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{{quote|''[[Hulk Speak|Me only simple jungle princess.]] [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|What mean this word, "kiss"?]]''|"I Love A Film Cliche", ''[[A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine]]''}}
The [[Distaff Counterpart]] of [[Tarzan of the Apes
For some unfathomable reason, the [[Friend to All Living Things|animals of the jungle obey her slavishly]] instead of viewing her as lunch, and the woefully benighted natives treat her as a goddess. If the Jungle Princess is particularly naive, she'll buy into that belief. 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.
Inevitably, she will encounter [[Mighty Whitey|a hunky European explorer]] ([[Unfortunate Implications|rather than a -- perish the thought -- relationship with a native]]) usually by [[
In science fiction, many a [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] is just a jungle princess with a dye job and a zap gun.
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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.
See also [[Nubile Savage]]. Not to be confused with [[The Chief's Daughter]], where the leading lady actually fits the native culture (but is almost always a princess [[Everything's Better
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sapphire Birch, ''[[
* Weda from ''[[
* ''[[Makyou no Shanana]]''
* Either subverted or deconstructed with San, the eponymous Mononoke-Hime of ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''. While she fits a lot of the traits of a Jungle Princess, her character like almost anything else in the movie, is not as two-dimensional and clear cut as it seems at first.
* ''[[Magical Princess Minky Momo]]'': Momo transforms into one in Episode 20.
** [[Cutey Honey]] does the same thing in ''her'' 20th episode.
== Comic Books ==
▲* Definitely [[Sheena Queen Of The Jungle]] herself.
* Storm of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' spent part of her childhood and adolescence as a Jungle Princess; when her weather powers activated, she was also worshipped as a [[A God Am I|literal goddess]].
** The [[Marvel Universe]] also has Shanna the She-Devil. The similarity between her name and Sheena's is entirely coincidental, of course.
* An [[Author Appeal|extremely blatant fetish]] of comics artist [[Frank Cho]], who has worked on such diverse series as the above-mentioned ''[[Shanna the She-Devil]]'', ''[[Cavewoman]]'', and... ''[[Jungle Girl]]''.
* Subverted in the French comic ''[[Sillage]]'' (aka ''Wake'' in English). In the first volume the heroine Nävis (Navee) encounters a group of alien slaves who have been ordered to change the environment of her jungle planet for their masters' purposes, and ends up winning them over not because they view her as a goddess but because she possesses superior logic. {{spoiler|Unfortunately that still doesn't prevent the jungle being destroyed, and she's adopted and "civilized" by the advanced culture of the title.}}
* In the comic ''[[The Maxx]]'', Julie Winters manifests in the Outback as the Jungle Queen, the embodiment of this trope. Later, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the Outback is her subconscious, and she created the Jungle Queen in order to have control as an all-powerful goddess after having been brutally raped and beaten years ago.}}
* Jann of the Jungle was
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100111160518/http://members.fortunecity.com/srca1941/Spot5-3-1.html "Kara the Jungle Princess"] made two appearances in 1946 issues of "Exciting Comics".
* After a bout of amnesia, ''[[Alpha Flight]]'''s Heather Hudson plays this role for the length of one annual.
* Tara Fremont from ''[[Femforce]]''.
* ''White Princess of the Jungle'' was a jungle girl anthology comic book published quarterly by Avon Periodicals in the early 1950s.
* Judy of the Jungle appeared in comic books published by Nedor Comics. She debuted in ''Exciting Comics'' #55 (May 1947). Mostly remembered nowadays for featuring early art by [[Frank Frazetta]].
* Princess Pantha was a [[Follow the Leader|Sheena clone]] that appeared in comic books published by Nedor Comics. The character was revived twice; first by AC Comics, and second by writer Alan Moore for his [[
** Tom Strong's own wife Dhalua is also an example, although she's also a subversion of the norm because she's actually ''black''. There's also the alternate universe Tesla of the Tigers, who comes from a world overrun with jungle and whose father Tom of the Tigers was raised by... you can probably guess. Interestingly, Princess Pantha is romantically linked to Tom's Terra Obscura counterpart, Tom Strange.
*** Rather than a subverted Jungle Princess, Dhulua was full dues-paying a [[The Chief's Daughter|Chief's daughter]].
* ''Rulah, Jungle Goddess'' was Fox Feature's response to ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle''. Her real name was given variously as either Jane Dodge (''Zoot'' #7) or Joan Grayson (''Rulah, Jungle Goddess'' #20). In the latter version, Rulah is a young aviatrix on a solo flight over Africa when her plane loses control and crashes. She replaces her clothes (which were destroyed in the crash) with a bikini made from the skin of a dead giraffe. Soon afterwards, Rulah saves a local tribe from an evil woman; the grateful tribespeople declare her queen. Rulah decides to remain in the jungle as its protector.
** Rula's comic adventures are sometimes startlingly violent; and there are generous helpings of [[Les Yay]] among Rulah and her suspiciously-pale native maidens. Said maidens being the subjects of peril, hairdressing, abduction, experiments, and much hugging when rescued.
* Parodied by "Libby in the Lost World" in ''[[Penthouse Comix]]''. Libby was a Jewish American princess stranded in a [[Lost World]] by plane crash and forced unwillingly into the role of
* [[Tom Strong]]'s wife Dhalua is a [[Reconstructed Trope|reconstruction of the trope]]—namely, what happens when [[The Chief's Daughter]] marries the hero and moves to a post-industrial nation, but [[Action Mom|never loses her edge]].
* Ya'wara from the ''[[New 52]]'' [[Aquaman]] series. Unique in that she's one of the few examples of a Jungle Princess who is an actual person of color rather than a displaced white woman in jungle gear.
== Film ==
* There's one of these in the artificial jungle in the movie ''[[Who's That Girl?]]''.▼
▲* There's one of these in the artificial jungle in the movie ''Who's That Girl?''.
* ''The Tiger Woman'', a 1944 Republic film serial, later [[Compilation Movie|edited into the feature ''Jungle Gold'']].
* Nyoka the Jungle Girl from the the 1941 serial ''[[Jungle Girl]]''.
* ''Jungle Goddess'', which was given the ''[[
* Tanya Roberts made a pretty good ''[[Sheena]]'' for the
* You could make the argument that Claudia Jennings played one in the trash film ''[[Gator Bait]]'', just switch the jungle for the Louisiana bayou.
== Literature ==
* [[Discworld]] has lost kingdoms of Amazons which use their male prisoners to do [[Innocent Innuendo|specifically male jobs]] ... like opening pickle jars, sorting out those funny noises in the attic, capturing spiders and putting them outside, and rewiring plugs.
* Rima the Jungle Girl was the heroine of the 1904 novel ''[[Green Mansions]]'' by W.H. Hudson. She wasn't white or European; she belonged to a lost race that even the local Indians didn't know of. Her
** The novel was made into a movie starring Audrey Hepburn in 1959.
** Rima starred in a short-lived (but beautifully illustrated) comic book from [[DC Comics]] called ''Rima the Jungle Girl''.
** Rima even appeared in three episodes of ''[[
** She's now part of DC's ''First Wave'' [[Two-Fisted Tales|pulp-fiction]] imprint.
* Meriem, the wife of Korak the Killer, son of [[Tarzan]] fits this archetype.
* Deconstructed in ''Gentlemen, the Queen!'' by Wilson Tucker. The titular character, a human girl raised by Martian desert rats and referred to as the Desert Queen, has suffered a lot of realistic consequences from her
* Jasmine from ''[[Deltora Quest]]''. A variation is that she only appeared to Lief and Barda to steal their stuff, but eventually came back and save them before they're eaten by the Wen. She also appears in the anime adaptation. Frequently paired with Lief in fanfiction, and the anime has a few hints of it as well, though you have to look for it to see them.
** Although by the end of the second series, it's clear that {{spoiler|it's officially canon.}}
== Live-Action TV ==
* The title character of the 1955 TV series ''Sheena Queen of the Jungle'' and its 2000-01 remake ''Sheena'', as well as the 1984 film ''[[Sheena]]''. And the 1940s comic book they were all inspired by.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "[[Jungle Goddess]]" features a variation: the "princess" in question was not actually raised in the jungle (and thus is not [[Friend to All Living Things]]) but rather was [[Mistaken for Gods]] by the local natives after a plane crash.
* Veronica Layton in the TV series ''[[Sir Arthur Conan
* A character of this type befriends the main family and becomes one of the major characters in the 80's remake of ''[[
* Leela in ''[[Doctor Who]]''.
* Jennifer of the Jungle from ''[[The Electric Company]]''.
* Maya from ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', complete with the [[Ms. Fanservice]] leather dress and... impressive physique.
** Just to give perspective, she was played by Cerina Vincent... who played the perpetually nude foreign exchange student from [[Not Another Teen Movie]]
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'': The blue-skinned nurse in the "Coconut" sequence transformed into one. (You can see her wearing leopard skin if you look close.)
== Music ==
* The song "Queen of the Savages" by The Magnetic Fields.
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''She don't know the modern world and its ravages''
''Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages''
''She lives in a dome''
''I don't care if I never get home'' }}
== Theater ==
* One of the examples given in the song "I Love a Film Cliche" from ''[[A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine]]'' is the line
{{quote|"'Kiss'? Me only simple jungle princess. What mean this word, 'kiss'?"}}
== Toys ==
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== Videogames ==
* ''[[
* Zhu Rong, from Koei's ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' franchise, takes this to its logical extension as a fully-fledged Jungle Queen. Not only is she the only blonde-haired female in an ostensibly all-Asian lineup but she's married to a barbarian king ''and'' worshiped as a bona fide Goddess by her people. Oh, and there's the obligatory jungle-kini she wanders round in, too.
** Her being worshipped as a Goddess is, in DW canon (and the book it was based on), justified. She's the descendant of the god of fire.
* Partial example: Ayla of ''[[
** In ''[[
* One of the playable characters with the actual name in ''[[Time Splitters]]'' series.
* Maya from the second ''[[
* Rima from ''[[Brutal Legend]]''.
* Nidalee from ''[[League of Legends]]''.
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* Magnolia from the 2007 series of ''[[George of the Jungle]]''.
* Princess Rosella from ''[[Barbie]] as the Island Princess''.
* Jungle Janet from the animated series of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''.
* On ''[[
** There's also Susan Strong, though she lives underground, in the ruins from [[After the End]].
* One of [[Tarzan|Tarzan's]] animated counterparts actually met an Amazon Princess raised in the jungle (not her village).
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