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You are a younger man. But you must be wary of a man like me.
~ Mr. Hyde

Edward Hyde, or simply Mr. Hyde, is the secondary antagonist of the 2017 fantasy action-adventure film The Mummy, which is the only installment of Universal's Dark Universe series, a reboot of The Mummy franchise.

He was portrayed by Russell Crowe, who also played SID 6.7 in Virtuosity, Ben Wade in the 2007 3:10 to Yuma remake, Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, Mayor Nicholas Hostetler in Broken City, Pearly Soames in Winter's Tale, the title character in Noah, Tom Cooper in Unhinged and Zeus in Thor: Love and Thunder.

Appearance[]

Edward Hyde bears a strong resemblance to Dr. Henry Jekyll, though appears more distorted. Hyde's body is covered with tainted veins and he bears golden eyes. His hands are skeletal, and his fingernails are longer and claw-like.

Hyde also speaks with a Cockney accent, as opposed to Jekyll's received pronunciation accent.

Personality[]

Unlike Dr. Henry Jekyll, Edward Hyde is described as a lot more violent than the latter, being depicted as a ruthless, heartless, sadistic, cold-hearted, homicidal and vile person, though this was what led to his defeat thanks to Nick.

History[]

After his Prodigium soldiers saved both Nick Morton and Jennifer Halsey from the recently awakened Ahmanet's attack, Dr. Henry Jekyll introduced the duo about nature of his organization where they deal with various supernatural threats. During this conversation, Dr. Jekyll even mentioned that one of the contained threats was inside him: His past experiment to see darkness in human psyche on himself had led to the birth of his monstrous persona, Edward Hyde. Horrified with what he had created, Dr. Jekyll confined the monster in his mind by injecting himself with a special serum to keep Mr. Hyde dormant, but only temporarily as daily injection must be done to keep himself sane.

He then confirms that Nick was cursed when he unlocked Ahmanet's tomb, and intended to complete her ritual and allow Set to possess him in order to destroy Set and end his evil forever. This of course, made Nick become reluctant to agree with the plan, so he stole one of the serums, leaving Dr. Jekyll to lose control over Hyde who begins to resurface. The chaos escalated with Ahmanet breaking free from Prodigium's captivity and wreaking havoc, death, and destruction as she made in her way to escape the base.

As this happens, Hyde attacks Nick, who realizes how desperate Dr. Jekyll attempted to contain his evil side: The nature of the experiment that brought Hyde to life not only made him psychotic whenever Hyde took over, but also gave Hyde superhuman strength and warps Jekyll's DNA into Hyde's as this happens. Even though the room where Hyde is in is now installed with Prodigium's security systems (which includes specialized biometric handprint scanners that can scan Hyde's DNA), which could contain Hyde whenever he emerges, it becomes apparent that those systems cannot hold him forever. As Hyde attacks Nick, he offers him a partnership: while Jekyll wants Nick to become fused with Set in the hopes of destroying Set for good, Hyde seeks to team up with Set to create ultimate chaos (albeit he's just saying it as means of teaming up with an elite, unnamed, 15-year-old Prodigium agent from The Mummy Demastered, whom he's friends). Acting fast, Nick injects Hyde with the serum that made the monstrous persona dormant, and Dr. Jekyll regains control over himself. After this, Hyde is never seen afterwards.

In a canon deleted scene, after Nick and Jenny escaped Ahmanet's sandstorm, Dr. Jekyll wakes up to find the case broken and all the serums spilled all over the floor, devastated that he's no longer able to control Hyde, as he physically prevented Jekyll from taking the serum, now making it impossible for Jekyll to keep Hyde forever now.

Trivia[]

  • Javier Bardem, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Eddie Redmayne were all considered for the role before Russell Crowe was cast.
  • The Jekyll side of the character plays a prominent role in the movie. Before the climactic battle scene between good and evil, Sgt. Vail tells Nick "This is the moment. This is the moment." "This is the Moment" is the title of the signature song from the Broadway musical "Jekyll and Hyde." Jekyll sings it just before he's about to take the potion he's designed to separate good from evil.
  • Hyde calls Nick "young" during their fight scene - even though in real life, Tom Cruise is almost two years older than Russell Crowe.
  • Hyde's inclusion in the movie was supposed to set up the character for a standalone film in Universal's Dark Universe.

Navigation[]

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Movies
The Mummy (1932): Imhotep
The Mummy (1999): Imhotep | Beni Gabor | Anck-Su-Namun | Anubis
The Mummy Returns: Imhotep | Mathayus the Scorpion King | Cult of Imhotep (Baltus Hafez, Meela Nais/Anck-Su-Namun, Lock-Nah & Shafek) | Army of Anubis | Pygmies | "Red" Willits | Jacob Spivey | Jacques Clemons | Anubis
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: Emperor Han | Militant Chinese Regiment (General Yang & Colonel Choi) | Roger Wilson | Terracotta Warriors
The Scorpion King: Memnon | Takmet | Thorak
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior: Sargon
The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption: King Talus
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power: Drazen | Boris | Roland
The Scorpion King: Book of Souls: Nebserek | Khensa | Mennofer
The Mummy (2017): Ahmanet | Mr. Hyde | Set

Television
Imhotep | Colin Weasler | Anck-Su-Namun | Ninzam Toth | Rakshasa | Aglaophones | Mummy Warriors | Giant Scarab | Sphinx

Video Games
The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris: Menthu
The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian: Magus | Set | Apep

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