X-Men '97 season 2 introduces Pharaoh Rama-Tut as the antagonist of its two-part "Rise of Apocalypse" story, set in Ancient Egypt. The episodes see the X-Men aid the first Mutant, En Sabah Nur, in a slave rebellion, while Magneto tries to steer Nur away from becoming the villain Apocalypse. Rama-Tut, revealed to be a variant of the time-travelling villain Kang the Conqueror, matters because he ties the animated series into a wider web of Marvel time-travel plots that the show's producers have promised will pay off later.

Rama-Tut, whose birth name is Nathaniel Richards, was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in a 1963 Fantastic Four issue. The show adapts the 1996 comic miniseries The Rise of Apocalypse but drops the Fantastic Four and changes his motivation: here, voiced by John de Lancie, he time-travels to steal Celestial technology to make himself a god. His plan fails when Nur uses the same technology to become Apocalypse and kills him. The character is best known as Kang, played by Jonathan Majors in the MCU; after Majors was convicted of assault, the planned Avengers: The Kang Dynasty was reworked into Avengers: Doomsday, due on 16 December.