- Voiced by series creator John R. Dilworth
King Ramses is the ghost of a pharaoh from ancient Egypt. Two grave robbers steal a slab from his tomb and flee to Nowhere, but Ramses appears and demands the return of his slab. They refuse, so Ramses summons a swarm of locusts. The slab ends up in the Bagges' yard, where Courage finds it and shows it to Eustace. Eustace is uninterested in the slab at first; but then he learns of its worth and plans to sell it for lots of money. But again, Ramses appears to demand his slab back, warning, "Return the slab or suffer my curse." Eustace keeps refusing, so Ramses places three curses on the Bagges' home: a flood, a terrible song on a record player, and another swarm of locusts which destroys half of their house. Even as the Bagges suffer each of these curses, Eustace is far too greedy and persistent to let go of the slab; leaving it to Courage to solve this problem. Courage manages to take the slab and return it to Ramses' tomb, so that the pharaoh stops bothering Courage and Muriel. However, King Ramses has one more curse: he traps Eustace in an engraving on his tomb.
King Ramses could have been the ghost of the pharaoh Rameses II, wanting revenge on his foster brother Moses for the Exodus.
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