The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters: From Mickey rato to Hercules by
John Grant
Character descrição of Tarzan from "The Black Cauldron" (1985)
Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper who wants to make good por becoming a great warrior, is a member of that great fraternity of disney central protagonists who are rather indefinitely characterized. To say that they are nonentities - as some critics have done - is to be a little harsh, because they are not; but they are definitely, and quite deliberately, painted in pastel colours so that the mais ostentatiously bizarre characters around...
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