Spear (Primal)

Spear is the main protagonist of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal.
He is a neanderthal who struggles to survive the violent and brutal conditions of the primordial world, and in the process, forges an unlikely bond with Fang, a female tyrannosaur.
He is voiced by Aaron LaPlante who also voiced The Duke from Resident Evil Village, and Noah Bentley as a child.
==Appearance==
As an adult neanderthal, Spear had a rugged, vigorous physique and primate like-traits. He had long, shaggy black hair and thick eyebrows, long canine teeth, and was covered in large amounts of rough body hair.
Spear had a very large, muscular physique. His arms and legs were extra wide in comparison to the rest of his body. As far as clothing went, Spear was usually seen wearing a brown loincloth, though in "A Cold Death", he killed a woolly mammoth and makes a fur coat from its hide.
After drinking the black liquid in "Rage of the Ape-Men", Spear experienced a tremendous growth spurt in which he is now bigger and more muscular than Krog. His body also underwent individual changes, he possesses a buldging forehead, his teeth grow semi-sharper, his skin changes to blue, and his eyes turn bloodshot red just like Krog's.
In "Echoes of Eternity", after the Viking Chieftain mortally wounds him, nearly all of Spear's skin had melted off or was brutally scalded. His nose, lips, ears, eyebrows, and hair had been burnt/fallen off, and was left almost unrecognizable due to the severity of the burns.
==History==
===Background===
Spear was born and raised in a neanderthal tribe, with his father presumably being the leader of the tribe. One day, the tribe was attacked by a pride of smilodons, with the felines killing some tribesmen and women alike, including Spear's father. This prompted Spear to get in the fight and kill the remaining smilodons, leading him to be hailed as a hero to his surviving tribesmates. 
Later on, during adulthood, Spear met a neanderthal woman and started a family with her, gaining a son and a daughter. From that point on, Spear became the provider, hunting to feed his family and making time with them whenever given the chance, going as far as teaching his son how to hunt and respect the prey they down. During that timespan, Spear actively avoided direct confrontation with large predatory creatures.
===Season 1===
Spear and Fang
But on one tragic day, Spear came home from a fishing trip to find his entire family being devoured by a pack of horned tyrannosaurus. In his rage, he immediately shed his former caution and tried to battle the pack. Spear failed to do much harm to the dinosaurs before their giant alpha summoned them away, leaving Spear alone. Mourning his family's deaths, Spear abandoned his former home and climbed a cliff with the intent of committing suicide. But he found difficulty in going through with ending his life and spent the night on the cliffside. The next morning, he witnessed a vision of his loved ones in the sun which resolved his will to survive.
Sometime after the tragedy. Spear came across a different sort of tyrannosaurus, Fang. Mistaking her for his family's killers, Spear followed Fang to her nest with the intent of attacking her, but stopping after seeing her offspring. Before he could fight Fang, the same pack of horned tyrannosaur from before appeared. The pack ignored Spear, and instead fought Fang and her offspring, being reminded of his own family's demise at the hand of the horned tyrannosaurs, Spear assisted Fang in killing off the pack and even briefly bonded with Fang's offspring.
But then the giant alpha of the deceased pack arrived, and Spear was unable to save Fang's offspring from being devoured, though he did eventually succeed in working together with Fang to bring down the giant, avenging both of their families. After the battle, Spear saw Fang mourning the loss of her offspring. He left the dinosaur to travel along a beach, only to find out that lonely dinosaur had followed him. Spear took pity on Fang and bonded with her.
River of Snakes
On his travels with Fang, he learns that working together is more difficult because Fang eats much more than himself. As he tries to hunt for food, Fang takes it for herself without sharing. This combined with his growing hunger caused Spear to become very agitated. This became even worse when Fang took the next meal, as they fought each other nearly to death until the river of snakes had appeared. This causes their differences to be put aside to be a team. Spear did his best to save her but lost his grip on the large snake that Fang had killed off the waterfall. Fang had noticed that Spear did try to save her life as she returns the favor to save him from drowning and even found his spear.
A Cold Death
The duo would continue traveling together, hunting for food and other needs, all the while making enemies along the way. On one notable adventure in a frozen region, the two came across an elderly mammoth which they killed for his meat, as well as for fur to keep themselves warm with. The mammoth's death, however, drew the ire of its herd towards Spear and Fang. After a vicious battle threatened to kill both of them, Spear was forced to appease the mammoth matriarch by offering her the elderly mammoth's tusk. She and her herd took this as a token of his forgiveness and retreated.
Terror under the Blood Moon
On their further adventures the burly caveman and his dinosaur companion came very close to death on several occasions, but always found a way to escape, these adventures included Spear being kidnapped by a swarm of giant red bats which tried feeding him to their symbiotic host, a gigantic spider. Fortunately, Fang managed to break into the bats's aviary and rescue her partner, killing the giant spider in the process. As for the man-bats, they were led into a field where in they are ambushed by a pack of raptors which Fang and Spear had through prior.
Rage of the Ape-Men
Despite their victory, the two would later be held prisoners by a tribe of belligerent ape-men, led by a chimpanzee-like shaman, who forced them into fighting against their champion, the gorilla-like warrior named Krog, after he had drank a small portion from a black liquid which increased his strength further, mutating him, Fang is beaten to near an inch of her life until Spear intervenes. He steals the ape-men's saucer, containing their mysterious black enhancement serum, and consumes it entirely. After having transformed into a hulking behemoth, Spear proceeds to pummel Krog to death, followed by eradication of the rest of the ape-men. The following morning Spear wakes up under a pile of ape-men carcasses, returned to his original form, bewildered of the events that had transpired and lamenting the apparent death of Fang.
Scent of Prey
Spear mourns Fang's apparent death and prepares to leave the valley when Fang starts coughing up blood, showing she is alive but in terrible shape. Spear is relieved that his friend survived but knows he has to help her. He helps Fang drink some water from the ape-men's reserves and then uses it to make mud that he patches her wounds with. The heaps of corpses are attracting numerous vultures, and Spear know that Fang's current condition makes her a potential target for them. After struggling to lift her on his own, Spear gets to work on a building a sled he can carry Fang on and makes himself a new spear. Once Fang is on the sled, Spear begins the strenuous task of dragging her to safety.
After getting a good distance away from the valley, Spear prepares to stop for the night. He then notices a wild dog watching them from a distance. He quickly makes several fires to surround him and Fang, preparing to keep watch all night, staring at the wild dog.
The next morning, Spear has to leave to get water for Fang but smells that the wild dog are nearby. So, he barricades all openings to the cave with rocks to protect her. When he returns later in the evening, he sees a horde of wild dogs trying to get into the cave and fights his way through them to get inside. Fang struggles to her feet to fight, but Spear convinces her to continue rest. He then fashions nearby insect carcasses into improvised brass knuckles, going outside to face the hundreds of wild dogs. Spear is able to hold his own against them for a good while, but their sheer numbers start to overwhelm him until he is saved when a fully recovered Fang bursts out of the cave and helps take out several wild dogs. The remaining dogs flee for their lives, and the duo roars in triumph.
Plague of Madness
Sometime later, Spear and Fang come across a dead herd of sauropods that had been massacred by one of their own infected with a violent plague. The duo is disturbed by the carnage, and the infected sauropod then rises behind them and roars. Recognizing that this is an enemy they can't fight, Spear and Fang quickly flee into the woods and the sauropod gives chase. They manage to lose it by jumping into a cave on the side of a ravine and watch as the infected dinosaur falls to the bottom and knocks itself out by thrashing its head against the walls.
Shaken by the encounter, Spear and Fang rest in the cave. Spear has a nightmare of the infected sauropod biting him and Fang, the plague causing their flesh to melt off their bones. He jolts awake and exits the cave to check on the beast. Fang joins him, and they see it hasn't moved at all. After a brief argument, Spear convinces her that the dinosaur is dead and that they can leave. They make their way to ground level and sidle around the sauropod. They begin tiptoeing away only for the plague monster to wake up and resume chasing them through the quarry.
After some close calls, including Spear taking a falling rock to the head, the duo manages to escape the beast by going through a crevasse that's too narrow for it. They leave it flailing and roaring while they descend into a volcanic plain. The calderas begin erupting and stray embers burn Spear and Fang. Spear notices the ground is cracking under Fang's weight, so they try turning back to find another way out. The infected sauropod then manages to tear through the crevasse, and Spear and Fang have no choice but to run through the lava field to escape from the monster. The infected sauropod jumps at them and causes the ground break. Spear and Fang ride the resulting wave to safety and continue running for their lives. The plague monster swims through the lava and erupts from the ground beneath them, causing the pair land on its back. Spear is horrified to see that the sauropod is literally empty, it's just skin over a skeleton. He and Fang use the sauropod's neck as a ramp and manage to make it to the other side of the geyser field.
Spear and Fang then watch as the infected sauropod's screams in horror as its body consumed by flames, Spear watching with a look of pity. The beast is finally disintegrates into ashes and a single ember lands in Spear's hand. He and Fang are left staring at the sauropod's final resting place.
Coven of the Damned
The duo would later encounter threats of a supernatural order, that would require more guile and tactic rather than brute strength. While wandering through a forested area, the two come across of a coven of witches, who's leader drained male neanderthal of their life force in order to create daughters for her subjects. Fang is mind-controlled by the witches, while Spear gets captured and prepared for yet another ritual the following night. Just as the Head Witch attempts to drain him of his vitality the coven is betrayed by one of its member, Lula. The day prior, Lula had used her magic to see into Spear and Fang's past and sympathized with their loss of their families as she herself had lost her young daughter. She murders the Head Witch's pterodactyl mount and frees Spear with a mind-controlled Fang forced to carry him to safety. As the duo make a run for their lives, Lula stays behind to battle the Head Witch, but is unsuccessful and gets bitten to death by the coven leader in the form of a giant wolf. As Fang regains consciousness, she and Spear take a moment to mourn for their fallen ally.
The Night Feeder
The second threat of a supernatural origin came in the form of a hyper-predatory dinosaur that could remain completely invisible during night-time, nick-named the "Night Feeder". This creature spend its night slaughtering a variety of animals, ranging from a smilodon to a herd of ceratopsians, without the intent of eating their carcasses but rather out of amusement or some other sick pleasure. Fang pressures Spear not to openly face the creature as its scent made her weary. For two days the duo avoided confrontation and spent their nights besides a campfire. As the fire died out on the second night, the Night Feeder made its move on them. The creature chased the two through the forest, it had the advantage of not being able to be seen by either of them, however Fang was able to briefly jump it thanks to her highly developed sense of smell.
As the creature approached Spear for a killing blow, the caveman waving his spear around himself until accidentally hitting against some rocks, causing a spark which seemingly frightened the Night Feeder. Spear continues to make sparks until he ignites a fire. As he looks at his spear tip being covered in a flame, he figures out a way to stop the attacker. They chase after the Night Feeder, Spear using his weapon to scare it off with sparks into a clearing. He then starts several smaller fires around the clearing and with Fang as his mount, makes a circle of fire around the invisible threat. With nowhere to run, the Night Feeder remains trapped and got impaled through the chest by a flaming spear tossed right at it. The creature screams and is writhing in agony as the fires consumes its now visible body.
Slave of the Scorpion
While on a fishing trip off the coast of the continent, Spear and Fang come across a new species of hominid. A human female with a shaved head, wearing a tattered dress, a wooden neck brace and iron cuffs, with a scorpion tattoo on the back of her head, swims near to them and proceeds to run in fear towards the shore. After the two fend off against a liopleurodon that had swam up to them, they go after the woman in the jungle. As they catch up to her and corner her, it is made clear that their presence is only adding to her previous uneasiness, so the two act as friendly and nonthreatening as possible. In time, Spear and Fang win over the woman's trust, who shares with them her skill in cooking and in archery, helping them to hunt and in turn, they remove her shackles and neck brace. 
The woman identifies herself as Mira, after Spear shows interest in the scorpion marking on the back of her head, Mira recounts her tale in her native language, drawing in the sand. She explains how she had been captured by armed seafaring assailants and taken from her home but managed to escape and made it to the shore where she found Spear and Fang there. After more traveling, the trio arrive in a cave located on a cliff, where they set up camp. Spear continues show interest in Mira, especially in her nightly prayers to the moon. The following night the trio is ambushed by a troop of ape-men who kidnap Mira. A bloody battle takes place, where many ape-men are killed by Spear and Fang. As the two follow after Mira's kidnappers, they are shocked to discover that Mira had been recaptured by slavers whom she mentioned the night before. These people shot the ape-men dead with arrows and proceeded to take Mira on board their ship to a place far beyond the ocean. Spear and Fang can only watch in disbelief as their new travel companion is taken away by the longboat bearing the scorpion crest. As he continues to watch towards the disappearing ship, Spear utters his first intelligible word "Mira."
===Season 2===
Sea of Despair 
Immediately after losing his new friend, Spear begins a quest to rescue Mira. At first he tries swimming after the ship, but even his great strength cannot compete with the vastness of the ocean. He exhausts himself after a long swim and is dragged to shore by the marine currents. He is not deterred however, and starts running off to cut down trees in order to build a raft, he is assisted by Fang in gathering the raw lumber. As soon as the raft is completed, Spear and Fang climb on board and begin sailing on the longboat's route. Having crossed past the stronger shore currents, the raft starts losing momentum in the ocean's calmer depths. As such, Spear and Fang take turns pushing the raft; Spear partially submerging himself and swimming against the back of the raft, while Fang uses her tail as a makeshift rudder.
The trek proves to be treacherous and frightening as neither of the two companions had ever faced the vast expanse of the open ocean. They are intimidated by the wild ocean fauna, including a pod of whales. Worse still, they left with no food on board, prompting Spear to try swimming for food. His search proves to be in vain as he fails to find anything in the far length and depth of the ocean. As luck would have it, an archelon swims near their raft, prompting the duo to hunt it. Spear jumps in after it, grabbing it by the neck, but failing to kill the turtle. Instead the turtle tries attacking Spear, but he manages to grab onto it's shell and hold his breath long enough until the turtle resurfaces near the duo's raft. Finally, the turtle is killed by Fang after she bites it's neck. As the two devour the animal's meat, Spear uses the turtle shell as a makeshift parasol for him and Fang, protecting them from the sunlight.
After a period of respite the duo's luck is once again put to the test after the ocean proves yet again to be far to dangerous for the likes of them. As the duo begin catching flying fishes for food a thunderstorm approaches and the ocean currents become agitated, resulting in bigger, more turbulent waves. The school of flying fishes also happened to the draw the attention of a group of ornithocheirus. Spear hides from the pterosaurs under the turtle shell while Fang tries fending them off. The situation is made even worse when an approaching megalodon swallows one of the pterosaurs. With it's landing also resulting in the raft being broken into splintered lumber. Fang is nearly swallowed up by the shark, not instead it ends up catching Spear in it's mouth. Thanks to a sharp piece of raft's wreckage having been also caught in the shark's maw, Spear is able to impale the shark's mouth, causing it to momentarily open it's mouth and release Spear. The megalodon resurfaces to once again catch Spear in it's jaws, but with another piece of broken wood in his arm Spear tosses it in the shark's right eye. Now having been partially blinded the shark retreats to the ocean's depth and smack Spear with it's tail fin. Fang manages to catch Spear in her mouth, but the high ocean waves come crashing over them. The resulting undertow separates the two as it pushes their bodies further away from one another.
Shadow of Fate
Spear survives the long voyage, having been dragged to the coast of another continent, although also sustaining injury in his left arm after hitting against some rocks near the shoreline. He is found by a small party of humans who proceed to take him back to their settlement. Spear wakes up, having been submerged in some kind of mud, or dung, inside of the home a wizened woman. In his fear and confusion Spear makes a get away, but is pursued by the celtic tribe's warriors through the path of the settlement. After a few brief scuffles between Spear and the warriors, the celtic chief arrives to mediate the situation. He orders the other celts to lower their weapons and proceeds to appear as non-threatening as possible. As a sign of good will the chief also offers Spear some water and food, to which he accepts. As it becomes apparent that the celts had no ill-intent towards him, Spear allows the celtic tribe's healer to finish treating his broken arm.
As the days go by Spear acclimatize to the villagers hospitality, yet still retains some apprehension. It becomes obvious that Spear retains much of his wild behavior and seems to miss the company of Fang. He even takes time to make a surrogate friend with a local wolf-like dog. One morning, however, Spear is alerted to an attack on the village by two dinosaurs, who begin preying on the celts. Spear is shocked to see that one of the two was Fang, who had also survived the turbulent ocean and found herself brought to shore. The other dinosaur, Red, a red-headed tyrannosaur who had befriended Fang shortly after her arrival, immediately sets his sights on Spear as his next meal.
Despite Fang's best efforts to mitigate the conflict between Red sees Spear as nothing but food and Spear sees him as just another adversary. As such, the caveman and the tyrannosaur are forced into a lengthy battle across the village. Ultimately, Red comes out as the victor and tries eating Spear, only for Fang to stop him. She saves Spear's life after kicking Red away, but at the cost of Red's life as the red tyrannosaur lands on a log spike and is impaled. With Red's death, Fang has no reason to stay and miserably walks away, leaving the village in peace. She is followed by Spear, who immediately regrets what had transpired and leaves with her despite the celtic chief offering him a place to stay with them.
Dawn of Man
As the reunited duo continue their search for Mira it becomes apparent that Fang remains heartbroken over the death of Red. Spear can do nothing to ease her feelings and instead focuses on finding them food and shelter. Spear manages to locate a cave where in they set up a camp for the following nights. It is in this cave that Spear finds the evidence of a hunter-gatherers community having once lived in the region. Murals depicting humans hunting the deers encompass the deeper interior of the cave. Subsequently, during the day Spear wonders the open grasslands beyond the cave and comes across the ruins of a primitive village, with some of the prior local's tools scattered around. Spear deduces that these departed hunter-gatherers had survived off from hunting the deers and harvesting their fur. While envisioning the day-to-day ways of the past humans he quickly forms an empathetic understanding of these people. Among the broken tents he also finds a spear in good condition, which he picks up and uses to hunt a doe to bring back with him to the cave.
At night Spear continues thinking about Mira, going so far as trying to replicate her lunar prayer. Later that night, Spear and Fang are woken up by the arrival of two armed men, dressed with horned metal helmets and riding on top of two cave bears. As a fight breaks out between the two groups it is Spear and Fang who come out as the victors as both bears are killed and one of the barbarians is swiftly killed by Spear. The remaining warrior makes a runs for his life, but Spear stops him by throwing his weapon into the warrior's right leg. During the battle, Spear noticed the same scorpion sigil on the warrior's wooden shield as the one branded on the back on Mira's head, thus deducing that they were among her captors. He demands to know where Mira is, but the injured warrior presses on with another attack. After Fang kills the warrior, Spear replace his broken spear with the deceased's sword, which Spear takes an immediate liking to.
Spear and Fang follow the bear tracks for an entire day, which leads them to a another human village at night. The village in question is populated by vikings bearing the scorpion emblem. These people are housing significant number of humans as slaves inside of a shed, each having had their heads shaved and branded with the scorpion sigil. Mira is among these slaves and joyfully reunites with Spear, who is likewise cheerful to having found her. She refuses to leave without the other slaves and coaxes Spear to help her free them. Spear is able to silently lead the slaves through the night, but is stopped from going any further after hearing more cave bears roaring nearby.
The Red Mist
A hunting party of vikings, riding on top of cave bears, arrive back to the village. Their leader notices that Spear had stolen one of their swords and so leads the hunters to attack him. While the slaves bow before the hunters, Spear stands his ground. Fang comes out of hiding in the forest and together with Spear, they engage the hunters. Despite their efforts the viking hunters are overpowered by Spear's speed and dexterity and Fang's powerful jaw and tail. Soon enough, the fighting alerts the rest of the villagers, who then proceed to join in the fighting. During the onslaught, Spear is momentarily horrified to having fought children and women with infants among the vikings. Even more terrifying to him, Spear inadvertently kills a viking chief's youngest son by throwing him and his head got slammed against a rock. A sudden arrival of an ominous red mist gives the pair a chance to strike their enemies unseen. Despite having been gravely wounded by spears and arrows, Spear and Fang power on, killing every villager in sight. After the battle, the two are joined by Mira, who had managed to lead the slaves out of the village and killed one of the vikings herself. All three of them make it to the village dock and board a longboat and sail away.
Vidarr
While on board the viking ship, Spear had been treated of his injuries by Mira, who was now tending to Fang's. Their moments of respite are brief as the trio run across yet another, rather familiar enemy. Another longboat baring the scorpion crest, rams into theirs. The ship was carrying Viking Chieftain and his eldest son, Eldar, who weren't present during the massacre of their village, but upon returning from another slave hunt, witness the aftermath of the onslaught and so went on a search for vengeance for the death of their people. As the Chieftain engages Spear with dane axe and two battle-axes, Elder shoots arrow at Fang and Mira. Spear and Chieftain prove to be equally matched in sheer tenacity and raw strength (even though Spear is more animalistic and agile than Chieftain). Meanwhile, Fang manages to knock Eldar off on the second longboat's mast. As the two longboats approach a nearby shore the stolen ship is rammed into some jagged rocks and is bisected. On the remaining ship, Eldar is thrown into the rapid stream by Fang, which forces the Chieftain to jump in to after him. As the ship also gets hit by rocks, Mira is able to safely anchor the longboat by trying it to a sturdy tree.
Immediately after their landing, Spear and Mira chase after Fang, who had begun exhibiting a sudden, and odd, behavior swing. The two find her digging a hole with her muzzle and gathering foliage to cover it up. Spear quickly deduces the situation at hand. Fang is in labor and is about to lay eggs. He deduces that Red, the tyrannosaur whom Fang had befriended before, was a male that impregnated her while in together. Spear is elated and assists in gathering leaves for Fang's nest. He and Mira later witness Fang laying three eggs. At first Spear is concerned as he sees Fang moaning in labor pain, but Mira assures him the dinosaur is safe. He also tries touching the eggs in his curiosity, only to have Fang push him aside, due to her maternal instincts kicking in.
While Fang is keeping her eggs warm, Spear is out fishing in order to keep the mother dinosaur well-fed, while Mira is busy fixing the damaged longboat. They are, however, once again besieged by the Viking Chieftain and his son. The two having survived the turbulent river, planned another assault during the few days of absence by acquiring two giant vultures as mounts. Mira is captured by Eldar's vulture and is taken up into the sky. Meanwhile, Spear and Fang try their best at fending off the Chieftain and protecting the eggs, but the flight advantage makes the Chieftain hard to fight. Eventually, both Spear and Mira manage to jump on the back of their respective attacker's mounts, and fight them in the air. Spear manages to catch Mira as she fell off from Eldar's vulture, then continued with the fight. The heated battle with the Chieftain ends, after Spear manages to toss him off from the bird and into the forest bellow. Eldar is in turn to get knocked off from his mount by Spear and lands onto a boulder in the middle of the stream. Mira is safely returned to the ground and the two vultures flies off. With both the Viking Chieftain and his son having been seemingly killed, Spear and his friends take in the moment of relief, with Spear in particular hugging Fang as she lays near her nest.
The Colossaeus
Part I
As time goes by, Spear and Mira grow bored with standing around on the river bank, especially Mira, who longs for her home. Although Mira is happy for Fang having given birth, she cannot remain do to homesickness and thus begins loading supplies on board the viking ship. Spear, who takes notice of both of their needs, builds a new nest for Fang on board of the longboat and Mira's help manages to get the tyrannosaur and her eggs on the vessel, despite some initial hesitation of Fang's part. With all the arranges having been finally settled, the trio set sail past the stream and into the open ocean.
Spear wakes up one morning to go fishing, only for him to notice a colossal ship heading out of the fog and towards the longboat. Mira and Fang woke up and are equally shocked by the vessel's appearance. The ship sends out three smaller vessels carrying soldiers dressed in egyptian garments, which slam into the viking boat. Spear and Mira are able to fend off against the warriors from the first vessel, but immediately after are faced against Kamau, a giant african man, equal in size to Fang and just as strong, who can withstand arrow shots as well as blows from both Spear and Fang. In the ensuing battle one of Fang's eggs is accidentally knocked by Kamau into the longboat's hull, cracking the shell open and killing the dinosaur fetus. This enrages Spear and his allies, who gang up on the giant. As the battle reaches a standstill a royal dressed woman and and her egyptian guards seize the remaining eggs, have Spear, Mira and Fang clasped in iron chains and brought on board of the attacker's ship, the Colossaeus, with the stolen viking ship being set on fire. The three of them are thus made slaves by the commanding woman, Ima, with Mira sent of in a different part of the Colossaeus, while Spear and Fang are locked up in a holding chamber alongside with Kamau. With the dinosaur eggs, now in pirate queen Ima's possession Spear is forced to comply with her demands and subsequently coaxes Fang to do the same. With no other options, the two companions are made to fight alongside the egyptian horde and Kamau in a raid against the babylonians, where in Spear and Fang slew many soldiers and breakthrough the babylonian city's outer wall.
Part II
Following the successful desolation of the babylonian city, Spear and Fang are dragged along into further raids against other human civilization across the world. It is during these journeys that Spear begins to pity Kamau, as it is revealed that Ima is holding the giant's daughter, Amal, hostage. Spear later witness Kamau being ordered to go an open slaughter against a seemingly benign indian community, simply because Ima was displeased by the indians offerings of foods. She threatened Amal's life as an incentive for Kamau to do so. Back in his cell, on board the Colossaeus, however, Kamau sheds tears for his actions. As Spear gains greater sympathy towards the giant, so he begins planning an escape.
One night, Spear knocks one of the guards unconscious and steals the keys to his and Kamau's cells, but Kamau silently refuses, prompting Spear to sneak alone to the upper levels of the Colossaeus and to the top deck. From there he makes his way to the highest tower of the ship, from which Spear had been hearing music for some time. As he makes his way to the top floor, he finds Ima keeping both Amal and Fang's eggs nearby at all times. Mira had been forced into becoming a dancer for the queen's entertainment. As the two reunite, the guards and Ima are alerted by the caveman's presence and so a fight ensues. Despite killing off the guards, Spear is unable to land a blow against Ima, due to her nimbleness. In the confusion, Mira is able to rescue the eggs and Amal, and runs off with them down the tower. Spear is able to clear the way for their escape. But as they reach the deck, the eggs begins to hatch. Fang breaks out off her cell and joins the fight after having overheard her newborn brood's cries. Unfortunately for both Spear and Fang, as they get cornered by the egyptians, Ima is able to steal back the dinosaur infants and Amal. He and his companions are once again helpless against the queen as the children's lives are once again in peril.
Part III
The following morning, Spear, Mira, and Fang are once again bound in chains, except now they are being sentenced to death, with Kamau being forced to act as their executioner. As the giant approaches Fang, ready to decapitate her with a large axe, he has a change of heart and instead, breaks the chains with the axe. Chaos breaks loose as Fang begins attacking the egyptians, prompting Spear to break his chains out of the floor boards and joins in the fight. His cuffs are unlocked by Mira, who managed to steal the keys a the dead guard. As all the three begin slaughtering their captors they are overwhelmed and fatigued, and one of Fang's offspring is shot with an arrow in the leg. They instead decide to jump from deck and into the sea. From there they board one of the Colossaeus's vessels, kill the egyptians on board and free the slaves forced to row. As this is going on Kamau and Amal had made their way to the galley below the Colossaeus's deck and freed their tribesmen, who join in the fight against the egyptians. While on the boat, Spear, Mira, and Fang watch as Kamau tosses Ima off board. They watch in horror as Ima slams through the roof of the ship and dies on impact on the deck. Spear takes a moment to look back at Kamau and his daughter, and shows happiness knowing that now they have finally been liberated. With their freedom restored Spear and company begin sailing away.
Echoes of Eternity (Spear's Last Journey)
Eventually, the longboat arrives on the coast of Mira's homeland. Mira is happily reunited with her kinsmen, as well as her father, albeit with some regret over her capture. Spear, Fang and her offspring are at first met with suspicion by the locals, but thanks to Mira vouching for them, they are welcomed into the community. In spite of Spear's best efforts to fit in, by participating in Mira's lunar prayer and sharing a meal with the townsfolk near an open fire during a worship ceremony, he cannot help himself from feeling out of place and experiences boats of melancholy and nostalgia. Inside of his new home, Spear illustrates his life on a wall, starting with his father's death, to loosing his family, befriending Fang and Mira, and eventually to arriving in his current location. But Spear cannot help but illustrate himself standing alone, thus further describing his loneliness and lack of purpose. Mira walks in one morning on him sleeping and takes notice of the mural, immediately emphathizing with Spear's state of mind.
As Spear looks over the town from up a hill, brooding yet again, he is alerted by the scream of the locals of an unusual occurence, a fire coming from the direction of the sea. The source of the fire is revealed to be the Viking Chieftain, who had been transformed into a fire-elemental by a demonic entity following his death at the hands of Spear. The Chieftain is continuing his quest for revenge and targets Spear and Fang. He shoots burst of fire at Spear and Fang and gives chase after them up a steep cliff. The Chieftain is able to strike Fang with a large burst of fire, forcing her to roll around on the ground in an effort to put out the flames. With no other options, Spear angrily runs towards the hellish Chieftain. Spear is engulfed in flames, but through sheer force of will, still musters up the strength to tackle the Chieftain and pushes him down the cliff. As the Chieftain gets pummeled by Spear midway during free fall, he is likewise slammed into the side of the cliff. As soon as they to the foot of the hill, Spear is tended to by Mira, while the Viking Chieftain is stripped of his pyro-kinetic form and dragged down into the earth by the demonic entity.
Spear is left with severe burn injuries across his entire body, unable to move and clinging to life. Despite the people's prayer and the tribe healer's treatment, there is nothing that can be done as Spear succumbs to his burns. As he lies dying, Spear calls out weakly for Mira. She looks again at the mural on the wall and realizes that Spear does not want to be alone. In his last moment of life, Spear and Mira begins to mate. Several years later, after Fang's offspring have grown well into maturity, Mira is accompanied by her daughter with Spear. The girl is shown to take after her father as she rides on the back of one of Fang's progeny, holds up a spear in her hand and shouts to the sky, thus preserving Spear's desire to have had preserved his family's legacy.
==Personality==
As a neanderthal living in a hostile primordial world, Spear often displayed a cautious, defensive attitude to his surroundings. He was an expert survivalist and displayed a keen knowledge of the flora and fauna that inhabited the world of Primal. Utilizing his raw strength and capable of crafting stone weapons, tools, fires, and basic articles of clothing, Spear was readily capable of looking after himself and dispatching any threats that came against him or those close to him.
Despite his ready willingness to kill for food or out of defense, Spear didn't take pleasure in ending life, but rather saw it as a necessary act of survival. This is evidenced in a flashback sequence where Spear teaches his son to be empathetic and respectful to the animals they kill, and is further evidenced by his sorrowful demeanor after killing the elderly mammoth. However, Spear has exhibited lapses in this mindset several times. After the death of his family, Spear developed an intense hatred of tyrannosaurs and actively hunted them for a brief time. After discovering the viking slaver village that had captured Mira and her people, Spear embarked on a wanton slaughter of the entire village alongside Fang, consumed by primordial rage.
Spear very often displayed a softer side of his seemingly rugged personality. He was very loving of his, and especially doted on his two children. After the death of his family, Spear was heartbroken to the point of considering suicide, but ultimately decided to live on for his family's memory. Because of inability to speak, Spear was physically affectionate with those that he was close to, as particularly evidenced with Fang, Mira, and both of Fang's offspring. When Spear discovered that Fang had laid a second brood of eggs, he was elated and hugged the dinosaur, as he knew how important raising a brood was to her. Spear showed a notable fondness of Mira, and was incredibly gentle and patient with the woman. As time went on. Spear's affection for Mira grew and become more evident as the grew closer. Mira's name would become Spear's first, only and eventual last word he ever learned. Spear is also an empathetic individual, and could be seen comforting Fang after she had lost Red, and likewise Mira after she begun crying upon remembering her enslavement.
Spear could at times be very brooding and would often ponder his place in the world. This becomes more evident in season two as Spear begins encountering entire civilizations of humans. Though related evolutionarily, Spear felt distant and awkward around humans. Alone in a new world, Spear began longing for his own family again, particularly after witnessing Fang and Mira reunited with their own families. Spear's need for a greater purpose can also be seen in his fascination and religion. He showed a particularly interest in Mira's worship of the moon and at one point joined her during one of her worship sessions.
==Powers and Abilities==
*Superhuman Strength: Spear's most notable physical ability was his brute strength. He picked up and swung a large rock hard enough to break the leg of one of the tyrannosaurus that killed his family also tossing his spear through the rogue tyrannosaurus' chest, then later pushed Fang onto a makeshift stretcher and single-handedly pulled her weight for miles with little struggle, despite also having to carry extra water.
*Superhuman Endurance: Spear has proven his endurance, as he is able to survive attacks from threats that come against him. This ranged from falling from a high waterfall onto large spike rocks and sustaining some attacks from Fang early in the series. He had also shown to be hardy against harsh weather conditions, but not in extreme cases for prolonged periods of time.
*Superhuman Stamina and Speed: Spear's stamina was extremely high as he had barely shown to be exhausted. He was also able to fight and hunt well enough without too many difficulties, and he could run long distances.
*Survivalist: Spear is a master of hunting, utilizing his spear to hunt game and even for fishing. As a hunter, he is skilled in tracking and determining what sort of prey he is following and how best to take it down by using strategy, his environment, and later trusting Fang as his hunting partner. In addition, He is a master of survival, knowing how and where to find food and water, where to find or how to build shelter, and also using fire to keep warm in cold conditions.
*Stealth: Spear demonstrated brilliant stealth as he is capable of using mud on his body for camouflage simply to blend in tall grass so that he can't be seen by prey during hunting. In his flashback from "A Cold Death", he and his son are wearing syndyoceras' skin as a camouflage for their hunt.
*Combatant: Spear was a very tough and remarkable fighter. His most valuable weapon was his namesake which he could also use to great effect in combat.
*Weapon Proficiency: Spear was a capable combatant and deadly fighter, able to use any weapon he come across. Furthermore. Spear could turn anything he finds into a weapon. For example, he is seen using the exoskeletons of armored beetles as spiked-knuckles to fight a large pack of wild dogs.
*Intelligence: Although he is a neanderthal, Spear is more intelligent than he appears, using observation and noting details of a situation or a target (when he figured out the Night Feeder feared light and used that to trap and kill it) and figuring how solutions to whatever problems or methods to defeat enemies he and Fang face (such as using the ape shaman's potion to kill the ape men and then using a litter to move Fang when she was injured). He can adapt and use unorthodox solutions to overcome adversity (such as using bugs to fortify his punches) and also understand how best to resolve a situation (such as when a mammoth herd attacked him and Fang and he soon realized they just wanted the tusk of their fallen kin and gave it to them, causing the herd to leave him and Fang in peace). Other phenomena can confuse and baffle Spear, such as when he and Fang met Mira. He didn't understand Mira's behavior nor her attempt to introduce herself though he noticed she was in pain from her restraints and cleverly used Fang to remove the collar around Mira's neck and a rock to break off her manacles without injuring Mira. To overcome the language barrier, Spear and Mira used drawings, such as Spear "asking" about the scorpion symbol on Mira's head while she drew her story of how she and her people were enslaved. After Mira was taken away by the slavers, Spear showed he had come to understand the concept of names by verbally speaking Mira's name.
===Mutated form (temporary)===
*Mutant Physiology: After drinking the black liquid, Spear became extremely powerful enough to brush off the ape-men after his transformation. He was able to endure a few punches from Krog when they clashed, showing a little pain and knocks the latter away and his triceratops skull he wearing with one punch, violently rip off the latter's arms to use as clubs to savagely beat him to death and then slaughter the entire ape-men with no difficulty.
==Trivia==
*Spear's name along with Fang's was based on the Robert E. Howard short story Spear and Fang.
*Mira's name is the only word Spear was ever seen speaking.
*In an interview, Genndy Tartakovsky revealed that before the production of the show started, Spear was the one who would die at the end of the story to conclude the character's overall arc. Tartakovsky also joked that if he killed off Fang, there would be an outcry among fans of the show.
==External Links==
*Spear on the Primal Wiki.
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