| “ | Clayton: What's going on here!? Tarzan: Clayton! Clayton, help! Clayton: Have we met? Ah yes, the ape-man. Tarzan: Clayton...you... you! Clayton: I'm so sorry about the rude welcome, old boy. But I couldn't have you making a scene when we put your "furry friends" in their cages. Tarzan: Why? Clayton: Why? For 300 pounds sterling a head! Actually, I have you to thank, my boy. Couldn't have done it without you. Lock him up with the others. |
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| ~ Clayton revealing his true nature. |
| “ | I could use a challenge, because after I get rid of you, rounding up your little ape family will be ALL TOO EASY! | „ |
| ~ Clayton taunting Tarzan. |
| “ | Clayton: Go ahead, shoot me. Be a man. [Tarzan places the shotgun's barrels on Clayton's throat and fakes a gunshot with his own voice, startling Clayton] Tarzan: Not a man like you! [Tarzan shatters Clayton's rifle] |
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| ~ Clayton's last words before beginning his pursuit on Tarzan which would inevitably lead to his death. |
Clayton is the main antagonist of Disney's thirty-seventh full-length animated feature film Tarzan, which is based on the 1912 American novel Tarzan of the Apes by the late Edgar Rice Burroughs.
He is a greedy poacher who seeks to hunt the gorillas down, capture them, and sell them for money to become rich by any means necessary. He is Tarzan's former ally-turned-arch-nemesis, and the former "bodyguard" of Archimedes Q. Porter and Jane Porter.
He was voiced by Brian Blessed.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He manipulated Tarzan into showing them where the gorilla pack lived by saying Jane would stay in Africa with him if he did so.
- This act also makes him indirectly responsible for Tarzan's exile from the gorilla pack.
- After revealing his true colors to Tarzan, Jane, and Archimedes Q. Porter, he had his men imprison them in his ship.
- He proceeded to capture the gorillas with the intent of selling them to become rich.
- He is responsible for Dennis death as he is last shown being chased by Baboons
- When Kerchak attacked him to save Tarzan, he shot him in the chest, killing him minutes later.
- He proceeded to try to kill Tarzan so that he would not interfere with his plans.
- When Tarzan refused to kill him out of mercy after he dared him to do so, he refused to back down and chased Tarzan with his machete in the forest, leading to his death by vines hanging him.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- While his actions of animal cruelty pass the baseline, he relies on fridge horror because it is unknown what would have happened to the gorillas if they were shipped to London and even if this was given more context, he still massively fails the heinous standards to Queen La, who enslaved many people and turned them into leopard-like beings, Tublat, who terrorized his own species and tried to kill them all off, and Lt. Colonel Staquait, who tried to burn down an entire village.
- He is hinted to care for his sister Lady Waltham, as he had a close relationship with her to the point where she wanted to avenge him after knowing of his demise.
Trivia[]
- If it weren't for the TV series, The Legend of Tarzan, he would have definitely been promoted to Near Pure Evil, as there are no other villains who come up with the plans of selling wildlife like he does and the villains he failed to only appeared in the series, where his only redeeming quality (his hinted care for his sister) is present. While he didn't know the gorillas were he tried to sell were sapient, this doesn't hold up anymore as he revealed to Tarzan that he was going to put them in cages meaning even if he did know about their sapience, he wouldn't care and still wanted to sell them. Though one can say that he is bog standard as capturing wildlife wasn't a crime during the early 20th century, this isn't true as he locked up the humans to prevent them from interfering and attempted to kill Tarzan just to get him out of the way of his plans which counted as mutiny and attempted murder respectively which both were crimes even during that time and neither were normal. He would have no morality based preventions.
- If his acts of animal cruelty were given more context and confirmed that the gorillas he planned to ship would have died on the way to London, he possibly would have been Near Pure Evil meaning he may or may not fail to Queen La, Tublat, or Colonel Statquait too much.
External Links[]
- Clayton on the Villains Wiki
- Clayton on the Disney Wiki
- Clayton on the VS Battles Wiki
- Clayton on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
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