History Film / HawkTheSlayer

* ArcherArchetype: Crow, in keeping with the elf stereotype, is a deadly archer who's small, slim, graceful and has no discernible close-combat skills. Subverted though with Ranulf, a craggy middle aged human who wields his {{automatic crossbow}} with great accuracy (one-handed to boot). Neither one of them ''ever'' misses a shot.

* AssholeVictim: Our heroes need money for the ransom, so they kill a gang of slave traders to get their gold.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Let's see -- we have a heroic swordsman with a CoolSword, a [[PluckyComicRelief dwarf thief]], a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]] with a big [[DropTheHammer hammer]], an elf that talks like [[Franchise/StarTrek Spock]], a blind magic user that uses glowing magic balls, and a one-armed man with a automatic crossbow.

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Hawk has the [[UpgradeArtifact Mindstone]] Blade, Gort his [[DropTheHammer hammer]], Crow his bow, Baldin a whip (he can even [[MundaneUtility use it to catch fish!]]), and Ranulf his [[AutomaticCrossbows self-loading crossbow]].

* EasterEgg: As an affectionate nod to the 'TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game that inspired the film's cast structure and aesthetics, whenever Hawk's Party is gathered in The Nunnery, there will ''always'' be three six sided dice (which are used in said game to generate your hero's statistics during character creation) clearly visible on the table, front and center of the frame.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Voltan and Drogo both murder a slaver each, and Voltan orders another to have his tongue cut out for mouthing off to him. [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil No great loss, really]].

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Voltan gets resurrected by the dark wizard at the end.]]

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: Hawk has the [[UpgradeArtifact Mindstone]] Blade, Gort his [[DropTheHammer hammer]], Crow his bow, Baldin a [[WhipItGood whip]] (he can even [[MundaneUtility use it to catch fish!]]), and Ranulf his [[AutomaticCrossbows self-loading crossbow]].

* YouGotSpunk: When a slaver backchats him, Voltan says he likes a man with spirit, then [[TongueTrauma has his tongue cut out.]]

* BowsAndErrors: By means of rapid {{Jump Cut}}s to condense shots and edit out the process of reloading, Crow and Gort use their medieval bow and crossbow, respectively, [[https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbBQrFb79WVTP2b_qvLB3ADt_d17Yksya as rapid-fire machine gun-like weapons]], mowing down scores of enemies with a stream of arrows and quarrels shot more like an automatic rifle's bullets than anything else.

-->'''Mike''': ''( barely stifling laughter)'' Jesus, how does the scenery taste, Jack?

* BackstabBackfire: This happens to a not so smart would-be witch burning local who stays behind to fight Hawk.
* BadassBoast: Drogo will slay Hawk himself and claim the gold, and "then Voltan will see who is the lord of the dance!" Well, he seems to think it's badass anyway.

''Hawk the Slayer'' is a fine piece of nonsense set in the world of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-inspired HeroicFantasy, a place where longswords, short bows and daggers are swiftly drawn, leather, chainmail and a kind of cloth notable only for its brown-ness remain fashionable and there's always an evil one roaming about. The evil one in this adventure is Voltan ([[LargeHam Jack Palance]]), who's so very evil on account of him bearing a scar on his face that, as we're told by a mysterious figure who lives within a mountain, will not heal. Quite whether the scar came before the willingness to do evil is something that ''Hawk The Slayer'' makes clear [[spoiler: (Hawk's beloved stuck a torch in Voltan's face during a flashback)]] but he is quickly doing all manner of terrible things, all of which seem to involve murder. Indeed, the film opens with Voltan murdering his own father as well as the woman intended to be the wife of his brother.

* WeaponOfChoice: Hawk has the [[UpgradeArtifact Mindstone]] Blade, Gort his [[DropTheHammer hammer]], Crow his bow, Baldin a [[WhipItGood whip]] (he can even [[MundaneUtility use it to catch fish!]]), and Ranulf his [[AutomaticCrossbows self-loading crossbow]].

* {{Teleportation}}: The first person Hawk saves is a witch, who has him sit between a couple of [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spinning rings]] that somehow teleport him [[PuttingTheBandBackTogether where the others are]], either [[BigDamnHeroes just as someone is about to kill them]] or they're about to kill someone else.