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Original Man

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21 feature instances
10 referencing feature instances

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Original Man	label	Original Man
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Original Man	comment	A Characterization Trope distinguishing a character who is the first human being or one of the first human beings. The hominid tribe is about 6 million years old, and modern man is just the last sliver of it, definitely not the original. The original hominid would not be recognized as any species living today. That is if anything could be called the original hominid; rather than a single such species having ever existed, today's paleontologists reconstruct a gradual transition with no clear break. But there has been much speculation, study and effort to find the original man, probably some outlandish fiction too. In fact, this is one of the oldest tropes in the book. Can overlap with Advanced Ancient Humans, depending on how complex original man's society was or Humanity Came from Space if original man did not develop on Earth. Also compare with Frazetta Man and All Cavemen Were Neanderthals. A variation of the trope is an older species of man that was wiped out before ours began or is biologically independent of the Homo sapiens species in some other way. In these cases human identification is a must, otherwise they belong under precursors. Identification, not necessarily familiarity. May be named Adam and/or Eve. Examples
Original Man	fetched	2024-01-29T23:46:07Z
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Original Man / int_106cad0	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_106cad0	comment	Marville: Wolverine was the first human. He evolved from an otter.
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Original Man / int_28fe1376	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe: Before The Reveal, the First People were believed to be this. Much was made of them being an ancient civilization of human beings — the first humans — that supposedly predated Adam, Eve and the dinosaurs. This was a bizarre claim even for a show where computer viruses can infect the human brain. Later, it's revealed that the "First People" are actually the future versions of the main characters who designed the technology attributed to this ancient civilization and sent it back in time through a wormhole to the distant past.
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Original Man / int_354d43de	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_354d43de	comment	Red Dwarf: The prologue to Last Human describes the birth of the first Homo habilis, a girl. Her australopithecine mother is alarmed at the child's short limbs, high forehead and large head — clearly, she isn't going to be like anyone, ever.note This is, of course, a gross misrepresentation of the evolutionary process — the transition between species occurs slowly, over many generations, not in a sudden leap from one to the next.
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Original Man / int_3c33bf0f	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_3c33bf0f	comment	Demon: The Fallen depicts Adam and Eve as Ultimate Lifeforms. Their antediluvian descendants are also described as exceptionally powerful, if only because they had infinite faith (in God and the angels) — something that their modern descendants severely lack, much to the dismay of the returning Fallen.
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Original Man / int_468bebb0	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: One early novel reveals that the First Men of the Disc created by the gods were immensely powerful beings, which took one look at their situation, including their suboptimal gods, and lost their tempers. This resulted in an all-out war between humanity and the gods, after which the High Old Ones — immensely powerful beings who rule over the universe — stepped in and, to prevent such a crisis from recurring, confined the gods to the center of the Disc and re-created men to be a good deal smaller.
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Original Man / int_4cfbcc07	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_4cfbcc07	comment	In Symposium, Plato makes a fictional Aristophanes present a "Just So" Story on the origin of love. According to this tale, humans as originally created by the titans were not like we are today: We had two heads, four legs, four arms and both sets of reproductive organs. The later gods changed us to be more like them (which is better than what they considered doing). The idea was to make us wish for the parts we no longer had and supposed to teach us love.
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Original Man / int_605dd875	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: The Alterans, an ancient human subspecies predating Cro-Magnon. They are indistinguishable from homo sapiens outwardly, technically have much greater genetic diversity on account of longer existence and wider distribution but so few are left in the visible universe that it is almost a moot point, and most of them Ascended thousands of years ago. The Stargate builders among them left behind a lot of technology that only works when used by people with their genes though.
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Original Man / int_62570927	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Adam K'ad-mon is a Man-Thing lookalike who is believed by some to be the original human being and protects the Primal Matrix, which is the focal point of the multiverse. In the Earth X/Universe X/Paradise X trilogy, the original humans were a feral, beastlike race before the Celestials came to our planet and began fiddling with our genetics. The Celestials use young planets as "incubators" for their kind, and superhumans were created to act as "antibodies" to protect the planet from invasion — particularly from Galactus, their sworn enemy. It turns out that Wolverine is not a mutant, but actually the last "pure" human left alive. Marville: Wolverine was the first human. He evolved from an otter.
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Original Man / int_6c0aaca7	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_6c0aaca7	comment	In Old Harry's Game, when Satan takes Edith to meet Adam and Eve:
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Original Man / int_755b343f	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: The original humans were a collection of different hominid species who used to hold one of the strongest interstellar empires in the galaxy. Then, tens of thousands of years ago, the Forerunners defeated them, erased all traces of their empire, stripped them of all their technology, forcibly devolved them into a more primitive state, and quarantined the vast majority of them on their home planet of Erde-Tyrene.
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Original Man / int_7fcd5a6a	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_7fcd5a6a	comment	In the Earth X/Universe X/Paradise X trilogy, the original humans were a feral, beastlike race before the Celestials came to our planet and began fiddling with our genetics. The Celestials use young planets as "incubators" for their kind, and superhumans were created to act as "antibodies" to protect the planet from invasion — particularly from Galactus, their sworn enemy. It turns out that Wolverine is not a mutant, but actually the last "pure" human left alive.
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Original Man / int_83443877	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_83443877	comment	In Genesis 1:1-2:3, male and female are created in God's image, before being told to take care of the Earth and multiply across it by God.
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Original Man / int_9ecd1e02	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_9ecd1e02	comment	Nightside: References here and there suggest that humankind was originally intended/planned/expected to be much more powerful, perceptive, and glorious than we actually are. Just who/what came up with that intention/plan/expectation, and whether it was an injustice or a mercy that we didn't turn out that way, is left unsaid.
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Original Man / int_a03824e8	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_a03824e8	comment	In The DCU, recurring villain Vandal Savage (originally a Green Lantern villain but nowadays a big-name bad guy who'll fight anyone) is usually one of the very first Homo sapiens to exist, rendered immortal by a Magic Meteor. (Apart from the weird Final Crisis tie-in which depicted him as literally the Biblical Cain, although some later writers adopted this as Metaphorically True in the "first cold-blooded murderer" sense.)
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Original Man / int_ce04a143	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_ce04a143	comment	Xenogears: The humans that live on the planet the game is set on are descendants of the creations of "Deus", the supercomputer that acts as the overarching central antagonist. As such, all humans are "pieces" of Deus itself that it one day plans to absorb as part of a millennia-long self-repair program. The "original" humans were part of the spaceship which Deus took over and destroyed.
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Original Man / int_cfd860dd	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_cfd860dd	comment	Nasuverse: Copies are always inferior to the original, and since children are considered copies of their parents, the first humans (i.e. human archetypes) were immensely more powerful than their modern descendants.
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Original Man / int_d461f757	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): The people of Kobol whose ancestors became the Twelve Colonies were this, although the primitive humans of Earth (2) appear to be a separate "creation" of that series' God.
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Original Man / int_e2ade9fb	comment	The Book of Genesis describes the creation of humans beings twice. Studies of Hebrew narrative grammar indicate this is a matter of "summary vs details", rather than two separate events. Genesis 1 describes the creation of humans in relation to the rest of the universe. Genesis 2 takes a closer look at the details of how they were created. In Genesis 1:1-2:3, male and female are created in God's image, before being told to take care of the Earth and multiply across it by God. In Genesis 2:4-25, the first human is formed from the dirt and receives life from God's breath. After experiencing loneliness and naming the animals God creates, the human's rib is removed and from it is formed woman, who the first man praises. The first humans here know not death, labor-pains, toil, or shame before violating the law of the Garden and being forced out into the harsher wider world.
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Original Man / int_f65f0362	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_f65f0362	comment	In Mission to Mars, the then famous face was theorized to have been carved by original man. (Then famous because when we actually saw it in real life it turned out not to be a face.)
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Original Man / int_f853c9d0	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_f853c9d0	comment	Adam K'ad-mon is a Man-Thing lookalike who is believed by some to be the original human being and protects the Primal Matrix, which is the focal point of the multiverse.
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Original Man / int_fab472d2	type	Original Man
Original Man / int_fab472d2	comment	Dark Souls, in a late (and hidden) dialogue, it's revealed that Humanity's progenitor and thus the player character's ancestor is none other than The Furtive Pygmy, a character only briefly shown in the opening cutscene and is described as "so easily forgotten", and who, in the dawn of time, gained the power of the titular Dark Soul.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Original Man	processingCategory2	Humans Are Indexed
Original Man	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Original Man	processingCategory2	Unisex Tropes
Man-Thing / Comicbook / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
Lose Those Chains (Fanfic) / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
Discworld / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
Red Dwarf / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
Symposium / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
TV Tropes Superhero Team / Sugar Wiki / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man
Demon: The Fallen (Tabletop Game) / int_8bf982c4	type	Original Man

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