History YMMV / Tarzan

** The death of Kerchak and Kala's son, which is shown after two scenes of the happy family playing together. [[NightmareFuel You can also hear the baby gorilla screaming as it's being eaten]].

** [[spoiler:Clayton's death. You can see his body hanging there.[/spoiler]]

** [[spoiler:Clayton's death. You can see his body hanging there.[/spoiler]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: PhilCollins does some outstanding work in this movie.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Sabor and Terk, both of whom are female, though Terk was apparently based off a male character. It doesn't help that in the stage musical Terk is now male.

* CompleteMonster: Sabor. In just the beginning of the film, she made her mark as one by killing Tarzan's real parents and Kerchak and Kala's newborn.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Clayton's death. That is all.

* NightmareFuel: '''Sabor.''' She actually grins at one point, making her all the more creepy. CatsAreMean UpToEleven.
** Also, '''pissed off Kerchak'''.

[[AC:Disney Film]]
* NightmareFuel: '''Sabor.''' She actually grins at one point, making her all the more creepy. CatsAreMean amped up to 11.

** The death of Kerchak and Kala's son, which is shown after two scenes of the happy family playing together. [[AccidnetalNightmareFuel You can also hear the baby gorilla screaming as it's being eaten]].

** Also, '''pissed off Kerchak.'''

* {{Sequelitis}}: The movie was followed by ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'', which adapted other material from the books (such as Queen La and the Waziri tribe). The series had its own CompilationMovie in ''Tarzan & Jane''. A few years later came the {{Interquel}} ''Tarzan II''. Unsurprisingly, there are disagreements over which falls into this trope or not.

** The death of Kerchak and Kala's son, which is shown after two scenes of the happy family playing together. [[NightmareFuel You can also hear the baby gorilla screaming as it's being eaten.]]
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Sabor and Terk, both of whom are female, though Terk was apparently based off a male character. It doesn't help that in the stage musical Terk is now male.

* NightmareFuel: '''Sabor.''' She actually grins at one point, making her all the more creepier.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The movie was followed by ''TheLegendOfTarzan'', which adapted other material from the books (such as La and the Waziri tribe). The series had its own CompilationMovie in ''Tarzan & Jane''. A few years later came the {{Interquel}} ''Tarzan II''. Unsurprisingly, there are disagreements over which falls into this trope or not.

* NightmareFuel: '''Sabor.'''

* CompleteMonster: Clayton arguably becomes on in the end. Even the film makers lampshade in their commentary that Clayton basically becomes more of an animal than the animals in the film at the climax.

* LargeHam: Terk, and arguably young Tantor. Oddly enough, ''not'' Clayton despite being voiced by {{BRIAN BLESSED}}, as his animation was more over-the-top than his voice acting.

** The death of Kerchak and Kala's son, which is shown after two scenes of the happy family playing together. [[NightmareFuel You can also hear the baby gorilla screaming as its being eaten.]]

[[AC:Original novels]]
* CharacterDerailment: William Clayton, the RomanticFalseLead of the first two novels. In the first novel (which ends with Jane agreeing to marry him -- and remember, if it hadn't been popular enough for a sequel, this is how the whole story would have ended) he's not a bad man, even admirable in his own way, just not as awesome as Tarzan. In the sequel, which ends with him dying and Jane marrying Tarzan, he's revealed as petty, selfish, and jealous, with the clear intention that nobody will miss him when he goes.

* LargeHam: Terk, and arguably young Tantor. Oddly enough, ''not'' Clayton despite being voiced by {{BRIAN BLESSED}}. His animation was more over-the-top than his voice acting.
* NightmareFuel: '''Sabor.'''
** Also, '''pissed off Kerchak.'''

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Sabor and Terk, both of whom are female.
** It doesn't help that in the stage musical Terk is now male.
*** Note that Terk was apparently based off a male character.

* LargeHam: Terk, and arguably young Tantor. Oddly enough, ''not'' Clayton despite being voiced by BRIAN BLESSED. His animation was more over-the-top than his voice acting.

* CompleteMonster: Clayton.