History Main / TheUnfrozenCaveManLawyer

Despite the name the character is not necessarily a ContemporaryCaveman. Compare LikeAFishTakesToWater, GoingNative, MightyWhitey, and IKnowMortalKombat; contrast FishOutOfWater and FishOutOfTemporalWater. An ArthurDent may [[CharacterDevelopment grow]] into this. AntagonistsAssimilate is a subtrope. Very like a BunnyEarsLawyer in that they're strange but competent and accepted as such.

* In ''SchlockMercenary'', [[Expy Gav the former webcomic artist]] was a HumanPopsicle for a millennium (ever since the 21st century). When he was defrosted, he became...a wormhole physicist.

* Rina Lee in "TheDragonDoctors", a girl turned to stone and left in an abandoned mine for 2000 years before being rescued by the magical doctors. Society has actually been destroyed fully four times in a row over the course of 2000 years and is currently more or less back at the same level that Rina is able to relate to, though she's still horribly traumatized at first. The doctors point out that if she had been frozen during one of the Dark Ages she wouldn't have fared nearly as well. It also helps that she already knew magic before emerging into a magical world.

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* BuckRogers, who went into suspended animation only to wake up in the 25th century and become that era's greatest hero.

* In ''Back To The Future'' Marty McFly travels through time back to the old west. Despite being only a teenager who has presumably never shot a real gun before, he turns out to be an expert at quickdraw and pistol shooting because of his familiarity with a video game from 1985.

* Alan Dean Foster's novel ''GloryLane'' features an '80s punk rocker who gets abducted by aliens along with his brother and a random girl from the local high school. He fits in much better in space than he did on Earth.

* John Crichton, star of ''{{Farscape}}'' has his season-or-so of being a regular FishOutOfWater. However, after that season ends, the series sees John pull stuff that not even the XanatosGambit-wielding villains had ever once considered. And, boy, was he just getting ''started...'' Heavily justified as though every other race is [[PunyEarthlings stronger, faster, tougher, and/or smarter]], HumansAreSuperior '''[[CrazyAwesome lunatics]].''' Whenever someone tells an alien that an idea is [[YoureInsane crazy]], he'll drop it. Crichton, on the other hand, will strap a nuclear weapon to his hip and walk right into TheEmpire's most secure facility and blackmail them as part of a rescue mission - '''''[[CrazyEnoughToWork and pull it off!]]'''''

Sometimes the justification is that the newcomer's fresh viewpoint makes them superior to the natives at operating in his new environment.

* John Crichton, star of ''{{Farscape}}'' has his season-or-so of being a regular FishOutOfWater. However, after that season ends, the series sees John pull stuff that not even the XanatosGambit-wielding villains had ever once considered. And, boy, was he just getting ''started...''

** SNL also did a sketch about the 2007-08 OJ Simpson LasVegas assault trial in which the only unprejudiced jurors avaiable included a man just awoken from a 15-year coma and newly arrived space aliens.

* One issue of Marvel's ''What If...?'' comic featured ConanTheBarbarian being stranded in the twentieth century, where he promptly becomes a successful gang leader.

Take it to the illogical extreme, and you could end up with a [[TropeNamer caveman, frozen in ice for thousands of years, who awakes to the modern world and promptly becomes a lawyer]]. It's when a former FishOutOfWater [[LikeAFishToWater becomes well adapted to their new environment]], to the point where they almost fit there better than the people that actually ''belong'' there. Makes you think this is where they should have been in the first place.

Take it to the illogical extreme, and you could end up with a [[TropeNamer caveman, frozen in ice for thousands of years, who awakes to the modern world and promptly becomes a lawyer]]. It's when a former FishOutOfWater becomes well adapted to their new environment, to the point where they almost fit there better than the people that actually ''belong'' there. Makes you think this is where they should have been in the first place.

* Nordkapp Man, a member of the [[GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians]], is an [[UnfrozenCavemanLawyer Unfrozen Caveman Superhero]]. Within a few years of his being thawed out of the glacier he'd been trapped in for 30,000 years, Nordkapp Man (a neanderthal with superpowers) had become a university professor, a regular club-hopper, and, of course, an ice-wielding crimefighter.

Congratulations, you've just met TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer. It's when a former FishOutOfWater becomes well adapted to their new environment, to the point where they almost fit there better than the people that actually ''belong'' there. Makes you think this is where they should have been in the first place.

Named for SNL's Cirroc, TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer, who slyly manipulated the jury by playing the [[SimpleCountryLawyer "I'm just a caveman"]] card, who wore nice suits, and had a smug charm stereotypical of modern laywers.

* This is the implied fate of Dr. Gillian Taylor, a whale specialist from the 1980s who essentially bullies her way into going back to the 23rd century with Kirk and company in ''[[StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek: The Voyage Home]]''. After Kirk's trial, she takes a post on a science vessel, exclaiming excitedly that she has "three hundred years of catching up to do!" This may be a case of FridgeLogic depending on the nature of the assignment. Unless said [[strike:wessel]] vessel is an ocean ship, it would be more than a bit odd that her first act be to ship off and leave the ''whales'' to fend for themselves, especially considering that she'd justified coming along with them by the fact that no one in the 23rd century would know anything about taking care of ''whales''. ... ''[[DragonBallAbridged Whales!]]''

* Lord Jagged of Canary in Michael Moorcock's ''The Dancers at the End of Time'' cycle is a time traveller, who ventured the the eponymous End of Time, made his home there, and became more at home there than many of the era's native inhabitants, and being more pro-active than the rather clueless and almost purely hedonistic natives, ends up solving many of their problems, all while cheerfully embracing their (from our point of view) decadent hedonism.

* The lawyers from AdventureTimeWithFinnAndJake were literally ufrozen from an iceberg.

* [[{{Gargoyles}} Brooklyn, Lexington, and Broadway]] take pretty quickly to the world of 1994, despite being a thousand years out of date. All the Gargoyles have shades of it, really, but it's most noticable with the trio.