Well, the Saturday Morning Mummy's gotta have some evil backing. So here's a spoooooky council. I know it's real sketchy, but I dig the posturing. I figure they're spirits that can't do much to the living, so they offered the Mummy eternal life in exchange for eternal obediance.

So I started thinking, well if the Mummy gets defeated in the first season, the Council can just get some other schmuck to do it. And then I thought, oh, it's not really a cartoon. And what would He-Man have been without Skeletor? Or Thundercats without Mumm-ra? Or G.I. Joe without that snake guy. Oh, wait. Cobra Commander died several times, didn't he?