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For the 2011 incarnation, please see Mumm-Ra (2011)

Villain Overview

Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form into Mumm-Ra, The Ever Living!
~ Mumm-Ra while transforming, his most famous quote.

Mumm-Ra is an ancient mummy that serves the four Ancient Spirits of Evil and is the main antagonist of the original ThunderCats series.

He was voiced by the late Earl Hammond in the original series.

Personality[]

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Mumm-Ra with Ma-Mutt.

Mumm-Ra is utterly evil, completely merciless, sadistic, and cold, as well as a very scheming and manipulative personality. He thinks that everyone around him is likely to turn on him, so he often betrays them first. Mumm-Ra hates the Thundercats with a passion, seeing their presence on Third Earth as the biggest threat to his dominion of evil over the planet. He is determined to be rid of them, using whatever means it takes to do so. He is extremely deceptive, with his plans often involving changing himself into other beings to trick his enemies. Mumm-Ra refused to accept death, which is what caused him to turn to the Ancient Spirits of Evil for immortality. Thus he seeks to spread their influence across the planet. The only thing Mumm-Ra shows some compassion towards is his pet dog, Ma-Mutt. However, Mumm-Ra has one weakness, upon seeing his reflection, he is forced to retreat back to his pyramid in his normal form. But the Ancient Spirits of Evil eventually helped Mumm-Ra overcome this weakness.

Powers and Abilities[]

Mumm-Ra is an extremely powerful sorcerer and has seemingly limitless knowledge and skill in magical arts from all over the universe. This grants him various powers, including levitation/flight, energy manipulation, necromancy, alchemy, shapeshifting, teleportation, telekinesis, brainwashing, astral projection, and scrying. Mumm-Ra is also immortal and whenever he is destroyed, he reforms in his sarcophagus. He states that “Wherever evil exists, Mumm-Ra lives!”

Mumm-Ra can call on the Ancient Spirits of Evil to transform him into Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living by saying, “Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!” In this form, Mumm-Ra is a conduit for the Ancient Spirits of Evil, increasing his own strength and power immensely. His physical strength, endurance, and magical abilities grow even stronger. However, he can only stay in this form for a limited time. Once it wears off, Mumm-Ra returns to normal and has to go back to his sarcophagus to replenish himself.

Trivia[]

  • Mumm-Ra has made a number of appearances on the TV show, Robot Chicken.
  • He also appears in South Park’s Imaginationland Trilogy amongst the other evil characters, though he has horns on his helmet instead of snakes.
  • In the song, Touch the Sky, there is the line, “I’m trying to stop lion like I’m Mumm-Ra/but I’m not lyin’ when I’m layin’ on the beat.”
  • Mumm-Ra was fairly well received by audiences. Viewers took note of Mumm-Ra's deep voice along with him regularly exhibiting a much higher level of competence than other 80s cartoon villains, such as Skeletor.
    • In fact, his failures are only due to the ThunderCats being thorough with researching countermeasures or having sheer luck in allies knowing a method to exploit a weakness Mumm-Ra isn't aware of.
  • Mumm-Ra can hold the Sword of Omens (which fights back against evil beings attempting to use it), but only without effort in his Ever-Living form.
  • Wahankh was the name of Intef II. A member of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt, Wahankh ruled Egypt from circa 2112 BC to 2063 BC, and was buried in a small tomb at Thebes.

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