| “ | Rameses: I do not know this God. Neither will I let your people go. Moses: Rameses, please. You must listen. Rameses: I WILL NOT BE THE WEAK LINK! Tell your people, as of today, their workload has been doubled, thanks to your God. Or, is it thanks... to you? |
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Rameses ll, or Pharaoh Rameses, is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 2nd full-length animated feature The Prince of Egypt, based on stories from the Bible.
He is the son of Pharaoh Seti, the ruler of Ancient Egypt along with his adoptive brother Moses who has a distanced relationship with his father but eventually becomes the next ruler and later becomes ruthless and cunning.
He was voiced by Ralph Fiennes, who also played Chef Julian Slowik in The Menu.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- He found disposing of a kidnapped girl, Tzipora, hilarious and even ordered his guards to "dry her up" and send her to Moses' chambers despite her lacking any desire to please either of them. This is a prime example of him sending someone to prison with no remorse.
- After becoming Pharaoh, he continued to oppress the Hebrews and Jews as slaves to build his new kingdom, determined to carve a legacy as legendary as his father's. He mentally and physically abused his servants and guards and made them serve him even if they were injured or sick.
- He refused to free the slaves and constantly made them suffer, even making them work even harder than before after Moses annoyed him.
- He lost all care for Moses after his son died for hypocritical reasons and didn't realize his wrongdoings were bad and how he brought horrible things onto himself. His grief over his son led him to become more ruthless and cunning than before and tried to murder his adopted brother and his former subjects which ultimately led to worse things.
- He said he agreed with what his father said about the Hebrews and how to deal with them even saying he would kill all the Hebrew's firstborn sons which is exactly why Moses' God resorted to mass pedicide in the first place.
- When he said the Hebrews could go, he actually was going to kill them all even if his adopted brother died out of a fixation on vengeance.
- He corners the Hebrews at the Red Sea and tries to kill the Hebrews but is stopped when God shoots a pillar of fire on him. He doesn't seem to care very much when his army is in trouble or drowns and becomes too caught up in himself to be redeemable by the end.
- He is a master manipulator just like his father and constantly endangers his land many times.
- He constantly refuses to give in to Moses' demands even if the town will be in trouble just because the Hebrews are doing all the work. He also laughs off the demands.
- He refused to believe in God, disregarding the faith of thousands, even thinking of the whole situation as a game.
- While he had several comedic moments in the first half of the movie such as yelling "Second born, second place!" or almost getting bitten by Tzipora, this goes 100% moot in the second half when he develops a far more serious personality.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is a genuinely tragic figure as he lost his son and was constantly mistreated by his father. He was always treated as a weak link in a chain keeping Egypt united as his father favored Moses over him and did everything he could to desensitize him concerning the atrocious working conditions of the Hebrews. His defeat is also played sympathetically as Moses says goodbye to him.
- His brother left him (while for a justified reason) to discover he was Jewish and come back against Rameses which was confusing and hurtful towards him. He wished that Moses cared about him more than the Jewish people and sadly stated he just wanted for them to be a family again.
- To drive the turning point home, the only person telling him what was normal and not normal in a real world was a person who sincerely considered paranoia-driven infanticide normal, so Rameses' critical thinking skills have always been severely impaired.
- He always cared for his adopted brother before Moses found his heritage and was also extremely sad when his son, Amun died from the plague, showing he loved him too. He had a very close relationship and while he was annoyed at Moses always ratting him out, he never held a grudge.
- While it's toned down hugely in the second half of the film, Rameses is still an affable young man in general.
- He is an anti-villain due to mostly doing bad things to impress his father and seems to be paranoid and pressured against his will.
Trivia[]
- He is DreamWorks' first Inconsistently Heinous villain.
- His musical version is a much better person as he eventually reconciled with Moses while in this one he became too arrogant and prideful to ever think of reconciliation.
External Links[]
- Rameses on the Villains Wiki
- Rameses on the DreamWorks Wiki
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