King Ramses

Evil-doer
Full Name	Ramesses II
Alias	The Man in Gauze King Ramses
Origin	Courage the Cowardly Dog
Occupation	Egyptian pharaoh
Powers / Skills	Magical curses
Hobby	Resting in his tomb with his slab.
Goals	Recover his slab and bring it back to the Nowhere Museum (succeeded).
Crimes	Curse affliction Murder Harassment Extortion Property damage Stalking
Type of Villain	Vengeful Mummy

“	Return the slab or suffer my curse…	„
	~ King Ramses' famous chant.

“	This night, you will be visited by three plagues… Each worse than the last… Return the slab…	„
	~ King Ramses warning Eustace.

“	Aw, come on…	„
	~ King Ramses when his first plague has failed.

King Ramses is the titular main antagonist of the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode King Ramses' Curse.

He is the revenant ghost of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who brings about three plagues on the Bagge family in order to retrieve an ancient slab that was stolen from his tomb. Eustace, realizing that the stone tablet is worth a huge amount of cash, refuses to give it back despite being plagued by the mummy's curse.

He was voiced by the series' creator John R. Dilworth.

Biography

King Ramses is the mummy of an Egyptian pharaoh whose soul is disturbed when a stone tablet is looted from his tomb. He first confronts the two greedy grave robbers who hid the slab next to the Bagges' water pump, sending a swarm of locusts to devour them. When Courage finds the relic, Eustace is initially uninterested, but immediately clings to the slab when he realizes it's worth a million dollars. King Ramses visits the farm and demands that the slab be returned.

Even after being warned of suffering the mummy's curse and the insistence of his wife Muriel to give it back, Eustace refuses telling Ramses that he must give him million dollars in order to get it back. King Ramses then bestowed three plagues upon the Bagge family, each worse than the last: a flood, loud repetitive music blasting from a phonograph, and a swarm of very hungry locusts. In the midst of the third plague, Eustace finally relents, but changes his mind quickly and claims the slab again.

King Ramses appears to have one more curse in mind and finally returns to his tomb, taking both the slab and Eustace with him, though as always, Eustace inexplicably returns unscathed in the next episode.

Gallery

King Ramses art.

Trivia

• King Ramses is the first character to be rendered in 3D, the second character is The Blue Creature from the episode Perfect.
• There were eleven real-life pharaohs named Ramses, including Ramesses I and his grandson, Ramesses II ("Ramses" is an alternative spelling).
• King Ramses appears to be based on Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great) who is commonly portrayed as the pharaoh of the Exodus, as popularly shown in the films The Ten Commandments (1956) and The Prince of Egypt (1998) (see Rameses (The Ten Commandments) and Rameses (The Prince of Egypt)), as well as in less known works such as Exodus: Gods and Kings (Rameses (Exodus: Gods and Kings)). In the story of Passover, ten plagues were brought upon Egypt, each worse than the last, to persuade the pharaoh to free the Hebrew slaves.
• In an ironic sense, King Ramses character seems to be based on the Hebrew prophet Moses. This is referenced by the fact that King Ramses persuades Eustace using various plagues to return the slab (with the latter not wanting to give it up for monetary gain), as well as the final plague claiming Eustace's soul being similar to the killing of the firstborn and the slab itself possibly referencing the Ten Commandments.
• King Ramses is famous for scaring many children who saw his episode debut. He is also (arguably) considered the scariest character in the entire show, and one of Cartoon Network's scariest characters ever written. King Ramses along with many of the other horrifying characters in the show could have also possibly led to the show's cancellation.
• While he is portrayed as a villain in the episode he appears in, he isn't really evil to begin with. This is because his laying rest has been disturbed by a couple of feline thieves who stole his slab earlier from the episode, in which they later buried it near the Bagge house for concealment of evidence. This was made worse when Eustace decides to sell the stolen slab for his own monetary gain, which made the haunting king act his curse upon the farmer's residence until he summoned the locusts to eat Eustace who gets put on the slab in the end of the episode "King Ramses Curse". Many fans consider the ending to be the most funniest thing to have happened to Eustace in the entire series.
• In the horror game Courage's Curse, King Ramses brainwashed Muriel Bagge to kill Courage. Courage needs to search his way to the basement to get King Ramses' slab and return it. After successfully found the slab, Courage throw the slab out the window, allowing King Ramses to take it and disappeared.
• King Ramses' voice actor is John R. Dilworth, who initially came up with the voice when he and his brother mentioned below were trying to scare their mom.