2012: An early scene shows a Saudi prince buying seats on The Ark for himself and his family even though they cost 100,000,000 euros apiece.Unlike most examples of the trope, he practices Christianity rather than Islam, which also means that he has a crucifix to deploy against Dracula.
The Tomb of Dracula: In the tenth issue, a group of elites Dracula tries to intimidate/recruit includes a dark-skinned man wearing both Arabic headgear and a suit and tie.In Tintin: Land of Black Gold, Sheik Bab El Ehr is trying to depose Emir Ben Kalish Ezab so that Skoil Petroleum can take over Arabex's oil concessions.
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Belgian Comics and Franco-Belgian Comics: These are stock characters in a lot of comics series where the characters travel to the Middle East: Suske en Wiske, Jommeke, Nero, Natacha, Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber, Spirou and Fantasio.If his home country isn't a real one, it's Qurac. In more comedic works, he is almost inevitably a Funny Foreigner. He will also turn up as a villain trying to buy or kidnap the female lead for his harem.Īn indispensable addition to any (generally evil) Cosmopolitan Council. He'll still have the education of Lord Byron though and the manners of a prince which is kind of the point: these books want someone who lives in the closest thing to a modern lavish royal court and acts like the Black Death hasn't gone out of fashion. Sheikh romance actually gave us the term "bodice ripper" due to the common kidnap-rape-love plots that featured where the Arab can get away with being beyond normal constraints in how he treats the heroine due to his exoticism. They also turn up a lot in romance novels, where they are dark, brooding, passionate and rule everything they survey in their desert kingdom with the same tenacity they show towards the heroine. Sometimes The Con will involve someone using this trope and posing as a rich Arab to help explain a source of abundant but eccentric money for the mark, in which case the "Arab sheikh" plays a similar role to the "Nigerian prince" in a 419 Scam. In the present climate, they might be involved in financing terrorism. This often involves the Sheikh innocently offering said character a large reward for a task that involves stepping on the character's friends in order to succeed.Ī common outcome is that the character fulfills the requirement while managing to help his friends as well, but he then turns down the reward because he's learned that money isn't the only thing in the world. This character type is often brought in to teach a character An Aesop about putting his friends before monetary gain. Yeah, and he smoked too, it was that far back.) (Back when Texans were the ones considered super rich, one example was the Texan who gave away his Cadillac and bought another one once the ashtrays were full. Often referred as the source of various pictures of excess luxury in 's photography section, claiming they have, for example, cars made of solid silver, or coated in diamonds. He will sometimes attempt to purchase the services of local prostitutes. He is typically seen in Arab dress, complete with keffiyeh, sometimes wearing dark aviator sunglasses when traveling abroad, or in a fine western suit and the keffiyeh and sunglasses. The Arab Oil sheikh is a rich Arab man with big investments in oil. They're from Arabia and they're accumulators.
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