History Film / TheMummy1999

* DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted in the final fight. [[spoiler:While the Rick and Jonathan fight off Ihmotep and his many mummy mooks, Anck Su Namun attacks Evy. However, being a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Gal]], Evy spends the whole "fight" simply dodging her attacks. Jonathan then commands an army of mummified guards he summoned to kill her.]]

*** This is somewhat mitigated by Rick mentioning that his unit deserted to go treasure hunting, but that just raises more questions, especially since he mentions them marching across Libya (An Italian Colony) to reach Egypt. Of course, Rick also implies that they were just ''[[{{Determinator}} that]]'' motivated, and they appear decidedly understaffed for a regiment, so perhaps they found a believable amount of trouble on the way. It does make you wonder why the Italians and British don't seem pissed over some Legionairres shooting their way through their territory, though.

* SpitTake
** Jonathan is getting drunk in the camp battle; Beni runs up and takes a heavy swig of the Glenlivet, and then spit-takes it onto Jonathan as Ardeth Bay rides up behind them.
** All the characters in the bar do spit-takes when they realise the water has turned to blood.
* TheSwarm: Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan evade a ''river'' of carnivorous scarabs, which returns to devour one of the other excavation-party's workers alive.

* NecessarilyEvil: Ardeth Bay leads a secret society dedicated to preventing anyone from discovering the location of Hamunaptra in order to prevent Imhotep from being ressureceted. He feels this is so important that his organization attacks anyone attempting to reach the city, even innocent explorers with no ill intent.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: [[spoiler:After Jonathan gains control of the remaining Mummy Soldiers and sics them on Anck-Su-Namun, Imhotep conveniently forgets that he has God-like powers and could have easily dispatched them to save her, but instead tries to take the Golden Book from Jonathan in an attempt to reverse the spell. However, he is not fast enough, and Anck-Su-Namun is killed (again).]]

* LastRequest: Comes up humorously when Rick is about to be hung:

* GoodAllAlong: The Magi. Yes, they murder people, but it's to prevent even the possibility of anyone finding Hamunaptra and resurrecting Imhotep.

* DishonoredDead: Imhotep was treated this way when he was buried; his sarcophagus was filled with scarab beetles that would eat his body's flesh.

** Imhotep is [[WeaksauceWeakness scared by cats in the movie]] due to the claim that cats are the guardians of the doors of the the Egyptian underworld. While there are a few cat deities in Egyptian mythology (one of them, [[BloodKnight Sekhmet]] is actually pretty terrifying), they were associated with other aspects, to be specific, [[ArsonMurderAndLifesaving war, disease, hunting, fertility, and motherly love]]. It would have made much more sense to have him be afraid of snakes, since most of the deities assigned with duties like punishing the damned in the afterlife were horrific snakes, such as Khetti, or the servants of Seker, whose job was essentially to punish people like Imhotep. Plus, then Imhotep would have had an excuse to say "WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes" as a ShoutOut.
** Actually the cat goddess Bastet was tasked with destroying the evil serpent Apophis to defend Ra. Seeing as Imhotep is not just an evil soul but a sorcerer, it makes sense.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Imhotep's curse rendered him terrified of cats. ItMakesSenseInContext, though, given that cats are the guardians of the underworld, a place which he surely does not wish to return.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the ancient prologue, Anck-Su-Namun fatally stabs herself rather than be apprehended by the ancient Medjai.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Anck-Su-Namun certainly felt that way, fatally stabbing herself rather than be apprehended by the ancient Medjai.

->''[[ArcWords "Death is only the beginning."]]''

** Beni ran away and left his so-called comrades to be killed by the Tuaregs; he locked himself in the tomb, even shutting out his "friend" Rick; and worst of all, he became Imhotep's servant in order to save his own miserable neck.

Set circa early 1920s, it features proficient historian Evelyn Carnahan (Creator/RachelWeisz) and her older brother, lazy archaeologist Jonathan Carnahan (Creator/JohnHannah) on a quest to find the lost city of Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, said to be the hiding place for the wealth of ancient Egypt. Enlisting the help of former legionnaire Rick O'Connell (Creator/BrendanFraser), they inevitably end up accidentally releasing- and then having to stop- a mummy named Imhotep, a former Egyptian priest who was condemned to a hellish immortality, and once awakened unleashes the ten Biblical plagues upon Egypt.

-->--'''Imhotep'''

-->--'''Ihmotep'''

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* LastDance: RAF pilot Winston Havlock is yearning for one after having missed his chance to go out with a blaze of glory with his buddies in World War I. O'Connell manages to give him one when the heroes need to get back to Hamunaptra. [[spoiler:Winston gets them there, but dies in the crash landing.]]