Editing Mummy (section)

==Monstergirls==
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Mummies are one of the most iconic [[undead]] in fantasy, right up there with the [[ghost]], the [[zombie]] and the [[vampire]], and just like their counterparts, have been the target of horny nerds asking "but what if they were also hot chicks?"

When given the monstergirls treatment, mummies tend to come off as similar to [[lich]]es, with the advantage of some more easily applicable aesthetic trappings. They are usually depicted as sexy women with brown, tan, bronzed or otherwise "dark" skin tones, usually adorned in fantastic golden jewelry with as many [[Egypt]]ian symbols as they can get away with, and typically wrapped at least partially in bandages. They are often depicted as being ''extra'' curvy, to emphasize the contrast between their magnificent breasts or bodacious booties and the linen fabrics struggling to hold back their voluptuous flesh in some semblance of modesty. They typically wield potent magical abilities, thus furthering the comparison to liches, but may also have superhuman strength.

Now, you may think that this is just a modern phenomena... well, in fact, you'd be wrong! Whilst the bandaged [[zombie]] take on the mummy has an equally long history, debuting in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lot No. 249" (yeah, that's right, the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes also did a killer mummy story), in the early parts of the 19th century, most writers specifically wrote about ''female'' mummies. These mummies, inspired by the surviving artwork of ancient Egyptian princesses, were usually something akin to [[ghost]]s; spirits from the ancient past waking up in the mortal world when their preserved remains were disturbed, seeking either to seduce a brave and handsome living man to join them in the afterlife as their consort, to possess a mortal host and resume their human lives, or both. The first ever mummy-centric long story was "The Jewel of Seven Stars", which was written by a guy called Bram Stoker... y'know, the creator of ''Count Dracula''? - and it was about some brave Victorian British folks disturbing the mummy of the Egyptian [[witch]]-queen "Tera", who attempts to possess a human woman so she can live once more. Sadly, Boris Karloff and Universal Films made the bandaged-wrapped shambler much more iconic, even despite Hammer Horror attempting to do a Jewel of Seven Stars adaptation called "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (which probably inspired the [[Ravenloft]] [[Darklord]] Tiyet), and the archetype was largely lost to time and obscurity.

In the [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]], the mummy is a variant zombie afflicted with overly sensitive skin; they bandage themselves to protect themselves from being rendered too horny to do anything from just the day-to-day sensations of moving around.

The Monster Musume verse has them as a [[zombie]] subspecies that rely on arid environments to preserve their bodies... however, it also leaves them constantly dehydrated, so they have to take baths all the time.

If you're curious, our frenemies over on [[TVTropes]] have given the Mummy Monstergirl its own trope; "Seductive Mummy".