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SuperFriends Team Member
Rima the Jungle Girl | |
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Information | |
Real name: | Rima |
AKA: | The Daughter of the Didi |
Species: | Metahuman |
Homeworld: | Earth |
Hair: | White |
Base: | Hall of Justice |
Affiliations: | SuperFriends |
Abilities: | communicates with animals |
Voiced/Played: | Shannon Farnon or Kathy Garver |
Rima Gallery |
Rima the Jungle Girl is a superhero and member of the Justice League of America. She is also a part-time member of the SuperFriends.
Background Information
Natives avoided her forest, calling her "the Daughter of the Didi" (an evil spirit), but Rima's only defense is a reputation for magic, earned through the display of strange talents such as talking to birds, befriending animals, and plucking poison darts from the air.[1]
Abilities
- She has the ability to communicate with animals.
- She is an expert:
- tracker
- at hand-to-hand combat
- wilderness survival
- She has an extensive knowledge of animal habitats and jungle lore.
- She possesses the strength level of a woman her age, size and weight who engages in intensive regular exercise.
Episode Appearances
Notes
- Rima sprang from a Victorian adventure novel, in her case 'Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest', published in 1904 by the Argentine-British writer W. H. Hudson. He based Rima on a persistent South American legend about a lost tribe of white people who lived in the mountains.
- Rima first appeared in comic book form in Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1[2] (May 1974).
- It was adapted by an uncredited writer. Starting with issue #5, DC writer-editor Robert Kanigher is given credit.
- The series was a short-lived seven-issue comic book series Rima the Jungle Girl, published by DC Comics from May 1974 to May 1975.
- Rima is not intended to be a Tarzan type character, rather she was intended to be portrayed as:[3]
- goddess of the forest
- preserver of the forest
- preserver of the animals
Members of the Justice League |
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Justice League: Comic Book JLA Team Members: Other Known Justice Leaguers: SuperFriends Founding Members: Other Known SuperFriends Members: Junior SuperFriends: Mascots: |
External Links
References
- ↑ Based on her comic book series, Rima the Jungle Girl.
- ↑ Go to the DC Database for more on Rima the Jungle Girl vol.1, #1 (May 1974)
- ↑ From the DVD commentary on Season 2 vol. 1.