Contemporary Caveman

"I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman lawyer…"

Basic Information

This character is a Caveman, but transplanted to the Modern Day (or some other civilized era). Does not include modern people who happen to live in caves for whatever reason.

Related Tropes:
Fish Out Of Temporal Water
Hulk Speak
Human Popsicle
Rip Van Winkle
Time Travel Tropes

Sources

Bibliography

1. TV Tropes Wiki

Game and Story Use

• Typically presented as the comic relief. Or comic relief plus a strength score. Captain Caveman!!!
• Of course, thanks to the survival skills and familiarity with prehistoric megafauna, the Contemporary Caveman could be a very potent ally in a Lost World or Dinosaur Park.
• Of course, there's always the possibility that the Caveman might not prove to be so primitive, afterall.
  • If Time Travel is a form of trance or chronomancy, rather than a technology or time machine, there could be an entire culture of cavemen wandering time. I'm picturing something very loosely inspired by Aboriginal Dreamtime - like they send out their consciousness to observe the future (mental time travel or insubstantial time travel instead of physically entering the future.
• Depending on your reckoning, this may or may not include bigfoot and his many international relatives.