Ramses is the main antagonist of Nickelodeon's 15th feature film Nacho Libre. He was a wrestler bent on defeating Nacho Libre.
He was portrayed by the late Silver King.
Biography[]
Nacho Libre is an aspiring wrestler who seeks to gain advice from Ramses, but he is vain and in no mood to help aspiring wrestlers.
He is later seen in the audience during a wrestling match between Nacho Libre and Esqueleto vs Satans Cavemen. When Nacho and Esqueleto lose the fight, Ramses chuckles at their failure.
He is later spotted in the market with another champion wrestler named Silencio by Nacho and his orphans, who want an autograph from Ramses, but when Nacho asks him for one, he shoves him into a food cart, which makes Nacho see Ramses for who he really is.
Later during a party for wrestlers, Nacho and Esqueleto sneak in the party and Nacho sings a song about Ramses with a band. In spite of him being forced to improvise and make it up on the spot, Nacho actually starts to get into it and comes up with decent lyrics. However, Ramses still doesn't like it and deliberately splashes the contents of his wine glass on Nacho.
When he is getting ready for his wrestling match with Nacho, he is seen getting all oiled up, and is inspired by a worker who says "Ramses is number one, his legs are number one, his eyes are number one, his muscles are number one, Ramses is number one."
Right before the match begins, Nacho offers Ramses a high five, but Ramses just shoves Nacho and when the match begins, despite initial difficulty, Nacho does well in the match. When the crowd begins to support Ignacio, Ramses resorts to cheating. Nacho is nearly defeated—indeed, unmasked—by Ramses, when Nachos orphans enter the arena. Elated and inspired, Nacho rallies himself and defeats Ramses with an aerial diving technique.
It's unknown what happens to Ramses after this, but it could be possible that he was eventually exposed as a cheater and was banned from future wrestling events.
Personality[]
Not much is known about Ramses' personality as he rarely speaks, but he is shown to be mean, vain, brutish, ruthless, selfish and egotistical and is willing to do anything to win a wrestling match even cheat.
Trivia[]
- He is 5'11" and 237 lbs.
- Ramses is the only villainous role portrayed by Silver King, as well as his most prominent.
- Ramses is the only wrestler that Nacho defeats as he has suffered a lot of losses along with Esqueleto during the first and second half of the film, though Nacho was able to defeat a few wrestlers in a quarterfinal style match before losing to Silencio, who is later unable to fight due to Esqueleto injuring his foot.