16 Facts About Dejah Thoris

Dejah Thoris is the daughter of Mors Kajak, Jed of Lesser Helium, and the granddaughter of Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium.

Dejah Thoris is the love interest and later the wife of John Carter, an Earthman mystically transported to Mars, and subsequently the mother of their son Carthoris and daughter Tara.

Dejah Thoris plays the role of the conventional damsel in distress who must be rescued from various perils, but is portrayed as a competent and capable adventurer in her own right, fully capable of defending herself and surviving on her own in the wastelands of Mars.

Dejah Thoris's face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure.

Dejah Thoris's skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.

Dejah Thoris was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.

Dejah Thoris first appeared as the title character in the initial Mars novel, A Princess of Mars.

Dejah Thoris reappeared in subsequent volumes of the series, most prominently in the second, The Gods of Mars, the third, The Warlord of Mars, the eighth, Swords of Mars, and the eleventh, John Carter of Mars.

Dejah Thoris is mentioned or appeared in a minor role in other volumes of the series.

Dejah Thoris has appeared in numerous adaptations of the Martian stories, such as in a 1995 storyline of Tarzan's Sundays comic strip and various comic book series featuring her husband John Carter.

Dejah Thoris is mentioned in the first issue of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II during a conversation between John Carter and Gullivar Jones.

Dejah Thoris is a prominent character in Dynamite Entertainment's Warlord of Mars, based on A Princess of Mars.

Dejah Thoris is the main character of the Dynamite spinoff comic Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris, which ran 37 issues.

In Pierce Brown's book Morning Star, Dejah Thoris is the name of a dreadnought battleship, which belongs to a character nicknamed Mustang.

Burroughs's Dejah Thoris is referred to in Heinlein's novel Glory Road by the protagonist when contemplating his female companion, Star.

Dejah Thoris is the name of the "Belgium Witch of Marwencol" in the documentary Marwencol, which the film Welcome to Marwen is based upon, played by Diane Kruger.