Link (Encino Man)

Linkavitch "Link" Chomofsky is the titular co-protagonist of Encino Man (California Man in , , , , and ).
He was portrayed by , who portrayed George in and Rick O'Connell in .
==Biography==
During the first , Link and his girlfriend are building a fire in an unnamed land (present day ), when an earthquake causes a cave-in that buries the two of them in an underground glacier, freezing them solid. Over 2 million years later, in 1992, an earthquake awakens average teenager Dave Morgan.
Dave and his best friend Stoney strive to attain popularity in high school, but come off more like rejects or outcasts. Dave is in love with Robyn Sweeney, a sweet and attractive girl who had been his best friend during grade school, and until she reached adolescence, had been rejected by Dave on several occasions.
Her boyfriend, Matt Wilson, is a stereotypical jock and school bully, who constantly makes Dave and Stoney the objects of ridicule by humiliating them in various ways, usually directly due to Dave's affections for Robyn. When Stoney and Dave excavate Dave's back yard to build a pool, they come upon a glacier.
Seeing a chunk of ice that has a man's body in it following an earthquake, they leave the ice block unattended in the garage; space heaters that were left on eventually cause the ice to melt, releasing the caveman. Dave thinks the caveman is a "missing link", and he and Stoney refer to him as "Link", pretending he's an Estonian exchange student.
Link is very confused about how the world around him has changed and must adapt and learn teenage social customs at Dave and Stoney's high school. When he visits a museum on a school trip, he figures out what happened, but Dave and Stoney comfort him and tell him that they are his new family.
Link is a big hit in high school due to his supreme athletic skills and bizarre behaviour. Dave and Stoney skyrocket towards popularity by association, allowing Dave to get closer to Robyn, much to Matt's frustration. Soon, Stoney's bizarre attitude apparently has an effect on Link's actions and speech, which causes a rift between Dave and Stoney.
Matt's anger leads to a fight with Link at a skating rink, but Matt's anger increases due to Robyn's growing attraction towards Link. During a school field trip to a natural history museum, Link is greatly upset by the realisation that the cavepeople he knew are all dead. Stoney and Dave console Link, telling him that he is not without friends in this time period, causing the trio to make a pact.
During driver's ed, Link drives away in a car with Dave, Stoney, and Robyn in it; they stop at a dance club, causing Dave and Link to be arrested. Dave, fed up with Link's shenanigans and upset that Robyn chose Link to go to the prom with, tries to abandon him, and a fight between Dave and Stoney causes Link to come running back and separate the friends.
Stoney and Dave immediately reconcile. Although Dave came to resent Link's popularity initially, Dave eventually realised that his friendship with Link was much more important than his own popularity. On prom night, Link is a hit at the party with Robyn as his date, while Dave stays in for the evening. Matt breaks into Dave's bedroom and steals photographic evidence that Link is a caveman.
As Dave and Stoney go after Matt and his friends, another earthquake happens. At the prom, Matt's plan to uncover the "freak" backfires as the information instead makes Link even more popular. Dave and Robyn make up, and the three boys lead the entire prom in an impromptu caveman-like dance. After the prom, some of the students attend Dave's house for a pool party, where Dave and Robyn kiss.
Meanwhile, Stoney and Link follow clues similar to when they found him ranging from breast prints on the slider and paint covering the walls. They follow the muddy footprints to the bathroom and discover a beautiful cavewoman in the bathtub, who turns out to be Link's partner from the beginning of the film. He joins her in the bathtub as Stoney cheers them on and embraces her happily. A few minutes afterwards, she is made to look like a modern human.
==Trivia==
*Throughout the film, he becomes more fluent in Spanish than English.
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