History YMMV / KingSolomonsMines

* ValuesResonance: At the end of the book, Ignosi declares Kukuanaland to be off-limits to white people, whom he considers to be a destructive force in Africa. Neither the narrator, the author or the modern reader are inclined to disagree.

** [[WickedWitch Gagool]] helped Twala's brutal takeover and keeps him in power by having countless innocents executing, claiming them as "witches" or treasonous to see them murdered on trumped up charges to maintain her own power base. Gagool also practices HumanSacrifice on young maidens, and when Twala falls, she seeks to kill the adventuring party by trapping them in the mines, even trying to murder the brave young woman Foulata when she tries to save them.

* CompleteMonster: In a sharp contrast to the rest of the 1985 film, and even his partner Bockner, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Dogati stands out as a deadly serious madman]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] kidnapping Professor Huston by murdering one of his partners, Dogati later subjects the man to brutal torture, before threatening the same to Huston's daughter Jesse. Running a slave trade where men, women, and children are sold and abused for various purposes, Dogati later tracks his ArchEnemy Allan Quatermain to a small village, whose inhabitants he promptly massacres to pave the way for his journey to the treasure-filled Mines of King Solomon. While trekking to the Mines, Dogati and his soldiers stumble across a marsh, and Dogati proceeds to cross by [[BadBoss slaughtering his own dozens of men]], then using their bodies as stepping stones, an act that causes Bockner to turn on Dogati. In the end, Dogati forces Bockner to swallow several diamonds, proclaiming he will rip them out of the man's stomach later, and ultimately attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe drag Quatermain down with him]] as the Mines crumble in on themselves.

* {{Woolseyism}}: The Portuguese translation/reworking, made by 19th-century writer Eça de Queirós (nowadays recognized as one of the best Portuguese writers of all time), is considered by many as a better book than the original. There are even translations to English, French and Italian of Eça de Queirós's translation.

** Early in ''King Solomon's Mines'', Quartermain explains that he doesn't use the N-word because he's met more gentlemen in Africa than England, and more people deserving of the N-word in England than Africa.

* ValuesDissonance: Quartermain doesn't use the N-word to refer to native Africans, explicitly saying that he disapproves of it, but he's quite happy to use the K-word, which today is treated as hate speech of a similar order.

* CompleteMonster: In a sharp contrast to the rest of the 1985 film, and even his partner Bockner, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Dogati stands out as a deadly serious madman]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] kidnapping Professor Huston by murdering one of his partners, Dogati later subjects the man to brutal torture, before threatening the same to Huston's daughter Jesse. Running a slave trade where men, women, and children are sold and abused for various purposes, Dogati later tracks his ArchEnemy Allan Quartermain to a small village, whose inhabitants he promptly massacres to pave the way for his journey to the treasure-filled Mines of King Solomon. While trekking to the Mines, Dogati and his soldiers stumble across a marsh, and Dogati proceeds to cross by [[BadBoss slaughtering his own dozens of men]], then using their bodies as stepping stones, an act that causes Bockner to turn on Dogati. In the end, Dogati forces Bockner to swallow several diamonds, proclaiming he will rip them out of the man's stomach later, and ultimately attempts to [[TakingYouWithMe drag Quartermain down with him]] as the Mines crumble in on themselves.

** The [[WickedWitch witch Gagool]] helped Twala's brutal takeover and keeps him in power by having countless innocents executing, claiming them as "witches" or treasonous to see them murdered on trumped up charges to maintain her own power base. Gagool also practices HumanSacrifice on young maidens, and when Twala falls, she seeks to kill the adventuring party by trapping them in the mines, even trying to murder the brave young woman Foulata when she tries to save them.

** The aforementioned [[WickedWitch witch Gagool]] helped Twala's brutal takeover and keeps him in power by having countless innocents executing, claiming them as "witches" or treasonous to see them murdered on trumped up charges to maintain her own power base. Gagool also practices HumanSacrifice on young maidens, and when Twala falls, she seeks to kill the adventuring party by trapping them in the mines, even trying to murder the brave young woman Foulata when she tries to save them.

* ValuesDissonance: Quartermain doesn't use the N-word to refer to native Africans, but he's quite happy to use the K-word, which today is treated as hate speech of a similar order.

* FairForItsDay: Early in ''King Solomon's Mines'', Quartermain explains that he doesn't use the N-word because he's met more gentlemen in Africa than England, and more people deserving of the N-word in England than Africa.

* FirstInstallmentWins

** [[WickedWitch The witch Gagool]] helped Twala's brutal takeover and keeps him in power by having countless innocents executing, claiming them as "witches" or treasonous to see them murdered on trumped up charges to maintain her own power base. Gagool also practices HumanSacrifice on young maidens, and when Twala falls, she seeks to kill the adventuring party by trapping them in the mines, even trying to murder the brave young woman Foulata when she tries to save them.

* FairForItsDay: Early in ''King Solomon's Mines'', Quatermain explains that he doesn't use the N-word because he's met more gentlemen in Africa than England, and more people deserving of the N-word in England than Africa.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Very many, but one of the best comes in ''Allan Quatermain'' when [[NobleSavage Umslopagaas the mighty Zulu]], holds a stair against over a score of enemies in a HeroicSacrifice, killing nearly every single one of them with his great axe Inkozi-kas 'the Woodpecker' before dying in defense of a young woman he'd only just recently met. The kicker? [[BadassGrandpa Umslopogaas was in his sixties]].

* CompleteMonster: In a sharp contrast to the rest of the 1985 film, and even his partner Bockner, [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Dogati stands out as a deadly serious madman]]. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Introduced]] kidnapping Professor Huston by murdering one of his partners, Dogati later subjects the man to brutal torture, before threatening the same to Huston's daughter Jesse. Running a slave trade where men, women, and children are sold and abused for various purposes, Dogati later tracks his ArchEnemy Allan Quartermain to a small village, whose inhabitants he promptly massacres to pave the way for his journey to the treasure-filled Mines of King Solomon. While trekking to the Mines, Dogati and his soldiers stumble across a marsh, and Dogati proceeds to cross by [[BadBoss slaughtering his own dozens of men]], then using their bodies as stepping stones, an act that causes Bockner to turn on Dogati. In the end, Dogati forces Bockner to swallow several diamonds, proclaiming he will rip them out of the man's stomach later, and ultimately attempts to [TakingYouWithMe drag Quartermain down with him]] as the Mines crumble in on themselves.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Very many, but one of the best comes in ''Allan Quatermain'' when [[NobleSavage Umslopagaas the mighty Zulu]], holds a stair against over a score of enemies in a HeroicSacrifice, killing nearly every single one of them with his great axe Inkozi-kas 'the Woodpecker' before dying in defense of a young woman he'd only just recently met. The kicker? [[BadassGrandpa Umslopogaas was in his sixties]].

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Very many, but one of the best comes in ''Allan Quatermain'' when [[NobleSavage Umslopagaas the mighty Zulu]], holds a stair against over a score of enemies in a HeroicSacrifice, killing nearly every single one of them with his great axe Inkozi-kas 'the Woodpecker' before dying in defense of a young woman he'd only just recently met. The kicker? [[BadassGrandpa Umslopogaas was in his sixties]].