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Tarzan Boy

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Tarzan Boy	comment	An Expy of Tarzan, and the Spear Counterpart to Jungle Princess. A Tarzan Boy, or "Tarzanesque", is a white man who lives in the jungle, usually in the Darkest Africa. He's usually Raised by Wolves after being marooned in the jungle as a child. Expect the Nubile Savage trope to be in play, as the Tarzan Boy will always be handsome and surprisingly well-groomed and clean-shaven for a guy who lives completely isolated from civilization. Often he will have one or several animal companions and is able to communicate with them. He'll be an Earthy Barefoot Character, wear a Loincloth and no shirt, and travel around by Vine Swing. Tarzan Boy usually finds his "Jane" in a civilized white woman he has to rescue. Sometimes, however, he will choose his Distaff Counterpart, the Jungle Princess, or occasionally the native Chief's daughter (who will inevitably be drawn in a much more attractive manner than the other natives who are seen). This trope was popular up until The '50s. As with many pulp tropes, its popularity waned in the second part of the twentieth century, but there were still occasional attempts to revisit it, either parodic or serious. Interestingly, this trope's Distaff Counterpart, Jungle Princess, eventually surpassed it in popularity. Subtrope of Nature Hero. Compare Handsome Heroic Caveman, the prehistoric equivalent. Contrast Frazetta Man (these are usually present as Tarzan Boy's enemies, to further emphasize the contrast between them).
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Tarzan Boy / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side had Larry of the Lemurs, inhabitant of Madagascar, said to have not quite achieved the fame of his African counterpart.
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Tarzan Boy / int_17293dfa	comment	Gonta Gokuhara in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, a Gentle Giant who was raised away from society for most of his life by animals and decided to make an effort to become a gentleman after returning to human civilization. As a result, he's a Genius Ditz who's one of the world's leading experts on entomology and wilderness survival but fails to grasp simple subjects like proper grammar.
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Tarzan Boy / int_187a332	comment	Wild Smurf of The Smurfs is a Tarzan Smurf. Introduced in the 1980s Animated Adaptation and brought into the comic books in the 1990s, Wild was a Smurf who, upon the night of his "birth" by Delivery Stork, was lost in the forest and raised by squirrels until his public discovery by the Smurfs. Although animalistic in his behaviors, Wild at least knew how to assemble a Smurf hat out of leaves, and in the comic books eventually learned how to speak in very primitive Smurf language when the Smurfs had him stay in the village during the winter.
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Tarzan Boy / int_1a2b452e	comment	Timmy in the Count Duckula episode "Jungle Duck", who was raised by apes, and turns out to be the long lost son of a Great White Hunter called the Commodore.
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Tarzan Boy / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: A gag from Gorilla My Dreams has a vine-swinging gorilla pausing at a stoplight to let a Tarzan expy swing across. The title characters of the 1968 short Chimp and Zee are a monkey and a jungle boy respectively.
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Tarzan Boy / int_3106477d	comment	The Phantom: As they reach adulthood, the heirs to the title of The Phantom spend time as a Tarzan Boy for training; with just a knife and a loincloth, they're left to survive completely alone in a Hungry Jungle, the final test to make them worthy of being the Phantom when the time comes. Every single member of the line passed with flying colors, which isn't exactly a surprise, since most of them grew up in (slightly less savage) jungles, raised and trained by their parents and the local Pigmy tribe. In fact, the 19th Phantom is a partial inspiration for Tarzan himself, having saved Edgar Rice Burroughs during his time in the jungle.
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Tarzan Boy / int_396e0331	comment	Classic Disney Shorts: The short Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive features Goofy as an African wild man, with Donald Duck (as an expy of hunter Frank Buck) looking to sell him to the circus.
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Tarzan Boy / int_3c7dd9d4	comment	The Nuka-World DLC of Fallout 4 has Cito, who was raised by "Ghoulrillas" (mutated version of gorillas) residing in the park's animal preserve.
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Tarzan Boy / int_3df10170	comment	"Jungle Boy" Jack Perry from All Elite Wrestling plays this trope to a T. The Trope Namer is even his official entrance theme.
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Tarzan Boy / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: In one strip, Calvin declares himself to be Wonga-Taa, King of the Jungle◊, after getting fed up with Suzie's make-believe dinner, and runs off in underpants to find Hobbes. He has also pretended to be Tarzan a few◊ times◊.
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Tarzan Boy / int_4758b0b7	comment	Jungle King Tar-Chan is a parody series that features a white jungle man named Tar-Chan who was raised by chimps. He also has a wife named Jane.
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Tarzan Boy / int_5690420f	comment	DuckTales (1987): The episode "Jungle Duck" has Scrooge and company land in Africa and meet Jungle Duck, who Mrs. Beakley recognizes as the lost-long Prince Greydrake.
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Tarzan Boy / int_59c70db2	comment	A gag from Gorilla My Dreams has a vine-swinging gorilla pausing at a stoplight to let a Tarzan expy swing across.
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Tarzan Boy / int_5aca0f8e	comment	Peppa Pig: Pedro Pony becomes one for his holiday to the jungle in "Around the World with Peppa".
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Tarzan Boy / int_5f4a4c59	comment	Ka-Zar. He started as a short-lived cheap Tarzan knock-off in the '30s, described as an American kid who was raised by lions after his parents' plane crashed in the Congo jungle. Ka-Zar was revived decades later by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in an X-Men comic and given a more fleshed-out characterization. Surprisingly, they made him more similar to Tarzan. Now he was Kevin Plunder, son of a British nobleman who had discovered the tropical Lost World of Savage Land in the middle of the Antarctic. After his father got killed by a local Frazetta Man tribe, Kevin was raised by a mutant intelligent sabertooth tiger named Zabu. He eventually hooked up with Marvel's flagship Jungle Princess, Shanna the She-Devil.
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Tarzan Boy / int_70c7b114	comment	The Gilligan's Island episode "Our Vines Have Tender Apes" features a Tarzan-like wild man named Tongo, who acts like an ape. He's, however, revealed to be an actor merely practicing for a role.
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Tarzan Boy / int_7a12fa31	comment	The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: In "Mario of the Apes," Mario hits his head and is "adopted" by a gorilla couple. To cement the Tarzan parody, he's renamed as "Marzan" until he gets his memories back.
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Tarzan Boy / int_88ccb90a	comment	Beany and Cecil: "The Wild Man of Wildsville" featured Beany and Cecil meeting Go Man Van Gogh, a Tarzan parody who wore a beret with his loincloth and talked like a stereotypical Beatnik.
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Tarzan Boy / int_8df52a8d	comment	The first Superboy volume featuring a two-part imaginary story (183 and 188) respectively where Superboy landed in Africa, was raised by apes and become such a character. This would be revisted for the Elseworld and crossover Superman/Tarzan: Sons of the Jungle.
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Tarzan Boy / int_93222eb1	comment	Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland has Junglo the Jungle Hero, who used to be a strong, Tarzan-like figure who lived in the jungle. At the time of the game, he's well past his prime and even Tingle himself is stronger than him.
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Tarzan Boy / int_9bb5aad4	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Taira Taizan/Damon dropped out of school for a year to live in the wild and perfect his drawing technique. When he resurfaces, he has become extremely buff and looks, acts, and talks like Tarzan. Parodied when Jaden calls him a faker because he's pretty sure one year is not enough turn someone into a Wild Child, and he indeed returns to his natural voice when he loses their duel.
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Tarzan Boy / int_c2273334	comment	Planetary features a modern and rather morally ambiguous take on the Tarzan Boy trope in Lord Blackstock. A scion of a shady British family of adventurers, he's considered a hero of the African continent. However, he doesn't concern himself with anything besides relieving his boredom, and prefers to think of the natives as his subjects. It's also implied he's having sex with his apes.
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Tarzan Boy / int_ca225f67	comment	The religious radio drama PatchThePirate has a couple of jungle adventures and two notable Tarzan Boy characters. Banana Man (Not to be confused with the British superhero of the save name) is more of a parody similar to Gorge of the Jungle than John Clayton. When a sailor asked if he was like Tarzan, he replied, "Yup, me and Tarzan are almost identical twins; the only difference is that Tarzan is good at fighting apes, and I'm good at fighting Bananas" (Though he claims they look alike, in the cover art, Banana Man more resembles Captain Caveman with an enormous chin instead of a beard) Although he looks like a classic Mighty Whitey, he is actually part of an ancient culture of banana wielding warriors following what they call "Bananahood" complete with a Lost Language where characters of script are formed using tiny Bananas. When another sailor asks if he is Tarzan, he replies, "Tarzan? That wimp" Banana man tends to respond whenever someone unfortunately says the word "help", with "Help? Did I hear help? Naaa-aaa-aaa Banana Man!" and he arives via Vine Swing and forgets to Watch Out for That Tree!. He is untarnished from cartoon logic "Although I've had some freckles, I have never had a burse" in his own words, but the trees can no longer take it to the point of causing a literal ecological crisis. The trope was Deconstructed in the episode "Kilimanjaro", where Captain Patch hires a guide named Barefoot Ben; a man who was an orphan of missionaries if Africa, who now lives in the jungle, likely carrying on his parents business. His knowledge of the jungle is so keen that he simply lives in the wilderness. "I live in the jungle. Everyday I get to work under the sun; every night I get to sleep under the stars. Who want's to live in a house when you can enjoy the beauty of God's creation" He also knows how to find food and avoid predators, sleeps in trees with hammocks he carries around and even has a pet Bush Baby. He speaks fluent English, and is implied to be fluent in Swahili as well. Although he does use modern tools and cloths, opting for an Adventurer Outfit instead of the Loincloth, he still Prefers Going Barefoot due to his keen knowledge of the jungle allowing him to avoid obstacles. According to his hilarious theme song preformed by the local monkeys for some reason, he has The Strength of Ten Men. He is also given more character in how he values godly wisdom and his faith rather than being merely a Nature Lover.
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Tarzan Boy / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	One-time Daredevil rogue Micah Synn was a villainous example. He was a direct descendant of English settlers that lived among an East African tribe, and became chief through Asskicking Leads to Leadership. He lived by a Social Darwinist "might makes right" philosophy that resulted in him stealing food, fighting cops, and eventually becoming The Kingpin's minion. However, his body had difficulty adjusting to Western civilization and he was weakened to the point that he got beaten up by a gang of hobos and needed Daredevil to Save the Villain.
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Tarzan Boy / int_cfeb3aa	comment	The Jungle Book: Mowgli could be considered the Ur-Example, since he appeared years before Tarzan himself did. (But he is native, and for most of the stories, younger). Actually, Rudyard Kipling himself accused Tarzan of being an Expy of Mowgli, however, Edgar Rice Burroughs denied it.
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Tarzan Boy / int_e42c133a	comment	Jungle Boy: Premiered as a What A Cartoon! Show short, intended to be a companion series for Johnny Bravo. He's a little boy who lives in the jungle and helps out animals.
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Tarzan Boy / int_ed8afeac	comment	George of the Jungle: The main character is a parody of Tarzan, a dumb and oblivious but good-natured Tarzan Boy who often has to save the jungle and its inhabitants from various threats. He's klutzy as well, slamming into trees and falling into the river as he's swinging on vines.
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Tarzan Boy / int_f81101f2	comment	In the PokÃ©mon: The Original Series episode "The Kangaskhan Kid", the titular kid is a human boy who got lost in the Safari Zone and was raised by a pack of Kangaskhan. He's even known as Tarsan in the Japanese version. The 23rd Pokemon movie, PokÃ©mon: Secrets of the Jungle, features another jungle boy named Koko, raised by a Zarude since infancy.
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Tarzan Boy / int_f9f6b55e	comment	The first game of Wonder Boy series is about the titular character being a blonde good-looking caveman/jungle boy who has to travel into an island and atacking creatures to rescue his girl. Although looks more as a caveman, he looks more like a blonde Tarzan as in various comic book knockoffs.
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Tarzan Boy / int_fe0d604f	comment	Avatar: The Way of Water: Spider grew up in the jungle (albeit Raised by Natives rather than Wolves), he's always shirtless with a Loincloth, is something of a Wild Child, adopts a Primal Stance sometimes, and manages to keep up with Na'vis when they swing and run in the canopies of Pandora's forests. And he's the son of a white human who died in the jungle.
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