History Film / TheMummy1999

** [[spoiler: Ardeth warmly says farewell to Rick, Evy, and Jonathan, saving they'd earned his people's respect.]]

** [[spoiler:Beni Gabor]], who has spent the movie betraying everyone, faces a slow death by dehydration and starvation after being trapped in Hamunaptra's treasure chamber. That's bad enough, especially given that the single torch he has is going out. Cue those self-same flesh-eating scarab beetles.

** The priests who helped Imhotep in the prologue are mummified alive.

* DwindlingCast: As Imhotep slowly works his way down the cursed, and as everyone who tries to help stop him dies.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: After Jonathan gains control of the remaining Mummy Soldiers and sics them on Anck-Su-Namun, Imhotep conveniently forgets that he has God-like powers and could have easily dispatched them to save her, but instead tries to take the Golden Book from Jonathan in an attempt to reverse the spell. However, he is not fast enough, and Anck-Su-Namun is killed (again).

* LogicalWeakness: The mummies of Imphoteph's priests, and the Pharoah's guards, being walking dried-out corpses, are weak to fire or just plain physical force, which makes them shatter like glass.

* MrFanservice: Imhotep is often shirtless in both this and the squel.
* NeckLift: Imhotep does two. One to Jonathan, and plenty more to O'Connell.
* NerdGlasses: Worn by Evy in the beginning, and shed for good not long after - which is odd because contacts didn't exist in the 1930's.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Evy reading from the Book of the Dead. She at least resolves to fix it.
* NoNameGiven: Ardeth Bay in the first film, to the point where it's surprising on repeat viewings to realise they never mention it ''once''.
* NoodleIncident: The movie never tells us why O'Connell is in prison when Evy first meets him. All the prison warden ever says of the incident is "He was just looking for a good time."
** Later, as Rick is being taken away to be hanged, the warden comments that "Apparently, he had a VERY good time."

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Evy reads from the book, brings back Imhotep and gets an awful lot of people killed as a result.

*** Actually the cat goddess Bastet was tasked with destroying the evil serpent Apophis to defend Ra. Seeing as Imhotep is not just an evil soul but a sorceror, it makes sense.

* RiversOfBlood: The Bible example gets a ShoutOut. Upon Imhotep's awakening, all the water in Egypt turns into blood.

* EliteMooks: The mummy soldiers that Jonathan accidentally summons and battles o'connell. Compared to Imhotep's mummy priests, they are faster, wield weapons, can jump at great heights, can wall crawl and are skillful with the weapons they wield that they give Rick a considerably difficult fight.

''The Mummy'' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]] with a sense of humour that is remarkably similar to the ''IndianaJones'' franchise.

* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Rick attempts to save Beni at the end, but the latter doesn't make it out in time.]]

*** This is somewhat mitigated by Rick mentioning that his unit deserted to go treasure hunting, but that just raises more questions, especially since he mentions them marching across Libya (An Italian Colony) to reach Egypt. Of course, Rick also implies that they were just ''[[{{Determinator}} that]]'' motivated, and they appear decidedly understaffed for a regiment, so perhaps they found a believable amount of trouble on the way. It does make you wonder why the Italians and British don't seem pissed over some Legionairres shooting their way through their territory, though.

** Rick O'Connell is heavily implied, if not outright stated, to be American. Every time Evy or Jonathan says something disparaging about them, they quickly add a "No offense" for Rick's benefit.

* {{Jerkass}}: The British Egyptologist is both sexist and annoyingly smug. Unlike his American associates, who are a trio of friendly-but-cocky thrill-seekers, he's lacking in sympathetic qualities.

* KleptomaniacHero: Rick and Evy both steal from the American team at different points.

* LastDance: RAF pilot Winston is yearning for one after having missed his chance to go out with a blaze of glory in World War I. O'Connell manages to give him one when the heroes need to get back to Hamunaptra. [[spoiler:Winston gets them there, but dies in the crash landing.]]

* PickyPeopleEater: Imhotep is probably one of the pickiest people eaters around. He took body parts only from the people who had basically stolen his. [[JustifiedTrope Justified in that his curse requires him to consume the specific people who opened the container holding the book in order to regenerate.]] Then again, after being fully regenerated in ''The Mummy'', he decides to do this to Rick.

* RemovableTurretGun: Ardeth plucks the mounted {{m|oreDakka}}achinegun from the plane before it sinks into the quicksand. {{Justified|Trope}} as the gun in case is a regular infantry light machine gun.

*** This is somewhat mitigated by Rick mentioning that his unit deserted to go treasure hunting, but that just raises more questions, especially since he mentions them marching across Libya (An Italian Colony) to reach Egypt. Of course, Rick also implies that they were just ''[[{{Determinator}} that]]'' motivated, and they appear decidedly understaffed for a regiment, so perhaps they found a believable amount of trouble on the way. It does make you wonder why the Italians and British don't seem pissed over some Legionairres shooting their way through their territory, though.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Rick explains, his Foreign Legion regiment (which looks more like an understrength battalion [[FridgeLogic though that could be chalked up to attrition from marching across 1700 miles of Sahara Desert) shown at the beginning of the film were so certain they could find Hamunaptra they marched out into the desert against orders to find it. And they did. Rick and Beni were the only ones to come back.

** Rick O'Connell is heavily implied, if not outright stated, to be American. Every time Evy or Jonathan says something disparaging about them, they quickly add a "No offense" for Rick's benefit.

*** This is somewhat mitigated by Rick mentioning that his unit deserted to go treasure hunting, but that just raises more questions, especially since he mentions them marching across Libya (An Italian Colony) to reach Egypt.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As Rick explains, his platoon shown at the beginning of the film were so certain they could find Hamunaptra they marched out into the desert against orders to find it. And they did. Rick and Beni were the only ones to come back.

** Rick O'Connell is heavily implied, if not outright stated, to be American. Every time Evy or Jonathan says something disparaging about them, they quickly add a "No offense" for Rick's benefit.

* {{Jerkass}}: The British Egyptologist is both sexist and annoyingly smug. Unlike his American associates, he's lacking in sympathetic qualities.

'''''The Mummy''''' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]] with a sense of humour that is remarkably similar to the ''IndianaJones'' franchise.

** The novelization gives some details that it probably would have been difficult to convey in the movie, such as some of the Carnahan's backstory and the cause and effect of their parent's deaths. Among other things, pouring the scarabs into Imhotep's sarcophagus wasn't just to torture him further... it's an essential part of the ritual that they would eat his flesh, and when he became desperate he would eat them, and this would continue for ''years''. This dark mockery of the cycle of life was an important aspect of making him immortal so that he would suffer forever.

** The Foreign Legion commander at the beginning raises his sword to give the order to charge... and then drops it and gallops away, [[YouAreInCommandNow leaving Rick to give the order to attack]].

* EverybodyCallsHimBareep: Hassan, the Cairo warden who joins the journey to Hamunaptra.

** It's worth noting that, in the original script for the film, Ardeth was to be killed by the attacking mummies. However, Stephen Sommers ultimately decided against this idea.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the climax, Ardeth gets dragged off fighting Imhotep's priests, and is presumed dead. He reappears alive and well once everything's over, alive and well, having apparently destroyed all those mummies he was fighting single-handed.

* NoodleIncident: The movie never tells us why O'Connell is in prison when Evy first meets him. All he ever says of the incident is "He was just looking for a good time."

'''''The Mummy''''' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]].

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The Americans ''try'' to do this, and Rick is fully in favor of the idea, much to Evie's disgust. Unfortunately, Imhotep catches up to them in Cairo before they can get safely out of the country.

--> [''the barge is burning, and the TriggerHappy Americans are gleefuly shooting up the Medjai'']

* HiddenDepths: Jonathan, while being lazy, childish and a thief, is also surprisingly knowledgeable about the Bible, and can kind-of read Ancient Egyptian.

*** Actually the cat goddess Bastet was tasked with destroying the evil serpent Apophis to defend Ra. Seeing as Imhotep is not just an evil soul but a sorceror it makes sense.

* SayYourPrayers: Beni's prayers are played humorously, as he prays to several gods in several different languages before praying in Hebrew actually winds up saving him, because its a language Imhotep understands.

* HollywoodHomely: Apparently glasses and having her hair done up completely hides the fact that Evy is, to put it bluntly, gorgeous. It takes up until she loses her clothes to fire and has to buy replacements from some locals for Rick to notice her looks.