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Line 2: A huge rainforest, with big trees, plants all around, a bunch of insects and, of course, a river. That's the basic concept. ''But'', don't expect much more researching than this from the writers. [['''The Amazon~~]] -- be~~'''—be it ''the'' Amazon, an [[Darkest Africa\|African Jungle]], Vietnam or any other ~~else -- is~~else—is always basically the same. If you're lucky, the writers won't put [[Misplaced Wildlife\|a lion in the middle of Peru's eastern side]]. Some really well worked settings will even include a native language. Again, if you're really lucky, it will be a ''real'' native language. Featured in any other media than the [[Movies]], it normally contains [[An Aesop]] about preserving the rainforests. Another common features is that [[You Fail Geography Forever\|either it is depicted as if it were contained entirely within Brazil or extends to places where it does not actually stretches to, Like Lima, the northernmost of Colombia and Venezuela and sometimes even into central America]]. Line 9: For the videogame example, see [[Jungle Japes]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == [[Comic Books]] == * The river Coliflor in ''[[Tintin ~~(Comic Book)~~]] and the Broken Ear'', whose banks are home to the Arumbaya tribe. * The home turf of ''[[Rima The Jungle]]'', both in her own title and ''[[Comicbook/First Wave\|First Wave]]''. == [[Film]] == * ''[[Anaconda]]'': Despite its authentic Portuguese cursing ("filho da..."), infamous for its upward ~~waterfall -- although~~waterfall—although it could be an optical illusion. However, the whole waterfall thing is a crock, just as in... * ''[[James Bond\|Moonraker]]'': This ''007'' movie featured a "Brazilian" rainforest with a ~~waterfall -- despite~~waterfall—despite the Amazon River, as any other plains river, being unable to have ~~waterfalls -- and~~waterfalls—and a pre-Columbian building. * ''Dragonfly''. * ''[[The Rundown]]''/''Welcome to the Jungle''. * [[Tarzan]] should live in [[Darkest Africa]], but sometimes appears in [[The Amazon]] instead. * [[Vietnam War]] movies, such as ''[[Rambo]]'' and the war scene from ''[[Forrest Gump]]''. * [[Did Not Do Research\|The Dancer Upstairs]] of John Malkovich extends the Amazon to Lima... * ''[[Two Brothers]]'' is set partly in the jungles of Cambodia. * ''[[At Play in ~~The~~the Fields of ~~The~~the Lord]]'' * [[Cannibal Ferox]] * [[Cannibal Holocaust]] == [[Literature]] == * The short story "[[~~Leiningen Versus the Ants (Literature)\|~~Leiningen Versus the Ants]]". It was adapted several times, including the film ''The Naked Jungle'' and the "Trumbo's World" episode of ''[[MacGyver]]''. * In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[~~Discworld (Literature)/Eric\|~~Eric]]'', the title character and Rincewind travel to Discworld's equivalent of the Amazon, and encounter a [[Mayincatec]] tribe. == [[Live-Action TV]] == * ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)\|The Sentinel]]'''s backstory, full with black panthers and demeaning portrayals of the natives. * ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]'', as the name suggests. The story is much like [[Tarzan]], but with a Japanese baby and a [[Mayincatec]] artifact that lets him become an armored superhero. Line 42: * The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Rainforest Schmainforest" features a parody of this, and the final [[Spoof Aesop]] is "stop the rain forest before it's too late". * The animated TV series ''[[Jana of the Jungle]]''. * ''[[Captain Planet and ~~The~~the Planeteers]]'', whenever they wanted to do a rainforest episode. Had the benefit of being fairly accurate with respect to native flora and fauna, and the drawback of being very condescending with respect to native peoples, partly because a show that represents the early 90's environmentalist craze wouldn't make sense without these accuracies. * The ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Dr. Guymn, Medicine Woman", featured an orangutan and circumcision among the native peoples. Both are, of course, characteristic of Australasia. * [[The Squad]] visits what is reasonably accurate depiction of ''the'' Amazon Basin in ''[[Exo Squad]]''. Well, unless you count a horde of genetically-engineered green-skinned [[Half-Human Hybrid\|Half Human Hybrids]]... {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Settings]] ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ Amazon]], The}} ▲[[Category:Trope]]