Named for SNL 's Cirroc, The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, who slyly manipulated the jury by playing the "I'm just a caveman" card, who wore nice suits, and had a smug charm stereotypical of modern laywers. Despite the name the character is not necessarily a Contemporary Caveman.
Announcer: [ over SUPER ] “One hundred thousand years ago, a cavemanwas out hunting on the frozen wastes when he slipped and fell into a crevasse.In 1988, he was discovered by some scientists and thawed out. He then wentto law school and became..
Announcer: [ over SUPER ] “One hundred thousand years ago, a caveman was out hunting on the frozen wastes when he slipped and fell into a crevasse. In 1988, he was discovered by some scientists and thawed out.
Harrison Oogar, the caveman of Wall Street, from the Age of the Sentry miniseries. He beat market five years straight! Java, the unfrozen caveman butler, of Simon Stagg in Metamorpho.
Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night: Most Heroic Spirits—souls of heroes of (usually) ancient ages given form to participate in a There Can Be Only One tournament—easily adapt to modern day living. Some have their justification, e.g. Saber having the innate ability to ride anything including modern cars; this includes jet fighters!.
Two of the modern characters in Michael Crichton 's Timeline ends up living with ease and comfort in Late Medieval France. The first is a marine with an uncanny knack for languages. The second is a history grad student with a passion for all things from his period of study; language, clothes, culture, sports, war...
SNL also did a sketch about the 2007-08 OJ Simpson Las Vegas assault trial in which even the guy who'd been in an amnesiac coma, the guy stranded on a desert island, and the newly arrived alien knew that OJ was a killer.
Nordkapp Man, a member of the Global Guardians, is an Unfrozen Caveman Superhero. Within a few years of his being thawed out of the glacier he'd been trapped in for 30,000 years, Nordkapp Man (a neanderthal with superpowers) had become a university professor, a regular club-hopper, and, of course, an ice-wielding crimefighter.