History NightmareFuel / TARZAN

** And just because Disney thought kids wanted to see this scene a few dozen more times, a watered-down version of this death was featured on the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan Legend of Tarzan]]'' episode, "Tarzan and the Gauntlet of Vengeance". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Q-hWR_nGg?start=76 Observe!]]

''Tarzan'' is easily one of the most intense films in the Disney canon, filled to the brim with graphic animal violence, blood and characters graphically dying onscreen and offscreen.

** What we ''do'' get to see in the finished product is Sabor's pawprints, painted in the blood of Tarzan's parents, overlaid with her snarls. If you pay close enough attention, [[http://imgur.com/gallery/mX5mpC0 you can see his parents' corpses in the background]] - and Kala sees them too. If you're listening, you can hear the echoes of gunshots as Kala steps over the shells, telling you ''exactly'' what happened here.
*** The Music that plays when Kala first enters the treehouse.
** Neither of Tarzan's parents' corpses ''have hands'', implying that Sabor ate them.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-65ZQCsg0I Sabor attacking Kala.]] Related to that, the MoodWhiplash moment when as Kala hugs the baby Tarzan, the tip of Sabor's tail drops down from the rafters behind her and Kala's eyes [[OhCrap widen in horror]] as she [[TheNoseKnows sniffs the air]], catches the leopard's scent and realises [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong she has been watching her from above the whole time]]...
** During Sabor and Tarzan's final battle, the [[DeathGlare look of pure hatred]] she gives Tarzan when he manages to cut her with his spear, combined with an unnerving hiss.

* When Kerchak [[RoarBeforeBeating gives his enraged roar]], you'll jump in your seat- especially when you see him arguing with Kala about her taking in the infant Tarzan (which terrifies the poor thing and causes him to cry), and when he attacks the humans for playing with the gorilla babies.
* The disturbingly short journey from EgomaniacHunter to murderous lunatic for Clayton. Sure, he claims to have wanted to sell Tarzan's gorilla family into captivity, but the second he's offered actual resistance, he gleefully devolves into the same devious killer he's been chomping at the bit to embrace the whole movie. The money is just an excuse, what Clayton really wants is to ''kill'', likening him to Sabor from the first half of the movie. And just like Sabor, Clayton is undone by his own mad bloodlust.

* '''''Clayton's death'''''. [[VillainousBreakdown In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete]], he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he [[UnstoppableRage frantically slashes away at them]]. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to [[DisneyVillainDeath plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on]]--but with one vine [[NooseCatch still ensnared around his neck]]. Clayton lets out a [[TheScream blood-curdling scream]] while desperately trying to disentangle himself, [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises his eyes bulging out madly as he falls]]. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a [[SickeningCrunch loud and wet snap]], Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then [[ShadowDiscretionShot lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan]] to reveal the gruesome shadow of ''Clayton's dangling corpse''. There's a ''very'' good reason that this scene provides the picture for the FamilyUnfriendlyDeath/AnimatedFilms page of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Clayton literally ended up hanging himself.

* ''Clayton's death''. [[VillainousBreakdown In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete]], he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he [[UnstoppableRage frantically slashes away at them]]. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to [[DisneyVillainDeath plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on]] -- but with one vine [[NooseCatch still ensnared around his neck]]. Clayton lets out a [[TheScream blood-curdling scream]] while desperately trying to disentangle himself, [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises his eyes bulging out madly as he falls]]. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a [[SickeningCrunch loud and wet snap]], Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then [[ShadowDiscretionShot lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan]] to reveal the gruesome shadow of ''Clayton's dangling corpse''. There's a very good reason that this scene provides the picture for the FamilyUnfriendlyDeath/AnimatedFilms page of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Clayton literally ended up hanging himself.

* When Tarzan accidentally causes an elephant stampede while trying to get a hair. It's dangerous enough for Tantor, who is tiny compared to the adults, but even worse for Tarzan, who keeps getting shoved underwater and narrowly misses being trampled more than once. Terk, Flynt, and Mungo, seeing the chaos from the water's edge, are convinced that he's been killed. And then they have to run for ''their'' lives when the stampede comes their way.

*** Even worse, Tarzan's father is sadly looking at a photo of his wife before he figures out that Sabor is approaching, all but stating that Sabor already got her and he's the only thing standing between this vicious predator and his infant son.

* ''Clayton's death''. [[UnstoppableRage In a frenzied attempt to attack Tarzan with his machete]], he gets himself tangled up in jungle vines, not noticing until too late that one is coiling around his neck as he slashes away at them. Eventually, he cuts away the last one holding him up, causing him to [[DisneyVillainDeath plummet a huge distance from the tree the two were standing on]] -- but with one vine [[NooseCatch still ensnared around his neck]]. Clayton lets out a [[HellIsThatNoise blood-curdling scream]] while desperately trying to disentangle himself, [[WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises his eyes bulging out madly as he falls]]. It then suddenly cuts to the vine stretching taut with a [[SickeningCrunch loud and wet snap]], Tarzan and Clayton's machete dropping to the ground, and then [[ShadowDiscretionShot lightning briefly illuminating the tree behind Tarzan]] to reveal the gruesome shadow of ''Clayton's dangling corpse''. There's a very good reason that this scene provides the picture for the FamilyUnfriendlyDeath/AnimatedFilms page of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Clayton literally ended up hanging himself.

*** Even worse, Tarzan's father is sadly looking at a photo of his wife before he figures out that Sabor is approaching, [[AdultFear all but stating that Sabor already got her and he's the only thing standing between this vicious predator and his infant son]].

** The [[AdultFear look on Kala's face]] as she watches Tarzan and Sabor fight to the death.

* [[PantheraAwesome Sabor.]] She actually [[SlasherSmile grins at one point]], making her all the creepier. CatsAreMean UpToEleven.

-->'''Clayton''': (''smugly'') [[FamousLastWords Go ahead, shoot me!]] ''[[FamousLastWords Be a man.]]''

Disney's Tarzan is pretty violent for a disney movie, which is filled to the brim with graphic animal violence, blood and characters graphically dying onscreen and offscreen.

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* [[PantheraAwesome Sabor.]] She actually [[SlasherSmile grins at one point]], making her all the more creepy. CatsAreMean UpToEleven.

* Tarzan's parents' short visit to Africa. They had just survived a shipwreck, managed between the two of them to build an elaborate treehouse while sheltering and caring for a newborn, and likely had only just finished building said house when Sabor found them. To clarify, the treehouse was incredibly sophisticated, so with only two adults (one who also has to care for an infant) working on it, it would have taken at least a few months to build. Tarzan wasn't even old enough to walk when Kala found him, so it couldn't have been more than 3-4 months since the shipwreck. So Tarzan's parents probably only enjoyed their new home in finished form for a couple of weeks before Sabor arrived. To make things worse, since leopards are largely arboreal, it's possible that all the activity of building the treehouse is what attracted Sabor's attention in the first place.

** What we ''do'' get to see in the finished product is Sabor's pawprints, tainted with the blood of Tarzan's parents, overlaid with her snarls. If you pay close enough attention, [[http://imgur.com/gallery/mX5mpC0 you can see his parents' corpses in the background]] - and Kala sees them too. If you're listening, you can hear the echoes of gunshots as Kala steps over the shells, telling you ''exactly'' what happened here.
*** The Music that plays when Kala first enters the Treehouse.

** Sabor attacking Kala. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-65ZQCsg0I See it here]]. Related to that, the MoodWhiplash moment when as Kala hugs the baby Tarzan, the tip of Sabor's tail drops down from the rafters behind her and Kala's eyes [[OhCrap widen in horror]] as she [[TheNoseKnows sniffs the air]], catches the leopard's scent and realises [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong she has been watching her from above the whole time]]...
** During Sabor and Tarzan's final battle, the [[DeathGlare look of pure hatred]] she gives Tarzan when he manages to cut her with his spear, combined with a snarl that sounds almost demonic is certainly unnerving.

* When Kerchak [[RoarBeforeBeating gives his enraged roar]], you'll jump in your seat- especially when you see him arguing with Kala about her taking the infant Tarzan in (Which terrifies him and causes him to cry), and when he attacks the humans for playing with the gorilla babies.

** And just because Disney thought kids wanted to see this scene a few dozen more times, a watered-down version of this death was featured on the Legend of Tarzan episode, “Tarzan and the Gauntlet of Vengeance”. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Q-hWR_nGg?start=76 Observe!]]
** The original Alternate Version of his death, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZDKu-GNUgY which can be seen here]], also counts. In a climactic knife-fight with Tarzan aboard a ship, a fire starts and quickly spreads around the vessel. Tarzan considers killing Clayton for a moment, but instead pins him by his shirt (the knife inches from the hunter's head) to a nearby oil drum, and flees. There's only a brief moment before it catches the oil leaking from the barrel Clayton was trapped by: resulting in a fiery explosion that engulfs the whole ship.

* When Tarzan accidentally causes an elephant stampeded while trying to get a hair. It's dangerous enough for Tantor, who is tiny compared to the adults, but even worse for Tarzan who keeps getting shoved underwater and narrowly misses being trampled more than once. Terk and her two friends, seeing the chaos from the water's edge, are convinced that he's been killed. And then they have to run for ''their'' lives when the stampede comes their way.

* Tarzan's father's death via brutally murdered by [[KillerGorilla Kerchak]].

* A good number of the [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Game Over sequences]] in the video game are rather chilling, especially the ones where Tarzan is still a kid. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0L9n89tJCY A compilation is right here.]]

*** Tarzan's mother is ''missing her hands'', implying Sabor ''ate them!''

** Sabor attacking Kala. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwK-AtBKPj8 See it here]]. Related to that, the MoodWhiplash moment when as Kala hugs the baby Tarzan, the tip of Sabor's tail drops down from the rafters behind her and Kala's eyes [[OhCrap widen in horror]] as she [[TheNoseKnows sniffs the air]], catches the leopard's scent and realises [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong she has been watching her from above the whole time]]...

* Kerchak and Kala had to hear their son being eaten alive. Doubles as a ''massive'' [[TearJerker/{{Tarzan}} Tear Jerker]]. There's also the fact that Kerchak probably actually saw their child being eaten and tried to shield Kala from seeing it, though she most likely did due to the horror on her face.