| “ | Oh, my son, they were only slaves. | „ |
| ~ Pharaoh Seti I trying to justify to his son the genocide of baby Hebrews, his most infamous quote. |
| “ | His hands bore the blood of thousands of children. | „ |
| ~ Moses refusing to let Rameses twist events and paint Seti I as some kind of a badass. |
Pharaoh Seti I is the overarching antagonist of DreamWorks Animation's 2nd full-length animated feature film The Prince of Egypt (which is based on the Book of Exodus).
He is the husband of Tuya, the father of Rameses and the adoptive father of Moses. He immortalized himself as a monster when he mass-murdered thousands of Hebrew babies out of paranoia of being stood up to by those he went out of his way to excruciate on purpose. Although he is not an active antagonist for much of the film, Seti's actions would cause much of what occurred in the story, due to his negative influence on Rameses and aforementioned genocide against the Hebrews. He is also based off his original counterpart of the same name.
He was voiced by Sir Patrick Stewart.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- He enslaved all the Hebrews and Jews and put all of them, including their seniors, through atrocious working conditions for decades.
- Living in fear of those he was deliberately tormenting, he ordered the deaths of all the Hebrew and Jewish baby boys, dreading they would grow sufficiently numerous to enact a rebellion and hence showing he has next to no standards whatsoever. And he was so proud of himself that he had it painted in graphic detail on the temple walls no less. While him calling out Moses and Rameses for tearing at his empire may contradict this, he doesn't express concern for the people endangered that morning as he merely wants to preserve his own domain of tyranny, cementing he has very few standards indeed.
- Even if he believed he was doing Egypt a favor by preventing harmful chaos by creating it on his own terms, this is still just a delusion, and delusions are perfectly possessable by supervillains, especially when they lead to something as unspeakable as mass infanticide, which is far more harmful than a mere slave revolt either way.
- This also makes him hypocritical as he must have rebelled against the Hebrew people and their leaders in order to enslave them in the first place, and that is barring him expressing guilt that was superficial at best when Moses learned of his objectively unforgivable sins, with his infamous line that they were "only slaves".
- In fact, it is all but confirmed he told Rameses that the Hebrew babies were "only slaves" since he reiterates this problematic notion to Moses' face later in the movie.
- He was a negative influence and unreasonably harsh on Rameses, causing him to turn into Moses' archenemy as a posthumous consequence when he continued his legacy of wickedness and became a very similar Pharaoh to his forebearer.
- Despite Rameses also being considerably heinous, Pharaoh has a body count while Rameses only has an attempted body count, making Pharaoh the quality to Rameses' quantity.
- He was never punished for any of his actions at all, making him a Karma Houdini.
- Although poetically, if he had never mass-murdered the babies, no one would have freed all of his slaves in the first place as Moses would never have been hauled off in a basket to begin with.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He clearly has one standard, as he did legitimately love his family despite how hard he was on Rameses.
Trivia[]
- He is the very first DreamWorks Near Pure Evil made by the studio.
External Links[]
- Pharaoh Seti I on the Villains Wiki
- Pharaoh Seti I on the DreamWorks Wiki
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