Night at the Museum
Fandom | |
---|---|
Name: | Night at the Museum Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (sequel) Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2nd 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) |
Medium: | Live-action films, books, comics, video games |
Country of Origin: | United States |
External Links: | Wikipedia (Book) Wikipedia (film) IMDB |
Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
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.
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]
Main Characters
Main Characters introduced in:
First film: | Second film: | Third film: |
Larry Daley | Amelia Earhart | Merenkahre |
Nick Daley | Kahmunrah | Shepseheret |
Theodore Roosevelt | Ivan the Terrible | Tilly |
Jedediah | Napoleon Bonaparte | Sir Lancelot |
Octavius | Al Capone | Madeline Phelps |
Dr. McPhee | George Armstrong Custer | Laaa |
Attila the Hun | Tess | |
Sacagawea | ||
Ahkmenrah | ||
Cecil Fredericks | ||
Gus | ||
Reginald | ||
Erica Daley |
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 film.
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". 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] Eventually the pairing grew in popularity, and has since inspired a lot of fanfiction and fanart. As of 2022, there are over 700 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).
The only other major ships in this fandom are Ahkmenrah/Larry and Amelia Eirhart/Larry, which was born from the release of the second Night At The Museum movie.
Jedediah, Octavius, Ahkmenrah, Larry, Sacagawea, Amelia Eirhart and Robin Williams' Theodore Roosevelt are all often portrayed as favorite characters.
Example Fanworks
Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fanart
- Ahkmenrah from Night At The Museum! by tamamacake
- Sacagawea by slamrockshake
- Jedediah & Octavius by mostly-natm, discussing The Snap of Avengers: Infinity War
- NATM & Ant-Man crossover by madeformarvelguy; Scott Lang discovers Jedediah & Octavius.
- Ahkmenrah by faithdrawsthings
- Custer and Lancelot by mostly-natm
- Teddy Roosevelt by mostly-natm
Fanfics
Fanvids
Archives and Communities
- Night at the Museum & crossovers fanfics at FFN
- Night at the Museum fanworks at AO3
LiveJournal Communities
- nightathemuseum
- nightmuseumfic
- natmfic
- amelialarry, a Amelia/Larry pairing comm.
Canon Resources
References
- ^ Night at the Museum Wikipedia
- ^ untitled tumblr post by dicaeopolis, Archived version, 23 September 2019. (Accessed 19 October 2022.)
- ^ Jedediah/Octavius AO3 tag, Archived version (Accessed 19 October 2022.)
- ^ Tumblr post of screenshot of the NATM Octavius page which states "He is enemies-later-friends-later-boyfriends with Jedediah".
This page uses content originally from Wikipedia's Night at the Museum page; Wikipedia content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. (view page authors).
|