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6	->''"Me only simple jungle princess. What mean this word, 'kiss'?"''
7	-->-- "I Love a Film Cliche", ''A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine''
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9	The DistaffCounterpart of [[TarzanBoy Tarzan of the Apes]], this is a young woman, usually of European extraction, though she has been known to be of another race or even NotQuiteHuman. She has been raised in a HungryJungle, usually [[RaisedByNatives by Natives]] though sometimes [[RaisedByWolves by animals]]. Despite her upbringing, though, she has managed to grasp the basic rudiments of HulkSpeak English, tools, and fashion -- she is frequently seen wearing fetching leaf, leather or usually {{Fur Bikini}}s and wielding a hunting knife and spear. She is far more likely to have [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished neat hair and makeup without any calluses or scars]] with PermaShave than WildHair or even be an UnkemptBeauty. She almost always PrefersGoingBarefoot. She will very rarely be [[TheOneWhoWearsShoes depicted in primitive shoes]] like sandals or moccasins sometimes compared to the natives who still go barefoot. She is also far more likely to meet HollywoodBeautyStandards than be an AmazonianBeauty, or have a RuggedScar.
10	She is also likely to meet her love interest via RescueRomance, live in a TreehouseOfFun, travel via VineSwing or [[ZebrasAreJustStripedHorses Zebra]], have an AnimalThemedFightingStyle be excellent at combat parkour.
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12	There are two very different sub tropes of the jungle princess. Firstly there is the Jungle Queen; a NobleSavage living InHarmonyWithNature, who often has powers like [[TheBeastMaster controlling animals,]] causing them to obey her instead of seeing her as lunch. Even the insects. She might even have literal magic ElementalPowers, Animorphism or even GreenThumb, though those abilities are more rare. She tends to care far more about saving her animal "friends" she already can control, than even knowing the names of her people, aka the woefully benighted HollywoodNatives who treat her as a queen or 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.
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14	The Jungle Queen is also likely to be stoic, and unforgiving to villains who would dare hurt innocent animals, especially in modern incarnations. She is also likely to be a ChasteHero with no concept of romance. Allowing the BoldExplorer to manipulate her, in a suspiciously positively framed way. She is ofen painted as an object of desire or another beast to find in the wild and tame rather than her own adventurous character with a dynamic personality. She is also likely to speak in HulkSpeak English. Due to her care for the environment and her animal slaves over human lives, she is more likely to only fight the CorruptCorporateExecutive or EvilPoacher than other very dangerous criminals, hostile tribes or supernatural threats, especially in modern fiction. She is also always going to save the forgettable DistressedDude more than ending up in danger herself.
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16	Inevitably she will be single when she first encounters [[MightyWhitey a hunky American or European explorer]]. She will find him [[DistressedDude in the clutch of some local danger]] (being menaced by her [[PetBabyWildAnimal tame leopard]] 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 a nice {{treehouse\|OfFun}} and steal kisses from her when she's not busy ordering her lions to savage the occasional EvilPoacher. The Jungle Queen was originally popularized by ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle, and she was actually becoming far less popular by the late ‘40s. Eventually, JungleOpera faded out as a genre and soon after increasing environmental awareness in pop culture resulted in the Jungle Queen’s return, because some authors thought that reducing jungle dwelling characters and cultures to {{Noble Savage}}s living InHarmonyWithNature and [[FriendToAllLivingThings making the jungle friendly to those people]] and only hostile to environmental criminals, would reinforce a GreenAesop. It had the unfortunate opposite effect of a CluelessAesop and resulted in stereotypical and overall poorly characterized depictions of native cultures, along with less perils from the HungryJungle that RealLife people, especially indigenous people and conservationists, deal with. It also resulted in a general lack of {{Worldbuilding}}.
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18	The other sub trope of the Jungle Princess known as the Jungle Girl, who is much more similar TarzanBoy, and also generally more popular today than the Jungle Queen. She is far more likely to be a NonPoweredCostumedHero; working a KnightErrant who travels from [[AdventureTowns village to village]] helping local villages and fighting dangerous criminals. Unless the author intends to make her morally ambiguous, she is usually more of an IdealHero than her NobleSavage alternative. Although she cannot control animals, she is still likely to have one or more {{Action Pet}}s that she can [[SpeaksFluentAnimal understand though body language.]] If she has a love intirest, expect them to enjoy adventures traveling as a BattleCouple and rescuing each other when the situation calls for it. If she has no love interest, or the love interest is unavailable, she is likely to go on adventures with her ActionPet or even a BadassNative friend, who will sometimes be a KidSidkick. Her friendship with the natives is also likely to be more neutral, but if they do ttreat her as a godess or queen, expect her to not like to be worshipped. If anything, as an IdealHero, she is likely to [[TakeMeInstead sacrifice everything for them]] and have undying loyalty to her tribe. In terms of personality, this variation is often more friendly and will even go out of her way to SaveTheVillain. Her foes still include environmental criminals, but she is also allowed to fight a greater variety of villains who don't harm the environment, these include HumanTraffickers, ThoseWackyNazis, the WitchDoctor, CannibalTribe or other hostile natives, aliens, HiredGuns, warlords, pirates, {{Egomaniac Hunter}}s who are HuntingTheMostDangerousGame, NotQuiteHuman villains, supernatural threats, and the dangerous plants and animals of the HungryJungle. If she ends up ChainedToARock or LockedUpAndLeftBehind, expect her to find a way out eventually of her own wit or be rescued by a friend, who probably owes her from when she has done the same for them.
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20	She might even be a NemesisMagnet, who often ends up a BadassInDistress from villains who want revenge because BeingGoodSucks. She is also far more likely to have her own quirks like if she PrefersGoingBarefoot in civilization due to her upbringing or sometimes she is a BadassBookworm. She might still be an InnocentFanserviceGirl due to cultural differences, and if she is a ChasteHero she will either have more chemistry and opinions about how she is treated or it will be based on traditions rather than ignorance. She often has no superhuman abilities apart from [[SpeaksFluentAnimal understanding animals]], SuperSenses and AwesomeByAnalysis. She is also likely to be a CunningLinguist. She is still often pack equal or more brute force than the male characters, though some might have realistic weaknesses as a female and compensate with her wit. This variation was made popular by characters like ComicBook/{{RulahJungleGoddess}}, then in the midst of the environmental AuthorTract of the ‘70s, Hanna Barbara created WesternAnimation/{{JanaOfTheJungle}} who, along with Rulah, become this variation’s TropeCodifier, later followed by Frank Choe’s reimagining of this character with Dynamite Comics’ ‘’Jungle Girl’’ comics, which became a TropeNamer. Frank Choe also established the new standard, and arguably more cool, look of [[UnkemptBeauty unkempt]] and [[AmazonianBeauty muscular]] characters instead of the classic HollywoodBeautyStandards; this look is even used by Jungle Queen variations today like modern depictions of Sheena.
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22	There is also a third, older and less direct type, as the love intirest of the TarzanBoy, where she is going to be nothing more than a helpless DamselInDistress, who frequently ends up BoundAndGagged as a HumanSacrifice, ChainedToARock or LockedUpAndLeftBehind by the EvilPoacher as she waits for the LoinCloth clad TarzanBoy to rescue her. This variation is far less popular now.
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24	The trope name ultimately dates to a 1920 silent film serial called ''The Jungle Princess'', but its common usage probably dates from the 1936 film of the same name starring Dorothy Lamour. The trope itself is older than that, though, with possibly the first example being R ima from W. H. Hudson's 1904 book ''Green Mansions''. In SpaceOpera, many a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe is just a jungle princess with a dye job and a ray gun.
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26	See NubileSavage, which is her default appearance. Compare HandsomeHeroicCaveman. Not to be confused with TheChiefsDaughter, where the leading lady actually fits the native culture (but is almost always called a [[HonoraryPrincess princess]] for some [[PrincessPhase reason]]).
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28	If you’re an author: See SoYouWantTo/WriteAJungleOpera
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31	!!Examples:
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35	[[folder:Advertising]]
36	* The mascot for Indian butter brand Amul in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVR3oh-doT0 this commercial]] featuring Tarzan.
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39	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
40	%%* Capri from ''Manga/AnimalLand''.
41	* ''Anime/CuteyHoney'': This is one of Honey's transformations in episode 20.
42	* Weda from ''Anime/HareGuu'' has this appearance, but the Jungle society she lives is fairly [[SchizoTech 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 FurBikini. [[spoiler:In her backstory, it's revealed that she actually comes from 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]].
43	* ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'': Momo transforms into one in the episode "Lord of the Jungle".
44	%%* Shanana from ''Manga/MakyouNoShanana''
45	* ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'': Mana's favorite movie, ''Beauty and the Beast in a Jungle'', follows this trope and Kuromi's nightmare magic inserts her into the main character role.
46	* Sapphire Birch, ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''[='=] take on the female avatar from the third game, takes her role as Pokémon trainer and researcher so seriously she actually [[GoingNative 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 [[BadassNormal mind-boggling strength and agility]] she developed in the wild.
47	* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': As a baby, San was given to the forest spirits by her parents in return for their own lives. Their cowardice disgusted the spirits so that they took in San to raise as their own. San grows up to be one of the spirits' fiercest warriors against the encroachment of human settlements. Eventually, she meets Ashitaka, whom as an Emishi facing the encroachment of the Yamato has some understanding what the spirits are going through, and forms a difficult but sincere friendship with him.
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50	[[folder:Comic Books]]
51	* Definitely ''ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle'' herself. She is one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s.
52	* Creator/MarvelComics
53	** ''ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil''. The similarity between her name and Sheena's is entirely coincidental, of course.
54	** ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' spent part of her childhood and adolescence as a Jungle Princess; when her weather powers activated, she was also worshiped as a [[LikeAGodToMe literal goddess]].
55	** The whole Marvel game actually got its first female-driven series in the 50s with a comic titled ''Lorna, The Jungle Queen'' (later retitled to ''Lorna, The Jungle Girl''. Lorna's father loses his leg to a lion and later dies. Lorna, having nowhere else to go, chooses to train with her African friend M'Tuba and stays within the forest to defend her people (animals and humans).
56	** Jann of the Jungle was a Jungle Princess heroine from Creator/MarvelComics predecessor Atlas in the 1950s. She is still mentioned occasionally in the modern-day Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
57	** After a bout of amnesia, ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'''s Heather Hudson plays this role for the length of one annual.
58	** The Marvel Universe has a tropical LostWorld in Antarctica called "the Savage Land", the chief point of which at times seems to be to provide an excuse for heroines to get into skimpy Jungle Princess gear.
59	* An [[AuthorAppeal extremely blatant fetish]] of comics artist Frank Cho, who has worked on such diverse series as the above-mentioned (and also ''ComicBook/JungleGirl'').
60	* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}''
61	* Subverted in the French comic ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' (a.k.a. ''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 from being destroyed, and she's adopted and "civilized" by the advanced culture of the title.]]
62	* In the comic ''ComicBook/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.]]
63	* The Phantom Jungle Girl from the pages of Don Simpson's ''ComicBook/MegatonMan.''
64	* [[http://members.fortunecity.com/srca1941/Spot5-3-1.html "Kara the Jungle Princess"]] made two appearances in 1946 issues of "Exciting Comics".
65	* Tara Fremont from ''ComicBook/{{Femforce}}''.
66	* ''White Princess of the Jungle'' was a jungle girl anthology comic book published quarterly by Avon Periodicals in the early 1950s.
67	* Judy of the Jungle appeared in comic books published by Nedor Comics. She debuted in ''Exciting Comics'' #55 (May 1947). Mostly remembered nowadays for featuring early art by Creator/FrankFrazetta.
68	* Princess Pantha was a [[FollowTheLeader Sheena clone]] that appeared in comic books published by Nedor Comics. The character was revived twice; first by AC Comics, and second by writer Creator/AlanMoore for his ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' spin-off, ''ComicBook/TerraObscura''. She first appeared in ''Thrilling Comics'' #56.
69	** Tom Strong's own wife, Dhalua, is also an example, although she's actually ''black''. (She's also a [[{{Reconstruction}} 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]].) There's also the alternate universe Tesla of the Tigers, who comes from a world overrun with jungle and whose father Tom of the Tigers was raised by... you can probably guess. Interestingly, Princess Pantha is romantically linked to Tom's Terra Obscura counterpart, Tom Strange.
70	** One parodic issue of ''Tom Strong's Terrific Tales'' had Tesla going back to nature in a jungle, getting captured by poachers, and being put into a safari attraction with several other Jungle Princesses. It turns out they aren't a protected species.
71	* ''ComicBook/RulahJungleGoddess'' was Fox Feature's response to ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle''. Her real name was given variously as either Jane Dodge (''Zoot'' #7) or Joan Grayson (''Rulah, Jungle Goddess'' #20). In the latter version, Rulah is a young aviatrix on a solo flight over Africa when her plane loses control and crashes. She replaces her clothes (which were destroyed in the crash) with a bikini made from the skin of a dead giraffe. Soon afterward, Rulah saves a local tribe from an evil woman; the grateful tribespeople declares her queen. Rulah decides to remain in the jungle as its protector. Rulah's comic adventures are sometimes startlingly violent; and there are generous helpings of LesYay among Rulah and her suspiciously-pale native maidens. Said maidens being the subjects of peril, hairdressing, abduction, experiments, and much hugging when rescued.
72	* Parodied by "Libby in the Lost World" in ''Penthouse Comix''. Libby was a JewishAmericanPrincess stranded in a LostWorld by a plane crash and forced unwillingly into the role of JunglePrincess.
73	* Ya'wara from the ComicBook/New52 ''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.
74	* [[Creator/FletcherHanks Fantomah]] may be an example. She's a blonde white woman who lives in the jungle and protects it from various {{Evil Colonialist}}s and indigenous villains. However, she has extreme magical powers to the extent of being a PhysicalGod, manifests a [[SkullForAHead skull face]] when using them, and exhibits a sadistically vengeful personality, which combine to make her seem more like a HumanoidAbomination than an actual human.
75	* Zhantika, Princess of the Jungle is the ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'' universe's equivalent of ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle.
76	* Parodied in ''ComicBook/TalesDesignedToThrizzle'' with Jungle Princess, who wears the usual leopard-skin bikini but also a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennin hennin]].
77	* In Maelstrom Media's ''ComicBook/PrymalJungleWarrior'', the titular heroine is princess of the lost kingdom of Atlantea, hidden somewhere near the Rio Negro in Brazil. She spends much of her time trying to protect the jungle from looters.
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80	[[folder:Fan Works]]
81	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Haara, a reclusive warrior monk who lives alone and naked in the wilderness, showcases many elements of this archetype within her characterization. The other half of her background (an escaped slave from the Genasi Empire) averts some of the FridgeLogic usually present within this trope, justifying her familiarity with most scavenged tools, cultured grasp of language, and lack of body hair.
82	* ''Fanfic/WildChildAU'' features Madison Russell as a downplayed version of this. After being rescued from San Francisco by Godzilla following the battle with the [=MUTOs=] and taken to his island, she tends to dress in clothing Godzilla ‘stole’ for her rather than making her own attire, but she is respected by the other titans as Godzilla’s ‘pup’, making her essentially their princess if Godzilla is the Titans’ king.
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85	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
86	* Princess Rosella from ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsTheIslandPrincess''.
87	* The end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' shows that this is the role that Jane Porter took.
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90	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
91	* The Ape Woman series.
92	** ''Film/CaptiveWildWoman'': The Ape Woman started life as an exceptionally intelligent gorilla, Cheela, from the Belgian Congo. Brought over to the United States, she is turned into a human, Paula Dupree, by means of human hormone and cerebrum transplants. While she doesn't ever return home, she has an approximation of the jungle in the Whipple Circus, where she gets employed for the lion taming act once it's discovered that she has an eerie control over animals, whom she can gaze into submission. As a gorilla with no human past or education, she is incapable of human speech, but she does understand it. Her love interest is the American Fred Mason, for whose safety she ends up sacrificing herself.
93	** ''Film/{{Jungle Woman\|1944}}'': The possibility is brought up that the gorilla Cheela actually started life as a human and was turned into a gorilla by an undisclosed scientific experiment. All the same, even as the human Paula Dupree she has the strength of a gorilla. In human form, she is a skilled swimmer and over time has picked up some capacity for human speech. Her playground this time around is the Crestview Sanatorium, which grounds contain a lot of vegetation. With Fred no longer in the picture, Paula's romantic interest shifts to the American Bob Whitney, who does not return her feelings.
94	** ''Film/JungleCaptive'': The Ape Woman is brought back to life with science and soon after given a new hormone donation to bring back her human self Paula Dupree. However, as a human she's not all there anymore due to damage to her human cerebrum. She's killed before she receives a new one (or her old one heals).
95	* In ''Film/BlondeSavage'': An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman.
96	* ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'': Ursula Stanhope becomes this at the end of the movie after she marries George.
97	* ''Film/GatorBait'': Claudia Jennings, just switch the jungle for the Louisiana bayou.
98	* Creator/JosephineBaker played this part in many of her stage performances and subsequent films.
99	* ''Jungle Girl'': Nyoka the Jungle Girl.
100	* ''Film/JungleGoddess'', which was given the ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' treatment.
101	* In ''Film/LianeJungleGoddess'', researchers in the African jungle find a young white woman living with a tribe, that adores her as goddess. She is Liane, the long lost daughter of the rich shipowner Amelongen.
102	* ''Film/TheMightyPekingMan'': A particularly dim-witted version who was constantly on the verge of a nip slip.
103	* ''Film/ShandraTheJungleGirl'' is a rare case of jungle princess as antagonist, with the heroes initially setting out to capture.
104	* ''Film/{{Sheena}}'': Tanya Roberts made a pretty good jungle princess.
105	* ''The Tiger Woman'', a 1944 Republic film serial, later [[CompilationMovie edited into the feature ''Jungle Gold'']].
106	* ''Film/TraderHorn'': Nina was a toddler when African natives attacked her family, killing her father and spiriting her away. When white people find her 20 years later, she's the queen of her tribe.
107	* ''Who's That Girl?'': There's one of these in the artificial jungle.
108	* ''Film/YorTheHunterFromTheFuture'': A desert version with Roah, a blonde woman who was raised by a clan of {{mummy}}-like creatures, who revere her as a goddess. Or something. It's kind of hard to tell what's going on in this movie.
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111	[[folder:Literature]]
112	* Literature/{{Discworld}} has lost kingdoms of Amazons which use their male prisoners to do [[InnocentInnuendo specifically male jobs]] ... like opening pickle jars, sorting out those funny noises in the attic, capturing spiders and putting them outside, and rewiring plugs.
113	* The 1904 novel ''Green Mansions'' by W.H. Hudson may be the TropeMaker. Rima, the female lead, wasn't white or European; she belonged to a lost race that even the local Indians didn't know of. Her skin -- depending on the lighting, it seems -- varied in color, and in bright sunlight seemed "luminous". The novel was made into a [[Film/GreenMansion film]] starring Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/AnthonyPerkins in 1959.
114	** Rima starred in a short-lived (but beautifully illustrated) comic book from Creator/DCComics called ''Rima the Jungle Girl''.
115	** Rima even appeared in three episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends The All-New Superfriends Hour]]'', as a partner to Franchise/WonderWoman.
116	** She's now part of DC's ''ComicBook/{{First Wave\|DCComics}}'' [[TwoFistedTales pulp-fiction]] imprint.
117	* Meriem, the wife of Korak the Killer, ''The Son of Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' (1915) literally fits this archetype. The daughter of a French general and a "princess in her own right", young Meriem was kidnapped by Arabs, and rescued by Korak. The two then spent their teen years together in the jungle before being found by Tarzan.
118	* In ''Tarzan and the Lion Man'' (1933), Tarzan meets Balza, who lives with a group of English-speaking gorillas. One year later, she's Hollywood royalty.
119	* 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 environment. She has WildHair, is missing one eye and most of her teeth can barely speak, and has a broken arm that didn't set quite right.
120	* Jasmine from ''Literature/DeltoraQuest''. A variation is that she only appeared to Lief and Barda to steal their stuff, but eventually came back and saved them before they could be 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. [[spoiler:Although by the end of the second series, it's clear that Jasmine and Lief are interested in each other romantically, and get married at the end of the third series]].
121	* {{Downplayed}} in ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin'' with Rhia(nnon)--she was raised in the woods and wears {{Garden Garment}}s, but she speaks fine and all that, since she was raised by a PlantPerson and her house is a sapient tree. Also, [[spoiler:she's Merlin's twin sister]].
122	* Helene Vaughn of the Ki-Gor tales in the ''Jungle Stories'' pulp magazines becomes this after leaving civilization behind to stay with him in the jungle.
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125	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
126	* The title character of the 1955 TV series ''Sheena, Queen of the Jungle'' and its 2000-01 remake ''Sheena'', as well as the 1984 film ''Film/{{Sheena}}''. And the 1940s comic book that inspired them all.
127	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "Film/JungleGoddess" features a variation: the "princess" in question was not actually raised in the jungle (and thus is not FriendToAllLivingThings) but rather was MistakenForGods by the local natives after a plane crash.
128	* Veronica Layton in the TV series ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld''.
129	* A character of this type befriends the main family and becomes one of the major characters in the 1990s remake of ''Series/{{Land of the Lost\|1991}}''.
130	* Leela in ''Series/DoctorWho'' is a sexy jungle warrior woman, who is a member of an interstellar human colony that returned to a pre-technological lifestyle because of a mad computer.
131	* Jennifer of the Jungle from ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971''.
132	* Maya from ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', complete with a form-fitting leather dress around her impressive physique.
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135	[[folder:Music]]
136	* Music/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.
137	* The song "Queen of the Savages" by Music/TheMagneticFields from ''Music/SixtyNineLoveSongs''.
138	-->''My girl is the queen of the savages\
139	She don't know the modern world and its ravages\
140	Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages\
141	She lives in a dome\
142	I don't care if I never get home''
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145	[[folder:Pinball]]
146	* Creator/{{Gottlieb}} at one time manufactured a [[http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1339 "Jungle Princess" pinball game.]]
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149	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
150	* Jungle Woman in Wrestling/{{GLOW}}, apparently from some part of South America, typically teamed with the very urban Spanish Red. In Wrestling/{{WOW\|WomenOfWrestling}} she had an {{expy}} in Jungle Grrrl apparently from Mexico. She blended into urban civilization very quickly but still came to the ring barefoot and smeared with dirt.
151	* Wrestling/BrookeAdams wore a Jungle Princess costume for the 2007 Cyber Sunday Halloween contest. She even posed with [[SnakesAreSexy a snake!]]
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154	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
155	* In ''TabletopGame/Wasteland2010'', Cammie is the series' equivalent, although her "jungle" is "the forests of the Midwest."
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158	[[folder:Video Games]]
159	* ''VideoGame/JillOfTheJungle'': Jill is the leotard-wearing blonde heroine of the series. She climbs vines, throws knives, and eventually saves and marries a prince.
160	* Zhu Rong, from Koei's ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' franchise, takes this to its logical extension as a fully-fledged Jungle Queen. Not only is she the only blond female in an ostensibly all-Asian lineup, but she's married to a barbarian king ''and'' worshiped as a bona fide Goddess by her people. Oh, and there's the obligatory jungle-kini in which she wanders round, too.
161	** Her being worshipped as a Goddess is, in DW canon (and the book it was based on), justified. She's the descendant of the god of fire.
162	* Ayla of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' - Chieftain of the prehistoric peoples, one of the two blondes among the group, and insanely strong. She's engaged to marry one of her own tribesmen, but she most definitely is the "man" in that relationship.
163	** In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', you meet Ayla's {{Expy}} Leah ([[EpilepticTrees heavily implied to be Ayla's mother]]) in its requisite jungle stage.
164	* One of the playable characters with the actual name in ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series.
165	* Maya from the ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' series, especially in ''[=KI2=]'' - the 2013 reboot reimagined her as a member of a clan of guardians.
166	* Rima from ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend''. While the Zaulia are a tribe of amazons (who wear Music/{{KISS}}-style facepaint), Rima fits better by virtue of being their leader.
167	* Nidalee, the Bestial Huntress, from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a mysterious [[HalfHumanHybrid human/cougar woman]] who one day was discovered in [[HungryJungle the jungles of Ixtal]], eventually growing up as the territorial leader of a pack of native, [[PantheraAwesome implicitly magical cougars]].
168	* Citra from ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' is a Western [[note]] she is dark-skinned but has blue eyes, and is related to a foreign NPC [[/note]] woman who rules a Pacific island and doesn't wear very much. She wasn't raised by the natives but has enthusiastically taken to their ways. She is attracted to the game's American protagonist and not to the local men. [[spoiler:Also qualifies as an evil version, because she encourages Jason's BloodKnight attitude and SanitySlippage, and eventually entices him to kill his friends and loved ones and have sex with her- and then decides that since their child(if she actually is pregnant) will grow to be a greater warrior than his father, Jason has now [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], so she stabs him to death]].
169	* A DamselInDistress version is Miho from VideoGame/{{Toki}}, who's the princess of Toki's tribe.
170	* In ''VideoGame/StarSweep'', Princess Rio lives in a jungle and has tanned skin to match.
171	* ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' has Tiger Lilly Cookie, a mysterious cookie with floor-length hair, a tiger, and limited language skills. She's a formidable warrior with her spear and often rides her tiger into battle. She's also a literal princess, being the long lost twin of [[PrincessesPreferPink Princess Cookie]] and granddaughter of [[FounderOfTheKingdom Hollyberry Cookie]].
172	* ''VideoGame/WorldsOfUltimaTheSavageEmpire'' had Aiela, princess of the Kurak tribe, from the Valley of Eodon,. Aiela is the bronze-skinned jungle beauty that haunts the Avatar's dreams, the same guy who underwent an [[VideoGame/UltimaIV epic quest to represent the 8 Virtues.]] Aiela is supposed to be the Avatar's designated romance partner and even joins your party, but you can opt for a different princess - Aiela's younger adopted and pyromaniac sister Tristia.
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176	* The eponymous ''Webcomic/KazasMateGwenna''. 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).
177	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen is [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-06-22 portrayed]] as this in a fantasy panel talking about a jungle movie.
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181	* ''WesternAnimation/JanaOfTheJungle'', part of ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour''. Jana was raised in the Amazon jungle and was more fluent in English than most jungle princesses.
182	* Ursula from the 1967 ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', and Magnolia from [[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle2007 the 2007 series]].
183	* Jungle Janet from the animated series of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick''.
184	* On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', there is a character actually ''named'' "Jungle Princess"...but then, that's to be expected, as this show has a princess for just about everything. There's also Susan Strong, who's a blonde woman with HulkSpeak, but actually lives underground.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' features La from the novels - ruler of the lost city of Opar. She's a recurring antagonist and also a LadyOfBlackMagic.
186	* Candace from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' became this in the "Where's Perry?" special after [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Jeremy (apparently) breaks up with her]], going to live with the monkeys and learning their language. She also becomes strong enough to [[spoiler:take down several humanoid robots]]. She goes back to normal after her misunderstanding with Jeremy is cleared up.
187	* Dualot the [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue panther]] in the Golden Step-Ahead Video, "WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords".
188	* Amelia from ''ComicBook/WalterMelon'' became this in the episode "Marzipan the Apeman".
189	* Rebecca Cunningham from ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' dresses up like this in "A Star is Torn", but she's the DamselInDistress type.
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