| “ | You want to know what lies beyond the veil of death? You will... when I kill you! | „ |
| ~ Ahmanet. |
| “ | I loved my father. I wanted him to do the same for me. | „ |
| ~ Ahmanet's bitter resentment towards her Pharaoh father and false claims that she loved him. |
Ahmanet (also known as Princess Ahmanet, the Mummy, and the Monster) is the titular main antagonist of the 2017 action horror film The Mummy, a reboot of The Mummy film series and the first and only installment of Universal Studios' fail planned Dark Universe franchise, the main antagonist of its canon tie-in video game, The Mummy Demastered.
She is a powerful ancient Egyptian mummy with godlike dark powers, who came back from the dead on a quest for world domination after being rightfully denied her birthright back when she was still alive. Ahmanet's return as a reanimated mummy was a result of her making a deal with Set, the Egyptian God of Chaos, for dark powers she had, allowing her to cheat death itself. She is also one of the two archenemies (alongside Set) of Horus, the teen Prodigium agent from The Mummy Demastered.
She was portrayed by Sofia Boutella.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
In General:[]
- It's been theorized multiple times that Ahmanet's mother has similar features and personality traits as her, though has more severe homicidal tendency than she had, as stated by those theories that she wiped out an Ancient Egyptian civilization because of it and was rumored to have reincarnated into Ahmanet. Therefore, any redeeming qualities from the time she first came into existence were all actually fake.
- Even if it means that she might possibly have moral agency issues, she had proven to instead have clear moral agency, as she willingly retaliated against Set, who had just been fused with Nick Morton, a few times.
- Even though she is also another The Mummy Pure Evil like the Dragon Emperor Han and the Scorpion King, she is actually much more worse than the former, all of whom still has (despite neither of these positive traits nor the unseen parents were enough to remove either of them of their current status) a sense of honor, sense of reasoning, some pragmatic care for their own soldiers, and Evil is Cool moments, showing they still has had some humanity left in themselves, and the relationship with their parents for some of them wasn't even explored slightly at all, and this shows that Ahmanet doesn't either of those at all, and that her relationship with her own family was way too extremely unhealthy to begin with.
- Even when she was still promised the throne by her father, Ahmanet wasn't so entirely morally restrained of her murderous tendencies, because ever since she was younger, when a group of bandits tried to kidnap her as part of a ransom plan, she responded by savagely mutilating all of them into pieces.
- Killed multiple people merely for pleasure and power instead of just revenge.
- Even after her death, she left a terrifying legacy that still haunts the galaxy, and while the explanations for the future generations not even mentioning her nor any flashbacks she appeared in at all could be that she was forgotten into time, it was actually because of how most of her allies and enemies were both most likely shaken by the atrocities she'd committed prior to their arrival into the Solar System.
The Mummy:[]
- Made a pact with Set, the God of Chaos, to bring death and destruction to the world, although she intents on betraying Set and usurping his power afterwards.
- Killed her own father, pharaoh Menehptre, in a fit of rage and revenge for betraying her by taking back his promise to making her his heir to the throne of Egypt as he instead gives it to his newborn son that his second wife gives him, albeit he did this because he didn't exactly trust her at all, despite still loving and caring for her. She also murdered her stepmother and baby half-brother out of her own pure loathing for them.
- Nearly sacrificed her previous Chosen and lover, Kharis, to turn him into Set's host vessel, and would've done so successfully had it not for her father's combat-skilled priest who intervened in the ritual in time and mummifying her alive.
- Upon being accidentally freed by U.S. Sergeant Nick Morton (Ted Bundy in disguise) 3,000 years later, Ahmanet first unleashed several camel spiders onto him and his friends, where one of them biting Corporal Chris Vail (Jeffrey Dahmer in disguise), causing him to become possessed by her later on. She would then use Vail to release herself from her sarcophagus, before deciding to kill Vail's superior, Colonel Gideon Greenway, as well as attempting to do the same with Nick and the others.
- She doesn't even care if she did chosen Nick as a next possible vessel for Set, showcasing her lack of loyalty towards Set.
- Since Vail died, she retaliated by unleashing a murder of crows to crash the plane with, killing everyone, including Nick, leaving out Nick's "love interest", Jenny Halsey (Cassandra in disguise), as the only survivor.
- While she did revived Nick the next day, It's purely pragmatic since she doesn't want to waste more time searching for and choosing another Chosen instead.
- Upon crashing the plane near the church, she killed and enslaved several emergency workers and police officers so she can use them for protection, as well as assisting her in capturing Nick.
- Almost killed Nick and Jenny, and would've done so had Prodigium not managed to restrain and capture her in time.
- In The Mummy Demastered, upon being captured and during her containment, she'd created a projection of herself to spread her evil across the rest of England even further that way.
- She took full control of a Prodigium technician named Pete Morse via a spider she telepathically controlled into his ear into releasing her from her containment.
- Upon freeing herself of her Mercury poisoning, she killed 2 Prodigium soldiers that were trying to prevent her escape. Later on, when retrieving the Dagger of Set, she created a sandstorm to wreck havoc across all of London.
- In The Mummy Demastered, after doing so, she retaliated against her captors by assaulting Prodigium with several monsters she unleashed into the HQ, and just a few minutes between creating a sandstorm and leaving the facility, when the agent attempted to stop her advance once he arrived there, she summoned Anubis to deal with him while also covering her escape.
- She caused a mass destruction in London with a sandstorm she'd created, murdering several people and endangering much more of London, having citizens and the city being threatened by that said sandstorm. She also takes glee at the chaos that she caused.
- In The Mummy Demastered, the chaos and massacre she brought into and across London is cranked up to 13, where, during her rampage, Ahmanet also summoned her monstrous minions to search for and kill any survivors of the sandstorm, and several of them just so happens to be in several buildings as well.
- She used necromancy to resurrect the Knights Templar as her undead slaves and have them murder several innocent Prodigium scientists who found the ruby for the Dagger of Set in the tomb, while she herself single-handedly massacred a small squad of armed Prodigium soldiers who were ordered to guard both the scientists and the ruby from her.
- She murders Jenny by snapping her neck (rather than outright drowning her (yet, she gets resurrected as Cassandra shortly afterwards, however)), and nearly murders Nick himself out of spite, sadism and desire for power.
- While she may not have gave Kharis the same treatment as she did to Nick when he was her former Chosen, it's still heavily implied she'd only treated the former gently after probably seducing him through manipulation technique before eventually raping him into submission.
- Although she became scared of seeing Nick stabbing himself with the Dagger of Set, Ahmanet was instead shocked by what she thought to be his rather desperate suicidal attempt to complete the ritual quicker.
The Mummy Demastered:[]
- At the moment of her freedom, Ahmanet killed off the Prodigium ground team sent to investigate the disturbance in her tomb-like prison. And when she first met the main protagonist of The Mummy Demastered, being an unnamed, teenage Prodigium agent, several hours later, she used her presence to unleash her monsters and zombified several deceased ground team members to kill him, while also attempting to have her prison collapse in on him as means of burying him alive there. Thankfully, the agent made it out of there safely in time.
- Killed 4 Prodigium technicians for providing the agent with the equipments needed for his mission in neutralizing her.
- Infested the cave within the forest with the monsters she summoned via her projection upon her capture by Prodigium, with the Giant Arachnid below the cavern being the most dangerous of them all, and given how many skeletons the were before and within its hideout, she probably had the Giant Arachnid devour the other Prodigium soldiers that were investigating the disturbance there.
- Later infested the subway tunnel with her monsters, since she knew that it's actually connected to the Prodigium headquarters. What’s worse is that she also summoned Ammit, Devourer of the Dead, near the entrance to Prodigium.
- Took over full control of Big Ben, and had the clock tower swarmed with monsters with a Giant Scarab at the top of it.
- After killing Jenny, she then sent her undead minions to deal with the agent next.
- Summoned Set’s demonic avatar to aid her in killing the agent during their showdown.
- While she may not have refocused her attention on the agent, she would still have a grudge against him later on for getting her killed in the first place.
Trivia[]
- Despite how her excuse (losing the throne to her baby brother) is far too petty to justify the crimes she commits and that she was already a monster to begin with, Ahmanet wasn't intended to be seen as Pure Evil by the filmmakers, as Sophia Boutella assured that she played Ahmanet with the intentions to make the audience feel bad for her and understand her actions to avoid playing an obviously evil villain. But given her power-hungry attitude, however, that doesn't detract her of her current status.
- This may indicate that Boutella played the role with the impression that Ahmanet was on the right to kill her family for being unfairly deprived of her promised birthright by her "sexist" father, as Boutella had in mind the realistic injustices the character may have faced such as being deprived from power due to her sex, hence her interest to highlight some feminism with her performance. Yet, given her true nature, which her father was somehow fully aware of, he was right to deny her of that "birthright", so this isn't even slightly enough to remove her of her status.
- This petty excuse for her actions was made even more evident in the prequel animated graphic novel, Ahmanet Reborn, in which Ahmanet already displayed senses of narcissism, insanity, and hatred for her own family, even before being granted of her powers by Set.
- This may indicate that Boutella played the role with the impression that Ahmanet was on the right to kill her family for being unfairly deprived of her promised birthright by her "sexist" father, as Boutella had in mind the realistic injustices the character may have faced such as being deprived from power due to her sex, hence her interest to highlight some feminism with her performance. Yet, given her true nature, which her father was somehow fully aware of, he was right to deny her of that "birthright", so this isn't even slightly enough to remove her of her status.
External Links[]
- Ahmanet on the Villains Wiki
