History Fridge / TheMummyTrilogy

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* When the mummy of Anck-su-namun wakes up on the table near the end of the first film, there's a neat little effect where we can see the table through the holes of her eyes and mouth... Except we should see the back of her head, since her skull is intact and she has wraps and the remains of hair.
** This was either SpecialEffectsFailure, or perhaps the skull of Anuck-su-namun's mummy was damaged during excavation as mummies are fragile.

* What exactly were those pillars Alex knocked over in the sequel holding up?
** They were just decorative.

* In the first movie, Pharaoh Seti's "crown jewel" city was Thebes. However, in the prequel part of the second movie which took place a thousand years earlier, The Scorpion King (or his look-a-like grandson), destroyed Thebes using the Army of Anubis. Then, when Rick and Evie are at Thebes, ''the same fallen pillars'' are on the ground, unmoved for 5,000 years. Shouldn't have Seti have had the place cleaned up, since it was his capital city?
** Possibly they were left to lie there in Seti's day, as a dreadful warning ''not'' to go anywhere near the Scorpion King's tomb?
** Egypt is such an ancient country that its ancient ruins are built on other ancient ruins, which are built on still ''other'' ancient ruins. Possibly the fallen pillars got buried by sandstorms soon after the Army of Anubis sacked the place. Wait a few thousand years, and the wind blows the sands away to reveal what's hiding under them. This is literally what happened to structures like the Sphinx, on not one but several occasions.

* Imhotep's canopic jars which triggers his curse. Given that Imhotep was mummified alive without having his internal organs being removed (which canopic jars are used to store) what significance would those canopic jars actually have?
** Those jars are actually for Anck-su-namun's organs, not Imhotep's. They're significant because he needs them to perform the ritual to resurrect his lady.

** She even mentions that Rick taught her a few good defensive moves. Plus there's the aspect of MamaBear towards Alex, and [[spoiler: the awakening of her former-life training as Nefetiri, an Egyptian princess trained in combat]].
* One of the deleted scenes in the first movie involves a pair of zombie priests digging out the Book of Amun-Ra before Rick and Jonathan can get to it, wherein they're sprayed with the same acid that killed the group who unearthed the Book of the Dead. Why delete the scene? Because no doubt the Egyptians would not have wanted to make it as hard to kill the creature as it would have been to release him.
** Although the director did say that he cut that scene for pacing purposes.

* Why did the Medjai never get cold feet, open Imhotep's sarcophagus and destroy him in a manner that he couldn't return from? Because they converted to Islam, which specifically labels disturbing the dead (even a monster such as Imhotep) as ''haram''.
** Although to dig him up and destroy his body means that they'll have to unearth him from underneath the giant statue, which would make it easier for someone to steal the body and bring him back.

* Some reviewers have criticised the way Imhotep makes so many mistakes in dealing with his enemies, such as relying on his fragile priests to deal with his enemies or how he killed the pharaoh in the first place. However, him killing the pharaoh was just a case of bad timing (the affair with Anck-su-namun was discovered and they had no other way to escape the consequences beyond the rushed plan to have Anck-su-namun take the blame and be reborn later), and in all later cases when Imhotep is fighting his enemies after his rebirth in the modern world, there is a simple explanation; ''Imhotep was a '''priest'''''. He would have relied on his reputation and social standing to deter attacks on his person most of the time, but after being revived he generally relies on his powers to overwhelm his enemies, with the result that he never bothers to learn more sophisticated combat techniques beyond "kill them" and hence makes amateur mistakes due to a mixture of ignorance and over-confidence.

** Egypt is such an ancient country that its ancient ruins are built on other ancient ruins, which are built on still ''other'' ancient ruins. Possibly the fallen pillars got buried by sandstorms soon after the Army of Anubis sacked the place, and later pharaohs had that part of Thebes built on top of the resulting dunes. Wait a few thousand years longer for those later constructions to collapse, and the wind blows the sands away to reveal what's hiding under them. This is literally what happened to structures like the Sphinx, on not one but several occasions.

* Imhotep's canopic jars which triggers his curse. Given that Imhotep was mummified alive without having his internal organs being removed (which canopic jars are used to store) what significance would those canopic jars actually have?

** Possibly they were left to lie there in Seti's day, as a dreadful warning ''not'' to go anywhere near the Scorpion King's tomb?

** Possibly they were left to lie there in Seti's day, as a dreadful warning ''not'' to go anywhere near the Scorpion King's tomb?

* In the first movie, Anck-su-namun is stated to be the Pharaoh's ''mistress''. Makes sense, as it was perfectly normal for Pharaohs to have any number of unimportant concubines. Then in the sequel, she is shown to have taken pride of place as his ''wife'', or at least his ''future'' wife. Anyone with an inkling of knowledge about Egyptian history is probably quite aware that the Pharaohs [[IncestIsRelative didn't typically marry outside the family]] - a Pharaoh's chief wife would always be a woman who also carried the divine royal blood, typically [[BrotherSisterIncest a sister or half-sister,]] [[ParentalIncest or one of his daughters]]. The question of Anch-su-namun's background never comes up at any point in the story, though it gives every implication that she was definitely ''not'' of royal birth. That would have been totally taboo, since as a descendant of the gods, it was unacceptable for a Pharaoh to breed with mere mortals.

** Possibly they were left to lie there in Seti's day, as a dreadful warning ''not'' to go anywhere near the Scorpion King's tomb?

** She even mentions that Rick taught her a few good defensive moves. Plus there's the aspect of MamaBear towards Alex, and [[spoiler: the awakening of her former-life training as Nefetiri, an Egyptian princes trained in combat]].

* Why Evy [[TheGlassesGottaGo lost her glasses in the first film]]: either they were [[NerdGlasses completely superfluous]], reading glasses, or she lost them along with all of the other supplies when the boat sank. Also would explain (if they were, in fact, reading glasses, as the film suggests) why it took her so long to translate the inscriptions of where the Book of Amun-Ra was and the inscribing required to make Imhotep mortal.

* Why did the Medjai never get cold feet, open Imhotep's sarcophagus and destroy him in a manner that he couldn't return from? Because they converted to Islam, which specifically forbids disturbing the dead (even a monster such as Imhotep) as ''haram''.

** Possibly they were left to lie there in Seti's day, as a dreadful warning ''not'' to go anywhere near the Scorpion King's tomb?

* One of the deleted scenes in the first movie involves a pair of zombie priests digging out the Book of Amon-Ra before Rick and Johnathan can get to it, wherein they're sprayed with the same acid that killed the group who unearthed the Book of the Dead. Why delete the scene? Because no doubt the Egyptians would not have wanted to make it as hard to kill the creature as it would have been to release him.

* Imohtep believed Evey looked like Anck-su-namun in the first movie because the eyes he took were from a man who wore glasses. Additionally, take into account Imohtep's reaction when he and Evey first meet in the first film - him peering at her in a manner implying he's trying to make out her appearance, and the questioning tone when he says Anck-su-namun's name.

* When Imhotep starts collecting body parts, he starts by stealing the eyes of one of Americans on the expedition. Remember the man was shown to have poor eyesight and needed glasses? Wouldn't the pharaoh have been left partially blind and have trouble walking into doors?

* In the first movie, Pharaoh Seti's "crown jewel" city was Thebes. However, in the prequel part of the second movie which took place a thousand years earlier, The Scorpion King (or his look-a-like grandson), destroyed Thebes using the Army of Anubis. Then, when Rick and Evie are at Thebes, ''the same fallen pillars'' are on the ground, unmoved for 5,000 years. Shouldn't have Seti have had the place cleaned up, since it was his capital city?

* In the first movie, Evelyn is a geeky, clumsy and shy librarian, whereas by the time of the second movie, she has become a confident warrior and a master of swords and guns. While some may find this a jarring change, if we consider what she's been through, along with her choice of husband and lifestyle, it's a very believable change for the 10 year gap between movies.

* Beni saved the world, this is not an exaggeration. I just realized after re-watching the trilogy. If you listen closely near the beginning of the second movie. You'll hear Jonathan say that the Spear of Osiris (the same spear needed to kill the Scorpion King) was apart of the loot that Beni packed onto the camels that he and the others rode off into the sunset with. Now think about that, had Beni ''not'' found that particular item and loaded it onto that camel, the whole world would have been subjugated by the Scorpion King and his army. Twisted but true, Beni's greed was the one crucial element to saving the planet.

* What exactly were those pillars Alex knocked over in the sequel holding up?

** Although the director did say that he cut that scene for pacing purposes.