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Tarzan (Franchise)
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First created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, Tarzan has since swung through dozens of books, films and TV series, both straight and parodied. Tarzan is the quintessential jungle hero: white, but at home in Darkest Africa. Often seen in a leopard Loincloth. Usually somehow clean shaven as well.In the original books, Tarzan was the son of Lord Greystoke, raised by apes after being orphaned in Africa as a baby. After meeting Jane and learning the basics of human interaction, he left the jungle in search of his true love. They married and settled in England, where they had a son, but eventually grew tired of civilization and returned to the jungle.Most of the films omit Tarzan's English sojourn and his status as Lord Greystoke. Instead, he has often been provided with a pet chimpanzee and an adopted son — the latter because the film Tarzan never formally married Jane, and thus was not allowed by the Hays office to actually have gotten her pregnant. (In the books, Burroughs actually did have Tarzan and Jane beget a son, Korak, and one of the silents, The Son of Tarzan, featured this character. However, that same film also explicitly had Tarzan and Jane marry ahead of time.)Tarzan's further adventures generally have one of two plots: either Tarzan discovers a Lost World, or he defends his African friends against European villains. Along the way, Tarzan and his family became immortal, if only in the literary sense.The quote at the top of the page was a Beam Me Up, Scotty!, as Tarzan did not say it in any of the books, or even, exactly, in any movie - he just slapped his chest and said "Tarzan," then poked Jane and said "Jane." (In the books, Tarzan was very intelligent, and by the end of the series, spoke something like thirty languages; from the late 1950s onwards, the films began to usually depict Tarzan/Greystoke as intelligent and perfectly literate.) However, in the 2013 animated movie the phrase finally does appear.The earlier Tarzan novels are out of copyright in most countries, but the name "Tarzan" is trademarked by the author's company. Altogether, that explains why The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen only refers to him as "Lord Greystoke".See his expies Tarzan Boy and (as Distaff Counterpart) Jungle Princess.If you're an author; see Write a Jungle OperaFor details on the novels, see here. | |
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Noisy Nature | |
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Noisy Nature: That infamous kookaburra sound that you hear in EVERY jungle environment nowadays? Introduced by the 1930s Tarzan films. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: In Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) subverted the Tribal Cary trop when Tarzan was captured by natives and tied to a wooden yoke with his arms screeched out and away from his body, mirroring the classic position of Jesus being crucified on a cross, with possible bonus points for simultaneously mirroring Jesus carrying the beam of the cross to Golgotha, as Tarzan was still able to walk. It was also used all over the promotional art and posters for the film. | |
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Low-Tech Spears | |
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Low-Tech Spears: In the television series from 1966 starring Ron Ely in the title role. This Tarzan left civilization to return to the comforts of the jungle. However, greedy poachers and other nogoodniks would try to exploit the land and its riches, so Tarzan would have to thwart them. One or two villains were no match for Tarzan alone, but multiples with firearms meant bringing in a tribe of natives, complete with spears, torches, and warpaint, to outnumber them. Rifles may be greater than spears, but "bigger army diplomacy" means the villains won't survive a shootout, so they surrender instead. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Misplaced Wildlife: The black-and-white movies often placed weird animals in the African jungle. The elephants for instance were Indian, but the film makers just provided some fake ears to them to make them appear more African. The Wolf Larson series may have been even worse by featuring a cougar as native to Africa. | |
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Darkest Africa | |
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Darkest Africa: A romanticized version of the jungle. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: The lead character's standard mode of dress is a loincloth, and sometimes even less; spectacularly displayed by Johnny Weissmuller and Mike Henry). Often averted, however, in regards to earlier films in the series (particularly the silents) where the actors chosen to play the role weren't exactly fanservice-friendly, such as the burly first film Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln, and in Son of Tarzan, a middle-aged actor was cast as an older version of the character yet still had a few scenes in Tarzan's standard "uniform". | |
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Wild Child | |
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Wild Child: Tarzan as a child. His children be they his biological son Korak or his adopted stand-in Boy, also count. | |
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Fur Bikini | |
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Fur Bikini: Jane often wears a variety of this after settling down in the jungle with Tarzan. Most often it's a one-piece minidress, though in the more Fanservice-y examples it's a midriff-baring two-piece. The Bo Derek version went even further, showing Jane topless in a tiny loincloth. | |
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Omniglot | |
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Omniglot: In the original books he speaks at least a dozen languages. Depending on the adaptation he also sometimes understands animals. | |
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Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras | |
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Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras: The Trope Codifier, as this franchise, set in the African jungle, used the kookaburra sound effect first in the 1930s. | |
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Vapor Wear | |
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Vapor Wear: Jane's jungle dress, especially the midriff-exposing version. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Applies to the pre-Weismuller films. The Tarzans played by Elmo Lincoln, Gene Pollar, P. Dempsey Tabler and Frank Merrill are about as far from the image established by Weismuller and his successors as you can get (Lincoln was barrel-chested and burly; Pollar was nerdy and clean-cut; Tabler was middle-aged; Merrill wore a head band and looked more like Valentino than an ape man). In addition, since the famous Tarzan Yell was not perfected until Weismuller, the couple of times it was heard prior to him, it was very different. | |
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Hulk Speak | |
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Hulk Speak: In the various movies, the ape man talks like this. Adaptations that hew closer to the books depict him becoming fluent in English (and other languages) in the years after his contact with civilization. In addition, beginning with the 1959 film Tarzan's Greatest Adventure starring Gordon Scott, and continuing through the James Bond-influenced late-60s films starring Mike Henry and the 1960s TV series, Tarzan was depicted as literate and spoke normally, averting the trope completely. Some later portrayals would bring it back and play with it, such as the Wolf Larson series which revealed in an Out of Character Is Serious Business moment that he can actually talk normally and implies he only speaks the way he does due to conforming to how the apes speak while the Disney film would have it be used during his early period of learning English. | |
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Panthera Awesome | |
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Panthera Awesome: Big cats such as lions and leopards (and sometimes tigers) are among Tarzan's most common opponents. Lions live on the savannah, so are Misplaced Wildlife, but thankfully the tigers only occurred in Tarzan and the Foreign Legion, which was set in Sumatra, and an early version of Tarzan of the Apes, which had "Sabor" as the blanket term for tigers instead of lionesses. | |
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Barbarian Longhair | |
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Barbarian Longhair: Being raised by apes, Tarzan doesn't pay much attention to how his hair looks. Though in the book series, after learning about "civilized" humans through his father's old books, he cut his hair with a knife to set himself apart. Early silent films alternated between Tarzan being unkempt and clean-cut. Beginning with Weissmuller's films, Tarzan was clean-cut and short-haired. It wasn't until the 1984 film Greystoke that the long-haired version of Tarzan returned to cinema and most adaptations since have him keep his long hair. | |
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Signature Roar | |
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Signature Roar Tarzan's yell, described in the book as "the victory cry of the bull ape" but never written out. By far the most famous version is Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan yell in MGM films, so that most later Tarzan adaptations still use the actual recording or a variant or imitation (this includes the Disney version); it is so well-identified with the character that different roars heard in some films (including those pre-dating Weissmuller, or made by other studios) just sound wrong. The Tarzan yell of pop culture is trademarked by MGM, and thus Tarzan films from other studios (some competing with MGM's, or made after) had to use different yells. Tarzan the Fearless had a less yodeling yell, "AH-AAAAH-AH!" Burroughs himself produced his own Tarzan movie attempting to be Truer to the Text than MGM's series, with a different yell based on his ape language in the books: "AAAH-MANGAAAANIIII!", "Mangani" being the fictional ape-kind which adopted Tarzan. A similar yell had first appeared in a Tarzan radio series: "TAAR-MANGAAAANIIII!", where Tarzan was played by one of the earlier silent movie Tarzan actors who had since become Burroughs' son-in-law (and Burroughs's daughter played Jane). When the Weissmuller film series invokedmoved to rival studio RKO, he had a similar but distinctly different, higher-pitched yell. The very first Tarzan sound film, Tarzan the Tiger, predates Weissmuller's first Tarzan film Tarzan the Ape Man by three years, and so it had the cry as "YAAH! YAAH! YAAH!" The very first Tarzan movie was silent, so the yell was only acted out. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes had "HRAAH! HRAAH! HRAAH!", going for more of a roar and entirely forgoing the familiar pattern. The Legend of Tarzan went for a variation of the Weissmuller yell delivered more like a roar than a yodel. Disney's animated Tarzan imitates the Weissmuller yell, but uniquely starting with a Y sound, "YAHH-EE-AAH" etc. Filmation's animated Tarzan series imitates the Weissmuller yell, performed for the series by Burroughs' own grandson. | |
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Hollywood Natives | |
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Hollywood Natives: In the older movies, before it became a Discredited Trope. | |
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Evil Poacher | |
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Evil Poacher: Illegal hunters are a recurring villain, especially since he became a conservationist in the 90s. | |
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Textplosion | |
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Textplosion: Burne Hogarth, who had done the Newspaper Comic version for many years, published a couple of Graphic Novels using text taken directly from the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels. The art is gorgeous, especially in Jungle Tales of Tarzan | |
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Hungry Jungle | |
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Hungry Jungle: Tarzan's home is full of dangerous wildlife. | |
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Frankenstein's Monster | |
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Outside of the above crossovers, Dark Horse's Tarzan series featured Tarzan meeting Frankenstein's Monster, The Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Hyde and even travelling to the future to fight the Moon Men. | |
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AwesomeByAnalysis | |
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Awesome by Analysis: Because Tarzan is technically only a highly skilled human with peak human strength, this trope usually functions as his primary power, especially in the books. He taught himself how to read from books and can determine exactly what happened in a scene by observing. His tightened senses of sight, hearing and smell help him hunt, and his keen sense of touch is invaluable for the acrobatics he uses to get around the jungle. Copying him, other Tarzan Boy or Jungle Princess characters often have heightened senses like smell, touch or sight. | |
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Surefooted Barefooter | |
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The trope dropped for Tarzan’s live action television series in the 90s (Similar to his distaff counterpart Sheena, another Surefooted Barefooter in most media accept for her 90s series. | |
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SpecialEffectsFailure | |
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The black-and-white movies often placed weird animals in the African jungle. The elephants for instance were Indian, but the film makers just provided some fake ears to them to make them appear more African. | |
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Earthy Barefoot Character | |
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Earthy Barefoot Character is often used for natives and the Ape Man himself to demonstrate how distant they are to modern society and how much they embrace the jungle. | |
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Screen-to-Stage Adaptation | |
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Tarzan the Musical, a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation of the Disney feature, premiered on Broadway in 2006. | |
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Handy Feet | |
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It was especially evident in the Disney adaptation, where Tarzan embraces having Handy Feet to grip and climb on everything. | |
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Loincloth | |
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Loincloth: Tarzan wears one. In some versions, the loincloth also has a strap across his shoulder. Jane occasionally wears one too, depending on the permissiveness of the time the film was made. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b032e4ed | comment |
Ms. Fanservice: Occasionally Jane (though far less often than Tarzan) was seen wearing very little. Most notable examples: Maureen O'Sullivan in the Weissmuller series (most notably in Tarzan and His Mate) and Bo Derek in the 1981 film. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b032e4ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b552b24 | type |
Truer to the Text | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b552b24 | comment |
Burroughs himself produced his own Tarzan movie attempting to be Truer to the Text than MGM's series, with a different yell based on his ape language in the books: "AAAH-MANGAAAANIIII!", "Mangani" being the fictional ape-kind which adopted Tarzan. A similar yell had first appeared in a Tarzan radio series: "TAAR-MANGAAAANIIII!", where Tarzan was played by one of the earlier silent movie Tarzan actors who had since become Burroughs' son-in-law (and Burroughs's daughter played Jane). | |
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1.0 | |
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Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b552b24 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b7e5f66b | type |
Jungle Princess | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b7e5f66b | comment |
Jungle Princess: Jane, in most versions, becomes one after leaving her civilized life behind and marrying Tarzan. In films that did not feature Jane, there was usually a female lead who became this. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b7e5f66b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b7e5f66b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_b7e5f66b | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_bf927e82 | type |
Non-Human Sidekick | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_bf927e82 | comment |
Non-Human Sidekick: Usually a monkey or ape (Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Johnny Weissmuller films being the most famous one), sometimes also an elephant, big cat or bird. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_bf927e82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_bf927e82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_bf927e82 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_c0c460b4 | type |
Tribal Carry | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_c0c460b4 | comment |
Tribal Carry: Often the side character a get captured by natives and Tarzan himself has a bit of bad habit of becoming a Badass in Distress, so it’s common for him to find himself tied to poles. There was a lot a variety with it, most iconically the Crucified Hero Shot version in Tarzans Fight For Life. Bound and Gagged is also common with outsider villains. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_c0c460b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_c0c460b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_c0c460b4 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_cfe31421 | type |
Primal Chest-Pound | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_cfe31421 | comment |
Primal Chest-Pound: Tarzan, being a man raised by apes, sometimes performs one, usually combined with his Signature Roar. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_cfe31421 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_cfe31421 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_cfe31421 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_e5e6640b | type |
Flanderization | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Flanderization: Book!Tarzan is not only a wild jungle man, but fiercely intelligent (he taught himself to read and write two languages in spite of being unable to speak either), an avid prankster with a well-developed if somewhat morbid sense of humor, and (even in his jungle days) a snappy dresser with a dandy-ish streak. Adaptations only copied his fondness for jungle life. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_e5e6640b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_e5e6640b | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eb28ab57 | type |
Bound and Gagged | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eb28ab57 | comment |
Bound and Gagged is also common with outsider villains. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eb28ab57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eb28ab57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eb28ab57 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eeb2d092 | type |
Killer Gorilla | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eeb2d092 | comment |
Killer Gorilla: A common adversary of Tarzan. In some versions Tarzan's own ape family has members who fit this trope, and sometimes they are outsiders and enemies of Tarzan's tribe. The original books have both: Kerchak and Terkoz are evil members of Tarzan's tribe, the Mangani (a fictional species of great ape), and the Bolgani (gorillas) are enemies of the tribe. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eeb2d092 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eeb2d092 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_eeb2d092 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f71c4d2f | type |
Vine Swing | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f71c4d2f | comment |
Vine Swing: Tarzan's preferred transportation method, so much that he's the Trope Codifier. Surprisingly Averted in the original books, but done in just about every single other appearance. | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f71c4d2f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Tarzan (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f71c4d2f | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f97453eb | type |
Channel Hop | |
Tarzan (Franchise) / int_f97453eb | comment |
When the Weissmuller film series invokedmoved to rival studio RKO, he had a similar but distinctly different, higher-pitched yell. | |
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1.0 | |
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