| “ | You want to know what lies beyond the veil of death? You will... when I kill you! | „ |
| ~ Ahmanet. |
Princess Ahmanet II is the titular main antagonist of the 2017 dark fantasy action-adventure film The Mummy.
She is a powerful ancient Egyptian mummy with godlike dark powers and has returned from the dead on a quest for world domination. Her return as the reanimated mummy was result of her making a deal with Set, Egyptian God of Chaos, for dark powers she had, allowing her to cheat death itself.
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 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 3,000 years later, Ahmanet first unleashed several camel spiders onto him and his friends, where one of them biting Corporal Chris Vail, 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.
- 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, as the only survivor.
- While she did revive 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, and nearly murders Nick himself out of spite, sadism and desire for power.
- 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.
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
