The Ten Commandments: Difference between revisions

** The current most probable theory is that a climatic variation caused extremely heavy rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, resulting in the Nile being choked with red, acidic mud. The river became as blood, fish died, frogs left the river, and so on. The same variation resulted in unusually dry weather in the locusts' spawning grounds, hence the plague of locusts, and the enormous sandstorm that hid the sun. The deaths of the firstborn of Egypt? All those dead fish sank, then the water became supersaturated with toxic gasses, and when they came out of solution, the firstborn sons, who alone among the inhabitants of Egypt slept inside, at ground level, smothered. Everyone else was fine because the custom was to sleep outside, on the roof. Imagine [[wikipedia:Lake Nyos#1986 disaster|this]] on a nation-wide scale. They say God works in mysterious ways...

** Although, in [[The Movie]], since Rameses actually sees Moses turn the water into blood, without a volcano being involved, this comes across more as a [[What an Idiot!]] moment.

* [[The Dragon]]: Dathan to both Baka and Rameses.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Angel of Death. Rather than being a human looking angel (or [[The Grim Reaper]],) it's portrayed as a cloud of bluish fog descending from the sky in the shape of a creepy hand. It makes sense for the Angel to take on this kind of form, given the nature of its job but still, it's incredibly creepy....