History Main / NephariousPharaoh

* A female example is Nitocris in [[Magazine/WeirdTales “The Vengeance of Nitocris]] by Creator/TennesseeWilliam. After her brother (the previous pharaoh) is killed by the high priests, Nitocris becomes pharaoh. She decides to get revenge for her brother’s death by killing the high priests in an elaborate death trap that consists of [[spoiler:a great underground chamber that can be sealed shut and has behind one of the walls a sluice gate that opens onto the Nile; raising the sluice gate floods the chamber, drowning everyone inside.]]

* A female example is Nitocris in [[Magazine/WeirdTales “The Vengeance of Nitocris] by Creator/TennesseeWilliam. After her brother (the previous pharaoh) is killed by the high priests, Nitocris becomes pharaoh. She decides to get revenge for her brother’s death by killing the high priests in an elaborate death trap that consists of [[spoiler:a great underground chamber that can be sealed shut and has behind one of the walls a sluice gate that opens onto the Nile; raising the sluice gate floods the chamber, drowning everyone inside.]]

* A female example is Nitocris in [[Magazine/WeirdTales “The Vengeance of Nitocris] by Creator/TennesseeWilliam. After her brother (the previous pharaoh) is killed by the high priests, Nitocris becomes pharaoh. She decides to get revenge for her brother’s death by killing the high priests in an elaborate death trap that consists of [[spoiler: a great underground chamber that can be sealed shut and has behind one of the walls a sluice gate that opens onto the Nile; raising the sluice gate floods the chamber, drowning everyone inside.]]

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'': A first-season OVA sets the Occult Research Club against a pharaoh who had been sealed away in his coffin after insulting a Devil he had summoned. When Rias accidentally opens the coffin, the Pharaoh promptly possesses Issei and blackmails the Club into performing three [[RuleOfSexy (degrading)]] tasks that end up breaking the curse on him and reviving him proper...right into a room of the very annoyed, very powerful Devils he had tried to take advantage of, whereupon [[DidntThinkThisThrough his brand-spankin'-new physical form is promptly vaporized by Rias]]. Not so much 'nefarious' as far as some of the other entries on the page, but most certainly a perverted douchebag.

* Dios the High Priest in Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' -- effectively the ruler of the kingdom, manipulating a succession of essentially benign but hopelessly confused Pharaohs -- for seven thousand years. Pratchett offers a subversion of this idea, suggesting that the pharaoh is essentially a powerless figurehead and real power resides elsewhere in an [[UpToEleven Ancient Egypt]]-like country.

The other stock Egyptian style villain alongside the {{Mummy}}.

The appearance of this character is pretty recognisable. Chances are, you will see a striped head dress (called a 'Nemes'), and some sort of ancient looking robe with sceptre.

In video games, this character has a 50% chance of being the Boss found in ShiftingSandLand, with the {{Mummy}} being the other...who may well WOULD have been a Pharaoh, come to think of it...

** One of the many forms of Nyarlathotep, the most actively evil EldritchAbomination, is the Black Pharaoh, a haughty Egyptian pharaoh wearing a brightly colored robe. He also used to be worshipped in AncientEgypt. Notably appears as such to the protagonist in ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'': A first-season OVA sets the Occult Research Club against a pharaoh who had been sealed away in his coffin after insulting a Devil he had summoned. When Rias accidentally opens the coffin, the Pharaoh promptly possesses Issei and blackmails the Club into performing three [[RuleOfSexy (degrading)]] tasks that end up breaking the curse on him and reviving him proper...whereupon [[DidntThinkThisThrough his brand-spankin'-new physical form is promptly vaporized by Rias]]. Not so much 'nefarious' as far as some of the other entries on the page, but most certainly a perverted douchebag.

In video games, this character has a 50% chance of being the Boss found in ShiftingSandLand, with the {{Mummy}} being the other.

* Dios the High Priest in Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'' -- effectively the ruler of the kingdom, manipulating a succession of essentially benign but hopelessly confused Pharaohs -- for seven thousand years. Pratchett offers a subversion of this idea, suggesting that the pharaoh is essentially a powerless figurehead and real power resides elsewhere in an [[UpToEleven Ancient Egypt]]-like country.

The appearance of this character is pretty recognisable, chances are, you will see a striped head dress, called a 'Nemes', and perhaps some sort of ancient looking robe with sceptre.

See also AristocratsAreEvil and {{Mummy}} - the Nepharious Pharaoh is likely to become the latter following his death.

And if the work in question isn't set in AncientEgypt, they may be found sealed inside some kind of tomb or pyramid and vow to curse any explorer who comes near.

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has supercriminal Pharaoh Phetlock (AKA Phoney Pharaoh) in ''JustForFun/PowerPonies'', most likely based on King Tut from ''Series/{{Batman}}''.

* King Tut, one of the supervillains from the 1960s ''Series/{{Batman}}''. He wore clothing appropriate for a pharaoh and liked to use Egyptian-themed dialogue. He was actually Professor William [=McElroy=], an Egyptologist at Yale University. Every time he gets hit on the head he develops a split personality that thinks he's a reincarnation of the original King Tut. Hitting him on the head again restores his original personality.

[[caption-width-right:343:As far as Pharaohs go, you don't get more nefarious than [[HumanoidAbomination Nyarlathotep]].]]

* Most works based off the Literature/BookOfExodus from Literature/TheBible, like ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'' and ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' have the Pharaoh Ramses as the BigBad.

** The two Pharaohs from Literature/BookOfExodus are notorious for torturing Israelites, from ordering his subordinates to [[WouldHurtAChild commit infanticide]], to [[NayTheist denying the existence of God despiting acknowledging him]].

* The first act of the ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E10MuseumMadness Museum Madness]]" had Bogus come upon a young child-like pharaoh who behaved this way, after he and Ratty accidentally wind up in a secret chamber hidden within the Egyptian exhibit of the museum. [[spoiler: Although to be completely fair, the kid pharoah actually possessed an ancient [[{{MacGuffin}} scarab]] that had been stolen for many centuries, but Bogus was able to reclaim the scarab and return it back to its rightful place after making quick work of the child.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Irwin's grandfather was one and in one episdee Irwin followed his example. Under his granddad's guidance Irwin brainwashed everyone in Endsville and become Tuten Puten the Nerd King. [[BuriedAlive But unfortunately for him all good things have to end, and all evil things do too.]]

The TropeMaker, TropeCodifier, and UrExample is probably Literature/TheBible, with that nasty pharaoh as one of the villains of the Old Testament, making this OlderThanFeudalism. In fact, before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII made ThoseWackyNazis the most popular shorthand for evil, comparisons to the pharaohs (along with other {{Biblical bad guy}}s like Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot) were among the [[http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/explainer/2011/10/hank_williams_jr_firing_who_was_the_rhetorical_worst_person_in_h.html strongest insults]] thrown at politicians, in a predecessor to GodwinsLaw.

* Pharaoh Rehk'Set from ''FanWorks/EgyptOnAnurKhufos'', who uses drones and video monitors to spy on the population and [[spoiler: kidnaps humans to use as slaves.]] Played with as he controls an Egypt-themed alien planet, rather than Egypt itself, and subverted by the time the story takes place, where almost everyone is ignoring his reign.

** ''YuGiOh Abridged'' and, on occasion, fanfiction have Yami Yugi play this [[AdaptationalJerkass trope]] [[RonTheDeathEater entirely]] [[AdaptationalVillainy straight]].