The Minions of Set are powerful beings who appear in Episode XXXI: Jack in Egypt.
Character outline
The Minions of Set are three dog-like beings with black skin, golden heads, and glowing blue eyes. Despite appearing in just one episode, the minions of Set were shown to be one of the most powerful opponents Jack had ever faced. Their fighting style is brutal and vicious. They attack in a highly concerted, synchronized manner, constantly closing the distance between themselves and their prey and using their weapons to aggressively attack their opponents, slicing and ripping them apart, as shown when they easily defeated Aku's small robot army. Their weapons resemble traditional weapons from ancient Egypt: one has a cuved sword called a khopesh, one has an Egyptian battle axe, and the third has two short swords, one in its right hand and one attached to its left wrist. The weapons glow with blue flames.
Biography
According to an ancient Egyptian prophecy read by Jack when he was a child, Set, the Egyptian god of disorder and violence, unleashed his three evil minions upon Egypt. The Pharaoh's armies were unable to stop their rampage. Eventually, the pharaoh called upon a great power and imprisoned the minions in a tomb, upon which the prophecy was inscribed. Many years later, Aku, who had supposedly heard the prophecy, managed to find the tomb and free the minions. In return for their freedom, Aku ordered them to destroy Jack who was approaching the temple at the time. After night fall, Jack had arrived. Stunned after seeing the tomb empty, he was ambushed by the minions of Set. Seeing that not even his sword can finish off the monsters, he read the rest of the prophecy and realized the only way to stop the creatures was to collect the three pieces of a scarab, the symbol of the god Khepri, and use it to summon Ra, the sun god. After a long, tiring chase with the minions throughout the temple, Jack finally manages to assemble the scarab. After appearing, Ra easily destroys all three minions with his eye beams.
Abilities
Regeneration: The minions of Set were shown to be able to regenerate parts of their limbs and even parts of their torso after being slashed by Jack's sword. Unlike Aku, the sword does not burn away their mass and leaves no permanent damage.
Heightened senses: The minions were shown to have very keen senses. They tracked down Jack by using their sense of smell and could easily hear the sound of Jack's sword being placed against a pillar.
Enhanced strength: The creatures were capable of destroying pillars and breaking temple walls just by slamming into them.
Enhanced speed: The minions of Set are also very fast as shown by the fact that they easily destroyed Aku's robot army before the robots even had time to react.
Enhanced agility: During battle, they constantly jump at their opponent like animals, and are capable of performing flips while in the air as well as leaping great distances.
Limited gravity defying: The minions of Set are capable of running on walls and even upside down on the ceiling.
Trivia
- The shape of their heads is most likely based on the Set Animal or sha, a creature that represents the god.
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