History Fridge / NightAtTheMuseum

* Her husband was also extremely abusive, so she may be better off with Teddy.

** In ancient Egyptian folk tales there are times were magicians bring wax figures to life, As well as the idea behind shabti's, which are the wooden representations of workers found in tombs. Covers most of the attractions in a museum- wax figures, wood or stone statues, bodily remains including those of animals.
* Why do all the Exhibits malfunction in different ways in the third movie? Like how Teddy goes into stuttering speech, but Sacagawea just freezes. Well at the end Teddy has throw away line about he's made of wax and she's made of polyurethane. It's meant as a joke, but it could also be the explanation, the different materials they are made out of react differently as they "shut down".
** This also applies to those ''not'' made from artificial materials: Akhmenrah progressively mummifies as the corrosion progresses, while Dexter, a stuffed monkey, suffers a heart attack and dies.

*** That's assuming anyone even believed the witnesses. That late at night, they could easily be dismissed as being drunk and deluded.

* Jedediah is able to drive the remote controlled car from inside. How is this possible? The tablet brought it to life too! His gun may not have worked, but the triggering mechanism did; we heard it click when he tried to shoot Larry. Likewise whatever they used to set off the ineffectual dynamite. And the car has a working motor inside; all that's needed are working controls.

* Why would an ancient Egyptian artifact reanimate both the dead and lifeless statues? According to their mythology, a person's ''sheut'' or "shadow or image" is just as much an essential part of a person as their soul. So reanimating an image of Teddy Roosevelt would make as much sense to the ancient Egyptians as it would to reanimate their body: both are equally important and both are considered part of that person.

** What about the dinosaurs, animals and cavemen? They seem to lack the intelligence to comprehend their status as not real, or in the taxidermy animals cases, their state as ''reanimated corpses.''

** And while some of these are PlayedForLaughs like the Augustus bust in the glass case screaming "Pompeii!", one can't help but wonder what such an existence would be like for them. Unable to move, or interact with anyone, amd stuck that way ''forever'', yet clearly self-aware and conscious...imagine the toll on their emotional well being.

*** This is somewhat lessened by the fact that Ahkmenrah is a mummified corpse until the tablet revives him every night, meaning it's likely the casts would be similar (i.e., turn back to flesh and blood), and considering Attila has undergone character growth and become a pretty nice guy to be around, it's likely the things brought to life by the tablet ''don't'' just follow what they were created and are fully capable of undergoing character growth.
*** Plus it's, y'know, a ''museum''. One that millions of kids visit. Anything genuinely X-rated isn't going to be on public display, and probably wouldn't be in range of the tablet.

*** Also Ahkmenrah is a polite, composed, regal and serious-but-friendly Nice Guy, while Kahmunrah is a hammy, power-hungry, cheerful-but-ruthless and Laughably Evil bad guy who is the source of the main conflict in the second movie.

** That's assuming anyone even believed the witnesses. That late at night, they could easily be dismissed as being drunk and deluded.

*** Which, if it's true, would be bad news for Rebecca, who isn't going to get anything useful out of Sacajawea for her dissertation.

* Why do all the Exhibits malfunction in different ways in the third movie? Like how Teddy goes into stuttering speech, but Sacajawea just freezes. Well at the end Teddy has throw away line about he's made of wax and she's made of polyurethane. It's meant as a joke, but it could also be the explanation, the different materials they are made out of react differently as they "shut down".

* Why doesn’t [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] talk in the second movie unlike the other villains and Oscar? Considering how he’s covered in full armor, who’s to say the mannequin looks anything like Creator/JamesEarlJones (unlike the other major character statues who aren’t wearing full armor)? It could just be an ordinary featureless mannequin wearing Vader’s armor.

*** This is somewhat lessened by the fact that Ahkmenrah is a mummified corpse until the tablet revives him every night, meaning it's likely the casts would be similar (i.e. turn back to flesh and blood), and considering Attila has undergone character growth and become a pretty nice guy to be around, it's likely the things brought to life by the tablet ''don't'' just follow what they were created and are fully capable of undergoing character growth.

* A small one, admittedly, but Sacajawea ''was'' a married woman, so presuming her simulacrum knew this fact, she'd have to (politely, I hope) rebuff Teddy Roosevelt's romantic advances. Poor fellow....
** Except a) there is no wax figure of Sacajawea's husband to be faithful to, and b) the real man died decades, if not centuries, ago. There's no reason the museum Sacajawea can't date as she pleases.
* Her husband was also extremely abusive, so she may be better off with Teddy.

** Except a) there is no wax figure of Sacajawea's husband to be faithful to, and b) the real man died decades, if not centuries, ago. There's no reason the museum Sacajawea can't date as she pleases.