The jungle is a beautiful, exotic and dangerous place, thus a lot of works of fiction are set there. This index is for tropes that are somehow related to the jungle.
In older Western works, Unfortunate Implications (as well as blatant racism) are almost a guarantee in a jungle setting — expect any depictions of "the natives" to be cringeworthy or worse.
The wildlife will usually be very aggressive, persistent and often misplaced.
If you're an author/director/etc. planning to write a story set in the jungle; see Write a Jungle Opera
Sub-Trope to Tropes of Nature. Despite its name, Cobweb Jungle has nothing to do with an actual jungle.
Common Genres:
Characters:
- Adventurer Archaeologist
- Bare-Fisted Monk
- Bold Explorer
- Egomaniac Hunter
- Evil Colonialist
- Evil Poacher
- Great White Hunter
- Hollywood Natives
- Human Traffickers
- Jungle Princess
- Mighty Whitey
- The Missionary
- Native Guide
- Nature Hero
- Tarzan Boy
- Warrior Monk
- Wild Child
- Witch Doctor
Settings:
- Darkest Africa
- Hollow World
- Hungry Jungle
- Jungle Japes
- Jungle Warfare
- Lost World
- Mayincatec
- Temple of Doom
- Tropical Island Adventure
Wildlife:
- Animal-Themed Fighting Style
- Angry, Angry Hippos
- Big Creepy-Crawlies
- Botanical Abomination
- Cruel Elephant
- Gentle Gorilla
- Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
- Kidnapping Bird of Prey
- Living Dinosaurs
- Lovable Lizard
- Maniac Monkeys
- Panthera Awesome
- Piranha Problem
- Prehistoric Monster
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent
- Rhino Rampage
- Zebras Are Just Striped Horses
Other:
- Appease the Volcano God
- Adventurer Outfit
- Ancient Astronauts
- Bamboo Technology
- Bound and Gagged
- Captured by Cannibals
- Chased by Angry Natives
- Chronic Hero Syndrome
- The Darkness Gazes Back
- Death Trap Tango
- Earthy Barefoot Character
- Everything Trying to Kill You
- Fur Bikini
- Floating Continent
- Friend to All Living Things
- Giant Animal Worship
- Hulk Speak
- Hunting the Most Dangerous Game
- Human Sacrifice
- Hollywood Voodoo
- Jungle Drums
- Jungle Jazz
- Locked Up and Left Behind
- Loincloth
- Lost Technology
- MacGuffin
- The Natives Are Restless
- Noisy Nature
- Not So Extinct
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious
- Our Monsters Are Weird
- Prefers Going Barefoot
- Quicksand Sucks
- Raised by Natives
- Raised by Wolves
- Religion of Evil
- Robinsonade
- Ruins for Ruins' Sake
- Skin Walker
- Sufficiently Advanced Bamboo Technology
- Surefooted Barefooter
- Stewed Alive
- Targeted Human Sacrifice
- Tribal Carry
- Vestigial Empire
- Vine Swing
- Virgin Sacrifice
