Mummy Man

Along with The Creature, Queen Medusa, the Phantom Bat, and Death, the Mummy Man is one of the original bosses of the Castlevania series.

Overview
The Mummy Man is different from your typical Mummy. The Mummy Man has powers that go beyond the norm for the usual Mummy, and according to the description given in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, the Mummy Man comes from a royal family and went through a ritual to grant him his extra powers.

Attacks
Mummy Man has a wide variety of attacks, the most common being throwing strands of its wrappings at the hero or heroes. Whether straight forward in wavy lines, in massive bursts, or in one continuous following strand, these things can make the life of a hero a real pain.

At first, this did not do much to separate the Mummy Man from other Mummies, as the generic Mummies had this power as well when they first appeared as regular enemies in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.

However, the Mummy Man's bag of tricks don't stop there.

The Mummy Man can also control stone, a trick first showed off when Shaft summoned the four original boss monsters from Vampire Killer and the original Castlevania. When the Mummy Man appeared, he would summon large stone blocks (the kind used to build pyramids out of), and send them towards Richter or Maria to try and crush them.

This power was brought back when the Mummy Man returned in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, but in a different way. Instead of trying to crush the hero, the Mummy Man tries to trap the hero between the wall and the blocks, and then unleash spiked from within the blocks to skewer the hero. On top of that, Mummy Man can also summon the blocks from the background and fling them towards the heroes to do some nasty damage.

For one final trick, the Mummy Man can also teleport around the room by unraveling and re-raveling its wrappings. This technique is also used by Akmodan I in Super Castlevania IV, suggesting that the Mummy Man might be part of that particular royal family.

Types
For the longest time, the Mummy Man has been a boss in Dracula's Castle off and on. Normally, the Mummy Man is accompanied by a second Mummy Man to make things difficult for the heroes. However, in addition to the extra difficult Mummy Man, there are also the generic version of him:


 * Mummies

On top of that, the Mummy Man is also most likely related in some way to the only two "Mummy Bosses" to receive names:


 * Akmodan I
 * Akmodan II

How is the Mummy Man the same as "The Mummies"
It is worth noting that the way to tell that the Mummy Man is the same monster from the original Castlevania game is through this logic:


 * 1) The sprite used for the Mummy Man in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, the first official use of the name, is the same as the Mummy boss that appears in Dracula X: Rondo of Blood. Their attacks are also very similar.


 * 2) The Mummy boss that appears in Dracula X: Rondo of Blood is supposed to represent the Mummy boss from the original Castlevania, as he is summoned along with other fellow Castlevania bosses: Phantom Bat, Medusa, and The Creature.

By this logic, this means that Mummy Man is the official name of the Mummies from the original game.

(Mummy Man also helps separate this boss from the other, regular Mummies)

Appearances
The Mummy Man, or "The Mummies" whenever there are two of them, are bosses in the following games:


 * Vampire Killer
 * Castlevania
 * Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
 * Dracula X: Rondo of Blood
 * Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin