History Main / NubileSavage

* Rena from ''ComicBook/{{Mampato}}'' is a non-sexualized example, quite understandable since she is only 9 years old, but she is a wild girl living in the jungle in a post-apocalyptic 40th century, accompanied by her two best friends, who are giant mutant dogs.

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Shakira is a long-legged, black-haired, pale-skinned beauty who runs around in an extremely abbreviated FurBikini (and a SlaveCollar). She always looks remarkably unmussed no matter what hardships she encounters in the LostWorld.(Tara, who dresses similarly, at least hails from the mightiest city in all of Skartaris and so is not a savage and would have access to beauty regimens.)
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: The Golden Age Giganta is a gorilla in a beautiful woman's body, and, at least initially, her mind is not much changed from what is was when she was a gorilla. She still wears makeup, her hair is always brushed and curled and her leopard skin dress manages to cover just enough to be titillating.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': Chel is very shapely and scantily clad.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': The title character was raised by apes. He later figured out shaving by himself.

* Caroline Munro as the indicatively named Dian the Beautiful in the film adaptation of ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore''.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': The Na'vi's teeth are either white or slightly off-white, no one but Jake ever seems to get dirty, and their hair is pretty much perfect all the time. The Na'vi females do not always cover their [[NationalGeographicNudity breasts]]. Count Neytiri, Princess of the Omaticaya Tribe, as the most famous among the female Na'vi.
* ''Film/{{Caveman}}'': Barbara Bach played a cavewoman, while the cavemen [[UglyGuyHotWife tended to look]] like Ringo Starr. And they fight with [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaurs]].
* ''Film/TheFlintstones'' and ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'' follows the cartoon in having some stunning cavewomen. For the two main ones, [[https://c8.alamy.com/comp/BPF2K4/rosie-odonnell-elizabeth-perkins-the-flintstones-1994-BPF2K4.jpg the first one had]] Creator/ElizabethPerkins and Creator/RosieODonnell as Wilma and Betty, and the prequel put [[http://imagem.band.com.br/f_55964.jpg Kristen Johnston]] and [[http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/15/40/55/3541839/3/628x471.jpg Jane Krakowski]] in those roles. The first also had Creator/HalleBerry as the SexySecretary [[FlintstoneTheming Sharon Stone]].

* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'': The females of [[FrazettaMan Chakah's species]] look like this (scantly clad, brown women).

** ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' has former model Estella Warren as Daena.

* ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'': All of the [[LadyLand all-female Indian tribe]] are young, attractive, and topless.

* The National Lampoon's ''Film/StonedAge'' has not only the girl-next-door Fardart (Creator/AliLarter), but also a tribe of Amazons ruled by Carol Alt playing Queen Fallopia.

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* Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs
** Any pre-technological female in any book will qualify, though they frequently don't bother with the FurBikini. Men from the same civilizations are almost invariably described as ugly. Ditto Creator/LinCarter.
** [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom]] isn't pre-technological, but it wouldn't be unfair to describe most of the planet as "savage" anyway. Of the various races of HumanAliens that inhabit Barsoom, both men and women there are almost invariably beautiful/handsome and as nearly naked as practicality allows (you've got to have a place to hang weapons and, for some occupations, tools from). There are only a handful of characters in the entire series who are described as "ugly", and even those are mostly just old (for a variety of reasons it's very rare on Barsoom for a person to reach the age of physical decrepitude, so most people there have never seen a person who actually physically appears old).
** ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}''. Unlike the apes who raised him, he loved water, and swam and bathed regularly. When puberty hit, he taught himself to shave with a knife he found in his father's cabin. He taught himself to only shave the face while leaving his scalp alone, too.
** Victory from ''Literature/BeyondThirty'', even if she is royalty in her own culture, is a savage by the standards of the Americans. And, like all Burroughs' heroines, she is absolutely stunning.
* Creator/HRiderHaggard
** He occasionally featured this kind of characters in his novels set in Africa, often with [[BlackJezebelStereotype black female protagonists]], which was actually quite daring for the time. He always made sure to clarify that those characters had perfect 'white' features despite being black, however. (see below)
** Mameena, the Zulu girl around which most of ''Literature/ChildOfStorm'' revolves, is described in this manner:
-->There, standing in a beam of golden light that, passing through the smoke-hole, pierced the soft gloom of the hut, stood the most beautiful creature that I had ever seen--that is, if it be admitted that a person who is black, or rather copper-coloured, can be beautiful. She was a little above the medium height, not more, with a figure that, so far as I am a judge of such matters, was absolutely perfect--that of a Greek statue indeed. On this point I had an opportunity of forming an opinion, since, [[NationalGeographicNudity except for her little bead apron and a single string of large blue beads about her throat,]] [[InnocentFanserviceGirl her costume was--well, that of a Greek statue]]. Her features showed no trace of the negro type; on the contrary, they were singularly well cut, the nose being straight and fine and the pouting mouth that just showed the ivory teeth between, very small. Then the eyes, large, dark and liquid, like those of a buck, set beneath a smooth, broad forehead on which the curling, but not woolly, hair grew low. This hair, by the way, was not dressed up in any of the eccentric native fashions, but simply parted in the middle and tied in a big knot over the nape of the neck, the little ears peeping out through its tresses. The hands, like the feet, were very small and delicate, and [[BuxomBeautyStandard the curves of the bust soft and full]] without being coarse, or even showing the promise of coarseness.

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* Music/KatyPerry wore a jungle queen costume she while singing "Roar" on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfBarbarian'' has Sheyna in the first game. The FightingGame added others.
* ''VideoGame/CavemanWarriors'' has Liliana and Brienne, two of the [[PlayerCharacter Player Characters]].

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' : The Forsworns are Breton reachmen who live in the old way. Naturally, they all wear {{Fur Bikini}}s and decorate their homes with animal bones and feathers. [[spoiler: You can become one if you help their leader to escape from Markarth]].

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Waking Cloud's physique is especially impressive considering that she has given birth to three children.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout2'': You can play one, and many characters find the fact that you are a "tribal" quite attractive.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Maybe three quarters of all the women would count. [[UglyGuyHotWife The men, not so much.]] May be a JustifiedTrope, as the world of the Flinstones has everything we do--including beauty parlors and cosmetic supplies--[[StonePunk just rock or dinosaur based.]]

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Film/QuestForFire''. Between the neanderthal-like Ulam and the obese Ivaka, most of the woman do not comply with 20th century western beauty standards. Ika (Creator/RaeDawnChong) is plenty nubile, but being [[BodyPaint covered in clay]] and occasionally mud and dirt and being placed in some pretty unpleasant situations meant that it wasn't really highlighted all that much. Likewise, Ika's HandsomeHeroicCaveman love interest, Naoh, is handsome in a much more rugged, unkempt way than you might expect.
* In ''Film/TheRamrodder'', the women of the Indian tribe are uniformly young, attractive, clad in very little clothing, and fond of SkinnyDipping.
* All of the [[LadyLand all-female Indian tribe]] in ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'' are young, attractive, and topless.

* Averted with Gammla in ''Literature/QuestForFire'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement Yes there was a book]]). She's considered very nubile but is described in compliance with paleolithic standards of beauty, being rather fat and hairy.

** Averted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild "An Unearthly Child"]]. All of them look very unkempt and brutish, clad in rough clothing made from old sacks, and (in a case of EnforcedMethodActing) much of the cast picked up fleas from the sand that had been trucked in to dress the set.

** It could be argued that the kangs from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]] are an urban jungle example, though better dressed. In a resource-poor society teetering on the brink of collapse, the gangs of teenage girls are somehow able to obtain identical outfits, make-up, and copious amounts of hair product.
* In the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' season 1 episode "Jeremiah Crichton", Crichton is forced to seek shelter on a planet where technology refuses to function after being accidentally left behind when Moya enters an unintentional [=StarBurst=]. The planet's ''entire population'', male and female alike, consist of this. The Grandier (the local chieftain) is no older than his late-40s and still in his prime, and there's not a bit of chest or leg hair to be seen. It's the "civilized" ''Crichton'', of all people, who is the only one wearing facial hair, an epic BeardOfSorrow. Justified because the people of the planet are descendants of a technologically advanced culture deliberately marooned there by the Hynerian Empire, and when the energy field suppressing their technology is deactivated they show no trouble getting the complex machinery back online.

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* Stealing a page from Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (as did pretty much the entire book) the Gura males in Creator/RobertEHoward's novel ''Almuric'' look like Neanderthals while the females look like fashion models.
* Though not scantily clad, Ayla the Cro-Magnon heroine of Jean Auel's ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series fits this trope. Auel goes to great lengths to justify this -- Ayla learns to brush her hair with a teasel pod, swims and bathes regularly, eats a varied diet, and even wears a leather band around her explicitly large and perky breasts. Also Deconstructed, since she grew up among Neanderthals and thinks of herself as ugly according to ''their'' standards of beauty.
* Rincewind of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series came into contact with a tribe of these after spending a very long time alone on a deserted island. Unfortunately, the long solitude and monotonous diet had left him a bit addled and had left a few of his desires severely crossed... he thought that the beautiful young women who wanted him to help them continue their bloodlines wanted to give him potatoes. It probably didn't help that Discworld wizards are required to be celibate; he already had half a lifetime's worth of experience suppressing his desires. And a fairly horrific memory of what happens when wizards do reproduce to give him a bit more impetus to keep those desires firmly fixated on innocuous root vegetables.

[[ScienceMarchesOn Science marches ever onward]] though, making this trope a little more TruthInTelevision. The overall interpretation of prehistoric humans, the typical example of a "savage", is based on present day RealLife hunter-gatherer tribes, virtually all of whom live in isolation and/or in deteriorating biomes [[note]] Meaning the bits of land that are too marginal for agricultural peoples to want to take over. Which means it has much less capacity to support people living on it.[[/note]] and thus are largely forced to stay in one place, which invites the proliferation of disease and parasites as well as increased inbreeding and cultural stagnation. And even they are not as unhygienic or underfed as often imagined. In truth, prehistoric humans were clean, often well fed, and generally healthier than most humans living today (at least, when in their prime age). It was the lifestyle humans evolved to suit, after all. An early modern female human from a hunter-gatherer culture probably looked more like [[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/70/4e/90/704e905fa17fc84eb8337c0bebcf46c0--pre-history-strange-history.jpg this]].[[note]]Magdalenian woman, circa 15,000 B.C., Cap Blanc, France[[/note]]

* Jedi Master and [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe red-skinned space babe]] [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation Shaak Ti]] in ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'' [[GoingNative adopts the style of one]] while hiding from TheEmpire on the jungle planet of Felucia, ditching her Jedi robes for a {{stripperific}} leather bikini. It's also shown throughout the franchise that this is the [[PlanetOfHats species hat]] of the Togruta, as they have a strong nature-based culture to the point that they typically forgo wearing shoes in their homeworld in order to better "connect" with the land.

On the other hand, while many prehistoric women were fairly buxom for various reasons, that doesn't mean they looked like pinup models. They were most likely generally bulkier, sturdier and far stronger than modern day human females simply due to physical stresses of daily life.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ayla, despite living in a grass hut, being TheBigGuy of all the playable characters, and having [[HulkSpeak the most rudimentary grasp of spoken words]], has curled blonde hair that's perfectly styled, coupled with shapely breasts. Ayla's boyfriend/[[WifeHusbandry adoptive son]] Kino is also pretty, well-groomed and clean shaven. This pretty well applies to all of the unnamed background characters living in the human villages of the game's prehistoric era. It gets even weirder when you consider that, with an evolutionary difference of 65 million years, by all rights, she should be a macaque or something. Of course, Lavos ''has'' been playing around with the evolution of that world...

The life of a savage can be pretty hard, what with the lack of modern medicine, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, etc. It's not surprising that a good number of cavemen are nasty, brutish, and short. [[UglyGuyHotWife But their women more than make up for it]]. Your average cavewoman has the body of a pinup model, with long legs, shapely hips, a flat stomach, thin arms, and an impressive set of [[UnusualEuphemism bam-bams]], all nicely framed by a FurBikini made from a few scraps of animal hide, [[ExposedToTheElements regardless of the weather]]. When she's dressed to impress, a FeatherBoaConstrictor is always a tasteful accessory. (If she's being depicted in a non-visual medium, you may see an alternative approach in which she is simply naked, but the narration avoids describing her naughty parts.) Her skin is clear and fresh; [[EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth her teeth are perfect]]; her hair is no more than [[WakeupMakeup artfully tousled]]. She has no body hair whatsoever and no cuts on her legs even though her only razor is a sharpened cowrie shell. And her features are accented in a way that only expertly applied modern cosmetics (rather than, say, clay and crushed berries) can achieve. It's enough to make you wonder why we crawled out of the Stone Age.

Like most FanserviceCostumes this trope is [[AlwaysFemale often — but not always — female]]. A man sporting the Nubile Savage look will be impressively muscled and garbed in a leopard-skin loincloth (or less). His hair [[WildHair will be wild]] but not ''too'' wild, his facial hair no more than PermaStubble or perhaps a tastefully-short beard that still accentuates his jawline (you'd see messier beards on any modern college campus), and if he has any hair below the neck, it'll be groomed to be as pleasing to the eye as possible (no back hair or hobbit feet). He will also have good teeth and neat, clean hands with trimmed fingernails, even though he swings from vines all day and has ''never'' seen a dentist. In ComicBooks most caveman/amazon-themed {{superhero}}es adopt this look.

-->There, standing in a beam of golden light that, passing through the smoke-hole, pierced the soft gloom of the hut, stood the most beautiful creature that I had ever seen—that is, if it be admitted that a person who is black, or rather copper-coloured, can be beautiful. She was a little above the medium height, not more, with a figure that, so far as I am a judge of such matters, was absolutely perfect—that of a Greek statue indeed. On this point I had an opportunity of forming an opinion, since, [[NationalGeographicNudity except for her little bead apron and a single string of large blue beads about her throat,]] [[InnocentFanserviceGirl her costume was—well, that of a Greek statue]]. Her features showed no trace of the negro type; on the contrary, they were singularly well cut, the nose being straight and fine and the pouting mouth that just showed the ivory teeth between, very small. Then the eyes, large, dark and liquid, like those of a buck, set beneath a smooth, broad forehead on which the curling, but not woolly, hair grew low. This hair, by the way, was not dressed up in any of the eccentric native fashions, but simply parted in the middle and tied in a big knot over the nape of the neck, the little ears peeping out through its tresses. The hands, like the feet, were very small and delicate, and the curves of the bust soft and full without being coarse, or even showing the promise of coarseness.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'': The titular character is one of the more obvious examples of the trope, as she and her people are referred to as "savages". Pocahontas herself is depicted as a beautiful woman in her early 20's, and none of the other female members of her tribe are far behind her.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': Chel is very shapely and scantily-clad.

* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'': Loana the Fair One (Raquel Welch, pictured above) has well-styled hair, a surprisingly 20th-century style hot body, and a surprisingly 20th-century style {{Stripperific}} costume, while playing a cavewoman. This movie was actually a remake of the 1940 film ''One Million B.C.'' in which similarly curvaceous and similarly scantily-clad Carole Landis played Loana.

* The National Lampoon's ''Film/StonedAge'' has not only the girl-next-door Fardart (Ali Larter), but also a tribe of Amazons ruled by Carol Alt playing Queen Fallopia.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ayla, despite living in a grass hut, being TheBigGuy of all the playable characters, and having [[HulkSpeak the most rudimentary grasp of spoken words]], has curled blonde hair that's perfectly styled, coupled with BoobsOfSteel. Ayla's boyfriend/[[WifeHusbandry adoptive son]] Kino is also pretty, well-groomed and clean shaven. This pretty well applies to all of the unnamed background characters living in the human villages of the game's prehistoric era. It gets even weirder when you consider that, with an evolutionary difference of 65 million years, by all rights, she should be a macaque or something. Of course, Lavos ''has'' been playing around with the evolution of that world...

[[caption-width-right:350:No cavewoman ever looked like this.[[note]][[TantrumThrowing Throwing rocks at this poster]] will not [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption reveal an escape tunnel,]] that's the other one.[[/note]]]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:No cavewoman ever looked like this.]]

->''"Three figures stepped into his line of vision. They were obviously female. They were ''abundantly'' female. They were not wearing a great deal of clothing and seemed to be altogether too fresh-from-the-hairdressers for people who have just been paddling a large war canoe, but this is often the case with beautiful Amazonian warriors."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/InterestingTimes''

* ''VideoGame/StarFox'': Krystal, for her first appearance in ''Star Fox Adventures''. She lived on the dinosaur-laden planet of Sauria for her entire life until Fox showed up, and the place doesn't have much in the way of civilization to speak of. In spite of all that, [[LoveAtFirstSight Fox was smitten with Krystal the instant he laid eyes on her]]. Starting with ''Assault'', after she joined the Star Fox team, Krystal's outfit was appropriately updated to be more inline with the futuristic style of the Star Fox universe.

On the other hand, while prehistoric woman were fairly buxom for various reasons it is true they were not pinup models. They were bulkier, sturdier and far stronger than modern day females simply due to physical stresses of daily life.

Compare with FrazettaMan. Contrast NationalGeographicNudity.

** Spock and [=McCoy=] meet one of these in "All Our Yesterdays". It turns out [[spoiler:she's from the planet's future, and was exiled to the distant past via a time machine by a dictator.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Ugh}}'': In this 1992 game cavemen are [[AllCavemenWereNeanderthals about as broad-shouldered as they are tall]]. Cavewomen are much taller and have perfect chest/waist/hip proportions. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ugh_Computer_Game_Screenshot1.png See here]] (they are sitting).