History Film / TheMummy1999

** Doubles as RewatchBonus: watch Terence Bay. [[spoiler: He deliberately burns the map, which hints at his true allegiance later in the film.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Terence Bay pulls one off to give Rick, Ardeth and Jonathan time to escape down a manhole after Imhotep orders the hypnotised townspeople to kill them.]]

** In the prologue, Anck-su-Namun [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled stabs herself in the stomach. [[spoiler:Imhotep gets killed at the end by being stabbed through the stomach.]]

* ShadowDiscretionShot: Two, involving Anck-su-Namun. After being reassured by Imhotep that he will ressurect her, she fatally stabs herself in the stomach, which we see as shadows on the wall. [[spoiler:When Jonathan commands Imhotep's priests to kill Anck-su-Namun at the end, we see this happen as shadows, except this time she's being killed instead of doing it herself.]]

** Daniels after his pistols run out of ammo while firing on the mob. Then Imhotep approaches him...

* ActionSurvivor: When we first meet Jonathan in 1925, he does things like hop into a sarcophagus and muse out loud that he'd rather like to join the dead. When Rick is faced with an awful situation, he says "I've had worse odds", and Jonathan says "So have I." His age, improbable aiming skills, ability to think quickly on his feet yet gets scared of firefights? He's the exact age to have fought in World War I.

** When Imhotep is [[SealedEvilInACan accidentally released]] he is a rotting corpse, without eyes. Guess how he gets them... not to mention the ''"My eyes! My eyes!"'' screams. Imhotep also takes his tongue and then his very life essence the next day.

* IWarnedYou: Rick warned Evy not to mess with the Book of the Dead.
-->'''Evy:''' We woke him up, and we are going to stop him!\\
'''Rick:''' "We"? What "we"? ''We'' didn't read that book. I told you not to mess around with that thing, didn't I tell you not to mess around with that thing!?\\
'''Evy:''' ''[rolls eyes]'' Fine! Me, me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him!
* ItHasBeenAnHonor:
** [[spoiler: Rick salutes Winston as he is buried by the quicksand.]]
** [[spoiler: Ardeth Bey warmly says farewell to Rick, Evy, and Jonathan, saying they've earned his people's respect.]]

* BigNo: The Egyptologist when he hears the Mummy's resurrection: "NO! You must not read from the book!"

* ActionSurvivor: When we first meet Jonathan in 1925, he does things like hop into a sarcophagus and muse out loud that he'd rather like to join the dead. When Rick is faced with an awful situation, he says "I've had worse odds", and Jnathan says "So have I." His age, improbable aiming skills, ability to think quickly on his feet yet gets scared of firefights? He's the exact age to have fought in World War I.

* LetsGetDangerous: Jonathan may be a ridiculously greedy, swindling PluckyComicRelief, but he is also a crack shot with a rifle, a skilled pickpocket, and disturbingly competent with a book of ancient spells. When the first reanimated mummies appear in the treasure room and his two-shot derringer proves almost useless, he promptly pulls the revolvers from Rick's holsters to continue shooting. [[spoiler: Then when Evy's in danger, Jonathan orders the guard mummies to kill Anck-Su-Namun without any hesitation.]]

** TheLancer: Jonathon and ActionSurvivor to Ricks ActionHero.

** Terence Bey refers to the plagues of Egypt when scolding Evy for destroying the library, and she herself later refers to them about an hour into the film when telling the others about the Hom Dai. [[spoiler:Imhotep brought these plagues back with him when he was resurrected.]]

* SayMyName: [[spoiler: Evy screams Rick and Jonathan's name when Imhotep starts the ceremony to sacrifice her and resurrect Anck-sun-Namun. Imhotep then does it when Jonathan commands the mummified soldiers to kill Anck-su-Namun, right before they do.]]

** When the boat is attacked, Evy uses a candle to the eye as self-defense.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers:
** Imhotep has the ability to take over the minds of an entire town's population and turn them all into mindless slaves. Yet for some reason, it never occurs to him to use this power against Rick or any of the other main characters.
** [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: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).]]
* FourIsDeath: Four men (the Americans apart from O'Connell and the Egyptologist) open the chest with the Book of the Dead and Anck-Su-Namun's canopic jars in it, ignoring the warning that they will be marked for certain death if they do and the "Undead" (Imhotep) is brought back to the mortal world. Sure enough, Evelyn reads from the Book and wakes Imhotep, and the next part of the film sees him track down and kill all four hapless men.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The four Americans in the first film: O'Connell is choleric, while Henderson is sanguine, Daniels is melancholic, and Burns is phlegmatic.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The American team start out as a bunch of jerkasses, but quickly show themselves to be close friends willing to defend anyone who needs help, such as Jonathan on the river boat. After their initial hostile encounter with Rick and company at Hamunaptra, they develop into [[FriendlyRival Friendly Rivals]] who don't mind hanging out with Rick and Jonathan.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The Americans' bravado quickly evaporates after Ardeth Bey explains that the mummy will be hunting them down and they book passage on the first ship out of Eygpt. Not that it helps.

** After Evey knocks over the shelves, Dr. Bey says, "Give me frogs, flies, locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!" He soon finds out that isn't true.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The Imhotep's mummy priests.

'''Evy:''' ''(rolls eyes)'' Fine! Me, me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him!

** [[spoiler: Ardeth warmly says farewell to Rick, Evy, and Jonathan, saying they'd earned his people's respect.]]
* KarmicDeath: Beni Gabor's greed comes back to bite him, just as Evy warned. [[ArtMajorBiology In scarab form.]]
** Winston gets a benevolent version - more heroic and meaningful than any death he could have had in the Great War.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The Americans' bravado quickly evaporates after Ardeth Bey explains that the mummy will be hunting them down and they book passage on the first ship out of Eygpt.

--> '''Evy:''' You know, nasty little men like you always get their comeuppance in the end.
--> '''Beni:''' Heh heh... they do?

-->'''Executioner:''' Any last requests, pig?
-->'''Rick:'''' Yeah, loosen the knot and let me go. (''The executioner hesitates, and asks the warden in Arabic if they should honor the request.'')
-->'''Warden:''' Of course we don't let him go!

* LetsGetDangerous: Jonathan may be a ridiculously greedy, swindling PluckyComicRelief, but he is also a crack shot with a rifle, a skilled pickpocket, and disturbingly competent with a book of ancient spells. When the first reanimated mummies appear in the treasure room and his two-shot derringer proves almost useless, he promptly pulls the revolvers from Rick's holsters to continue shooting. [[spoiler: Then when Evy's in danger, Jonathan orders the guard mummies to kill Anck-sunamun without any hesitation.]]

* TheLoad. Jonathan tends to need help from the party getting out of scrapes a little more often than he helps them out of scrapes. [[spoiler:But boy does he come through at the end.]]
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler:Subverted; when the heroes finally "kill" Imhotep, the whole place starts coming down on them. It was actually Beni's fault, leading to his KarmicDeath.]]
* 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.

* LovableCoward: Jonathan. While he tends to respond to danger about as well as Beni, what sets him apart is his charm, hilarity, ability to nut up when the going gets tough, and his undying loyalty to his sister.

* LovesOnlyGold: Jonathan, Beni and Hassan (the warden) are all varying levels of obsessed with treasure, with Beni being the worst.
* MacGuffin: The golden Book of the Living, the black Book of the Dead, and the canopic jars containing Anck-su-namun's internal organs.
* ManOnFire: One Meji gets set on fire when the boat's attack.

* {{Meganekko}}: Evy, for not goddamn long enough.

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: The [[BigBad villain's]] ArcWords of the first movie: ''Death is only the beginning.''
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler: Anck-su-namun's second death is shot almost exactly like her first; her shadow is cast upon the wall while she doubles up as a weapon is driven into her stomach. Only this time, instead of killing herself, she's being stabbed and then hacked to pieces by the mummy guards.]]
* MortalityEnsues: It turns out that the companion book to the Book of the Dead doesn't kill the villain when read from. What it does is remove his immortality, allowing him to be killed like a mortal.

* 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.

* 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."
* NothingPersonal: Both Evy and Jonathan take turns insulting the American members of rival expedition, pausing to add "no offence" to Rick each time.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: At the climax, Ardeth gets dragged off fighting Imhotep's priests, and is presumed dead. He reappears once everything's over, alive and well, having apparently destroyed all those mummies he was fighting single-handed.
** It's worth noting that the original script for the film had Ardeth being killed by the attacking mummies, but Stephen Sommers ultimately decided against this idea.

* PickyPeopleEater: Imhotep is probably one of the pickiest people eaters around, although he doesn't actually ''eat'' them, per se, just takes specific parts to replace his own. 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.

-->'''Jonathan:''' And when those damn yanks go to sleep- no offense-
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.
-->'''Jon:''' - we'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under them.
-->'''Rick:''' Are you sure you can find this secret compartment thing?
-->'''Evy:''' Oh, yes, if those beastly Americans haven't beaten us to it- no offense.
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.

* RiversOfBlood: The Bible example gets a ShoutOut. Upon Imhotep's arrival in Cairo and his murder of Burns, all the water in Egypt turns into blood.
* RomanceInducingSmudge: {{Inverted|Trope}}, where Imhotep's romance with Anck-su-namun leads him to smear her body paint.
* SadlyMythtaken:
** The Ten Plagues of Egypt were caused by the ''Hebrew'' God in order to liberate the ''Hebrew'' people, so it's pretty bizarre that an Egyptian curse would recreate or utilize said plagues. Made stranger by the fact that Imhotep identifies Hebrew as the language of slaves, meaning when he was cursed the plagues hadn't even happened yet.

* SheCleansUpNicely: A Male version with O'Connell when he meets Evy and Jonathan at the docks. When Evy met him in jail he was in serious need of a bath, a shave & a haircut. When he appears at the docks he's cleaned up and gotten a new set of clothes. Evy is noticeably thrown by his change in appearance.

* SpitTake

* TheSwarm: Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan evade a ''river'' of carnivorous scarabs, which returns to devour one of the other excavation-party's workers alive.

---> '''Rick:''' You're gonna get yours Beni! YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURS!
---> '''Beni:''' Oh like I never heard ''that'' before!

----> '''Evy:''' You know nasty little fellows like you always get their comeuppance.
----> '''Beni:''' Hehehe.....[[OhCrap They do?]]
----> '''Evy:''' Always.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of The Dead and the Book of the Living. The Book of the Living gives power over the living and can take life, the Book of the Dead gives power over the dead and can give it. Also, the latter can remove an undead person's immortality and grant command of mummies. Fancy.

* WalkingDisasterArea: Evey, at the beginning, manages to level an entire library by accident. Her employer's horrified reaction, and following rant ("Compared to you, the other plagues were a ''joy!''") suggests this isn't the first time she's done something like this.
* WardrobeMalfunction: It turned out that Rachel Weisz's nightgown from the boat scene got ''very'' translucent when wet, and [[VaporWear Weisz wasn't wearing anything underneath]]. Of course, by the end of the scene she ended up in the water, giving the rest of the cast and crew an eyeful and ([[MsFanservice Unfortunately]]) requiring touching up in post-production to keep its rating.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Imhotep's curse rendered him terrified of cats. ItMakesSenseInContext, though, given that cats are the guardians of the underworld, a place which he surely does not wish to return. He eventually manages to overcome this weakness.

* WeWillMeetAgain: Imhotep corners the heroes, and is taking Evy away to be sacrificed. Before the bad guy can leave, Rick O'Connell looks right into Imhotep's eyes and says, "''I'll be seeing you again''" with all the menace and hatred and promise the man can muster. Imhotep, who doesn't understand a word (the man's an ancient Egyptian who doesn't speak English) gets the message anyway, but he's so assured of his near invincibility that he only reacts with mild amusement. Turns out, underestimating O'Connell was a ''huge'' mistake.

--> '''Imothep''': ''The language of the slaves!''

-->'''Evelyn:''' [''completely drunk''] I know- you're wondering, what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?
-->'''Rick:''' ... Yeah, something like that.

* YouExclamation: Evelyn exclaims this to Ardeth when he turns up in the Cairo Museum.

** Imhotep's enthralled in the first movie. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, somewhat, by Jonathan, who shambled along with them to avoid their wrath.

Set circa early 1920s, it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing--and then having to stop--a mummy named Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt.

** [[spoiler: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).]]
* FourIsDeath: Four men (the Americans apart from O'Connell and the Egyptologist) open the chest with the Book of the Dead and Anuck-su-Mamun's canobic jars in it, ignoring the warning that they will be marked for certain death if they do and the "Undead" (Imhotep) is brought back to the mortal world. Sure enough, Evelyn reads from the Book and wakes Imhotep, and the next part of the film sees him track down and kill all four hapless men.

** [[spoiler: Rick's ForcedKiss to Evy while imprisoned early on sets up how the two will end up together at the end of the film and the sequels, as does the later scene of Evy nearly falling asleep on Rick's shoulder while riding camels and when Evy is very drunk and [[AlmostKiss passes out before she can kiss Rick]].]]

* GunPorn: If you're a fan of vintage 1920's weaponry, this is the film for you. Pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, this movie has everything.

* {{Eagleland}}: The Americans, oh so very much. It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d a bit, though.
--> [''The barge is burning, and the TriggerHappy Americans are gleefuly shooting up the Medjai, complete with whooping'']
--> '''Jonathan:''' [''with disgust''] ''Americans''.

* 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.

--> '''Jonathan:''' Let's see what our friend the warden believed in.

-->'''Winston:''' ''[as [[spoiler:Imhotep's sandwave is about to bring down the biplane]] ]'' Here I come, laddies! ''[laughs]''

Set circa early 1920s, it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing- and then having to stop- a mummy named Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt.

** The novelization gives some details that it probably would have been difficult to convey in the movie, such as some of the Carnahans' 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.
** There was a lot more detail in the original script that was cut for pacing, including an expansion on Imhotep's backstory, the rest of the plagues, and titbit explanations on minor issues. [[http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Mummy,-The.html The original script can be viewed here.]]

-->'''Evy:''' [''completely hammered by this point, but attempting to appear dignified''] I may not be an explorer- or, or an adventurer, or a treasure seeker, or a gunfighter- ''Mr O'Connell''...! But I am ''proud'' of what I am!
-->'''Rick:''' [''pretty much sober''] Oh? And that is...?
-->'''Evy:''' I... am a ''librarian''! [''proud smile''] And... and I am going to kiss you, Mr O'Connell.
-->'''Rick:''' [''amused''] You can call me Rick.
-->'''Evy:''' [''smiling''] Rick... [''leans in'']
-->'''Rick:''' [''stops smiling and leans in as well'']
-->'''Evy:''' [''passes out'']
-->'''Rick:''' [''exasperated/disappointed look'']

* AncientOrderOfProtectors: The Medjai, the descendants of Pharaoh's bodyguards who try to keep people away from Hamunaptra, and Imhotep. Interestingly, despite maintaining their vigil and still taking the ancient religious elements seriously they have all converted to Islam by the time of the movie.

** Then the opening (modern day) scene: what's the French Foreign Legion doing in Egypt (a British protectorate)? Ancient Egypt at its height didn't expand anywhere near what became France's African colonies.
*** 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 Legionnaires shooting their way through their territory, though.

** The Book of the Dead and the Book of Amun-Ra are both made to look like a bunch of black stone and gold (respectively) tablets put together in a form resembling a modern-day book. The Ancient Egyptians would have written their books on papyrus scrolls. Even if they could make the books the way they're depicted, the Book of Amun-Ra would never have been made out of pure gold - it would have been obscenely heavy.
** Hamunaptra is a real place and was really nicknamed 'City of the Dead', but it is the ruined city in India, a relic of unknown civilization destroyed several millennia ago.
** The bronze sword that Rick wields during the climax of the movie, as well as the bronze khopesh used by the soldier mummies are considerably bigger and longer than their historical counterparts. Not only would a bronze sword like that be absurdly heavy, a sword that long would easily bend during battle.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Jonathan identifies the plague of boils as the final plague. Biblically, the final plague was the death of the first born son, which never happens in the movie. Given that the death of the first born is controversial even within some parts of the Christian Church, it was probably cut for not being family friendly.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Ardeth Bay appears to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTVRpGoPVo say the same sentence three times]]. Granted, he changes intonations. In case you're interested, he says "The desert will kill him".

* 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.
** After Evey knocks over the shelves, Dr. Bey says "Give me frogs, flies, locusts! Anything but you! Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!" He soon finds out that isn't true.
* BeingEvilSucks: Beni serves Imhotep purely out of fear and greed, and he clearly loathes every minute of it, except the part where he taunts the eyeless Burns, perhaps because he blames them for unleashing Imhotep. By the end of the movie he finds out being the toadie for an undead dark wizard is ''really'' not all it's cracked up to be.

-->'''Dr. Bey:''' We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
-->'''Ardeth Bay:''' Now, because of you, we have failed.
-->'''Evelyn:''' And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
-->'''Dr. Bey:''' To stop this creature? Let me think...
-->'''Ardeth and Dr. Bey:''' YES!
** Or later in the film:
-->[''mummies rise from the floor'']
-->'''Rick:''' Who the hell're these guys?
-->'''Ardeth:''' Priests... Imhotep's priests!
-->'''Rick:''' ... Alright, then.
-->[''MoreDakka ensues'']

* ButtMonkey: Burns, prior to his death, suffers ''unfairly'' - before Imhotep catches him, his glasses are broken leaving him unable to see well. Then Imhotep catches him and steals both his eyes and his tongue. Later, he tracks down the group again and finishes Burns off, but not before the poor bastard finds out what's going to happen.

* CatsAreMagic: At two points, a normal cat is able to ward off [[BigBad Imhotep]] because "cats are the guardians of the underworld". This is exploited only the once, because Imhotep completes his regeneration soon after and becomes immune to whatever the cat would supposedly have done to him. In the LicensedGame of the sequel, cats drain Imhotep's life bar.

* ChekhovsGunman: Winston.
* ChekhovsSkill: Jonathan picks the [[MacGuffin key]] that opens seemingly every locked Egyptian artifact in existence out of Rick's pocket before the start of the first movie, then swipes it again out of Imhotep's robes during a struggle near the end.
* ContrivedCoincidence: On the same totally random day Rick and Evelyn set out on their expedition to Hamunaptra, Another expedition for the same long lost city being led by Rick's old associate Beni just happens to depart from the exact same location, on the exact same ship.

** Some hired locals were sprayed with acid when they pry open a pass in the tomb and trigger a booby trap.
** Hassan, the warden who accompanied O'Connell's group on the journey, is unfortunate enough for a scarab beetle to crawl under his skin and eventually burrow into his skull to eat his brain. While this doesn't kill him directly, he bolts down a tunnel, screaming in agony before (possibly intentionally) slamming his head into a stone wall, killing himself and putting an end to the bug's work. Christ.
** Everybody unlucky enough to be in the vicinity of the chest (that held the Book of the Dead and Anck-su-namun's canopic jars) when it is opened- they get their flesh sucked away by Imhotep.

* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Evy reads from a book that sets off the events of the first movie, and that conveniently prevents the production company from having to pay more actors.
* CursedWithAwesome: Imhotep, whose punishment for having an affair with the Pharaoh's favorite wife, killing the Pharaoh, and trying to raise the dead is to be eaten alive by scarabs. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, once the scarabs are done and he comes back he has all the powers of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.

* DeadlyDustStorm: Imhotep has power over them, can even turn into one.

** [[spoiler:Beni. He just got a little too greedy with the gold he was thieving from Hamunaptra- the guy already had a huge saddlebag and simply had to go back for more.]]

* DeathSeeker: Winston Havlock, a WWI pilot who survived when all his buddies died in glorious combat. [[spoiler: In fact, when the heroes recruit his assistance against Imhotep, and tell him point blank that he'll probably die as everyone else who got involved has died, he sounds downright giddy at the prospect.]]
--> '''Winston:''' [as [[spoiler:Imhotep's sandwave is about to bring down the biplane]]] Here I come, laddies! [''laughs'']
* DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted in the final fight. [[spoiler:While Rick and Jonathan fight off Imhotep and his many mummy mooks, Anck Su Namun attacks Evy. However, being a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Gal]], Evy spends the whole "fight" simply dodging her attacks. Jonathan then commands an army of mummified guards he summoned to kill her.]]
* DevouredByTheHorde: [[spoiler: Beni Gabor is eaten alive by scarab beetles, which swarm over and inside of him.]]

** Beni ran away and left his so-called comrades to be killed by the Tuaregs; he locked himself in the tomb, even shutting out his "friend" Rick; and worst of all, he became Imhotep's servant in order to save his own miserable neck. On top of that, he greedily fills his pockets with the gold from the tomb, which ultimately ends up killing him.
** 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]]. Even ''Beni'' lasted (a little) longer, enough to tell Rick about the aforementioned command change.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The British Egyptologist tells Evy "You must not read from the book!" She does anyway. {{Subverted|Trope}} in he declares this ''after'' she's already done what she wasn't supposed to.
** Although [[{{Hypocrite}} he's really not one to talk]], since he and the three Americans were the ones to open the chest the aforementioned book was in in the first place, ''[[GenreBlind after]]'' he'd clearly read the inscription that warned that anyone who opens the chest would be the resurrected mummy's first victims.

** Beni ran away and left his so-called comrades to be killed by the Tuaregs; he locked himself in the tomb, even shutting out his "friend" Rick; and worst of all, he became Imhotep's servant in order to save his own miserable neck. On top of that, he greedily fills his pockets with the gold from the tomb, which ultimatly ends up killing him.