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- The Legend of Tarzan is a Disney show starring the main cast from the movie Tarzan. It takes place after the events of the film; Jane and Tarzan live in the jungle as husband and wife, along with his gorilla pack and her scientist father. Hijinks ensue. It adapted several characters and locations from other original Tarzan books and Edgar Rice Burroughs material such as Queen La and the hidden dinosaur world of Pellucidar. An episode even brought Burroughs himself into the action.
* Absent-Minded Professor: Prof. Porter.
* Adaptational Villainy: Professor Philander wasn't a villain in the original books, but was Porter's friend.
* An Aesop: Usually spelled out by Jane at the beginning with a metaphor and a book.
* Affectionate Parody/No Celebrities Were Harmed: Hugo and Hooft are parodies of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, respectively. The first episode in which they appear is an homage to the Road To movies.
* Averted in one episode, which features a cameo appearance by Theodore Roosevelt of all people.
* Arbitrary Skepticism: Being a man of science, Professor Porter tends to be more concerned with finding scientific explanations to more mystical occurrences. Nevermind that he regularly converses with apes and an elephant, and has encountered thought-to-be-extinct dinosaurs. The trope is subverted in "The All-Seeing Elephant." After doubting the concept of such a being, he is reminded of how he doubted the all-too real Mangani.
* Arch Enemy: Professor Philander with Professor Porter. Ironic, since in the original books the two were colleagues and friends.
* Bad Boss: Queen La. Especially in her debut episode, where she has a habit of disintegrating minions for no reason whatsoever other than they happen to be there when she's in a bad mood. One of the episodes deals with her Leopardmen getting fed up and revolting.
* Better Than It Sounds: At first glance seems like a low budget movie adaptation, but has shown a deep mythology and doesn't shy away from mature subject matter such as death.
* Big Bad: The most recurring foes are Tublat, Professor Philander and Queen La.
* Big Damn Heroes: When doesn't Tarzan do this?
* Blond Guys Are Evil: Jane's old flame Robert.
* Catfolk: Leopardmen.
* Compilation Movie: Tarzan & Jane. Three then-unaired episodes ("British Invasion," "The Volcanic Diamond Mine" and "The Flying Ace") were used with a framing story about Tarzan and Jane's wedding anniversary.
* Cowardly Lion: Tantor.
* Deadpan Snarker: Terk.
* Does Not Wear Shoes/Foot Focus: Since the show is set in the jungle, it's hardly surprising that many of the human characters go barefoot. Also, there are quite a few closeups.
* Evil Brit: Queen La seems to have a British accent.
* Expy/Composite Character: Tublat. While qualities of Book!Tublat were used to soften up Kerchak, qualities of Book!Kerchak were used to create the villainous Tublat.
* Also, Nikolas Rokoff in the show is less of the Rokoff from the original Tarzan books and much more like General Zaroff from the famous short story "The Most Dangerous Game".
* Fat and Skinny: Hugo and Hooft.
* Fire-Forged Friends: Tarzan and Basuli.
* Also Jane and Terk.
* Five-Man Band:
* The Hero: Tarzan
* The Lancer: Terk
* The Big Guy: Tantor
* The Smart Guy: Professor Porter
* The Chick: Jane
* Foreshadowing: Throughout the series' run several characters from America and Europe wind up coming across their patch of jungle and begin making a sort of shanty town and port. When there wound up being practically an entire town now, an episode ended with Kala silently worrying that their jungle may be lost to the new humans forever.
* Find the Cure: Tarzan was poisoned by a spider in one episode, and Jane and Terk had to work together to get a flower which was needed to make the antidote.
* Fluffy the Terrible: One episode had Terk and Tantor trying to name a leopard cub. Terk likes "Fluffy" and "Doodles" while Tantor likes "Bobo". The end up deciding on "Commandor Fluffy Paws".
* French Jerk: Renard Dumont, and while he wasn't a villain, he was pretty much a Selfish Neutral character always looking to make a quick buck. He does things right from time to time though, particularly in episodes like "Tarzan and the Prison Break".
* Frenemy: The Baboons.
* Geeky Turn On: See below.
* Genre Savvy: Jane, when it looks like Queen La's gone for good. "You know what they say about appearances..."
* Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Professor's love interest visited during one episode, and they spent a lot of time discussing germination. In very sexy terms.
* God Is Good: "The All-Seeing Elephant."
* Grand Theft Me: In "Tarzan and the Return of La," Queen La possesses Jane. Crosses with Gender Bender when she possesses Tarzan due to a Batman Gambit he pulls.
* Hey, It's That Voice!: Jared, Lord of the Jungle, and his wife Nicole Wallace!
* Max Liebling in the "One Punch Mullargan" episode was played by Bruce Campbell!
* I See London: In "The British Invasion", Jane and her friends Eleanor, Greenley and Hazel remove their dresses to walk or run more easily in the jungle, and they're all in their white pantalets.
* Jerkass: Professor Philander, so much so that he really aggravates Professor Porter.
* Jerk Jock: One Punch Mullargan.
* Killer Gorilla: While most ape characters avert this trope, Tublat plays it straight.
* Limited Wardrobe: Somewhat justified, in that over half of the main characters don't really wear clothing, and it's rather difficult for the other two to get their hands on new clothes in the middle of the jungle. Lampshaded when Dumont opens his store. Jane complains about having only one change of clothing, then comes back from Dumont's with an elephant load of Paris fashions. Though her main outfit remains the same, occasionally she changes into others afterwards.
* Literary Agent Hypothesis: Similar to The Little Mermaid TV series, an episode focuses around Edgar Rice Burroughs as a struggling author traveling to Africa searching for inspiration for a book after reading a news story about Tarzan
* Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Well, not quite "boy" and "girl", but Tantor and Terk fit.
* Mythology Gag:
* "Mangani" is the name of the species that raised Tarzan in the books.
* Also, to show that La is actually Atlantean, the animators decided to give her dark skin and white hair, like the characters in Atlantis the Lost Empire.
* Never My Fault: Professor Philander always blames Professor Porter for his own misfortunes.
* Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In "Leopard Men Rebellion" Tarzan helps Queen La get her staff back off the leopard men when they kidnap Jane. Turns out they kidnapped her to make her their queen so she could free them.
* Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: La has a British accent but some American pronunciations seep through, particularly with the way she says Tarzan's name.
* Only Shop in Town: Renard Dumont's trading post.
* The Rival: Basuli to Tarzan. In Basuli's first appearance, it was more volatile, but a team-up saw them iron out their differences to a far more friendly rivalry.
* Not to mention Professor Philander to Professor Porter.
* Kerchak and Tublat in the flashback.
* Shout-Out: In "The All Seeing Elephant" Tantor falls off a cliff and thanks to trees gets launched into the air. At one point Tarzan and Jane see him fly by and Jane comments:
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* See Mythology Gag above for Queen La's design for this show.
* Single-Target Sexuality: The first episode with La shows that Tarzan is pretty much Jane-sexual.
* Skyward Scream: Tublat, everytime Tarzan beats him in the end.
* Stiff Upper Lip/British Stuffiness: Pretty much every English person in the show is this.
* Stripperific: Queen La, of course.
* Nubile Savage?
* Jane in her loincloth/swimsuit in "Tarzan and the Lost Cub".
* And Tarzan.
* Those Two Guys: Flynt and Mungo for the gorillas, Hugo and Hooft for the humans.
* Terrible Ticking: In one episode, Tarzan's animal friends go crazy, complete with the Madness Mantra "Stop the ringing!" Turns out the local trading post had installed a long-range radio tower, and something in the equipment was generating an ultrasonic noise that was doing this to Tantor, Terk, and the rest. The humans couldn't hear it, but it was driving the animals nuts for miles.
* Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Apparently throwing mud at your opponent's face is the Rhino equivalent.
* Translation Convention: Tantor and Terk are shown as speaking English with each other and with Tarzan, Jane, and Professor Porter, but several episodes make it very clear that Tarzan et. al. speak their languages. In one episode, Jane has difficulties because her Baboon is a bit rusty.
* Ungrateful Bastard: Tublat, after Tarzan saved him from poachers. Of course, Tarzan never even expected a "thanks" from him.
* Villainesses Want Heroes: Queen La to Tarzan, so very much.
* Why Isn't It Attacking?
* Yandere: Queen La.
- The Legend of Tarzan is an animated television series created by the Walt Disney Company in 2001, based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Initially meant as first original series (though ultimately shunted to UPN's "Disney's One Too" lineup), it also appeared on in India. The Legend of Tarzan picks up where the 1999 feature film left off, with the title character adjusting to his new role as leader of the apes following Kerchak's death, and Jane (whom he has since married) adjusting to life in the jungle. Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female ape and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy. The series would adapt elements from numerous other Tarzan books, such as Queen La, the Waziri Tribe, and Pelucidar, a hidden world of dinosaurs. Several episodes unaired during the original run would be edited together into the Tarzan and Jane movie, but found their way in individual form in re-runs. This series was never shown on video in its entirety. Instead, several scenes were integrated into a game in the Tarzan & Jane DVD, named the Tarzan & Jane Adventure Builder, in which the player has to decide the characters' actions, using the remote control's arrow keys, while choosing a path, while Tantor narrates, gamebook style.
- In the nineteenth century, an English couple escape from a sinking ship and land in the uncharted rainforests of Africa. They make a treehouse, where the woman gives birth to a baby boy. The humans are discovered by Kerchak, Lord of the Apes, who violently kills them until his mate Kala arrives and saves him from harming the child. As Kala herself is unable to have children, she takes the child as her own and raises him as her son, naming him Tarzan. For over twenty years Tarzan lives naked in the jungle, but is never accepted by Kerchak. One day, Tarzan's primitive yet idyllic life is shattered by the arrival of other humans on the continent; hunter John Clayton, scientist Professor Porter and his beautiful daughter, Jane. Tarzan watches Jane, smitten by her, as she becomes seperated from the group. She is attacked by a rogue leopard named Sabor, who Tarzan swings down and tackles Sabor away, eventually killing him with a crude spear. Tarzan touches Jane's hand, his first physical contact with a human. Jane leads Tarzan back to the human camp, giving him a loin cloth to cover his nudity, and introduces him to the others. They take a great interest in Tarzan and begin to teach him the ways of humans. Tarzan learns to speak English and grows close to Jane, but is reluctant to reveal to them the location of the gorillas, as he fears what Kerchak will do to them. Eventually, Jane kisses Tarzan, leading to them having sex in the tree tops. Tarzan is suitably devastated when a cargo ship arrives to pick them up. Clayton convinces Tarzan that Jane will remain in Africa with him forever if he brings them to the gorillas. Desperate, Tarzan does so, but Kerchak is enraged and attacks them. Tarzan is forced to fight him, and is disgraced in front of the other apes. The expedition leave for the ship, while Tarzan decides to abandon the ape troop. He is found sulking in the trees by Kala, who brings him to the treehouse and introduces him to his past. Meanwhile, Jane and her father arrive at the ship to find the crew dead. A gang of stowaway pirates reveal themselves and turn out to be in league with Clayton, who is is actuality a poacher. They imprison them in the ship's brig, but Tarzan hears their cries for help and races off after them. He rescues them from the ship, while Clayton and his band head into the jungle to kill the gorillas. Tarzan, Jane and the professor pursue them. The sky is lit up by flares shot out by Clayton's men and the apes are rounded up. Kerchak kills several of them before being caught in a net. Before Clayton can shoot him, Tarzan swings in and knocks him rifle out of his hands. Tarzan is set upon by the other poachers but he fends them off. In the mean time Clayton retrieves his rifle and is about to shoot Tarzan, but Kerchak jumps in the way and takes the bullet. Enraged, Tarzan chases Clayton up into the trees, where he smashes his gun. Clayton tries to kill Tarzan with a machete, but Tarzan wraps him in vines and knocks him out of the tree, leaving him dangling above the ground. One by one the vines begin to snap, and Clayton begs Tarzan to help him, but Tarzan remains silent. He coldly watches as Clayton plummets from the tree and is hanged by the vine around his neck. Tarzan returns to Kerchak's side and makes peace with him. Kerchaek appoints him his successor as king before dying. At the end of the film, Jane and her father must return to civilization. She asks Tarzan to come with them but he responds that he can't, as he must stay and lead the gorillas. Jane promises to one day return, and she and the professor depart. Tarzan sadly watches them go, then charges up the top of the tallest tree and lets out a triumphant roar as the other apes cheer.
- The Legend of Tarzan could refer to:
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - 1984 Tarzan film
* The Legend of Tarzan – 2002 animated Tarzan series
* The Legend of Tarzan – 2016 Tarzan film This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
- Rounding out the cast are Jane's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter; Tantor, the germophobic elephant; and Terk, a wisecracking female ape and Tarzan's old wrestling buddy. The series would adapt elements from numerous other Tarzan books, such as Queen La, the Waziri Tribe, and Pelucidar, a hidden world of dinosaurs. Several episodes unaired during the original run would be edited together into the Tarzan and Jane movie, but found their way in individual form in re-runs.
- La leyenda de Tarzan es una serie animada de televisión creada por The Walt Disney Company en el año 2000. Está basada en el clásico de Disney de 1999: Tarzán.
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