History Film / KingArthurLegendOfTheSword

* TheLegendOfX

* GodivaHair: The eldritch creatures' hair artfully clings to their breasts just enough that their nipples are covering.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Having defeated Uther, Arthur gets the Vikings to KneelBeforeZod after they realise he can't be intimidated into keeping their previous treaty.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Uther charges into the fight even as his soldiers are turning to flee in fear and the bridge he is riding on collapses under his horse's feet. He ends up defeating Mordred one on one despite Mordred's magical abilities.

* BlackVikings: The film [[AnachronismStew doesn't even attempt]] to be historically accurate so there are a few non-European characters around. Granted, Londinium appears to be a trade city, which historically did have diverse populations, so this could in fact be one of the few things in the film that actually ''is'' historically accurate (in Roman Britain, some black Africans did live there, and into the medieval era too).

** To be fair, around the time Arthurian lore first evolved beyond its Mabinogion roots, i.e. when the Romans officially evacuated Britannia during the Anglo-Saxon and Jeute/Geat invasions, leaving a large population of citizenry and auxiliary forces behind, there already was a large population of non-Europeans within the isles. Londinium, being the capital city, is one obvious example of a city with such demographics at the time, but the polity that would eventually evolve into York is an even more prevalent example, as it not only housed stranded auxiliaries (who in Britain were typically African, Indo-Persiac Dravidians, Bedouin and Canaanite Mesosemetics, Ural-Caucasians, and Sibero-Turkic Orianoasiatics, due to protocols the Romans had regarding auxiliaries serving near their homeland), like Londinium, but also a large merchant populace that included one of the oldest established Jewish communities in Britain.

A 2017 Creator/GuyRitchie SwordAndSorcery film starring Creator/CharlieHunnam as the titular [[Myth/ArthurianLegend legendary]] [[Myth/KingArthur British king]], Creator/JudeLaw as King Vortigern, Creator/EricBana as Uther Pendragon, and Creator/KatieMcGrath as Elsa.

** This also discounts the hundreds, if not possible thousands of slaves who used the chaos to either revolt, purchase their freedom, or escape to the Christian and Druid Enclaves Ireland. Ireland itself was becoming a focal point of migration for Christian priests as monasteries were destroyed by Romans, barbarians or other empires, and said monks were known to come from as far as Samarkand. Finally, to the north in Ulster, the Orkneys and Scotland you would also have their occasional Greenlander-Inuit that would wash up on the shore (alive or dead) and be mistaken for a Selkie.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Arthur's survives on charisma and connection so his oft-repeated phrase is "Why have enemies when you can have friends?"

* FisherKing: England is shown to be struggling under the weight of Vortigern's greed and ambition while Arthur is unknowingly in exile. The Lady of the Lake implies that it will get even worse if Arthur does not ascend to his rightful position of king. At the end of the movie, as Arthur is presented to the kingdom as the new king, the coloring is brighter than it has been at any point of the movie since King Uther was featured in the opening credits. It is implied that the populace is much happier under Arthur's rule and that the future will be better.

* ForWantOfANail: Had a certain group of unruly vikings not beaten up the wrong prostitute, Vortigern's evil plan probably would've gone off without a hitch. Also doubles as a nice, convoluted example of NiceJobFixingItVillain because those vikings [[spoiler:are in England on his personal invitation, their actions lead to Arthur entering the picture, and that in turn ultimately results in Vortigern's downfall]].

-->'''Bedivere:''' He is ''not'' going to the Darklands!
-->''[Cut to him, Arthur and the Mage travelling in a rowboat]''
-->'''Bedivere:''' These are the Darklands.
* GodivaHair: The eldritch creatures' hair artfully clings to their breasts just enough so their nipples have a covering.

** Creator/KatieMcGrath as Vortigern's doomed wife Elsa.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Having defeated Uther, Arthur gets the Vikings to KneelBeforeZod after they realise he can't be intimidated into keeping their previous treaty.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Uther charges into the fight even as his soldiers are turning to flee in fear and the bridge he his riding own collapses under his horse's feet. He ends up defeating Mordred one on one despite Mordred's magical abilities.

* AerithAndBob: Names like John, Bill, and George exist in an England with Bedivere, Vortigern, and Uther. Arthur's name is sort of in the middle, since it's familiar like the former names but only because it's the name of the title character of the mythos that the latter names come from.

* AerithAndBob: Names like John, Bill, and Arthur exist in an England with Bedivere, Vortigern, and Uther.

* DeathGlare: Mordred apparently believes this to be an actual weapon. All he does when Uther breaches his various magical fire obstacles is glare at him from below. It works about as well as one might expect it to work when a pissed-off OneManArmy with a mythical sword is out for the glaring person's head. It's likely Mordred can't do anything else as he's focused on controlling the two magical elephants, which go berserk the moment his control is broken. Also we're later shown that whoever wields Excalibur can move in [[BulletTime Arrow Time]], so he may not have had time to do anything else.

* PuttingOnTheReich: a lesser example than most--while Vortigern's troops don't wear Nazi-like uniforms, they ''do'' have a similar color scheme to the typical image of the Gestapo and, during his attempted execution of Arthur, they all chant his name and the assembled crowd is forced to follow along all while making a salute resembling that of the Nazis'--they may as well have been saying "Heil Vortigern!" In the same scene, Vortigern himself also makes such a salute, stretching his hand out to the entire crowd. He also has people branded, like concentration camp inmates were tattooed.

* MagicKnight: When wielding Excalibur Arthur [[spoiler:and his father before him when fighting Mordred and Vortigern]] become this, [[SuperStrength shattering enemies' swords and tossing them left and right with every swing]] while their eyes [[GlowingEyesofDoom take on the same pale blue glow as Excalibur]].

* InTheHood: The Mage goes hooded most of the time when she's in urban territory. Merlin also wears intricate robes with a cowl that hides his face in shadows in the one scene he gets.

* KeystoneArmy: [[spoiler:Mordred's assault in the prologue is stopped dead in its tracks the moment he's killed by Uther.]]

* CostumePorn: The royal court - especially the women - tend to wear gorgeous period finery. Vortigern pimps his with a floor-length white pelt cape.

* DeathGlare: Mordred apparently believes this to be an actual weapon. All he does when Uther breaches his various magical fire obstacles is glare at him from below. It works about as well as one might expect it to work when a pissed-off OneManArmy with a mythical sword is out for the glaring person's head. It's likely Mordred can't do anything else as he's focused on controlling the two magical elephants, which go berserk the moment his control is broken. Also we're later shown that whoever wields Excalibur can move in [[BulletTime Arrow Time]], so he may not have had time to do anything either.

* ArrowsOnFire: Surprisingly for such a movie they are used for funerals rather than battles. During the chase through the streets of Londinium however, the blacklegs fire signal arrows into the air which explode in a cloud of black smoke to show which way the resistance are fleeing.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: A bunch of Blacklegs lay down their arms and surrender after one of Arthur's Excalibur-powered rampages curbstomped about 90% of their buddies on the battlefield.