The Protagonists of The Mummy Are Sociopaths

In celebration of Halloween, I didn't watch scary movies on the day, because I'm a coward and had already scared myself real good for the next few months by watching The Witch the night before. Instead, I went for the fun angle and watched The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Whilst enjoying the campy, silly, non-terrifying antics of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, I nonetheless endured Halloween horror as I realized their characters are actually cold, callous sociopaths.

In the first film, shit hits the fan when Rachel Weisz's character, Evy, against all better judgment and multiple warnings, opens and reads from the Book of the Dead, thereby resurrecting an immortal and powerful Imhotep, who brings with him the apocalypse thanks to an ancient curse. As a result, hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people are killed by the various horrors of the ten plagues as well as Imhotep's undead legions.

U FUCKING WUT M8???

Brendan Fraser's character and Evy's soon-to-be-beau, Rick O'Connell, had wisely warned Evy not to fuck with the Book of the Dead. But when she does it anyway and unleashes the apocalypse, all he does is lightly admonish her as if she'd dropped and cracked her new iPhone. 

"OMG, dude, I told you not to! Ugh, now we have to like track this crazy guy down and fight him, and get into all sorts of wacky hijinks while we crack jokes. Such a pain. I just wanted to spend the rest of the film drinking." - Me, paraphrasing Rick O'Connell.

Not once is there a scene of guilt or remorse about being responsible for thousands of innocent deaths, not to mention the destruction of an ancient, iconic city. Evy does acknowledge her royal fuck-up, but she does not express any deep emotion, not even the slightest empathy for the death and destruction she caused. Nope, her apology basically boils down to just:

"Whoopsie. I unleashed an immortal, magical mummy. I'm so quirky!"

No, dude, you really shouldn't be.

That is not a license for douchebaggery.

It's not that they both lack a conscience; they do know right from wrong. They know unleashing Imhotep was wrong and awful. Moreover, they both express great concern over the danger of other speaking characters when it's right in front of their faces, and do their best to help or rescue. They just don't give a flying fuck about any of the offscreen, background, and nonspeaking characters Evy killed with her idiocy.

All's well that ends well...for us.

At the end of the film, after Imhotep has been defeated, they don't reflect on the harm they were responsible for. Nope, they just kiss and ride off into the sunset, blissfully rich in ancient treasure. All is well because they'll just pretend that thousands of people didn't die that they're responsible for. Hell, even Ardeth, the guy in charge of the secret warrior army whose duty was to stop anyone from unleashing Imhotep, essentially gives them a high-five and a smiling, casual "smell ya later." 

I kinda hate you guys, and I should kill you,
but you're just so gosh darn cute and charming!

No consequences, no emotional ramifications, no reckoning. To make their case even worse, they actually fucking joke about it early in the second film. In The Mummy Returns, Evy once again finds a dangerous ancient Egyptian artifact and wants to open it up with no regard for the consequences. Rick playfully reminds her of the last time that happened and lightly warns her not to fuck shit up again.

Notice I used the adverbs "playfully" and "lightly." He should have been urgently, desperately, and harrowingly yelling at her, and if that didn't work, physically preventing her. But nope, just another callous, casual joke:

"Oh honey, don't do that. Last time, you unleashed the apocalypse and it was like, such a major bummer. I mean, it was hella fun and we got flilthy stinking rich, but duuuuuuuuuuuude, kind of a pain in the ass. Let's just enjoy being outrageously rich and get naked together."

Naturally, they spend the rest of the second film once again cracking jokes, making light of death and destruction, and only expressing care and concern for their son's life, because who cares about anybody else, right? Rick and Evy are nothing short of sociopaths. They both have a conscience. They both know better. They just don't give a damn. Man, fuck those guys!

What? Us? No way, Jose!
Also, we're super rich Jose, so you're our servant now.