History Main / SeductiveMummy

* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': Inverted with [[TheVamp Anck-su-namun]], who was a MsFanservice while alive, but looks as [[IWasQuiteALooker decrepit and horrid]] as you'd expect a mummy to look like.

* In the Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark episode ''[[Recap/AreYouAfraidOfTheDarkSeason3TheTaleOfTheGuardiansCurse The Tale of the Guardian's Curse]]'', an ordinary mummy becomes a beautiful Ancient Egyptian woman after being dosed with an Elixir of Life.

%%* A traditional mummy becomes this (after being dosed with an Elixer of Life) in the Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark episode ''The Tale of the Guardian's Curse''.

* ''[[Literature/FreaksAliveOnTheInside Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!]]'' by Annette Curtis Klause centers on the main character's romance with a living mummy called Tauseret.

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* A traditional mummy becomes this (after being dosed with an Elixer of Life) in the Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark episode ''The Tale of the Guardian's Curse''.

* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'': Inverted with [[TheVamp Anck-su-namun]], who was a MsFanservice while alive, but looks as [[IWasQuiteALooker decrepit and horrid]] as you'd expect a mummy to look like.

SubTrope to EgyptIsStillAncient.

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 and CuteGhostGirl.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'': Menat 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.
* Anakaris from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' has a quite attractive female mummy servant called Khaibit. When Demitri's Midnight Bliss hits Anakaris, he turns into her.

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 UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain, as well as romanticization and sexualization of the "exotic" female.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': Being a CuteMonsterGirl series, the [=MonMusu=] Collection endcard for episode 8 of the anime describes mummies as a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie subspecies]] whose native environment keeps their bodies intact and protects them from decay, resulting in them looking like attractive humans with parts of their body in bandages. The downside is that their environment robs their skin of its moisture, so they need to take long baths to replenish it, supplementing it with the placebo measure of sucking the life-force out of young men.

* ''Videogame/StreetFighterV'': Menat 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.

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* Parodied via a scene from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in ''WebComic/PennyArcade'' when [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/a-premonition they predict]] what would follow up the vampire craze.

* Subverted in ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth Fortune]]''. Skeeve meets a mummy girl who looks like the standard unattractive mummy, but she's so sweet and nice that he ends up asking her out on a date regardless of her appearance.

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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Nephthys is an undead Egyptian girl with {{Stripperific}}ally placed mummy bandages.

* The 1971 movie ''Blood From the Mummy's Tomb'', based on ''Jewel of Seven Stars'', is about the resurrection of the beautiful Egyptian queen Tera.

* Played with in ''Literature/TheJewelOfSevenStars'' by Bram Stoker: Queen Tera is described as strikingly beautiful, even as a mummy. It is also possible that her spirit survived in Margaret, the main character's LoveInterest, who is said to bear a striking resemblance to her.
* ''Iras'' by H.D. Everett involves the main character actually '''marrying''' a mummy who turned into a beautiful woman.
* Ma-Mee from Creator/HRiderHaggard's short story ''[[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6073/6073-h/6073-h.htm Smith and the Pharaohs]]'': Smith's discovery of her tomb was originally motivated by him being smitten with a sculpture depicting her. Later at night in the museum she comes to life as an attractive female. [[spoiler: Smith is also revealed as a reincarnation of her lover Horu.]]

* ''[[Literature/FreaksAliveOnTheInside Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!]]'' by Annette Curtis Klause centers on the main character's romance with a living mummy called Tauseret.
* ''Don't Tell Mummy'', one of the books in the ''Literature/GraveyardSchool'' series, has the main character, Park, meeting a mysterious and [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] girl called Morton, who turns out to be a living mummy. Nevertheless, they become friends by the end of the novel, and there may be subtle hints at this trope (especially given that Park chose to pursue the career of an archaeologist due to his encounter with her).
* Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheMummyOrRamsesTheDamned'' features some steamy mummy/human sex scenes, facilitated by a magic elixir that brings mummies back to life.
* In ''Literature/ClubMonstrosity'' series by Jesse Petersen, Kai is an attractive female mummy working for a cosmetics company.
* Subverted in ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth Fortune]]''. Skeeve meets a mummy girl who looks like the standard unattractive mummy, but she's so sweet and nice that he ends up asking her out on a date regardless of her appearance.

* Ampata from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a really tragic example: she has to drain life force from other people to sustain her existence, and she just wants to lead a normal life.

* 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 Fortesque]].

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

* Parodied via a scene from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in ''WebComic/PennyArcade'' when [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/a-premonition they predict]] what would follow up the vampire craze.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Thoth Kephera 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.
* Averted with Cleofatra in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', she's actually a fatty nerdy girl, unlike other female students like Blanch (an AttractiveZombie) and Durze (a GorgeousGorgon). Yet in one episode Cleo does manage to seduce a [[Series/BeautyAndTheBeast1987 Vincent-like]] monster celebrity.

* In ''[[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602441h.html My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies]]'', the main character becomes enamored with a living mummy of the Princess Hatasou, and even agrees to become a mummy himself to join her (fortunately, this doesn't happen).

* ''WebAnimation/{{Xombie}}'' has Nephthys, who is the resident MrsFanservice in the show and a Variant zombie like Dirge. She is also a subversion in that while she aesthetically matches the trope, she is not an actual mummy. She even points out that if she were a mummy, the Egyptians would have removed her brain during mummification, and she wouldn't have reanimated in the first place.

%%* ''WebAnimation/{{Xombie}}'' has Nephthys, who is the resident MrsFanservice in the show.

* In ''[[www.gutenberg.org/files/22662/22662-h/22662-h.htm
The Mummy's Foot]]'' by Théophile Gautier, the protagonist buys a mummified foot of a Egyptian princess as a souvenir. This very night, the princess comes to him to take back her foot and steals him away on a journey to Ancient Egypt, where he asks for her hand. Her father refuses however: the protagonist is only 27 years old, and the princess is over 30 centuries.