Basic Trope: Cavemen are portrayed as Neanderthal-like beings, often as Dumb Muscle characters.
- Straight: Buk the caveman is The Big Guy and a Dumb Muscle, often speaking in Hulk Speak and various grunts, and moving around in a Primal Stance.
- Exaggerated: Buk's only actions consist of grunting, throwing paint on a wall, and Running on All Fours.
- Downplayed: Buk is a fairly lithe, if not athletic specimen, sometimes walks in a Primal Stance and has You No Take Candle-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 Dumb Muscle 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.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back All Cavemen Neanderthals! Urg!
