Mummies Alive!
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Mummies Alive! was an animated television series distributed by DIC in the late 1990s. It is about a group of Egyptian warriors who come back to life in contemporary San Francisco to protect a young boy who is a reincarnation of a Prince they served.
In ancient Egypt, an evil sorcerer, Scarab, tries to kill the pharaoh's son, Prince Rapses, so he can use the boy's soul to become immortal. Entombed alive for his crime, Scarab revives in the modern world and begins his search for Rapses' reincarnation, a San Francisco-dwelling boy named Presley Carnavon. Rapses' bodyguards, Ja-Kal, Rath, Armon, and Nefer-Tina, rise from the dead to protect him from Scarab. Each of the mummies is aligned with the power of an Egyptian god and are able to call upon it for magical armor and powers to fight superhuman evildoers, although once their strength is exhausted they must rest in their sarcophagi to regain the ability.
In addition to Scarab, the mummies often had to contend with gods and spirits from Egyptian myth summoned to the modern world, including Anubis, Set, Geb, Apep, Bast, Sekhmet and Bes, usually as part of one of Scarab's schemes that went out of his control.
There was one season of forty-two episodes.
The lyrics for the show's theme song is as follows:
- A little boy named Presley found a secret out this year / that he was once a Pharaoh when Egyptians ruled the world / and now some sorcerer named Scarab tries to get him day and night / but Presley has four guardians to protect his very life.
- He has the Mummies. / From 1525 B.C. / He has the Mummies. / Protection for the new Rapses. / He has the Mummies. / They're hanging by the 'Frisco Bay. / He has the Mummies. / Protectors of the world today. / So Mu-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh / Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
- He has the Mummies. / From 1525 B.C. / He has the Mummies. / Protection for the Pharaoh teen. / He has the Mummies. / They're hanging by the Western Gate. / He has the Mummies. / They're going to save the world today, the Egyptian way. / They're Mummies Alive!
Trivia
- Rapses, the name of Presley's former incarnation, is a pun on Ramses, a pharoah of Egypt
- Each of the mummie's name is a pun:
- *Ja-Kal: Jackal
- *Armon: Arm On
- *Nefer-Tina: Nefertiti
- *Rath: Wrath
- Presley's last name, Carnavon, is based on Earl of Carnarvon. The Fifth Earl accompanied Howard Carter and discovered King Tut's Tomb.
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