Interestingly, Yami Yugi's obsession with enforcing justice (or some form of punishment) is arguably the result of ancient attitudes he still carried, but it's implied he had more mercy for his enemies in Ancient Egypt and his early persona was the result of being sealed in the Puzzle for millennia. As it turns out, he wasn't like this in life. Initially, he starts out as Yugi's Superpowered Evil Side, an Ax-Crazy Knight Templar borderline sociopath, who challenged the Asshole Victim of the day to a game and punished them horrifically when they lost, especially when they cheated. Subverted for Dark Yugi/Pharaoh Atem of Yu-Gi-Oh! at first.Cue Kid's Berserk Button hitting the floor. Then the Pharaoh steps out of the sarcophagus to give the final strike, and he is revealed to be horribly asymmetrical. The sarcophagus of the Pharaoh is perfectly symmetrical, making it impossible for the symmetry-obsessed Kid to destroy it. Soul Eater: Witch necromancer Samantha tries to summon Wrath of the Pharaoh, a malevolent spirit residing in the Pyramid of Anubis.And the only people capable of stopping him are a Magitek Steampunk spec-ops team who masquerade as a theatre troupe. The OVA for Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love has King Tut trying to take over New York City.In Inferno Cop, Inferno Cop finds a villainous pharaoh after he travels to Egypt and takes a nap inside a sarcophagus.Not as 'nefarious' as far as some of the other entries on the page, but most certainly a perverted douchebag. right into a room of the very annoyed, very powerful devils he tried to take advantage of, whereupon his brand-spankin'-new physical form is promptly vaporized by Rias. When Rias accidentally opens the coffin, the Pharaoh promptly possesses Issei and blackmails the Club into performing three (degrading) tasks that end up breaking the curse on him and reviving him properly. High School D×D: 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.In fact, before World War II made Those Wacky Nazis the most popular shorthand for evil, comparisons to the pharaohs, along with other Biblical bad guys like Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot, were among the strongest insults thrown at politicians, in a predecessor to Godwin's Law (with comparisons to Attila the Hun also popular). The Trope Maker, Trope Codifier, and Ur-Example is probably found in the Book of Exodus in The Bible, with that nasty pharaoh as one of the villains of the Old Testament, making this Older Than Feudalism. Because Egypt is in North Africa, this trope can easily have Unfortunate Implications that, depending on the villain's skin tone, can overlap either with the Scary Black Man trope or with Orientalist stereotypes of cruel, decadent olive-skinned despots. And if the work in question isn't set in Ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh may be found sealed inside some kind of tomb or pyramid and will vow to curse any explorer who comes near, making the overlap with the Mummy even clearer. Chances are, you will see a striped head dress (called a nemes), some sort of ancient-looking robe or kilt (called a shendyt), and a sceptre. The appearance of this character is pretty recognizable. The other stock Egyptian-style villain, and a common boss in Shifting Sand Land, alongside the Mummy (which this guy is likely to become in death).
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