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  • The second part of the credits, in which, after wild animals and fights as were expected, you can see Tarzan's family, and particularly Jane and Kala looking moved.
  • In "Tarzan and Tublat’s Revenge", after defeating Tublat, Tarzan crafts a stone statue in the late Kerchak's likeness. Showing respect to his adoptive father, he swears to honor his memory by protecting their family.
  • In "The Leopard Men Rebellion", the reveal of why Jane was in control of La's powers was surprisingly heartwarming when one gets over the initial shock of the episodes twist ending. The Leopard Men, realizing the kind of soul she was, sought her help to free them from La's slavery. With her and Tarzan's help, they are freed.
  • In the "The Poisoned River" two part episode, We see the friendship of Tarzan and Basuli begin here. At first they start out as enemies, but by seeing how they had a common cause and helped each other in their time of need, such as when Basuli's village was destroyed by an intentional fire by miners, and Tarzan selflessly helped a trapped child, they part ways for the time being as friends.
  • In "The Eagle's Feather", Tarzan and Basuli's friendship was strong enough that Tarzan and his family were invited to Basuli's wedding, and when tradition has Basuli travel to the top of a mountain to gain an eagle's feather to earn the right of marriage with the assistance of someone of his choosing, he chooses Tarzan to go with him over any Waziri. By all accounts, he made Tarzan his best man for his wedding.
    • In this same episode, Jane accidentally offended Waziri Tribe tradition and wished to make amends for it in their tradition, to which Chief Keewazi allows her the chance to do so, by cleaning an important landmark of their village. After she finished and asked if it was acceptable, Keewazi graciously accepted her apology.
    • After Tarzan and Basuli arrive seemingly without an eagle's feather, Basuli confronts his father about tradition that is keeping him and his wife from marrying and tells his father that he will marry her without the feather if need be. However, Basuli really did get the feather, he just wanted to make a point.
  • From "The Mysterious Visitor", after Edgar Rice Burroughs himself has been hearing about all of Tarzan's amazing exploits, Jane comes to say that all those stunts are only one part of the man. In truth, he's a much kinder and gentler person that his power would have him appear. Coupled with flashbacks of their romance.
    • All this gave Ed the inspiration he's been searching for.
  • "Tarzan and the Lost Cub" ends with the aforementioned leopard cub returned to his mother, both pay Tarzan and Jane a friendly visit later.
    • Before that, when the cub reunites with it's mother. It walks into a cave and sees her sitting curled up in the back looking sullen. Then she sees her cub, and smiles.
  • From "The Fugitives", the reveal that, while they are schemers, Hugo and Hooft are not at all amoral. They were only labeled as are only criminals by their amoral commanding officer because of their defiance of "Just Following Orders" when it involved killing innocent people.
  • In "The Return of La", Tarzan grabs La (who was in Jane's body) to jump from a great height to force her to release Jane and they have this exchange:
    La: Stop, what are you doing?
    Tarzan: Jumping.
    La: But you'll kill us both.
    Tarzan: Jane is my only reason for living.
  • In "British Invasion", Jane's friends from England come to the jungle to rescue her when they mistakenly believe she's been held hostage.
  • In "The Face From the Past", Tarzan confesses a secret he'd been keeping from Kala for twenty years - namely, that he started a fire that almost wiped out all the jungle - and that the mandrill Zutho had been using to Blackmail him. Although disappointed that he never told her from the start, Kala completely forgives Tarzan for the event, simply happy that he finally got the secret off his chest. It really shows how much she loves and cares for Tarzan, even when he thought he couldn't be forgiven for such a disaster.
    • Then, in a moment that also counts as Kala's biggest Moment of Awesome, she goes full Mama Bear on Zutho when he has the nerve to pipe up. When she demands to know if his own mother knows of his behaviour, the only thing he can squeak out is:
  • "The Caged Fury":
    • Tarzan instantly going Papa Wolf when Merkus makes a subtle threat against the former's gorilla family.
    • It's a small one but both Niels and Merkus keep their promise to Tarzan to stay away from his gorilla family. Yes, it's more out of pragmatism but they could've easily done something two-faced with the dynamite but chose to keep their word.
    • When Tarzan is deep in thought on Tublat's impending departure, Jane comes to check up on him. He confesses that while he knows Tublat is not a friend, he doesn't deserve to be forcibly taken from his home or killed. Jane then correctly guesses that Tarzan is planning to rescue the captured ape. And while Jane also states the apes won't be happy, Tarzan sweetly states the same words she said earlier in the episode, "Sometimes a good deed is it's own reward". Jane then proudly states that Tarzan learned a lesson too well. And the couple share a kiss.
    • While Terk is very upset about Tarzan's decision to rescue Tublat, she nonetheless goes with him to be his back-up.

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