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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Missing Link (French: Le Chaînon manquant), known in America as B.C. Rock, is a 1980 French–Belgian animated film written and directed by Picha.Set in the year 196,303 BC, it follows the life and escapades of the caveman Oh. Rejected by his own kind, he travels the world with his two companions — Igua the sauropod and the Croak the pterodactyl. Determined to find his place in life, Oh meets strange new friends and enemies, and learns and develops the skills needed to survive this harsh world. The film is set to a rock soundtrack.Note that, for some reason, in the English translation every single moment is filled with background music and a first-person narration even where the original was silent.note The original has a third-person narration, but it is used sparingly This is not necessarily a bad thing, since the additional dialogue sometimes adds to the story,note For instance, the scene with Adam and Eve is a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment in the original. In the translation, Croak later mentions that Adam and Eve "got a publishing deal for their story", tying into the theme of the movie being "what really happened" at the dawn of civilization but the original and the translation make for very different viewing experiences.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with The Missing Lynx or the former pro wrestler known as the Missing Link, nor with the 2019 animated film Missing Link. |
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Perverse Sexual Lust |
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Perverse Sexual Lust: The "No-Man" race uses this to their advantage while hunting. |
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Crapsack World |
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Crapsack World: It is the dawn of man, after all. |
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Anachronism Stew |
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Anachronism Stew: Aside from Man and dinosaurs existing at the same time, there are ants that inexplicably buy and sell (human-sized) Marlboro cigarettes. Also, the No-Lobes have agriculture millennia ahead of time, though it may be justified in that they are not human. |
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BeastFolk |
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Beast Folk: The "No-Man"s are a race of all-female red feline creatures. |
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Dumb Dinos |
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Dumb Dinos: Inverted. The dinosaurs are smart while humans are dumb. |
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Cluster F-Bomb |
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Cluster F-Bomb: The chicken who keeps saying "Fuck off!" |
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Humans Are Bastards |
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Humans Are Bastards: Near the end of the film, Man goes around wiping out all other creatures for no other reason than "Man no like no-man!" |
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Cast of Snowflakes |
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Cast of Snowflakes: The men in Oh's tribe are barely recognizable as belonging to the same species as each other. Averted with the tribe's women, who look remarkably alike, and with non-human species such as the No-Lobes. |
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Pun-Based Title |
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Pun-Based Title: The German title "Das fehlende Glied" is a perfectly literal translation...but with the bonus (if one can term it bonus, but after all, Picha is reknowned for his adult animations) that "Glied" also means "penis". |
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Bittersweet Ending |
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Bittersweet Ending: Man develops into a more civilized society, at the cost of wiping out various other species in the process. Also, Oh spends the remainder of his days on Easter Island with Igua and Croak. |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Croak. |
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Artistic License – Paleontology |
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Artistic License – Paleontology: Not only are there dinosaurs and humans in the same time period, but they don't even look like real dinosaurs. Hell, some of them don't even look like they are from Earth. |
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Humanoid Female Animal |
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Humanoid Female Animal: Again, the "No-Man" race. |
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Workaholic |
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Workaholic: The No-Lobes are an entire race of these. |
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Hulk Speak |
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Hulk Speak: The cavemen speak like this. Oh and Igua too, in the French version (though the US dub makes them speak regularly). Oddly enough, most of the animals have perfect grammar. |
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Inventing the Wheel |
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Inventing the Wheel: The No-Lobes invented them... And they lay them flat on the ground to use as sleighs. Oh has the idea to set them vertically, but the No-Lobes don't appreciate and throw him out. |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs |
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Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: The dinosaurs go extinct via mass suicide due to the humans going around wiping out other species. |
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Only One Female Mold |
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Only One Female Mold: While human men in Oh's tribe are considerably diverse in appearance, human women look very similar to each other. In a change of pace from typical examples of this trope, the women look more like the Venus of Willendorf than Nubile Savages. |
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Rodents of Unusual Size |
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Rodents of Unusual Size: Rats are as big as dinosaurs in this age. They shrink to their current size when humans declare war on everybody else, presumably out of fear. |
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Interspecies Romance |
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Interspecies Romance: Oh and "No-Man". |
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Filling the Silence |
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Filling the Silence: The English translation, as mentioned above. |
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Hive Mind |
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Hive Mind: The No-Lobes seem to be this. |
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals |
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All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Somewhat justified, as the film shows the transition between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens. |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom |
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Oh teaches his tribe how to make fire, giving them the technology they need to declare war on every non-human. |
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Been There, Shaped History |
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Been There, Shaped History: Oh unwittingly caused Adam and Eve to be cast off the Garden of Eden. The war between humans and every other creature is what caused continental drift. |
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Dumb Is Good |
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Dumb Is Good: Oh. [[Averted]] with his twin Ah, who is dumb and evil. |
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Naked People Are Funny |
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Naked People Are Funny: All of Man are naked. |
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Intellectual Animal |
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Intellectual Animal: Many animals throughout the movie. Heck, humans are considered among the dumbest things around. |
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One-Gender Race |
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One-Gender Race: The No-Lobes (all male) and the "No-Man"s (all female). Yet, the No-Lobes lay eggs. |
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Ass Shove |
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Ass Shove: Oh does this with a cork to a dragon.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: In a scene where Croak flies carrying Oh, music from Star Wars plays. At one point Oh throws a bone in the air a la 2001: A Space Odyssey, only to be hit on the head when a "No-Man" distracts him. |
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Our Dragons Are Different |
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Our Dragons Are Different: There's a dragon in one scene that farts fire and is voiced by Bill Murray. |
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Swallowed Whole |
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Swallowed Whole: Oh gets eaten by a giant shark at a point. He not only survives, he lights a fire in its belly Pinocchio-style — which causes the shark to blow up and fly like a hot air balloon — and he later get out from the *ahem* other end, completely unharmed. |
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Evil Twin |
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Evil Twin: Ah is this to Oh. |
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