History Fridge / ThePrinceOfEgypt

** The first interpretation of the opening lines "So you think you've got friends in high places/With the power to put us on the run" initially seems to be a mocking allusion to the Hebrew God as a "friend in a high place" of Moses. However, it is actually very probable that the Priests were referring to ''Ramses''. In their intrigue-addled mind, they probably thought Moses was just as much of a faking hypocrite as them, and he was ''going after their job'', hoping to use his past relation to Ramses to upstage them and become the new High Priest of Egypt. wich is not as far fetched as it sounds as many high priests in egyptian history where either sibling of the ruling Pharaoh or close family members.

** Pestilence of the Livestock: This Shows God's victory over Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love usually depicted with a cow head and is closely associated with cattle. This also was an affront to Heqet, a goddess of birth and fertility.

** Death of the Firstborn: Signifies God's ultimate authority over the pantheon, ''especially'' gods associated with protection and death. This demonstrates power over ''many'' gods invoked (Anubis and Nepthys who protected the dead, Nekhbet and Wadjet who were protectors of Egypt, and Meshkent and Heqet who were goddesses of birth), along with multiple ''other'' major gods; Osiris as lord of the dead shouldn't have let it happen, Horus as protector of Egypt should've stopped it, and, most pertinently, it was a personal failure of the Pharoah himself, as he was considered to be the earthly representative of these deities and should have protected his people instead of allowing them to die by keeping the Hebrews in Egypt.

* It also seems kind of strange at first that Ramses is so quick to dismiss the river of blood, even though the priests ''clearly'' hadn't reproduced the effect. Then again, Ramses was in a situation where he felt the need to maintain a sense of control. He was likely delusional enough to just take ''any'' sign that Moses was a fraud and run with it.
* Just like the source material, each of the Plagues was made that way because God may have also wanted to prove his dominion over the Egyptian pantheon.
** Turning the Nile River into Blood: Signifies God's supremacy over the deities of the Nile: Hapi, an Egyptian god associated with the Nile's annual flooding who was the "water bearer" along with Sobek, who is the Nile's guardian, and Khnum, the guardian of the Nile's source.
** Frogs from the Nile: Illustrates God's power over Heqet, the Egyptian goddess of fertility, who had the head of a frog.

** Pestilence of the Livestock: This Shows God's victory over Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of love usually depicted with a cow head and is closely associated with cattle.
** Boils and Sores: Represents God's power over Isis, the Egyptian goddess with healing powers, and Thoth, the Egyptian god of medicine.
** Thunderstorm of Hail and Fire: Signifies God's dominion over Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky, and Shu, the Egyptian god of the winds.

** Three Days of Darkness: Represents God's supremacy over Ra, the Egyptian sun god. Possibly also demonstrates superiority over Aten (another solar deity) and Khonsu (deity of time and the moon).
** Death of the Firstborn: Signifies God's authority over the Egyptian pantheon, especially Osiris (Egyptian god of the afterlife), Horus (Deity closely associated with Pharaohs and life itself), Anubis (Egyptian god of the dead) and Pharaoh (the "highest authority" of Egypt).

* During ‘The Plagues’, there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment when Ramses angrily kicks Hotep and Huy out of the palace. Aside from being a bit of BlackComedy in an otherwise joyless song, it also serves as an indicator of the movie’s shift in tone. Ramses is literally ushering the comedic relief out of the film, and you’ll notice that after their disappearance, there are seldom few moments in the film which warrant a laugh.

* As noted below, the entire persecution of the Hebrews is a consequence of Akhenaten's attempt at replacing the traditional Egyptian gods with Aten's monotheistic cult. This also explains Seti's obsession with Pharaoh needing to be strong and the belief a "weak link" could destroy a mighty dynasty: he lived in the aftermath of ''precisely that'', with Akhenaten ending the golden age of the XVIII Dynasty by almost causing a civil war and letting Egypt's control over Canaan collapse. He also saw his successors Tutankhamon and Ay fail to fix it through their own weakness (Tutankhamon being a child and little more than a figurehead before dying, and Ay an old man who lacked the strength to deal with the brewing conflict between the traditionalists and the Aten followers), and then Horemhab rising to the throne and forcefully fixing the situation by ''crushing'' the monotheistic Aten followers (with the Hebrews being collateral damage) and setting up the end of his own dynasty when he named the visier Paramesse, the future Rameses I, as successor rather than risk a repeat of Tutankhamon's debacle.[[note]]By the time Horemhab rose to the throne all his children had died, and he was growing old himself. While he could have fathered another son there was no way to make sure he'd be old enough to rule when he died, so Horemhab instead selected his visier Paramesse, who already had a capable and a grandson[[/note]]

** On the other hand, Amun-her-khepeshef, Rameses II's eldest son, is recorded to have died in the 25th year of Rameses' reign. The child we see in this film is not him, and would be erased from history to preserve his father's glory.