History Recap / Primal2019E13DawnOfMan

** What initially seems to be a wild animal intruding on Spear and Fang in the cave is quickly shown to have reigns and a saddle, mounted by a viking warrior, whose horned helmet silhouetted against the moon gives him the appearance of [[BigBad the Scorpion]] from Mira's drawings, confirming that Spear and Fang successfully tracked down her kidnappers. Both are understandably surprised by these revelations.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bear ridden by the Viking with the antler helmet disappears after Spear kills its rider. Spear and Fang following a bear print paw mark in the ground afterwards and the growling of such a bear heard in the mist by the ending implies it ran back to the settlement like a trained animal looking for its masters after its rider was killed.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Both Vikings were clearly unprepared to have to fight a ''T. rex'' in tandem with their caveman quarry, not to mention Spear himself being a far bigger challenge in a fight than they've even had to face before. Likewise, Spear is caught somewhat off-guard by the Horned Viking's LastVillainStand, due to unfamiliarity with his more advanced weapons. He managed to block the Viking's sword swing with the shield correctly mainly on instinct, but is knocked off-balance by it, never having used a shield before and having mainly brought it along for the Scorpion emblem painted on it as a communication tool. He also has a brief look of shock on his face when one of the Viking's wild swings managed to easily chop his [[WeaponOfChoice spear]] in two with ease, and afterwards trades his broken weapon for the Viking's sword, despite not knowing how to use it well, recognising it as the superior weapon to his own, even if he knows how to handle those better.

* ShoutOut: The design of the viking’s cave-bear mounts resemble the bear in ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound '' / Mor'du in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}''.

* TheVoiceless: Both Vikings can clearly talk to each other in their own language, but they're never seen communicating, and only vocalise grunts or yells when fighting Spear and Fang. Spear's attempt to interrogate the survivor for information about Mira is met with silence and a blank stare until the warrior rises to his remaining leg for one last attack on Spear, but it's left unclear if he didn't understand that Spear was saying the name of a slave, if he didn't understand the language Spear was using or if he was just refusing to answer.

* TheVoiceless: Both Vikings can clearly talk to each other in their own language, but they're never seen communicating, and only vocalise grunts or yells when fighting Spear and Fang. Spear's attempt to interrogate the survivor for information about Mira is met with silence and a blank stare until the warrior rises to his remaining leg for one last attack on Spear, but it's left unclear if he didn't understand that Spear was saying the name of a slave or if he didn't understand the language Spear was using.

* DidntSeeThatComing: Both Vikings were clearly unprepared to have to fight a ''T-Rex'' in tandem with their caveman quarry, not to mention Spear himself being a far bigger challenge in a fight than they've even had to face before. Likewise, Spear is caught somewhat off-guard by the Horned Viking's LastVillainStand, due to unfamiliarity with his more advanced weapons. He managed to block the Viking's sword swing with the shield correctly mainly on instinct, but is knocked off-balance by it, never having used a shield before and having mainly brought it along for the Scorpion emblem painted on it as a communication tool. He also has a brief look of shock on his face when one of the Viking's wild swings managed to easily chop his [[WeaponOfChoice spear]] in two with ease, and afterwards trades his broken weapon for the Viking's sword, despite not knowing how to use it well, recognising it as the superior weapon to his own, even if he knows how to handle those better.
* DirtyCoward: After his bear is killed, with his partner and own bear taken down, the Viking runs away from Spear and Fang. Of course, given he's without backup and facing down a pissed-off caveman and T-Rex working together on foot after they show zero fear at his last-ditch intimidation display, it can be argued that him choosing to turn and flee was [[KnowWhenToFoldThem simply the only choice he had left to save himself]]. Indeed, when the duo catch up to him, Spear takes him down with a single well-placed stab to the leg, and Fang kills him with contentious ease when he tries a last-ditch attack on Spear, showing that fighting them really wasn't an option for him by that point.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Spear scavenges the Viking's discarded shield to use the Scorpion emblem on it as a communication method in his attempted interrogation of him. He reflexively blocks the Viking's sword swing with it when he makes his LastVillainStand, but drops it afterwards in favour of the Viking's sword, having not fully grasped the intended purpose of the shield in compliment to other weapons.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: The Vikings clearly thought Spear was just a lone caveman trapped inside the cave and prepared to ambush him at the cave mouth between them accordingly. They were ''not'' prepared for an angry T-rex to be in the cave with him, or for Spear to be ''much'' more competent in combat than their usual quarry, disposing of one of them in a single thrust whilst easily dodging his mount's attacks.

* ShownTheirWork: Spear's vision of the missing community is an accurate representation to real-life Stone Age people, particularly sheltering in huts and having their own works of art.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The Viking with the horned helmet has this reaction the he realises that not only is he alone and on foot against Spear and Fang, his attempt to intimidate them ''only pissed them off''. And when when he's fleeing, he hears them crashing through the undergrowth after him...

* TheVoiceless: Both Vikings can clearly talk to each other in their own language, but they're never seen communicating, and only vocalise grunts or yells when fighting Spear and Fang. Spear's attempt to interrogate the survivor for information about Mira is met with silence and a blank stare until the warrior rises to his remaining leg for one last attack on Spear, but its left unclear if he didn't understand that Spear was saying the name of a slave or if he didn't understand the language Spear was using.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Spear is able to put together a reasonable understanding of the missing community and their way of life just from the cave paintings depicting their hunting grounds, the animals in the local area they hunted, as well as the ruins of their settlement, even identifying places where they skinned their kills to make pelts or non-essential activates like woodcarving toys for their children. By the end, he's also able to identify the building in the viking settlement that holds the slaves simply by noting it to be the one place with a locked and fortified door, as opposed to the cloth covering that every other dwelling has.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: {Spear is able to put together a reasonable understanding of the missing community and their way of life just from the cave paintings depicting their hunting grounds, the animals in the local area they hunted, as well as the ruins of their settlement, even identifying places where they skinned their kills to make pelts or non-essential activates like woodcarving toys for their children. By the end, he's also able to identify the building in the viking settlement that holds the slaves simply by noting it to be the one place with a locked and fortified door, as opposed to the cloth covering that every other dwelling has.

** What initially seems to be a wild animal intruding on Spear and Fang in the cave is quickly shown to have reigns and a saddle, mounted by a viking warrior, whose horned helmet silhouetted against the moon gives him the appearance of [[BigBad the Scorpion]] from Mira's drawings, confirming that Spear and Fang successfully tracked down her kidnappers. Notably Fang, despite otherwise being an animal, is able to recognise the similarities InUniverse, snapping out of her depression in rage against him.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: {{Downplayed}}, as he's still just a Neanderthal-level intelligence in the end, but Spear is able to put together a reasonable understanding of the missing community and their way of life just from the cave paintings depicting their hunting grounds, the animals in the local area they hunted, as well as the ruins of their settlement, even identifying places where they skinned their kills to make pelts or non-essential activates like woodcarving toys for their children. By the end, he's also able to identify the building in the viking settlement that holds the slaves simply by noting it to be the one place with a locked and fortified door, as opposed to the cloth covering that every other dwelling has.

* DirtyCoward: After his bear is killed, with his partner and own bear taken down, the Viking runs away from Spear and Fang.
* HeroesPreferSwords: After Fang kills the Viking, Spear ditches his trademark weapon in favor of using his opponent's sword.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The bear ridden by the Viking with the antler helmet disappears after Spear kills its rider.

** As Spear comes into the barn where the slaves are prisoner, one of them turns their head. It's Mira.

* BearsAreBadNews: The two Vikings that attack Spear and Fang battle with ride dinosaur-sized bears, which might be cave bears.
* CurbstompBattle: The two raiders don't stand a chance against Spear and Fang and the survivor realises it too late to save himself.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Fang is still in a depression from killing Red that she ignores the deer Spear brought to eat.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Viking with the antler helmet's bear disappears after Spear kills its rider.

* BearsAreBadNews: The two Vikings that attack Spear and Fang battle with ride dinosaur-sized bears.

** As Spear comes into the barn where the slaves are prisoner, one of them turns their head. It's Mira.