Ra (Stargate)
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In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1 and original movie Stargate, Ra was a fictional alien related to Ra of Egyptian Mythology.
Ra was killed in the original film Stargate. The premise for the movie was that Ra was actually a humanoid alien who posed as a god to enslave the peoples of Earth. He was overthrown on Earth but still ruled over Abydos to which Dr. Daniel Jackson, Col. Jack O'Neill, Maj. Kawalsky, Ferreti and others traveled.
They managed to communicate with the locals who were being forced to mine Naquadah for Ra. His plan was to send the nuclear bomb O'Neill was ordered to detonate were there any trouble back to Earth with a payload of naquadah. The resulting explosion would most probably destroy Earth. It was instead sent up into Ra's Hatak by way of a ring transporter.
As a side note, beyond glowing eyes and the bass-augmented voice, when Ra became angry the outline of the real alien Ra could be seen within the host. This portion appears to be in direct contradiction to the Stargate SG-1 series, as the true Goa'uld appears to be a serpent-like creature which occupies the brain stem in order to control the host. It is explained in the movie that the alien entity, near death, found a way to inhabit the bodies of like-constructed hosts, and seized the opportunity as his ship came upon the primitive peoples of the Tau'ri.
According to Stargate SG-1 canon, Ra was the most cunning and ruthless of the System Lords, so much so that he was awarded the title Supreme System Lord and became something of a king-emperor among the Goa'uld.
Ra has appeared only once on SG-1, in the season eight episode "Moebius Part 1", in which the SG-1 crew, using an Ancient time machine, traveled to Earth's past before the revolution against Ra.