Basic Trope: A pharaoh is used as a villain.
- Straight: In a work set in Ancient Egypt, a villain is a pharaoh.
- Exaggerated:
- Pharaohs are responsible for all wars and diseases.
- It's the 21st century, the Egyptian Empire no longer exists, and a pharaoh is still somehow the Big Bad.
- The Pharaoh is a Humanoid Abomination who delights in driving humans to death, madness and worse.
- Downplayed: A pharaoh is a Jerkass but not so much a villain
- Justified: The pharaoh doesn't care about morals.
- Inverted: A pharaoh is the main hero or Big Good, or at least a Reasonable Authority Figure.
- Subverted: A pharaoh turns out to be a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
- Double Subverted: Minus the "well-intentioned" part.
- Parodied: A history professor takes a blow to the head, and starts dressing like a pharaoh to commit burglaries.
- Zig Zagged: A Pharaoh enters a Heel–Face Revolving Door
- Averted:
- There are pharaohs, but they're not villains.
- There are no pharaohs.
- Enforced:
- The writer hates pharaohs.
- It's a version of the Exodus story, told from the Jews' standpoint.
- Lampshaded: "Why are pharaohs evil?"
- Exploited: The Pharaoh is a Jerkass, but not the kind of evil that's a major threat to anyone. His Evil Vizier, on the other hand, is taking advantage of the Pharaoh's 0% Approval Rating to pull of his own evil plan while remaining a Villain with Good Publicity himself.
- Defied: At his coronation, the new Pharaoh vows to be a kind and benevolent ruler to his people.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: The Pharaoh is The Dreaded, but it is never confirmed if he is really evil.
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