He has also been known to be willing to rescue his enemies; an example of this was when Clayton was about to fall to his death, and Tarzan exclaimed "Clayton! By the time the climax comes forth, he is revealed to be a very sinister individual who was planning to make wealth from selling gorillas. Randy Haycock, the supervising animator for Clayton, said in an interview on the Special Edition 2 DVD "We tried to come up with one word to describe the character and the word we came up with was charismatic. England No heart, no see friends." This episode also shows the scene where Clayton is accidentally hung by a vine. The skater does so, and Clayton becomes trapped. He kidnaps Jane and Terk and hides them in the forest and then brings the Heartless to the gorilla location. Unlike Sykes and Doctor Phillium Benedict, Clayton is one of the few Disney villains whose dark nature is not evident to any character, even the viewer, until he reveals it. At the last minute, Tarzan is able to thwart Clayton’s attempt to kidnap all of the gorillas, but Clayton is not giving up just yet. Clayton is unmoved and proceeds to attack Tarzan with his machete, but he's too quick and agile and uses vines to try and restrain Clayton. In order to lead the Porters to the gorilla troop safely, he persuades Terk and Tantor to disguise themselves as the humans and lure Kerchak away. Tarzan, however, is convinced, and has Kerchak, the leader of the gorilla family, distracted so that he can lead Jane to the gorillas. Video games Clayton, outnumbered, summoned a Heartless called the Stealth Sneak, mounting it and starting a boss battle. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Wickedpedia is a FANDOM Movies Community. He was a  decent, honorable Englishman who inherited the Greystoke title through his uncle when Lord Greystoke went missing. Besides, he is American there, and his fate differs. Home He was voiced by Brian Blessed. Lance Henriksen as Kerchak, Kala's mate, a silverback and the leader of the gorilla troop who struggles to accept Tarzan since he is a human. 70,000,000 years ago, a mountain-sized meteor, bristling with unknown energies, crashed into the Earth in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, with a major chunk of the object landing in Central Africa. Clayton first started out as a rather haughty and aggressive guide who was clearly more interested in hunting animals than researching them, much to the displeasure of Jane and her father - who was searching for gorillas for research rather than for profit. Off screen, Clayton captures all of the gorillas and puts them on the boat back to England (known as Clayton's Ship in the game), showing his true colors. Clayton found Donald and Goofy in a bamboo thicket after they landed in the Deep Jungle. He questioned Tarzan about the gorillas' nesting grounds, secretly desiring to hunt them down. Clayton slyly proposes to Tarzan that Jane will stay longer if she could see the gorillas, so Tarzan agrees to take them. Clayton meets Tarzan and asks for the whereabouts of the gorillas, and Tarzan obeys and reveals the location. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Tarzan noted that he felt threatened by anyone that was different from him. A talented hunter and tracker, Clayton was a very dangerous man. Physical Appearance. Yet, in chapter 5, when the ape man has almost killed the Count de Coude, Tarzan states: Until I was fifteen I had never seen a human being. The poacher mocks Tarzan and tells him to shoot him and be a "man". He dies with them at his side. Clayton is also similar to Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas as they both travel from England as for greedy reasons. He cares deeply about his family and friends and was willing to risk his life to save them. “Go ahead. With both his and his employers' goals thwarted, Clayton prepares to leave Africa with Jane and Professor Porter. The skater (either Young Tarzan, Young Jane, Young Tantor, Young Terk, or a custom skater) must first rattle several pots and pans to wake Clayton up from his nap. However, Clayton was neither patient nor particularly nice, thinking of Tarzan as inferior and somewhat stupid (without knowing that Tarzan is actually both stronger and smarter than he is). Story appearances Although he proved to be proficient at using a shotgun at long range and even close range, swinging it like a club, Clayton and his Heartless were easily defeated. Clayton knew he was not Jane's first choice, but loved her and wanted to protect her. Tarzan realizes what was happening and warned Clayton to stop, but the mad hunter wouldn't listen and ultimately cut the vine he was holding, making him plunge down as the remaining vine wrapped around his neck and effectively hanged him, snapping his neck instantly, a flash of lightning revealing his hanged corpse. Occupation Kingdom Hearts Series He first appears on the second level of the Tarzan story, The Human Camp. Upon returning back to their camp after spotting several gorilla nests, Jane confessed that she saw the gorillas messing around in the camp before they fled along with Tarzan, a man who was raised by the gorillas during childhood. Feature films Clayton meets Tarzan and asks for the whereabouts of the gorillas, and Tarzan obeys and reveals the location. He also had to contend with two foes: Sabor, a leopard who killed Tarzan's biological parents when he was an infant, and Clayton, a poacher who intended to kill Tarzan and his gorilla family. When Clayton was thrown from his steed, Sora defeated him. Tarzan then thinks that the piece of chalk is called a gorilla and scribbles all over the chalkboard. Clayton also appears in the stage adaptation, but he has no singing parts in any song. He speaks little English, conversing mostly in gorilla language which is … Clayton is shown to be a much braver villain than Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, Scar from The Lion King, and Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (to name a few), not fearing death when Tarzan is about to kill him. William Cecil Clayton is the main antagonist in the 1999 Disney movie Tarzan, replacing the first act's antagonist Sabor shortly after her death. The Return Of Tarzan makes multiple references to the fact that Tarzan’s parents, John and Alice Clayton, were missing for only 20 years, which means that Tarzan would only be 18–19 years of age. He thought that gorillas and any other creature that wasn't human were nothing more than beasts and wanted to use the gorillas to make himself rich. A flash of lightning illuminates his hanging corpse, swaying ever so slightly in the breeze, briefly before he is left to the jungle. Tarzan Brian Blessed as William Clayton, an intelligent and suave - yet arrogant and treacherous - hunter, who guides the Porters on their quest. https://tarzan.fandom.com/wiki/Clayton?oldid=6286. Clayt… He was shown as a minor antagonist in the Deep Jungle in Kingdom Hearts. Clayton convinces Tarzan that Jane will stay with him forever as long as he leads them to the gorillas. Tarzan lands safely in the grass, but Clayton is hanged by the vine when it snaps his neck. But Tarzan regains his senses and smashes the rifle against a tree, stating bitterly to Clayton that he was "not a man like you". Clayton also "appears" in the episode Race Against Time, when Tarzan gets bitten by a spider that causes him to hallucinate; because of this, he mistakes Professor Porter, who is holding a bamboo cane for Clayton and his gun. Disowned from the family by Kerchak, he agrees to return to England with Jane and the professor, only to be surprised and imprisoned with them by Clayton and the captain's crew (who working for him after turning on the captain and his officers) when they board the ship. As time goes on throughout the film, Clayton's patience with the Porters wanes thin, and with it, his true nature begins to unfold; one that is vicious, abusive, and conniving. He was shown as a minor antagonist in the Deep Jungle in Kingdom Hearts. Tarzan landed a second swing against Clayton's cheek and Clayton growled, finally able to pull his arms free and catch Tarzan's muscular forearms. However, when Tarzan managed at great risk to save her from a fate similar to Clayton's, she came to realize that the man who did this for her couldn't be a savage killer and left the jungle. He wears almost no clothes; the only piece of clothing he wears is a tattered, brown loincloth around his waist. Kerchak is a large, adult male gorilla with black hair and grey skin. Clayton valiantly defended their party from vicious animals at every turn, although not as well as Tarzan did. Clayton is the main antagonist because he has bigger plans than Sabor. Clayton was once the Hunter that lived in England. The heroes manage to escape, scare Clayton's henchmen (trapping them in the same cages they intended to trap the gorillas in), and free the gorillas, including Kala, Tarzan's adoptive mother. Clayton mocks Tarzan by telling him to "be a man" and shoot him. The way Clayton dies and the flash of lightning that shows his dead body has led many viewers to believe that his death is probably the most dark and violent death in all of the Disney movies. Clayton is the only villain where the skater that defeats him is not necessarily the main hero. Tarzan's brown hair is styled in long dreadlocks. Clayton's face was staining red as the blood continued to flow from his nose and his cheek began turning bright purple, but it didn't seem to faze the monster Tarzan had pinned to the ground. Voice actor He also realized why Tarzan gave up the title - for Jane. Suspicion over Clayton's activity arose when Clayton said that Donald and Goofy were "not much use for hunting gorillas", when he and Jane Porter actually came there for research. Him and his friends get locked in the cargo hold and cannot escape. In winter of 1908, many misfortunes occur, eventually bringing everyone back to the cabin beach yet again. The two of them exchange blows briefly, where Tarzan causes Clayton to drop his rifle. Tarzan and Jane discover him on his deathbed, where he is resigned to Jane's love for Tarzan, but is comforted knowing that Tarzan will protect and care for her. He wears his father's clothes once when he decides to go to England with Jane and Clayton. Clayton figured that this "missing link" could be his ticket to finding the gorillas and he tried to get Tarzan to aid him. In the episode Tarzan and the Gauntlet of Vengeance it's revealed that he has a sister, Lady Waltham (voiced by Amanda Donohoe). Once he learns he can trust Sora after Clayton's defeat, however, he grants the Keybearer and his friends access to the waterfalls, as Tarzan had previously requested. After knocking Jane aside savagely with his rifle, putting her out of the fight, Clayton confronts Tarzan, who takes the battle to the treetops. Clayton finds Donald and Goofy and brings them back to the tent where they are reunited with Sora. Tarzan returns and frees Kerchak, whilst the rest of the gorillas (including Kala) are freed by Jane, Professor Porter, Terk and Tantor, and some other of Tarzan's miscellaneous animal friends (baboons, rhinos, etc. At the close of the 20th Century, wealthy industrialist John Greystoke has been funding an expedition into the jungles of Africa to locate the meteor, now an age-old legend, and harness its unique energy as a solution to th… Now that the villain no longer needs them, he wants them all out of the way so that he and his cronies can capture the gorillas and sell them to a zoo. (Laughs)„. Clayton came along under the false promise that the gorillas wouldn't be harmed. Whereas viewers almost immediately notice the villainous natures of characters, such as Scar and Ursula, especially after the first viewing, Clayton merely appears as a well-meaning, if paranoid and hotheaded, bodyguard and semi-assistant to the Professor, and no one, except for Kerchak (who distrusts all humans), distrusts him or notices his villainous nature until he chooses to reveal it much like Lyle T. Rourke from Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Biography. His eyes are blue-green in color and his … Kerchak is fatally shot when he charges Clayton. Clayton (full name "John Clayton") is the main antagonist of Disney's 1999 film Tarzan. Tarzan (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Clayton initially appeared to be a chivalrous gentleman, albeit with a fragile temper and intolerance for treating the African expedition as a vacation experience, rather than a business endeavor, as the Porters were often sidetracked by sights and wildlife other than the gorillas. Tarzan says he's not a man like him and smashes the rifle. He ranked #24 in the top 30 Disney villains (One better than Madame Mim but one under Pete.). Hence he has a lot less dialog in the final version, except for his xenophobic remark, and is a lot more violent in his attacks. Clayton usually acted like a calm, chivalrous gentleman, but in truth, he was in fact violent, selfish, greedy, and ruthless. However, Tarzan manages to escape and fights Clayton to save his family. As he takes aim at Sora, the Stealth Sneak is subdued and falls on him, crushing his body and killing him. Clayton tricks Tarzan into believing that Jane will remain in Africa forever if he shows her the gorillas. In October 1908, They were put ashore by mutineers in the same place as Tarzan's parents had been marooned twenty years ago. Brian Blessed (Chuckles) Be a man! This is also true for Gaston, Syndrome, Oogie Boogie, and Lotso. Clayton (full name "John Clayton") is the main antagonist of Disney's 1999 film Tarzan. However, his antagonism worsened when the group came across Tarzan. His anger and determination to hunt the gorillas lured the Heartless to him, and the darkness in his heart took him over. In this version, he dies when some barrels of oil catch fire and blow up the boat both Tarzan and Clayton are trapped on the boat but Clayton meets his end when support ropes tie up his legs and bring him down with the boat causing him to drown. In Tarzan, Clayton, a veteran hunter and guide, serves as guide for Jane and her father Archimedes Q. 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