The Animals
The Gorillas
Marla - Marla was a brave old soul who went on to survive her husband Matt’s untimely trample by a hippo, before also dying at the maws of the same hippo who killed her husband a few years before. Sometimes she has to quarrel and fight with her estranged husband Matt to get things done though.
Matt - Somewhat outspoken and emotionally overcharged if rather sternly vulnerable Matt would die at the maws of a chaotic neutral hippo, who went mad and trampled him down as a result.
Flynt - Flynt is a frank and outspoken gorilla who still doesn’t mind telling jokes every now and then. Nonetheless, he is the awkward boyfriend and now bisexual husband of Terkina.
Durk - Durk is one of Tarzan’s male animal friends besides Tantor the Forest elephant and Manu the mandrill.
Muyo - Muyo was harassed and bitten by Gerla, which meant that he had to leave her behind in order to become a vagrant along with his wife Marcia, Terkina’s mum. He has survived Zugor’s death by a crocodile.
Gerla - Gerla was perhaps a part time cannibal gorilla who cheated upon her vagrant husband Gortak, which may explain why Flynt and his uncle Utor are shown as the skeptical and jaded but brutally honest good guys they would become in their adulthoods.
Terkina (Terk) - Terk is more than a bestie, she’s a worthy ally of Tarzan and a slyly thoughtful friend.
Marcia - The otherwise deadbeat Marcia died at the hands of a menacing pirate who unwillingly turned her into pricey bushmeat.
Zugor - Zugor was Marla’s estranged dad, who helped Tarzan survive his critter conflict attack, but sadly died at the maws of a menacing crocodile.
Utor - Utor is Gortak’s goofy yet rowdy older brother and Flynt’s somewhat dimwitted paternal uncle.
Kagor - Kagor is Terkina’s vagrant uncle, who seems to be a rather aggressive and lonesome gorilla whose main regular company is his deadbeat older sister Marcia, who does care for him.
Verona - Verona was a female gorilla older than her little brother Flynt, as suggested by her being the first kid of a rather messed up family which involved wife-on-husband sexual and physical harassment.
Bonnie - Bonnie is Durk’s girlfriend and later wife, who seems pretty stubborn for her rather modest size but does care for both her similarly mature fellow and their son.
Gortak - Gortak turns out to be a dastardly gorilla who abandoned his friends and banished himself into the deeper wild following his well meant estrangement from Gerla. Making things sadder, Gerla turned out to be such a murderously horrible wife and mum that maybe it’s not surprising when it turns out that both Flynt and his uncle Utor are quite the skeptical and rather jaded, yet still goofy good guys in their adulthoods.
Dombie - Dombie, a skinny but punky, physically scarred gorilla whose real name is Dominic, seems to be the first of 3 kids in a gorilla community born after Terkina. He’s still a friendly rival of Rex even though they’re now estranged from an aggro and more unkempt Bruce.
Rex - Rex is Terkina’s younger brother, a chubby and shaggy yet good natured gorilla who happens to be a reluctant guest during Terkina and Flynt’s ‘wedding day’.
Bruce - As an estranged friend of both Dombie and Rex, the shaggy yet sharp fanged Bruce remains the best man for the wedding of both Flynt and Terkina. He is named for the late Bruce Bennett, also known as Herman Brix.
Gordon - Named for Gordon Scott, Gordon is the shy, somewhat nervous young gorilla who just keeps himself out of the spotlight for the most part, as he likes to rest with his mother Bonnie and father Durk. Still, he is friends with two unrelated young gorillas, grumpy Hulbert and nerdy Jim.
Hulbert - Hulbert is more than a shaggy middleweight but also a stubborn, perhaps even naughty young gorilla who sometimes pesters his mother by riding on her back. He is named for Edgar Rice Burroughs’s son Hulbert.
Jim - Jim is a thoughtfully nerdy, slender young gorilla who is friends with both Gordon and Hulbert, and is named for voice actor Jim Bennett.
The Pigeons
Arina - Arina is a smart yet goofy African green pigeon who lives next door to Tantor. She is a nomad who sometimes cameos in many places just like Preek the Stanger’s squirrel.
The Red River Hogs
Horta - Horta is a moody but matronly and down to earth bush pig, whose son is a jokester with a knack for funny answers.
Bricky - Named for how blocky his body is, Bricky is a playful bush pig jokester who’s the third of six piglets living with their mother Horta.
The Talapoins
Mitch - Mitch is an inquisitive bush monkey known for annoying the hell out of the apemen and other animals, especially Keeka and Taoug.
The Leopards
Borda - Borda was a leopardess who had to survive fellow leopard attacks, chomping off the remains of both gorillas and others alike. She died trying to protect herself and Smak from another leopard named Woro, who in turn was killed by Tarzan.
Smak - Smak is the old son of Borda, who now has sired two cubs, Sheeta and Zander.
Woro (dead) - Woro was a magnificent bastard of a leopard, who himself killed poor old Borda while she’s trying to protect herself.
Sheeta - Along with her tomboy daughter Shiv, Sheeta is a brownish spotted leopardess reluctantly but sympathetically rescued by Tarzan, while running away from the Agro-loggers who destroyed a lot of her garden territory. She now luckily lives in the Kokino swamp where Akut and his friends were stranded upon.
Shiv - Shiv, aka Siobhan, is Sheeta’s jaded and grumpy tomboy daughter, who first appears as a female cub but grows older throughout the story and its sequels.
Zander - Zander is a melanistic leopard, who is Sheeta’s annoying but playful younger brother with a rougher relationship towards Tarzan than other neutral characters.
The Elephants
Tantor - Tantor is one of Tarzan’s best friends, who happens to be a flatulent, bossy and moody forest elephant who now turns his life around after a childhood of being dismissed, neglected and not preferred by his own mother, who would ironically be shot to death by ivory hunters when Tantor himself was a preteen. Still, he has somewhat permanent trauma coming from his preteen years, made obvious by the fact that much of his herd (including both his mum and estranged dad) is gone thanks to agro-loggers.
Ulahee - Ulahee is Tantor’s plucky, goofy class clown of a niece, who at least bravely keeps Dania company when both are on the run from loggers.
Dania - Tantor’s rather unkempt but cool mannered older sister.
Vince - Vince is a middle aged bull forest elephant who sometimes doesn’t care about everybody’s feelings, although he does fear a nastier antagonist once in a while.
Tantor Senior (minor, dead) - Tantor’s vagrant maternal grandfather, who did love his daughter Jill but was a workaholic who felt estranged by his daughter’s dysfunctional parenting of Tantor and his sister Dania.
Jill (minor, dead) - Tantor’s obnoxious and somewhat neglectful mother, whose relatively dysfunctional and increasingly estranged relationship with her kids might’ve partially led to her being poached by Tom Lawley when both were growing up.
Boris (minor, dead) - Boris was Tantor’s distant, moody and emotionally vulnerable dad who did his best to survive against all odds until, one day, he was poached and then turned into bushmeat by Tom Lawley.
The Lions
Sabor - Sabor made her first appearance as a nomadic old lioness who reluctantly chased Tarzan without success before snacking instead on a few of Neeta’s remains (after all, she’s a part time scavenger).
Numa - Sabor’s snobbish but ageing husband, who also met the same fate as his mate and wife at the hands of Tarzan.
Jad Bal Ja - Though Jada is his real name, he is better known by being nicknamed Jad Bal Ja due to Tarzan being a friend and mentor to him when they first met.
The Chimpanzees
Throg - The otherwise low-ranking Throg is a rather arrogant, overconfident chimpanzee who likes to make a bloody ruckus, smashing four fellow rivals and harassing two female chimps on a single occasion. Nonetheless, despite being an immature guy, even he has a few lines not to cross, such as seeing Klunk’s mother harassing her son on a whim.
Luki - Luki is Throg’s similarly cunning younger sister, who’s unpleasant when not in a good mood, although to be fair, she’s still somewhat traumatised by many events surrounding Klunk and his own messed up family, such as her younger neighbour Koki being killed by Klunk himself.
Koki - Koki was a young chimp ripped and mauled by the despicably obnoxious Klunk, a cunning villain whose sociopathic father’s overall infamy outshines his own.
Klunk - Though chimps are wild animals, Klunk may as well be a repulsive chimp disliked by much of his community, but is known to have been somewhat neglected by his own distant and careless but mentally vulnerable mother who ran away from his slier, more despicable father.
Christy - Christy can be moody and stubborn, although she happens to be the fun loving goofball of her own mid-ranking family. Otherwise, she’s brave and smart enough to bring the senses back into Throg, one of her arrogant bullies who later becomes her own reluctant boyfriend. Tellingly, she also dislikes seeing Klunk’s sociopathic father killing all his rivals in a political spree.
The Squirrels
Preek - Preek is a Stanger’s Squirrel who sometimes cameos in various locations and gets comically awkward answers from Arina.
The Guenons
Kinto - Kinto was a funny Mona guenon monkey who lives next door to Terk and her family of fellow vagrant Gorillas.
Yuka - Yuka is a blue guenon who lives next door to the hotel that Jarvis runs.
The Honeyguides
Hunny - Hunny is a somewhat sly honeyguide who lives next door to Terkina and her family.
The Other Monkeys
Nkima - Nkima is a tantalus monkey whom Tarzan rescued after he moved into the jungle countryside. He and the other Tantalus monkeys would follow him around in case.
Morgan - Morgan is
Andy - Andy is a monkey who
Chiko - Chiko is a Geoffroy’s spider monkey, who lives near a derelict jungle temple in the fictional equivalent of Guatemala, Central America.
