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"You wanted the prophecy?! This is your prophecy: the man who pulled sword from stone! Behold! Your born king!"

A 2017 Guy Ritchie Sword and Sorcery film starring Charlie Hunnam as the titular legendary British rex, Jude Law as King Vortigern, Eric Bana as Uther Pendragon, and Katie McGrath equally Elsa.

This version reinvents Arthur as a Street Urchin turned Londinium Gangster... until he finds Excalibur, and discovers his regal blood. Now, he must join forces with a resistance motility - including a young woman known only every bit "the Mage" - in order to dethrone the evil male monarch Vortigern, who usurped the throne of Camelot.

Previews: Comic-Con trailer, "Kingdom" teaser, Trailer i, Trailer two.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword contains examples of:

• Advertised Actress: The humongous State of war Elephants that are featured heavily in the trailers only announced in the prologue and in a Bad Future vision the Lady of the Lake gives to Arthur, then play no further function in the story.
• Aerith and Bob: Names like John, Bill, and Arthur exist in an England with Bedivere, Vortigern, and Uther.
• Subsequently-Activity Patch-Up: Afterwards Arthur offset unleashes the ability of the sword in boxing, he and the Mage have a tranquillity scene together where they hash out what just happened while he helps her tend to a wound on the back of her shoulder.
• Age Lift: Bedivere is much older than nearly depictions of the grapheme.
• And Starring: "With Jude Police force and Eric Bana."
• Animalistic Abomination: The War Elephants, which are bigger than the castles they are attacking. Mordred summons them to fight for him. So does Vortigern in the Bad Future vision the Lady of the Lake gives to Arthur.
• Brute Motifs: Vortigern's army has a thing for ravens, as shown past their Shoulders of Doom, while Vortigern himself adds a beetle design to his crown and armor.
• Arrows on Burn down: Surprisingly for such a movie they are used for funerals rather than battles. During the chase through the streets of Londinium yet, the blacklegs burn down point arrows into the air which explode in a deject of black smoke to show which way the resistance are fleeing.
• Set on of the l-Foot Any:
  • More like 500-Foot Whatever. The War Elephants are magical creatures so enormous they would give virtually Kaijus a run for their money. They conduct building-sized siege structures on their backs, and the only manner to cease them is killing their summoners.
  • The last boxing involves a titanic snake sent by the Mage to lend a captured Arthur a hand against Vortigern's goons. It utterly curbstomps everyone in the room and then leaves again without having suffered a unmarried visible injury.
• Asskicking Equals Authority: Having defeated Uther, Arthur gets the Vikings to Kneel Before Zod after they realise he can't exist intimidated into keeping their previous treaty.
• Authorization Equals Asskicking: Uther charges into the fight even equally his soldiers are turning to abscond in fear and the bridge he his riding ain collapses nether his equus caballus's feet. He ends up defeating Mordred one on i despite Mordred's magical abilities.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: The last scenes consist mainly of Arthur'southward gang knighting each other, naming Arthur himself King of England, and somewhen, Arthur receiving the crown in front of his cheering populace.
• Badass Longcoat: Arthur wears a fur-lined tan number that looks surprisingly modern.
• Bat Out of Hell: The Darklands are a saturnine world that harbors a lot of vicious oversized beasts, ane of which is a species of bats the size of a small-scale plane with a taste for humans and the strength to comport off a grown human being with no effort whatever.
• The Beastmaster: The Mage can have control of one type of animal at a fourth dimension, resulting in her eyes taking the same shape as those she commands.
• Large Bad: Vortigern.
• Large "NO!": Bluish's reaction to his begetter's murder.
• Black Vikings: The flick doesn't even endeavour to be historically accurate then there are a few not-European characters around. Granted, Londinium appears to exist a merchandise city, which historically did take various populations, and then this could in fact exist 1 of the few things in the film that really is historically accurate (in Roman United kingdom, some black Africans did live there, and into the medieval era too).
  • Bedivere as played past Djimon Hounsou. Counts equally a Race Elevator, as "Bedwyr" appears in the oldest Celtic layers of the mythos. However, possibly surprisingly, there is a black knight mentioned in a medieval Arthurian work (by a 13th century Dutch author who attached his work to those of Chrétien de Troyes): Sir Morien. So at least there is precedent, and possibly this was an inspiration. There was as well pre-Islamic 'Saracen' (i.e. Kurdish) Knight Palamedes and his brothers/friends Safir and Segwarides.
  • To exist fair, effectually the time Arthurian lore first evolved across its Mabinogion roots, i.east. 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, existence the capital city, is i obvious case of a city with such demographics at the time, merely the polity that would eventually evolve into York is an fifty-fifty more than prevalent example, every bit 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 most their homeland), similar Londinium, simply also a large merchant populace that included 1 of the oldest established Jewish communities in Britain.
  • This also discounts the hundreds, if not possible thousands of slaves who used the chaos to either revolt, buy 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 every bit far as Samarkand. Finally, to the north in Ulster, the Orkneys and Scotland you would also accept their occasional Greenlander-Inuit that would wash upwardly on the shore (alive or dead) and be mistaken for a Selkie.
  • Kung Fu George, played by Tom Wu.
  • Wetstick/Tristan, who appears to be mixed race.
• The Blade Always Lands Pointy Finish In: Uther impaled himself on Excalibur by tossing it into the air and letting it rotate as it fell.
• Bloodless Carnage: Arthur lets loose the power of Excalibur and slaughters a whole load of mooks, but isn't covered in blood after. Perhaps its magic includes a Dirt Forcefield?
• The Cameo:
  • Katie McGrath as Vortigern's doomed wife Elsa.
  • David Beckham as the heavily scarred sergeant (named Trigger) overseeing Arthur pull Excalibur out of the rock.
• Canon Character All Forth: Arthur'due south friend Wetstack turns out to be Sir Tristan.
• Casting Gag:
  • Freddie Trick — the brother of Emilia Fox, who played Morgause on Merlin, plays Ed.
  • Too, Aiden Gillen looks right at dwelling as a slippery Wild Card working to modify a kingdom's political landscape. Fifty-fifty equally he aids the hero, his cocky-serving streak reveals itself and gets several people on both sides killed.
  • Charlie Hunnam had played the antagonist to Jude Police in Cold Mountain. Here their roles are swapped.
  • Katie McGrath playing an innocent proficient grapheme, when her Star-Making Role was as the formerly practiced and heroic, but turned antagonist to Male monarch Arthur in another story.
• Catchphrase: Arthur'south survives on charisma and connexion so his frequently-repeated phrase is "Why have enemies when you tin have friends?"
• Clingy MacGuffin: No thing what Arthur attempts to become rid of Excalibur, it'll stop up back in his hands in no time. As the climax implies the spirit of Uther Pendragon lingered in the sword until Arthur finally mastered information technology, this becomes rather poetic.
• Color-Coded Eyes: At that place are multiple magic-wielding characters. Their eye glow gives you a hint to their ability level and where they autumn on the morality scale.
• Cool Sword: Excalibur, as per usual. In addition to its usual nature as an unbreakable glowing weapon, this depiction of the sword also grants its wielder magical power as well.
• Blended Character:
  • Vortigern takes his proper noun, headquarters, and political power from his traditional depiction, merely in the original fable he was only responsible for the death of 1 of Arthur'south uncles and was long dead past the fourth dimension Arthur became rex. The film'due south version of Vortigern combines him with the other kings and usurpers Arthur had to defeat to solidify control of his kingdom. He besides replaces Uther's brothers, Constans and the heroic Aurelius Ambrosius.
  • The Mage seems to exist teetering on the edge of this and Decomposite Grapheme. She has a similar backstory to Nimue as Merlin'south acolyte who takes on her mentor's role as Arthur's magical ally, simply due to the movie being about Arthur's rise to power, she becomes what would've unremarkably been Merlin's role in such a story. She also displays hints of Morgana le Fay. The creators said she was originally going to be Guinevere, simply with completely different characterization to what is in the final film.
  • Sir Bedivere's role as a older knight and loyalist of Uther, is fatigued from knights like Brastias and Ulfius who were King Uther'south men and amongst Arthur's earliest supporter.
• Costume Porn: The royal courtroom—especially the women—tend to wear gorgeous period finery. Vortigern pimps his with a floor-length white pelt cape.
• Damsel in Distress: Every single woman except for the Mage. Until the concluding chapter where she as well needs rescuing.
• Mortiferous Hug: Vortigern embraces his married woman and daughter tightly, tears in his eyes...right before plunging a dagger into their bellies to cede them.
• Deadpan Snarker: Arthur'south go-to mode of speaking (when not having a heart-to-heart with somebody) is very flippant, irreverent, and thing-of-fact...which is par of the grade, seeing as this is a Guy Ritchie motion-picture show.
• Expiry by Adaptation: Mordred is long dead by the time Arthur is grown.
• Decease Glare:
  • 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 beneath. Information technology works about as well as one might expect it to piece of work when a pissed-off One-Man Ground forces with a mythical sword is out for the glaring person's head. It's likely Mordred can't exercise anything else equally he's focused on controlling the two magical elephants, which get berserk the moment his control is broken. Besides we're later shown that whoever wields Excalibur tin can motion in Pointer Time, so he may not accept had time to do anything else.
  • Mischief John is on the receiving end when he brings news to the resistance that the Male monarch has hostages who will be killed. Although he'south a Smug Snake knowing the hostages will exist harmed if he's killed; even he's a bit wary of Arthur's glare, though that could just be considering he'due south royalty even if he was raised in the gutter.
• Decapitation Presentation: The direct result of the above-mentioned Death Glare, although a family-friendly version advisable to the motion picture'southward rating. It's but Mordred's shamanistic headdress that's presented, not his actual head, but the spirit of the trope is invoked regardless.
• Demoted to Actress: Instead of being Arthur's mentor, Merlin is reduced to a single scene where he is seen forging Excalibur, and never interacts with Arthur.
• Disposable Sex Worker: Although non the victim of a serial killer per se, the sole woman to dice on the heroes' side ^note Arthur's mother in the prologue however merely happens to exist a prostitute.
• Dissonant Tranquility: King Vortigern's body double is surprising calm, virtually amused at realizing that his life is in danger and that he has been sent specifically to draw out an assassinator.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Every bit riots break out in Londonium, the blacklegs form a shield wall and bang on the shields for intimidation, as well equally charging the rioters with cavalry to break up their ranks, both tactics used past modern riot police.
• Double Weapon: Vortigern's I-Winged Affections grade wields a double-bladed scythe.
• Drunkard with Power: Vortigern embraces how "intoxicating" beingness feared is.
• Ear Ache: Vortigern cuts off Back Lack's ear to encourage him to talk and make his son reveal his true identity. Vortigern then repeats the question he'd been asking into the severed ear.
• Eldritch Abomination: Vortigern rose to power by hitting a deal with a trio of syrens, half-woman squid-like creatures, that dwell in the waters beneath Camelot. They demand a cede of something deeply dear from any supplicant in return for great magical power.
• Eldritch Location: The Darklands, a Mordor-similar region crawling with lethal oversized predators that can only be reached via a magical teleport of sorts. Arthur gets sent there in an effort to proceeds control over Excalibur and larn more nearly his past. Results are ambiguous.
• Equivalent Exchange: To gain the power to defeat the wielder of Excalibur, Vortigern has to sacrifice a loved i to the Syrens. Years later when the Sword In The Stone is revealed as a portent that the Rightful King Returns, Vortigern accuses them of not living up to the bargain. The Syrens point out that they kept their bargain but every bit his own magical power grows, other forces will arise to oppose him because that'southward how magic works. Vortigern is told he can either find and impale Arthur, making himself the simply surviving member of the bloodline that can wield Excalibur, or sacrifice some other loved one.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Vortigern cries bitter tears when he sacrifices his wife and later his girl to the eldritch creatures that dwell underneath Camelot. Likewise bad he didn't love them enough to put their wellbeing ahead of his animalism for power.
• Every Scar Has a Story: Arthur has scars on his hands from grasping Excalibur's bract every bit a child.
• Evil Feels Good: Vortigern describes existence feared every bit a issue of his deeds equally a glorious feeling.
• The Evil Prince: Vortigern is and so jealous of Uther's power and position that he plots regicide multiple times, somewhen succeeding.
• Evil Magician: Mordred and later Vortigern.
• Evil Tower of Ominousness: Mordred's and Vortigern's magical towers. It goes without saying that both go down in flames and debris the moment their creators bite the grit.
• Evil Uncle: Vortigern seeks to impale his nephew Arthur and claim Excalibur.
• Evil Wears Black: Well, there's gotta be a reason the Big Bad's goons are called Blacklegs. ^notation Funnily enough, "blackleg" is also a very quondam term for a "scab" (i.e. a replacement worker).
• Anybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Anybody calls the mage "Mage". Nobody in the movie fifty-fifty bothers to ask for her bodily proper name.
• Excalibur in the Rock: Once again the Sword in the Rock is equated as Excalibur, though they are sometimes distinct in the source material. Similarly, the sword was forged past Merlin and given to Uther. After Arthur removes it from the rock, he flings it into the lake out of his Refusal of the Telephone call mentality. The Lady of the Lake hands it back to him, echoing myth.
• Faceless Goons: Though their faces are shown on several occasions, the blacklegs have flip-down visors on their helmets that plough them into Malevolent Masked Men when lowered.
• Final Battle: The culmination of the moving-picture show is Arthur freeing his crew and having a show downwards against Vortigern who assumes his demon form.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Arthur and the anti-Vortigern resistance can't stand up each other when they encounter. The mage in item doesn't hesitate to put him in his place when he gets too mouthy for her tastes. Past the time the credits curl, the new king and the last mage are best friends, and the surviving resistance leaders accept been inducted into the famous Knights of the Round Table past Arthur himself.
• Fisher Male monarch: 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 volition get even worse if Arthur does not arise to his rightful position of king. At the terminate of the movie, as Arthur is presented to the kingdom equally 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 nether Arthur's rule and that the time to come will exist meliorate.
• Foregone Conclusion: With characters from the Arthurian cycle and Lohengrin, their final roles should be no surprise.
• For Want of a Nail: Had a sure grouping of unruly vikings non browbeaten up the incorrect prostitute, Vortigern's evil plan probably would've gone off without a hitch. Also doubles every bit a nice, convoluted instance of Nice Job Fixing Information technology, Villain because those vikings are in England on his personal invitation, their deportment lead to Arthur entering the picture, and that in turn ultimately results in Vortigern's downfall.
• The Gadfly: Arthur will happily tap trip the light fantastic toe on your fretfulness when you annoy him, friend or foe.
• Gilligan Cutting: A texbook example halfway into the motion picture.

  Bedivere: He is not going to the Darklands!

  [Cut to him, Arthur and the Mage travelling in a rowboat]

  Bedivere: These are the Darklands.

• Godiva Hair: The eldritch creatures' pilus artfully clings to their breasts just enough so their nipples have a covering.
• Graffiti of the Resistance: Backlack catches his son Blue drawing a symbol of a sword in a stone. This graffiti indicates the local populace is unhappy with King Vortigern, supports the Resistance, and believes in the Built-in King. Naturally, such graffiti is harshly punished and runs the risk of the death of the perpetrator and unabridged villages and towns existence burned to the footing to discourage such sentiment from spreading.
• Had to Exist Sharp: A montage shows Arthur growing from a Street Urchin doing odd jobs for coin who is often robbed and beaten, to a tough Charlie-trained Londinium Gangster with his ain gang, running protection for the brothel he was raised in.
• Hellbent For Leather: How Vortigern and his men dress.
• Heroic Second Current of air: Arthur's first round against Vortigern during their Concluding Battle doesn't become then well for him. Then Excalibur grants him a vision of his father that restores his resolve, he rises fresh as a daisy and thoroughly kicks Vortigern's shadowy ass.
• Heroic Suicide: Uther throws Excalibur up and impales himself, turning to stone in the process, so Vortigern can't have the sword.
• Hooker with a Eye of Gold: The portrayed ladies are shown in a very sympathetic light as the Parental Substitute for Arthur. It'south what makes Vortigern'south unceremonious murder of one of them early in the movie such a kick in the teeth for Arthur and for the audience.
• Hope Spot: Later on existence wounded, Back Lack has to stay behind because I Will Only Slow You Downwards, simply he'southward able to make his way to the rendezvous indicate anyway. Turns out that's only because the backlegs were tracking him with dogs so he'd atomic number 82 them to the others.
• Horny Vikings: A warband of bearded, fur-clad, accommodating manly Scandinavian vikings play a pivotal function in the story.
• Man Sacrifice: Vortigern kills both his married woman and daughter for power from the eldritch creatures, though he'due south very upset about it both times. It doesn't stop him though.
• Iconic Item: The Circular Table is shown under construction at the end of the movie. Arthur's friends rib him about it—is it a wheel of cheese, perhaps? And how can you achieve for a flagon of vino in the eye?
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Several examples, actually.
  • Arthur'due south mother falls victim to a wicked-looking javelin hurled past I-Winged Angel!Vortigern that punches cleanly through her chest.
  • It turns out that Excalibur'south famous stone is none other than King Uther's petrified trunk. When Vortigern had him at his mercy, he hurled the sword skywards and let himself get impaled by it in a last-ditch attempt at keeping the weapon out of his blood brother's hands.
  • In an application of Karmic Death, Vortigern himself meets his end on Excalibur's glowing blade, courtesy of the above-mentioned woman's son.
• Of import Haircut: In the montage of Arthur growing up, he'due south first shown getting his long prince-like hair cropped brusque. While it grows out in adulthood, information technology's never the same length as when he was a kid.
• Improbable Aiming Skills:
  • Goosefat Bill is a master archer capable of dropping targets with pinpoint accuracy over a altitude of 175+ yards. For comparison: modern-mean solar day Olympic archers with their fancy loftier-tech bows compete at half that distance, tops, which is shut to these bows' maximum constructive range already.
  • One of the fighters at George'due south school also leaps into the air with a bow and arrow and shoots multiple Blackness Leg archers on thursday wall, while in motility, before touchline the ground.
• In Name Only: Wetstick/Tristan has nothing to practise with any previous version of the character.
• In the Hood: The Mage goes hooded near of the time when she's in urban territory. Merlin also wears intricate robes with a cowl that hides his face up in shadows in the ane scene he gets. The blacklegs wear masks and hoods when adopting the Faceless Goons look.
• I Give up, Suckers: Vortigern kidnaps Blue and demands Arthur surrender in exchange for the boy's life. Arthur agrees, only with the aid of the Mage and a Mushroom Samba, he regains control of Excalibur and triggers the Final Battle.
• Just Between You and Me: Not the explain-my-evil-plan version (which the Resistance know well-nigh anyway) but Vortigern has a surprisingly amiable chat with Arthur in his cell; this is afterwards all his nephew and he seems to think they are kindred spirits.
• Keystone Army: Mordred's assault in the prologue is stopped dead in its tracks the moment he'due south killed past Uther, considering the war elephants he was controlling go on a rampage, destroying the soldiers they were carrying.
• Impale the Ones You lot Beloved: What Vortigern's covenant with the creatures below Camelot boils downward to. First he sacrifices his wife in social club to proceeds the power to usurp Uther's throne. Twenty-odd years later, he proceeds to kill his simply daughter in a drastic attempt at gaining the means to defeat Arthur and Excalibur.
• Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: There'south no one Vortigern won't impale to gain and maintain power, including his brother, sis-in-law, wife, daughter, and multiple attempts on his nephew.
• Know When to Fold 'Em:
  • A bunch of Blacklegs lay down their arms and surrender afterward i of Arthur's Excalibur-powered rampages curbstomped nearly xc% of their buddies on the battleground.
  • Realising that the new king isn't going to be intimidated into continuing their treaty, Greybreard and his Vikings elect to Kneel Before Zod instead. So Arthur invites them to dinner.
• La Résistance: Vortigern'southward rule is already opposed even before Arthur joins upward. They are specifically referred to every bit the "resistance", as opposed to outlaws or You Rebel Scum!; inappreciably the only anachronism in the moving picture.
• Last of His Kind:
  • The Mage is implied to be 1 of the few mages that survived Vortigern'south purge, if not the terminal.
  • Also, Arthur is the last member of the Pendragon line. Vortigern kills all of the others during the class of the moving-picture show - his brother Uther, his sis-in-law Igraine, and even his own married woman and daughter. Then Arthur kills him.
• The Fable of 10
• Limit Break: Arthur's first real utilize of Excalibur in gainsay has this feel to it. Everytime he lets loose, an epic Curbstomp Boxing ensues.
• MacGuffin: Excalibur, naturally. The whole plot gets kicked off for real when someone suddenly manages to pull it out of the rock, and the following events continue to revolve around it. To a smaller extent, the magical towers built past Mordred and later Vortigern serve in a fairly crucial role every bit well - taking them down before they can be put to use by some evil mage ranks very high on their enemies' priority lists.
• Magical Centre: The Mage'southward eyes can change accordingly with whatever animal she is controlling.
• Magic Knight: When wielding Excalibur Arthur and his begetter before him become this, shattering enemies' swords and tossing them left and right with every swing while their eyes take on the same pale blue glow every bit Excalibur.
• Human in the Iron Mask: Vortigern initially imprisons Arthur in the palace dungeons out of a morbid desire to understand how Arthur was able to go a street boss. Despite the fact that the populace is already disgruntled and showing signs of wanting a new king, particularly the rightful born male monarch, Vortigern does not immediately execute the one person who can topple him from power giving word fourth dimension to spread to La Résistance.
• Manly Facial Pilus:
  • Arthur wears a nice beard. And of course no Viking worth his common salt would be complete without one.
  • It seems to run in the family in Arthur's example, equally Uther Pendragon'south beard is also quite impressive.
• Mentor Occupational Run a risk: Averted with both George (who trained Arthur in fighting as he was growing upwardly) and Bedivere both want to stay and Hold the Line to save Arthur at one bespeak only he harnesses the swords power to salve them both.
• Montages: The movie'southward preferred exposition tool. Includes: Training Montage, Hard-Work Montage, Travel Montage, Unfolding Programme Montage, and Time-Pinch Montage.
• Moses in the Bulrushes: Uther sends Arthur off down the river in a boat while he fights Vortigern. He's found and so adopted by some kindly prostitutes when it drifts by Londinium. Unlike in near examples, here Arthur is non an baby but a young male child when this happens.
• Mushroom Samba: The Mage has a venomous serpent bite Arthur to set up him for the coming showdown with Vortigern. It gives him some pretty disturbing visions and a drunken gait on his way to Camelot, but ends up saving his life when it dissuades another, truly ginormous serpent from tearing him to pieces.
• Mystical Waif: The mage.
• Nature Spirit: While influenced by the ophidian's venom, Arthur can run into dryads peering out of trees at him.
• No Name Given: The mage.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Arthur initially couldn't intendance less almost the resistance confronting Vortigern's regime. All he wants is being able to become about his business in peace, and eventually get some revenge for friends lost in the struggle.
• Offing the Offspring: A desperate Vortigern sacrifices his but daughter in club to obtain the power needed to overcome Arthur and Excalibur. It doesn't work.
• One Steve Limit: Averted by Jack'due south Heart, when trying to figure out what George, and later Mike, Arthur is referring to.

  "Rex George, Aroused George, George of the Dragon? Be clear, Arthur."

  • And and then:

  "Mike the Fasten, Kosher Mike, which Mike?"

• One-Winged Angel: Vortigern has i in the form of a hulking black knight with a skull-shaped helmet and a fiery cape with a double scythe for a weapon.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: A few. Wetstack is actually Tristan. And Kung Fu George is chosen Kung Fu George in part to distinguish him from other Georges, and because he knows kung fu.
• Opening Scroll: The start 30 seconds features a text explainer for the battle that kicks off the moving-picture show.
• Out-Gambitted: Arthur realises the best style is non to raise a rebel army but to lure out Rex Vortigern by using himself as The Bait and assassinate him. Maggie brings word of the Male monarch traveling to Londinium to raise support from his Barons, then they decide to snipe him with a long bow shot fired by Goosefat. Even so the King knows Maggie is in league with the rebels and has himself replaced with an imposter. Ironically Arthur realises it's a trap and calls off the assassination, only for Goosefat to leap it anyway by shooting the blacklegs commander Mercia because he has a grudge confronting him.
• Overcrank: It's a Guy Ritchie motion-picture show so what did you look? In this film, however, it'due south usually to display how Excalibur grants Arthur with superhuman speed.
• Past Experience Nightmare: It is implied that Arthur has had nighttime terrors throughout his childhood where a demon impales a adult female with a sword, killing her. Because of his young age at the time, developed Arthur does not realize that this is not a dream but rather a retention of an event he really witnessed.
• Playing with Fire: Vortigern can manipulate fireballs. Before him, Mordred could incinerate whole platoons of soldiers at one time with magical fire shockwaves.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Jack'south Eye served King Uther until he got a better offer from Vortigern. So he took bribes from Arthur to await the other way until Arthur became a threat to Vortigern, meaning he was also a threat to Jack'south position as the rex'southward enforcer.
• Precision F-Strike: Vortigern delivers one to Mercia:

  "Just do your fucking task!"

• Prison house Escape Artist: While the details are never shown, 'Goosefat' Bill got his nickname because he kept slipping out of custody. Sure plenty fifty-fifty though Arthur hands him over to the blacklegs in his initial scene, Goosefat is waiting in the resistance cavern to express his annoyance afterwards Arthur is taken there later on.
• Psychic Nosebleed: Vortigern gets 1 in the opening scene, when Uther confronts Mordred forcing the sorcerer to maximize all his magic energies, including those beingness lent to him past others. This is the first hint that Vortigern is working against Uther.
• Public Execution: Vortigern attempts one of these to set an example of what happens to anyone who challenges the Crown, but it backfires when La Résistance uses magic to assistance Arthur escape, farther cultivating the rumors that Arthur is the rightful king and that he has mystical protection that will assistance him regain his rightful place on the throne.
• The Purge: Later Mordred'south magical rampage in the prologue, Vortigern had all mages hunted down in a purge that was quickly halted once again by his brother Uther. Once Uther was out of the way, he got right back to it and patently was so successful that the Mage is now the Last of Her Kind. All of it was part of Vortigern's program - he was in cahoots with Mordred from the beginning, and the mage purge was virtually probable an endeavor to stamp out any opposition to his own growing magical powers.
• Putting on the Reich: a lesser instance than nigh—while Vortigern's troops don't habiliment Nazi-similar 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 oversupply 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 too makes such a salute, stretching his mitt out to the entire oversupply. He also has people branded, similar concentration camp inmates were tattooed, and talks of how he doesn't desire the dear of his people, simply their fear (a saying of Heinrich Himmler).
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: This version of the Knights of the Round Table including their eventual king consists of old street gang criminals and resistance fighters.
• Rags to Royalty: Arthur's initially a gang leader in the slums of fantasy ancient London, but is destined to repossess his birthright as King.
• Rated M for Manly: The mage is the just woman in the entire movie that has anything resembling an action function. All the other heroes are gritty, muscular, fearless brawlers with many a Shirtless Scene who don't accept shit from anyone. Arthur in particular is a textbook instance of Testosterone Poisoning fifty-fifty before Excalibur turns him into a One-Man Army.
• Real Is Brown: The unabridged movie features a highly desaturated color scheme that makes almost everything expect blue-grey or black.
• Red Eyes, Have Warning: The audition immediately knows Mordred is evil because of this.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Here Vortigern is Arthur's Evil Uncle.
  • Inverted with Mordred, who is Arthur'southward nephew, sometimes bounder son, in the myths.
• Reluctant Hero: Arthur really doesn't desire to be England's salvation from Vortigern. It takes more than or less the entire pic for him to accept his part.
• Revenge Earlier Reason: When the gang'south long-range bump-off attempt of Vortigern is busted, Goosefat ignores Arthur's society to telephone call it off and instead starts sniping Blacklegs he has a personal beef with. It triggers a wild chase through Londinium's streets and, ultimately, causes the deaths of several protagonists.
• Rightful King Returns: Vortigern has explicitly get The Usurper by killing Arthur'due south father Uther (Eric Bana) and taking the crown himself, and as per usual, Arthur pulling Excalibur from the stone proves he's the rightful king.
• Rogues Gallery Transplant: Two from the the original Arthurian legend in a example of office reversal.
  • Vortigern was an unrelated usurper king who served as the nemesis to Uther Pendragon and Uther's brother Aurelius Ambrosius. Here he becomes a Starter Villain for Arthur.
  • Mordred is unremarkably Arthur's bastard son who kills him in the final boxing. Here'due south he's an unrelated Evil Sorcerer who fights Uther.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Vortigern reprimands his daughter for petting a bird in one scene, telling her to put the bird dorsum in its aviary. Later on when he goes to her room at that place are several birds in cages. Overall it seems to be implying she'due south a prisoner in a Gilded Muzzle which is true because she's a potential Human Sacrifice if Vortigern needs the assist of the Syrens once again which he does for the final battle.
  • The Mage makes an eagle carry a snake. Eagles carrying or fighting snakes has a mythical estimation in several cultures.
• Run or Die: More than a few ballsy running sequences occur involving Arthur and his group fleeing to evade pursuing Blackleg soldiers.
• Sacrificial Lamb:
  • Lucy, Arthur's favorite hooker friend, is unceremoniously killed past Vortigern'due south enforcer to properly motivate our hero into doing what the bad guy wants. Essentially an instance of Prissy Job Fixing It, Villain as information technology ends upwardly being one of the things that motivate Arthur to bring together the rebellion instead because now It's Personal.
  • Also Vortigen's daughter who survives over three fourths of the picture show only still feels similar this for all the character development she gets.
• Screams Like a Fiddling Girl: Goosefat disses Arthur's gang friends this way when he shows off his archery skills on the target they're carrying between them. Hundreds of yards away.
• Cocky-Fulfilling Prophecy: Arthur had no intention of seeking out the Excalibur or seeking out his rightful throne. If Vortigern hadn't gone to such lengths to avoid the born king's prophesied return, Arthur would've never been anywhere about the sword. Additionally, Arthur repeatedly says he doesn't want to exist rex or involved in fighting Vortigern. However, Vortigern, not content to have a potential threat living equally a commoner in the populace, is adamant to completely eliminate Arthur, and begins by engaging in a systematic entrada to kill Arthur's adopted family, childhood friends, and new found allies. Y'all know, the people whose deaths would make the previously uninterested rightful heir suddenly exist willing to fight to the death.
  • In their first encounter since Uther's murder:

  Vortigern: You and I have a lot more in common than you call back. It's not just the same blood nosotros share, just as well the aforementioned interests. We both developed a palate for power.
  Arthur: I've never had any power. Or any desire to attain it. Sire, I could merely migrate away never to be seen again.
  Vortigern: As much as I would like to believe you, your grapheme makes that unlikely.

  • Later on in the conversation:

  Vortigern: What kind of homo would y'all have become if had you lot inherited your father'southward kingdom and all its advantages instead of existence raised in a brothel? What gave yous such drive? Hmm.
  Arthur: So what happens at present?
  Vortigern: Yous know what happens now. You lot're quickly becoming a legend.

  • In their terminal see, in the final battle:

  Arthur: You wanted to know what gave me such bulldoze. Information technology was you. You lot put me in that brothel. Yous cut me on the streets. I am here now because of you. You created me. And for that, I bless y'all.

• Shirtless Scene: Charlie Hunnam has an awesomely sculpted physique, and the movie makes sure everybody notices it. Further examples grow at Londinium's fight club.
• Shoot the Messenger: Narrowly averted. Mischief John, 1 of Vortigern's lieutenants, is stuck with giving Arthur and his group a bulletin later Vortigern had taken the Mage and Blue prisoner. He is more concerned about his wife getting to him, because it was his turn to cook that detail evening. Arthur and the others let him go, only the glares they give Mischief John makes information technology clear they really want to kill him.
• Shout-Out:
  • In the Darklands, Arthur runs into some rodents of unusual size.
  • Vortigern'south Ane-Winged Affections form looks shockingly similar Frank Frazetta'south Death Dealer ◊.
• Sinister Scythe: Vortigern's One-Winged Affections form wields one with blades on both ends.
• Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Vortigern seizes the children of those who can't pay their taxes. As part of his treaty he plans to hand thousands of them over to the Vikings. As the children are besides immature to course attachments, they tin can be raised to have loyalty merely to the Viking king.
• Small Role, Large Bear upon: Merlin only shows up for about two seconds and is finer replaced by the Mage for his function in the story. Withal, his influence on the overall plot is felt when it's revealed he was the ane who forged Excalibur and trained the Mage in the mystic arts.
• Stupid Evil: Vortigern, Arthur said he has no interest in taking the throne from you and fifty-fifty suggested that he quietly get out the city. You don't have to make a grandiose spectacle out of executing him, y'all can just either listen to his advice and let him flee or but kill him in his prison cell without a fuss. Although Vortigern does brand a point that Arthur is too ambitious to exist out of his fashion for long.
• Foursquare-Cube Police: Played straight and thrown out of the window at the aforementioned fourth dimension. Monsters like the Kaiju-sized war elephants should never be able to exist, let alone motion in World'south gravity, although that ane'southward justified because they're explicitly magical creatures. The part the pic'southward creators got right (kinda) is the style the elephants move. Those things wait really, really slow and ponderous, only that impression is deceptive thanks to their sheer enormity. They don't even need to charge Camelot'south fortifications - all they demand to do is walk through them since no stone wall, no matter how thick, can hope to withstand the impact of such an insane mass and the forcefulness it applies.
• Son of a Whore: Arthur describes himself as ane to Vortigern during their conversation, since he was raised in a brothel.
• Sorcerous Overlord: Vortigern becomes this afterwards seizing power due to a pact with some eldritch creatures.
• Stock Audio Furnishings: Elephant trumpeting from opening scene is the aforementioned sound as Tyrannosaurus roar in Carnivores video game.
• Street Urchin: Arthur's backstory in the film.
• Supernatural Gilt Optics: The preternaturally big war elephants having glowing gilded eyes further emphasizing that they are magical creatures.
• Sword and Sorcery: It ticks enough boxes in the genre to qualify. And then much so that this can be considered the most Sword & Sorcery take on the Arthurian Myth yet.
• Sword Elevate: How Arthur goes into the Final Battle once he has Excalibur dorsum - lots of sparks included.
• Sword In The Stone:
  • Having been warned by the Syrens that the Rightful Rex Returns, King Vortigern has his blacklegs bring anybody of the right age to be his missing nephew to where the sword is in the stone to attempt to pull information technology out, branding them after the test—Arthur is brought in when the blacklegs encounter he doesn't have the brand. In a subversion, Arthur is knocked out and easily captured later removing the sword because he tin't handle the power and memories that overwhelm him whenever he grasps the hilt.
  • Invoked later when Vortigern uses Excalibur to kill a snake as it leaps at him from a colonnade, merely the sword gets stuck in the stone pillar so he can't remove it to defend himself when a much bigger magic ophidian attacks.
• Taken for Granite: Information technology's revealed King Uther Pendragon is the stone in which Excalibur was stuck in. As he'southward cornered past Vortigern, Uther throws the sword into the air and when it falls it runs through him, turning him into a rock. The stone then smashes through the jetty they are continuing on, into the lake where it's hidden until the water level falls.
• Time-Delayed Death: During the resistance's attempt on Vortigern's life, Goosefat's first arrow ends up embedded in the wooden wall behind his target, so everyone assumes he missed. And then the guy drops dead and reveals that the arrow actually punched right through him.
• Torture Always Works: Rubio is taken captive after he is separated from Arthur'due south grouping and ends up betraying the resistance after being tortured. Vortigern also threatens to torture Back Lack, and his son reveals their allegiance with the rebels to endeavor to save his father.
• Trailers Always Spoil: Information technology'due south made clear in i trailer that Poppy Delevingne'south graphic symbol dies early on. As both she and Katie McGrath are credited as 'Elsa', it'south only logical that a reincarnated or impersonator version of this grapheme turns up later.
• Grooming from Hell: Arthur is subjected to this past the Resistance, with their goal being to interruption his sometime cocky and take him a leader. It gets to the point where Bedivere fears it will kill him.
• Traumatic Superpower Enkindling: The middle section of the flick revolves around Arthur being unable to wield the sword. Every time he tries, it overwhelms him and he passes out. However, following the failed assassination of Vortigern, the Black Legs corner Arthur and his crew in Kung-Fu George's court. One of the Black Legs makes the mistakes of property a knife to the Mage's neck. Mistreatment of the women in his life is a Berserk Button for Arthur and he has already witnessed the murder of both his biological mother and his surrogate female parent. This is the push he needs to wield Excalibur and wipe out the forces threatening him.
• "Uh-Oh" Eyes: Whenever someone'south optics change their color or texture, you know shit'southward about to get existent.
• Undying Loyalty: Arthur's gang, who decline to abandon their dominate even when he is ordering them to during a raid.
• Unfolding Program Montage: The movie leans on this trope for practically half its runtime, jumping dorsum and along in the story as characters explain plans while we see those same plans carried out.
• Unkempt Beauty: The Mage.
• Unproblematic Prostitution: Averted. Though the prostitutes have some protection with Arthur and his gang, they however appear to get beaten up by unruly clients fairly often. Arthur and the others then beat up these men in retaliation.
• Unscaled Merfolk: Called "The Syren" by one of the Exercise You Know? promotional films for the picture, they're likely one-half-woman and half-octopus, just are obscured by their own tentacles. Vortigern strikes a deal with them for power.
• War Elephants: Big honkin' ones are featured in the moving-picture show'south opening boxing sequence and in a Bad Futurity vision the Lady of the Lake gives to Arthur. Mordred summoned them using Black Magic.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Justified equally the characters were likely being held back for intended sequel movies.
  • It'southward never shown whether Rubio was killed after he's tortured into talking.
  • Merlin's electric current whereabouts are never elaborated on. All we know is that he forged Excalibur and gave it to the Lady of the Lake.
  • Jack's Center, the blacklegs sergeant friendly to Arthur'south crew. He makes a concluding appearance while the blacklegs are ransacking the brothel, and is never mentioned again.
• We ARE Struggling Together: When the resistance tell Arthur they need the support of some rebel barons and their armies, we have the by-now obligatory montage equally Arthur explains why that won't work—the barons will fence over who is in charge, mock and patronize his lowly origins and lack of armed services experience, leading to Arthur insulting them back and getting into an argument with Bedivere (who finds that role Actually Pretty Funny). Instead Arthur convinces them that asymmetric warfare is a more constructive strategy.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: The Mage, (played by Castilian-French Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey) has a bizarre accent that sounds vaguely British and vaguely Eastern European, and it isn't helped at all by the fact that she whispers most of her lines.
• Why Did It Have to Exist Snakes?: Invoked by Arthur moments before his upcoming Mushroom Samba. The mage agrees by challenge that nobody likes snakes - a strange sentiment, considering the fondness she herself appears to accept for them. Perhaps she but considers them a useful tool though.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: If Vortigern had but killed Arthur in his prison house cell, he would have been able to claim Excalibur and rule with unchallenged authorisation. Instead, he has to make a huge public spectacle out of Arthur's execution, giving the resistance an opening to rescue him. Justified, since rumors of the true-born king's render are inspiring hope in the populace, and Vortigern wants to stamp them out thoroughly; if the common people don't see the heir's death, they won't believe it's happened. When he has Arthur in his captivity again well-nigh the terminate of the film, he does try to kill him immediately.
• Would Hit a Girl: Arthur'due south favorite hooker friend Lucy gets browbeaten to a lurid past a group of Scandinavian vikings. The revenge he exacts on them is what ends upward putting him on Vortigern's radar.
• Would Hurt a Kid: Vortigern threatens to take it out on Blue if Arthur doesn't surrender himself to him, and there's no indication at all that he wouldn't go through with it.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Vortigern is warned past the creatures that Excalibur appearing heralds the rightful rex's render and his downfall. Naturally, his attempts to antagonize and destroy his nephew at every turn merely seal his fate.

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