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- A minor but very powerful one for Evy. During their first night in Hamunaptra, she explains to Rick her parents' legacy; her father was a very famous explorer, and her mother was an adventurer of Egyptian birth. Rick says that while he understands the rest of her family, he doesn't get Evy. She flares up and (although completely hammered) basically tells him that she is her parents' daughter, even if she doesn't seem like much, and that she is proud of who she is: A librarian. Impressed, Rick just smiles wryly in response, accepting her answer.
- Evy hitting the Medjai who takes her hostage in the eye with a candle. So, she plunges it into the eye from over her shoulder, backwards, and it works.
- Evy coming up with the plan to dig from under the statue of Anubis to get to the Book of Amun-Ra before the Americans do, and her managing to successfully lead the expedition to find it. Had she, Jonathan and Rick not stumbled upon Imhotep, they'd probably have succeeded.
- The Mummy, Imhotep himself, is one of the most memorable movie villains of the 90s, particularly impressive since he debuted right at the end of the decade. Not only does his tragic backstory put him on the level of the other Universal Monsters, his powers are awe-inspiring and make him a constantly evolving, effective threat; Arnold Vosloo does justice to Boris Karloff and crafts his own version of character. This also forgoes the traditional depiction of mummies being slow, mindless, weak, and dry, which had made them a laughingstock among horror fans - Imhotep is a strong, smart, quick, powerful, dangerous, and borderline invincible villain, more of an apocalyptic undead god than a regular mummy, and quickly redefined the perception of the monster.
- As they surround him, Rick scares off the Medjai by lighting a stick of dynamite in the campfire, holding up the burning fuse for them to see.
- Rick's reaction to turning a corner and finding the resurrected Imhotep roaring at him: roar right back at him, shoot him in the face with a shotgun, grab Evy, and run.
- Rick casually nailing a fleeing Beni with a heavy wooden chair, by throwing it across the room with a single hand.Jonathan: Nice shot.
- Winston's burial in the quicksand. Jerry Goldsmith's music really hammers home how this WWI pilot, who is seen earlier on getting drunk, complaining about being retired, and missing his friends who died in the war, got in his plane one last time to battle a great evil and help to save the world. His last words, before the plane crashes, are "Here I come, laddies!" and laughing. He went out exactly as he had wanted.
- Combined as a funny moment. Evy’s cat scaring away Imhotep twice. Since cats were revered in ancient Egypt due to their being seen as guardians for the underworld and ties to the goddess Bastet, Imhotep is naturally afraid of the cat and flees in terror.
- Imhotep summoning a living sandstorm.
- Evy saving Rick and the others from said sandstorm by kissing Imhotep. Something that caught the great Mummy completely off-guard to the point he forgot all about Rick.
- Ardeth's Heroic Sacrifice. Out of ammo, he tells Rick and Jonathan to save Evy, kill Imhotep and get out, then charges into the midst of the advancing undead horde armed only with an empty shotgun to buy them time. Granted, he survives, but the thought counts.
- When Imhotep is partially revived, one of the scarabs that eats his flesh crawls into his mouth. His response? To calmly bite down. Crunch.
- Rick taking down about sixteen of Imhotep's mummified priests single-handedly, with nothing but a bronze sword that must be ridiculously heavy, and breaking Evy's chains in the process. Not to mention these things refuse to stay dead; even after being chopped in two, they keep coming. Oh, and then Rick goes and takes on ten mummified elite warriors, destroying six of them before Jonathan finally finishes the incantation, literally stopping them only just in time before their weapons can cut into Rick's flesh.
- Jonathan then quickly uses his control over the warriors to save Evy from Anck-Su-Namun, ordering them to kill her.
- Despite his seeming cowardice for most of the movie, when confronted by Imhotep's mummified priests, Jonathan empties his derringer into them, then promptly grabs Rick's revolvers from his holsters to keep shooting. Combined with his skill with a rifle in the sequel, a common fan theory is that Jonathan is a Great War veteran.
- Jonathan shows some pretty awesome pick-pocketing skills. First, we see him get the "key" back from a guy on fire. Then, towards the end of the film, he gets the key from Imhotep's robes as he's getting strangled.
- Jonathan pretending to be one of the crowds under Imhotep's control when he nearly ends up running right into them, especially since he came up with it on the spur of the moment. Again, it's another example of his resourcefulness. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
