Ernie the Giant Chicken

**Ernie the Giant Chicken**, also known as the **Mummy**, is the titular main antagonist of *The Chicken Mummy* trilogy. He appears as the titular main antagonist of both *The Chicken Mummy* and its sequel, *The Chicken Mummy Returns*, and a posthumous antagonist in the third installment *The Chicken Mummy: Tomb of the Sith Chicken Emperor*. He was a High Priest who was cursed and mummified alive when he tried to resurrect his lost love. He is Peter Griffin's arch-nemesis.

## Backstory

Ernie is the High Priest during the reign of King Emerald. He carries on an affair with Hazzleblossom, the Pharaoh's mistress whom other men are forbidden to touch. He helps her assassinate King Emerald, and she kills herself to avoid capture by the Sailor Scouts, intending for Imhotep to resurrect her afterwards. Ernie and his priests then stole her body and took it to the Monastery of the Dead, an ancient Sith temple that is rumored to bring back people from the dead, where he intended to resurrect her using the Journal of the Dead. However, he was interrupted by the Sailor Scouts before the ritual could be completed. As punishment for their sacrilege, the priests were mummified alive, while Eernie himself had to endure the Spirit Jinx for murdering the pharaoh: the worst of all ancient Egyptian curses, which involved having his tongue cut out and being mummified and buried alive along with flesh-eating scarab beetles. However, the curse of the Spirit Jynx meant that Ernie would become a plague upon mankind if he were ever released or resurrected, so the guards and their descendants kept a constant watch over ????? (where Ernie was buried) for over three thousand years afterward to ensure that no outsider would ever find the city and thereby risk bringing Ernie back to life.

## Bio

Many Years later in 2 ABDM, Ernie was restored to life by Lois Griffin, but he had gained several powers, including regeneration, invulnerability, turning himself into sand, and controlling the desert sands by creating sandstorms, as well as the ability to wield the Ten Plagues of Quahog to an unspecified degree; he was seen to turn water to blood, unleashing locusts, blocking out the sun to cause darkness throughout Las Pegasus and Quahog, and control the people of the city by inflicting them with boils and sores (although these last were used before he regained his full powers, which may account for him only using some of the plagues rather than all of them). During the first part of the movie, Ernie expresses an intense fear of cats, screaming in fear when a white one appears in Lois' room. Usagi and Lois' superior explain that Ernie will fear them until he is fully regenerated into becoming normal again, cats being associated with the Guardians of the Underworld in Egyptian mythology; Peter uses this information to good effect later in the film.

But 7 years later, Ernie having been resurrected and freed from the resin he had been trapped in at the end of the first movie by a group of his faithful cultists known as the Cult of Ernie including his new right-hand Mr. Burns and Hazzleblossom's living reincarnation, proceeds to seek out the Bracelet of Greevil, which was the key to finding the lair of the Centipede King, an ancient warrior whose defeat will grant Ernie control over the Centipede King's near-indestructible Army of Greevil.

After finding the bracelet on the arm of Stewie Griffin, the son of Peter and Lois, Ernie captures the boy and uses him to find the lair of the Centipede King, rejuvenating his body using the flesh of mercenaries Hazzleblossom tricks into opening the cursed chest. Once Ernie reaches the lair within the sacred oasis known as Arrakis, he walks over a magic seal on the floor which causes him to be robbed of his telekinesis, immortality, and other powers granted by the curse of Spirit Jynx by Greevil, who seemingly wishes him to face the Centipede King as a normal mortal. When the Centipede King responds to Imhotep's summons, Ernie tricks him into attacking Peter by lying that instead of him being sent to slay the Centipede King, it was his archenemy. He then attempts to slay the Centipede King, but is thwarted by Peter, who slays the king and sends his army to the Underworld. When Peter kills the Centipede King and the temple-like pyramid begins to collapse. Rick and Imhotep both nearly fall into a chasm, that apparently leads to the underworld, and grab onto the ledge.

While Peter is rescued by Lois, Hazelblossom leaves Ernie to die while he begs for her assistance. After this betrayal, Ernie loses all will to live, since one of his goals was to be reunited with his lover, who apparently did not fully reciprocate his affection. He gives Peter and Lois a sad envious smile and willingly casts himself into the pit, thus ending his reign of terror once and for all.

### Personality

Ernie was the High Priest of King Emerald in ancient Quahog and carried his position out with great intent. Although he had been considered a friend by the Pharaoh, Ernie was instead more focused on the mutual romantic love requited him by the Pharaoh's concubine, Hazzelblossom. Intent on gaining that which he desired, the High Priest once went out to break the rules and laws of his religion to attain that which he desired; Ernie broke the sacred law by taking the Black Book of the Dead out of its resting place so as to read it and resurrect his love. Despite his love for the concubine, Ernie could also be duplicitous in nature, lying to Lois about sparing her friends' lives, and betraying Peter by leaving him to be killed. Arrogant in his resurrected years, Ernie feared little and did his best to work problems to his advantage.

Ernie was also rather impressed by the hippogriff, Silverstream during his time in the future world, sparing her as her fear of him left her too petrified to try and do anything to him, But when she snapped out of it, and attacked him, Ernie shared he admired her guts but was disappointed he'd still have to kill her.

## Physical Appearance

Ernie is a human sized anthrophomorbic rooster with yellow feathers, an orange beak and legs, and a Red comb on his head. During his time of King Emerald, Ernie wore a black robe.

Then after being brought back to life, he would retain his deformed body for the majority of the film, but slowly regain his full body in the end, and during this time wore black Sith Robes with a hood.

## Skills and Abilities

As a mortal, Ernie demonstrated great mystical powers as the King's High Priest. After being resurrected as a mummy and suffer the curse of Spirit Jynx by his persecutors, he gained new powers alongside his old ones.

* **Invulnerability**: Ernie had demonstrated that he was virtually invulnerable to the weapons of the modern age, including both guns and swords, though a shotgun was able to stun him temporarily. He demonstrated that even if he was hit by blades or bullets, he simply will not die. It is also logical to assume that he is immune to all known ailments and narcotics.
* **Immortality**: Having been resurrected more than once and being over 8,000 years old, Ernie is effectively immortal.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Despite him being a walking corpse, Ernie has demonstrated extraordinary strength for a 8,000-year-old rotting pile of flesh. He has shown to be capable of lifting and throwing a well fit full grown adult into the air several feet with great ease.
* **Self-Sustenance**; As a mummy, Ernie has shown to have no need to eat, drink or breathe to survive, though he still requires human flesh to regenerate to his chicken form.
* **Regenerative Healing Factor**: Ernie had demonstrated that he could heal from any form of physical injury. However, he must first kill those who opened the chest containing the Book of the Dead by sucking them dry of all organs and fluids to make himself human again. Even after this, Ernie can regenerate himself in case any of his limbs are severed from his body. As any dismemberment part of his body turns into dust.
* **Pestilence Inducement:** According to Lois, those like Ernie who suffered the curse of the Spirit Jynx had the power to manipulate both diseases and pests such as locusts and scarabs. The first time he uses this power was after he accidentally resurrected by Lois whom read the Journal of the Dead out loud, where the mummy roars and conjures scarabs and locusts to attack everyone whom present at the Monastery of the Dead.
* **Necrokinesis**: A power he has demonstrated before his mummification, Ernie has the power to resurrect the dead. He demonstrated such powers when he resurrected Hazelblossom from her grave, as well as resurrect a small army of priests to do his bidding.
* **Eclipse Manipulation**: Upon arriving in Cairo, Ernie's powers had grew to the point where he could at will cause an eclipse which blotted out the light of the sun.
* **Telekinesis**: Some speculate that Ernie has the separate powers to manipulate both sand and water, however due to him being capable of demonstrating the ability to lift people up and throw them at a great distance, it is most likely due to his powers of telekinesis, which the said telekinesis was the very power that enhanced his strength. He has shown to be incredibly gifted with this power due to his ability to manipulate the sand and water, making a wall of either element and a large version of his face is visible.
* **Sand Manipulation**: Ernie has demonstrated in both his rotting form and even partially regenerated form that he has the power to turn his body into sand and fly out the window, either as a sandy tornado in various size or a jet of sands. He can carry immense loads with him while he is in this form which was seen when he dropped Ben and Lois onto nearby sand. This power also enables him to turn into sand and enter places that are locked which was demonstrated when sand entered Evelyn's room and he formed from it.
* **Hypnosis**: Ernie had demonstrated the power to actually hypnotize people, putting them into any time period he desired. In *The Chicken Mummy Returns*, he demonstrated this only once when he was about to kiss Diane Simmons who was somewhat repulsed by the mummy's appearance. To get her to kiss him, he hypnotized her, allowing her to see herself as Hazelblossom and Ernie in full human form. She then kissed him, being completely unaware she was kissing a corpse.
* **Aquakinesis**: Following being resurrected by his cultists, Ernie had demonstrated the power to have complete control over water, using it to create a tsunami.
	+ **Water Divination:** Ernie can read the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand via Egyptian Occult means as well as allowed the others to see what he perceived, with water as a medium. In ????, he displayed this to Diane, Hazelblossom's reincarnated self to tell her about both her and his past life, whereas in *The Chicken Mummy Returns*, Ernie did the same to Diane Simmons their past selves.
* **Life-Force Absorption**: Imhotep demonstrated this deadly ability by sucking the life essence and flesh of his victims. When he did this, his mouth would opens in 90 degrees and unhinged in process as if it vertically widens. He can still use this ability even when fully regenerated.

### Abilities

* **Weapon Proficiency**: Imhotep has demonstrated his skills in the use of swords, knives and even staff-based weapons.
* **Multilingualism**: Imhotep had shown to mostly speak in his native tongue of Ancient Egyptian, however he was fully capable of speaking English (which skills in speaking English was exclusive in his cartoon incarnation). He also could recognize certain languages such as Yiddish (a form of Hebrew dialect) and even Arabic and Ancient Sith Language.

#### Weaknesses

* **Ancient Egyptian Artifacts**: Being resurrected by the Journal of the Dead, Ernie proved to be near invincible. The only problem he faced even when fully regenerated, was a vulnerability to artifacts of mystical nature. Artifacts such as the ???? had the power to strip him of his immortal powers, rendering him mortal.
* **Cats**: According to Luna, cats are the guardians of the underworld. Since Ernie came back from the underworld, he will fear them until he is fully regenerated. Once that takes place, cats will no longer be a problem for the mummy.

## Trivia

* Ernie makes his first appearance in *The Chicken Mummy*.
* Ernie returns in *The Chicken Mummy Returns*.