History Film / TheLegendOfTarzan

* AfterActionPatchUp: After Akut defeats him in a straight-up fight, Tarzan has his bite wound patched up with termites by George Williams.

* RecursiveCanon: Williams shows Tarzan a pulpy-looking book about him, implying that Burroughs' novels are sensationalized accounts of true events.

* ShownTheirWork: The African tribe points out that, for the most part, gorillas are gentle creatures that just want to be left alone. The apes that raised Tarzan, however, are some unique form of KillerGorilla that they view with no undue amount of fear.

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tarzan goes barefoot after returning to the jungle.

* WeaponOfChoice: Rom's Madagascar spider silk rosary... unassuming at first, until he uses it to grasp or choke someone out.

Shares its name with [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan an animated TV series]], a SpinOff of the [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} 1999 Disney film.]]

* NoSell: Tarzan is already losing his fight with Akut when he whacks him with a pretty hefty club. The only sign Akut gives of the blow even landing is to kick Tarzan's ass much more thoroughly.

* SpotOfTea: Tarzan is drinking tea with his pinkie out when Williams meets with him.

* WouldHurtAChild: In a flashback, Kerchak (the ape with the dead eye) had no qualms with chasing Tarzan as a child through the jungle and beating him up. [[spoiler:Also, Tarzan himself doesn't hesitate to kill Mbonga's young son.]]

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7ty6sViiU Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLmKio67pVQ Trailer 2]].

* BadassMoustache: Léon Rom and George Washington Williams.

* WrestlerOfBeasts: Upon returning to Africa, Tarzan and his friend [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Captain George Washington Williams]] are confronted by the [[KillerGorilla Mangani]] who raised him, none of whom look fondly upon Tarzan because they feel like he abandoned them to go and live in England with Jane. In order to prevent the Mangani from killing Williams, Tarzan challenges their new leader, his ape brother Akut, to one-on-one combat. [[DeconstructedTrope While Tarzan is stronger than the average human, he's spent years living outside the Congo forests, and Akut is stronger and larger than he is]]; [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Akut wipes the floor with him in short measure]]. By the time Akut finally leaves, Tarzan is severely injured and requires an AfterActionPatchUp.

* AdaptationalWimp: A downplayed example with Tarzan. He's still capable of taking down any man in his path and is quite able to endure a great deal of punishment. However, he's most notably not able to defeat apes in battle like past versions of the character have been able to. Possibly justified as a combination of RealityEnsues and the fact that he was out of his element for too long.

* MightyWhitey: Tarzan is on good terms with one of the local tribes and near the end he [[spoiler:seemingly establishes a DefeatMeansFriendship relationship with Chief Mbonga and his tribe]]. However, the film makes an effort to downplay this as the tribes are treated as equals, and Jane's backstory is changed so that she grew up in Africa among the former tribe. Also, whereas past incarnations of Tarzan are able to defeat apes in battle, this version of Tarzan is [[RealityEnsues unable to do so]].

* RealityEnsues: While Tarzan growing up in the jungle did make him far stronger than the average human, when faced against his ape brother he gets his ass kicked badly since said ape brother is far stronger and larger than he is.