"Tarzan and the Leopard Men Rebellion" is the sixteenth episode of The Legend of Tarzan. It originally aired on UPN on September 20, 2001.
Synopsis[]
Professor Porter is performing magic tricks at the treehouse. His next trick was to slice something in half and put it back together. Terk chooses Tantor but he was too scared and he goes out. He hears noises and warns everyone, except nobody believes him. Jane takes a look out there, stating she doesn't see anything. The Leopard Men of Opar attack, but rather than capturing Tarzan, they take Jane and gas the others.
After regaining consciousness, Tarzan and the gang travel to Opar to rescue Jane. On the way, they encounter Queen La, who is being attacked by a leopard. Tarzan sees this and he attacks the leopard. Tarzan asks her the location of Jane, but Queen La replies saying she doesn't know. Then Tarzan told Queen La what happened and Queen La starts acting innocent.
Then, back in Opar, a leopard dressed like a Pharoah gives Jane Queen La's staff. The leopard men bows down and Jane transforms to a queen that looks somewhat like Queen La, aside from the hair and face. Her eyes started glowing.
Back in the forest, Queen La says she'll "help" Tarzan rescue Jane.
Queen La and Tarzan sneaks in the castle. Tarzan sees Jane and Queen La states she'll grab her staff while he stops the leopard men. La regains her staff and stops the leopard men.
Tarzan leaves with an unconscious Jane, expressing his gratitude for Queen La for help save Jane.
Queen La gets angry at her leopard men and destroys two of them. She then plans to punish the leopard man that dresses like a pharoah whom she addressed as Kaj.
Tarzan brings Jane to the grass, and Jane wakes up after she fainted when she got pushed by La. Jane wonders where she is and Tarzan explained the rescuing. Jane plans to go back when her father stops her. Then Jane explains why the leopard men gave her the staff. La made the leopard men into what they are and they just want to go back to being normal people. Only the queen of Opar can free them so they kidnapped Jane to make her their queen.
They send Tantor to distract La while they sneak up on her, but it failed.
Then Jane and Tarzan attack Queen La, and Tarzan takes La's staff. Tarzan tosses it to Jane, who shatters the staff, causing La to age into dust and return the leopard men to their original leopard forms. The city crumbles to ruins, but luckily Tarzan, Tantor, Jane, the Professor, and Terk escaped.
After the gang leaves, La's staff reforms itself and we hear her disembodied cackle.
Cast[]
- Michael T. Weiss as Tarzan
- Olivia d'Abo as Jane Porter
- Jeff Bennett as Archimedes Q. Porter
- Jim Cummings as Tantor
- April Winchell as Terk
- Diahann Carroll as Queen La
Trivia[]
- Jane's facial expression looked evil when her outfit changed.
- Jane's lips changed from red to purple during her Queen transformation.
- Queen La seemed to be scared of the leopard, but not scared of the Leopard Men.
- When Jane destroys La's scepter, smoke comes rising out of it. This is similar to a scene in Aladdin, when the title character shatters Jafar's staff.