History Film / TheMummy2017

* ShownTheirWork: Ahmanet is empowered by Set rather than Anubis, fixing the error the previous version made by getting the ''correct'' GodOfEvil. Further more, she made the deal with him to usurp the throne after her brother took her place in the line of succession - in Egyptian mythology, Set is depicted as the one who usurps the throne of his brother, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris Osiris]].

* MagicPants: Regardless of how much Ahmanet regenerates or attacked, There alway is ''juust'' enough wrappings left over to cover her naughty bits.

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Jenny is shown to be a competent speaker of Ancient Egyptian. It's actually completely unknown what the language sounded like, as even the writing was a mystery until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799; even the "simple" Egyptian she speaks is well beyond what real-world linguistics would allow. This could be {{Handwaved}} by the fact that she works for [[spoiler: Prodigium, who probably have much better resources for translating and linguistis seeing as they have to deal with ancient horrors.]]

* ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: Jenny is shown to be a competent speaker of Ancient Egyptian. It's actually completely unknown what the language sounded like, as even the writing was a mystery until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799; even the "simple" Egyptian she speaks is well beyond what real-world linguistics would allow.

* The PowerOfGlass: With the Dagger of Set, Ahmanet destroys all of the glass in the London to create a massive storm as a show of power.

* ShirtlessScene: Three from Creator/TomCruise, [[{{Bishonen}} natch]]; two from visions Ahmanet gives him, and one when he [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up naked in the morgue]].

** A bit of TruthInTelevision as the Egyptian Pantheon operated under a more OrderVersusChaos morality than GoodVersusEvil, the closest they had to a GodOfEvil in actuality was Apep.

* ShirtlessScene: Three from TomCruise, [[{{Bishonen}} natch]]; two from visions Ahmanet gives him, and one when he [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue wakes up naked in the morgue]].

--->"[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow I would like, if I may, to tell you a story...]]"

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Ahmanet was a princess and she is everything BUT good news.

** Jenny's conclusion that they're in a prison rather than a tomb is similar to [[Film/TheFellowshipOfTheRing Boromir's]] "This is no mine! It's a tomb!".

* [[IncongruouslyDressedZombie Incongruously Dressed Mummy]]: ''All'' the lesser mummies Nick encounters qualify, as unlike most film mummies they are the product of Ahmanet's life-draining attacks on modern-day victims. Therefore they're dressed in ordinary street clothes, with nary a bandage, funerary mask, or hieroglyph to be seen.

This [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] was directed by Alex Kurtzman, known for co-writing the first two ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' and the first two rebooted ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies, and was written by David Koepp (''Film/JurassicPark'') Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie (''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation''), and Dylan Kussman, from a story by Jon Spaihts (''Film/{{Prometheus}}''), Jenny Lumet (''Film/RachelGettingMarried'') and Kurtzman.

* [[IncongruouslyDressedZombie Incongruously Dressed Mummy]]: ''All'' the lesser undead Nick encounters qualify, as unlike most film mummies they are the product of Ahmanet's life-draining attacks on modern-day victims. Therefore they're dressed in ordinary street clothes, with nary a bandage, funerary mask, or hieroglyph to be seen.

* Malik (Marwan Kenzari)

''The Mummy'' is a 2017 fantasy-horror-action film released by Creator/{{Universal}} as the first film in a new SharedUniverse based on its classic Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters called the Film/DarkUniverse.[[note]]''Film/DraculaUntold'' was originally re-shot to serve as a prequel, but has since been scrapped from continuity[[/note]] The movie has Creator/TomCruise in the lead role, Creator/SofiaBoutella as [[AntagonistTitle the title mummy]], Princess Ahmanet, as well as Creator/AnnabelleWallis, Creator/JakeJohnson, Creator/CourtneyBVance, Javier Botet, Chasty Ballesteros, Marwan Kenzari, Dylan Smith, Selva Rasalingam and Creator/RussellCrowe as [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Henry Jekyll]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: WordOfGod says that Ahmanet was supposed to be seen as tragic and it’s clear the movie wants to portray her as such, but given her jump to murdering her family to take the throne and then the jump to bringing out Set to take over the world with him, it’s at that point that when she later says: "It was a different time", it just doesn’t cut it.

This [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] is directed by Alex Kurtzman, known for co-writing the first two ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' and the first two rebooted ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movies, and who is serving as creative director of the Film/DarkUniverse franchise with writer Chris Morgan (of Film/TheFastAndTheFurious franchise).

It was written by David Koepp (''Film/JurassicPark'') Creator/ChristopherMcQuarrie (''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation''), and Dylan Kussman, from a story by Jon Spaihts (''Film/{{Prometheus}}''), Jenny Lumet (''Film/RachelGettingMarried'') and Kurtzman.

* MeaningfulName: Ahmanet is a respelling of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amunet Amunet]], a primordial goddess of Myth/EgyptianMythology. The name itself means "hidden one."
** Another one; [[spoiler:''Nick'' as in Old Nick the Devil, and ''Mort''on, as in French for 'death'.]]

* MythologyGag: "A new world of gods and monsters" refers to a famous quote from ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein''.

*** Also from the previous ''Mummy'' movies, during the battle in the Prodigium library, Jenny punches someone with the Book of Amun-Ra[[note]](The book is clearly shown to be made of gold, with the Eye of Horus engraved in the center of the lock - it is therefore not the Book of the Dead, which was black and had an embossed scarab in the lock).[[/note]]
*** In [[spoiler: Jekyll's underground facility]], the camera lingers on a hand belonging to [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gill-Man]], and on a [[Film/Dracula1931 vampire skull]].

** The underwater fight with Ahmanet and her undead minions alludes to a similar scene in Creator/LucioFulci's ''Film/Zombi2''
** Nick's zombified best friend appearing to him as a ghost only he can see is a reference to ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInParis'.

** SadlyMythtaken: The assumption that Set is the GodOfEvil is a common misconception continued in the film, with the closest GodofEvil to the Ancient Egyptians being Apep.

It was written by David Koepp (''Film/JurassicPark'') Christopher [=McQuarrie=] (''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation''), and Dylan Kussman, from a story by Jon Spaihts (''Film/{{Prometheus}}''), Jenny Lumet (''Film/RachelGettingMarried'') and Kurtzman.

This [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] is directed by Alex Kurtzman, known for co-writing the first two ''Film/{{Transformers|FilmSeries}}'' and the first two rebooted ''Film/StarTrek'' movies, and who is serving as creative director of the Film/DarkUniverse franchise with writer Chris Morgan (of Film/TheFastAndTheFurious franchise).

* MummyWrap: Ahmanet was subjected to this before being sealed in the tomb/prison. (This is clearly ''not'' done for fanservice, and it closely follows the treatment of male characters in Universal's previous mummy movies.)

It has a tie-in game made by Creator/WayForwardTechnologies known as ''The Mummy Demastered''.

!!''The Mummy Demastered'' contains examples of:
* ClockTower: One of the late-game areas, not unlike the ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' series.
* ContinuingIsPainful: When you die, you turn into a zombie, and lose all the equipment you have on you, including first-aid kits. You start again at the nearest checkpoint as another agent, and have to get your stuff back from your undead previous self, who can ''still use it''.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: Your player character is a generic, featureless and replaceable Prodigium agent.
* {{Metroidvania}}: The game's genre, taking inspiration from both trope-naming franchises.
* MultipleEndings: The ending of the game changes slightly depending on whether you [[spoiler:make it out of the final EscapeSequence alive or not]].
* {{Retraux}}: The game's aesthetics are shown in a 16-bit style, hence the name.
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