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* '''Downplayed''': Buk sometimes walks in a PrimalStance and has YouNoTakeCandle-esque dialogue.

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* '''Downplayed''': Buk is a fairly lithe, if not athletic specimen, sometimes walks in a PrimalStance and has YouNoTakeCandle-esque dialogue.
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'''Basic Trope''': Cavemen are portrayed as Neanderthal-like beings, often as DumbMuscle characters.
* '''Straight''': Buk the caveman is TheBigGuy and a DumbMuscle, often speaking in HulkSpeak and various grunts, and moving around in a PrimalStance.
* '''Exaggerated''': Buk's only actions consist of grunting, throwing paint on a wall, and RunningOnAllFours.
* '''Downplayed''': Buk sometimes walks in a PrimalStance and has YouNoTakeCandle-esque dialogue.
* '''Justified''': Buk ''is'' a Neanderthal, or some other underevolved species of early human.
* '''Inverted''': Cavemen are portrayed as very cultured and intelligent.
* '''Subverted''': Buk acts like this at first, but reveals he's only doing it because that's what he's expected to do.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, Buk's sister Mog is even ''more'' of a DumbMuscle than he is.
* '''Parodied''': Buk is the only caveman in the work to act like this, and other cavemen are routinely confused by how he acts.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Cavemen are portrayed realistically.
** There are no cavemen.
* '''Enforced''': This is how cavemen are typically portrayed in fiction, and the creators of the work wanted it to be clear that Buk was a caveman.
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