

Given that the unit they're in obviously prides itself on foreign recruits as well the series making it clear more humans around the world have an interest in the jungle, it's possible they are of North African or Middle Eastern descent.

Ambiguously Brown: French Foreign Legion Commander Jean Staquait and a number of his men are notably more tanned than the other resident Frenchman Durmont and have pointer facial features.Always a Bigger Fish: A Velociraptor from Pellucidar make short work on a Leopard, an apex predator that Tarzan had to tangle time to time.All Animals Are Dogs: The baby leopard in "The Lost Cub" wags its tail and licks Jane's face.Tarzan is the one who inspires him to create the US National Park System so that everyone can enjoy the natural world, since most of humanity spend their lives in the city or the agricultural countryside. Averted in "Tarzan and the Rough Rider", which features an appearance by Theodore Roosevelt of all people.The first episode in which they appear is an homage to the Road to. Hugo and Hooft are parodies of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, respectively.An Aesop: Usually spelled out by Jane at the beginning with a metaphor and a book.He essentially switches personalities with Kerchak, who was portrayed a brutal and violent ape in the book and a stern and mistrusting, but honorable silverback in the movie. Also, Tublat, who was Tarzan's distant and unfriendly father figure in the book, was turned into an Ax-Crazy Killer Gorilla who is a menace to Tarzan's troop.Whereas in the show, he's the exact opposite. Professor Philander wasn't a villain in the original books, but was Porter's colleague and friend.
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The original movie combined the two (keeping Kerchak as the leader of the tribe, but also filling Tublat's role as Kala's mate who passively dislikes Tarzan), so the series has a character named Tublat who fills the original Kerchak's role.
