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Basic Trope: A survivalist Action Girl, who was raised in the jungle and protects either its inhabitants or the environment.

  • Straight: Alice the Jungle Girl, is a barefoot Fur Bikini clad Action Girl, who was Raised by Natives or raised by animals and fights to protects her home and her people.
  • Exaggerated: Alice the Jungle Girl has telepathic control over all the animals and Green Thumb abilities
  • Downplayed:
    • Alice the Jungle Girl came to the jungle as a scientist and took a liking to protecting the environment. She now lives there, but uses modern technology, wears an Adventurer Outfit, boots included and uses a gun.
    • Alice the Nature Girl was raised in and inhabits a temperate forest, but still wears handcrafted clothes and and makes handcrafted tools.
  • Justified:
    • Alice the Jungle Girl was brought to the jungle as a child by The Missionary, who taught her a moral compass, now she is the protector of her people.
    • Alice the Jungle Girl was Raised by Natives in a culture, where women protect the village.
  • Inverted: Alice the Ice Princess lives in the northern tundra, Exposed to the Elements and with a connection to polar animals.
  • Subverted: Alice becomes an Eco-Terrorist.
  • Double Subverted: Despite this, sees the error of her ways and devotes herself to fighting human and environmental threats alike.
  • Parodied:
    • Alice doesn’t really know how to survive in the Hungry Jungle. She is often a victim of slapstick comedy as animals try to eat her, she is often Captured by Cannibals, her Fur Bikini leaves her vulnerable to mosquitoes and she is always stepping on thorns and sharp rocks.
    • Alice assumes the animals will be her friends and that the natives will automatically respect her. Instead, she almost dies multiple times to big cats and is frequently Captured by Cannibals.
    • The animals don't understand Alice.
    Alice: "Ooh ohh ahh ahh ahh"
    Gorilla: "What do you mean your going to build Rome in a day out of toothpicks?"
  • Zig-Zagged: Alice was being Raised by Natives and lives in the jungle, but was eventually taken in by The Missionary, who plans to take her back to modern civilization. The Missionary dies before he can do this. Alice goes back to living in nature, she gets a Bold Explorer boyfriend who offers to take her to modern civilization, then Alice declines to protect the jungle.
  • Averted:
    • Alice is a American girl, who goes on to become a marine biologist and focuses on protecting the oceans.
    • Alice is rescued by an explorer as an infant, is taken back to civilization, and becomes a barista at a coffee shop.
    • Alice was found orphaned as a child, but was rescued by natives and raised by The Missionary. He eventually takes her to modern civilization, where she is already equipped with manners and social skills necessary for navigating western civilization.
  • Enforced: Alice the Jungle Girl is part of the Cyberpunk Dystopia, because the author wanted her there.
  • Lampshaded: “It’s a miracle you survived so long alone in the jungle, Alice!”
  • Invoked: The prophecy states that the Chosen One will be one with the jungle and fight with all the might of nature, so when Alice is found to be the Chosen One, a monk leaves her in the Hungry Jungle with a native tribe as an infant to be raised by animals.
  • Exploited:
    • The native tribe finds Alice as an infant, so they befriend her so that she can protect them as the Jungle Princess.
    • Adventurer archeologist Montana Jack learns that one of his colloquies lost his daughter in the jungles of Africa when she was only an infant, so he ventures out to find her, so she could lead him to the Ancient Artifact.
  • Defied: A native tribe finds Alice alone in the jungle as an infant, but they instead raise her to stay in the tribe with the rest of the women.
  • Discussed: “Don’t worry, if the natives find you, they’ll just assume you’re a goddess”
  • Conversed: “I love that girl Alice. She knows the jungle like the back of her hand”
  • Implied: Alice is a regular action girl with an ambiguous backstory, but she Prefers Going Barefoot, has an extensive knowledge of plants and animals, has several pets, knows multiple languages and is an expert in an expert in martial arts.
  • Played for Drama:
  • Played for laughs: Years of living alone in the jungle has made Alice very socially awkward.

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