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[[File:julie1 sm.jpg|link=The Maxx|frame|Careful, she really knows how to [[Double Entendre|handle a spear]].]]
 
{{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]], thisthe '''Jungle Princess''' is a young woman of European extraction who has been raised in a [[Darkest Africa|jungle environment]], usually [[Raised by Wolves|by animals]]. Despite her upbringing, though, she has managed to grasp the basic rudiments of [[Hulk Speak|English]], tools and fashion—she is frequently seen wearing fetching leather or [[Fur Bikini|fur]] bikinis and wielding a spear. She is far more likely to have [[Rapunzel Hair]] than [[Wild Hair]], and her legs and armpits will be inexplicably hairless.
 
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.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Sapphire Birch, ''[[Pokémon Special]]'''s take on the female avatar from the game, takes her role as [[Mon|Pokémon]] trainer and researcher so seriously she actually [[Going Native|went native]], wearing clothes made from leaves and moss and growing her fingernails into claws. She has little trouble reintegrating into human society, but she retains the [[Badass Normal|mind-boggling strength and agility]] she developed in the wild.
* Weda from ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Haré+Guu|Haré+Guu]]'', has this appearance but the Jungle society she lives is fairly [[Schizo-Tech|civilized]] and not totally disconnected from the Outside world (there are still buses to the city, for example). She can hunt however and does wear a [[Fur Bikini]]. {{spoiler|In her backstory, its revealed she actually comes a rich family in the city and moved to the Jungle at age 14 due to getting kicked out of her family for getting pregnant}}.
* ''[[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 Ofof Thethe 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 Jungle Princess heroine from [[Marvel Comics]] predecessor Atlas in the 1950s. She is still mentioned occasionally in the modern-day [[Marvel Universe]].
* [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]]''.
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* 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.
 
== Films -- Live-ActionFilm ==
* 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 ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' treatment.
* Tanya Roberts made a pretty good ''[[Sheena]]'' for the 1980's1980s.
* 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 ==
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** 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 environementenvironment. 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.
* 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 ==
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* 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 ==
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''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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