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Jungle Opera

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Derived from the name of it's cousin Space Opera, Jungle Opera is another Sub-Genre of science fiction that was largely influenced by pulp. While Space Opera commonly focuses on themes of Physics, Cosmology, Biology and Computer Science, Jungle Opera tends to focus more on other sciences such as Anthropology, Archaeology, Zoology, Cryptozoology and Ecology, but has on occasion had more traditional science fiction themes. It is common for this genre to be set in the late 19th to early 20th century, where this genre was most prevalent, but it's not uncommon for this genre to be set in the future, the distant past, on other planets or in other dimensions.
The key common point about the setting is that it is almost always set in a mysterious and lawless Hungry Jungle, largely unexplored by modern humans. Darkest Africa, The Shangri-La, and the Temple of Doom are all common locations. Most always, the protagonist is an outsider, either a Bold Explorer, from a more developed part of the world, or they are Raised by Wolves or Natives, but are still from somewhere else. Usually this is used as a means of connecting with the audience who is equally unfamiliar with the hostile environment, but a Badass Native is far from unwelcomed in this genre. Just because the protagonist is an outsider, that doesn't mean they have to be white. Kipling's Mowgli was an Indian character. Still often expect to see a Prejudice Aesop for them if they live in the jungle.
Similar to Space Opera, this genre has a theme of travel. Rather than going to physically different locations, this genre focuses on culturally different locations, either with humans, animals, non-humans or even Aliens. characters will often travel hundreds of miles with nothing occurring between trips, because Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale. Although there is great potential in Worldbuilding the Lost Tribe with a deep lore and culture the worldbuilding is usually focused focused entirely on animal factions while the Lost Tribe is most often a Planet of Hats living as a stereotypical tribe of Noble Savages who In Harmony with Nature, especially in Green Aesop stories. Sometimes other forms of Hollywood Natives appear as well, including the Cannibal Tribe.
There are two very different aesthetics depending on where the characters are from. Bold Explorer characters include, but are not limited to, the Adventurer Archaeologist, Great White Hunter and the Action Survivor. Usually their aesthetic includes the Adventurer Outfit complete with Big Guns, Fingerless Gloves and Boots of Toughness. Due to the overlap of this genre, seeing some Steampunk, Diesel Punk or even Used Future can all appear depending on when and where the Jungle is. For jungle dwelling protagonist, expect the Badass Native, Tarzan Boy or Jungle Princess and well as their Action Pet. Usually their asthetic includes, Earthy Barefoot Character, Loincloth, Fur Bikini, and Braids, Beads and Buckskins (though a more exotic version), and using Bamboo Technology, Vine Swing, Animal Themed Fighting Styles and Combat Parkour often.
As mentioned before, this genre is known for its action and violence, so stunts like Bound and Gagged, Unwilling Suspension, Captured by Cannibals, Chased by Angry Natives, and Hunting the Most Dangerous Game are all very common. Expect natural threats to include Panthera Awesome, Piranha Problem, Big Creepy-Crawlies and a Prehistoric Monster. Human threats commonly include the classic Outlaw, Egomaniac Hunter, the similar (but distinct) Evil Poacher, Ruthless Modern Pirates, Cannibal Tribe or simple Hollywood Natives with a Witch Doctor conducting any form of Human Sacrifice. Due to this genre being so steaped in lawlessness and violence, Anti-Hero characters like Hired Guns, the Venturous Smuggler, and the Roguish Poacher might appear. Despite all of this, this genre usually takes advantage of it's setting, so expect some Scenery Porn.
The genre could be considered one of the first genres in science fiction. Although speculative science fiction esc tails date all the way back to the second century, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe could be considered the first in the genre, and it was written in the age of enlightenment, with several scientific themes. It was later picked up by Rudyard Kipling with The Jungle Book, which introduced many of the standards of worldbuilding romantic themes that would come to define the genre. Shortly after came pulp with Tarzan and Doc Savage coming to define how we know the genre today.
Although classic works often feature anthropology, archaeology, cryptozoology, botany, paleontology and other sciences, most authors today seem to settle for focusing primarily on Ecology. This is due to rise in environmental awareness over the past decades, causing many authors to incorporate more Green Aesop into their stories. In classic stories Cults, Serial Killers, violent felons hiding from the law etc. we’re all common threats, but in more modern stories tend to feature environmental criminals like the Evil Poacher, Corrupt Corporate Executive, as well as illegal operiations who are all motivated primarily by greed like the others. This is quite a deviation from it's cousin Space Opera, which went for a much grander set of villains including the Evil Overlord, Nazis By Any Other Name, The Empire and classic western style Hired Guns. Space Opera also opted for featuring making the antagonist a Tragic Villain and using the Redemption Arc for both villains and Anti Heroes motivated by greed as Lovable Rogue scoundrels. Jungle Opera never really used the latter, opting for the classic Ideal Hero, especially today by using the Noble Savage trope to further the Green Aesop. Other Real Life villains such as Evil Colonialists, Ruthless Modern Pirates, Human Traffickers, Hired Guns, Warlords, dangerous rogue or rebel soldiers, terrorists, actual cults, Drug Cartels and various other Outlaws have appeared as well with human traffickers having been most prominent before the rise of environmentalism.
This genre tends to be closer to science than High Fantasy, and generally avoids the massive religious and mythological themes of other science fiction stories. This is often because the jungle is so much easier to explore than space, despite the fact that to this day much of our rainforests on earth remain unexplored, and that we have found hundreds of unusual and borderline species, not to mention cryptozoology. The focus on Green Aesop also plays a big role here, as beating up a poacher doesn't really work with the archetypal trials of a hero going into the underworld to battle the shadow and rescue their father from the belly of the beast. In classic stories there was sometimes a Science Versus Magic conflict between a superstitious Witch Doctor and a more rational Mighty Whitey hero, but such portrayals have understandably fallen out of favor in recent decades.
Of course, it would be very wrong to assume this genre never embraces the supernatural, as jungle spirits and Cryptids also sometimes make an appearances. Even H. P. Lovecraft wrote some of his Cosmic Horror stories in this genre. This genre often features something for the explorer to look for as well, weather it be a Lost Tribe, an Ancient Treasure, an Artifact of Doom, The Cure or even the civilization they came from
Similar to the Space Opera, this genre also has a poem.
1. There should be something valuable lost in a distant unexplored land.
2. And an outsider, sharper than their blade, to hunt it.
3. This hero must encounter the most barbaric of places, peoples and creatures.
4. Skilled with weapons of wood and rope against magic and machines.
5. The scenery as breathtaking as it is wild with ancient rivers of crimson.
6. The hero must have companions as loyal as wolves.
7. And an adversary as predatory as a leopard.
8. To bind them as the sands of time sink like quicksand.
9. Then all must be put right, but not ended.
This trope does have a lot of Truth in Television, as everything from stories of explorers, to stories of missionaries, to cryptozology surrounding rainforests, real Mix-and-Match Critters discovered (i.e. the platypus), stories of cults and secret societies even Tarzanesque jungle dwelling orphans, and many other things have popped up in Real Life, at least in the form of rumor and legend, but on occasion officially documented.
See Also: Tropical Island Adventure, Trapped in Another World, Two-Fisted Tales, Steampunk. Diesel Punk, Planetary Romance with which this genre usually overlaps. See Also: Characters: Tarzan Boy and Bold Explorer.
Compare Trapped in Another World with Lost World.
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Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie has Arnold and friends exploring the fictional country of San Lorenzo and exploring ancient South American ruins to find Arnold’s long-lost parents.
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Green Hell is a Survival Sandbox set in the Amazon, with an underlying plot about finding a miracle drug based on native medicine.
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Parodied in Eric, which says that the rainforests of the Discworld's Africa-counterpart are so full of Lost Worlds, Lost Colonies, Temples of Doom, and so on that there's barely room for the trees.
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Parts of Gunga Din, what with the lost temple and all.
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TaleSpin also had its share of mock archeological expeditions used as an excuse for treasure-hunting.
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Missing Link has elements of this, although it's not entirely set in the jungle.
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The Road to El Dorado. Two con men find a fabulously wealthy Central American city and try to save it from a Human Sacrifice-happy high priest and conquistadors.
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Uncharted, particularly in Among Thieves, it even has The Shangri-La!.
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And in the same way, several volumes of Spirou & Fantasio, who are some of the mentioned documentary filmmakers who are the first to prove the marsupilamis' existence and take one back to France as their pet.
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The films based on the above-mentioned The Phantom comic strip.
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In Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, the heroes travel through a portal into Another Dimension, the Lost World of Waka Waka. Waka Waka is a tropical, jungle environment, built on the ruins of an ancient, great civilization, but now the inhabitants hide in the shadows from a mysterious beast controlled by alien invaders. It's something of a parody of the genre, as the heroes aren't dashing explorers but pre-teen boys who simply happen to be more competent than all the adults. Life in Waka Waka is pretty boring, and the solution to their problems turns out to be pretty mundane.
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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
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Every version of King Kong has elements of this. Kong: Skull Island is probably the most straightforward example, as that film is set almost entirely on the eponymous island. It also has by far the most nuanced and postcolonial take on the Skull Island natives.
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Calvin and Hobbes briefly tried its hand at this trope with Safari Al, an imaginary alter ego for Calvin. Evidently, creator Bill Watterson didn't feel there was much there, as he only ever wrote one strip, with Al encountering a giant gorilla (actually Calvin's mother), and Al never became a mainstay of Calvin's imaginary adventures like Stupendous Man, Spaceman Spiff, or Tracer Bullet.
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Spirit of the Century frequently visits this territory.
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Shandra: The Jungle Girl
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Carry On Up the Jungle is a parody of this, with the exploring party having different reasons of being on the trip, such as searching for missing people, and looking for exotic birds.
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Kaza's Mate Gwenna takes place in a jungle opera setting. They deal with many of the things listed on this page and make an occasional foray out of the jungle too.
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Sensation Comics: The Wonder Woman feature "In the Clutches of Nero" is about an anthropologist from Holliday College going to a recently discovered jungle island with three of his students and trying to learn about the natives there, who prove to be quite hostile.
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DuckTales (1987), as part of Scrooge McDuck's frequent globetrotting treasure hunts.
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The Serpent, the first novel in Jane Gaskell's Atlan series, takes place in a prehistoric civilization in ancient South America and contains such elements as giant carnivorous birds and a reptile-man villain. The rest of the saga is in the vein of a Lost World but is still rife with jungle hijinks, particularly in The City, in which the heroine returns to her former home.
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I Eat Your Skin is a horror version, where a writer in the Caribbean uncovers a voodoo zombie cult on an isolated island.
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The films based on the above-mentioned Jungle Jim comic strip.
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Any Marvel Universe comic that takes place in the Savage Land, home to Ka-Zar.
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Tomb Raider. Travel to exotic locations, explore ancient ruins, fight dinosaurs for some reason.
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The Pathfinder adventure path Serpent's Skull (exploring ancient temples in the jungle) wallows in the tropes of Jungle Opera (though the Ancient Astronauts are replaced by earthbound reptilian Precursors).
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Many a Scrooge McDuck story.
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The beginning of Iron Man Noir features this.
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The genre is evoked by the classic Dungeons & Dragons adventure Isle of Dread, the less-classic Isle of the Ape and the fairly recent Tomb of Annihilation.
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The Mummy Trilogy
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The theme of Venus in Rocket Age, though Ganymede could also qualify.
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The Librarian is a satirical version.
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Avatar is this in space. It takes place on the moon Pandora, which is covered entirely with a great forest and inhabited by a race of blue-skinned Humanoid Aliens called the Na'vi whose culture is heavily inspired by real life Amazonian tribes. The story follows a human marine who learns to survive in the jungle in his Na'vi Remote Body and later helps the natives fight off a greedy MegaCorp.
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Jungle Cruise is a modern version, featuring a British explorer and her brother delving deep into the jungle, along with the help of a sarcastic skipper, to discover hidden secrets deep within it. It has a few updates for the modern age, such as the local native people putting on a "scary native people" act to scare the explorer off, with the skipper very much being in cahoots with them.
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Curious Expedition is a rogue-like exploration game where you take on the role of a famous person from the late 1890s or early 20th century and send them and their companions on expeditions into wild places such as jungles, tundra, deserts, and more. You'll face everything from wild animals and distrustful natives to ancient curses and mad cultists in your quest for fame, treasure, and glory.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
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Indiana Jones is the example everyone remembers.
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The Lost World (2001) is a somewhat revisionist take on this genre, deconstructing a lot of the imperialist politics from the book, while still preserving the adventure and all the Living Dinosaurs.
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Lost is primarily this genre, with the Island being an archetypical Lost World.
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Tintin had this every once in a while ([[/Tintin - Tintin in the Congo Tintin in the Congo]], Cigars of the Pharaoh, Prisoners of the Sun) but Flight 714 has this with a twist: Ancient Astronauts.
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Moon Over Africa is a classic example, a story about an explorer searching through Darkest Africa for Atlantis and encountering horror, mystery, magic, and Lost Worlds galore.
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The central theme of the arcade game Jungle Hunt. Explore a jungle, swim a pirahna-infested river, resolve differences in culinary preferences.
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Played surprisingly straight in The Jungle Book (1994), considering when it came out. It's been said that it feels more like a Tarzan movie than a Jungle Book adaptation, as it focuses mostly on Mowgli's interactions with human characters (including British colonists in India), and his various animal friends don't talk.
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Congo by Michael Crichton is a rare modernized version of this trope.
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Green Mansions is a romance in the jungle for a large part, but the protagonists are also Chased by Angry Natives for most of the third act.
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Marsupilami: The Marsupilami lives in the jungles of Palombia and the comics often feature the native tribe, a Great White Hunter, and foreign documentary filmmakers and industrial investors entering its wild world.
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Bring 'Em Back Alive
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has the in-universe book series "Daring Do", which is heavily based on Indiana Jones.
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Tales of the Gold Monkey.
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The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
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Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of the most widely-adapted characters ever, he also appeared in Comic Strips, Comic Books, Radio, Television (both live-action and animated), and of course Film (again, both live-action and animated). There was even a loosely-based Anime series, "Jungle King Tar-chan".
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King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard is the Ur-Example.
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Superboy (1994): The Wild Lands are an island that is almost completely hidden from the outside world and has lost their knowledge of it. When SB ends up washed up on shore he is enslaved and drugged and has to fight his way free and tell the unaware locals that humans from the outside world are actually intelligent creatures which has been hidden by a local conspiracy that has been drugging any humans who end up on their shores to hide their sapience.
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GURPS volume Cliffhangers has a lot about this kind of story and how to draw a typical plot of this kind.
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The Lost City of Z, about the real-life voyages of Col. Percy Fawcett into the Amazon and his obsession with finding a ruined city he was convinced was there. One of the more toned-down and realistic cases of this kind of story.
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O Guarani by José De Alencar
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Liane, Jungle Goddess
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