#natm theory

[natmarchivist]

Natm Theories with Natm Archivist.

Do exhibits sleep?

Well technically they somewhat “sleep” during the daytime when their frozen (sort of), however I don’t think they can dream when their frozen but in the case of Ahkmenrah he’s dead so yeah…

However when it comes to normal sleep I do believe exhibits can sleep it’s not a requirement however if they feel drowsy that’s probably the time they need to sleep, I can imagine exhibits probably taking a nap every once in while when they feel like they need to. (besides they have to keep a good appearance in the daytime when their frozen)

There is some Franchise evidence of exhibits sleeping which comes from “Secret of the Tomb” as the Xiangliu was asleep before being woken up by Teddy (due to tablet corrosion effect) another example can come from a form of two deleted scenes from the original draft of “Battle of the Smithsonian” where in one scene where Larry puts Jed inside the crate in which he was sat by next to a sleeping Octavius and another cut scene that would’ve maybe showed case that exhibits can sleep is another scene where their flying home to New York Dexter and Able were fast asleep in the copilot chair of Amelia’s plan.

But to conclude my theory I say exhibits can sleep, and just like with humans everyone has to rest every once in awhile but it mostly depends on when they need to sleep.

But do you believe in this theory?

[nyahkmenrah]

My theory on how the tablet works!

I’ve been thinking about the tablet a lot (as one does), and I believe I’ve cracked the code.

This is going to be long, buckle up.

So we know from the 3rd movie it's blessed by Khonsu and activates under the moonlight, needed to be exposed to moonlight every so often to retain its power. The fact it's been blessed by a god implies that the Egyptian gods and their realms actually do exist in this universe. We know there's an underworld because Kah tried to open it up in the second movie. Weather other pantheons exist is unknown, but the Egyptian one absolutely does in this universe.

Since the is an underworld and thus an afterlife, I think that the tablet works by placing the soul of a person/being into the object it's bringing to life.

The whole reason the tablet was created was so Ahk and his parents could be together forever even after death, the whole point of it is to resurrect the dead. So the enchantment is one that takes the soul of a dead being and places it back into the body as long as it's nearby enough to the tablet, and under the light of the moon/ charged with the moon. I do find Khonsu an odd choice for resurrection magic, since he's not really a death god. But he is a moon god and watches over night travellers, both living and dead. So the fact the tablet brings the beings back to life at night checks out.

1. What can come to life?

We also know that objects that aren't a corpse like Ahk can be animated. Like the minis and wax figures. Not just people but animals like Dexter and Rexy. So I think the rule there is that as long as it resembles a living being, real or mythical it can come to life.

2. Who can come to life and how?

If the figure represents a specific person (Teddy, Sacajawea, Atilla etc) the tablet will place that persons soul into the figure and that person will come to life with the memories, personality etc if that person carried by the soul.

If the figure doesn't represent a particular person, the tablet will find a soul that somewhat matches the figure and use that. Like the minis. Because let's be honest there's no way the museum named every single mini and modelled them all after real people. So the tablet saw a figure of a Roman general, found the soul of Gauis Octavius who was a known Roman general and placed his soul in the figure. It saw a cowboy, and picked a soul from that same area and time period to place into the figure. The real Jedediah was actually a mountain man, but mountain men and cowboys are similar enough the tablet made that figure Jedediah Strong Smith anyway.

In the case of animals, the same rule applies. If the figure represents a particular animal (like the space monkey Abe from the second movie) it'll put that soul in the figure. If it's just a random animal it'll just put a random animals soul that matches the species and time period.

And in the case of mythical creatures, it'll create a kind of puedo-soul to fill it. Lancelot isn't actually a real person, but it is likely he was inspired by real people. So the tablet saw a figure meant to be lancet and took the soul of a knight that inspired Lancelot, made some tweaks and put it into Lancelot figure. And with creatures like the giant snake thing (I can't remember the name) from the third movie it did something similar, taking several snakes souls and giving each head one of them. Similarly, the Anubis-Jackal guards that protect Ahkmenrahs exhibit are probably pseudo-souls created using warriors/guards and jackals. Made with the intent to protect Ahkmenrah and his belongings.

With the artworks, it again depends on who or what the art is depicting. If it's just a scenery, it'll simply open up a kind of pocket dimension (like the ones Larry jumped through in the 2nd movie) that resembles the scenery.  If it's depicting a real person, it'll put that persons soul in. If it's depicting random people it'll place a soul from the time period in. As well as creating a pocket dimension of that place and time for the people to exist in.

Like the the photo of the solider kissing the nurse, it took a the souls of people from the time period and placed them into the photo. In the case of this particular photo, the subjects in the picture are unknown although some contenders exist, and are still alive. So the tablet kinda just took a random set of souls from the time and shoved them in, the man being kissed in this tablet pocket dimension photo ended up being Joey Motorola who was one of the people who invented the mobile phone. Larry accidentally created a time anomaly that day, when he dropped his phone in the painting and Joey picked it up, reverse engineering it to make the phone.

Btw Joey is played by Jay Baruchel, who is the voice of Hiccup and I can't ever un-hear him as Hiccup from my HTTYD days. So when he talks in the movie I was all "omg hiccup?"

Anyway-

3. How real are the living figures?

We know they can be hurt, as when Jed and Octavius were still in their enemies phase of their enemies to lovers arc, they whack each other up and react in pain. We also know they can eat and drink, since there's a set of advertisement skits for the 3rd movie that shows them eating and drinking. For people like Ahk, real corpses reanimated it'd simply just be their bodies reanimating and the tablets magic allowing them to function. In cases where they're missing organs, like Ahk being mummified as thus having his organs taken out or, being made of wax etc and not having organs, the tablet with simulate them. Allowing them to eat, drink, get tired and out of breath after running etc.

So yes, that means you could probably do the no pants dance with one of the exhibits because they'd have simulated organs.

But, they can't die. Not unless the tablet does. We see them start to loose life in the 3rd movie. Ahk stars to mummify and the others start to act up and freeze. But we know they can't die any other way because Teddy literally got chopped in half in the first movie and was able to just melt some wax to put himself back together. Jed and Octavius definitely should have died in that RC car crash too, but they lived. And if Jed ended up covered in sand by that hourglass, he's likely not fully die since he can't, but he'd definitely be in constant agony breathing in sand and basically endlessly suffocating. And we've established they can still be hurt, so he'd be... alive but very traumatised. Not fun.

The tablet simulates restores or simulates bodily function by putting that soul into the vessel. It's magic keeps them alive until the sun comes up.

4. Other powers.

We do see that the tablet can do some other things, in the first movie when Ahk says some commands to it and it pulls all the exhibits back to the museum. That is a power I can understand since you know, Khonsu, watcher over travellers. Makes sense the tablet can draw people to a meeting point.

It can also open portals, as shown in the second movie. Now you could argue the painting pocket dimension things are portals, which is just a side effect of brining in animated objects to life. I'd assume the only portals it can open is the underworld one, since the original purpose of the tablet was to resurrect the dead, you might need to get the dead from the underworld for that. And those painting ones which wasn't the initial plan, just a side effect.

But that's all we really see it do. So I don't really know what else it could do.

TLDR:

The tablet was originally made to resurrect the dead, being blessed by Khonsu. The tablet works by placing a soul into a vessel, allowing it life. The soul carries the memories and personality etc of the person it once was. The vessel it's in has simulated body functions. It can also draw people to a meeting point and open portals. All of this does fit with the kind of powers Khonsu would be able to grant as a moon god and watcher of night travellers both living and dead. It needs moonlight every so often to stay 'charged'. It responds to the ancient Egyptian language, certain symbols of tiles in a particular order and likely can only be activated by Ahkmenrah and his families use.

And there you go, that's my theory on how the tablet works. That's all I got for now, I'd I find anything else I'll add it in.

[late-night-curator]

What if the whole reason Ahk and Kah have never been in the same film is that they’re actually the same person. Like their names are exactly the same except for like the first 3 letters, and even those are the same but in a different order. Maybe scholars got it wrong.

Or like it’s a serious split personality. Or idk. Maybe the tablet only brings back Merenkahre’s ideal version of his son. He did make the tablet to keep his ideal family together. Aka how he thinks his son is. But it reverts once in awhile to how he really was? Idk something something khonsu’s light and the new moon or something.

I mean it would explain why Teddy was such a dick about not letting Ahk out in the original film. Like oh no, you’re not getting out Kahmunrah, nuhuh. And didn’t know about the Ahk verision. It would also explain why they all exhibits knew who Kah was at the Smithsonian. Just saying.

This is complete and utter late night rambling on my part. I don’t even subscribe to this, it’s just fun to come up with wild conspiracy theories as to why the brothers continue to never be in the same room together (even though they could just animate Ahk in the 4th unlike the timing issues with 2).

[gender-luster]

in the night at the museum franchise, the tablet of ahkmenrah has the ability to give life to the dead, resurrecting, and rejuvenating corpses. not only that, but the tablet also has the ability to give life to any depiction of a being, real or fictional, human or animal or even other. these depictions do not just come to life, but they come to life with the knowledge and abilities of that which they are depicting (to an extent. see: darth vader's inability to use the force)

given this, if the tablet of ahkmenrah were to exist in the doctor who universe, what kind of effect do we think it would have on weeping angels, specifically in their stone form?

[the-casbah-way]

i've spoken about this before but the main reason i despise the "octavius is emperor augustus" natm theory is because it is literally illegal to have any depiction of augustus in media without having marcus agrippa glued to his side at all times. you think i'd be shipping jedtavius if octavius was augustus? that man is for agrippa only i'm sorry. you think he'd still be alive if he was fighting battles and waging war without his gay attack dog doing the work for him? be real with me here

[pealeii]

THEY WERE PLAYING THE SECOND NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM MOVIE IN THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM GIFT SHOP

[secretly-larry-daley]

Does anyone else know about the channel, The Theorizer? Is…is he ok? Or is his channel just a joke? I genuinely can’t tell at this point.

[turquoisedragonmaster]

Since I have been to the Smithsonian, I can attest that Night at the Museum 2 portrays it very well, but also should have included more dinosaurs and large mammals.

I would have lost my mind if I saw Napoleon’s soldiers getting bodied by a Triceratops and a rhinoceros and I am sure I’m not alone in that fact.

[pnchinbeez]

Why are these picture so jedtavius coded

they were reaching for each other’s hands here right

[natmsearch]

Tablet Theory: The exhibits don't actually get their historical figure's personality and memories, they get what the person who created them believes those memories and personality to be (or the more needlessly complicated but poetic version: they take on what museum visitors believe about them). This would only affect exhibits who were created by someone else, so it wouldn't apply to Ahk and his family (or Rexy/the other animals, but we wouldn't be able to tell either way).

This is how Teddy, who irl apparently said some fucked up things about Native Americans, was able to fall in love with Sacagawea. It could mean that mummy!Kahmunrah is more chill than wax statue!Kahmunrah. It could also solve the potential paradox of museum exhibits knowing things about themselves/their time periods that historians don't know (just ignore the end of NATM 1. It's my bedtime) and then sharing that with random people during the night program.

The way I'm explaining it being canonically stated (in the books I think) that the exhibits take on the memories and personalities of their irl counterparts is that that's from the perspective of Larry/Nick, who don't know that it's not quite right.

[natmarchivist]

Natm Theories with Natm Archivist.

How do Merenkahre and Shepseheret speak english?

Now even though never really acknowledged in Secret of the Tomb whereas in the first film where Nicky asks Ahkmenrah how he knew english, the only way that would make actual sense into why Merenkahre and Shepseheret know english is that maybe they both were on display with Ahkmenrah in Cambridge University after being moved from their resting place in Egypt during the Ahkmenrah expedition, and besides Cambridge was the place Ahkmenrah learned english so it’s possible that his parents learned english during their time over there too before 1952 and Ahkmenrah moves to New York Museum of Natural History and his parents moved to the British Museum.

But do you believe in this theory?

[night-at-the-musian]

Hello, I saw your video theory about whether or not Octavius is actually Augustus, and was pleasantly surprised that there are flashcards with natm character descriptions. I was instantly charmed by the Octavius flashcard. But it got me wondering, what does Jedediah's say? If your ok with sharing, I would love to know.

That’s the cruel reality — there isn’t one for Jedediah!

The cards are for Teddy, Wea, The Moai Statue (referred to as Dum-Dum), one of the lions, Dexter, Ahkmenrah (referred to as Egyptian Pharaoh), Octavius, a Neanderthal, Attila, and Rexy.

Jed has very little merch! As far as I’m aware, Jed only ever got the Wendy’s toy and the Tiny Tourists campaign.

[prettyprincessduh]

Yall, I gotta NATM theory for Ahk

Okay, hear me out

Say you have ur first kiss, the kiss breaks the curse of being him being bound to the museum and only being alive at night

So you let him live with you, teach him the ways of living in the present ect

I just got funny scenarios. yall lemme live 😭🙏🏽

[pnchinbeez]

NATM GANG HOW COME I DUDNT KNOW ABOUT THE LIAR THEORY???

[thedemoninyourcloset]

I literally have nothing, no cool theories or things I noticed from the Natm movies, so...

Have this picture of the tiny little husbands

I love how Jed's hand is behind Octavius' back

Also I'm supposed to get up at 7.30 am tomorrow morning, but I know damn well it's not gonna happen and I'm going to be late. Again.

[lemonwisp]

I JUST WOKE UP AND HAD AN AMAZING IDEA

okay imagine for like the NATM musical Jed and Oct had a song like The End of The Line (by Neil Bartram) from The Theory of Relativity

Like for natm 3 they are meeting Tilly and their introduction would be like:

I’m Octavius, I’m Jedediah

He’s Jed, He’s Oct

Our life at

The museum

Totally rocks

Started as rivals

but now we are friends

Totally platonic

Which makes this next bit quite ironic

Jed’s like my husband

And Oct is like mine

Alive to the end of the night (or we come alive every night)

Had nothing much in common

Loves horses

Loves swords

But we were attached at the hip

Jed’s so intriguing, so wild and brash

Oct is a nerd and a drip

And so on

There would definitely be a bit like “Jed is so chaotic, his blue eyes are hypnotic” or

“Jed’s blue eyes are hypnotic” “Oct’s skirt is so erot1c”

Cause they definitely aren’t platonic