Her attempts to seduce Tarzan fail every time, as his loyalty is firmly with Jane, and in almost every encounter, La is trying to hurt Jane and take Tarzan for herself.
She falls in love with Tarzan after he comes to rescue Jane's father from the Leopard Men, who were capturing males as potential husbands for La. In her adaptation for the series, she is an utterly vicious sorceress who rules over the abandoned city of Opar, where she lords over the Leopard Men, leopards whom she has changed into humanoid form to serve her.
Queen La (Diahann Carroll) - In the original novels, a high priestess of a blood cult who fell in love with Tarzan. In the series, he plots to dispose of Tarzan so that he can take over the gorilla pack for himself, and makes no secret of his hatred against Tarzan, believing him to be unworthy of leading the gorilla pack (despite Tarzan's actual success as a leader of the gorillas). He has four toes on his right foot, and this is one way to tell he is in the area. But the family overthrew him and Gobu replaced him. He once took over another gorilla family that Gobu belonged to. Conversely, Kerchak's personality in the 1999 film is just like Tublat's in the original novel. His personality is also very much like the original Kerchak and/or Terkoz from the novel. He is based on Kala's husband (and Tarzan's foster father) in the original Tarzan novel. He is considered dangerous by all the gorillas due to his aggressive and sociopathic behavior. He challenged Kerchak for leadership but was defeated and cast out. Tublat (Keith David) - A rogue ape and a former member of Tarzan's gorilla family. There are those who think he still lives, pushing 90 years of age, though he dropped out of sight so long ago. There is no record of what happened to Tarzan after 1946. (He was also in the Foreign Legion.) Though most of his adventures were in Africa, where he visited such little known places as the Great Thorn Forest, he also traveled throughout the world, including Hollywood, where movie-makers made fortunes chronicling his life and those of his sons. II, he joined the RAF and flew planes over Burma, China, and Japan. (Biographers other than Burroughs doubt the truth of this story.) In W.W. He conducted a running battle with the dastardly Rokoff and sundry other villains: the River Devil, the Lion Man, a Minunian scientist who shrank him to the height of 18", and the monster Numa, a celestial lion that threatened to eat up the moon. (Once, on the green lawn of Westerfalcon Hall, he found and ate an earthworm, a treat for an ape, much to Jane's horror.)ĭuring his lifetime, Tarzan had 2 sons, one adopted, which, along with his wife, he was always rescuing from horrible fates. Though outwardly urbane, he never did shake off his jungle childhood. He wasn't always able to fight them off, though what did take place would hardly shock anyone today.) He also learned to drink absinthe and smoke cigarettes.ĭuring the rest of his life, Tarzan lived either at his English country estate (he got his title at last) or his African estate and, when he grew bored with both, traveled the world. 
(Though his heart always belonged to Jane, Tarzan was wildly attractive to women, including the beautiful Russian countess and the queen of La, a lost Atlantis in the heart of Africa.
In the interim, however, he had some spine-tingling adventures: a duel, a fight with bandit Arabs, a brief fling with a countess. (She, in a weak moment, had agreed to marry Tarzan's 2nd cousin.) Two years later, Tarzan had his heart's desire and married Jane. In short order he saved her from the villain and a forest fire, only to have to renounce his true love. It was several months later that Jane, living on a farm in Wisconsin and facing marriage for financial reasons to a cold-hearted villain, saw a 4-cylinder French touring car drive up. About the biography of famous fictional character Tarzan of the Apes, history of King of the Jungle and his lady Jane.
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