Along the way, Tarzan and his family became immortal, if only in the literary sense. Tarzan's further adventures generally have one of two plots: either Tarzan discovers a Lost World, or he defends his African friends against European villains. However, that same film also explicitly had Tarzan and Jane marry ahead of time.) (In the books, Burroughs actually did have Tarzan and Jane beget a son, Korak, and one of the silents, The Son of Tarzan, featured this character. Instead, he has often been provided with a pet chimpanzee and an adopted son - the latter because the film Tarzan never formally married Jane, and thus was not allowed by the Hays office to actually have gotten her pregnant. Most of the films omit Tarzan's English sojourn and his status as Lord Greystoke. They married and settled in England, where they had a son, but eventually grew tired of civilization and returned to the jungle. After meeting Jane and learning the basics of human interaction, he left the jungle in search of his true love. In the original books, Tarzan was the son of Lord Greystoke, raised by apes after being orphaned in Africa as a baby. Tarzan is the quintessential jungle hero white but at home in Darkest Africa. First created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912, Tarzan has since swung through dozens of books, films and TV series, both straight and parodied.
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