Tarzan, Black Comedy and Survival Horror

The relationship between ERBU Canon Tarzan and most conventional examples of Survival Horror is a lot closer than what you’d normally imagine. Because the whole core Tarzan canon book series contains the utterly fascinating consequences of Canon Tarzan trying to survive even when wearing western clothes, it is the unlikely trope maker for survival horror as we now know today. However, it does have comedy elements, which pop up every now and then. 

(ERB Universe) Canon Tarzan also has a strong but rather dysfunctional relationship with Canon Jane Porter, partly due to their somewhat incompatible minds competing with each other as well as workplace kerfuffles. 

Tellingly, even though the normally civil Jane can be quite a bad mum (in a rather complicated way), she clearly showed some sympathy for Canon Korak and saw his potential before anyone would notice. She still might’ve shoved her son to get a look at a questionable circus, but poor Korak himself escaped from London due to such an unforgiving incident that came later and never looked back since. 

As for another example? The surviving Mangani have had enough and would rather move to the Pellucidar dimension, partly due to their tropical forest homes getting overexploited to the point of being gone within decades.