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[[Image:Ra_original_humanoid.jpg|thumb|Concept drawing of Ra's original humanoid form by [[Patrick Tatopoulos]]. [http://www.tatopoulosstudios.net/mainpage.html] ]]
* In the ''Stargate'' film, Ra is the last of an unnamed race, which is a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features, not very dissimilar to the [[Asgard]]. In ''SG-1'' however, Ra is one of many "[[Goa'uld]] [[System Lord]]s," who are a race of parasitic snake-like creatures. It is unknown, however, whether at the time of his taking a host the Goa'uld might have been endangered.
* Ra is effectively made immortal by using the sarcophagus. SG-1 reveals that despite the sarcophagus, Goa'uld do have a limited lifespan -- approximately ten thousand years -- and Ra would have been well beyond it.
* In the film, the [[planet]] [[Abydos (Stargate)|Abydos]] resides millions of [[lightyear]]s away in an entirely different [[galaxy]]. In ''SG-1'', Abydos is the closest planet to [[Earth]] that has a stargate, residing in the same galaxy as Earth. Also in ''SG-1'', stargate travel is limited to the stargate network in the [[Milky Way galaxy]] (unless a tremendous amount of power is used to lengthen the subspace wormhole of a stargate to another galaxy's stargate).
* The film used more complex special effects than the series. For example, the film's [[ring transporter]]s consist of nine rings that stack on top of one another, whereas only five more widely spaced rings are ever used in ''SG-1''. The film version shows the transported person or object dematerialize and the particles move towards the destination. In the television series, a yellow-orange light would vertically sweep through the interiors of the rings, usually sweeping upward, even when the destination is below.
* The stargate on Abydos in the film is deep within the center of the [[pyramid]], down a ramp from the main atrium room with pillars. In ''SG-1'', the stargate and transporter rings are positioned in the main atrium with the pillars.
* The "Hand Device" used by Ra in the Stargate film differs greatly in appearance from the "Hand Devices" used by the "Goa'uld" in SG-1. The Sarcophagus is also vastly different in appearance.
* The Jaffa serving Ra do not have forehead brands, as those in the series have. Moreover, their belly-baring clothing shows that they don't have symbiote pouches, and several of them wear clawlike hand coverings.
* Staff weapons are significantly weaker in the movie. A Jaffa snaps one in half but since the staff is made out of naquadah, it should be far stronger.
* The helmets of the Jaffa warriors are used more frequently, and appear more advanced in the movie. In the TV series, they tend to be rigid hinged helmets that flip down and open when the wearer desires. In the movie, they are complex machines that can fold up and out of sight, and have "heads" on top that can look around and tilt.
* In the television series, each System Lord has Jaffa who wear armor and helmets specific to their master's image, presumably to show clearly who belongs to what army. The only exception is when one of them is killed, and their army is coopted into another Goa'uld. In the movie, Ra has Jaffa with jackal and hawk helmets, which are representative of two different Egyptian deities (Anubis and Horus/Her'ur).
Other differences might stem from accidental oversights. Some of them have been addressed in the series as either advances in technology or in-jokes.
* The first time Daniel Jackson sees the stargate is after he figures out the seven-coordinate address system, but in the TV episode "[[Lost City (Stargate SG-1)|Lost City]]", he tells [[Elizabeth Weir (Stargate)|Elizabeth Weir]] that "I remember when we were first trying to get the stargate to work, I would just come here, and stare at it for hours."
* O'Neill smokes in the movie, but doesn't by the time of the TV series' beginning.
* In the episode "[[The Torment of Tantalus (Stargate SG-1)|The Torment of Tantalus]]", it was clearly stated [[Catherine Langford]] was twenty-one in 1945, which would make her about four years old in 1928. However, she is much older in the opening sequence of the film, which is set in that year.
* In the episode "[[Children of the Gods (Stargate SG-1)|Children of the Gods]]", O'Neill told General Hammond that their "first clue" Ra was an alien was the fact that his eyes glowed. In the film, O'Neil did not encounter Ra until after Daniel Jackson had discovered he was an alien.
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