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* BandageBabe\\
Bandages, casts, or gauze used as {{fanservice}}, or being seen as such.

An index of tropes about mummies, which are preserved corpses that are often wrapped in gauze bandages, and they usually end up rising from their tombs as zombie-like beings. Mummies are usually pharaohs or other important people who lived and died milennia ago in AncientEgypt, perhaps calling upon the powers of [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anubis]] to help them cheat death.

* BandageBabe: Bandages, casts, or gauze used as {{fanservice}}, or being seen as such.
* BandageMummy: A character who is badly injured shown completely encased in plaster casts and/or bandages.
* ChummyMummy: A mummy who's friendly.
* CurseOfThePharaoh: Ancient Egyptian ruins are cursed, promising doom on anyone who dares to defile the mummy's tomb.
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: Mummies with glowing eyes.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Using someone's body like a doll to pretend they're still alive.
* MummyWrap: Mummies restraining their victims by wrapping them up in bandages.
* NephariousPharaoh: Evil pharaohs, which mummies often have a high chance of being before their death and mummification.
* OurLichesAreDifferent: The various portrayals of undead sorcerers, which modern mummies often are, in fiction.
* ThePunishment: Punishing someone by turning them into a supernatural creature of darkness.
* PyramidPower: Egyptian pyramids possessing unique powers or secrets, or housing something that does.
* SeductiveMummy: A female mummy depicted as a LoveInterest and/or MsFanservice.
* UndeadBarefooter: Mummies with no footwear.
* UndeathlyPallor: Mummies with pale skin.
* ZombieGait: Slow-moving mummies.

An index of tropes about mummies, which are preserved corpses that are often wrapped in gauze bandages, and they usually end up rising from their tombs as zombie-like beings. Mummies are usually pharaohs or other important people who lived and died in AncientEgypt, perhaps calling upon the powers of [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anubis]] to help them cheat death.

'''Main trope:'''

* Mummy

* '''{{Mummy}}''': What this index is all about.

An index of tropes about mummies. SubTrope of TheUndead and UndeadIndex. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] tropes about mothers -- TheParentTrope is the index for that.

* BandageBabe: Bandages, casts, or gauze used as {{Fanservice}}, or being seen as such.
* CurseOfThePharaoh: Ancient Egyptian ruins that are cursed.

* {{Mummy}}: The various depictions of mummies in fiction.

* PyramidPower: Pyramids possessing unique powers or secrets, or housing something that does.

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-> ''He has the Mummies.''
-> ''From 1525 B.C.''
-> ''He has the Mummies.''
-> ''Protection for the Pharaoh teen.''
-> ''He has the Mummies.''
-> ''They're hanging by the Western Gate.''
-> ''He has the Mummies.''
-> ''They're going to save the world today.''
-> ''The Egyptian way.''
-> ''They're Mummies Alive!''

An index of tropes about mummies. SubTrope of TheUndead and UndeadIndex. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] tropes about mothers - TheParentTrope is the index for that. Funnily enough, there's no "daddies"...

* ZombieGait: Slow-moving mummies.