Night at the Museum

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.Night at the Museum Wikipedia
===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, or any of the novels written for the films.
 
The most popular pairing from the movies is Jedediah/Octavius, a slash pairing. 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". 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., 23 September 2019. (Accessed 19 October 2022.) As of 2024, there are over 900 Jedediah/Octavius fics on AO3 alone. (Accessed 19 October 2022.) A fan wiki even portrays the pairing as canonTumblr post of screenshot of the NATM Octavius page which states "He is enemies-later-friends-later-boyfriends with Jedediah"..
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 Battle of the Smithsonian. 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===
* 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 that raised over 8,000 Euros for charity.
===Fanvids===
====MMD Animations====
* New State Style by Luna Moth Media
* Ievan Polkka (with guns) by Luna Moth Media
* Sand Planet by Luna Moth Media
====Animatics====
* Somewhere Love is Waiting for You by Skystar40
* A Lovely Night by Aro Art
* Centuries by Aro Art
* I’ll Marry a Wealthy Man by DT/Tomatoteddy
* Hidden in the Sand by lemonchips
* I Won't Say I'm In Love by mostly-natm
====AMVs====
* March to the Sea by night-at-the-musian
* I'll Never Let You Go by night-at-the-musian
* Learning to Fly by night-at-the-musian
* Lapis Lazuli by night-at-the-musian
* In The Best Case Scenario We'd Die At The Same Time by night-at-the-musian
* Louisa by girlblocker
==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, 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==
* Night at the Museum Wiki
* The museummovies Tumblr
==References==
Category:Night at the Museum