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]
Main Characters
Main Characters introduced in:
| First film: | Second film: | Third film: | Fourth film: |
| 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 | 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 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] Eventually the pairing grew in popularity, and has since inspired a lot of fanfiction and fanart. 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
| 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
- Any Weather by EwokRae22
- Down Then Left by mournwiththemoon
Fan Projects
- The NatM Zine, a collaborative art book and fanfiction zine released in 2022
Fanvids
Archives and Communities
- Night at the Museum & crossovers fanfics at FFN
- Night at the Museum fanworks at AO3
- For the Love of Night at the Museum, a blog active from 2013 to 2016 (Archived Version)
- The NatM Search, a fan site opened in 2023
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".
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