Nick Morton in The Mummy: An Australian Guide

Ahmanet chooses Nick Morton as a vessel for the powers of an Egyptian god. Sofia Boutella plays Ahmanet, who pursues Nick with a magical dagger intended to turn him into a monster. Her choice puts Nick at the center of her plan and makes the dagger significant to his story.

The god connected to Nick's transformation is Set. At the end of The Mummy (2017), Nick stabs himself with the dagger and becomes possessed by Set. The distinction between Ahmanet's intention and Nick's eventual action helps explain why the dagger matters to the ending.

Ahmanet's choice identifies the role she wants Nick to play: a vessel for a god's powers. The dagger is the object she pursues him with for that purpose. Nick's eventual possession by Set connects the choice and the dagger to the film's final events. He then uses Set's power to resurrect Jenny Halsey, giving his transformation a consequence for someone connected to him before the visit to Ahmanet's burial site.

Jenny Halsey and Chris Vail are connected to Nick Morton through his search for antiquities and his encounter with Ahmanet's burial site. Chris, played by Jake Johnson, loots antiquities in Iraq with Nick. Jenny, an archaeologist played by Annabelle Wallis, meets Nick in Baghdad before joining him and Chris at the burial site.

Nick steals Jenny's map after meeting her in Baghdad, so their connection begins before the visit to Ahmanet's burial site. Jenny also figures in the ending of The Mummy (2017): after Nick becomes possessed by Set, he uses Set's power to resurrect her. That outcome connects Nick's supernatural transformation to someone he knew before reaching the burial site.

Chris and Jenny therefore have different connections to Nick. Chris is the fellow soldier with whom Nick loots antiquities, while Jenny is the archaeologist whose map Nick steals. Both join Nick at the burial site, and Jenny's resurrection later provides an example of what Nick can do with Set's power.

At the end of The Mummy (2017), Nick Morton stabs himself with the dagger, becomes possessed by Set and uses Set's power to resurrect Jenny Halsey. The ending connects the dagger Ahmanet pursues him with to his transformation and to Jenny's return.

Ahmanet selects Nick as a vessel for the powers of an Egyptian god and pursues him with a magical dagger intended to turn him into a monster. Nick's action with the dagger leads to possession by Set, while his use of Set's power brings Jenny back to life. For the wider context of The Mummy, see the franchise page.

The sequence matters when following Nick's ending. Ahmanet first chooses him for the role of vessel, and the dagger is part of her intention for him. Nick then stabs himself with it and becomes possessed by Set. His resurrection of Jenny follows that transformation and shows a power associated with it. Jenny's connection to Nick began earlier, when they met in Baghdad and he stole her map.

Nick Morton's supernatural powers include the ability to bring the dead back to life. At the end of The Mummy (2017), he becomes possessed by Set and uses Set's power to resurrect Jenny Halsey. That act provides a specific example of the power connected to his transformation.

Ahmanet, played by Sofia Boutella, selects Nick as a vessel for the powers of an Egyptian god. Nick's possession by Set and his resurrection of Jenny are the established details to follow when interpreting his ending. The account of his ability to restore life does not establish a complete list of his powers.

The power is connected to the film's final sequence: Nick stabs himself with the dagger, becomes possessed by Set and then uses Set's power to bring Jenny back. Jenny is the archaeologist he met in Baghdad before she joined him and Chris Vail at Ahmanet's burial site. Her return connects the supernatural outcome to Nick's earlier encounters in the film.

Nick Morton and Rick O'Connell are separate characters, played by Tom Cruise and Brendan Fraser respectively. Rick O'Connell does not appear in The Mummy (2017), the film in which Nick becomes involved with Ahmanet and Set. The distinction is useful for Australian viewers looking for the character played by Cruise.

The Mummy (2017) also features Dr. Henry Jekyll, played by Russell Crowe, as the leader of Prodigium. Nick's own story follows his encounter with Ahmanet and his transformation at the end of the film. When following that ending, distinguish Ahmanet's plan for Nick from his use of Set's power to resurrect Jenny Halsey.

Nick's story begins with his work as a US soldier and antiquities thief. He loots antiquities in Iraq with Chris Vail and meets Jenny in Baghdad before the visit to Ahmanet's burial site. Ahmanet later chooses him as a vessel for an Egyptian god's powers. Those events belong to Nick's story in the 2017 film, while Rick is a separate character.

Nick Morton's death was a deliberate attempt to make Tom Cruise's character feel vulnerable, according to director Alex Kurtzman. Speaking to Australia's ABC News on June 6, 2017, Kurtzman explained that audiences expected Cruise to save the day. Removing that certainty was central to his approach to fear. The lead needed to face danger that viewers could not confidently expect him to escape. Nick's apparent death therefore served a purpose beyond providing another supernatural surprise: it challenged the protection audiences might assume comes with the star.

The same interview placed that threat within an older tradition of monster filmmaking. Kurtzman identified Karl Freund's The Mummy (1932), starring Boris Karloff, as an influence, particularly its close shots of mesmerizing eyes. He described mental control as an important mummy power and also acknowledged the earlier film's dagger. Those references help explain why Nick faces an enemy who threatens his will as well as his body. When watching his encounters with Ahmanet, follow the uncertainty over what he controls, alongside the more visible danger of being killed.