Turok

Turok is the main protagonist of Turok Lord of the Jungle. He is a man who has been living with a troop of Gorillas under the leadership of Tublat in the jungles of Baladora for 28 years. He lost his parents after his mother died from a fatal disease while his father was killed by a lion named Sabor. When a group of humans can to Baladora, he fell in love with Elizabeth Summerlee, the daughter of zoologist Professor. Arthur Summerlee. He became enemies with Elizabeth's former fiancée a big game hunter named Clayton Pelt.

He first met Elizabeth after he saved her from a tiger whom he had a crash on every since that moment. Turok had started to learned how to speak human by Elizabeth and her father. His love relationship with Elizabeth made Clayton very jealous. Later he learned what Clayton's plan was that he was going to hunt his ape family after one of Clayton's men capture Elizabeth.

## Biography

When Turok was a baby he was raised by his mother and father in a treehouse they built after getting marooned on the shores of Baladora. When Sabor killed his father, while his mother after she gave birth to him died from a fatal illness, Turok was defenseless against the lion until he was a found by a family of gorillas who were exploring the now deserted treehouse and found the infant Turok and raised him. During his years with the troop he learned how to swing through tree vines and wrestle other gorillas in the group.

## Personality

Turok is a brave and fearless man who does what he can to protect his family. He is also a kind hearted person even to Elizabeth the first human he had seen.

## Physical abilities

Turok can swing through vines and climb up trees very well as any ape in Baladora. Turok's strength, speed, and swimming skills are extraordinary; he wrestles not just full-grown gorillas, but also lions, rhinos, crocodiles, pythons, anacondas, leopards, jaguars, tigers, and even dinosaurs (when he visits Jumanji). He is also a very skilled tracker and uses his hearing and keen sense of smell follow prey or avoid predators. He is also able to summon various wild animals to help him by using a Tarzan yell.

## Equipment

Turok carries a hunting knife that he would use against any animals who attacks his ape family. He would also sometimes use a spear that he would make out of a large branch and sharpening it with his knife. He eventually learned how to use a bow and arrow which he would shoot to kill any enemies that would attack.

## Language

At first Turok is very intelligent and articulate, and did not speak in broken English, but eventually Elizabeth and her father teaches him how to speak English. He can communicate with many species of jungle animals, and has been shown to be a skilled impressionist across the jungle. Turok also learned how to speak the languages of several tribes found across Baladora such as the Omaticaya, the Jumaki, and the Tipani which their languages consist of Swahili, Portuguese, and Khmer. When he visited Jumanji Turok learned to speak in the proto-language that the valley's primitive humans speak.

## Trivia

* Turok is based on Tarzan from the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes by the late Edgar Rice Burroughs.

## Gallery

Turok when he was a baby when his parent's were killed by Sabor.