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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 With Princesses|for some reason]]).

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

** 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 [[Jungle Princess]].

* 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.

 

** 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 ''[[Super Friends|The All-New Superfriends Hour]]''.

* 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 environement. She has [[Wild Hair]], is missing one eye and most of her teeth, can barely speak, and has a broken arm that didn't set quite right.