Jane Porter

### Honors and awards

Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production (Minnie Driver)

## Character information

### Other names

Miss Porter
Janey
Mrs. Tarzan
"Ohisee"

### Occupation

Artist
Queen of the Apes

### Home

England (formerly)
The Jungle

### Likes

Sketching, being barefoot, animal research, baby gorillas, birds, exploration, adventuring with Tarzan

### Dislikes

Baboons, poachers, wearing shoes, excessive heights, disorder, the sound of gunshots

## Family information

### Parents

Archimedes Q. Porter (father)
Unnamed mother †

### Other relatives

Kala (adoptive mother-in-law)
Kerchak † (adoptive father-in-law)
Unnamed parents-in-law †
Isabelle (aunt)
Gwendoline (cousin)
Unnamed adoptive brother-in-law †
Terk (adoptive cousin-in-law)
Terk's mother (adoptive aunt-in-law)

### Partner(s)

Tarzan (husband)

 ―Jane Porter

**Jane Porter**, more commonly known as **Jane** or **Janey-Jane** by her father, is the deuteragonist of Disney's Tarzan (1999). She is the daughter of the famous scientist Archimedes Q. Porter. Jane, along with her father, came to Africa to finish their study of gorillas.

## Background

### Physical Appearance

When Jane was introduced in the beginning of the movie, her attire was not meant for the jungle life, wearing a long yellow gown, with white gloves, a pair of boots, which one of them will be stolen by a baboon, and she held a yellow umbrella.

But throughout the movie, Jane's outfit grew more and more revealing. As she wore a yellow shirt along with a long green skirt, and was bare foot, with her hair let loose.

She also wore a white tank top with a red skirt, bare foot and her hair let loose again.

By the end of the movie, after Jane decided to stay in the jungle and marry Tarzan, Jane was wearing a bikini-like top which showed her midriff and was wearing a short skirt, which showed her legs,

Jane has long brown hair, with blue eyes, and fair skin, with a British accent as she came from London in the Victoria-era time.

### Personality

Throughout the movie, Jane was often showed as a damsel-in-distress, as she would often get into trouble and would need for Tarzan to save her, as it showed in the beginning where Jane was being chased a flock of baboons, and Tarzan was able to save her.

Although, Jane would always be willing to help those when she can. Just like when Kala, Tarzan's adoptive ape mother, was being held in a cage and taken away to the boat by Clayton, Jane swung on a vine and stopped Clayton's men from capturing the ape.

At the end of the film, Jane was torn from wanting to stay in Africa with Tarzan, and wanting to go back to her home in England, "I belong in England with people-" as she had said to her father, Archimedes Q, Porter. But in the end, Archimedes was able to persuade his daughter to be happy and live in the jungle with Tarzan. Soon after, Archimedes joined his daughter and Tarzan in the jungle.

In the series of "*The Legend of Tarzan*" Jane was shown to be trying to give Tarzan a more "civilized" point of view in society. Jane, at first, was also not accepted by all the gorillas as quoted, "You're a human with a human wife". But Jane saw the Gorilla troop as her family, when she called them as "her family" multiple times in the series, especially in "*The Challenger*".

Jane's enemy is most likely to be Queen La, who has a crush on Jane's husband Tarzan, and tries to eliminate Jane to have Tarzan as he mate. But, fortunately for Jane, Tarzan would still remain loyal to her, despite La's attempts.

## Appearances

### Tarzan (1999)

When Jane was first shown in Tarzan, she was shown to have a huge interest in gorillas, just like her father Professor Porter, a famous British scientist. She would often sketch the interesting things that she saw, just like when she began to sketch a baby baboon, which led to the baboon's interest in Jane's drawing, so he tries to steal it. After Jane tricks the monkey, the baboon cries and this agitated its family, and soon after, Jane was being chased by a fleet of baboons from a tree,

Tarzan, after seeing Jane being chased around, thought that he should help Jane, and when Jane jumped on the cliff, Tarzan caught her, which surprised Jane as she remarked, "*I'm flying! I'm flying!*",

Jane's first encounter with Tarzan on the tree caused Tarzan to be curious by Jane, as she looked a lot like him. Tarzan then began to inspect Jane, like how he tickled her toes, checked her hands in his, and checked Jane's heartbeat.

In that moment, Clayton then fired a gunshot, which surprised both Tarzan and Jane, Jane exclaimed, "*Clayton!*", Tarzan thought that the sound of the gun was Clayton, and he brought Jane back to her camp where they saw that Terk, Tantor, and some other gorillas were playing and breaking the things of Jane and her father.

Jane was amazed to finally see gorillas, but that was short-lived when Kerchak came and spotted them, Jane was scared and began to tremble. Soon after, the apes, along with Tarzan, Professor Porter, along with Clayton find Jane and asked her where she went. Jane then began to tell the tale of the baboons and how they chased her and how Tarzan managed to save her. "*I was saved by a flying man in loincloth!*".

At first, Jane's father and Clayton are confused, but as Jane begins to sketch the picture of Tarzan, Clayton thinks that Tarzan was just a "girlish fantasy", until Tarzan jumped in the middle of them. The moment Archimedes saw Tarzan, he then knew that Tarzan might be the missing link for them to find the gorillas.

Clayton tries to ask Tarzan where the gorillas are, but Jane remarks that Tarzan does not speak English, and that Jane should teach Tarzan instead, "*Strangers Like Me".*

While teaching Tarzan, Jane slowly begins to fall in love with Tarzan, but when Tarzan was about to ask Jane out, he sees that Jane, Archimedes, and Clayton were going back to England. Tarzan asks Jane to stay, but Jane explains to him that she can't stay, and Jane then tries to persuade Tarzan to stay in England. Tarzan replied with, "Go see England today. Go back home tomorrow." Jane explains that that can't be as it is difficult to go back to Africa, and she runs of sobbing when Tarzan asks her to stay.

Clayton, seeing this, then took this as a chance to persuade Tarzan to show them the gorillas' nest. Tarzan, thinking that Jane would stay, agreed, and showed the explorers where the gorillas nest were.

Just as Tarzan was teaching Jane how to speak in gorilla, she asked what did she just say and Tarzan replied, "*That Jane will stay with Tarzan.*" Jane is shocked and confused and tells him that she can't, when suddenly Terk and Tantor arrive, with Kerchak. Tarzan tries to hold Kerchak off while Jane and the others try to escape.

A few hours later, when the boat was about to leave, Tarzan was about to go to England with Jane, when they suddenly got trapped, as it was all a trap set by Clayton to kill all the gorillas and sell them for the black market. Jane tries to calm Tarzan down, by saying it was not Tarzan's fault, but Clayton's.

Suddenly, Terk and Tantor come to rescue Tarzan, upon hearing his cries for help.

The scene then transitions to Jane fighting off Clayton's men, but when she tried to stop Clayton from hurting Tarzan, Jane was knocked out. She only regained consciousness when Clayton died, and she comforted Tarzan over the death of Kerchak.

At the end of the movie, Jane was officially going back to her home in England, but her father knew that Jane would rather stay at the jungle with Tarzan then go back to her life in society. Officially, Jane decides to stay in the African jungles where she married Tarzan and became the Queen of the Jungle.

## Trivia

* Jane is ticklish, as when Tarzan plays with her toes when they first meet, she is shown to be laughing.
* The brown skirt and top she wore at the end of the first movie are seen only once afterward. It was at the end of *The Legend of Tarzan* episode "Tarzan and the Lost Cub" where she was using it as a swimsuit.
* In the original novel, she and her father are American, not British.
	+ Ironically, Tarzan is the only human in the film with an American accent.
* Jane is the first and only human heroine from the Disney Renaissance who doesn't sing.
* In November 1999, Jane Porter was announced as the newest princess for the Disney Princess franchise by the official magazine from the United Kingdom. In February 2000, she made an another appearance in the magazine, then was never talked about in the franchise. Although Jane had been announced when the franchise was intensified, she was no longer with the other princesses.
* Throughout the entirety of the movie, Jane's exact age is never revealed. However, in the original novel *Tarzan of the Apes*, she was said to be 19 years old when she met Tarzan.

## Relationships

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