Mumm-Ra (original)

"Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!"

- Mumm-Ra

Mumm-Ra is the main villain from ThunderCats. He is a immortal mummy who serves the Ancient Spirits of Evil.

Story
Mumm-Ra was a servant of the pharaoh known as Wahankh, being his most trusted advisor. Altough he was very close to the pharaoh, his true goal was to overthrow him and become the new ruler of Egypt. For this, he summon the four Ancient Spirits of Evil and make a deal with them, being granted with their dark powers in exchange of being their eternal servant, ruling all over Egypt in their name. He then mutates into his present form, and confronts the pharaoh, but he is defeated by the pharaoh son. The pharaoh never knew he was immortal, and simpatheticly spares his life by condemning him to a religious burail as a mummy in a pyramid. His son, knowing about Mumm-Ra's immortality, was satisfied as he knew his true punishment would be being locked in there for all eternity.

Mumm-Ra, after being buried, begged for the Ancient Spirits of Evil once again, but they refuse to help him due to his incompetence, but they decide to give him a second chance only if he built four statues of them in his chamber, and only them they would grant him with all their powers, powers who could defeat anyone in the world. After 600 years, he completes the task, being granted the power to summon their powers and become Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living.

By that time, the Thundercats arrive at the Third Earth, being followed by the Mutants of Plun-Darr, who wanted their Sword of Omens, which contained the Eye of Thundera, the source of power of the ThunderCats. Mumm-Ra, who now could get out of his pyramid whenever he wanted, noticed their presence and made contact with the mutants, who told him about the sword. He decides to recruit them, as they now had the same objective.

Powers
Mumm-Ra is completely immortal. Being defeated or destroyed will merely make him retreat to his sarcophagus, where he will remain to restore himself. He exists in the form of a decrepit, decaying body with little to no power at all. Only when he summon the powers from the Ancient Spirits of Evil to transform into Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living, he will use his true powers, such as superhuman strength and magical powers. Besides this, he posesses unlimited knowledge in many forms of sorcery and arcane magic, such as teleportation, shapeshifting, mind-control, telekynesis and such.

Personality
Mumm-Ra is a very cunning and treacherous person. He will resort to whatever means possible to achieve his goals.