to fight the pharaoh... and how to roll burritos. The mob storms the treasure room, where the pharaoh, now controlled by Louie, orders the mob to seize Sabaf. Webby shows the prophecy to Scrooge, who translates the end of the prophecy as "beware, those who cross Toth-Ra past this point", with a picture of a sigil at the end. As Louie pushes Toth-Ra's mummy, it falls on the floor, crossing the sigil from the prophecy... and comes alive!

The undead mummy attacks the people, but focuses on Louie after spotting that he stole from his treasure. Louie, cornered by the mummy, kneels down to offer his services to the Toth-Ra and do what he commands... and Toth-Ra tells him what to do: "DIE". Webby, however, figures out a way to defeat Toth-Ra. They weaken the mummy by opening the pyramid's cupola and letting in the sunlight, then roll him up in a blanket like a burrito and push him behind the sigil, which makes the mummy return to the dead. Toth-Ra's servants, after millenia, come to the surface the first time in their lives and celebrate with a feast of burritos.

* ShaggySearchTechnique: While hiding from the guard, Webby reads some hieroglyphs and finds that one of the symbols is facing the wrong way. When she touches it, it opens a secret passage that she and Louie use to escape.

* RealityEnsues: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]]. After TrainingThePeacefulVillagers, when Scrooge asks what they'll do when they confront Toth-Ra, they reveal that [[ExtremeDoormat they plan to do whatever he demands]]. When Scrooge gets [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe understandably]] irked, they explain that they've spent their ''whole lives'' blindly following his orders, so it's hard to break that ingrained mentality.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Sabaf discovers the secret passage Webby and Louie took, he smiles as if he knows where it was headed.

* EternalEnglish: HOW exactly did the people living in a giant tomb for millennia learn English again?
* ExactWords: "Beware those who cross Toth-Ra... past this point."

* NeverSayDie: Averted. Louie grabs Webby by the shirt and shouts "please don't tell me how to die!" after the group gets through some quicksand, Scrooge casually uses the word when Toth-Ra's men are working on how to wrap burritos, and Toth-Ra, when Louie surrenders himself to him, tells Louie "Die."

** The only thing Launchpad teaches Toth-Ra's servents is how to wrap burritos, which becomes useful in restraining Toth-Ra.