Pharaoh Rama Tut Tut was one of Genie's previous masters and quite possibly his most greediest.
History[]
Background[]
Rama Tut Tut was obsessed with treasure, so much so that all three of his wishes were for the sake of protecting his treasures. His first wish was for Genie to put a spell on the Sphinx to come to life should anyone try to steal his treasure, his second wish was for Genie to build for him a glorious treasure-filled tomb filled with traps beneath the Sphinx which it would guard till the end of time, and his final wish was for Genie to put a powerful curse on the Pharaoh's Ankh, his most prized possession, which if stolen would cause the thief and anyone who touched it to rapidly age with each rising of the sun until the Ankh was returned to its rightful owner. With his wishes completed, Genie returned to his lamp to await his next master.
The Pharaoh's Curse[]
Thousands of years later, the Ankh was stolen by Faya, the greatest thief in Egypt who initially ignored the warnings of the curse and journeyed to Agrabah to sale her stolen wears, but she soon realized that the curse was real as she began to age dramatically after several days. She then tried to return to Egypt only to have Abu steal the Ankh from her, cursing them both, and later Aladdin as well. Aladdin then promised to return the Ankh before they perished. With Abu and the Magic Carpet's great speed Aladdin quickly arrived at the Sphinx in Egypt, but upon trying to enter it, it came to life and forced Aladdin and Abu to answer his riddles in exchange for entry, and should they fail they would perish. Luckily both were able to solve the Sphinx's riddles and were able to get passed the tomb's many traps thanks to Carpet. Once they reached the tomb itself, they were shocked to discover Rama Tut Tut had now become an undead mummy, arising every day only to joyfully revel in his immense wealth, with Aladdin considering him to be under an even greater curse, forever a slave to his own treasure till the end of time. Aladdin then put the Ankh back where it belonged, freeing himself, Abu and Faya from the curse once and for all.
Trivia[]
- His name is most likely a reference to Kang the Conqueror (Nathaniel Richards), a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in Fantastic Four #19 (October 1963) as Rama-Tut, an adversary of the Fantastic Four, before being reinvented as Kang in The Avengers #8 (September 1964), an adversary of the Avengers. A time-traveler, several alternate versions of Kang have appeared throughout Marvel Comics titles over the years, such as Rama-Tut, Immortus, Scarlet Centurion, Victor Timely, Iron Lad, and Mister Gryphon.
- Nathaniel Richards, a 31st-century scholar and descendant of Reed Richards's time traveling father Nathaniel, becomes fascinated with history and discovers the time travel technology created by Victor von Doom, another possible ancestor of his. He then travels back in time to ancient Egypt aboard a Sphinx-shaped timeship and reinvents himself as Pharaoh Rama-Tut, with plans to claim En Sabah Nur—the mutant destined to become Apocalypse—as his heir.
- His headress seems to be a combination of the pschent and khepresh headresses worn in Egypt.
- The invention of the pschent is generally attributed to the First Dynasty, anywhere between the 34th and the 30th centuries BC, by the pharaoh Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC), but the first one known to wear a Double Crown was the First Dynasty pharaoh Djet, also known as Wadj, Zet, and Uadji (in Greek possibly the pharaoh known as Uenephes or possibly Atothis; fl. c. 2980 BC): a rock inscription shows his Wikipedia:Horus wearing it.
- The earliest known mention of the khepresh is on the stela Cairo JE 59635 [CG 20799] which dates to the reign of pharaoh Neferhotep III, during the Second Intermediate Period. In this and other examples from the same era, the word is written with a determinative that represents the cap crown, a lower and less elaborate type of crown.
- The earliest known depiction of the khepresh is on the stela Cairo CG 20517 which dates to the reign of Snaaib, during the Second Intermediate Period. The stela shows him wearing the Khepresh crown and adoring the god Min.
- During the New Kingdom, pharaohs were shown with this crown in military circumstances. However, some scholars think that the crown was also meant to evoke the divine power of the pharaoh, and was thereby worn to religiously situate kings as manifestations of gods on earth.
- Images of the khepresh from the reign of Ahmose I, first king of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550-1292 BC), show a headdress that is taller than the cap crown and more angular than later forms of the khepresh. This crown continued to evolve during the early Eighteenth Dynasty, attaining its best-known form in the reigns of Hatshepsut (1507–1458 BC) and Thutmose III. After Amenhotep III's reign – and particularly during the 18th and 19th Dynasties – it came into fashion and was even adopted by some pharaohs as a primary crown.
- The crown was not seen depicted in the Kushite Dynasty (747 to 656 BCE). However, depictions of the crowns returned in the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (664 to 525 BCE). Some of the Ptolemaic and early Roman pharaohs are also depicted wearing it.
- His debut in The Pharaoh's Curse mentions that the events experienced by Aladdin and Abu in the comic take place thousands of years later. Therefore indicating that he lived at least more than 2000 years before the events of the Aladdin franchise.