History Main / TheUnfrozenCaveManLawyer

* In Leo Frankowski's ''The Cross Time Engineer'' series, Conrad rapidly adapts to being stranded in midevil Poland.

** Similar to the ''JohnCarterOfMars'' series. As a military man, he adapts easily to the warrior culture of Mars and quickly becomes legendary among it's people. His biggest advantage is that in the lower gravity of Mars, an Earthman is a HeavyWorlder.

* Present in {{Persona 4}} with [[NonHumanSidekick Teddie]]. The rate at which he adapts to living in the human world is startling, given the fact that just less than 2 months earlier, he didn't even know that "Evidence" isn't a type of food, that a human hand isn't edible or what filming is, among many other things. In fact, he didn't even have a humanoid body until a short while before entering the human world, yet within a mere span of days he is part-timing at a Department Store, pleasantly enjoying modern commodities and flirting through half the female population of Inaba. Some concepts do remain unfamiliar to him for a longer while, but they are not the ones you would expect.

* Travis Morgan quickly adapts to life in the LostWorld of Skartaris and ends up becoming its greatest warrior in ''TheWarlord''.

* One of the ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' Books was called ''The Cave of Time'', which, predictably enough, involved time travel. In one of the endings, you're aided in your journey home by a man in colonial America who is dying from TB. Once the two of you return to your time, the guy is cured thanks to modern medicine, becomes a history teacher, and becomes renowned due to his expert knowledge of colonial America.

* Belgian comic SuskeEnWiske, has Jerom, an [[ContemporaryCaveman actual caveman]] who after being unfrozen managed to become in essence a sophisticated everyman, even while retaining his prehistoric HulkSpeak and SuperStrength.

* The downtimer community in the Literature/TimeScout series adapt to varying degrees. Some are FishOutOfTemporalWater, some are TheUnfrozenCavemanLawyer. The same is true of people who travel to the past. Some are conspicuous tourists, others are invisible. Being a downtimer tourist is only possible down a gate developed for that; uptime is more friendly to downtimers. They even provide counseling.

* An interesting villainous example in LoisAndClark. A time-traveler from the 30th century, a time with no war, crime or poverty, visits the 20th century. He's so enthralled by the violence and vice of the era that he decides not only to stay but to try and take it over.

* This is the basis for the short-lived sitcom ''Cavemen'', featuring modern-day Neanderthals who evolved alongside "modern" humans. The opening credits even show cavemen involved at different points in world history, such as one caveman accompanying George Washington crossing the Delaware River.

** Despite being considered a [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold crazy, dangerous nut]] in his own time, Doc Brown's love of the Old West made him fit in perfectly with Hill Valley in 1885. Throughout the third film, he's shown to be well-liked and on first name terms with many local townspeople, including even the Mayor. Until he learned that Marty came back to prevent Buford Tannen from shooting him, Doc was quite content to simply live out the rest of his days in the Old West.

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the entire human race comes across as this to the other alien races, who are a little perturbed how [[LikeAFishTakesToWater quickly]] humanity is adapting, integrating and rising to prominence within the galactic community. Especially since humanity only discovered mass effect technology, unsealed their Mass Relay and made first contact in [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly under forty years]].

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', despite most potential Wardens having fairly humble origins, the Warden has the potential to become a better Grey Warden that the more experienced and Templar-trained Alistair. For example, the City Elf and Dwarf Commoner Wardens are self-taught fighters with no formal combat training, the Dalish Warden have little knowledge of the world outside of their clan and the Human/Elf Mage Warden is simply a BadassBookworm. Justified as most Grey Wardens recruits are often picked precisely for this reason, having unique qualities that can be honed to make them excellent at fighting Darkspawn.

* There is a strong case that a female City Elf Warden in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' was expected to StayInTheKitchen and ended up being a better Grey Warden than Alistair the trained Templar.

* Several of the historical personalities in ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure''.
* With Creator/BrendanFraser again, in ''BlastFromThePast'' he plays a guy raised in a fallout shelter by parents who have no experience of the outside world beyond the Cuban Missile Crisis. Upon emerging, he finds his old-fashioned manners and values render him impossibly charming to the average modern joe.
* Played with in ''NeverBeenKissed''. The protagonist was an outcast in high school the first time and she's on her way to becoming one this time around, despite her theory that she could study her way into the popular clique. Her brother, on the other hand, drops in and becomes the most popular guy in school with no effort. Again.

* Dick Nelson of ''MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'' quickly becomes a brilliant military strategist on the planet Spengo despite being an ordinary American suburbanite simply because all of the natives are idiots.

* TheLastStarfighter: Alex Rogan is stuck in a rut in his trailer park, and the only thing he's really good at is a video game. Turns out the game's actually an alien flight simulator that was delivered to his park (instead of Las Vegas) by mistake, and [[IKnowMortalKombat he's scoring in the top percentile]]. He finds his place in life as a hotshot Gunstar pilot for the Star League, thousands of light years from home.

This case doesn't seem any different. Just like every other time, the [[FishOutOfWater fish]] is flapping around, and is running out of air. But wait, why does it look like that fish is trying to ''walk'' on its hind fins? IT'S LEARNING TO BREATHE AIR! Something's [[IncrediblyLamePun fishy]] here.

* Tom Billings, the hero in Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs ''The People That Time Forget'', who adapts to life very easily in the primeval LostWorld of Caspak and elects to stay there with the woman he loves. Possibly crosses over into BornInTheWrongCentury.

* Whenever a human transfers from Earth to Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld, they gain PersonalityPowers. A boisterous gym teacher gains SuperStrength(when sober). A shy geek becomes a {{Technopath}}. A HighSchoolHustler gains a ThirdEye. A ControlFreak becomes TheChessmaster([[InformedAbility offscreen]]).

* Whenever a human transfers from Earth to ElHazard, they gain PersonalityPowers. A boisterous gym teacher gains SuperStrength(when sober). A shy geek becomes a {{Technopath}}. A HighSchoolHustler gains a ThirdEye. A ControlFreak becomes TheChessmaster([[InformedAbility offscreen]]).

* ''The Compozerz'' is set in modern times, with five [[PublicDomainCharacter famous classical music composers]] inexplicably transported to the desert of the American Southwest, where they suddenly speak [[EternalEnglish perfect English]] and get used to modern conveniences in no time. [[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Compozerz/5031437 With a little help from their new friend Connie.]]

* Played with somewhat in the origin of DC villain Vandal Savage - while absorbing the radiation from a meteorite has made him [[EmperorScientist intelligent and cunning enough to thrive in the modern world]], it also gave him [[Really700HundredYearsOld thousands of years to adapt along with it]], and he's still fondly retained some of his old brutish habits (cannibalism, for example).