History Headscratchers / TheMummy2017

* Story perspective, Why did they decide to make the nain character, (Nick), a soldier? In most adaptations (heck most works) featuring a mummy, the protagonists are usually archeologists, which makes sense since those are the kind of people you'd expect to be searching around tombs. But with Nick the only reason I can think why they made him into a marine is to make him more like an action star, but the MC of the [[TheMummyTrilogy 1999 Mummy film and it's sequels]] was a pretty badass dude (granted he's more of a treasure hunter), and that's not even getting into some famous archeologists in fiction (Like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft). Plus the fact the dude hunts for treasure anyways, kinda makes him hard to sympathize by description alone. "A Sergeant in the army disobeys orders and possibly abandons his fellow soldiers (some of whom may be under his own command) just so he can track down some treasure for personal profit." with A description like that something tells me that the eriters where intentionally trying to get people to root for Ahmanet.

* Story perspective, Why did they decide to make The Main Character (Nick) A Soldier? In most adaptations (heck most works) featuring A Mummy The protagonists are usually Archeologists, which makes sense since those are the kind of people you'd expect to be searching around tombs. But with Nick the only reason I can think why they made him into A marine is to make him more like an action star, but the MC of the 1999 Mummy film and it's sequels was A pretty badass dude (Granted He's more of A treasure hunter) and that's not even getting into some famous archeologists in fiction (Like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft). Plus the fact the dude hunts for treasure anyways, kinda makes him hard to sympathize by description alone. "A Sergeant in the Army disobeys orders and possibly abandons his fellow soldiers (some of whom may be under his own command) just so He can track down some treasure for personal profit." with A description like that something tells Me that the Writers where intentionally trying to get people to root for Ahmanet.

** Test question in relation to this: How many people actually recognized Jenny's last name was a reference to a character in The Mummy's Curse?

* Why does Ahmanet [[PrefersGoingBarefoot prefer going barefoot]] despite being Egyptian '"royalty'' and the heir to the kingdom no less?

* As part of the egyptian royalty, the heir to the kingdom, no more, ''why Ahmanet'' despite being dressed in fantastic dresses PrefersGoingBarefoot?

** Technically this is just faulty research. In ancient Egypt at the death of a king there was 24 hours to install a successor in order to maintain cosmic order. A male heir would be the first choice but there are plenty of recorded instances where the would be king is too young and a woman, either a sister or mother, is assigned the role of co-regent to rule in their place until they come of age. It's a good deal for a time, but Ahmenet clearly wanted a long term gig and American audiences aren't generally open enough to concepts of polyamory, let alone ancient practices of marital incest. If she weren't a straight up psycho she WOULD have just married him when he came of age, and maybe just slowly poisoned him amd make him sickly, to hold on to the power. But then the rest of her family would pretty much ensure she never keeps the power. Murder it is.

* Why didn't [[spoiler:Nick stabbing himself with the dagger cause him to be taken over by Set? Even Princess Ahmanet seemed concerned about him stabbing himself.]]
** It seems like it did [[spoiler: with the fact that Nick's irises split into two, but he managed to overcome it through HeroicWillpower. IMO pretty weak display of power for the god of storms and evil.]]
*** Ahmanet did seem to try very hard to get him to give himself to her (and to Seth) willingly. maybe,[[spoiler: by stabbing himself (i.e: ''choosing'' himself) for his own altruistic reasons, he somehow soiled the ceremony.]] Also, if I am not mistaken, [[spoiler: Nick stabbed himself in the knee instead of through the heart]], which is way too symbolic to be meaningless.
*** Nope, [[spoiler: it wasn't the knee, but it wasn't his heart either; he stabbed himself right in the craw.]]
*** Also, Nick managed [[spoiler: to crack the stone ''before'' stabbing himself with the knife - perhaps that's weakened Set's hold.]]

** If Nick ''hadn't'' been a fairly shady character to start with, the writers would've forfeited the melodrama of making it seem plausible that he might give in to Ahmanet's promises of power and immortality. It's possible they also wanted to play up a parallel with Dracula's origin-story from the previous Dark Universe movie: two "fallen warrior"-types who [[spoiler: got saddled with supernatural curses they can barely keep in check]].
** Test question in relation to this: How many people actually recognized Jenny's last name was a reference to a character in The Mummy's Curse?

** It's implied that the harpoons by Prodigium had mercury, and mercury ''harms'' Ahmanet. She was also almost regenerated, and as we see before her scape, in contrast with Imhotep, she ''have'' tissue, muscles, blood, veins, organs, and fluids, so the mercury mantains her weakened.

** We really don't know, but in her introduction she is practice her combat abilities in sand, so it's practical. Two, Egypt and the desert are warm, and yes, probably she is a barefooter or she feels comfortable without any footwear. And three, she uses visions trying to ''seduce'' Nick, and would no be strange if he has a foot fetish [[LegFocus or something similar]], despite all, she can read the mind, and learn english by only read minds.

** We really don't know, but in her introduction she is practice her combat abilities in sand, so it's practical. Two, Egypt and the desert are warm, and yes, probably she is a barefooter or she feels comfortable without any footwear. And three, she uses visions trying to ''seduce'' Nick, and would no be strange if he has a foot fetish [[ShesGotLegs or something similar]], despite all, she can read the mind, and learn english by only read minds.

* As part of the egyptian royalty, the heir to the kingdom, no more, ''why Ahmanet'' despite being dressed in fantastic dresses DoesNotLikeShoes?

** We really don't know, but in her introduction she is practice her combat abilities in sand, so it's practical. Two, Egypt and the desert are warm, and yes, probably she is a barefooter or she feels comfortable without any footwear. And three, she uses visions trying to ''seduce'' Nick, and would no be strange if he has a foot fetish or something similar, despite all, she can read the mind, and learn english by only read minds.

** Fanservice.

** We really don't know, but in her introduction she is practice her combat abilities in sand, so it's practical. Two, Egypt and the desert is warm. And three, she uses visions trying to ''seduce'' Nick, and would no be strange if he has a foot fetish or something similar, despite all, she can read the mind, and learn english by only read minds.

** We really don't know, but in her introduction she is practice her combat abilities in sand, so it's practical. Two, Egypt and the desert is harm. And three, she uses visions trying to ''seduce'' Nick, and would no be strange if he has a foot fetish or something similar, despite all, she can read the mind, and learn english by only read minds.

** In Amanet's eyes she was cruelly betrayed by her father and had her future stolen from her by her brother. In all probability she wanted immediate revenge and had no desire to wait and observe. She might have been more careful in her assassination attempt but she got overconfident because of her deal and newfound powers and the rest is history.