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10	[[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]]]]
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12	->''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.''
13	-->-- ''Literature/InterestingTimes''
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15	A young woman from prehistory or a primitive tribal culture [[CostumeTropes depicted as]] a ravishingly sexy bombshell (by the standards of the current audience), even if circumstances make that unlikely and/or her appearance wouldn't be considered attractive by her contemporaries.
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17	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 [[FurBikini a few scraps of animal hide]], which will be her usual outfit [[ExposedToTheElements all year round]]. She may add a FeatherBoaConstrictor for extra glam. (If she appears in a non-visual medium, she might wear nothing at all, though 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, even though she has nothing to shave with but 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...
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19	Like most FanserviceCostumes this trope is [[AlwaysFemale usually — 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 will either be PermaStubble or a trimmed beard that just accentuates his jawline (you'd see worse on any modern college campus), and any hair below his neck will 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.
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21	Of course, if you'll watch a National Geographic-type documentary, you'll quickly see that women in cultures removed from civilization, [[NationalGeographicNudity while often topless]], do not generally resemble Hollywood models.
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23	[[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.
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25	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]]
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27	On the other hand, while many prehistoric women were fairly buxom for various reasons, that doesn't mean they looked like pinup models. [[https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/938587/view/female-neanderthal-model They were most likely generally bulkier, sturdier and far stronger than modern day human females simply due to physical stresses of daily life.]]
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29	The standard look for TheChiefsDaughter and the JunglePrincess. Less standard but still common for the IndianMaiden. Will often be an AmazonianBeauty. The HandsomeHeroicCaveman and TarzanBoy are male examples.
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31	Compare with NationalGeographicNudity. Contrast FrazettaMan.
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33	See also NobleSavage, PeltsOfTheBarbarian.
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36	!!Examples:
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40	* The advertising for the 8-bit game "Legend of the Amazon Women" attracted complaints for its double-page spreads of not-particularly-well drawn Nubile Savages. One letter wondered if the artist had misread the title of the game as "Leg End of the Amazon Women".
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44	* The humanoid [[{{mons}} Digimon]] Kinkakumon in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' is an AmazonianBeauty in a fur bikini loosely based on the {{oni}} Kinkaku from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.
45	* Every adult or teenage female character in ''Manga/DrStone'', but especially [[ActionGirl Kohaku]] and her sister Ruri. Kohaku's hair may be wild, but you'll never see body hair on her or any other female character, despite living in a stone-age society. The fanservice is mostly due to AuthorAppeal on Creator/{{Boichi}}'s part.
46	* The entire female cast of ''Manga/FairyTail'' are portrayed as this in a omake set in the Stone Age.
47	* ''Manga/FoodWars'': When describing Rindou Kobayashi's nature, the last of her three faces is described as a brave barbarian who carves into any kind of food and devours it all. Due to the [[{{Fanservice}} nature]] of the show, the imagination shot depicts her as a beautiful, scantily-clad, wild warrior lady, including her signature lipstick. Then again, it's just one of the series typical fanservice imagination shots.
48	* ''Anime/JungleDeIkou'': The main character, Natsumi, can transform into the extremely busty Nubile Savage Mii by doing a {{Fanservice}}-y dance. Take one look at her, and you won't be surprised to learn that Mii is a goddess of fertility and reproduction.
49	* ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'': San is quite pretty and well groomed for somebody RaisedByWolves, aside from the fact that her face is often smeared with blood. It may have something to do with the fact that the wolves that raised her are also magical Shinto demigods.
50	* Shampoo from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is a strange blend of this trope and AnimeChineseGirl. She ''dresses'' like a typical example of the latter, but is portrayed with personality and [[YouNoTakeCandle speech patterns]] more akin to the former; she's an aggressively violent girl from an archaic community that still dedicates itself to martial arts, complete with practicing swordplay and archery, and is chasing Ranma because of an AccidentalMarriage he caused by [[BestHerToBedHer defeating her in a duel]]. Admittedly, the Joketsuzoku aren't as backwards as ''some'' tribal communities--they have telephone lines, indoor plumbing, electricity and their own newspaper--but they're still presented as backwards and tribe-like.
51	* ''Manga/WildRock'': Has both men and women who all look far too perfect for the setting.
52	%% * Quell from ''YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito''.
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56	* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengersJasonAaron'', the Characters/Avengers1000000BC, are led by Odin Borson and Firehair/Lady Phoenix. In a world where neanderthals are hulking brutes and Cro-Magnons are rather thuggish and sloped-forehead looking too, Firehair looks like ComicBook/JeanGrey's twin but with a bit more muscle-tone. So as with the Savage Lands example, she conforms to modern standards of beauty. Can be somewhat justified as she's a mutant and many primitive humans were physically uplifted from contamination by a dying Celestial.
57	* ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}'': Might be the most exaggerated example, especially when drawn by creator Budd Root--he [[AuthorAppeal really has a thing]] for huge breasts. Even though she's [[TrappedInAnotherWorld not an actual]] [[TimeTravel cavewoman,]] she lived as one for most of her life and still manages to look hotter than most supermodels. Plus her body was [[AmazonianBeauty "hardened"]] as a result of time traveling.
58	%% * The eponymous heroine of ''Jungle Girl'', for the same exact reason.
59	* In ''ComicBook/ShamansTears'', [[MotherNature Wakan Tanka]], the Great Spirit of the Sioux who grants Joshua his powers, usually takes the form of a sexy Native American woman when she manifests.
60	* The Savage Land in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. The entire place. The ONLY reason for the existence of a tropical region in the middle of the Antarctic is so that residents and visitors can fit this trope. The fact that female superheroes who end up there usually have their outfits go the same way has become something of a RunningGag. Savage Land resident ''ComicBook/ShannaTheSheDevil'' is one of Marvel's most prominent examples. And her husband Ka-Zar is perhaps ''the'' most prominent male example of this trope outside of Tarzan himself. Both are [[MightyWhitey modern-day Caucasians rather than natives of the region]] (with Ka-Zar also being [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Smilodons]] after his parents were killed by the natives), somewhat explaining why they so closely conform to modern standards of beauty despite living as low-tech "savages" and wearing nothing but very skimpy animal-skin clothes.
61	%% * ''ComicBook/SheenaQueenOfTheJungle'': Created in the 1930s and the inspiration for Shanna, Jungle Girl and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_girl_(stock_character) similar characters.]]
62	%% * Nävis in the first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}''.
63	* ''ComicBook/{{Snowman}}'': The Snowman, when he was alive, was married to a woman who was pretty lithe for someone from a Native American tribe.
64	* ''ComicBook/{{Mampato}}'': Rena 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.
65	* ''ComicBook/TraggAndTheSkyGods'': Lorn, the first modern woman, is a redheaded hottie in a FurBikini with artfully tousled hair, perfect skin and no body hair. It seems alien manipulation of your DNA can perform miracles.
66	* ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord\|DCComics}}'': 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.)
67	* ''ComicBook/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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71	%% * ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'': Panther Woman, Juliette Burber's alter ego.
72	* ''ComicStrip/{{Axa}}'': This British comic strip from the late '70s features Axa, a disaffected young woman from the future who's become unsatisfied with her high tech luxurious lifestyle and winds up becoming a sword-wielding loin-cloth and bikini top warrior adventuring in the wilderness. If it weren't for her civilized upbringing, she may count as a BarbarianHero as well.
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76	%%ZCE * A few show up as minor background characters in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''.
77	* ''Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}'': In this fanfic series it's played with and inverted. This is how Hanala initially seems to view Joachim Hoch. Seeing him as a male version of one, despite the fact that by Earth standards he is a well dressed, relatively educated, intelligent man.
78	%%ZCE * ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' has a whole village of these in the Hunter's world.
79	* ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': Iris starts out as this when Ash finds her in the new timeline, since she was [[RaisedByWolves raised by Dragon-types]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl only wears clothes to keep warm]]. She eventually becomes less of a cavewoman as she picks up human social mores.
80	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Justified with Haara, despite being a reclusive warrior monk who lives naked in the wilderness, because she grew up as a well-groomed imperial slave until she escaped in her late teens.
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84	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': Princess Kida is a downplayed example--the city of Atlantis is by no means a savage civilization, but then again, Kida herself ''has'' been alive since the Flood itself. And the way she dresses certainly evokes this trope.
85	* ''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 20s, and none of the other female members of her tribe are far behind her.
86	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': Chel is very shapely and scantily clad.
87	%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': The title character was raised by apes. He later figured out shaving by himself.
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91	%% * Pretty much everyone in ''Film/TenThousandBC'' under the age of thirty, male or female. Actually, considering the low life expectancy of your average neolithic human, this might actually be a moment of accidental FridgeBrilliance.
92	%%* Caroline Munro as the indicatively named Dian the Beautiful in the film adaptation of ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore''.
93	%%* ''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.
94	%%* ''Film/{{Caveman}}'': Barbara Bach played a cavewoman, while the cavemen [[UglyGuyHotWife tended to look]] like Ringo Starr. And they fight with [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dinosaurs]].
95	%%* ''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]].
96	* The Amazons in ''Film/FrankensteinIsland'' dress in {{Fur Bikini}}s, live in grass huts, and spend most of their time outdoors, but are clean and perfectly groomed, with shaved legs and armpits. This is vaguely {{Handwaved}} by a passing mention of them being protected by the psychic energy of their alien ancestors.
97	* The Queen in ''Film/HeartOfDarkness1958'' is a downplayed version. She isn't really used for visual {{Fanservice}}, but she is intended to be attractive to both Marlow and the audience even though the rest of her tribe are portrayed as grotesque HollywoodNatives.
98	%%* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'': The females of [[FrazettaMan Chakah's species]] look like this (scantly clad, brown women).
99	* A rare Medieval European version is featured in ''Film/TheNameOfTheRose'' with the feral peasant girl that regularly visits the abbey to trade sexual favors in exchange for food and has impromptu sex with Adson after meeting him. She is so feral in nature that she is tried as an witch by the Inquisition.
100	* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'': Loana the Fair One (Creator/RaquelWelch, 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.
101	* Linda Harrison as Nova in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' and ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''. One of the [[FuturePrimitive de-evolved humans]] who live like animals in the shadow of ape society, she's [[CuteMute incapable of speech]] [[spoiler: until she is SuddenlySpeaking at the end of the second movie]]. She's also gorgeous, has perfect hair and teeth, and apparently shaves her legs and applies makeup.
102	%%** ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' has former model Estella Warren as Daena.
103	* ''Film/PrehistoricWomen'': This Hammer film features an entire tribe of gorgeous dark-haired warrior-women, and their gorgeous blonde slave girls, all dressed in the finest of fur bikini fashion. For bonus points, the Evil Queen is played by Martine Beswick, who previously played the role of "Cavewoman who cat-fights Raquel Welch" in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC''.
104	* ''Film/TheRamrodder'': The women of the Indian tribe are uniformly young, attractive, clad in very little clothing, and fond of SkinnyDipping.
105	%%* ''Film/RevengeOfTheVirgins'': All of the [[LadyLand all-female Indian tribe]] are young, attractive, and topless.
106	* ''Film/ShandraTheJungleGirl'' is a FurBikini clad wild woman dwelling in a Sothe American jungle, who is sexually irresistible to men.
107	%%* 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.
108	* ''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'': Weena is a futuristic variety. Though she doesn't dress in the stereotypical clothing, her society is far more primitive socially and technologically than George's, while she's also very beautiful.
109	* ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'': Mara is certainly very pretty. Living a rough life with stone-age technology doesn't stop her from sporting perfect hair, flawless skin and a very flattering outfit which [[VaporWear leaves almost nothing]] to the imagination.
110	* ''Film/WhenDinosaursRuledTheEarth'': This FurBikini vehicle had Victoria Vetri in the role, but she didn't just fight dinosaurs--[[LoyalAnimalCompanion she tamed them]]. Well, until it [[PlotInducedStupidity abandons her for no particular reason]].
111	%% * Sean Connery in ''Film/{{Zardoz}}''.
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115	* ''Literature/{{Almuric}}'': Stealing a page from Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs (as did pretty much the entire book) the Gura males look like Neanderthals while the females look like fashion models.
116	* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Lumbee's primitive living conditions apparently did nothing to impair her good looks, since Lumbee is so pretty that Relkin gets smitten with her almost instantly. Which he later comes to regret.
117	* "Behold, the Queen!", by Creator/WilsonTucker: Parodied. A group of college students on Earth learns about "the Wild Queen of the Koru Range", a wild woman reputed to live in a remote area of Mars, where she grew up alongside the local animals after her family died in her youth. They become obsessed with finding and marrying the wild Martian beauty, and draft and enact an elaborate plan to fly to Mars, head into its wilderness, and compete in an agreed-upon manner for who shall have the honor of marrying the beutiful Wild Queen. They eventually track her down, and [[spoiler:she looks like what you'd expect a feral child who grew up in total isolation in the desert to look like -- her hair is a knee-length dirty tangle filled with burrs and filth, her teeth are mostly missing and the few remaining are chipped and rotten, her left eye is entirely gone, and one arm is deformed from having broken in childhood and having never set properly. Also, she has no language or socialization and lives and acts like a wild beast. The seekers, faced thus with reality, turn around and go back home.]]
118	* 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.
119	* Mameena, the Zulu girl around which most of ''Literature/ChildOfStorm'' revolves, is described in this manner:
120	-->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.
121	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Rincewind 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.
122	* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': Though not scantily clad, Ayla the Cro-Magnon 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.
123	%% * Rima the Bird Girl in WHHudson's ''Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest''. Later became a Creator/DCComics character as ''Rima the Jungle Girl''.
124	* Eudena from Creator/HGWells' ''The Idler'' wasn't scantily clad insomuch as completely free of clothing whatsoever.
125	* [[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).
126	* Mowgli from ''Literature/{{The Jungle Book}}s'', especially as a young teenager in the second book. Looks more mature than his years because "hard exercise, the best of good eating, and baths whenever he felt in the least hot or dusty, had given him strength and growth far beyond his age". And he too doesn't bother with clothing at all when there are no humans around to make him.
127	* A sci-fi equivalent occurs and is lampshaded in Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/PlanetPirates'' series. In one of the books Sassinak talks about a fanservice-heavy movie series about a gorgeous ActionGirl that she watched as a kid and mentions that now that she's older, she thinks it's rather unlikely that a girl who was raised as a slave in a mining colony would grow up to have the body of a supermodel, or that said girl could climb up a sheer cliff in the buff and reach the top looking like she'd just come back from the spa.
128	* ''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.
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132	* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E5BeerBad Beer Bad]]", a cursed batch of beer turns a bunch of frat boys into cavemen, with crooked teeth, heavy brow ridges, plenty of extra hair - and Buffy, who had plenty to drink, looks like Buffy with sexy-unkempt hair (though Xander cut her off sooner than the others).
133	* ''Series/{{Cavegirl}}'' - Cavegirl herself from the children's Creator/{{BBC}} series of the same name. A large proportion of the cast, in fact. Although, like ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', the characters in ''Cavegirl'' had access to the [[BambooTechnology Stone-Age equivalent]] of all sorts of mod-cons.
134	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "Jungle warrior woman" companion Leela. Although after her first episode, she's living in the TARDIS, which presumably offers better sanitation and hygiene facilities. Not ''quite'' fitting the trope, as she was a descendant of a survey team that had degenerated. They also had some technological access.
135	** More obscurely, Nanina from wiped Hartnell serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]]. Nanina is one of the eponymous savages who dresses in a FurBikini, has perfect skin and very clean and styled long hair.
136	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]]: The kangs 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.
137	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In the 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.
138	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
139	** Osha might be a wildling, but she's also very attractive. She uses this to seduce Theon and an Ironborn with 'wild things'.
140	** Ygritte even moreso. While she's dressed accordingly for her environment, she's much cleaner and prettier than would be expected.
141	* ''Most'' women (but mostly the Amazons) in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and its spinoff, ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', which were just about equal parts {{Camp}} and FanService.
142	* ''Series/ItsAboutTime'': Cavegirl Mlor, the daughter of Shad and Gronk. She's a beautiful teenaged blond, dressed in animal furs. This is in spite of living in a cave in a million B.C, amongst a very primitive tribe. Astronauts Mac and Hec were both instantly smitten when they first met her in "And Then I Said Happy Birthday To You".
143	%% * There's one of these in the 1991 ''Series/{{Land Of The Lost\|1991}}'' series.
144	* ''Series/TheLostWorld2001'', another loose adaptation of [[Literature/TheLostWorld1912 the same book]], has Mahree, [[TheChiefsDaughter daughter of the chief]] of the tribe living on the Plateau. She's very beautiful, a skilled hunter, and a love interest for [[GentlemanAdventurer Lord Roxton]], who [[spoiler: ultimately [[IChooseToStay chooses to stay]] with her on the Plateau.]] Her entire tribe seem reasonably well-groomed, and have a reasonably sophisticated society.
145	** Another of the explorers, Edward, initially considers Agnes to be basically this trope, since she grew up on a South American mission, far from British society, but he gradually realizes what a reductive and disrespectful way to think of her this is, and that she's not as "backward" as he had assumed. [[spoiler: Naturally, they end up together.]]
146	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': Maya, the Yellow Ranger in ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'', originated from a native tribe before she became a Ranger. As a "native", she wore an animal skin outfit that essentially just covered her breasts and lower regions, plus boots. Oddly (or perhaps [[MsFanservice not quite so oddly]]), once she becomes a Ranger and moves to [[DomedHometown Terra Venture]], nobody suggests getting her some more civilized clothing.
147	%% ** Cole from ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'' although not his Sentai counterpart.
148	%% ** Jan from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' fulfils this all too well.
149	* Veronica Layton in ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', she's the stereotypical JungleGirl as an orphan FeralChild raise in the forest alone since childhood, yet she is perfectly shaved and had great teeth.
150	* ''Franchise/StarTrek''
151	** 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]].
152	** The series penchant for {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s and various Anvillicious messages about tolerance led to quite a few of these, but a notable one is in "The Paradise Syndrome", where Kirk gets [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Amnesia]] and is believed to be divine by a group of Native Americans In Space. He is promptly married to TheChiefsDaughter, Miramanee, who plays this role to a T.
153	** Downplayed, but still present, in the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' episode "Time's Orphan". After Molly O'Brien ends up trapped in the past for 10 years, she's rescued as an 18 year-old WildChild. Somehow, despite being ''eight'' when she was lost and with no other intelligent life on the planet on which she was stranded, she managed to survive and grow up into a quite pretty young woman, with no sign of disease or injury.
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157	%%* Music/KatyPerry wore a jungle queen costume she while singing "Roar" on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
158	* Music/TheSlits: The cover of their 1979 LP ''Cut'' features the girl-group as a more realistic sort of Nubile Savage: dressed as cavewomen in loincloths and primitive necklaces, with proto-EightiesHair, but otherwise covered in mud and dirt as a concession to the expected reality of their situation. The NSFW album sleeve is depicted '''[[http://indierider.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-slitcut-1979.html here]]'''
159	* The classic Music/WasNotWas music video for "Walk The Dinosaur" features four beautiful women in cartoony leopard-skin getups dancing to the song.
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163	%%ZCE * The Na'vi from ''[[Pinball/{{Avatar}} James Cameron's Avatar]]''
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167	* Female mixed martial artist Felice Herring likes this look. Her fighting gear often incorporates leopard print, and she's showed up to a few weigh-ins in what's basically cavewoman lingerie - a leopard print bikini and sash cut so they look ragged at the edges, and armbands to help show off her biceps.
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171	* ''TabletopGame/KingdomDeath'': To quote the page description, "it is a hellish universe cloaked in utter darkness, where humans find themselves at the bottom of a vast, monstrous food chain". And every female character is depicted as young and buxom with long flowing hair, striking unlikely poses in their FurBikini. Things don't improve too much once your civilization manages to invent [[ChainmailBikini armor]] either.
172	* ''TabletopGame/Space1889'': Illustrations of Hill Martian men and women sometimes fall into this trope combining it with GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe and DesertPunk. The of Steppelords of Mars, though, makes it clear that wasting water for washing is a crime and a taboo but there is not trace of this in the illustrations.
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176	* ''Theatre/{{Firebringer}}'' is a comedy about prehistoric people discovering fire. Most of the characters are attractive women with flattering clothing and no body hair.
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180	%% * ''VideoGame/AgeOfBarbarian'' has Sheyna in the first game. The FightingGame added others.
181	%% * ''VideoGame/CavemanWarriors'' has Liliana and Brienne, two of the [[PlayerCharacter Player Characters]].
182	* ''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.
183	%% * Zhu Rong from ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''.
184	%% * ''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]].
185	* ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'': Mariana Mamba, the first super-agent you rile up, is one of these, being the "tamed" last of her Amazon tribe and everything. Even her special power is an exotic allure that dramatically drains the Loyalty stat of any nearby minions.
186	* ''VideoGame/EyraTheCrowMaiden'': The PlayerCharacter, Eyra, is a warrior priestess from a barbarian tribe with a lithe, thin figure for someone in that kind of place.
187	%% * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Waking Cloud's physique is especially impressive considering that she has given birth to three children.
188	%% * ''VideoGame/Fallout2'': You can play one, and many characters find the fact that you are a "tribal" quite attractive.
189	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s ''Nuka World'' DLC gives us Cito, who's basically [[TarzanBoy Tarzan with the serial number filed off]]. The guy was abandoned by his parents as a toddler and raised by ghoulified gorillas in the irradiated ruins of a pre-War zoo, but his physique would make the average bodybuilder weep and his face is definitely easy on the eyes, being modeled after Khal Drogo of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fame (yes, including the {{Guyliner}}). All in all he looks considerably healthier and cleaner than most of the "civilized" wasteland citizens you meet in actual population centers.
190	* Most of the [[NationalGeographicNudity topless women]] shown in ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' have remarkably perky breasts millenia before the invention of supporting undergarments. Most notably Batari who is old enough to have an adult son. Averted with the Udam women who have harder features and realistically sagging breasts.
191	* 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 [[EarthyBarefootCharacter forgo wearing shoes on their homeworld]] in order to better "connect" with the land.
192	* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Aloy, whilst not being overtly sexualized like the other examples, fits this very well, as she, despite [[FuturePrimitive the setting]] and [[TheExile her upbringing]], has glossy eyes (framed by perfectly sculpted eyebrows), [[EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth great teeth]], impeccable blemish-free skin and a fantastic physique (though that could be justified by her being an ActionGirl), with the only "savage" parts being [[DreadlockWarrior her hair]] and clothes (the latter of which can be changed around throughout the game). Nearly every character in the game is like this, but Aloy, being the protagonist, is the most obvious example.
193	%%* Most of the cavegirls from the ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac'' series.
194	%%* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Nidalee dresses like this in her default skin.
195	* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' features a cavewoman named Beru who acts as the DamselInDistress of the Prehistory chapter. In an era where the all of the cavemen have shaggy, unkempt hair, Beru's purple hair looks like it was perfectly combined and keeps her good looks regardless of the slapstick that happens throughout the chapter. Then there's the LongHairedPrettyBoy Zaki, a rare male example.
196	* ''VideoGame/MySims Kingdom'': introduces the character Sylvia. She is definitely cute and while she used to go to the Royal Academy, she has since begun living with cavemen after accidentally being trapped in a cage during an expedition. {{Averted\|Trope}} in ''[=SkyHeroes=]'', where she's a pilot instead of a cavewoman.
197	* Professor Sada in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet Pokémon Scarlet]]'' is a fanged AmazonianBeauty who wears a [[FurBikini midriff-showing fur tribal outfit]] under her lab coat.
198	* ''VideoGame/RegaliaOfMenAndMonarchs'': Signy is a forest warrior known as "The Beast", and is first met trying to raid the ruins of the kingdom the protagonists are meant to rebuild. She also wears little more than a bra and loincloth, while the only blemishes on her skin are scars from battle.
199	%% * Sheva's tribal costume in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''.
200	* ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy'': Lilika is an amazon from the remote and primitive Burkaqua Tribe of the planet Juraika. Her default outfit is a tiger-print bra and loincloth, and after being exiled from her village, she quickly adapts to life with the main cast of space pirates.
201	* ''Franchise/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.
202	* ''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).
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206	* Cadet Danni from ''Webcomic/AloneTogether'' has been abandoned and forgotten on a tropical island. She reasons that wearing her Imperial Army uniform every day will ruin it, so she ultimately fashions an outfit from a {{sarashi}} and a thong. Danni is conscious that she looks like "some kind of tropical savage," which her society would frown upon, but she's practical enough to keep herself alive on that tiny, sun-baked island for more than a year.
207	%% * Dawn from ''[[http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com Dawn of Time]]''. Partially inspired at least by Raquel Welch.
208	%% * Surprisingly, [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/327 Leena]] from ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'' provided an example.
209	* ''Webcomic/TheMeek'': Angora counts as a subversion. She spends most of her introduction chapter wearing nothing, but by physicality she's not much different from a regular fit teenage girl.
210	%% * ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': Both Helen and Mell, after spending a few months trapped on a tropical island.
211	* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': After {{Satan}} bomphs Tangerine, she wears the appropriate attire and acts in total obliviousness to society, [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-04-06 though not with the usual]] ExposedToTheElements results. This is despite living in a modern-day city, and the fact that Devil Girls in this comic normally wear either modern human attire or modern non-fur bikinis.
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215	%%* ''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.]]
216	* ''WesternAnimation/FredTheCaveman'': Emma looks very good for someone who lived in the stone age. She has short red hair, thin physique, and red lips.
217	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Has an entire planet of Amazonian women. Amy briefly dressed like one. In the episode "A Clockwork Origin" some nanobots, after becoming trilobots, devour the ship, Farnsworth's new house... and most of the crew's clothes. With most of their outfit ripped, Amy and Leela look like this.
218	* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Tri-Stone Area", most of the female characters' prehistoric counterparts count towards this trope.
219	* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': Pumyra was imprisoned for quite some time, [[spoiler:was left to die before then]], and yet still is fairly attractive. The revelation that she was [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]] makes it a bit more justified.
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