History Main / JunglePrincess

* Magnolia from the 2007 series of ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle''.

* One of ''{{Tarzan}}'''s animated counterparts actually met an Amazon princess raised in the jungle (not her village).

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Inevitably she will be single when she first encounters [[MightyWhitey a hunky European explorer]] ([[UnfortunateImplications rather than -- perish the thought -- starting a family with a native man]]). She will find him [[DistressedDude in the clutch of some local danger]] (being menaced by her PetBabyWildAnimal is always fun if it's a romantic comedy), rescue him, and [[RescueRomance romance will ensue]]. While the movie version of the Jungle Princess will let her explorer bring her back to his home and 'civilize' her, the TV version [[StatusQuoIsGod will insist on staying in the jungle]], and so our hero will settle down in Malaria Central and steal kisses from her when she's not busy ordering her lions to savage the occasional poacher.

Inevitably, she will encounter [[MightyWhitey a hunky European explorer]] ([[UnfortunateImplications rather than a - perish the thought - relationship with a native]]) usually by [[DistressedDude rescuing him from some local danger]], and [[RescueRomance they will fall in love]]. While the movie version of the Jungle Princess will then let her explorer bring her back home and civilize her, the TV version [[StatusQuoIsGod will not allow it]], and instead he finds himself settling down in Malaria Central and stealing kisses from her when she's not busy ordering lions to savage the occasional poacher.

In science fiction, many a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe is just a jungle princess with a dye job and a zap gun.

See also NubileSavage. Not to be confused with TheChiefsDaughter, where the leading lady actually fits the native culture (but is almost always a princess [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses for some reason]]).

* Either subverted or deconstructed with San, the eponymous Mononoke-Hime of ''PrincessMononoke''. 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.

* Partial example: Ayla of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' - Chieftain of the prehistoric peoples, the only blonde among the group, and insanely strong. She's engaged to marry one of her own tribesman, but she most definitely is the "man" in that relationship.
** Only blond ewhere? Marle's hair is a different shade, but it's a yellow-orange usually lumped in with "blonde". And among Ayla's tribe, Kino is very clearly blonde as well.

* An [[AuthorAppeal extremely blatant fetish]] of comics artist Frank Cho, who has worked on such diverse series as the above-mentioned ''ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil'', ''{{Cavewoman}}'', and... ''JungleGirl''.

* Veronica Layton in the TV series ''SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld''.

* {{Storm}} of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' spent part of her childhood and adolescence as a Jungle Princess; when her weather powers activated, she was also worshipped as a [[AGodAmI literal goddess]].
** The MarvelUniverse also has ''ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil''. The similarity between her name and Sheena's is entirely coincidental, of course.

* Jann of the Jungle was JunglePrincess heroine from MarvelComics predecessor Atlas in the 1950s. She is still mentioned occasionally in the modern-day MarvelUniverse.

* TomStrong's wife Dhalua is a [[ReconstructedTrope reconstruction of the trope]]—namely, what happens when TheChiefsDaughter marries the hero and moves to a post-industrial nation, but [[ActionMom never loses her edge]].
* Ya'wara from the {{New 52}} ''ComicBook/{{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 DCComics called ''Rima the Jungle Girl''.

** She's now part of DC's ''[[FirstWaveDCU First Wave]]'' [[TwoFistedTales pulp-fiction]] imprint.

* Jasmine from ''DeltoraQuest''. 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.

For some unfathomable reason, the [[FriendToAllLivingThings 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.

* KatyPerry invokes the "Western girl trapped in jungle by plane crash" variant of this trope in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8 music video]] for her single ''Roar," complete with a leopard-print bikini top and grass skirt. It does hold one aversion: the handsome explorer-type who was also in the crash with her immediately gets eaten by a tiger.

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* 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 ''TheMaxx'', 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.]]

* KatyPerry invokes the "Western girl trapped in jungle by plane crash" variant of this trope in the music video for her single ''Roar," complete with a leopard-print bikini top and grass skirt. It does hold one aversion: the handsome explorer-type who was also in the crash with her immediately gets eaten by a tiger.

* The eponymous ''Kaza's Mate Gwenna''. The strip is an homage to 1950s jungle comics and B-Movies, except with sometimes explicit nudity. Also Lady Caroline Maxwell, Third Duchess of Humbleshire, [[http://kaza-and-gwenna.thecomicseries.com/comics/74/ known in her youth as Nula the Jungle Queen]] (no nudity on this ''particular'' page).

* KatyPerry invokes the "white girl trapped in jungle by plane crash" variant of this trope in the music video for her single ''Roar.'' Mostly, it's an excuse to see KatyPerry in a [[Fanservice leopard-skin bikini]]. It does avert the trope in one aspect; the handsome explorer who was also in the crash immediately gets eaten by tigers.

* After a bout of amnesia, ''AlphaFlight'''s Heather Hudson plays this role for the length of one annual.

* Gottlieb at one time manufactured a [[http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1339 "Jungle Princess" pinball game]].

* The eponymous ''Kaza's Mate Gwenna''. The strip is an homage to 1950s jungle comics and BMovies except with more nudity. Also Lady Caroline Maxwell, Third Duchess of Humbleshire, [[http://kaza-and-gwenna.thecomicseries.com/comics/74/ known in her youth as Nula the Jungle Queen]] (SFW link).

* Parodied by "Libby in the Lost World" in ''PenthouseComix''. Libby was a Jewish American princess stranded in a LostWorld by plane crash and forced unwillingly into the role of JunglePrincess.

** The MarvelUniverse also has {{Shanna the She-Devil}}. The similarity between her name and Sheena's is entirely coincidental, of course.
* An [[AuthorAppeal extremely blatant fetish]] of comics artist Frank Cho, who has worked on such diverse series as the above-mentioned ''ShannaTheSheDevil'', ''{{Cavewoman}}'', and... ''JungleGirl''.

* Princess Rosella from ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie as the Island Princess}}''.

* Either subverted or deconstructed with San, the eponymous Mononoke-Hime of ''PrincessMononoke''. 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.