History Main / SeductiveMummy

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* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' had a plotline about Amber writing a series of sexy mummy novels.

* An Egyptian demon in Series/{{Charmed}} had the ability to put his dead wife's soul into the body of a hot mortal woman, thus turning her into a seductive mummy. He targeted Phoebe and Paige for this vessel.

It's difficult to believe nowadays, but fictional Egyptian mummies haven't always been the [[{{Mummy}} dusty, bandage-covered zombie analogues]] they are now. The first mummy fiction stories, written in the early 20th century, involved mostly female mummies, and they were portrayed as mysterious, sensual and seductive, taking on the forms of the beautiful women they were in mortal life, and sometimes playing the part of FemmeFatale.

* Princess Kiya in ''VideoGame/MediEvil2'' is a Egyptian mummy with bandages wrapping her hourglass figure and she serves as LoveInterest to the [[DemBones undead knight]] [[TheHero Sir Daniel Fortanesque]].

* Nefer-Tina from ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive''. One of the episodes involves her dating a living male.

* ''Videogame/StreetFighter'': Menat, introduced in Street Fighter V, is an extremely elegant and feminine Egyptian girl. One of her DLC costumes has her dressed like a mummy, covered in wrappings that cover only scarce parts of her body.

* Sisters Cleo and Nefera de Nile in ''Franchise/MonsterHigh'', as is the logical consequence of a MonsterMash doll toy line. Even their vanity is an important characteristic.

* ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}}'': When Ahmanet is first resurrected she starts out as a dessicated walking corpse, but after devouring enough lifeforce from her victims to restore her body she becomes a CuteMonsterGirl. She also tries to seduce the hero by sending him visions in which she appears as her once human self.

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[[caption-width-right:196:Believe it or not, this gorgeous girl has been dead for thousands of years.]]

* The 1971 movie ''Film/BloodFromTheMummysTomb'', based on ''Jewel of Seven Stars'', is about the resurrection of the beautiful Egyptian queen Tera.
* ''Film/TheMummy2017'': When Ahmanet is first resurrected she starts out as a dessicated walking corpse, but after devouring enough lifeforce from her victims to restore her body she becomes a CuteMonsterGirl. She also tries to seduce the hero by sending him visions, though she appears as she did when she was human.

* ''Film/TheMummy2017'': When Ahmanet is first resurrected she starts out as a dessicated walking corpse, but after devouring enough lifeforce from her victims to restore her body she becomes a CuteMonsterGirl.

* An Egyptian demon in {{Charmed}} had the ability to put his dead wife's soul into the body of a hot mortal woman, thus turning her into a seductive mummy. He targeted Phoebe and Paige for this vessel.

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[[caption-width-right:196:Believe it or not, [[http://www.thenextbig-game.com/?ws=1 this gorgeous girl]] has been dead for thousands of years.]]

Moreover, unlike [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[HornyDevil succubi]] and other undead/demonic creatures who usually took on human forms and employed their seductive powers just to drain mortals of their life energy, mummies were much more human, being capable of love and other feelings, sometimes even good-natured and involved in genuine romantic relationships with human males. The origins of this cultural phenomenon are neatly explained by [[https://miranda.revues.org/6899 this essay]]; in short, it represented the "romance" between an archaeologist and the ancient civilizations discovered by him, the colonization of the East by Victorian Britain, as well as romanticization and sexualization of the "exotic" female.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Thoth Khpera from the episode "Avatar." She held the secret of eternal life, and to those who enter her tomb, takes on this appearance to seduce men who come seeking said secret. When she drains their life, however, she is definitely ''not'' this trope.

The trope has been largely {{forgotten|Trope}} for the most of the 20th century due to the emergence of the classic "monster mummy" type, pioneered by Creator/BorisKarloff in [[Film/TheMummy1932 the famous 1932 movie]]; however, it seems to be somewhat growing in popularity again nowadays. Subtrope to both {{Mummy}} and BoyMeetsGhoul; SisterTrope to AttractiveZombie.