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* ''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 BoobsOfSteel. Ayla's boyfriend 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. It gets even weirder when you consider that, with an evolutionary difference of 65 million years, by all rights, she should be a macaque or something. Of course, Lavos ''has'' been playing around with the evolution of that world...

* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Aloy, whilst not being overtly sexualized like the other examples, fits this very well, as she, despite [[FuturePrimitive the setting]], 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.

* In ''ComicBook/JasonAaronsAvengers'', 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.

%% * Caroline Munro as Dian the Beautiful in the film adaptation of ''Literature/AtTheEarthsCore''.

* ''Film/TheFlintstonesInVivaRockVegas'': In spite of the [[TropeNamers Flintstone]] [[FlintstoneTheming Theming]], Jane Krakowski as [[http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/15/40/55/3541839/3/628x471.jpg Betty Rubble, née O'Shale]].

* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Katniss is rather tall and healthy-looking for someone who nearly died of starvation as a child and hunts and kills her own food to survive.

* Linda Harrison as Nova in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' and ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''. One of the [[TheMorlocks 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.
%%** Daena, and boy is she ever in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001''.

** Any pre-technological female in any 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.

* In ''ComicBook/Avengers1000000BC'', the team is 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.

* 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.

* In ''ComicBook/Avengers1000000BC'', the team is led by Odin Borson and Firehaird/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.
* 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': The titular character was raised by apes. He later figured out shaving by himself.

* ''Prehistoric Women'': 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''.

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

%%** Averted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild "An Unearthly Child"]].
%%** More obscurely, Nanina from wiped Hartnell serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]].
%%** It could be argued that the kangs from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers "Paradise Towers"]] are an urban jungle example, though better dressed.

%% ** Jan from ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' fulfills this all too well.

* ''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.
** 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.]]

* ''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).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Tri-Stone Area", most of the female characters' prehistoric counterparts count towards this trope.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s ''Nuka World'' DLC gives us Cito, who's basically 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.

* Averted with Gammla in ''Literature/QuestForFire'' ([[AdaptationDisplacement Yes there was a book]]). She's considered [[InformedAttractiveness very beautiful]] but is described in compliance with paleolithic standards of beauty, being rather fat and hairy.

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Film/QuestForFire''. Between the neanderthal-like Ulam and the obese Ivaka, most of the woman do not comply with 20th century western beauty standards. Ika (Creator/RaeDawnChong) is 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. Likewise, Ika's HandsomeHeroicCaveman love interest, Naoh, is handsome in a much more rugged, unkempt way than you might expect. [[Literature/QuestForFire The original novel]] also averts this with the hero's love interest (who is considered the most beautiful woman in the tribe) described as rather fat and hairy.

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Film/QuestForFire''. Between the neanderthal-like Ulam and the obese Ivaka, most of the woman do not comply with 20th century western beauty standards. Ika (Creator/RaeDawnChong) is 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. Likewise, Ika's HandsomeHeroicCaveman love interest, Naoh, is handsome in a much more rugged, unkempt way than you might expect. The original novel also averts this with the hero's love interest (who is considered the most beautiful woman in the tribe) described as rather fat and hairy.

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Film/QuestForFire''. Ika (Creator/RaeDawnChong) and the other early ''homo sapiens'' women are 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. Likewise, Ika's HandseomHeroicCaveman love intererst, Naoh, is handsome in a much more rugged, unkempt way than you might expect.

* Kinda averted in the foreign language film (foreign to everybody) ''Film/QuestForFire'', it's Creator/RonPerlman!). Ika (Creator/RaeDawnChong) 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.

%%* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'':
%%** Linda Harrison as Nova in ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'' and ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''.

** Barsoom isn't pre-technological, but it wouldn't be unfair to describe most of the planet as "savage" anyway. 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).

* Music/KatyPerry: Wore a jungle queen costume she while singing "Roar" on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

%%ZCE * The classic Music/WasNotWas music video for "Walk The Dinosaur" features four such women dancing to the song.

[[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 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. In truth, prehistoric humans were clean, often well fed, and generally healthier than most humans living today (at least, when in their prime age). 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]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': 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.

* ''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 BoobsOfSteel. Ayla's boyfriend Kino is also pretty, well-groomed and clean shaven. This pretty well applies to all of the unnamed backround characters living in the human villages of the game's prehistoric era. It gets even weirder when you consider that, with an evolutionary difference of 65 million years, by all rights, she should be a macaque or something. Of course, Lavos ''has'' been playing around with the evolution of that world...

%% * Most of the cavegirls from the ''VideoGame/JoeAndMac'' series.

%% * Lilika of ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy''.

* ''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 BoobsOfSteel. Ayla's boyfriend Kino is also pretty, well-groomed and clean shaven. This pretty well applies to all of the unnamed backround characters living in the human villages of the game's prehistoric era.

%% * Daena, and boy is she ever in the 2001 remake of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes''. As well as her predecessor, Linda Harrison as Nova in the 1968 original.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Golden Age Gigianta 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.