History Characters / TheTenCommandments1956

* SavedByCanon: Due to being the historically famous UsefulNotes/RamesesII, who died of old age at the height of his power, he is spared from the flooding of the Red Sea that claimed his army rather than suffering a FictionalizedDeathAccount.

* FallenHero: To the Egytians, Moses was once a great prince who was exiled for wanting to free the slaves.

* HeartBrokenBadass: He is genuinely devastated by the death of his son.

* AgeLift: Although he comes off as a much older man in this film, historically he was only 44 years old when he actually died.

* AgeLift: According to Rameses II in this film, as he sees his first-born son (whose name is not mentioned here) being claimed by the last plague, the child is his only one. Historically however, Rameses II's thirteenth son and eventual successor Merneptah would have been 19 when his father's first-born son Amun-her-khepesef actually died after twenty-five years as crown prince. This boy hardly looks 12 or 13.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before a taskmaster strikes him down, Simon in his disgust at seeing Baka force Lilia into his household as a sex slave, curses him declaring, "May the Hand of God strike him", not realizing that the actual "Hand of God" (Moses) in right there next to him, and will later carry out his curse though the poor old slave would not live to see it.

-->"I send Moses to destroy a city, he returns in triumph. I send you to ''build'' a city. Where is it?"

--> "What an infernal fuss. After all, dying is only a part of living."

-->"Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time."

* AgeLift: According to Rameses II in this film, as he sees his first-born son (whose name is not mentioned here) being claimed by the last plague, the child is his only one. Historically however, Rameses II's thirteenth son and eventual successor Merneptah would have been 19 when his father's first-born son Amun-her-khepesef actually died. This boy hardly looks 12 or 13.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His justification for for betraying Sethi. Sethi [[IronicEcho turns this right back on Moses]] in ordering his punishment.

->''"You may be the lovely dust through which God will work His purpose."'' - Moses

* YouCannotGoHomeAgain: Sethi never came to see her again after Moses was exposed as a Hebrew. She joins the Hebrews instad.

* CharacterDeath: She is killed by Nefretiri for saying that Moses is Hebrew.