Villains Beginning With 'H'
High Priest Imhotep
The Mummy film (1999)
In 1290 BC. High priest Imhotep is having an affair with the mistress of King Seti I, Anck-su-namun. When the king discovers the two lovers, Imhotep and his priests try to escape. Anck-su-namun kills herself, in the hope that Imhotep will resurrect her. After her burial, Imhotep steals her corpse from the crypt and he and his priests flee across the desert to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, where they start the resurrection ceremony. However, they are caught by Seti's guards before the ritual is finished, and her soul is sent back to the Underworld.
As punishment, Imhotep's priests are mummified alive, and Imhotep himself is forced to endure the curse of Hom Dai: his tongue is cut out, and he is buried alive, wrapped like a mummy, along with a swarm of flesh-eating scarabs. However this ritual is so horrible that it grants eternal life, forcing him to endure the agony of his wounds for all time. He is buried under high security, sealed away in a sarcophagus below the statue of the Egyptian god Anubis, and kept under strict surveillance by the Medjai, descendants of Seti's palace guards. If he were ever to be released, the powers that made him immortal would allow him to unleash a wave of destruction and death upon the world.
Three thousand years later, in 1923, a team of Americans discover a wooden chest under the statue of Anubis adorned with a curse. Skeptical, they open the lid. When the dust clears, they find the Book of the Dead, accompanied by several canopic jars.
Reading the book awakens Imhotep and The mummy promptly begins sucking out the life force and thus, killing everyone who opened the box. Imhotep eventually brings the Ten Plagues upon Egypt and captures a female egyptologist called Evelyn, intending to use her to resurrect his long-dead lover, Anck-su-namun. Rick O'Connell and Jonathan, (who have been looking for the treasure) rescue Evelyn and, after an intensive battle with Imhotep's mummies, thwart his resurrection attempts. Johnathan reads from the Book of Amon-Ra, which Rick assumed would kill Imhotep. Imhotep thinks he has failed to do anything, but Johnathan in fact took away Imhotep's immortality, and Rick kills him.
Imhotep later returns and does battle with the Scorpion King, to win, he sees his love abandon him, in despair he lets himself fall to his death (as a mortal) into a chasm full of flesh eating beetles.
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
Rick O'Connell. |
STRENGTHS : |
This mummy is immortal, therefore is impervious to normal attacks, and also has plenty of power at his disposal, which he uses to conjure up plagues and other such nastiness. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Amon-Ra - The book of the dead can render the Mummy mortal again, hence he is open to normal attack. |
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EXTERNAL LINKS
The Mummy film (1999) - IMDb
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