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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact.

A short form series from stuff to blow your mind focusing

in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. Let us now turn our attention to the chief antagonist of the Thundercats

Cartoon franchise, Mumra.

Between 1985 and 1989, the original Thundercats show ran for 130 episodes,

chronicling the struggle between the titular Thundercats and the undying mummified sorcerer

mumraah for control of the planet New Thundercats are of course cat people who display the features of various feline species and are masters of both high technology and martial warfare.

Mumra is a mummified, desiccated living corpse who serves the ancient spirits of evil from

his black pyramid.

He must return to his sarcophagus to recharge, but may also transform in a full-blown hench-in sequence into the towering muscular

warrior dubbed Mumra the ever-living.

He was, quite honestly, perfect, a villain almost too awesome for the show he

emerged from. Yet even as a child, in the back of my mind, I always wondered if Mumra was a cat or not.

The Thundercats are of course cat-human hybrids, and it's hard to deny that Mumra himself is not essentially of the same species. We see this in his feline facial

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