History Main / NubileSavage

* Subverted during both prehistorical episodes of ''TheBackyardigans'': "Cave Party" and "Caveman's Best Friend". Althought during the "Castaways" episode Uniqua's outfit (as well as everyone else's, seeing that they sport the same kind of torn white shirt during the episode) can make up for it.

* {{Tarzan}}, from the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] movie of the same name. He figured it out shaving by himself.

* Mowgli from ''{{TheJungleBook}}s,'' especially as a young teenager in the second book.

* Caroline Munroe in ''[=~At the Earth's Core~=]''.

* Every female main character in a W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear novel has a body suitable for the cover of {{Playboy}}.

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* Quell from ''YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito''.
* In ''JungleDeIkou'', the main character Natsumi can transform into the [[MostCommonSuperpower extremely busty]] NubileSavage Mii by doing a {{Fanservice}}-y dance. [[http://images.absoluteanime.com/jungle_de_ikou/index.jpg Take one look at her]], and you won't be surprised to learn that Mii is a goddess of [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean fertility and reproduction]].
* San from ''PrincessMononoke'' 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.
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* Dawn from ''[[http://www.dawnoftimecomics.com Dawn of Time]]''. Partially inspired at least by Raquel Welch.
* Both Helen and Mell from ''{{Narbonic}}'' after spending a few months trapped on a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=35100 tropical island]].
* Surprisingly, [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/327 Leena]] from ''LookingForGroup'' provided an example.
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** Which is a great example of how Tim Burton {{CompletelyMissingThePoint missed the point}} in his version.

** Just because they're aliens doesn't mean they don't know about baths.

* Panther Woman, Juliette Burber's alter ego in ''9 Chickweed Lane''
* ''Cavewoman'' might be the most exaggerated example, especially when drawn by creator Budd Root -- he [[AuthorAppeal really has a thing]] for huge breasts.
* ''Shanna the She-Devil,'' especially when drawn by Frank Cho in her relaunch.
* The eponymous heroine of ''Jungle Girl,'' for the same exact reason.
* The Savage Land. The entire place. The ONLY reason for the existance of a tropical region in the middle of the Arctic is so that residents and visitors can fit this trope.
* Meriem Cooper counts as one. 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 then most supermodels. Plus her body was [[HotAmazon "hardened"]] as a result of time traveling.

* Loana the Fair One (Raquel Welch, pictured above) in ''1 Million Years B.C.''

* Tarzan, from the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] movie of the same name. He figured it out shaving by himself.

* Caroline Munroe in ''At the Earth's Core''.

* Used as a gag in the 2009 version of "Land of the Lost." The females of [[FrazettaMan Chakah's species]] look like this (scantly clad, brown women).

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Quest for Fire'' ([[HeyItsThatGuy Hey]], it's RonPerlman!). Rae Dawn Chong and the other early ''homo sapiens'' were 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.
* The National Lampoon's StonedAge has not only the girl-next-door Fardart (Ali Larter), but also a tribe of HotAmazon s ruled by Carol Alt playing Queen Fallopia.

* ''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.

* ''Cavegirl'' - Cavegirl herself from the children's {{BBC}} series of the same name. A large proportion of the cast in fact.

* In JungleDeIkou, the main character Natsumi can transform into the [[MostCommonSuperpower extremely busty]] NubileSavage Mii by doing a {{Fanservice}}-y dance. [[http://images.absoluteanime.com/jungle_de_ikou/index.jpg Take one look at her]], and you won't be surprised to learn that Mii is a goddess of [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean fertility and reproduction]].

* Krystal from the StarFox series. At least for her first appearance.

* Zhu Rong from Dynasty Warriors.

* ''Futurama'' has an entire planet of Amazonian women. Amy briefly dressed like one.

The standard look for TheChiefsDaughter and JunglePrincess. Less standard but still common for the IndianMaiden.

* You can play one in ''[[{{Fallout}} 2]]''. Many characters find the fact that you are a "tribal" quite attractive.

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[[caption-width:334:Okay, heavy on the "nubile", and light on the "savage" is the norm here.]]

Of course, if you'll watch a NationalGeographic-type documentary, you'll quickly see that women in cultures removed from civilization, while often topless, do not generally resemble Hollywood models. They have rather different standards of beauty, after all. They are also real people, and thus not pre-approved for nudity by the casting director.

* ''{{Cavewoman}}'' might be the most exaggerated example, especially when drawn by creator Budd Root -- he [[AuthorAppeal really has a thing]] for huge breasts.

* Weena (played by YvetteMimieux) in the 1960 version of TheTimeMachine.
* Tarzan, from the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] movie of the same name. Apparently the apes taught him how to shave.
** No, he figured it out for himself. See the entry in the Literature section.
** And his parody, ''GeorgeOfTheJungle''. Ape would be perfectly capable of teaching him how to shave.
*** Yes, but would George be [[TooDumbToLive capable of learning?]]
** And then Jane becomes one at the end of the film [[FanService (mmmmmm)]], but so does her dad, Professor Porter (NoJustNo).
* Also in the Disney camp is {{Pocahontas}}, one of the more obvious examples of the trope as she and her people are referred to as "savages".
* Princess Kida from AtlantisTheLostEmpire toes the line of this trope - the city of Atlantis is by no means a savage civilization, but then again, Kida herself ''has'' been alive since the Flood itself.

** Similar to the above is the FurBikini vehicle ''WhenDinosaursRuledTheEarth'' 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]].

* Pretty much everyone in ''[[TenThousandBC 10,000 B.C.]]'' under the age of 30, male or female.
* Arguable case: Sean Connery in ''{{Zardoz}}''.

* The Na'vi from ''{{Film/Avatar}}''. Their 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.
** And you can see the female Navi's boobs if you look hard enough...pervy animators. Count Neytiri, Princess of the Omaticaya Tribe, is the most famous among the female Na'vi.
* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Quest for Fire'' ([[HeyItsThatGuy Hey]], it's RonPerlman!). Rae Dawn Chong and the other early ''homo sapiens'' were 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. [[YourMileageMayVary Depends on what you focused on]], though...

* Though not scantily clad, Ayla the Cro-Magnon heroine of Jean Auel's ''[[EarthsChildren Earth's Children]]'' 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.
** Darryl Hannah from the movie qualifies on both counts.
* Any pre-technological female in an EdgarRiceBurroughs book will qualify, though they frequently don't bother with the FurBikini. Men from the same civilizations are almost invariably described as ugly.
** Ditto Lin Carter.

* Rincewind of the ''{{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.

* {{Cavegirl}} from the children's {{BBC}} series of the same name (and a large proportion of the rest of the cast for that matter).

* Spock and [=McCoy=] meet one of these in 'All Our Yesterdays' in the original series of ''StarTrek''. 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.]]
** The series penchant for [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Green Skinned Space Babes]] and various Anvillicious messages about tolerance led to quite a few NubileSavages, 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 the NubileSavage role to a t.

* San from ''PrincessMononoke'' is quite pretty & 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.
* Sapphire at times during her arc in ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Special]]''.
** There was a single incident where Sapphire took off her clothes in front of Ruby, leaving only the leaf outfit. This was not Fanservice at work; Ruby expressed his prioritizing Pokemon contests over ''saving Hoenn from Groudon and Kyogre, and Teams Magma and Aqua by extension'', and boy, was she ''utterly '''pissed off''' ''at him! To drive the point home, she shoved ''the very letter he wrote for her at the start of the arc in his face'' and ''spelled out for him the only reason she wore those clothes in the first place''!
--> ''Sapphire'': '''Don't you dare appear before me again!!'''

* Can you say Shaak Ti from ''TheForceUnleashed''?
** Or her sassy young apprentice, Maris Brood? Mmmm...
* You can play one in {{Fallout}} 2. Many characters find the fact that you are a "tribal" quite attractive.

* ''Futurama'' has an entire planet of Amazonian women.
** Amy briefly dressed like one!
* Maybe 3/4 of all the women on ''TheFlintstones'' would count. The men, not so much.

* Both Helen and Mell from {{Narbonic}} after spending a few months trapped on a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=35100 tropical island]].
* Surprisingly, [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/327 Leena]] from LookingForGroup provided an example. Yeah.

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** And you can see the female Navi's boobs if you look [[strike:hard enough]]...pervy animators. Count Neytiri, Princess of the Omaticaya Tribe, is the most famous among the female Na'vi. You know, she is fine for a feline.

*** Subverted in that they were hardly nubile. They were large, lumbering and rather dim-witted. Big FetishRetardant
* I think 3/4 of all the women on the ''Flintstones'' would count. The men, not so much.

* Mariana Mamba, the first super-agent you rile up in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Game/EvilGenius Evil Genius]] 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.

* ''{{Cavewoman}}'' might be the most exaggerated example, especially when drawn by creator Budd Root - he [[AuthorAppeal really has a thing]] for huge breasts.

* The titular heroine of ''Jungle Girl,'' for the same exact reason.

* I think 3/4 of all the women on the ''Flintstones'' would count. The man, not so much.

* Princess Kida from AtlantisTheLostEmpire toes the line of this trope - the city of Atlantis is by no means a savage civilization, but then again, Kida herself ''has'' been alive since the Flood itself, SoYeah...

* Ayla, in ''ChronoTrigger''.
** Not just her - Kino is also pretty, well-groomed and clean shaven. Naturally, since they're named protagonist characters.
*** Yeah, but the generic adult cavewomen also fit this trope.

Of course, if you'll watch a NationalGeographic-type documentary, you'll quickly see that women in cultures removed from "civilization," while often topless, do not generally resemble Hollywood models. They have rather different standards of beauty, after all. They are also "real people", and thus not pre-approved for nudity by the casting director.