History Film / TheMummy1999

* AlwaysKnowAPilot: Rick is good friends with Winston Havlock, a [=WW1-era=] pilot. It comes handy by third act.

** Beni Gabor's greed comes back to bite him, just as Evy warned. [[ArtMajorBiology In scarab form.]]

* AlwaysKnowAPilot: Rick is good friends with Winston Havlock, a WW1-era pilot. It comes handy by third act.

** [[spoiler:Henderson]] is killed by Imhotep this way later.

'''Ardeth Bay:''' Now, because of you, we have failed.\\

* ProtagonistCentredMorality: The main characters constantly go around stealing things, which is presented as KleptomaniacHero, but when Burns notices that Evy has his stolen tool kit ''O'Connell points a gun in his face to get him to back off,'' and Evy refuses to give the kit back. [[https://villainwasright.libsyn.com/93-the-mummy-1999 This podcast even questions why the American dig team is portrayed as the bad side, when the protagonists are doing the exact same thing as them; essentially grave-robbing an ancient site, getting innocent local people killed and refusing to listen to the warnings of the Medjai.]]

* DwindlingParty: As Imhotep slowly works his way down the cursed in a SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, everyone who tries to help stop him dies.

* IdiotBall: The heroes learn from Dr. Bey that Imhotep will fear cats until he's fully regenerated. Despite this, none of the protagonists think it would be useful to keep the hotel's white cat on hand to ward him off, particularly when Rick and Jonathan go off and leave Henderson and Daniels in the hotel to guard Evy.

* OnlyOneName: Burns and Henderson, who are only referred to by their surnames. Beni too, only referred to by his first name.

''The Mummy'' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]] with a sense of humour and adventure that is remarkably similar to the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' franchise.

''The Mummy'' (1999) is the first movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''. It is a loose remake of [[Film/TheMummy1932 the 1932 film of the same name]] with a sense of humour that is remarkably similar to the ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' franchise.

* WhamLine: In-universe for Imothep, when Beni is praying to several different gods in hopes of rescue, until he begins praying in Hebrew, a language Imothep actually understands.
-->'''Imothep:''' ''The language of the slaves!''

* WardrobeMalfunction: It turned out that Rachel Weisz's nightgown from the boat scene got ''very'' translucent when wet, and [[VaporWear Weisz wasn't wearing anything underneath]]. Of course, by the end of the scene she ended up in the water, giving the rest of the cast and crew an eyeful and ([[MsFanservice unfortunately]]) requiring touching up in post-production to keep the movie's rating.

* CoolGuns: Rick [=O’Connell=] packs a brace of Chamelot-Delvigne Mle. 1873 revolvers (likely souvenirs from his Foreign Legion service), [[WalkingArsenal along with a pair of 1911s and a Winchester 1897 Riot Gun]]. Henderson is [[TheGunslinger quite handy]] with a Colt Peacemaker, not that it does him any good against Imhotep. Ardeth Bay later dismounts the Lewis Aircraft Machine Gun from Winston’s crashed biplane to blow away Imhotep’s reanimated priests.

* GunsAkimbo: Rick routinely dual-wields his pistols in combat. Some of the American treasure hunters do so as well.

* IdiotBall: The heroes learn from Dr. Bey that Imhotep will fear cats until he's fully regenerated. Despite this, none of the protagonists think it would be useful to keep the hotel's white cat on hand, particularly when Rick and Jonathan go off and leave Henderson and Daniels in the hotel to guard Evy.

* NerdGlasses: Worn by Evy in the beginning, and shed for good not long after--which is odd because contacts didn't exist in the 1930's.[[note]]She did mention losing all her luggage in the boat accident, which could include her glasses.[[/note]]

** Imhotep and Ankhesenamun were real people, but they lived a few centuries apart and were nothing like their film counterparts (being a highly respected polymath who designed the first step pyramid and the half-sister/Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamen respectively).

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: When Beni gets lost in the pyramid, the recently resurrected Imhotep is about to kill him as the cowardly Beni prays to various gods in an attempt to ward him off. When Beni starts to chant in Hebrew, Imhotep recognizes the language and instead forces Beni into his service, since having someone around who can actually understand him would be useful to someone who's planning to conquer the world.

* JoinUsDron: One of the curses Imhotep inflicts is boils that turns a good chunk of Cairo's citizens to his control which he uses to storm the building where the heroes are located in trying to find where the Book of the Dead is, all the while chanting his name. Amusingly when Jonathan runs out to start up the car so they can escape and runs into a mob of them, he uses the chant himself to get them to halt their attack and ignore him.

* ActorAllusion: After crashing his plane, Winston Havelot and the plane sink in the quicksand in the manner of a captain going down with the ship. Actor Bernard Fox previously played someone who went down with [[Film/Titanic1997 the Titanic]] ([[Film/ANightToRemember twice!]]).

** The Americans are a lot more callous in their tomb-raiding and make perfectly clear that they are in only for the money. As awful as their deaths are, [[laserGuidedKarma they get what they deserve]].