While in previews he was established to be a regular-guy OC, him getting Set's powers by the end of the story seems to point to him being another monster (he and Jekyll even say something to that effect). The shot of him and Vail riding on horseback suggested the idea of the Four Horsemen, one of which is Death, and it seems fitting that the "new" monster they're creating for this Universe is one that wasn't in the classic monster movies.
- That makes a bit of sense. Alternatively, the Dark Universe will take some elements from Castlevania (a crimson stone that gives power and control over Death itself). Nick will be corrupted eventually becoming Death, and will serve the big bad, Dracula.
The international trailer does play up his more morally ambiguous side, not to mention that scene where Jenny tries to convince him that he's a good man. Maybe Ahmanet thinks he's just as ambitious as she is.
- Or, since the newest teaser shows Nick with the same multi-irises as Ahmanet, perhaps Ahmanet (like other Mummies before her) is after Nick because she thinks he is the reincarnation of her lost love. Bonus points if he was a high-priest named Imhotep.
- The latter jossed, the former not so much.
As of this writing, the movie scheduled for April 13th, 2018 is still untitled. This troper is betting on Dracula showing up mid-credits. One of the trailers did show a vampire skull in Prodigium's possession after all.
- Alternately, the post-credits scene will feature Ahmanet's body being taken away for experimentation by Victor Frankenstein, setting up the plot of his own movie.
- Even better, Dr. Jekyll is forcing Victor into Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with an arrogant and hot-tempered scientist named Jack Griffin, played by Johnny Depp.
- Jossed. There is no postcredit sequence.
- Even better, Dr. Jekyll is forcing Victor into Teeth-Clenched Teamwork with an arrogant and hot-tempered scientist named Jack Griffin, played by Johnny Depp.
Early marketing shows Jekyll (or maybe Hyde?) kicking Nick's ass. Maybe Jekyll has a secret agenda in observing these monsters. Let's not forget that he isn't exactly normal himself.
- Alternatively, Ahmanet might have mind control or hypnotic powers like 30's Imhotep and is controlling one of them. Half right. Ahmanet does influence someone's mind. Nick's.
- Or Jekyll will just decide that he's had enough of Nick's lip and Hyde will slip through just enough to make Jekyll decide to bring him down a peg
- Another alternative is that he's just been struggling with Hyde for some time, and is part of Prodigium in order to deal with things like him and Ahmanet. Confirmed.
It would give an interesting reason why Ahmanet singles him out among the rest of humanity, as well as a compelling reason for him to continue to appear in future Universal Monster movies. He could have an origin similar to Blade to explain why he can walk around during the day. And perhaps the movie will take an approach similar to Unbreakable to explain that he's had subtle superpowers his whole life, he's just never realized it.
- Made even more likely by the fact that recent viral marketing reveals that Prodigium has a file on Nick, with the words "do not engage". Even if he isn't Alucard, chances are Nick isn't exactly normal, and Prodigium has been aware of this for some time.
It would be a nice twist to discover that she is or was trying to do something good for the world when she took the throne all those years ago. However, it is likely that three thousand years in her tomb plus being captured and possibly experimented on by Prodigium convinces her that to get her objectives, whatever they are, requires her to destroy the current world and recreate hers.
- Jossed as hell.
With half the things we see Ahmanet doing to London in this movie and the current proliferation of mobile phones and video-cameras it will be very difficult for Prodigium to hide it all from the public.
- To be fair, one of those things is a sandstorm, which is kinda known for obscuring people's view.
- Yes, but it's a sandstorm in the middle of London.
- Jekyll mentions being an expert in multiple scientific and medical fields as well as having a law degree. While he may simply be just really, really smart (it's reasonably plausible for someone with lots of time, money, and intelligence to obtain multiple degrees by the time they're in their mid-50s), it's also possible he's been around a really long time. Hell, he may very well be the original Victorian-era Dr. Jekyll. Prodigium also seems like it would require a massive amount of funding; if Jekyll is the founder it would make more sense for a medical doctor to have been able to acquire so much money if he's been around longer than a natural lifespan.
- Professor Abraham Van Helsing himself
- Dr. Wilfred Glendon (or possibly Dr. Yogami), a scientist (specializing in botany) who is friends with Jekyll due to them sharing a similar condition
- Aloyisius Lucard, a mysterious Romanian nobleman who funds the organization with unknown intentions...
- Dr. Caligari, who's in charge of psychiatric evaluations and debriefing (aided by his assistant, Cesare). note
- A mysterious man named Exeter who has access to incredibly advanced technology from an unknown source...
- As mentioned above, Doctors Victor Frankenstein and Jack Griffin.
- Expanding on that, they might be mentioned as working on Project: Adam (or Prometheus) and Project: Gyges, respectively
- Alternatively, the monster is part of Prodigium, and Victor (who might have been a past associate or even a founding member) is long dead
- Doctor Carl Maia, a geologist and paleontologist who is investigating how extinct some potentially dangerous animals truly are.
- A mysterious aristocrat woman and artist with a Dark and Troubled Past, named Marya Zaleska who seems to have weird abilities, and is called to hunt vampires and hoping to get mysterious cure for a disease she have.
Including but not limited to:
- Newspaper clippings reporting about a serial killer who brutalizes his victims on nights with a full moon.
- More Newspaper clippings detailing unexplained murders and sabotage at a Paris Opera house. note
- Yes, but would that story transfer very well into modern day? Forensics and security technology have come quite a long way.
- He could be a literal ghost to avert that.
- Yes, but would that story transfer very well into modern day? Forensics and security technology have come quite a long way.
- The fossilized remains of a man-fish hybrid.
Instead, Edward will have plans of his own and team up with Ahmanet, leaving with her to track down other monsters so they can rule the world. He will say his "welcome to a new world of Gods and Monsters" line to a broken and battered Nick as he and Ahmanet leave. Que credits.
- Jossed.
During the excavation, Jenny will see a stone slab with a scorpion inscribed on it along with some hieroglyphs and get excited. When Nick asks her what the big deal is, she'll exclaim "It's the Scorpion King!" Nick, unimpressed will say, "Huh. Looks more like a rock to me."
- Jossed.
- Jossed. He's a Prodigium enforcer
And while Ahmanet will be featured (assuming she survives this movie), the Big Bad will be Kharis, who in life was her most loyal servant and right-hand man, buried and cursed alongside her. Instead of having magical powers like her, Kharis will be an Implacable Man with Super-Strength and capable of being nearly invisible.
- Beautiful homage to the old movies.
- Maybe her lover's name was actually Kharis.
The reason? What Ahmanet did to get the throne was unforgivable but Thoth is, among other things, the God of Oaths and Promises. To him the real culprit of the situation is the Ahmanet's father, since he broke his promise to her and considers, in consequence, her actions were justified and even approves that she tried to keep her part of the deal with Set.
To get to specifics, is strange that Ahmanet is somewhat mentally functional to have been trapped in her sarcophagus for nearly five thousand years. A possibility is that Set was talking to her and making her feel some company since he need her sane when she got out so that she could keep her part of the promise. It's also possible that their relationship changed with time in one way or another. I think that in the next movie Set would be tormenting Nick to punish him for killing her, likely thinking that she had been judged unworthy and got her soul eaten by Ammyt until he discovers, maybe from the Bride of Frankenstein or interrogating some Prodigium's agents, that they buried her again on the same way as before, giving him hopes to restore one of his most powerful and loyal agents or his lover, depending of their previous relationship.
Why would they show us Prodigium re-burying Ahmanet if there wasn't a chance of her coming back? And why would they not bring her back if there was a chance?
At the end of the film Jenny and Vail were both revived by Nick, yet he chooses to go off with him instead of her. Nick is bisexual.
