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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Ardeth Bay appears to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTVRpGoPVo say the same sentence three times]]. Granted, he changes intonations. In case you're interested, he says "The desert will kill him".
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* SpiritedYoungLady: Evelyn.
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* TheSwarm: Scarabs
* TheSwarm: Scarabs
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** The "Ancient Egyptian bikinis" Anck Su Namun and Nefertiri wear in their fight scene flashback deserve a mention since those outfits are highly impractical for an incredibly violent fight complete with acrobatics.
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* EliteMooks/ SuperpoweredMooks: The four palace guards
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The sequel, ''The Mummy Returns'', featured Jonathan Carnahan, the now-married [[AdventureDuo Rick and Evelyn]] and their inquisitive son Alex. Imhotep returns, tries to steal a magical army from the Scorpion King, who was portrayed by DwayneJohnson, give or take some ConspicuousCG.
{{Special Effects Failure}}s.
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** [[RuleOfCool So]] [[CrazyAwesome what?]]
** Don't forget the Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick ([[HeGotBetter Shangri-La made him better]]). Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
** Don't forget the Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick ([[HeGotBetter Shangri-La made him better]]). Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
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** [[RuleOfCool So]] [[CrazyAwesome what?]]
** Don't forget theThe Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick ([[HeGotBetter Shangri-La made him better]]). Rick. Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
** Don't forget the
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** Amuzningly, he actually ''meant'' what he was saying, as killing the King gave him control over the undead army, or in this case, the authority to banish it.
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* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Without the stock phrase exchange, but in the first movie, Imhotep promises to spare the rest of the party if Evy comes with him so that he can perform the ritual. Naturally, once she's in hand, he orders his followers to kill the rest of them. Of course, the rest of the group had made it extremely clear they planned to follow and try to stop the ritual, so ''not'' attacking them would have been fairly silly.
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* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Without the stock phrase exchange, but in the first movie, Imhotep promises to spare the rest of the party if Evy comes with him so that he can perform the ritual. Naturally, once she's in hand, he orders his followers to kill the rest of them. Of course, the rest of the group had made it extremely clear they planned to follow and try to stop the ritual, so ''not'' attacking them would have been fairly silly.
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* CompleteMonster: Qin Shi Huang AKA The Emperor Dragon in the third movie. In life he was a ruthless tyrant who asserted himself into power by leading his troops on a merciless campaign throughout ancient China, killing any resisters along the way. He also displayed remorseless coldness in his orders and plans, notably at the execution of his former friend and most trusted general, Ming Guo. Even as a mummy he attempts to once again conquer and take over every human beings. Geez, even Imhotep had more reddemed qualites than this guy.
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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In ''The Mummy Returns'', Imhotep is no longer causing the plagues of Egypt, but he's seemed to pick up a few new tricks like {{Telekinesis}}.
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** When Ankh Su-Namun casts aside her daggers during Evy's flashback from the second film, they stick in the groins of a pair of statues nearby.
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** ''The Mummy'': Beni Gabor can apparently pray in several different languages, so any available gods passing can hear.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In the second film when the jets on the sides of the dirigible are activated there is no drag on the balloon itself.
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* SoftWater: In the second movie. When they "drink the Nile" they aren't crushed into the wall behind them, and the airship is later pushed by the wall of water rather than harmed.
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* DisasterDominoes: by Evy in the first and Alex in the second.
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* NerdGlasses: Worn by Evy in the beginning of the first film, and shed for good not long after - which is odd because contacts didn't exist in the 1930's.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Briefly in the second film, Imhotep uses his re-emerging powers to be able to converse with Alex in English. Its likely the reason he doesn't do this all the time is because most of his minions (and enemies) already speak Egyptian and he urgently needed the information from Alex to lead them to Ahm Shere.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Briefly in the second film, Imhotep uses his re-emerging powers to be able to converse with Alex in English. Its likely the reason he doesn't do this all the time is because most of his minions (and enemies) already speak Egyptian and he urgently needed the information from Alex to lead them him to Ahm Shere.
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** Imhotep somehow became trapped in a block of Amber after his defeat in the first movie.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Whomever slays the Scorpion King with the Sceptre of Osiris automatically gains the authority to command the Undead Army of Anubis.
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* TooDumbToLive: Alex in the second film. Given who his parents are, all of the ancient traps and cursed objects they've encountered and that the Temple they found the Bracelet in immediately ''self-destructed'' upon its removal... what on earth made him think that putting the damn thing on his arm was at all ''safe?!''
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* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[http://angelacameron.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/oded-fehr.jpg Ardeth Bay]]
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--> ''"Oh I ''hate'' mummies!"''
The ''Mummy'' trilogy is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a trilogy of movies that features mummies.]] (1999, 2001, 2008) There is also an animated series (2001-2003).
The first movie was a loose remake of the [[Film/TheMummy original film]]. Instead of being straight horror, it was more of an action-adventure with a dash of comedy. It featured actors BrendanFraser, RachelWeisz, and John Hannah. They played Rick O'Connell, Evelyn Carnahan, and Jonathan Carnahan, respectively and their quest was to find ancient artifacts and treasure. They end up, as a result, having to stop an awakened mummy named Imhotep.
It's pretty much a ThePoorMansSubstitute for ''IndianaJones''. However, the film is very GenreSavvy and just runs with it, making for effective light entertainment.
The sequel, ''The Mummy Returns'', featured Jonathan Carnahan, the now-married [[AdventureDuo Rick and Evelyn]] and their inquisitive son Alex. Imhotep returns, tries to steal a magical army from the Scorpion King, who was portrayed by DwayneJohnson, give or take some ConspicuousCG.
During the long wait for a third, we got a SpinOff/ {{Prequel}} known as ''TheScorpionKing''. It had The Rock fight Egyptians and sorcerers and stuff like that. ''The Scorpion King'' itself got a direct-to-DVD-pre-prequel, ''The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior''.
The third movie, ''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', was not as well received. Stephen Sommers neither wrote nor directed it. It had Rachel Weisz [[TheOtherDarrin replaced with]] Maria Bello. Imhotep was gone in favor of a new villain played by Jet Li. And there are yetis. [[IKnowMaddenKombat Who kick field goals.]] On the other hand, it had a scene where the villain tears his own face off and throws it at someone. And [[LawyerFriendlyCameo King Ghidorah]].
Most recently, The Scorpion King got a second sequel that is due to be released in early 2012 on video. This time, however, it's a sequel to the first Scorpion King film making it a sequel to a prequel(To the original Scorpion King) of the prologue of a sequel (The Mummy Returns). Is your head hurting yet?
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the aforementioned 1932 film featuring BorisKarloff as Imhotep, or the 1959 HammerHorror film featuring ChristopherLee and PeterCushing, or the 1969 Egyptian art film more usually called ''The Night of Counting the Years'' (which MartinScorsese once mentioned really liking).
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* ActorAllusion: After a mostly-regenerated Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) kisses a sleeping Evy [[{{Darkman}} the lower half of his face rots away.]]
* AdrenalineMakeover
** Evy goes from retiring HotLibrarian to ActionGirl.
** Rick goes from self-absorbed ne'er-do-well to proper Action Hero LoveInterest.
** Even Jonathan, the comic relief, manages to hold his own several times when challenged, including by [[DarkActionGirl Meela]].
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Kind of. None of them were trained archaeologists; Evy was a librarian, and they had the most experience dealing with Imhotep beside. Ironically, Evy's slacker/con-artist/PluckyComicRelief brother Jonathan is the only one with any kind of background in archaeology.
** By the beginning of the second movie, however, they are running their own full scale digs. The films also take place in the early days of archaeology when training wasn't as important as the personal funds to go tomb hunting.
* AdventurerOutfit
* AncientEgypt: The source of the plots for two out of three of the films.
* AndIMustScream: Imhotep's fate prior to his release by the main protagonists. His tongue was cut out, he was wrapped in bandages to the point of immobilization, and was then locked in a sarcophagus with a bunch of flesh-eating scarabs. To be eaten alive. ''Forever.''
* AnimatedAdaptation: There was an Animated series on [=KidsWB=] that lasted two seasons.
* AntiVillain: The Dragon Emperor's living minions Yang and Choi. Their country has been locked in a vicious civil war for years, and it seems like the only man who can unite China is the one who did it in the first place. Made especially so by their very heroic deaths: Choi trying to pull Yang out of machinery while he yells at her to save herself.
** Imhotep himself could qualify as well. All he wanted was to be reunited with his former lover. At the climax of the second movie he willingly falls into the Hell pit, after realizing Ankh Su-Namun had abandoned him. He gives a weak smile at Rick and Evelyn, showing he obviously envies their love.
* AuthorAppeal: ''TheMummy'' is Stephen Sommers' favorite movie and worked for years to get a crack of making his own version of it. This is the result.
* BackFromTheDead: There's quite a list.
** Imhotep Twice. In fact, Rick [[HangsALampshade lampshades]] this in ''Dragon Emperor''
---->'''Rick:''' I've put down more mummies than you have!
---->'''Alex:''' Dad, you've only put down one mummy!
---->'''Rick:''' Yeah, same mummy: ''twice''! [emphatic two-fingered hand gestures]
** Ankh-Su-Namun
** The Scorpion King
** The Dragon Emperor. Let's just say it's a prerequisite for the villains in these things, huh?
** [[spoiler: Evy]]
* BackToBackBadasses: Evy and Rick in ''Dragon Emperor'', first with rifles, then pistols, then swiped swords, until eventually they're exhausted, leaning back to back to keep each other standing up.
* BadAss: Ardeth and Rick. Mostly Ardeth.
** Ardeth gets bonus points for his [[BadAssLonghair long, flowing hair]].
** Don't forget the [[BadassBeard beard]]. And his [[BadassMustache mustache]]. And his [[CoolSword sword]]. And his [[BadassBandolier bandolier]]. And his [[BadassCape cape]]. [[OverlyLongGag And his]] [[BadassNative origin]]. [[UpToEleven And what he]] [[WarriorPrince becomes later]]. In fact, [[RuleOfCool we could probably go on all day listing the reasons why]] [[MemeticBadass Ardeth is so badass]].
* BadassBookworm: Evelyn has this in spades.
* BaldOfEvil: Imhotep
* TheBaroness: Choi
* BattleCouple: Rick and Evy as of the second movie.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: the Medji tattoo on O'Connel's wrist in the second movie. The tattoo was there in the first movie as well, visible in a few scenes. Just no big deal was made about it.
* BigOMG: O'Connel's reaction to the sandwall.
* BigNo: One particularly notable one happens at the end of "The Mummy Returns" where Imhotep runs into shot, poses, then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfIlMeDsvrg screams]].
* BilingualBonus:
** ''The Mummy'': Beni Gabor can apparently pray in several different languages, so any available gods passing can hear.
** In ''Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor'' is when the title villain's Teracotta Warriors emptied a barrage of arrows into an opposing army of heroic skeletons. This naturally had no effect on the already dead targets, and one of the undead says in perfect and ''completely un-subtitled'' Chinese to his comrade ''"Your head's over here."''
* BluntYes
-->'''Dr. Bey:''' We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
-->'''Ardeth Bay:''' Now, because of you, we have failed.
-->'''Evelyn:''' And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
-->'''Dr. Bey:''' To stop this creature? Let me think...
-->'''Ardeth and Dr. Bey:''' YES!
** Or later in the film:
-->''(mummies rise from the floor)''
-->'''Rick:''' Who the hell're these guys?
-->'''Ardeth:''' Priests... Imhotep's priests!
-->'''Rick:''' 'k then.
-->''(MoreDakka ensues)''
* BondOneLiner
-->'''Rick:''' (Upon stabbing the Scorpion King) ''Go to hell! and take your friends with you!''
** Amuzningly, he actually ''meant'' what he was saying, as killing the King gave him control over the undead army, or in this case, the authority to banish it.
* BottomlessMagazines: In the real-world 1930's, six shooters shot six times. In fact the fixed-frame revolvers they were using had to be loaded and unloaded one shot at a time. In the film you get a full twelve shots with one of those bad boys.
** Weirdly enough it also contains a notable inversion in the opening shootout. Rick draws twin Colt M1911s, fires about four shots and they both run dry (slides locked back and all) he throws them aside and draws two more Colt .45s. A strange case of Limited Magazines.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Alex, in the second movie
* BrickJoke: Jonathan hides in a sarcophagus in the museum and makes one of the mummies pop out to scare Evy. Later on when they open Imhotep's sarcophagus his mummy pops out at them and Evy yells "I hate it when these things do that!"
* BritainIsOnlyLondon
* BrokenAesop: "Where is your honor?" Says Rick to Shihuangdi "Fight me like a man!" -- As his son creeps up behind the emperor to stab the man in the back.
** He was probably referring to the Emperor's use of magic.
* BugBuzz: The sounds the scarabs make are serious HighOctaneNightmareFuel, especially when closing in on somebody.
* CallBack: The hieroglyphic that Evy tells Jonathan about in the first film is the same one Jonathan tells Alex in the second.
* CardCarryingVillain
** The Dragon Emperor
** In ''The Mummy Returns'', the Scorpion King was as well, though the spinoff expanded him into a heroic role, making his actions in Returns seem rather out of character.
*** He CameBackWrong.
* CatFight: Evelyn/Nifirtiri vs. Ankh-Su-Namun
* CatsAreMagic: At one point in ''The Mummy'', a normal cat is able to ward off [[BigBad Imhotep]] because "cats are the guardians of the underworld". This is exploited only the once, because Imhotep completes his regeneration soon after and becomes immune to whatever the cat would supposedly have done to him.
* ChekhovsGun: In ''The Mummy Returns'', Jonathan enters the movie carrying a scepter, and the scene plays out as though it's merely a random trinket he pilfered away like usual. Then Hafez draws attention to it by taking it with great respect and exclaiming "It can't be!" and it's forgotten for the rest of the movie until the end... [[spoiler: It turns out to be the ceremonial spear needed to slay the Scorpion King]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** Jonathan and Alex are established early on as learning how to read hieroglyphics. [[spoiler: This eventually pops up after Evy dies and they need to resurrect her using the Book of the Dead... written in hieroglyphics.]]
** Jonathan picks the [[MacGuffin key]] that opens seemingly every locked Egyptian artifact in existence out of Rick's pocket before the start of the first movie, then swipes it again out of Imhotep's robes during a struggle near the end.
** Evelyn taught Jonathan to pronounce the symbol that is shaped like a stork near the end of The Mummy. In The Mummy Returns, Alex was stuck at the same symbol, and Jonathan proudly taught him how to pronounce it.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve
* CloseOnTitle: ''TheMummyReturns'' does this.
* CompleteMonster: Qin Shi Huang AKA The Emperor Dragon in the third movie. In life he was a ruthless tyrant who asserted himself into power by leading his troops on a merciless campaign throughout ancient China, killing any resisters along the way. He also displayed remorseless coldness in his orders and plans, notably at the execution of his former friend and most trusted general, Ming Guo. Even as a mummy he attempts to once again conquer and take over every human beings. Geez, even Imhotep had more reddemed qualites than this guy.
* CoolPet: If a falcon isn't a CoolPet, I don't know what is.
* CollapsingLair: Every movie has one.
* CrossoverCosmology
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Evy reads from a book that sets off the events of the first movie, and that conveniently prevents the production company from having to pay more actors.
* CurseCutShort: When [[spoiler: The museum curator is going to burn Evy]]
--> Evy: You Bas-
* CursedWithAwesome: Imhotep, whose punishment for having an affair with the Pharoah's favorite wife, killing the Pharaoh, and trying to raise the dead is to be eaten alive by scarabs. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, once the scarabs are done and he comes back he has all the powers of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
* DeathByMaterialism: In the first film, [[spoiler:Beni]]
** Also the prison warden, who steals a wall decoration that's actually a live scarab beetle...which burrows ''into his skull''.
* DeathAsComedy: A scene in the second movie where Jonathan leads a guy to be killed by pygmy mummies.
* DeathSeeker: Winston. A pilot who survived the war, when all his buddies died in glorious combat. [[spoiler: In fact, when the heroes recruit his assistance against Imhotep, and tell him point blank that he'll probably die as everyone else who got involved has died, he sounds downright giddy]]
* DieselPunk: Like walking into a stylish pulp novel 1930s!
* DisasterDominoes: by Evy in the first and Alex in the second.
* DisposablePilot: This happens in the first movie, to the old ennui-ridden war pilot, but then is averted in the second.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The American Egyptologist tells Evy "You must not read from the book!" She does anyway. In the second film, whoever disturbs this chest will drink from the Nile. Evy disturbs it anyway, because "that doesn't sound too bad." [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that both of these messages are delivered ''after'' she's already done what she wasn't supposed to. Though in fairness, she probably could have spotted the "drink from the Nile" thing sooner than she did.
* {{Eagleland}}: The Americans in the first film, oh so very much. It's {{Lampshaded}} a bit, though. The split is that Rick is the only Type One American. All the others were various shades of Type Two.
* EverybodyHatesHades -- or rather, Anubis.
* EvilIsNotAToy: If only Hafez knew that. He wants to unleash Imhotep in the hope that he can stop the Scorpion King, not taking into account that no matter who wins it will be an ''evil undead''. It works about as well as you'd expect.
* EyeScream
** In the first movie, when Imhotep is [[SealedEvilInACan accidentally released]] he is a rotting corpse, without eyes. Guess how he gets them... not to mention the ''"My eyes! My eyes!"'' screams.
** When the boat is attacked, Evy uses a candle to the eye as self-defense.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[http://angelacameron.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/oded-fehr.jpg Ardeth Bay]]
* FakeNationality: Almost nothing ''but'' Fake Nationalities. RachelWeisz really is English, JetLi actually was born in China, and all the 'American cowboys' are played by Americans, but nobody who played an Egyptian character was actually Egyptian, or even Arab or African. Oded Fehr is Israeli, Arnold Vosloo is South African, Patricia Velasquez is Venezuelan, and DwayneJohnson is an American--of Samoan and African heritage, mind you. O'Connell's actor is Canadian American, Jonathan's is Scottish, Beni (who is supposed to be Hungarian), is played by an Irish-American guy from Chicago. From the third movie we have [[TheOtherDarrin Maria Bello]] (American), MichelleYeoh (Malaysian) and Russel Wong (American).
* FanService: The likely reason for Arnold Voosloo spending the last half hour of the first part a WalkingShirtlessScene.
*** Walking ''shirtless'' scene? Dude was running around in what basically amounted to ancient Egyptian boxers.
** Evy in her clingy nightgown, and in the flashback Evy's previous incarnation and Anck Su Namun having a girlfight in bikinis.
** Anck Su Namun's first appearance is in ''strategically placed cloth and body paint''.
** Aversion: In the first film, when the boat sinks and everybody comes ashore, Evy's gown was alegedly so sheer that she appeared completely naked. To keep the film's rating around PG-13, Stephen Sommers ordered a full gown be edited in, much to the annoyance of some of the producers.
* FingerWag: Imhotep does this to Alex O'Connell in ''The Mummy Returns''.
* FlashBack: see also AncientEgypt.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Anck Su Namun wears a feather boa when invading the O'Connell's home. As well as a FeatherBoaConstrictor.
* FullNameUltimatum: Rick to Alex in ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor''
--> '''Rick:''' Alexander Rupert O'Connell, you get on the back of this horse, '''this instant!'''
* GenreBlindness: Jonathan shouldn't have ''openly stated'' he was moving to Peru because there were no mummies there.
* GenreSavvy
** Evelyn near the end of the first film.
-->'''Evelyn:''' You know, [[TheRenfield sniveling little cowards]] like you always get their comeuppance.
-->'''Beni:''' <Laughs> ...Really?
-->'''Evelyn:''' Yes. Always.
** Rick by the second film.
-->'''Evelyn:''' He only awakens once every 5,000 years.
-->'''Rick:''' Right. And if someone doesn't kill him, then he's gonna wipe out the world.
-->'''Evelyn:''' How did you know?
-->'''Rick:''' I didn't, but that's always the story.
-->'''Evelyn:''' The last known expedition to actually reach Ahm Shere was sent by Ramses the Fourth over 3,000 years ago. He sent over a thousand men.
-->'''Rick:''' And none of them was ever seen again.
-->'''Evelyn:''' How did you know?
-->'''Rick:''' I didn't, but that's always the story.
** Invoked again in the third, when leaving the museum Rick mention that the emperor "will get stronger as they wait to defeat him" with no one explaining it to them.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback / {{Reconstruction}} : Of the classic 1930s Universal horror movies ([[TheRemake especially]] ''The Mummy'') and old LostWorld adventure flicks.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the chase sequence in Shanghai, Jonathan has this priceless reaction to his burning backside:
-->'''Jonathan:''' Ah! My ass is on fire! My ass is on fire! Spank my ass. Spank my ass!
* [=~Girl's Night Out Episode~=]: In the AnimatedAdaptation
* GroinAttack: This is ultimately how Beni escapes from Rick shorty after being interrogated.
* GunsAkimbo: The preferred method of combat in the O'Connell family.
* HandInTheHole: [[GenreBlindness Hafez does this]] in ''The Mummy Returns''. It does not go well for him.
* HappilyMarried: Rick and Evy as of the second movie.
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Clean Up Nicely]]: Evy has this reaction the first time she sees Rick clean-shaven and dressed tastefully after bailing him out of prison.
* HeroicBloodshed: The trilogy is basically a pastiche of Hong Kong Action cinema conventions attached to a 1930's Pulp-Novel, with this genre being the most obvious homage in the first two movies.
* HeroicSacrifice: In ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', Zi Yuan (who had already sacrificed her immortality to raise General Ming's army) allows the Emperor to mortally wound her with his sword in order to get back the dagger that can kill him.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The CG Scorpion King is voiced by Max Cavalera, former lead singer of {{Sepultura}}.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The RealLife Imhothep was one of the most respected Egyptians who ever lived, the first engineer and architect, inventor of modern medicine (Thousands of years before Hippocrates) a pretty unambiguous [[TheGoodChancellor GoodChancellor]], and ''deified'' after his death (something normally reserved only for the greatest pharaohs). He's the BigBad of the first two movies.
** Except that real Imhotep lived long before the reign of Seti I, so this would have been just some guy named after him.
* HeroStoleMyBike: More like "hero's brother-in-law stole my double-decker bus."
* HotShounenMom:
** Evy in 'The Mummy Returns' and [[TheOtherDarrin Evy]] in 'Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'.
** Michelle Yeoh as Zi Yuan.
* IdiotBall:
** When they first learn that Imhotep is afraid of cats, do they offer the nearest urchin some cash to round up some cats? Why, no, why would we want to protect ourselves with the only thing we know of that works?
*** To be fair, they find this out too late to really put it to use; it stops working after he's fully regenerated, and the heroes only manage to make use of any cats once before that happens, though it does save their lives.
** The Medjai's big plan to keep 'The Evil' sealed beneath the sands for all of eternity. Good in theory, except they left the book necessary for his revival where just anyone could find it. You'd think, that given the task they were charged with, they would've kept the book in their possession at all times so that it could never be used rather than left someplace where anyone could get to it if they found Imhotep's resting place.
*** No, no, no I'll do you one better: Why in the hell would you USE this technique in the first place? Yes it's a horrific way to die, but there are a lot of those. And if anyone figures out a way to bring him back, he'll be capable of destroying the world? That seems to be punishing the world more than him. Good Lord, there have to be easier/less apocalyptic ways to punish a dude.
** The scene in the sequel with the ritual is a huge Idiot Ball for Ardeth. He goes all the way to England, makes it into the museum before the ritual is over, and doesn't even try to shoot Hafez until after the ritual is over. This after saying in the first movie that he would kill ''innocent'' people that got too close to raising Imhotep. I'd think people that deliberately dig Imhotep up are pretty far from innocent. (Oh, and he even helps Hafez's mooks pull Imhotep up.)\\
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He references Anck Su Namun's reincarnation and how she knew things that no living person should know, when asked about why he didn't stop that. Presumably, he was holding back in order to find out more... and waited just a little bit too long.
** Also the men he had on hand were a little outnumbered by Hafez's.
* IronicEcho: In ''The Mummy'', Jonathan needs Evy's help translating a hieroglyph in order to complete a spell; in ''The Mummy Returns'', Alex needs Jonathan's help translating the same hieroglyph in a different spell. And in both cases, the second party is in mortal peril whilst helping. Even better, both of them are under mortal peril from a one on one fight with Anck Su Namun.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Rick says this about his first kiss with Evy, since he was about to be hanged. He seems surprised when she takes offense.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Rick O'Conner interrogates Beni for information about Imhotep's plan by shoving him just inches away from a ceiling fan.
** In The Mummy Returns he also grabs Ardeth and shoves him into a post to yell "What the hell are you doing here?" at him. Granted, Evy ''had'' just been kidnapped, but it seems a bit harsh of a way to treat your known ally.
* KarmicDeath:
** Anck Su Namun didn't last long after her "Heel Heel Turn".
** Beni Gabor's greed comes back to bite him. [[ArtMajorBiology In scarab form.]]
* KissOfDistraction: Evy kisses Imhotep in order to break his concentration so the sandstorm he's creating to kill the heroes disperses.
* LampshadeHanging:
** After yet another {{dramatic wind}}: "That happens a lot around here."
** The director Steven Sommers and editor Bob Duscay do a lot of lampshading in their commentaries.
** "Rescue the [[DistressedDamsel damsel in distress]]. Kill the [[BigBad bad guy]]. SaveTheWorld." {{Troperiffic}}, indeed.
* LastRequest
* LeadTheTarget
* LetsGetDangerous: Jonathan may be a ridiculously greedy, swindling PluckyComicRelief, but he is also a crack shot with a winchester rifle, a skilled pickpocket, and disturbingly competent with a book of ancient spells.
* LettingHerHairDown: Evy.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler: Awesomely [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the first movie;]] when the heroes finally "kill" Imhotep, the whole place starts coming down on them. [[spoiler: It was actually Beni's fault, leading to his KarmicDeath]].
* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Because apparently we can't figure out that yes, this is the Cairo in Egypt.
* MacGuffin
** The Mummy: the Book of the Living and the Book of the Dead, not to mention the canopic jars.
** The Mummy Returns: The [[ClingyMacGuffin bracelet]] on Alex
* {{Meganekko}}: Evy, for not goddamn long enough in the first movie.
* MoreDakka: Ardeth prefers the Thompson.
* MoralityPet: Jonathan's a greedy bastard, but [[BigBrotherInstinct he does seem to care about his little sister.]]
* MortalityEnsues: It turns out that the companion book to the Book of the Dead doesn't kill the BigBad when read from. What it does is remove his immortality, allowing him to be killed like a mortal.
* MrExposition: For the first half of the sequel, Ardeth is made of this trope. If he's talking, odds are he's giving exposition.
* {{Mummy}}
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Evy reading from the Book of the Dead: nice job awakening it!
* NightOfTheLivingMooks:
** The Scorpion King's army.
** [[spoiler: the counter-undead raised to fight the Dragon Emperor]]
* OhCrap: Plenty of instances. For example, [[spoiler:Ardeth and the Medjai have just defeated the Army of Anubis at great cost to their forces. They cheer. But that was only the first wave. Cue the ''entire horizon turning black'' as the unfathomable hordes of Anubis warriors blanket the sands. To be fair to poor Ardeth, though, he took it rather well, all things considered.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** It's not than noticeable at first, but once you know that the actor playing Jonathan is actually Scottish, you can't ''not'' hear his natural accent peaking through.
** Also, Anck Su Namun seems has a small problem with this in the first half of the second movie, that is, until the real Anck Su Namun gets resurrected, when she only speaks Ancient Egyptian. The creators consulted a historian to make the Egyptian an approximate representation of what Ancient Egyptian sounded like.
* TheOrder: The Medjai, whose job appears to be guarding all the potentially world-ending crap the ancient Egyptians left lying around. We mostly only see Ardeth Bey in the first movie (other members are present but they aren't really given lines), but they get upgraded to TheCavalry in the second, so they can HoldTheLine against [[LegionsOfHell Anubis' army]].
* TheOtherDarrin: Rachel Weisz, replaced by Maria Bello in the third movie.
* PastLifeMemories: In the second film, Evy keeps having flashes of insights and memories that make her think she's hallucinating. It turns out, they're memories of her past life in ancient Egypt.
* PleaseWakeUp
* ThePunishment: Imhotep's being [[FateWorseThanDeath mummified alive in a sarcophagus full of scarabs]] because he got with the Pharaoh's woman. In reality, not that bad a punishment because he gets CursedWithAwesome and can return from death with very little help from stupid people. Meanwhile, his punishers spend the rest of their lives (as do all of their descendants) keeping him cooped up. Clearly, the punishment was worth it!
* PreMortemOneLiner: Used by Rick dispatching the Scorpion King ("Go to hell, and take your friends with you!") and Emperor Han ("Now you can rule... in hell!").
* PresentCompanyExcluded:
-->'''Jonathan:''' And when those damn yanks go to sleep, no offense,
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.
-->'''Jon:''' We'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under them.
-->'''Rick:''' Are you sure you can find this secret compartment thing?
-->'''Evy:''' Oh, yes, if those beastly Americans haven't beaten us to it, no offense.
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.
* PrettyInMink: In the third movie, there were a few fox wraps, in addition to the winter coats in the mountains.
* PunctuatedPounding: Rick in ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', when gunning down the Emperor's troops at the Great Wall
--> '''Rick:''' I '''* bang!* ''' Really '''* bang!* ''' Hate '''* bang!* ''' ''Mummies''! '''* bang!* '''
* RearingHorse: Ardeth's horse at the end of The Mummy Returns.
* RedShirt: In the first movie, anyone in the expedition that isn't one of the three leads. Even more so in the second where Imhotep's mooks actually wear red!
* RefugeInCool
* TheRenfield
** Beni, in the first movie.
** Imhotep, after a fashion, in the second.
* TheRemake: the first one, anyway, was a re-imagining of the original black and white horror classic.
* RemovableTurretGun: the protagonists pluck the mounted [[MoreDakka machinegun]] from the plane before it sinks into the quicksand.
** Justified as the gun in case is a regular infantry light machine gun.
* RomanceInducingSmudge: Inverted in ''The Mummy'', where Imhotep's romance with Anck Su Namun leads him to smear her body paint.
* RuleOfScary: Sure scarabs don't really dig under people's skin and eat them from the inside out...but it's just so ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scary]]''.
* SadlyMythtaken: Imhotep was an actual historical figure.
** It's ''possible'' the Imhotep of the movies was named after this man (in-universe). Both were highly-regarded priests.\\
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The historical Imhotep was also an architect. He was the designer of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the tomb of the Pharaoh Djoser, and thus the inventor of the Egyptian pyramid.
*** Some theories contend that Imhotep was the Biblical Joseph.
** Also, there were two ancient Egyptian rulers who had each claimed the title of Scorpion King. One was named Osiris Scorpion; this troper forgets who the other one was.
** Also applies to the prologue of ''The Mummy Returns.'' [[DidNotDoTheResearch Anubis is not an evil god,]] [[DarkIsNotEvil not by a long shot.]] The closest thing late Egyptian mythology had to an evil god would probably be Seth, the villain of the Osirian cult and formerly a benign god in his own right; before Set there was Apep, the Immortal Serpent who would battle Ra every night for all eternity, explaining the shift between day and night. Then again, RuleOfCool is in full effect, and Anubis is certainly one of the cooler gods: he essentially was a dying man's best friend, keeping carrion beasts away from your corpse, was present at the Opening of the Mouth ceremony marking a dead soul's entrance into the afterlife, and admitted the worthy into paradise. All around a pretty swell guy, and doesn't fall under EvilIsCool by any stretch of the imagination. Oh well, [[EverybodyHatesHades everybody hates Anubis]].
** In the prologue to the second movie, Scorpion King offers his soul to Anubis in exchange for glorious life. The idea of selling a soul to an evil power (which Anubis isn't) is a purely folk Christian concept (it's not even Christian proper as {{Satan}} does not rule the damned). To make it more ridiculous, the offer itself had no sense as all deceased were destined to meet Anubis. You had to cross the desert after death first, to reach Anubis and have your soul deemed worthy. Not all made it through the trip, since there was dangers to be met on the way.
** 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 [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel 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, who's job was essentially to punish people like Imhotep. Plus, then Imhotep would have had an excuse to say "WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes" as a ShoutOut.
* SayYourPrayers: Beni's prayers are played humorously, as he prays to several gods in several different languages before praying in Hebrew actually winds up saving him, because its a language Imhotep understands.
* ScaryBlackMan: Lock-nah, who is also the first named villian [[TheBlackDudeDiesFirst to die]]. Averted with Izzy.
* SequelGoesForeign: ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' is set in China.
* SequelHook: The third movie ends with John resolving to move to Peru. As he drives off, "Mummies were later discovered in Peru" appears on the screen.
* SequelEscalation: The first film was mostly an adventure film in the spirit of ''IndianaJones'' but works on the same level as a comedy. The sequels were still tongue-in-cheek but had more chase scenes and action scenes with entire supernatural armies being raised.
* ShootingSuperman: People will not stop shooting Imhotep even though he is ImmuneToBullets. Even ''after'' Ardeth has told people "No mortal weapons can harm that creature!" they shoot Imhotep. At least they slow him down. Probably also a case of WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: In-universe example, Imhotep's life. In The Mummy Returns, [[spoiler: Imhotep sees what True Love is really like. He'd sacrificed everything, his position, his mortality, and his ''soul'' for Ankh Su-Namun, and she abandoned him when the chips were down. Then he got to watch Evy race to Rick's side in his moment of need. To top it off, while he was begging Ankh-Su-Namun to save him, his enemy was begging his beloved to save herself — and she refused, insisting on trying to help him. With this came the realization that his sacrifice and suffering had been pointless and empty, and he let go of the ledge.]]
* ShoutOut: When they first meet and Rick is in prison, Jonathan claims to Rick that he's a man preaching Christianity in Egypt and introduces Evy as his sister (although she actually is). Given Steven Sommers' reported love of old adventure movies, this is almost certainly a reference to ''The African Queen''.
* {{Sidekick}}: Jonathan. Similarly, Izzy in the second film, who is a cowardly sidekick who is black (and not, mercifully, a [[EthnicScrappy Black Cowardly Sidekick]]).
* SpannerInTheWorks: The people who sealed the Emperor away in the third film put his mummy in a statue, the idea being that anyone who tries to raise him would instead raise a eunuch, which was in the coffin as decoy. This plan almost works... till the mummy raising water is accidently splashed on the emperor's statue.
* SpinningOutOfHere: In ''TheMummy 2'', Imhotep starts spinning and then turns into a whirlwind to travel.
* SpinOff: ''TheScorpionKing'
* SpiritedYoungLady: Evelyn.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Anck Su Namun, in her Ancient Egyptian life, wore a net, body paint, and nothing else. This is probably TruthInTelevision with regards to AncientEgypt.
* TakenForGranite: Proably the most horrific origin story of the Terracotta Warriors ever conceived. Explains why every face is unique...
* TemptingFate:
** "No harm ever came from reading a book."
** Done again in ''Returns'' and summarily lampshaded.
-->'''Evy:''' ''It's just a chest. No harm ever came from opening a chest.''
-->'''Rick:''' ''Yeah, and "no harm ever came from reading a book". Remember how that one went?''
** Also done in the ending of ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor''. Jonathan states that he's moving to Peru after selling his bar to a Russian pilot, and states that at least that place doesn't have mummies. A narrative quote then appears stating that after his arrival, mummies were discovered in Peru.
** Who could forget this little gem:
--> '''Rick:''' You're gonna get yours Beni!!! YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURS!!!!
--> '''Beni:''' Oh like I never heard that before!!!
*** Then later on:
--> '''Evy:''' You know nasty little fellows like you always get their comeuppance.
--> '''Beni:''' Hehehe.....[[OhCrap They do?]]
--> '''Evy:''' Always.
* TentativeLight
* ThereWasADoor: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Evelyn tries to block a door to stall some mummy soldiers.
-->'''Rick:''' ''Honey... What are you doing? These guys don't use doors!''
* TheUndead: The mummies, duh.
* ThisIsSPARTA: "IT OPENS! UP! INTO! A SPEAR!"
* ThisWayToCertainDeath
* ThrowAwayGuns
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: If you're Ardeth Bey, Throwing Your Sword From Horseback At Things With A Specific Weak Point Always Works.
** [[RuleOfCool So]] [[CrazyAwesome what?]]
** Don't forget the Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick ([[HeGotBetter Shangri-La made him better]]). Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of The Dead and the Book of the Living. The Book of the Living gives power over the living and can take life, the Book of the Dead gives power over the dead and can give it.
* TwainsObservationOnOriginality: The third Mummy film merrily hits every action/adventure movie trope right on the mark. Nothing in the movie is a surprise, but it's not a bad film for it.
* TwoFistedTales
* 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.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yang and Choi. They resurrected the Dragon Emperor only so they could end China's civil war.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?: Rick lighting a match by striking it against [[MemeticBadass Ardeth Bey's]] stubble. Especially considering what he did with that match.
* [=~What's An X Like You Doing In A Y Like This?~=]
-->'''Evelyn (completely drunk):''' "You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?"
-->'''Rick:''' "Yeah, something like that."
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What Have We Done?]] Said by the Egyptologist during the locust swarm heralding [[spoiler: Imhotep's rebirth]]: [[ItGotWorse as the full weight of the situation dawns upon him.]]
* [[BlackVikings White Egyptians]]: The Ancient Egyptian characters are played by obviously white actors: Imhotep, Anck Su Namun, the Pharaoh and so on.
** Except not. Anck Su Namun is played by Patricia Velasquez, A Venezuelan woman with strong Amerindian heritage. Her mother is from the Wayuu tribe. Can't speak for the actors of the other characters, though.
** Imhotep is played by Arnold Vosloo, who is South African.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Lin in the third movie, once she realizes that she's in love with Alex. Her mother took care of that problem.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Watch for bugs. I hate bugs." Guess what gets him.
* WolverinePublicity: ''The Mummy Returns'' heavily hyped up [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]'s role in the film. He ended up being a minor character at best.
** Especially funny with an ''Entertainment Weekly'' cover focused on The Rock, with Brendan Fraser {{Out Of Focus}} on the side and looking downright pissed about it.
* WouldHitAGirl: Jonathan in the second movie, who sucker punches Anck Su Namun at one point. He seemed just as shocked at what he did as she was, however.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Alex could not possibly be eight years old in 1933, because ''his parents didn't meet until 1926.'' Someone who was eight in 1933 would be born in ''1925''. And there's no indication he's an adopted child or a child one of them already had; it seems more like they ignored the Three Years Later card in the first movie and went with the whole thing happening in 1923. Possibly it is the year that was miscalculated. One of the Hafez's henchmen says that he heard about "one American who resurrected Imhotep nine years ago".
* YouExclamation:
** Imhotep to Rick in ''The Mummy Returns'', when the two meet just after Imhotep's re-awakening.
** In ''The Mummy'', Evelyn exclaims "You" to Ardeth when he turns up in the Cairo Museum.
* ZombieGait:
** Imhotep's enthralled in the first movie. [[HangsALampshade Lampshaded]], somewhat, by Jonathan, who shambled along with them to avoid their wrath.
** Averted with the actual mummies, though; they all move almost as quickly as people and Imhotep can move considerably faster. Given a ThisIsReality in the AnimatedAdaptation; a friend of Alex's who [[YouWatchTooMuchX reads too many comics]] says he thought mummies were slow, and Alex tells him "This one isn't!"
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Without the stock phrase exchange, but in the first movie, Imhotep promises to spare the rest of the party if Evy comes with him so that he can perform the ritual. Naturally, once she's in hand, he orders his followers to kill the rest of them. Of course, the rest of the group had made it extremely clear they planned to follow and try to stop the ritual, so ''not'' attacking them would have been fairly silly.
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--> ''"Oh I ''hate'' mummies!"''
The ''Mummy'' trilogy is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a trilogy of movies that features mummies.]] (1999, 2001, 2008) There is also an animated series (2001-2003).
The first movie was a loose remake of the [[Film/TheMummy original film]]. Instead of being straight horror, it was more of an action-adventure with a dash of comedy. It featured actors BrendanFraser, RachelWeisz, and John Hannah. They played Rick O'Connell, Evelyn Carnahan, and Jonathan Carnahan, respectively and their quest was to find ancient artifacts and treasure. They end up, as a result, having to stop an awakened mummy named Imhotep.
It's pretty much a ThePoorMansSubstitute for ''IndianaJones''. However, the film is very GenreSavvy and just runs with it, making for effective light entertainment.
The sequel, ''The Mummy Returns'', featured Jonathan Carnahan, the now-married [[AdventureDuo Rick and Evelyn]] and their inquisitive son Alex. Imhotep returns, tries to steal a magical army from the Scorpion King, who was portrayed by DwayneJohnson, give or take some ConspicuousCG.
During the long wait for a third, we got a SpinOff/ {{Prequel}} known as ''TheScorpionKing''. It had The Rock fight Egyptians and sorcerers and stuff like that. ''The Scorpion King'' itself got a direct-to-DVD-pre-prequel, ''The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior''.
The third movie, ''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', was not as well received. Stephen Sommers neither wrote nor directed it. It had Rachel Weisz [[TheOtherDarrin replaced with]] Maria Bello. Imhotep was gone in favor of a new villain played by Jet Li. And there are yetis. [[IKnowMaddenKombat Who kick field goals.]] On the other hand, it had a scene where the villain tears his own face off and throws it at someone. And [[LawyerFriendlyCameo King Ghidorah]].
Most recently, The Scorpion King got a second sequel that is due to be released in early 2012 on video. This time, however, it's a sequel to the first Scorpion King film making it a sequel to a prequel(To the original Scorpion King) of the prologue of a sequel (The Mummy Returns). Is your head hurting yet?
[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with the aforementioned 1932 film featuring BorisKarloff as Imhotep, or the 1959 HammerHorror film featuring ChristopherLee and PeterCushing, or the 1969 Egyptian art film more usually called ''The Night of Counting the Years'' (which MartinScorsese once mentioned really liking).
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!!These films contain examples of :
* ActorAllusion: After a mostly-regenerated Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo) kisses a sleeping Evy [[{{Darkman}} the lower half of his face rots away.]]
* AdrenalineMakeover
** Evy goes from retiring HotLibrarian to ActionGirl.
** Rick goes from self-absorbed ne'er-do-well to proper Action Hero LoveInterest.
** Even Jonathan, the comic relief, manages to hold his own several times when challenged, including by [[DarkActionGirl Meela]].
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Kind of. None of them were trained archaeologists; Evy was a librarian, and they had the most experience dealing with Imhotep beside. Ironically, Evy's slacker/con-artist/PluckyComicRelief brother Jonathan is the only one with any kind of background in archaeology.
** By the beginning of the second movie, however, they are running their own full scale digs. The films also take place in the early days of archaeology when training wasn't as important as the personal funds to go tomb hunting.
* AdventurerOutfit
* AncientEgypt: The source of the plots for two out of three of the films.
* AndIMustScream: Imhotep's fate prior to his release by the main protagonists. His tongue was cut out, he was wrapped in bandages to the point of immobilization, and was then locked in a sarcophagus with a bunch of flesh-eating scarabs. To be eaten alive. ''Forever.''
* AnimatedAdaptation: There was an Animated series on [=KidsWB=] that lasted two seasons.
* AntiVillain: The Dragon Emperor's living minions Yang and Choi. Their country has been locked in a vicious civil war for years, and it seems like the only man who can unite China is the one who did it in the first place. Made especially so by their very heroic deaths: Choi trying to pull Yang out of machinery while he yells at her to save herself.
** Imhotep himself could qualify as well. All he wanted was to be reunited with his former lover. At the climax of the second movie he willingly falls into the Hell pit, after realizing Ankh Su-Namun had abandoned him. He gives a weak smile at Rick and Evelyn, showing he obviously envies their love.
* AuthorAppeal: ''TheMummy'' is Stephen Sommers' favorite movie and worked for years to get a crack of making his own version of it. This is the result.
* BackFromTheDead: There's quite a list.
** Imhotep Twice. In fact, Rick [[HangsALampshade lampshades]] this in ''Dragon Emperor''
---->'''Rick:''' I've put down more mummies than you have!
---->'''Alex:''' Dad, you've only put down one mummy!
---->'''Rick:''' Yeah, same mummy: ''twice''! [emphatic two-fingered hand gestures]
** Ankh-Su-Namun
** The Scorpion King
** The Dragon Emperor. Let's just say it's a prerequisite for the villains in these things, huh?
** [[spoiler: Evy]]
* BackToBackBadasses: Evy and Rick in ''Dragon Emperor'', first with rifles, then pistols, then swiped swords, until eventually they're exhausted, leaning back to back to keep each other standing up.
* BadAss: Ardeth and Rick. Mostly Ardeth.
** Ardeth gets bonus points for his [[BadAssLonghair long, flowing hair]].
** Don't forget the [[BadassBeard beard]]. And his [[BadassMustache mustache]]. And his [[CoolSword sword]]. And his [[BadassBandolier bandolier]]. And his [[BadassCape cape]]. [[OverlyLongGag And his]] [[BadassNative origin]]. [[UpToEleven And what he]] [[WarriorPrince becomes later]]. In fact, [[RuleOfCool we could probably go on all day listing the reasons why]] [[MemeticBadass Ardeth is so badass]].
* BadassBookworm: Evelyn has this in spades.
* BaldOfEvil: Imhotep
* TheBaroness: Choi
* BattleCouple: Rick and Evy as of the second movie.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: the Medji tattoo on O'Connel's wrist in the second movie. The tattoo was there in the first movie as well, visible in a few scenes. Just no big deal was made about it.
* BigOMG: O'Connel's reaction to the sandwall.
* BigNo: One particularly notable one happens at the end of "The Mummy Returns" where Imhotep runs into shot, poses, then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfIlMeDsvrg screams]].
* BilingualBonus:
** ''The Mummy'': Beni Gabor can apparently pray in several different languages, so any available gods passing can hear.
** In ''Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor'' is when the title villain's Teracotta Warriors emptied a barrage of arrows into an opposing army of heroic skeletons. This naturally had no effect on the already dead targets, and one of the undead says in perfect and ''completely un-subtitled'' Chinese to his comrade ''"Your head's over here."''
* BluntYes
-->'''Dr. Bey:''' We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.
-->'''Ardeth Bay:''' Now, because of you, we have failed.
-->'''Evelyn:''' And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?
-->'''Dr. Bey:''' To stop this creature? Let me think...
-->'''Ardeth and Dr. Bey:''' YES!
** Or later in the film:
-->''(mummies rise from the floor)''
-->'''Rick:''' Who the hell're these guys?
-->'''Ardeth:''' Priests... Imhotep's priests!
-->'''Rick:''' 'k then.
-->''(MoreDakka ensues)''
* BondOneLiner
-->'''Rick:''' (Upon stabbing the Scorpion King) ''Go to hell! and take your friends with you!''
** Amuzningly, he actually ''meant'' what he was saying, as killing the King gave him control over the undead army, or in this case, the authority to banish it.
* BottomlessMagazines: In the real-world 1930's, six shooters shot six times. In fact the fixed-frame revolvers they were using had to be loaded and unloaded one shot at a time. In the film you get a full twelve shots with one of those bad boys.
** Weirdly enough it also contains a notable inversion in the opening shootout. Rick draws twin Colt M1911s, fires about four shots and they both run dry (slides locked back and all) he throws them aside and draws two more Colt .45s. A strange case of Limited Magazines.
* BratsWithSlingshots: Alex, in the second movie
* BrickJoke: Jonathan hides in a sarcophagus in the museum and makes one of the mummies pop out to scare Evy. Later on when they open Imhotep's sarcophagus his mummy pops out at them and Evy yells "I hate it when these things do that!"
* BritainIsOnlyLondon
* BrokenAesop: "Where is your honor?" Says Rick to Shihuangdi "Fight me like a man!" -- As his son creeps up behind the emperor to stab the man in the back.
** He was probably referring to the Emperor's use of magic.
* BugBuzz: The sounds the scarabs make are serious HighOctaneNightmareFuel, especially when closing in on somebody.
* CallBack: The hieroglyphic that Evy tells Jonathan about in the first film is the same one Jonathan tells Alex in the second.
* CardCarryingVillain
** The Dragon Emperor
** In ''The Mummy Returns'', the Scorpion King was as well, though the spinoff expanded him into a heroic role, making his actions in Returns seem rather out of character.
*** He CameBackWrong.
* CatFight: Evelyn/Nifirtiri vs. Ankh-Su-Namun
* CatsAreMagic: At one point in ''The Mummy'', a normal cat is able to ward off [[BigBad Imhotep]] because "cats are the guardians of the underworld". This is exploited only the once, because Imhotep completes his regeneration soon after and becomes immune to whatever the cat would supposedly have done to him.
* ChekhovsGun: In ''The Mummy Returns'', Jonathan enters the movie carrying a scepter, and the scene plays out as though it's merely a random trinket he pilfered away like usual. Then Hafez draws attention to it by taking it with great respect and exclaiming "It can't be!" and it's forgotten for the rest of the movie until the end... [[spoiler: It turns out to be the ceremonial spear needed to slay the Scorpion King]].
* ChekhovsSkill:
** Jonathan and Alex are established early on as learning how to read hieroglyphics. [[spoiler: This eventually pops up after Evy dies and they need to resurrect her using the Book of the Dead... written in hieroglyphics.]]
** Jonathan picks the [[MacGuffin key]] that opens seemingly every locked Egyptian artifact in existence out of Rick's pocket before the start of the first movie, then swipes it again out of Imhotep's robes during a struggle near the end.
** Evelyn taught Jonathan to pronounce the symbol that is shaped like a stork near the end of The Mummy. In The Mummy Returns, Alex was stuck at the same symbol, and Jonathan proudly taught him how to pronounce it.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve
* CloseOnTitle: ''TheMummyReturns'' does this.
* CompleteMonster: Qin Shi Huang AKA The Emperor Dragon in the third movie. In life he was a ruthless tyrant who asserted himself into power by leading his troops on a merciless campaign throughout ancient China, killing any resisters along the way. He also displayed remorseless coldness in his orders and plans, notably at the execution of his former friend and most trusted general, Ming Guo. Even as a mummy he attempts to once again conquer and take over every human beings. Geez, even Imhotep had more reddemed qualites than this guy.
* CoolPet: If a falcon isn't a CoolPet, I don't know what is.
* CollapsingLair: Every movie has one.
* CrossoverCosmology
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Evy reads from a book that sets off the events of the first movie, and that conveniently prevents the production company from having to pay more actors.
* CurseCutShort: When [[spoiler: The museum curator is going to burn Evy]]
--> Evy: You Bas-
* CursedWithAwesome: Imhotep, whose punishment for having an affair with the Pharoah's favorite wife, killing the Pharaoh, and trying to raise the dead is to be eaten alive by scarabs. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, once the scarabs are done and he comes back he has all the powers of the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
* DeathByMaterialism: In the first film, [[spoiler:Beni]]
** Also the prison warden, who steals a wall decoration that's actually a live scarab beetle...which burrows ''into his skull''.
* DeathAsComedy: A scene in the second movie where Jonathan leads a guy to be killed by pygmy mummies.
* DeathSeeker: Winston. A pilot who survived the war, when all his buddies died in glorious combat. [[spoiler: In fact, when the heroes recruit his assistance against Imhotep, and tell him point blank that he'll probably die as everyone else who got involved has died, he sounds downright giddy]]
* DieselPunk: Like walking into a stylish pulp novel 1930s!
* DisasterDominoes: by Evy in the first and Alex in the second.
* DisposablePilot: This happens in the first movie, to the old ennui-ridden war pilot, but then is averted in the second.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The American Egyptologist tells Evy "You must not read from the book!" She does anyway. In the second film, whoever disturbs this chest will drink from the Nile. Evy disturbs it anyway, because "that doesn't sound too bad." [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that both of these messages are delivered ''after'' she's already done what she wasn't supposed to. Though in fairness, she probably could have spotted the "drink from the Nile" thing sooner than she did.
* {{Eagleland}}: The Americans in the first film, oh so very much. It's {{Lampshaded}} a bit, though. The split is that Rick is the only Type One American. All the others were various shades of Type Two.
* EverybodyHatesHades -- or rather, Anubis.
* EvilIsNotAToy: If only Hafez knew that. He wants to unleash Imhotep in the hope that he can stop the Scorpion King, not taking into account that no matter who wins it will be an ''evil undead''. It works about as well as you'd expect.
* EyeScream
** In the first movie, when Imhotep is [[SealedEvilInACan accidentally released]] he is a rotting corpse, without eyes. Guess how he gets them... not to mention the ''"My eyes! My eyes!"'' screams.
** When the boat is attacked, Evy uses a candle to the eye as self-defense.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: [[http://angelacameron.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/oded-fehr.jpg Ardeth Bay]]
* FakeNationality: Almost nothing ''but'' Fake Nationalities. RachelWeisz really is English, JetLi actually was born in China, and all the 'American cowboys' are played by Americans, but nobody who played an Egyptian character was actually Egyptian, or even Arab or African. Oded Fehr is Israeli, Arnold Vosloo is South African, Patricia Velasquez is Venezuelan, and DwayneJohnson is an American--of Samoan and African heritage, mind you. O'Connell's actor is Canadian American, Jonathan's is Scottish, Beni (who is supposed to be Hungarian), is played by an Irish-American guy from Chicago. From the third movie we have [[TheOtherDarrin Maria Bello]] (American), MichelleYeoh (Malaysian) and Russel Wong (American).
* FanService: The likely reason for Arnold Voosloo spending the last half hour of the first part a WalkingShirtlessScene.
*** Walking ''shirtless'' scene? Dude was running around in what basically amounted to ancient Egyptian boxers.
** Evy in her clingy nightgown, and in the flashback Evy's previous incarnation and Anck Su Namun having a girlfight in bikinis.
** Anck Su Namun's first appearance is in ''strategically placed cloth and body paint''.
** Aversion: In the first film, when the boat sinks and everybody comes ashore, Evy's gown was alegedly so sheer that she appeared completely naked. To keep the film's rating around PG-13, Stephen Sommers ordered a full gown be edited in, much to the annoyance of some of the producers.
* FingerWag: Imhotep does this to Alex O'Connell in ''The Mummy Returns''.
* FlashBack: see also AncientEgypt.
* FluffyFashionFeathers: Anck Su Namun wears a feather boa when invading the O'Connell's home. As well as a FeatherBoaConstrictor.
* FullNameUltimatum: Rick to Alex in ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor''
--> '''Rick:''' Alexander Rupert O'Connell, you get on the back of this horse, '''this instant!'''
* GenreBlindness: Jonathan shouldn't have ''openly stated'' he was moving to Peru because there were no mummies there.
* GenreSavvy
** Evelyn near the end of the first film.
-->'''Evelyn:''' You know, [[TheRenfield sniveling little cowards]] like you always get their comeuppance.
-->'''Beni:''' <Laughs> ...Really?
-->'''Evelyn:''' Yes. Always.
** Rick by the second film.
-->'''Evelyn:''' He only awakens once every 5,000 years.
-->'''Rick:''' Right. And if someone doesn't kill him, then he's gonna wipe out the world.
-->'''Evelyn:''' How did you know?
-->'''Rick:''' I didn't, but that's always the story.
-->'''Evelyn:''' The last known expedition to actually reach Ahm Shere was sent by Ramses the Fourth over 3,000 years ago. He sent over a thousand men.
-->'''Rick:''' And none of them was ever seen again.
-->'''Evelyn:''' How did you know?
-->'''Rick:''' I didn't, but that's always the story.
** Invoked again in the third, when leaving the museum Rick mention that the emperor "will get stronger as they wait to defeat him" with no one explaining it to them.
* GeorgeLucasThrowback / {{Reconstruction}} : Of the classic 1930s Universal horror movies ([[TheRemake especially]] ''The Mummy'') and old LostWorld adventure flicks.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the chase sequence in Shanghai, Jonathan has this priceless reaction to his burning backside:
-->'''Jonathan:''' Ah! My ass is on fire! My ass is on fire! Spank my ass. Spank my ass!
* [=~Girl's Night Out Episode~=]: In the AnimatedAdaptation
* GroinAttack: This is ultimately how Beni escapes from Rick shorty after being interrogated.
* GunsAkimbo: The preferred method of combat in the O'Connell family.
* HandInTheHole: [[GenreBlindness Hafez does this]] in ''The Mummy Returns''. It does not go well for him.
* HappilyMarried: Rick and Evy as of the second movie.
* [[SheCleansUpNicely He Clean Up Nicely]]: Evy has this reaction the first time she sees Rick clean-shaven and dressed tastefully after bailing him out of prison.
* HeroicBloodshed: The trilogy is basically a pastiche of Hong Kong Action cinema conventions attached to a 1930's Pulp-Novel, with this genre being the most obvious homage in the first two movies.
* HeroicSacrifice: In ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', Zi Yuan (who had already sacrificed her immortality to raise General Ming's army) allows the Emperor to mortally wound her with his sword in order to get back the dagger that can kill him.
* HeyItsThatVoice: The CG Scorpion King is voiced by Max Cavalera, former lead singer of {{Sepultura}}.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The RealLife Imhothep was one of the most respected Egyptians who ever lived, the first engineer and architect, inventor of modern medicine (Thousands of years before Hippocrates) a pretty unambiguous [[TheGoodChancellor GoodChancellor]], and ''deified'' after his death (something normally reserved only for the greatest pharaohs). He's the BigBad of the first two movies.
** Except that real Imhotep lived long before the reign of Seti I, so this would have been just some guy named after him.
* HeroStoleMyBike: More like "hero's brother-in-law stole my double-decker bus."
* HotShounenMom:
** Evy in 'The Mummy Returns' and [[TheOtherDarrin Evy]] in 'Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'.
** Michelle Yeoh as Zi Yuan.
* IdiotBall:
** When they first learn that Imhotep is afraid of cats, do they offer the nearest urchin some cash to round up some cats? Why, no, why would we want to protect ourselves with the only thing we know of that works?
*** To be fair, they find this out too late to really put it to use; it stops working after he's fully regenerated, and the heroes only manage to make use of any cats once before that happens, though it does save their lives.
** The Medjai's big plan to keep 'The Evil' sealed beneath the sands for all of eternity. Good in theory, except they left the book necessary for his revival where just anyone could find it. You'd think, that given the task they were charged with, they would've kept the book in their possession at all times so that it could never be used rather than left someplace where anyone could get to it if they found Imhotep's resting place.
*** No, no, no I'll do you one better: Why in the hell would you USE this technique in the first place? Yes it's a horrific way to die, but there are a lot of those. And if anyone figures out a way to bring him back, he'll be capable of destroying the world? That seems to be punishing the world more than him. Good Lord, there have to be easier/less apocalyptic ways to punish a dude.
** The scene in the sequel with the ritual is a huge Idiot Ball for Ardeth. He goes all the way to England, makes it into the museum before the ritual is over, and doesn't even try to shoot Hafez until after the ritual is over. This after saying in the first movie that he would kill ''innocent'' people that got too close to raising Imhotep. I'd think people that deliberately dig Imhotep up are pretty far from innocent. (Oh, and he even helps Hafez's mooks pull Imhotep up.)\\
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He references Anck Su Namun's reincarnation and how she knew things that no living person should know, when asked about why he didn't stop that. Presumably, he was holding back in order to find out more... and waited just a little bit too long.
** Also the men he had on hand were a little outnumbered by Hafez's.
* IronicEcho: In ''The Mummy'', Jonathan needs Evy's help translating a hieroglyph in order to complete a spell; in ''The Mummy Returns'', Alex needs Jonathan's help translating the same hieroglyph in a different spell. And in both cases, the second party is in mortal peril whilst helping. Even better, both of them are under mortal peril from a one on one fight with Anck Su Namun.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Rick says this about his first kiss with Evy, since he was about to be hanged. He seems surprised when she takes offense.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Rick O'Conner interrogates Beni for information about Imhotep's plan by shoving him just inches away from a ceiling fan.
** In The Mummy Returns he also grabs Ardeth and shoves him into a post to yell "What the hell are you doing here?" at him. Granted, Evy ''had'' just been kidnapped, but it seems a bit harsh of a way to treat your known ally.
* KarmicDeath:
** Anck Su Namun didn't last long after her "Heel Heel Turn".
** Beni Gabor's greed comes back to bite him. [[ArtMajorBiology In scarab form.]]
* KissOfDistraction: Evy kisses Imhotep in order to break his concentration so the sandstorm he's creating to kill the heroes disperses.
* LampshadeHanging:
** After yet another {{dramatic wind}}: "That happens a lot around here."
** The director Steven Sommers and editor Bob Duscay do a lot of lampshading in their commentaries.
** "Rescue the [[DistressedDamsel damsel in distress]]. Kill the [[BigBad bad guy]]. SaveTheWorld." {{Troperiffic}}, indeed.
* LastRequest
* LeadTheTarget
* LetsGetDangerous: Jonathan may be a ridiculously greedy, swindling PluckyComicRelief, but he is also a crack shot with a winchester rifle, a skilled pickpocket, and disturbingly competent with a book of ancient spells.
* LettingHerHairDown: Evy.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[spoiler: Awesomely [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the first movie;]] when the heroes finally "kill" Imhotep, the whole place starts coming down on them. [[spoiler: It was actually Beni's fault, leading to his KarmicDeath]].
* LondonEnglandSyndrome: Because apparently we can't figure out that yes, this is the Cairo in Egypt.
* MacGuffin
** The Mummy: the Book of the Living and the Book of the Dead, not to mention the canopic jars.
** The Mummy Returns: The [[ClingyMacGuffin bracelet]] on Alex
* {{Meganekko}}: Evy, for not goddamn long enough in the first movie.
* MoreDakka: Ardeth prefers the Thompson.
* MoralityPet: Jonathan's a greedy bastard, but [[BigBrotherInstinct he does seem to care about his little sister.]]
* MortalityEnsues: It turns out that the companion book to the Book of the Dead doesn't kill the BigBad when read from. What it does is remove his immortality, allowing him to be killed like a mortal.
* MrExposition: For the first half of the sequel, Ardeth is made of this trope. If he's talking, odds are he's giving exposition.
* {{Mummy}}
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Evy reading from the Book of the Dead: nice job awakening it!
* NightOfTheLivingMooks:
** The Scorpion King's army.
** [[spoiler: the counter-undead raised to fight the Dragon Emperor]]
* OhCrap: Plenty of instances. For example, [[spoiler:Ardeth and the Medjai have just defeated the Army of Anubis at great cost to their forces. They cheer. But that was only the first wave. Cue the ''entire horizon turning black'' as the unfathomable hordes of Anubis warriors blanket the sands. To be fair to poor Ardeth, though, he took it rather well, all things considered.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** It's not than noticeable at first, but once you know that the actor playing Jonathan is actually Scottish, you can't ''not'' hear his natural accent peaking through.
** Also, Anck Su Namun seems has a small problem with this in the first half of the second movie, that is, until the real Anck Su Namun gets resurrected, when she only speaks Ancient Egyptian. The creators consulted a historian to make the Egyptian an approximate representation of what Ancient Egyptian sounded like.
* TheOrder: The Medjai, whose job appears to be guarding all the potentially world-ending crap the ancient Egyptians left lying around. We mostly only see Ardeth Bey in the first movie (other members are present but they aren't really given lines), but they get upgraded to TheCavalry in the second, so they can HoldTheLine against [[LegionsOfHell Anubis' army]].
* TheOtherDarrin: Rachel Weisz, replaced by Maria Bello in the third movie.
* PastLifeMemories: In the second film, Evy keeps having flashes of insights and memories that make her think she's hallucinating. It turns out, they're memories of her past life in ancient Egypt.
* PleaseWakeUp
* ThePunishment: Imhotep's being [[FateWorseThanDeath mummified alive in a sarcophagus full of scarabs]] because he got with the Pharaoh's woman. In reality, not that bad a punishment because he gets CursedWithAwesome and can return from death with very little help from stupid people. Meanwhile, his punishers spend the rest of their lives (as do all of their descendants) keeping him cooped up. Clearly, the punishment was worth it!
* PreMortemOneLiner: Used by Rick dispatching the Scorpion King ("Go to hell, and take your friends with you!") and Emperor Han ("Now you can rule... in hell!").
* PresentCompanyExcluded:
-->'''Jonathan:''' And when those damn yanks go to sleep, no offense,
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.
-->'''Jon:''' We'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under them.
-->'''Rick:''' Are you sure you can find this secret compartment thing?
-->'''Evy:''' Oh, yes, if those beastly Americans haven't beaten us to it, no offense.
-->'''Rick:''' None taken.
* PrettyInMink: In the third movie, there were a few fox wraps, in addition to the winter coats in the mountains.
* PunctuatedPounding: Rick in ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', when gunning down the Emperor's troops at the Great Wall
--> '''Rick:''' I '''* bang!* ''' Really '''* bang!* ''' Hate '''* bang!* ''' ''Mummies''! '''* bang!* '''
* RearingHorse: Ardeth's horse at the end of The Mummy Returns.
* RedShirt: In the first movie, anyone in the expedition that isn't one of the three leads. Even more so in the second where Imhotep's mooks actually wear red!
* RefugeInCool
* TheRenfield
** Beni, in the first movie.
** Imhotep, after a fashion, in the second.
* TheRemake: the first one, anyway, was a re-imagining of the original black and white horror classic.
* RemovableTurretGun: the protagonists pluck the mounted [[MoreDakka machinegun]] from the plane before it sinks into the quicksand.
** Justified as the gun in case is a regular infantry light machine gun.
* RomanceInducingSmudge: Inverted in ''The Mummy'', where Imhotep's romance with Anck Su Namun leads him to smear her body paint.
* RuleOfScary: Sure scarabs don't really dig under people's skin and eat them from the inside out...but it's just so ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scary]]''.
* SadlyMythtaken: Imhotep was an actual historical figure.
** It's ''possible'' the Imhotep of the movies was named after this man (in-universe). Both were highly-regarded priests.\\
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The historical Imhotep was also an architect. He was the designer of the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, the tomb of the Pharaoh Djoser, and thus the inventor of the Egyptian pyramid.
*** Some theories contend that Imhotep was the Biblical Joseph.
** Also, there were two ancient Egyptian rulers who had each claimed the title of Scorpion King. One was named Osiris Scorpion; this troper forgets who the other one was.
** Also applies to the prologue of ''The Mummy Returns.'' [[DidNotDoTheResearch Anubis is not an evil god,]] [[DarkIsNotEvil not by a long shot.]] The closest thing late Egyptian mythology had to an evil god would probably be Seth, the villain of the Osirian cult and formerly a benign god in his own right; before Set there was Apep, the Immortal Serpent who would battle Ra every night for all eternity, explaining the shift between day and night. Then again, RuleOfCool is in full effect, and Anubis is certainly one of the cooler gods: he essentially was a dying man's best friend, keeping carrion beasts away from your corpse, was present at the Opening of the Mouth ceremony marking a dead soul's entrance into the afterlife, and admitted the worthy into paradise. All around a pretty swell guy, and doesn't fall under EvilIsCool by any stretch of the imagination. Oh well, [[EverybodyHatesHades everybody hates Anubis]].
** In the prologue to the second movie, Scorpion King offers his soul to Anubis in exchange for glorious life. The idea of selling a soul to an evil power (which Anubis isn't) is a purely folk Christian concept (it's not even Christian proper as {{Satan}} does not rule the damned). To make it more ridiculous, the offer itself had no sense as all deceased were destined to meet Anubis. You had to cross the desert after death first, to reach Anubis and have your soul deemed worthy. Not all made it through the trip, since there was dangers to be met on the way.
** 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 [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel 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, who's job was essentially to punish people like Imhotep. Plus, then Imhotep would have had an excuse to say "WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes" as a ShoutOut.
* SayYourPrayers: Beni's prayers are played humorously, as he prays to several gods in several different languages before praying in Hebrew actually winds up saving him, because its a language Imhotep understands.
* ScaryBlackMan: Lock-nah, who is also the first named villian [[TheBlackDudeDiesFirst to die]]. Averted with Izzy.
* SequelGoesForeign: ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' is set in China.
* SequelHook: The third movie ends with John resolving to move to Peru. As he drives off, "Mummies were later discovered in Peru" appears on the screen.
* SequelEscalation: The first film was mostly an adventure film in the spirit of ''IndianaJones'' but works on the same level as a comedy. The sequels were still tongue-in-cheek but had more chase scenes and action scenes with entire supernatural armies being raised.
* ShootingSuperman: People will not stop shooting Imhotep even though he is ImmuneToBullets. Even ''after'' Ardeth has told people "No mortal weapons can harm that creature!" they shoot Imhotep. At least they slow him down. Probably also a case of WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer.
* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: In-universe example, Imhotep's life. In The Mummy Returns, [[spoiler: Imhotep sees what True Love is really like. He'd sacrificed everything, his position, his mortality, and his ''soul'' for Ankh Su-Namun, and she abandoned him when the chips were down. Then he got to watch Evy race to Rick's side in his moment of need. To top it off, while he was begging Ankh-Su-Namun to save him, his enemy was begging his beloved to save herself — and she refused, insisting on trying to help him. With this came the realization that his sacrifice and suffering had been pointless and empty, and he let go of the ledge.]]
* ShoutOut: When they first meet and Rick is in prison, Jonathan claims to Rick that he's a man preaching Christianity in Egypt and introduces Evy as his sister (although she actually is). Given Steven Sommers' reported love of old adventure movies, this is almost certainly a reference to ''The African Queen''.
* {{Sidekick}}: Jonathan. Similarly, Izzy in the second film, who is a cowardly sidekick who is black (and not, mercifully, a [[EthnicScrappy Black Cowardly Sidekick]]).
* SpannerInTheWorks: The people who sealed the Emperor away in the third film put his mummy in a statue, the idea being that anyone who tries to raise him would instead raise a eunuch, which was in the coffin as decoy. This plan almost works... till the mummy raising water is accidently splashed on the emperor's statue.
* SpinningOutOfHere: In ''TheMummy 2'', Imhotep starts spinning and then turns into a whirlwind to travel.
* SpinOff: ''TheScorpionKing'
* SpiritedYoungLady: Evelyn.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Anck Su Namun, in her Ancient Egyptian life, wore a net, body paint, and nothing else. This is probably TruthInTelevision with regards to AncientEgypt.
* TakenForGranite: Proably the most horrific origin story of the Terracotta Warriors ever conceived. Explains why every face is unique...
* TemptingFate:
** "No harm ever came from reading a book."
** Done again in ''Returns'' and summarily lampshaded.
-->'''Evy:''' ''It's just a chest. No harm ever came from opening a chest.''
-->'''Rick:''' ''Yeah, and "no harm ever came from reading a book". Remember how that one went?''
** Also done in the ending of ''Tomb of the Dragon Emperor''. Jonathan states that he's moving to Peru after selling his bar to a Russian pilot, and states that at least that place doesn't have mummies. A narrative quote then appears stating that after his arrival, mummies were discovered in Peru.
** Who could forget this little gem:
--> '''Rick:''' You're gonna get yours Beni!!! YOU'RE GONNA GET YOURS!!!!
--> '''Beni:''' Oh like I never heard that before!!!
*** Then later on:
--> '''Evy:''' You know nasty little fellows like you always get their comeuppance.
--> '''Beni:''' Hehehe.....[[OhCrap They do?]]
--> '''Evy:''' Always.
* TentativeLight
* ThereWasADoor: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when Evelyn tries to block a door to stall some mummy soldiers.
-->'''Rick:''' ''Honey... What are you doing? These guys don't use doors!''
* TheUndead: The mummies, duh.
* ThisIsSPARTA: "IT OPENS! UP! INTO! A SPEAR!"
* ThisWayToCertainDeath
* ThrowAwayGuns
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: If you're Ardeth Bey, Throwing Your Sword From Horseback At Things With A Specific Weak Point Always Works.
** [[RuleOfCool So]] [[CrazyAwesome what?]]
** Don't forget the Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick ([[HeGotBetter Shangri-La made him better]]). Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Book of The Dead and the Book of the Living. The Book of the Living gives power over the living and can take life, the Book of the Dead gives power over the dead and can give it.
* TwainsObservationOnOriginality: The third Mummy film merrily hits every action/adventure movie trope right on the mark. Nothing in the movie is a surprise, but it's not a bad film for it.
* TwoFistedTales
* 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.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yang and Choi. They resurrected the Dragon Emperor only so they could end China's civil war.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?: Rick lighting a match by striking it against [[MemeticBadass Ardeth Bey's]] stubble. Especially considering what he did with that match.
* [=~What's An X Like You Doing In A Y Like This?~=]
-->'''Evelyn (completely drunk):''' "You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?"
-->'''Rick:''' "Yeah, something like that."
* [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What Have We Done?]] Said by the Egyptologist during the locust swarm heralding [[spoiler: Imhotep's rebirth]]: [[ItGotWorse as the full weight of the situation dawns upon him.]]
* [[BlackVikings White Egyptians]]: The Ancient Egyptian characters are played by obviously white actors: Imhotep, Anck Su Namun, the Pharaoh and so on.
** Except not. Anck Su Namun is played by Patricia Velasquez, A Venezuelan woman with strong Amerindian heritage. Her mother is from the Wayuu tribe. Can't speak for the actors of the other characters, though.
** Imhotep is played by Arnold Vosloo, who is South African.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Lin in the third movie, once she realizes that she's in love with Alex. Her mother took care of that problem.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: "Watch for bugs. I hate bugs." Guess what gets him.
* WolverinePublicity: ''The Mummy Returns'' heavily hyped up [[DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]]'s role in the film. He ended up being a minor character at best.
** Especially funny with an ''Entertainment Weekly'' cover focused on The Rock, with Brendan Fraser {{Out Of Focus}} on the side and looking downright pissed about it.
* WouldHitAGirl: Jonathan in the second movie, who sucker punches Anck Su Namun at one point. He seemed just as shocked at what he did as she was, however.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Alex could not possibly be eight years old in 1933, because ''his parents didn't meet until 1926.'' Someone who was eight in 1933 would be born in ''1925''. And there's no indication he's an adopted child or a child one of them already had; it seems more like they ignored the Three Years Later card in the first movie and went with the whole thing happening in 1923. Possibly it is the year that was miscalculated. One of the Hafez's henchmen says that he heard about "one American who resurrected Imhotep nine years ago".
* YouExclamation:
** Imhotep to Rick in ''The Mummy Returns'', when the two meet just after Imhotep's re-awakening.
** In ''The Mummy'', Evelyn exclaims "You" to Ardeth when he turns up in the Cairo Museum.
* ZombieGait:
** Imhotep's enthralled in the first movie. [[HangsALampshade Lampshaded]], somewhat, by Jonathan, who shambled along with them to avoid their wrath.
** Averted with the actual mummies, though; they all move almost as quickly as people and Imhotep can move considerably faster. Given a ThisIsReality in the AnimatedAdaptation; a friend of Alex's who [[YouWatchTooMuchX reads too many comics]] says he thought mummies were slow, and Alex tells him "This one isn't!"
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Without the stock phrase exchange, but in the first movie, Imhotep promises to spare the rest of the party if Evy comes with him so that he can perform the ritual. Naturally, once she's in hand, he orders his followers to kill the rest of them. Of course, the rest of the group had made it extremely clear they planned to follow and try to stop the ritual, so ''not'' attacking them would have been fairly silly.
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