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16	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 stories about reanimated mummies, 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.
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18	Moreover, unlike [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[SuccubiAndIncubi 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.
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20	Since only people of high status could afford to be mummified in ancient Egypt, expect overlap with TheBeautifulElite. Most commonly, sensual female mummies were [[GratuitousPrincess princesses]] when they were alive. The fact that the historical figure most associated with Egypt, UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII, is often portrayed as a beautiful seductress also helped foster the idea of the beautiful Egyptian mummy.
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22	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, in part thanks to the resurgence of popularity [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Girls]] have experienced recently. Subtrope to both {{Mummy}} and BoyMeetsGhoul; SisterTrope to AttractiveZombie and CuteGhostGirl.
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24	SubTrope to EgyptIsStillAncient. Not related to [[StacysMom an attractive female parent]].
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26	For more examples of this trope, check out [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fiction_about_human–mummy_romance a thematic category]] on Website/TheOtherWiki.
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32	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Nephthys is an undead Egyptian girl with {{Stripperific}}ally placed mummy bandages.
34	* ''Literature/Kou1DesuGaIsekaiJoushuHajimemashita'': Mimia is an incredibly cute, buxom girl who happens to be a member of the Mummy Tribe, though she looks more like a normal human girl when she isn't wearing her layers of bandages.
35	* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': 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.
36	* ''Manga/MonsterSoul'': One of the main cast is the amply-named Mummy, a well-endowed Mummy with bandages wrapped around her body in a {{Stripperific}} fashion.
37	* One Halloween illustration for ''Manga/ToLoveRu: Darkness'' has [[LovableSexManiac Momo]] dressed in a [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy mummy]] costume. Years later, [[Creator/KentaroYabuki the same artist]] reused the outfit for a Halloween drawing of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'', where it was worn by Matsuri.
38	* ''Anime/QueensBlade'': Antagonist character Menace is based on this trope, and emphasizes the "Seductive" aspect so much that you can easily be ignorant that she's ''supposed'' to be a mummy at all unless you paid attention when her backstory came up. She forgoes any semblance of bandages, sexy or otherwise, and just looks like a voluptuous bronze-skinned beauty running around in jewelry-based VaporWear. Her backstory is that she's the last ruler of an Egypt-themed fallen nation called Amara, which was overrun by invaders because [[TheHedonist Menace was too preoccupied with the pleasures of her lesbian harem to pay attention to ruling]], something she deeply regretted when she was captured and thrown into her palace's slave pits to be beaten and raped to death. Brought back from the dead by the Swamp Witch, she's determined to rebuild her fallen nation and her harem, in ''roughly'' that order.
39	* ''Manga/WhyTheHellAreYouHereTeacher'': In Chapter 9, Kana dresses as a very shapely mummy for the SchoolFestival's HauntedHouse.
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': For the cover of one issue of ''Betty and Veronica'', both girls are dressed as mummies for a Halloween party. But while Betty is a typical mummy, Veronica only wears enough wrappings for a makeshift bikini. Upon being called out on it by Betty, Veronica claims that she ran out of bandages.
44	* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has Yummy Mummy as a minor character.
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47	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
48	* ''Film/BloodFromTheMummysTomb'', based on ''Jewel of Seven Stars'', is about the resurrection of the beautiful Egyptian queen Tera.
49	* ''Film/TheMummy1999'':
50	** Imhotep is at first a rotten, disgusting monster when first resurrected, but over the course of the film his original fit, peak condition body is restored thanks to LiquidAssets.
51	** 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.
52	* In ''Film/TheMummy2017'', when Ahmanet is first resurrected she starts out as a desiccated 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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56	* In ''Literature/ClubMonstrosity'' series by Jesse Petersen, Kai is an attractive female mummy working for a cosmetics company.
57	* PlayedForLaughs in the ''Literature/DanShambleZombiePI'' novels, in which the Unnatural-staffed Full Moon Brothel's madame is a mummy whose feminine charms have ''not'' fared well after millennia of desiccation. She still ''acts'' the part of a seductress, though ... and at least the mummified ''Pharaoh'' who resides at the Museum of Unnatural History gets tongue-tied in her presence, thinking she's out of his league.
58	* ''[[Literature/FreaksAliveOnTheInside Freaks: Alive, on the Inside!]]'' by Creator/AnnetteCurtisKlause centers on the main character's romance with a living mummy called Tauseret.
59	* ''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).
60	* ''Iras'' by H.D. Everett involves the main character actually '''marrying''' a mummy who turned into a beautiful woman.
61	* Played with in ''Literature/TheJewelOfSevenStars'' by Creator/BramStoker: 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.
62	* In ''[[http://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.
63	* Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheMummyOrRamsesTheDamned'' features some steamy mummy/human sex scenes, facilitated by a magic elixir that brings mummies back to life.
64	* 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).
65	* Subverted in ''[[Literature/MythAdventures Myth Fortune]]''. Skeeve meets a mummy girl who looks like the standard preserved corpse, but she's so sweet and nice that he ends up asking her out on a date regardless of her appearance. This is to showcase his CharacterGrowth after he'd spent most of the book interested in a girl who was very good looking but was a self-centered manipulator.
66	* 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.]]
67	* Creator/JulianHawthorne's ''The Unseen Man's Story'' has the protagonist falling in love with the resurrected Queen Amunuhet, and eventually joining her.
68	* ''Unwrap My Heart'' by Alex Falcone and Ezra Fox is a parody of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', which is about a teenage girl falling in love with a mummy.
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72	* 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.
73	* Ampata from the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E4IncaMummyGirl Inca Mummy Girl]]" 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.
74	* An Egyptian demon in ''Series/Charmed1998'' 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.
75	* ''Series/NightMan'': Subverted when an evil mummy queen showed up as the MonsterOfTheWeek in one episode. She used an illusion to make herself look like an attractive woman, but her true form was that of a rotting corpse.
76	* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit parodying ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' by replacing Edward with Frankenstein's monster also replaced Jacob with a suave mummy.
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79	[[folder:Magazines]]
80	* The cover of ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' #336 (the [[HalloweenEpisode October horror issue]]) shows an attractive woman in an Egyptian headdress, kholed eyes, and not ''entirely'' wrapped in bandages, with the only monstrous aspect to the picture being her FemmeFatalons.
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84	* Tiyet, the second known mummy to be a darklord of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'', appears as a perfectly-preserved (and bandage-free) noblewoman, her undead nature betrayed only by her too-pale skin and the delicately-resewn gash where her heart has been cut out.
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87	[[folder:Theatre]]
88	* ''Theatre/TheMysteryOfIrmaVep'' has Princess Pev Amri, who seduces Edgar in the tombs. [[spoiler:Revealed near the end of the play to have actually been a trick played by his wife, Enid.]]
89	* The ballet ''The Pharaoh’s Daughter'' is about an English lord who takes shelter in a pyramid during a trip to Egypt, and after [[MushroomSamba smoking some opium]], the mummies begin to come to life. One of the mummies is the beautiful Princess Aspicia, who lays her hand over his heart and kick-starts an extended fantasy sequence about him being her lover in Ancient Egypt.
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93	* While ''Toys/MonsterHigh'' is full of CuteMonsterGirl characters (it is a line of fashion dolls, after all), Cleo De Nile, the mummy girl, is a glamorous LovableAlphaBitch and the school's [[AllGuysWantCheerleaders head cheerleader]]. As such, she gets a lot of attention from the guys at school, especially BigManOnCampus Deuce Gordon (with whom she was often packaged).
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97	* Anakaris from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' has a quite attractive female mummy servant called Khaibit. Demitiri's Midnight Bliss attack will also turn Anakaris into a female mummy, but the result is significantly more cartoony.
98	* 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]].
99	* Krom-Ha from ''VideoGame/TheNextBigThing'' by Creator/PenduloStudios: a beautiful female illusionist and a temple priestess, who is actually a mummy brought to life with the use of the Book of the Dead. The main character Dan Murray spends a night of love with her.
100	* ''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. Additionally, she has a crossover costume that dresses her as Khaibit, mentioned above.
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104	* 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.
105	* ''WebAnimation/{{Xombie}}'' has Nephthys, who is the resident MsFanservice 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 points out that if she were a mummy, [[ShownTheirWork the ancient Egyptians would have removed her brain during mummification]] (given that Variants have no memory of their past lives, this lead her to rule out being royalty), and she wouldn't have reanimated in the first place.
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109	* Parodied in [[http://oglaf.com/yummymummies/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' strip, featuring a group of decaying, decrepit mummies posing provocatively and spouting bad pick-up lines.
110	-->'''Mummy:''' I'm naked under this bandage.
111	* Defied in one of the ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' bonus comics:
112	-->'''Julio Scoundrel:''' I don't suppose you're actually a gorgeous woman under those bandages?
113	-->'''Mummy Queen:''' It is literally like a graveyard threw up in here.
114	* 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.
115	* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' had a plotline about Amber writing a series of sexy (male) mummy novels.
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118	[[folder:Western Animation]]
119	* ''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.
120	* 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.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/HeroInside'' has Mummy Girl, an attractive Egyptian mummy-themed hero who utilizes her bandages as weapons.
122	* Nefer-Tina from ''WesternAnimation/MummiesAlive'' is pretty damn gorgeous and manages to briefly become a supermodel. One of the episodes involves her dating a living male, [[spoiler:though he turns out to be an evil god in disguise]].
123	* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInWheresMyMummy'': Cleopatra first appears as a beautiful woman, before turning into a scary crone. [[spoiler: It is later revealed that she was actually Velma in disguise, and there are hints at a romance between Velma and Omar.]]
124	* ''WesternAnimation/PlasticMan'''s villainess Disco Mummy, as the name implies, is an attractive disco-themed Aztec mummy.
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