8/5/2023 0 Comments Jungle girls dc![]() See Nubile Savage, which is her default appearance. ![]() So if one uses this trope for modern readers, it’s very important to characterize as well as make a real effort to avoid Author Appeal. Not only does these portrayals cheapen the character, but it detracts from jungle areas in Real Life where women are frequently victims of Human Traffickers. Not only is Fanservice common, but the Jungle Princess is also frequently portrayed as available to any explorer who is interested and she rarely has a personally beyond that of the classic Noble Savage. Most authors seem to stop at the Fur Bikini and Nubile Savage, without any regard or Real Life or the Rule of Cool, and then they just call it a day. It’s very important to remember that this trope came from a very different era, in which false ideas that natives had no standards in regards to procreation or modesty, where common. The trope itself is older than that, though, with possibly the first example being Rima from W. The trope name ultimately dates to a 1920 silent film serial called The Jungle Princess, but its common usage probably dates from the 1936 film of the same name starring Dorothy Lamour. In science fiction, many a Green-Skinned Space Babe is just a jungle princess with a dye job and a ray gun. While the movie version of the Jungle Princess will let her explorer bring her back to his home and 'civilize' her, the TV version will insist on staying in the jungle, and so our hero will settle down in a nice treehouse and steal kisses from her when she's not busy ordering her lions to savage the occasional poacher. She will find him in the clutch of some local danger (being menaced by her tame leopard is always fun if it's a romantic comedy), rescue him, and romance will ensue. Inevitably she will be single when she first encounters a hunky American or European explorer. Most likely, the roles will be switched and involve a Distressed Dude she has to rescue, if the Jungle Princess is the star. That is if she is not no more than a helpless Damsel in Distress, who frequently ends up Bound and Gagged after being Captured by Cannibals, or Locked Up and Left Behind by the Evil Poacher as she waits for the Loincloth wearing Tarzan Boy to rescue her. She is also likely to be a barefoot bikini clad version of a Knight Errant. Even if she's not particularly naive and although she may well possess some fearsomely strong instincts and drives toward it, her isolation from humans has left her with no concept whatsoever of romance. If the Jungle Princess is particularly naive, she'll buy into that belief. ![]() She will very rarely be depicted in primitive shoes like sandals or moccasins sometimes compared to the natives who still go barefoot.įor some unfathomable reason, the animals of the jungle obey her slavishly instead of viewing her as lunch, and the woefully benighted Hollywood Natives treat her as a goddess. She almost always Barefoot usually as an Earthy Barefoot Character. She is far more likely to have neat hair than Wild Hair, and her legs and armpits will be inexplicably hairless. Despite her upbringing, though, she has managed to grasp the basic rudiments of English, tools, and fashion - she is frequently seen wearing fetching leather or Fur Bikinis that show off her toned midriff and wielding a spear. The Distaff Counterpart of Tarzan of the Apes, this is a young woman of European extraction who has been raised in a jungle environment, usually by animals. "I Love a Film Cliche", A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine ![]()
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