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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Terk, though she was apparently based off a male character. It doesn't help that in the stage musical [[GenderFlip Terk is now male]]. It`s at least alleviated a ''little'' when you know she was voiced by a woman. The animated series [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this and makes it something of a RunningGag.

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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Terk, though she was apparently based off a male character. It doesn't help that in the stage musical [[GenderFlip Terk is now male]]. It`s It's at least alleviated a ''little'' when you know she was voiced by a woman. The animated series [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this and makes it something of a RunningGag.
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** Tarzan himself. Throughout much of his childhood he is rejected by the other gorillas and especially Kerchak, who later forbids him to interact with the first humans he sees, and ends up being torn between the two sides.

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** Tarzan himself. Throughout much of his childhood he is rejected by the other gorillas and especially Kerchak, who later forbids him to interact with the first humans he sees, and ends up being torn between the two sides. And by the time Kerchak finally accepts Tarzan as his son, the gorilla is on his death bed.

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* JerkassWoobie: Kerchak. The movie opens with him and Kala losing their original child to Sabor. This loss is implied to have made the silverback bitter and dangerously protective of his family.



* TheWoobie: Kala. One of her first scenes involves her losing her child, she has to watch her adoptive son struggle to be accepted by the other gorillas and by her mate Kerchak, [[spoiler:and at the end of the movie, she loses Kerchak too]].

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Kala. One of her first scenes involves her losing her child, she has to watch her adoptive son struggle to be accepted by the other gorillas and by her mate Kerchak, [[spoiler:and at the end of the movie, she loses Kerchak too]].too]].
** Tarzan himself. Throughout much of his childhood he is rejected by the other gorillas and especially Kerchak, who later forbids him to interact with the first humans he sees, and ends up being torn between the two sides.
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** The reason why ''Tarzan'' isn't a musical was because of the filmmakers weirded out about Tarzan, a half-naked man raised by gorillas, suddenly bursting into song. And then the film got its own Broadway musical, and Tarzan would burst into song multiple times because of that. In addition, the animated version of Tarzan would get to sing in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio''.

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** The reason why ''Tarzan'' isn't a traditional musical was because of the filmmakers weirded out about Tarzan, a half-naked man raised by gorillas, suddenly bursting into song. And then the film got its own Broadway musical, and Tarzan would burst into song multiple times because of that. In addition, the animated version of Tarzan would get to sing in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio''.
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* SignatureSong: It's a Phil Collins soundtrack so there's bound to be some memorable songs. Two of those being:
** "Two Worlds" When thinking of epic intros to Disney movies, this is usually brought up aside from ''Lion King'' and ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''.
** "You'll Be In My Heart" is seen as the "other" song in the movie everyone remembers, from it's gentle lullaby sung by Kala, and as the end credits song. It was so popular that it got Collins an Oscar, AND a Golden Globe for "Best Original Song"!
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* ObviousJudas: Clayton is an EgomaniacHunter who is rude, condescending and shows an open disregard for the wildlife in the jungle. Is it really a surprise that he's plotting against the protagonists? It should be noted that according to various texts, such as ''Disney's Tarzan'' by Russell K. Schroeder and Victoria and Saxon and ''The Tarzan Chronicles'' by Howard Green, they didn't want Clayton to be an obvious villain from that start, but rather wanted to keep the audience guessing whether or not he was a villain.

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* ObviousJudas: Clayton is an EgomaniacHunter who is rude, condescending and shows an open disregard for the wildlife in the jungle. Is it really a surprise that he's plotting against the protagonists? It should be noted that according to various texts, such as ''Disney's Tarzan'' by Russell K. Schroeder and Victoria and Saxon and ''The Tarzan Chronicles'' by Howard Green, they didn't want Clayton to be an obvious villain from that the start, but rather wanted to keep the audience guessing whether or not he was a villain.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: At the time the film came out, Tarzan himself was Disney's most impressively animated character. Impressive not just because of surface detail but because Tarzan was rendered with as much anatomical accuracy was possible; he moves like a gorilla and pulls off spectacular acrobatics, all while his muscles still flex and move believably. For the majority of the movie he wears very little, with his physique on full display, which is very difficult to pull off in animation. Not to mention the groundbreaking use of CGI for backgrounds that beautifully blended 3D movement with a classic hand painted look.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: At the time the film came out, Tarzan himself was Disney's most impressively animated character. Impressive not just because of surface detail but because Tarzan was rendered with as much anatomical accuracy was as possible; he moves like a gorilla and pulls off spectacular acrobatics, all while his muscles still flex and move believably. For the majority of the movie he wears very little, with his physique on full display, which is very difficult to pull off in animation. Not to mention the groundbreaking use of CGI for backgrounds that beautifully blended 3D movement with a classic hand painted look.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: In the song "Strangers Like Me", a lyrics goes "Why do I have/This ''growing need'' to be beside her?" Then again, the entirety of the song could be considered a metaphor for Tarzan's own romantic awakening.

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* AccidentalInnuendo: In the song "Strangers Like Me", a one of the lyrics goes is "Why do I have/This ''growing need'' to be beside her?" Then again, the entirety of the song could be considered a metaphor for Tarzan's own romantic awakening.
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* AccidentalAesop: Even though Kerchak has the understandable FreudianExcuse of losing his own child, quite a few people have found him to be UnintentionallyUnsympathetic due to how coldly he treats Tarzan for most of the film. For said many, you can read it as "[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Grief at losing a loved one doesn't justify treating foster family harshly.]]"
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** The reason why ''Tarzan'' isn't a musical was because of the filmmakers weirded out about Tarzan, a half-naked man raised by gorillas, suddenly bursting into song. And then the film got its own Broadway musical, and Tarzan would burst into song multiple times because of that. In addition, the animated version of Tarzan would get to sing in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio''.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Thanks in no small part to the fact that the hugely popular Ákos Kovács did the songs for the Hungarian dub of the movie, this film's music is immensely popular in Hungary, enough so that Ákos regularly performs them at mainstream concerts.

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Thanks in no small part to the fact that the hugely popular Ákos Kovács did the songs for the Hungarian dub of the movie, this film's music is immensely popular in Hungary, enough so that Ákos regularly performs them at mainstream concerts.



* {{Moe}}: The design Disney used for Jane evokes a protective instinct - but then again, this ''is'' one of literature's archetypal DamselInDistress characters.

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The design Disney used for Jane evokes a protective instinct - but then again, this ''is'' one of literature's archetypal DamselInDistress characters.

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