Mumm Ra is impressive thanks to Earl Hammond's voice. Also overall the 80's original show is the only one that exists to me. Great artwork and voice acting.
Did anyone else notice in the 2011 version the Ancient evil spirits were a crocodile, an ape, a jackal and a vulture. Who were Mumm-Ra's four top Generals again?
From what I can understand from the original Thundercats series the Ancient Spirits of Evil started getting frustrated of Mumm-Ra's constant failures against the ThunderCats they threatened to banish him from Third Earth and they did that with some help from Snarf who went inside an ancient Thunderaian relic to learn how to defeat Mumm-Ra and he told Lion-O through the Sword of Omens that if Mumm-Ra failed to destroy the ThunderCats before sundown he would be stripped of his powers and banished from Third Earth and Lion-O did just that he didn't fight Mumm-Ra he just kept him busy dodging Mumm-Ra's attacks till they failed when the sun set and the last we saw of him and his dog MummMutt they were put inside some kind of sarcophagus and disappeared from sight and we all thought that was the end of him till he was brought back by the Ancient Spirits of Evil for one more chance and he still failed.
@@garysanders8350 Mumm-Ra has it too. In their biggest clash during Lion-O's annointment trials he destroyed Mumm-Ra's casket which did actually destroy him but the ancient spirits of evil revived him and his casket. There were a few other times including when they banished then retrieved him shortly after where he should have been destroyed for good but the Ancient spirits of evil always stepped in to change that
Yeah he was literally brought back the episode after he was banished because as soon as he was gone the Thundercat's went and blew up his pyramid which was also the ancient spirits base. They realized without Mumm-Ra to act as their avatar the Thundercats and their goodness would prevail and they didn't want that.
Man, that intro of mum-ra scared the crap out of me as a 5 year old. I recall closing my eyes and ears every time he was in screen, at least during the intro. They did a great job.
I think I am the only one who was sad after the 2011 TC’s reboot was cancelled. It has so much more potential and story to tell. The animation was on point.
Remarkably dark for a show targeted at kids. As a child, I hated shows that tried to "protect me" or insult my intelligence, I loved that Thundercats allowed ME TO BE BRAVE, and face Mumra along with the Thundercats!
Wow what a good point - well that almost brought a tear to my eye. I couldn't have said it better myself, in the 80s the best cartoons had an adult like emotional content people could die you could experience loss we would watch our shows knowing full well that if we didn't put our heart in this & back the heros or if our heros weren't smart or reckless maybe even give there all they could lose or even seriously harmed some characters could b killed. See at the end of most of our cartoons there would b a lesson or they would ask us what we learned now sometimes the lesson would b that sometimes things just can happen or if LionO was foolish or haughty maybe made a wrong assumption or failed to heed didn't listen to Jaga, we knew LionO would feel his mistake. These aspects made it real to all of us it made our minds strong & it touched our hearts. We knew the bully was the bad guy we knew Everything wasn't gonna be perfect for us and sometimes we're going to lose & it was ok
Yeah totally agree, western animation always would have the good guys punch the bad guys and vise versa only use a sword or whatever if it was a against a robot. I absolutely loved Robotech Anime because there were real stakes. Heroes died and was much more realistic in that respect.
The best episode in the earlier series was the one where Mumm-Ra gained control of Excaliber and then uses it to defeat Lion-O before being unmasked and defeated by Merlin
'The Eye of Thunderra can never be used for Evil' yeah I remember hearing that as Lion-O was scouting the area and he saw a herd of deer and was gonna use the sword on them till the sword pulled itself out of Lion-O's grasp and stayed still in the ground ignoring Lion-O till the spirit of Jagga appears and tells him that the sword will not be used for Evil or to harm others.
Remember what Jagga said to Lion-O the sword of Omens won't take a life it wasn't created for that it's not like the Swords of Earth with the exception of the legendary sword Excalibur which like the Sword of Omens won't be used for Evil and even though Lion-O wanted to hunt that herd of deer using the sword for that wasn't the way and from what I also remember about that second episode when the sword of Omens wrenched itself out of Lion-O's hand and refused to listen to him when he tried to pull it out of that tree it was like the sword was alive and I think it was.
And I'll add to me he really stood out in the 80s. Skeletor was sitcomish and so was shredder and bebop. Step on shredders foot and he hops away. Skeletor had funny one liners. Meanwhile mumm ra was more "serious". He invaded their dreams, tried to cut off their food supply and planned to use acid to melt cats lair with them inside it. Shredder was more "turtles!" With pie on his face and mumm ra was more "I'm gonna melt the cats lair and turn you into soup". He was more of a "threat" and more scary. Megatron was much the same way. He wasn't laughing very much at all.
"Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!" "Moon Star of Limbo, give me the might, the muscle, the menace of Mon Star!"
It was corny in some ways, probably mostly with the moralizations, but hey it was for kids! And it compensated with some seriously epic characters, art, and plots. No other cartoon has ever felt so sword & sorcery.
Us 80s kids had the BEST cartoon and toy villains. Cobra Commander, Destro, Megatron, Starscream, Skeletor, Hordak, Mumm-Ra, Mon*Star, Miles Mayhem, King Zarkon, Cy-Kill, Dr. Claw, Shredder, Big Boss….. Edit- Only because he appeared more than once (most villains usually only had one episode) and he creeped me and a lot of other kids out, I’m including the Boogeyman from The Real Ghostbusters.
Mumm-Ra just being plain evil from the start is refreshing. As opposed to having a mother named Martha that got killed in a alley, or having his mama shot dead by a hunter, which drove him into becoming what he became. Great stuff.
Major correction, in the 2011 reboot the planet was Third Earth and the Thundercats' kingdom on the planet was called Thundera. Second Pumyra died in the attack on the kingdom and developed a hated for the royal family, Lion-O, who she saw as abandoning her. She was restored to life by Mumm-Ra and the Ancient Spirits of Evil to be a spy for them among the Thundercats. She betrayed the Thundercats at the end of the series, giving the Tech stone to Mumm-Ra.
Thank you for this video. I’ve watched Thunder Cats, but I didn’t know that much about it. And after watching this, it explains a lot about the Thunder Cats.
Before the thundercats came to third earth. The whole planet was just doing its thing. I’m sure everyone on the planet knew not to disturb his pyramid and his land. Then the thundercats came in and disrupted the balance. If mum-ra was evil he would make the whole planets life miserable. He did his conquest and just wanted to retire. no one on the planet could go toe to toe with him. He just wanted the cats gone and mostly because of the eye of thundara I speculate. It’s weird how when as a kid you see him as the bad guy but older you can see he just wanted the peace back as the cats got in to Everything disrupting the balance.
A being that truly worships evil and you think he wanted peace. He wants evil. But he's also stuck in a region. That's why he tries to get out. He follows them to their planet. If he just wanted peace it wouldn't make sense to attack them.
@@DSan-kl2yc well he didn’t mess with the inhabitants and stayed in his pyramid till the thunder cats started to mess with the balance. So if he didn’t want peace then he would of messed with the inhabitants and not stay in his tomb. I can bet you if the thunder cats would of left the planet. Then he would of went back to resting in his tomb. Just because someone is evil doesn’t mean they constantly cause issues. Everyone knew not to go to his area where his pyramid was. He conquered his planet and wanted to rest. Good and evil was in balance and the cats distributed that balance by first aiding the burbles
@@JechtAruon We don't know that. We don't know if he wasn't making moves. He set his sights on attacking the thundercats before they help the robears. And you're still a very evil person to attack people who haven't done anything to you. As well as all the plots to gain power to leave and kill everyone. Could be he just couldn't until the mutants were around just as well. But mumm ra was active enough to summon their ship.
Mumm-Ra is such a great character in the original cartoon. Everything about him is great. The remake just doesn’t capture that feeling of an absolute villain. I think that’s the problem of modern times. We always seek to vilify the heroes and humanise the villains. Some characters don’t need to be complex. Just look at the Joker in The Dark Knight. He doesn’t have a backstory, even though there are implications and some fake stories he tells himself, but all he does is make shit go bang, foil the hero at every turn and push him to the limit of his beliefs. Some people just want to watch the world burn, and someone has to put out the fire.
Or Darth Vader before the prequels. I never wanted to see him as a kid or a teen - he was a thousand times more intimidating as a bastion of pure evil, with only the excellent redemptive twist at the end.
There are two things that, to me, make Mum-Ra seem like a tragic figure from the original series: 1... He often talked to himself. Not too big a deal until you realize that he never lies to himself. In fact, a plausible explanation of why his reflection hurts him is because it makes him see the truth of what he has become and he doesn't like it. 2... It was often hinted that the reason why he attacked the Thundercats so much was because they were responsible for waking him up. Their existence on Third Earth was the reason he was not allowed to find his peace. He even says this early on by telling the Thundercats that it was them who were disturbing his sleep.
Plus the Thundercats were alien invaders from Mum-Ra's point of view. They strolled into his territory uninvited and started a fight with his citizens, the mutants. So he was only fighting the Thundercats to defend his territory and his people.
Wait..., does that mean that the Pharaoh mummified Mumm-Ra's dog? That is seriously messed up! 😧 Also being Egyptian, shouldn't he had a cat? 🤔🤓 Thank you for posting this very cool video. I love learning about the Thundercats. 💖🐱🦁🐯
I remember that episode where Mumm-Ra learned of Excalibur the legendary sword that was equal in power to the Sword of Omens and it was at the end of that episode where it was revealed that like the Sword of Omens Excalibur would not be used for Evil as like the Sword of Omens Excalibur ignored Mumm-Ra when he tried to pull the sword out of the ground to strike down Lion-O and the fact that Excalibur also recognized that Mumm-Ra was not King Arthur the legendary swords true master and I hate saying it about that episode which ironically was called 'Excalibur' it was amazing to see a duel between these 2 legendary and equally powerful swords.
IIRC, Excalibur actually defeated the Sword of Omens. Once it did so, it stopped, because.finishing its foe would be an act of evil. Personally, I think Excalibur only fought the SoO because it wanted to test its might. Like two knights jousting in a tournament.
@@RedneckSith Yeah you're right and remember how both swords went flying out of Lion-O and Mumm-Ra's hands and had an aerial battle between each other as everyone on both sides watched.
Love the artistic style tahts what keept me engaged ,I like the reebot story up to a point cuz they fucked IT up -Pumira being in love w Mum-Ra and this BS love "triangle" between Cheetara ,Tigra and Lion O i hate that shiit
I hope we actually do get a thunder cats movie been in limbo for a very long time yes toy sales haven't helped and getting it checked to see if it's safe enough but for me it's how I enjoyed watching it on a Saturday morning especially on going live on BBC one those were the days 😊😊😊
"The fight continues and Lion-O keeps struggling against Mumm-Ra's powers. In the process, several trees are knocked down as well". 😄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Cheers 🥂 🇬🇧
Good old times when you knew which gym to go based on your favorite character. Mumm-Ra - Gym: Gold's Gym Lion-O: - Gym: YMCA Panthro: - Gym: LA Fitness Rest of the Thundercats: - Gym: Planet Fitness
It was always interesting....How powerful he was (and now, knowing it more so after this history lessin) Yet can easily be beating by these Cat people.
This is really cool and left me thinking other than just sealing him away, what if following that the 4 statues and his entire lair was destroyed and then covered with a solid massive cube constructed of whatever was used to build the Thundercats base. I mean sure it won't kill him, but I'd imagine the 4 evil gods would hold mumra to needing to rebuild all that over again, after he managed to get out from his tomb underneath the massive Thundercube though lol I mean I'd have to assume that might at least give more time than before of being undisturbed by mumra lol
I had a flashback of that raven from DC and Mumma ra- from thundercats both of them haven capes around their back but when both of them turn to their scary forms they become buff
I watched the original Thundercats back in the 1980s I always thought the Thundercats were the real villains of the show. They invaded and colonized Mum-Ra's planet.
When I started watching Thundercats I was five. I didn't know of his back ground thanks to the comic. Silly thing to say. BUT thank you for making this because know I finally know the official background story to the og Mum-Ra.
Thank you tv stations for still showing us kids this villain cause we weren't like these new age cry babies. He's evil then show an evil character that embraces it. Not this weak let's understand his feelings.
I feel I must disagree that the "boatman" is bassed on Charon, but rather is a composit represnting a nomber of difrent worldly deathly escorts. There are far more myths that invole a boatman, and even a boatwoman in one case from the far east I've heard of. The aspect that differs from Caron directly was the lack of payment as Caron dose charge for his services to both the living and the dead.
Wow 🤩😍 Thank you for posting this Awswome video, and can't wait to see more Thundercats and He-Man origins videos 👍👍💜💙💖
Mumm Ra is impressive thanks to Earl Hammond's voice. Also overall the 80's original show is the only one that exists to me. Great artwork and voice acting.
Thundercats 1980 and 2011 are awesome thundercats roar suck.
The interesting fact of 1980s thundercats mummra was only human and all other are invaders cats mutants and berbils
That voice is awesome
Did anyone else notice in the 2011 version the Ancient evil spirits were a crocodile, an ape, a jackal and a vulture. Who were Mumm-Ra's four top Generals again?
Those were meant to be perversions of the Egyptian Gods( dess) Sobek,Babi,Anubis & Nekbet!!!
Slive, jackalman, monkeyian and vultureman
From what I can understand from the original Thundercats series the Ancient Spirits of Evil started getting frustrated of Mumm-Ra's constant failures against the ThunderCats they threatened to banish him from Third Earth and they did that with some help from Snarf who went inside an ancient Thunderaian relic to learn how to defeat Mumm-Ra and he told Lion-O through the Sword of Omens that if Mumm-Ra failed to destroy the ThunderCats before sundown he would be stripped of his powers and banished from Third Earth and Lion-O did just that he didn't fight Mumm-Ra he just kept him busy dodging Mumm-Ra's attacks till they failed when the sun set and the last we saw of him and his dog MummMutt they were put inside some kind of sarcophagus and disappeared from sight and we all thought that was the end of him till he was brought back by the Ancient Spirits of Evil for one more chance and he still failed.
Yeah evil always get 1 more chance
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He only failed cause lion-o had plot armour. Mumm-ra could have defeated him multiple times
@@garysanders8350 Mumm-Ra has it too. In their biggest clash during Lion-O's annointment trials he destroyed Mumm-Ra's casket which did actually destroy him but the ancient spirits of evil revived him and his casket. There were a few other times including when they banished then retrieved him shortly after where he should have been destroyed for good but the Ancient spirits of evil always stepped in to change that
Yeah he was literally brought back the episode after he was banished because as soon as he was gone the Thundercat's went and blew up his pyramid which was also the ancient spirits base. They realized without Mumm-Ra to act as their avatar the Thundercats and their goodness would prevail and they didn't want that.
Mumm-Ra was one of the few 80's villain that actually felt like a real threat despite the constant kid's show formula of the time.
So true.
Yes, Mumm Ra and Venger.
Mum Ra, venger,wrath Amon are serious vilians.
I was terrified of Mum-Ra when I was younger.
Man, that intro of mum-ra scared the crap out of me as a 5 year old. I recall closing my eyes and ears every time he was in screen, at least during the intro. They did a great job.
I think I am the only one who was sad after the 2011 TC’s reboot was cancelled. It has so much more potential and story to tell. The animation was on point.
I was disappointed too. You're not alone.
You aren't! I was looking forward to the rest of the series! But Cartoon Network decided to cancel it!
U r not alone 😢
Bro
Its 2022. And im stil salty they canceled it
I was gutted too!
Cheetara please 🙏
I grew up during the early 80's and she was my 1st crush. Love ya Cheetara and that staff is badass
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@@MarvelousVideos bless you and your wizardry
Remarkably dark for a show targeted at kids.
As a child, I hated shows that tried to "protect me" or insult my intelligence, I loved that Thundercats allowed ME TO BE BRAVE, and face Mumra along with the Thundercats!
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Wow what a good point - well that almost brought a tear to my eye. I couldn't have said it better myself, in the 80s the best cartoons had an adult like emotional content people could die you could experience loss we would watch our shows knowing full well that if we didn't put our heart in this & back the heros or if our heros weren't smart or reckless maybe even give there all they could lose or even seriously harmed some characters could b killed. See at the end of most of our cartoons there would b a lesson or they would ask us what we learned now sometimes the lesson would b that sometimes things just can happen or if LionO was foolish or haughty maybe made a wrong assumption or failed to heed didn't listen to Jaga, we knew LionO would feel his mistake. These aspects made it real to all of us it made our minds strong & it touched our hearts. We knew the bully was the bad guy we knew Everything wasn't gonna be perfect for us and sometimes we're going to lose & it was ok
Yeah totally agree, western animation always would have the good guys punch the bad guys and vise versa only use a sword or whatever if it was a against a robot. I absolutely loved Robotech Anime because there were real stakes. Heroes died and was much more realistic in that respect.
F mumra
Excellent video, man we got cheated on the ending of Thundercats 2011. What a great reboot. My kids and I truly loved it.
THIS WAS VERY INFORMATIVE...LOVE A GOOD BACK STORY
The best episode in the earlier series was the one where Mumm-Ra gained control of Excaliber and then uses it to defeat Lion-O before being unmasked and defeated by Merlin
'The Eye of Thunderra can never be used for Evil' yeah I remember hearing that as Lion-O was scouting the area and he saw a herd of deer and was gonna use the sword on them till the sword pulled itself out of Lion-O's grasp and stayed still in the ground ignoring Lion-O till the spirit of Jagga appears and tells him that the sword will not be used for Evil or to harm others.
Hunting isn't evil.
So the sword decided that an obligate predator couldn't hunt prey? That's an absurd decision but ok.
It’s wasn’t because he was hunting it was because he was being a dick he was Trying to kill it for the sake of killing
Surely liono is a carnivore so hunting deer is natural
Remember what Jagga said to Lion-O the sword of Omens won't take a life it wasn't created for that it's not like the Swords of Earth with the exception of the legendary sword Excalibur which like the Sword of Omens won't be used for Evil and even though Lion-O wanted to hunt that herd of deer using the sword for that wasn't the way and from what I also remember about that second episode when the sword of Omens wrenched itself out of Lion-O's hand and refused to listen to him when he tried to pull it out of that tree it was like the sword was alive and I think it was.
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And I'll add to me he really stood out in the 80s. Skeletor was sitcomish and so was shredder and bebop. Step on shredders foot and he hops away. Skeletor had funny one liners. Meanwhile mumm ra was more "serious". He invaded their dreams, tried to cut off their food supply and planned to use acid to melt cats lair with them inside it. Shredder was more "turtles!" With pie on his face and mumm ra was more "I'm gonna melt the cats lair and turn you into soup". He was more of a "threat" and more scary. Megatron was much the same way. He wasn't laughing very much at all.
Sword of Omens…. Give me sight, beyond sight! Mumm-Ra?? Of course!
The fun fact is mummra was only human and all others are intruders in 1980s.
So chronologically mummra was protecting the earth
Exactly!
He is the last of us...
@@adamkane7513 bro they all educated us wrong showing evils as goods guys in all these years
One of my favorite 80s cartoon villains, along with Venger!
People be sleeping on Venger he is a underrated villain
Wrath -amon ,mum Ra,venger badass vilian
Who is venger, i don't remember him.
"Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!"
"Moon Star of Limbo, give me the might, the muscle, the menace of Mon Star!"
Fave cartoon as a kid.
This was nicely put together ❤
As a 80s kid, seeing the Mum-ra transformation was kinda scary!
Unlike magnificity stupid skeletor from 80 filmation cartoon mum Ra was serious I can be treatering
I prefer the1980's version of ThunderCats to the rebot. I know that the '80s' version was corny, but it was better presented.
The reboot had a better story arc! Both were equally good though!
@@philstewart345 I don't think alot of pple agree wth u dude. it got canceled after one season
It was corny in some ways, probably mostly with the moralizations, but hey it was for kids! And it compensated with some seriously epic characters, art, and plots. No other cartoon has ever felt so sword & sorcery.
@@kevinmitchell4018 I agree with Huxtable! The story and animation was so much better on the reboot!
@@macruz8503 I wish they would have kept around a little longer
Mumm-Ra is so scary, he even scares himself!
Yea...he was a creepy looking fellow
That’s how Lion-O “defeated” him in their first meeting.
Mum Ra was serious vilians alongside with Megatron,wrath Amon ,venger.
Us 80s kids had the BEST cartoon and toy villains. Cobra Commander, Destro, Megatron, Starscream, Skeletor, Hordak, Mumm-Ra, Mon*Star, Miles Mayhem, King Zarkon, Cy-Kill, Dr. Claw, Shredder, Big Boss…..
Edit- Only because he appeared more than once (most villains usually only had one episode) and he creeped me and a lot of other kids out, I’m including the Boogeyman from The Real Ghostbusters.
Though I respect the opinions of everyone who likes Thundercats 2011, Thundercats Classic will always be my favorite. That show was da bomb!
Mumm-Ra is My favorite character. Mumm-Ra, Mon-Star, Megatron 🤔. Actually I love all 3 but Mumm-Ra is....
#TripleM
when i was a little kid i used be legit scared of mummra. i had nightmares with the closing credits of the show as a 6 year old lololol
Yes mum-ra is awesome.
I absolutely love Mumras original voice
I am so fortunate, I’ve been introduced to occult science. I know exactly where all of this has came from and the characters they used. Hooray for me.
I loved thundercats so much in the '80s I had all the toys, including the old wrinkled version of Mama with the Red Cloak
Mumm-Ra just being plain evil from the start is refreshing. As opposed to having a mother named Martha that got killed in a alley, or having his mama shot dead by a hunter, which drove him into becoming what he became. Great stuff.
Bambi became a super-villain? I want to read that comic. :)
Y DID Y SAY THAT NAME!
I need a AAA Thundercats video game in my life asap.
Has to be based fully off the original cartoon.
ThunderCats is a much liked cartoon.
Major correction, in the 2011 reboot the planet was Third Earth and the Thundercats' kingdom on the planet was called Thundera. Second Pumyra died in the attack on the kingdom and developed a hated for the royal family, Lion-O, who she saw as abandoning her. She was restored to life by Mumm-Ra and the Ancient Spirits of Evil to be a spy for them among the Thundercats. She betrayed the Thundercats at the end of the series, giving the Tech stone to Mumm-Ra.
Also Mumm-Ra's cauldron liquid has never been pink as mentioned (7:27). It has always been purple.
Thank you for this video. I’ve watched Thunder Cats, but I didn’t know that much about it. And after watching this, it explains a lot about the Thunder Cats.
Before the thundercats came to third earth. The whole planet was just doing its thing. I’m sure everyone on the planet knew not to disturb his pyramid and his land. Then the thundercats came in and disrupted the balance. If mum-ra was evil he would make the whole planets life miserable. He did his conquest and just wanted to retire. no one on the planet could go toe to toe with him. He just wanted the cats gone and mostly because of the eye of thundara I speculate. It’s weird how when as a kid you see him as the bad guy but older you can see he just wanted the peace back as the cats got in to Everything disrupting the balance.
A being that truly worships evil and you think he wanted peace.
He wants evil. But he's also stuck in a region. That's why he tries to get out. He follows them to their planet.
If he just wanted peace it wouldn't make sense to attack them.
@@DSan-kl2yc well he didn’t mess with the inhabitants and stayed in his pyramid till the thunder cats started to mess with the balance. So if he didn’t want peace then he would of messed with the inhabitants and not stay in his tomb. I can bet you if the thunder cats would of left the planet. Then he would of went back to resting in his tomb. Just because someone is evil doesn’t mean they constantly cause issues. Everyone knew not to go to his area where his pyramid was. He conquered his planet and wanted to rest. Good and evil was in balance and the cats distributed that balance by first aiding the burbles
@@JechtAruon We don't know that. We don't know if he wasn't making moves. He set his sights on attacking the thundercats before they help the robears.
And you're still a very evil person to attack people who haven't done anything to you.
As well as all the plots to gain power to leave and kill everyone.
Could be he just couldn't until the mutants were around just as well.
But mumm ra was active enough to summon their ship.
The 80's had the best Cartoons. Thundercats, Silver Hawks, Transformers, Gobots, GI Joe, etc.
I had the Mumm-Ra action figure with the glowing red eyes
I did too!
Mumm-Ra is such a great character in the original cartoon. Everything about him is great. The remake just doesn’t capture that feeling of an absolute villain.
I think that’s the problem of modern times. We always seek to vilify the heroes and humanise the villains. Some characters don’t need to be complex. Just look at the Joker in The Dark Knight. He doesn’t have a backstory, even though there are implications and some fake stories he tells himself, but all he does is make shit go bang, foil the hero at every turn and push him to the limit of his beliefs. Some people just want to watch the world burn, and someone has to put out the fire.
Or Darth Vader before the prequels. I never wanted to see him as a kid or a teen - he was a thousand times more intimidating as a bastion of pure evil, with only the excellent redemptive twist at the end.
@@Don-ol8zeBut than we wouldn't have the great mythology established within the prequels including the Clone Wars series and Ahsoka Tano 😊.
Evil powers must've thought very little of Mumm-Ra. Imagine what thoughts were racing through his head when Snarf-Ra appeared.
There are two things that, to me, make Mum-Ra seem like a tragic figure from the original series:
1... He often talked to himself. Not too big a deal until you realize that he never lies to himself. In fact, a plausible explanation of why his reflection hurts him is because it makes him see the truth of what he has become and he doesn't like it.
2... It was often hinted that the reason why he attacked the Thundercats so much was because they were responsible for waking him up. Their existence on Third Earth was the reason he was not allowed to find his peace. He even says this early on by telling the Thundercats that it was them who were disturbing his sleep.
Plus the Thundercats were alien invaders from Mum-Ra's point of view. They strolled into his territory uninvited and started a fight with his citizens, the mutants. So he was only fighting the Thundercats to defend his territory and his people.
@@jamesteegardner2273 You guys would make great propagandists.
If only someone knew about Holy Water.
Bless a ton of it and dump it his caldron.
Wonder how that would have worked.
THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL PERFECTLY DETAILED EXCEPT FOR ONE DETAIL THE CAULDRON WAS PURPLE IT WAS NOT PINK
Came for the thumbnail and stayed for the whole video 👍
Mumm-Ra rules.
Wait..., does that mean that the Pharaoh mummified Mumm-Ra's dog? That is seriously messed up! 😧
Also being Egyptian, shouldn't he had a cat? 🤔🤓
Thank you for posting this very cool video. I love learning about the Thundercats. 💖🐱🦁🐯
A most fascinating origin video 📹👏🏼😎👌🏽❤😍🙂💕🙌📹
He’s the reason I call myself #BluntRa. All I do is sit in the house in a red robe. But when I go outside…😂
Mumm-Ra scared me as a little kid, and is as I see it, the most epic cartoon villain ever created. The voice actor, did an amazing job!
Wa-ank what are you doing back there?!!!
I had the Sword of Omens when I was a kid
I remember that episode where Mumm-Ra learned of Excalibur the legendary sword that was equal in power to the Sword of Omens and it was at the end of that episode where it was revealed that like the Sword of Omens Excalibur would not be used for Evil as like the Sword of Omens Excalibur ignored Mumm-Ra when he tried to pull the sword out of the ground to strike down Lion-O and the fact that Excalibur also recognized that Mumm-Ra was not King Arthur the legendary swords true master and I hate saying it about that episode which ironically was called 'Excalibur' it was amazing to see a duel between these 2 legendary and equally powerful swords.
IIRC, Excalibur actually defeated the Sword of Omens. Once it did so, it stopped, because.finishing its foe would be an act of evil.
Personally, I think Excalibur only fought the SoO because it wanted to test its might. Like two knights jousting in a tournament.
@@RedneckSith Yeah you're right and remember how both swords went flying out of Lion-O and Mumm-Ra's hands and had an aerial battle between each other as everyone on both sides watched.
Purely evil villains are something I think media needs. Tired of these redemption arcs or sad back stories for why some turned “bad.”
THE 80'Z CARTOONS WAZ THE SH#@¡¡¡¡¡
Love the artistic style tahts what keept me engaged ,I like the reebot story up to a point cuz they fucked IT up -Pumira being in love w Mum-Ra and this BS love "triangle" between Cheetara ,Tigra and Lion O i hate that shiit
EXCELLENT!
I hope we actually do get a thunder cats movie been in limbo for a very long time yes toy sales haven't helped and getting it checked to see if it's safe enough but for me it's how I enjoyed watching it on a Saturday morning especially on going live on BBC one those were the days 😊😊😊
My favorite mumm ra line is from the 2nd episode "the sword may not summon your friends this time I only wish it could" badass
My young daughters play with my old Mumm-Ra action figure... and call him granny.
I always preferred his brother Bummra, waaaaaay more fun at parties.
Dude you crazy!
The Devil Priest!!!!
Mumra ....... 80s pre workout pills were the shit
To this very day Thundercats is the GREATEST cartoon ever made in the history of man! Thanks.
I remember reading his origin back in 2004 in the comics it slipped right under the radar
Mumm-rah As a Baby:
"Bestow upon me thine sacred Milk or feel the Wrath of MUMMRAAAAAH!"😈
The 2012 reboot was the best reboot I've ever seen.
Best cartoon theme song ever
Mar-Mutt: Well, even bad guys like their puppies!
"The fight continues and Lion-O keeps struggling against Mumm-Ra's powers. In the process, several trees are knocked down as well".
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Evil from the get go like 1 of my Favorite Sith Lords, Darth Sidious aka Emperor Sheev Palpatine
Mumm-Ra the defender of planet Earth.
Who was evil but not really a tyrant since he pass almost all of his time asleep.
" Ancient Spirits Of Evil! Transform this decade form to MUMM-RA, THE EVER LIVING!!!"
- Mumm-Ra ( Thundercats)
Good old times when you knew which gym to go based on your favorite character.
Mumm-Ra
- Gym: Gold's Gym
Lion-O:
- Gym: YMCA
Panthro:
- Gym: LA Fitness
Rest of the Thundercats:
- Gym: Planet Fitness
I hear that he was born that way . !
gotta love the effort-driven thirty minute narrative explaining the lore of Mumra, only to end it with "well maybe he's just dumb."
... MummRa vs Skeletor...
It was always interesting....How powerful he was (and now, knowing it more so after this history lessin) Yet can easily be beating by these Cat people.
Congratulation! You finally pronounced his name correctly. I'm glad I could help.
This is really cool and left me thinking other than just sealing him away, what if following that the 4 statues and his entire lair was destroyed and then covered with a solid massive cube constructed of whatever was used to build the Thundercats base. I mean sure it won't kill him, but I'd imagine the 4 evil gods would hold mumra to needing to rebuild all that over again, after he managed to get out from his tomb underneath the massive Thundercube though lol I mean I'd have to assume that might at least give more time than before of being undisturbed by mumra lol
Mumm-Ra was the last defender of the Earth, protecting it from the alien invaders Thundercats
I had a flashback of that raven from DC and Mumma ra- from thundercats both of them haven capes around their back but when both of them turn to their scary forms they become buff
In the 80s our cartoons taught us so we weren't dumb compared to the new cartoons and their generation.
He’s the last human, fighting of alien invaders
I was just thinking that too lol...
I never thought about it like that. A unique perspective. 🤯
Yes, Thank you somebody gets it's. See the bigger picture people.
@@ikec2894 it not a unique perspective it's actually what's happening.
@@trejohnson4760 I get that. What I meant was I always thought of him as just being the bad guy ( which he is)
Yep that reboot would have been epic had it stayed longer...
Nothing was better than the original
mummra OP sick
MarrrrMUTT
Mumrah sounds like a cool dude really
Loved the original show liked the reboot not as good as the original show but it was good.
The 80 version was magicalll
💀👁️mumm insane evil 🌀💯
Old school cartoons were the best
Actually he is the planet’s protector and the Thundercats are the invaders
Wait. So...the Thunder Cats are like the early Europeans who came to what would become America & Mum'Ra is like the Native Americans ?
Really!
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I watched the original Thundercats back in the 1980s I always thought the Thundercats were the real villains of the show. They invaded and colonized Mum-Ra's planet.
When I started watching Thundercats I was five. I didn't know of his back ground thanks to the comic. Silly thing to say. BUT thank you for making this because know I finally know the official background story to the og Mum-Ra.
Ancient evil spirits.....
Thank you tv stations for still showing us kids this villain cause we weren't like these new age cry babies. He's evil then show an evil character that embraces it. Not this weak let's understand his feelings.
I feel I must disagree that the "boatman" is bassed on Charon, but rather is a composit represnting a nomber of difrent worldly deathly escorts. There are far more myths that invole a boatman, and even a boatwoman in one case from the far east I've heard of. The aspect that differs from Caron directly was the lack of payment as Caron dose charge for his services to both the living and the dead.
I always thought that mumra looked like Eddie from Iron Maiden
Did anyone else see Tygra run across the screen at the 14:37/29:55 mark?