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Tarzan tv series
Tarzan tv series




tarzan tv series
  1. #Tarzan tv series movie#
  2. #Tarzan tv series series#

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.

tarzan tv series

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.

#Tarzan tv series movie#

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.

  • In the book, Kerchak is the villainous leader of the apes (not gorillas like in the Disney version but fictional "Mangani") who challenges Tarzan and loses, while Tublat is Kala's benevolent mate who resents Tarzan, but doesn't outright hate him.
  • Queen La (a recurring antagonist in both the books and the show) is in control of an army of Leopard Men, who are very loosely based on the villains of Tarzan and the Leopard Men - although, the novel's characters were cannibalistic humans, not literal leopard-men.
  • Adaptation Distillation: Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a lot of Tarzan books (25!), so elements of several were occasionally combined into single stories:.
  • (listening on his self-built radio, trying to get a cricket match, as Jane had taken over the comms system from a war airplane) "Jane? What are you doing at the cricket finals?"






    Tarzan tv series