History Film / TenThousandBC

* AndroclesLion: D'Leh and the giant sabretooth tiger.

** The characters ride upon modern-day horses. The problem is, horses in prehistoric times looked nothing like their modern day, more domesticated, descendants. The horses should be much stockier, have upright manes, and be plainer looking (overall being closer to a donkey than a modern horse).

After traversing some [[PatchworkMap seriously weird terrains]], and having a few small adventures along the way, D'leh is separated from the rest of the party. He ends up at an agricultural village in a desert. There, he manages to impress the local chief, and makes friends with the natives. It turns out that this and many other villages have been victimized by the same raiders that kidnapped D'Leh's people, and taken to "the Mountain of the Gods". The chief somehow concludes that D'Leh is TheChosenOne who will overthrow the evil god who is doing this.

%%* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler: Evolet]]

* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Being rejected by Evolet causes the warlord who kidnapped her to throw a spear into her back, seemingly killing her. He even tells D'Leh, in his own language, "You will not have her either" before being killed himself]].

** On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is definitely an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa, and was only brought to Eurasia late in the last millennium. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation AllThereInTheManual that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Mountains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

%%* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler: Evolet]].

* AnachronisticAnimal: The characters ride upon modern-day horses. The problem is, horses in prehistoric times looked nothing like their modern day, more domesticated, descendants. The horses should be much stockier, have upright manes, and be plainer looking (overall being closer to a donkey than a modern horse).

%%* BlackSpeech: The "Egyptians".

** The Sabre Tooth in Africa. Sure, some species of Sabre-Toothed Cats did live in Africa, however the species featured in the film is clearly a [[PopularityPower Smilodon]], which only ranged from North and South America.

* PhysicalGod: Except he [[AncientAstronauts isn't]].
* RaptorAttack: the Terror Birds are essentially used this way, acting uncannily like the velociraptors from Film/JurassicPark

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead.) Then guilt over not officially slaying a mammoth causes him to return the spear, angering said childhood friend.

After traversing some [[PatchworkMap seriously weird terrains]], and having a few small adventures along the way, D'leh is separated from the rest of the party. He ends up at an agricultural village in a desert. There, he manages to impress the local chief, and makes friends with the natives. It turns out that this and many other villages have been victimized by the same raiders that kidnapped D'Leh's people, and taken to "the Mountain of the Gods." The chief somehow concludes that D'Leh is TheChosenOne who will overthrow the evil god who is doing this.

* {{Atlantis}}: Another version of the God's origin story has him coming from a distant homeland that sank beneath the ocean.
** It seems to be his most plausible origin: in one scene, when Evolet is brought before the God, the camera focuses on some [[AnachronismStew strangely detailed maps]] that are displaying a mass of land in the Atlantic Ocean, between South America and Africa.
* BarbarianHero
* BlackSpeech: The "Egyptians".
* TheChosenOne: Both D'Leh and [[spoiler: Evolet]].

* FeatheredFiend: Terror birds.
* GenreThrowback: To ''{{Film/One Million Years BC}}'' and other "prehistoric caveman adventures" films of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

* [[MeaningfulName Meaningful]][=/=]SdrawkcabName: "D'Leh" is "Held" backwards; "Held" means "Hero" in German/Dutch. And apparently the woman is named Evolet. Telove. The love. Dang, they named her after her role.

* MightyWhitey: The quasi-African tribesmen living in the desert have [[PropheciesAreAlwaysRight a prophecy]] that "one day [[TheChosenOne the one will come]] who will free our people". [[BecauseDestinySaysSo And that one is D'Leh.]] Obviously, they just can't do it themselves.
* MisplacedVegetation: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Mountains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.
* MisplacedWildlife: Woolly mammoths helped build the pyramids. Never mind that they're ''woolly'' mammoths and thus should be somewhere cold. Which Egypt isn't. To be fair, the implication seems to be that the mammoths were captured and brought there for use as labor just like the human slaves, not that they're actually native to the desert.
** Also, the Sabre Tooth in Africa. Sure, some species of Sabre-Toothed Cats did live in Africa, however the species featured in the film is clearly a [[PopularityPower Smilodon]], which only ranged from North and South America.

A spectacularly [[AnachronismStew historically inaccurate]] movie about a mammoth-hunter named D'Leh, ostensibly set in the year 10,000 B.C. During a "great hunt" of a stampede of wooly mammoths, D'Leh ''appears'' to slay a gigantic ultra-mammoth and is awarded his tribe's sacred artifact, the White Spear. This allows him to claim any woman in the tribe as his wife, and he chooses his childhood friend Evolet (who was originally from somewhere else, and found by the tribe wandering the tundra half-dead.) Then guilt over cheating causes him to give the spear back, angering said childhood friend.

* VillainousCrush: The warlord leader of the four horsemen falls for Evolet and buys her to make her his lover, even kidnapping her from D'Leh near the end. Of course, when he realizes she doesn't want him [[spoiler: he throws a spear into her back, killing her before D'Leh kills him.]]

* RaptorAttack: the Terror Birds are essentially used this way, acting uncannily like the velociraptors from JurassicPark

* MisplacedWildlife: Woolly mammoths helped build the pyramids. Never mind that they're ''woolly'' mammoths and thus should be somewhere cold. Which Egypt isn't.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: (Ignoring the obvious fact of the title) The film appears to be set in the prehistoric times, with the main character encountering both a wooly mammoth and a saber tooth tiger. However, he ends up somewhere that appears to be ancient Egypt or at least Mesopotamia (an emperor is having a large pyramid built). Although he does end up ''destroying'' that civilization...
* AncientAstronauts: Implied. The slaves tell Moa & Baku that The God of the Pyramid [[Franchise/StargateVerse came down from the stars]]. Given the ridiculously advanced (for the setting) technology he and his servants use, they may well be right.

** It seems to be his most plausible origin : in one scene, when Evolet is brought before the God, the camera focuses on some [[AnachronismStew strangely detailed maps]] that are displaying a mass of land in the Atlantic Ocean, between South America and Africa.

* TheDogBitesBack: A subtle example, among the numerous people from disparate countries D'Leh brings with him to the pyramid include a group of giant African warriors. They all sneak in disguised as slaves and an overseer begins continuously whipping their leader, who just crouches down and takes it until D'Leh gives the signal, when he immediately stands up to his full, seven-foot plus height, grabs the overseer by the throat and effortlessly hurls him off the pyramid to his death.

* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler:Being rejected by Evolet results in the warlord who kidnapped her to throw a spear into her back, seemingly killing her. He even tells D'Leh, in his own language, "You will not have her either" before being killed himself]].
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The leader of the warlords grows an interest in Evolet, even buying her to keep her, though his master was not pleased.
* InertialImpalement: This is how D'Leh kills the mammoth. When his spear gets stuck in the ground, he runs away, leading the beast to impale itself. He also does it to the terrorbirds, this time intentional.

* MedievalPrehistory: Mammoths, saber-toothed cats and terror birds along with a horse-riding, pyramid-building culture.

* MisplacedVegetation: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Mountains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.
* MisplacedWildlife: Wooly mammoths helped build the pyramids. Never mind that they're ''woolly'' mammoths and thus should be somewhere cold. Which Egypt isn't.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The confrontation with the Smilodon is featured heavily. [[spoiler: It gets stuck in a pit that's filling with water. D'leh says to it "Do not eat me after I free you!". He frees it, then it goes off on its way.]]

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: The film appears to be set in the prehistoric times, with the main character encountering both a wooly mammoth and a saber tooth tiger. However, he ends up somewhere that appears to be ancient Egypt or at least Mesopotamia (an emperor is having a large pyramid built).

* MisplacedVegetation: [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] notices that the area transitions from the Brazilian rain forests to the South Chinese tropical forest when one of the terror birds chases the hero into an area populated with bamboo. However it could have been a {{Dan Browned}} on his part as there are species of bamboo that do grow in Latin America. On the other hand, the African village elder giving the hero a handful of corn to take back and grow in his tribe is an example of this trope, as maize originated from Central Mexico, not Africa. In addition, while it would have been a fairly good idea to use this as a secret historical phenomenon lost to history where Native Americans received the corn and used it as the major staple of their diet as a result of this leader's gift to the hero (as implausible as it may sound), it has already been established according to documentation {{All There In The Manual}} that D'Leh and Evolet came from the Ural Moutains of Western Russia, making the idea impossible.

* TheDogBitesBack: A subtle example, among the numerous people from disparate countries D'Leh brings with him to the pyramid include a group of giant African warriors. They all sneak in disguised as slaves and an overseer begins continuously whipping their leader, who just crouches down and takes it until D'Leh gives the signal, when he immediatly stands up to his full, seven-foot plus height, grabs the overseer by the throat and effortlessly hurls him off the pyramid to his death.

* AncientAstronauts: Implied. The slaves tell Moa & Baku that The God of the Pyramid [[{{Stargate}} came down from the stars]]. Given the ridiculously advanced (for the setting) technology he and his servants use, they may well be right.

** It seems to be his most plausible origin : in one scene, when Evolet is brought before the God, the camera focuses on some [[AnachronismStew strangely detailed maps]] that are displaying a mass of land between South America and Africa.