Night at the Museum

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Name: Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (sequel)
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2nd Sequel)
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again (3rd Sequel)
Abbreviation(s): NatM
Creator: Milan Trenc (book)
Films:
Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant (screenplay)
Shawn Levy (director)
Date(s): 1993 (book published)
December 22, 2006 (film)
May 22, 2009 (film sequel)
December 11, 2014 (2nd film sequel)
December 9, 2022 (3rd film sequel)
Medium: Live-action films, animated films, books, comics, video games
Country of Origin: United States
External Links: Wikipedia (Book) Wikipedia (film) IMDB
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Night at the Museum is a live-action fantasy adventure-comedy film based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Milan Trenc. It was followed by a sequel in 2009 and the third film was released in 2014. An animated sequel was released in 2022 with an entirely new voice cast.

Junior novels were released alongside the live-action films, three of which are screen-to-page adaptations. The other two are original stories, catalogued in the Nick's Tales series.

Canon

Larry Daley is a divorced father who applies for a job as a night watchman at New York City's American Museum of Natural History and subsequently discovers that the exhibits, animated by a magical Egyptian artifact, come to life at night.[1]

Characters

Characters marked with * are minor characters.

Night at the Museum (NatM) Battle of the Smithsonian (BotS) Secret of the Tomb (SotT) Kahmunrah Rises Again (KRA)
Larry Daley Amelia Earhart Merenkahre Joan of Arc
Nick Daley Kahmunrah Shepseheret Seth
Theodore Roosevelt Ivan the Terrible Tilly Mia*
Jedediah Napoleon Bonaparte Sir Lancelot Ronnie*
Octavius Al Capone Laaa Bodhi*
Dr. McPhee George Armstrong Custer Madeline Phelps* Mrs. Montefusco*
Attila the Hun Tess* Hugh Jackman* Nefertiti*
Sacagawea Joey Motorola* Trixie Statue of Ra*
Ahkmenrah The Thinker* Craig† Venus de Milo
Cecil Fredericks Aphrodite Kallipygos*
Gus Ed*
Reginald George Foreman
Erica Daley* Darth Vader*
Dexter Oscar the Grouch*
Rexy The Tuskeegee Airmen*
Christopher Columbus* Albert Einstein Bobbleheads*

†Craig is a character that only appeared in the short film A Day In the Afterlife that was packaged with the DVD release of Secret of the Tomb.

Canon Relationships

Certain relationships are canon or explored in the films, and are listed as follows. Most of the canon ships don't last beyond the movie they appear in, with the exception of the romantic involvement of Teddy Roosevelt and Sacajawea.

Character A/Character B Appeared In Ship Name
Larry Daley/Rebecca Hutman NatM
Teddy Roosevelt/Sacajawea NatM, BotS, SotT
Larry Daley/Amelia Earhart BotS Flyin' Aces
Larry Daley/Tess BotS
Nick Daley/Mia KRA

Fandom

The book fandom seems non-existent, with most of the fandom dealing with the movieverse. This is likely in part due to people simply not knowing about the existence of the original book.

The most popular pairing from the movies is Jedediah/Octavius, a slash pairing. Also commonly known as 'Jedtavius' and 'Tiny Cowboy/Tiny Roman,' this pairing first became popular on tumblr, most likely as a joke, with users posting things like "I ship tiny cowboy and tiny roman from Night at The Museum". An early example by sassenach-kiss states "let’s stop kidding ourselves, we all know the true otp is Jedediah and Octavius from Night At the Museum".untitled Tumblr post by sassenach-kiss (28 March 2015) One of the most popular of these posts, written by tumblr user dicaeopolis, states "Fuck all romance except whatever the fuck that lil cowboy and roman guy from night at the museum had going on" and has since gained over 139,000 notes.[2] As of 2024, there are over 900 Jedediah/Octavius fics on AO3 alone.[3] A fan wiki even portrays the pairing as canon[4].

Other than the Jedtavius shippers, the Night At The Museum fandom does, surprisingly, exist. While mostly found on Archive of Our Own and Tumblr, the fandom also resides in small pockets on other sites, including FanFiction.net. Tumblr users in the NATM fandom commonly tag their posts as 'NATM' (shorthand for 'Night At The Museum') and 'NATM Trash' (derived from the shorthand for Night At The Museum combined with the common fandom slang 'trash' implying a deep love for the NATM fandom).

Major ships in this fandom are Ahkmenrah/Larry (sometimes referred to as Tablet Guardians), Lancelot/Larry (sometimes referred to as Knightguard), and Amelia Earhart/Larry, which was born from the release of the second Night At The Museum movie. Various other ships exist, including Al Capone/Napoleon (Capoleon), Lancelot/Octavius (Tin Cans), and Joan of Arc/Sacagawea (Femslash Figures).

Jedediah, Octavius, Ahkmenrah, Larry, Sacagawea, Amelia Earhart and Robin Williams' Theodore Roosevelt are all often portrayed as favorite characters.

Example Fanworks

Fanart

Fanfics

Fan Projects

  • The NatM Zine, a collaborative art book and fanfiction zine released in 2022 that raised over 8,000 Euros for charity.

Fanvids

MMD Animations

Animatics

AMVs

Archives and Communities

LiveJournal Communities

  • nightathemuseum, a general fic community. Abandoned since 2012.
  • nightmuseumfic, a general fic community. Abandoned since 2012.
  • natmfic, a general fic community. Abandoned since 2009.
  • amelialarry, a Flyin' Aces pairing community. Abandoned since 2010.
  • Chest Bump, a Jedtavius pairing community. Abandoned since 2015.

Canon Resources

References

  1. ^ Night at the Museum Wikipedia
  2. ^ untitled tumblr post by dicaeopolis, Archived version, 23 September 2019. (Accessed 19 October 2022.)
  3. ^ Jedediah/Octavius AO3 tag, Archived version (Accessed 19 October 2022.)
  4. ^ Tumblr post of screenshot of the NATM Octavius page which states "He is enemies-later-friends-later-boyfriends with Jedediah".