Draft:Babe Jenson

Babe Jenson
The Mummy character
First appearance	The Mummy's Hand
Last appearance	The Mummy's Tomb
Portrayed by	Wallace Ford
In-universe information
Aliases	Babe Hanson
Gender	male
Occupation	archaeologist
Spouse	Poopsie the Blond girl properly
Relatives	none
Nationality	American
Status	Deceased

Babe Jenson (renamed Hanson), is a fictional character from The Mummy franchise portrayed by actor Wallace Ford as Steve Banning's best friend and the comic relief of the movie.

History

Early life

Babe was born somewhere before 1912 in Brooklyn, New York where he also lived. In college, he met and fell in love with a blonde girl whom he called Poopsie and later on in life, he became an archaeologist where he met, befriended and partnered up with Steve Banning.

Meeting Kharis

Main article: The Mummy's Hand

In 1912, Babe is in Cairo, Egypt along with Steve for an assignment by the Scripps Museum were the 2 are sent by their boss to find a tomb, dig it up and send it to the museum in London. Babe, whilst at the Cairo Market, buys a doll named after Poopsie however Steve then buys a vase sold at the market using their last 75 bucks, Babe berates Steve for this who tells him that they could benefit something from looking at this vase.

At the Cairo Museum, Steve, Babe and Dr. Petrie examined the vase with Steve saying that it says that the place is The Hill of Seven Jackals. The 3 then show it to Professor Andoheb in his room who destroys it, saying it was an accident and tells the 3 that the vase is a fake sold to tourists, even telling Babe that he wasted all his money on it. Even though Babe and Steve are a little disheartened by what Andoheb said, Dr. Petrie still says that he will help the expedition.

The next day, Babe is at the local hotel pub drinking and rattling Poopsie to wish him luck, Steve comes by and says that everybody who he asked to help finance and join the expedition has said no which causes the 2 to ponder how it's going to go for them. To pass the time, Babe decides to play a magic game with a man, not knowing that the man is a famous magician by the name of Solvani, anyhow Babe loses the game and has to pay off all his money to the people getting a drink at the bar. A few minutes later, Steve and Babe introduce themselves to Solvani who says that his real name is Tim Sullivan and that he is from Brooklyn, New York, Babe also says that he is from New York as well and him and Steve then talk about the expedition with Solvani agreeing to finance it, their conversation is interrupted by a few of Andoheb's spies attacking the 3 led by the Cairo Beggar. Steve, Solvani and Babe manage to defeat them and the 3 and escape the restaurant with Solvani finally financing their expedition.

That night, Babe is happily sitting in his chair telling Poopsie that the money is coming to them until all of a sudden, somebody knocks the hotel room door. Babe opens it and in comes Marta Solvani/Sullivan who points a gun at Babe and shoots the bathroom door to show that she is serious, also telling Babe to give her father the money back otherwise she will shoot him and also thinking that he is Steve Banning. Steve suddenly appears behind Marta from the bathroom, having heard the gunshots and subdues her, saying that they are sorry for stealing money from her father, Marta however tells them that they are very poor and that the 2 spent the last few remaining money they had, also telling them that she is going to be part of the expedition no matter what and also says that she doesn't want them to fool her father just to bring him out to the desert to kill him before she then leaves the hotel room, Babe then informs Steve by telling him that there's now a dame (woman) in the group.

A few weeks later, Babe, Steve, Marta and Solvani go on the expedition to the Hill of the Seven Jackals with Dr. Petrie and their Egyptian guide Ali. Once they arrive there, Babe accidentally dynamites some rocks which opens a cave, all the Egyptian workers run alongside Ali so Steve, Babe, Marta, Solvani and Dr. Petrie go in closely watched from the top by Andoheb and the Cairo Beggar. Once the 5 go in, they open the tomb inside only to reveal that it is not Ananka but the mummified Kharis.

That night, Steve, Babe and Dr. Petrie examine Kharis however are called outside because Ali has returned. Whilst Steve and Babe are talking to Ali, they hear a scream from inside and go in and see Petrie's dead body with Steve saying that he died by getting strangled very unusually. As the clock ticks closer to midnight, Babe, Steve, Marta, Ali and Solvani are hanging outside the tents until all of a sudden, they hear a noise from Marta and Solvani's tent and see Ali's dead body with the same strangulation marks as Dr. Petrie.

As it finally comes to midnight, Babe does more tricks with Solvani and jokes about how he could easily make money for them, also saying if they could ever even find Ananka's tomb whilst Steve tells him that he figured out the key to were it is along with Marta. A few hours later, Marta and Solvani go to sleep in Steve's tent and Steve and Babe watch outside for any indication of the unidentified murderer killing the expedition members, Babe tries to practice a rock magic trick by putting a rock in his mouth but it doesn't work and he takes the rock out.

The 2 suddenly hear a sound and go in the tent to see Solvani half strangled and telling them that the murderer kidnapped Marta before passing unconscious. Steve and Babe run outside and see Kharis carrying an unconscious Marta up the mountain, causing the 2 to get their guns and run to rescue Marta from Kharis.

In the chase, the 2 get split after they both kill the Cairo Beggar who tries to assassinate them, Babe runs to the top of the mountain and runs into Andoheb revealing himself fully to Babe as a high priest, Babe points a gun at him and tells him to explain everything to him and take him to Marta and Steve otherwise he will count to 3 and shoot him to death using his gun, Andoheb tells Babe were Marta is so he goes inside but before he could take a step inside, Andoheb shoots but misses him using a silencer gun, Babe then turns around and shoots the high priest before he could take out his gun with the priest falling down to his apparent death down the stairs.

Babe then arrives inside the main temple room where he shoots the tana leaves causing Kharis to bend down to get them which then causes Steve to grab the tana leaves container containing fire and smash Kharis with it, burning and knocking him to death. Steve then saves Marta who then falls in his arms whilst Babe also falls down unconscious. A few days later, Steve, Babe, Marta and Solvani are at the Cairo market were Steve gives the fixed vase back to the shopkeeper and then picks up another one, causing Marta to say that they have to go back to the States which causes Steve to put the vase down and then him, Babe, Marta and Solvani to laugh at a letter sent to them by the Scripps Museum.

Investigating the Mapleton Murders

Main article: The Mummy's Tomb

After they arrive in America from a ship, Steve and Marta get married and Marta and Solvani probably meet Steve's sister Jane Banning who reunites with Steve and Babe before the wedding begins and ends.

After that, Steve, Marta, Solvani and Jane return to Steve's hometown of Mapleton, Massachusetts and stay there for the rest of their lives whilst Babe returns to Brooklyn and over there, becomes very rich from the money he gets from finding Ananka's tomb.

In The Mummy's Tomb, 30 years have passed since Babe and Steve's mummy adventures in Egypt. Now 1942, Babe returns to Mapleton for Steve's funeral and hears from his son John Banning that Steve had weird Egyptian strangulation marks on his neck when he was found dead, which Babe concludes is that the mummy Kharis has returned. Later, Babe learns that Jane, Steve's sister who always favoured him as Steve's best friend is also dead.

1 night at a bar, a Mapleton reporter recognizes Babe and interviews him about the 1912 expedition where he says the story and the mummy's weakness before also reporting that he is going to put a stop to all of this mayhem in Mapleton. As Babe leaves the bar, he runs into Kharis again and quickly runs away from him to the corner of an alleyway where he tries to climb the corner wall but falls down and is immediately grabbed to be strangled by Kharis. Babe tries his best to fight the mummy, even grabbing a wooden log and hitting him with it but fails and is subsequently strangled to death by Kharis. His dead body is shown in John's hospital where he works at to the law enforcement the next day with the same strangulation marks on his neck and his death is reported on the newspapers that same day as well. Babe's death would ultimately be the third member of the Banning family or friends (who was on the 1912 Egypt expedition) to be slain by Kharis to get revenge for what happened in 1912.

Character influence

Babe being a comedy relief character in The Mummy's Hand would later partially inspire the character Jonathan Carnahan (portrayed by John Hannah) from The Stephen Sommers Mummy films from 1999-2008 were Jonathan would be the brother of love interest Evelyn Carnahan, (portrayed by Rachel Weisz and Maria Bello) and friend and later brother-in-law of Rick O'Connell, (portrayed by Brendan Fraser), the character inspired by Steve Banning.

See also

• Steve Banning

External links

• Babe Jenson on IMDb

• Universal Horrors: 1931 - 1946 on Internet Archive