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* {{Mummy}}: Unlike the Mummies that appeared in the other Mummy films, Imhotep only appears as the archetypal shambling, bandaged corpse for a few minutes, and spends the rest of the film out of bandages and able to pass as a living man.
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* {{Mummy}}: Imhotep is an EvilSorcerer who learned magic to make himself undead, survived being BuriedAlive as a mummy and was prepared to turn Anck-es-en-Amon into a mummy before he was defeated. Unlike the Mummies mummies that appeared in the other Mummy later Franchise/UniversalHorror ''Mummy'' films, Imhotep only appears as the archetypal shambling, bandaged corpse for a few minutes, and spends the rest of the film out of bandages and able to pass as a living man.
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* OurMummiesAreDifferent: Imhotep is an EvilSorcerer who learned magic to make himself undead, survived being BuriedAlive as a mummy, cast off his wrappings after waking up, can pass as a living man, and was prepared to turn Anck-es-en-Amon into a mummy before he was defeated.
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Franchise/UniversalHorror presents us this 1932 film, which was the TropeMaker for the undead {{Mummy}} genre.[[note]]Although the TropeCodifier for many of the tropes was its successor, ''Film/TheMummysHand''. Also, [[{{Mummy}} mummy]] stories of one sort or another had already been popular ''in print'' for a hundred years, with stories by [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Bram Stoker,]] Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and many others.[[/note]]
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Franchise/UniversalHorror presents us this 1932 film, which was the TropeMaker for the undead {{Mummy}} genre.[[note]]Although the TropeCodifier for many of the tropes was its successor, ''Film/TheMummysHand''. Also, [[{{Mummy}} mummy]] stories of one sort or another had already been popular ''in print'' for a hundred years, with stories by [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Bram Stoker,]] Stoker]], Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, and many others.[[/note]]
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* CurseOfThePharaoh: Explorers find the remains of a High Priest named Imhotep who was buried alive in the desert. His casket contains a warning that death will meet anyone who opens the casket. This is ignored by the explorers and the Priest is brought back to life when one of the explorers reads the "Scroll of Life" which causes the Imhotep. Imhotep then proceeds to try to revive a dead lover (which was why he was buried alive as it was sacrilege), killing anyone who gets in his way.
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* CurseOfThePharaoh: Explorers find the remains of a High Priest named Imhotep who was buried alive in the desert. His casket contains a warning that death will meet anyone who opens the casket. This is ignored by the explorers and the Priest priest is brought back to life when one of the explorers reads the "Scroll Scroll of Life" Thoth which causes the Imhotep.mummy of Imhotep to resurrect. Imhotep then proceeds to try to revive a dead lover (which was why he was buried alive as it was sacrilege), killing anyone who gets in his way.
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* SoullessShell: The whole reason Imhotep is after Helen is to avoid this. He says he can revive Anck-es-en-Amon's body at any point, but she would just be a mindless husk since her soul has already been reincarnated. He insists that it was her soul he fell in love with and not her body, and burns her mummy just to prove his point.
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* ImplacableMan: As long as the Scroll of Thoth tethering him to life exists, Imhotep is completely invulnerable.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Princess Anck-es-en-Amon is portrayed as the daughter of the Pharaoh Amenophis (Amenhotep) III. In real life, she was his granddaughter.
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* OurLichesAreDifferent: While technically a mummy, Imhotep acts more similarly to a lich than to a stereotypical mummy due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in modern mummy lore. He's an undead EvilSorcerer with an object (the Scroll of Thoth) as his tether to the world of the living, and uses magic as his primary weapon.
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* OurLichesAreDifferent: While technically a mummy, Imhotep acts more similarly to a lich than to a stereotypical mummy due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in modern mummy lore. He's an undead EvilSorcerer with an object (the Scroll of Thoth) as his tether to the world of the living, and uses magic as his primary weapon. He is also ''invulnerable'' to physical attacks as he says to Müller.
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* SoulJar: While not literally carrying Imhotep's soul, the Scroll of Thoth is Imhotep's tether to the world of the living. He dies when the scroll is incinerated.
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* SoulJar: While not literally carrying Imhotep's soul, the Scroll of Thoth is Imhotep's tether to the world of the living. He dies when the scroll is incinerated. It's the only way to defeat him.
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* SuperStrength: Imhotep bends and breaks metal bars from the museum offscreen.
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** The stature of Isis raises her arm at the end in response to Helen/Anck-es-en-Amon's plea, reducing Imhotep to a skeleton.
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** The stature of Isis raises her arm at the end in response to Helen/Anck-es-en-Amon's plea, setting the Scroll of Thoth on fire and reducing Imhotep to a skeleton.
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** The stature of Isis raises her arm at the end in response to Helen/Anck-es-en-Amon's plea, reducing Imhotep to a skeleton.
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* OurLichesAreDifferent: While technically a mummy, Imhotep acts more similarly to a lich than to a stereotypical mummy due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in modern mummy lore. He's an undead EvilSorcerer with an object (the Scroll of Thoth) as his tether to the world of the living, and uses magic as his primary weapon.
* OurMummiesAreDifferent: Imhotep is an EvilSorcerer who learned magic to make himself undead, survived being BuriedAlive as a mummy, cast off his wrappings after waking up, can pass as a living man, and was prepared to turn Anck-es-en-Amon into a mummy before he was defeated.
* OurMummiesAreDifferent: Imhotep is an EvilSorcerer who learned magic to make himself undead, survived being BuriedAlive as a mummy, cast off his wrappings after waking up, can pass as a living man, and was prepared to turn Anck-es-en-Amon into a mummy before he was defeated.
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* PastLifeMemories: One of Helen's past lives was Princess Anck-es-en-Amon, Imhotep's beloved, whom she bears an uncanny resemblance to. Unfortunately, this results in Helen developing a SplitPersonality in the last quarter of the film.
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** Reincarnation was ''not'' a belief in UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology, which had a fairly detailed afterlife. Furthermore, the Egyptians believed in a soul having multiple parts, one of which remained with the body after death (which was why mummification was so culturally important to them in the first place).
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** Reincarnation was ''not'' a belief in UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology, Myth/EgyptianMythology, which had a fairly detailed afterlife. Furthermore, the Egyptians believed in a soul having multiple parts, one of which remained with the body after death (which was why mummification was so culturally important to them in the first place).
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* SoulJar: While not literally carrying Imhotep's soul, the Scroll of Thoth is Imhotep's tether to the world of the living. He dies when the scroll is incinerated.
* SplitPersonality: In the second half of the film, Helen's body is fought over between two personalities: her past life Anck-es-en-Amon, and her present life as Helen. At stake is which personality she gets to be for the rest of eternity.
* SplitPersonality: In the second half of the film, Helen's body is fought over between two personalities: her past life Anck-es-en-Amon, and her present life as Helen. At stake is which personality she gets to be for the rest of eternity.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Helen explains where she was after her walk, she discusses what she saw and did... and Anck-es-en-Amon's past life memories start seeping in...
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* SadlyMythtaken: Bast is referred to as “the goddess of evil sendings” and is invoked by Imhotep to kill people, whereas in myth Bast is a protectress against disease and evil spirits.
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* SadlyMythtaken: ReplacedWithReplica: Imhotep swaps out the scroll of Thoth with a newspaper, which he sets on fire before running off with the scroll.
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** Reincarnation was ''not'' a belief in UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology, which had a fairly detailed afterlife. Furthermore, the Egyptians believed in a soul having multiple parts, one of which remained with the body after death (which was why mummification was so culturally important to them in the first place).
** Bast is referred to as “the goddess of evil sendings” and is invoked by Imhotep to kill people, whereas in myth Bast is a protectress against disease and evilspirits.spirits.
* SayMyName: Imhotep chants Anck-es-en-Amon's name as a mantra to draw her to him in the museum. It doesn't work because the door is locked.
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** Reincarnation was ''not'' a belief in UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology, which had a fairly detailed afterlife. Furthermore, the Egyptians believed in a soul having multiple parts, one of which remained with the body after death (which was why mummification was so culturally important to them in the first place).
** Bast is referred to as “the goddess of evil sendings” and is invoked by Imhotep to kill people, whereas in myth Bast is a protectress against disease and evil
* SayMyName: Imhotep chants Anck-es-en-Amon's name as a mantra to draw her to him in the museum. It doesn't work because the door is locked.
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The film was semi-remade in 1940 (''Film/TheMummysHand'', which itself spawned several sequels), 1959 (''Film/{{The Mummy|1959}}'', a Film/HammerHorror production featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the title creature and based more on the 1940 film than the 1932 original), 1999 (''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}''), and 2017 (''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'').
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** Also, when Frank is complaining to his father about letting the Egyptians keep any artifacts they find instead of being allowed to take them back to London, his father admonishes him by saying they are scientists, not looters.
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* LoopholeAbuse: As an Egyptian, Imhotep is spiritually forbidden from digging up Anck-es-en-Amon's tomb. But he has zero problem with showing the British where it is and letting them dig it up for him.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Not the character himself as he's present for the entire film in human form, but the classic bandaged version of the Mummy featured in all of the posters is on-screen for about a minute.
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* FirstInstallmentWeirdness: This first Universal Mummy movie is about a mummy named Imhotep who acts more like an EvilSorceror than a traditional {{Mummy}} and wants to revive his lost love. All of the sequels are about a more traditional lumbering mummy named Kharis.
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* IgnoredExpert: Dr. Muller. He even asks why they bothered inviting him if they weren't going to listen to any of his advice.
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** Ultimately subverted. Imhotep isn't motivated by the curse at all, and doesn't bother getting revenge or carrying it out.
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* DeusExMachina: Seemingly literally. Helen prays to Isis to save her, who then lights the Scroll of Thoth on fire, reducing Imhotep to dust.
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* DeusExMachina: Seemingly literally. Helen prays to Isis to save her, who then lights the Scroll of Thoth on fire, reducing Imhotep to dust.dust for blasphemy.
