In Final Fantasy XII, if you kill enough cockatrices (big, weird-looking birds), an even bigger, rare one, named Nekhbet, will come to kill you.

Nekhbet appears as one of the gods in the Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan, in both The Throne of Fire and The Serpent's Shadow. She's a bad guy (bad goddess?) here, who ends up being killed by the evil god she serves. Of course, this depiction, as well as Sadie's unfortunate (but funny!) nickname for Nekhbet ("Neck-butt"), aren't very accurate.

Ancient Egyptians thought all vultures were female, since they all look the same. Most birds have different colors and sizes between genders, so that wasn't a weird thing for someone to assume, in the days before you could test a bird's DNA! Because they thought all the birds were female, they assumed that vultures gave birth by magic, without needing any males to reproduce. Vultures as a symbol were always associated with women and queens, and there are no vulture gods in ancient Egypt.

The goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet appear all over royal things: crowns, palaces, royal images in temples, and even royal jewelry. Together, as the "Two Ladies," they symbolize both halves of Egypt (sometimes called Tawy, or "the Two Lands"): northern (Lower) Egypt and southern (Upper) Egypt. One of each pharaoh's five royal names was called the Two Ladies name. For example, Tutankhamun (his birth name) was known on the throne by his Two Ladies name, as King Nebkheperura.

What is it with heavy metal and ancient Egypt? There's a Mexican old school metal band named Nekhbet.