History Main / NatureHero

-->-- '''The Dryad''', ''{{Warcraft}} 3''

* Rexxar from the {{Warcraft}} universe. Druids and Shamans can count as well.

** Not exactly heroes, but the wild men led by Ghan-buri-Ghan in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' come close.
** Beorn, the shapechanging bear-man from ''Literature/TheHobbit'' (who is served by animals), fits the trope much better.

* ''Comicbook/XenozoicTales'': Jack Tenrec is partly this, with shades of ''ScienceHero'' (despite his general insistence that science is bad).

* Daine from ''[[TortallUniverse The Immortals]]'' series starts out this way, but [[SheCleansUpNicely she cleans up nicely]].

* Jasmine from the [[DeltoraQuest Deltora series]]. Is ''constantly'' described with WildHair. Talks to birds. Raised by ''trees''. (She can talk to them, too.) Eventually learns to live with humans, but doesn't have much patience for most of them even after falling ''hard'' for one....

* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' has quite a selection of them: from the heroic [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Karroch]] TheBeastmaster, kind [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Aiushtha the Enchantress]], and peaceful [[WhenTreesAttack Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector]], to the [[TheNeedsOfTheMany somewhat grayer]] [[NatureSpirit Nature's Prophet]] and [[BearsAreBadNews Sylla,]] [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom the Lone Druid]], and a [[SubvertedTrope Nature ]]''[[SubvertedTrope Villain]]'' Leshrac the Tormented Soul, an embodiment of GaiasVengeance [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone wrong]].

* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' has quite a selection of them: from the heroic [[SpeaksFluentAnimal Karroch]] TheBeastmaster, kind [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Aiushtha the Enchantress]], and peaceful [[WhenTreesAttack Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector]], to the [[TheNeedsOfTheMany somewhat grayer]] [[NatureSpirit Nature's Prophet]] and [[BearsAreBadNews Sylla, the Lone Druid]], and a [[SubvertedTrope Nature ]]''[[SubvertedTrope Villain]]'' Leshrac the Tormented Soul, an embodiment of GaiasVengeance [[GoMadFromTheRevelation gone wrong]].

* Ikuto (Keenan in the English dub) of ''DigimonSavers'' (Data Squad). As an infant, he was accidentally sucked into the Digital World [[spoiler:as a result of being too close to his parents' experimental Digital Gate]]. He was raised by Digimon (most notably Frigimon) to the point of thinking he was one. He sports a 'tribal' sort of look, carries a boomerang, and uses HulkSpeak, despite the fact that most digimon talk normally.

Contrast with ScienceHero.

* [=MossMan=] from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''.

* Moss Man from ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''.

* Despite the title of the movie, San from ''PrincessMononoke'' is more NatureHero than JunglePrincess.

* ''Film/TheBeastmaster''

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* ''CrocodileDundee''

* Radagast from the 2012 adaptation of ''TheHobbit''.

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* Not exactly heroes, but the wild men led by Ghan-buri-Ghan in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' come close. Beorn, the shapechanging bear-man from ''Literature/TheHobbit'' (who is served by animals), fits the trope much better.

* ''Comicbook/{{Man-Thing}}''

* ''Anime/{{Kurokami}}'' : Kakuma and his twin sister, Makana, are two of the last surviving members of the Hima Clan of Tera Guardians. Though it's just the two of them, they remain committed to protecting their Clan's Tera Stone and the surrounding forest.

** ALL of the Elemental Heroes that Judai uses in the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga version]] are commonly referred to as the "Nature Elemental Heroes", although not all of them fit the traditional mold.

* ''LeagueOfLegends'' has Udyr, who has the appearance of a WildMan (dresses in animal pelts) and the living in isolation part of the trope. Rather than an animal companion, he has four NatureSpirit stances he can rapidly switch between in combat. His lore revamp paints him in a more heroic light, using the animal spirits to preserve the balance of nature.

* ''QuestForCamelot'' has one of these in the person of Garrett, a blind hermit, complete with a song all about how he's no good with people.
* Torzonborz in the sequel of CatCity.

* ''KamenRiderAmazon'', who's basically Tarzan if he had super sharp claws that cut into monsters and cause lots of "blood" to fizz out of them.

* ''LeagueOfLegends'' has Udyr, who has the appearance of a WildMan (dresses in animal pelts) and the living in isolation part of the trope. Rather than an animal companion, he has four animal stances he can rapidly switch between.

Often has WildHair, and either dresses in furs or GardenGarments.

* ''[[DragonBall Dragon Ball]]'s'' [[IdiotHero Goku]] plays this to a T.
* Despite the title of the movie, San from ''PrincessMononoke'' is more NatureHero than JunglePrincess.

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