Cavewoman Kate Houghton

Cave Kate performs her battle cry

**Cavewoman Kate Houghton** is the prehistoric counterpart of Kate Houghton, the human deuteragonist of *Looney Tunes: Back in Action*.

## Background

### Personality

Cave Kate is introduced as the Stone-Age version of the VP of Warner Bros. Is the least intelligent character, since the Blue Monkey removes her intelligence. This makes Cave Kate act like a dumb prehistoric woman. In fact, while placing her in a primitive context, Kate’s intellectual abilities are rather low. This devolution of her cognitive ability completely resets her language skills, lead Kate to express herself exclusively through grunts, screams and primitive verses.

Cave Kate thinks mainly instinctively, without worrying about the opinion of others and without reasoning much (or if not, tries with his regressed and primitive mind to reason to the maximum of its limited abilities).

She also seems to have no empathy when Tweety is struck and falls into the lava, presumably dying. Seeing it as a simple bird, Cave Kate makes a face between the shocked and the sad, but after a few seconds, while everyone is worried for Tweety, back to focus on Taz, grinding her teeth.

Another downside is the fact that, since his limited IQ, Mr. Chairman can manipulate her without problems (simply approaching her to get his hair groomed). This way, Cave Kate stays close to Mr. Chairman for most of the time (until she recognizes D.J.).

Leaving this aside, Cave Kate is particularly protective and loving about the people she cares about the most (although she shows off these emotions with prehistoric actions).

#### Physical appearance

Cave Kate is a tall, slender woman woth slightly tanned skin. Physically, the Blue Monkey left Kate’s modern body intact, thus having a body of homo sapiens.

As for hair, Cave Kate has messy blond hair long up almost to the bra and covering practically the whole head (except the forehead).
In addition, she is likely to have a poor sense of hygiene. In fact, her hair is quite scruffy (so much to find something to eat, presumably some small insect) or she has no problem licking her fingers after using them to dig into hair or scratch her body.
Contrary to this, She have totaly shaved legs and armpits.

Blue Monkey also devolved her clothes:

* His boots are completely removed, leaving the cavegirl barefoot; as for socks, it is plausible that the Blue Monkey has devolved them in a brown leather anklet, which it is not clear whether it covers a wound or is a simple ornament;

* The dark green shorts is devolved in a thong of skin. The loincloth is flap over the crotch and rear, so that the legs can move freely. On the back, the thong completely covers the butt. In addition, the back looks slightly marred. Under the thong there doesn’t seem to be any additional protection for the private parts.

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* The White tank top is devolved in a primitive bra, made of the same material as the thong. The bra is shown quite battered, with the two cups attached to the well and better, the hooks that have been devolved in extra patches that flap on the cups. On the back, the bra is tied by botched bow.

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In addition to this hide bikini, the machete wearing its modern counterpart is apparently devolved to a bone, which Cave Kate will later use to tie it to her hair.

### Powers and abilities

* Its charm can conquer most of the cavemen with whom it interacts. This ability becomes totally useless in the present. In fact, Cave Kate tries to attract the attention of Mr. Chairman or D.J. but fails;
* Has a better sense of smell and vision of a common human, which she uses mainly to eat (for example, she looks carefully at the temple trees to look for fruit and, finding nothing, she sniffs her hair to try to find some insect to eat);
* his fighting style is mostly scenic, with grunts that should express aggression and poses to try to instill fear and dominance to the opponent.

## Biography

### Backstory

It is not known what is the story of Cave Kate. Supposedly, given his evolved physical build, she’s the Kate Houghton of the parallel universe where humanity has remained in the Stone Age. Based on Cave Kate’s behavior, in this parallel universe, humanity has physically evolved into homo sapiens, but mentally it has remained to primitive forms like neanderthals.
From the curiosity and wonder that Kate has when she observes the jungle trees, we can assume that she did not live in prehistoric Africa.
Furthermore, she seems to be looking for a mate.

### Role in prehistory

Noting his actions in the temple of the Blue Monkey, it is likely that Cave Kate had a role in prehistory society that treated the physical appearance, given his passion for grooming. Otherwise, Cave Kate seems to have no particular skills, so it is likely that in prehistory she was a gatherer.

### Hobbies

Cave Kate’s main hobby is grooming. After appearing in the temple of the Blue Monkey, the cavewoman digs into the hair of almost all human characters.
In addition, Cave Kate does not miss an opportunity to flirt with other characters and to try to get their attention uses techniques from his era (grooming, inflate the chest, tie objects to the hair, comb her hair with sticks, etc.).

### Alternate ending of Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Daffy Duck, by mistake, throw a ray from the Blue Monkey toward Kate Houghton. After the blue glow by the statuette runs out, Kate was devolved into a cavewoman, making a jump because of the impact with the beam. Cave Kate shrugs and looks confused her body. A verse from Bugs Bunny (who had just been devolved along with her in Neanderthal Bugs) makes the cavewoman focus on the huge rabbit in front of her. Neanderthal Bugs thus attracts the attention of Cave Kate who bends down and analyzes the strange creature in front of him. The cavewoman also looks up to see where she is.
Mr. Chairman seems interested in Cave Kate, so he lifts his glasses and greets the cavegirl, try to be a flirt with her. She stops analyzing the mouth of Neanderthal Bugs and turning to see that there are men figures similar to her (but with strange clothes). Cave Kate then grunts and begins to swell her chest, then does what appears to be her battle cry (she slams her fists in the air and goes back and forth with his chest, gnashing the teeth). After she finishes making her battle cry, Kate poses with her arms open and looks carefully at the temple trees, looking for something to eat.

Since there is no fruit in the trees, Cave Kate starts to smell and dig her hair to find something to eat. while D.J. jumps to prevent the Blue Monkey from falling into the lava, the cavewoman finds a insects in her hair and pulls it off, looking at it before putting it in his mouth. As Mr. Chairman heads towards DJ, the cavewoman looks at Mr. Chairman’s hair and starts groom them accurately with her hands, finding some insects and eating it. Mr. Chairman impatiently waits a few seconds for the cavewoman to finish digging through his hair.

After sniffing her hands, Cave Kate looks carefully at the ground and finds a bone under one of the steps leading to the Blue Monkey temple. She takes the bone with one hand and after a few seconds thinking she decides to tie it to her hair. While performing this action, watch DJ (who in the meantime has been put in check by Mr. Chairman) disinterested, putting herself in a standing position while watching the jungle sky. After finishing tying the bone to her hair, Cave Kate then begins to pose, swelling her chest, looking up at the bone and raising her hands first to the sky and then presumably towards Neanderthal Bugs. Everything seems not to work and the cavewoman makes one last attempt, pointing her hands at her, looking up and raising a leg, as if she were posing to attack someone. At the end, Cave Kate removes the bone from her head and looks at it carefully, to see if there’s something wrong. After that, Cave Kate leaves the bone on the ground to fix her hair (comb the sides to prevent it from disturbing her eyes). Meanwhile Mr. Smith leave the jungle, Cave Kate focuses on D.J., trying to help. After seeing him carefully, the cavewoman falls in love with D.J., beginning to groom his hair and smell his neck. D.J. tries to ignore the primitives avances of Cave Kate, and gives her a stick. While Mr. Chairman talks to Tweety, Cave Kate is particularly busy wiping her mouth with the stick.

While D.J. points the Blue Monkey at Mr. Chairman, the cavewoman tries to understand the evolved language of the two homo sapiens, looking around her with a confused face. Cave Kate takes advantage to get the bone back. After Mr. Chairman "pulls" Taz from a cylinder, This freaks out the cavewoman, who to protect her mate, begins to scream grunts and trying to attack Taz.

Cave Kate puts herself in her primitive mode of defense, being in a position similar to the one used while she had the bone tied to her hair (with the difference that she rests one leg on another step of the temple and digs her teeth towards Taz). After D.J. aims the Blue Monkey beam at Tweety, who falls into the lava, Cave Kate does not seem very interested in the death of the bird, since a few seconds later she goes back to grinding her teeth towards a sorry Taz.

After Tweety’s death, the cavewoman’s attention on Mr. Chairman, as the two men begin to talk to each other. Meanwhile, Cave Kate adjusts her hair by moving her head back, looks at D.J., licking her lips, and looks back at Taz, swelling her chest and dilating her nostrils with a threatening look. While D.J. gives the statuette to Mr. Chairman, Cave Kate looks strangely at his partner, vainly trying to understand what he is doing. His gaze becomes even more confused as she tries to understand the strange words of the two men. After Tweety resurrects as a pterodactyl, Cave Kate is shocked at the sight of Ptero-tweety eating Mr. Chairman.

Since D.J. remains the only man around, Cave Kate intensifies her primitive flirt: combing her hair with a stick, Cave Kate looks mischievously at D.J., who doesn’t take advantage of her and takes her back to her homo sapiens form.

## Relationships

Having lost the mental knowledge of his modern counterpart, the relationship with Cave Kate are quite different:

### Bugs Bunny/Neanderthal Bugs

After the initial shock, the first with which she interacts is devolved Bugs Bunny, having been devolved together. Being both prehistoric figures of the character, their relationship is purely for comic purposes: the two exchange a few grunts and a few glances, but to study each other (although Bugs gapes while she makes her battle cry).

Their relationship ends in a few scenes, with Neanderthal Bugs going a devolved Duffy Duck to pick and her preferring to groom her hair for food.

### Mr. Chairman

Although his modern counterpart hates Mr. Chairman, he is the first human character she interacts with. Here too, the relationship is for comic purposes (she grooms his hair looking for something to eat), even though Cave Kate still stays with him until Mr. Smith leaves.

## Quotes

**Kate:** \*watch shocked his new cavegirl look\*
**Mr. Chairman:** Well, Hello!
**Cave Kate:** bewhhh!

**Cave Kate:** \*takes something out of her hair and, after smelling it, decides to eat it\*
**Mr. Chairman:**(to D.J. Drake) How dare you take the Blue Monkey?
**Cave Kate:** \*before put in mouth what she found in her hair, notice something in Mr. Chairman’s hair and start burrow\*
**Mr. Chairman:** (approaching the cavewoman to facilitate her work) Ohh!
**Cave Kate:** (\*with all her strength\*) <gnnnhhhh> \*takes something from Mr. Chairman’s hair and eats it, without taking his eyes off his hair and leaving a hand in hair\*
**Mr. Chairman:** \*waiting impatiently for the cavewoman to finish burrowing his hair\*

**Mr. Chairman:** (to D.J. Drake) I'll make you deal, you give me the Blue Monkey...
**Cave Kate:** \*while smells her hands, notice something under the steps of the temple and finds a bone\*
**Mr. Chairman:** (to D.J. Drake) ...and that's the deal.
**Cave Kate:** \*raises the bone and after a few seconds of reflection to observe the horizon, decides to tie it to the hair.\*
**D.J. Drake:** (to Mr. Chairman) Never! you just got turn people into monkeys!
**Cave Kate:** (\*Watch D.J. disinterested, put herself in a standing position and sticking her chest out, while watching the jungle sky\*) <impegnative grunts>
**Mr. Chairman:** (to D.J. Drake) Don’t be ridiculous. We are going to use the diamond's power to super-evolve ourselves, placing us above all others and giving us an unbeatable edge in a tight marketplace...
**Cave Kate:** (\*finishing tying the bone to her hair, hands up to the sky and points them towards Neanderthal Bugs)\* <puffs and ritual grunts>

## Other Version

* In another version of the alternative ending, Mr. Chairman makes a joke after Kate is devolved to a cavewoman, exclaiming that "Miss Houghton! I wanted to congratulate her on hers promotion to CEO of OogaBooga!" Cave Kate responds with a grunt, trying to replicate the last word exclaimed by Mr. Chairman.

## Difference with modern counterpart

### Physical appearance

Compared to personality, physical changes are marginal: mainly change her clothes (devolved in a fur bikini) and her hair, which her modern counterpart cares especially, while her looks rather shabby. In addition, her skin looks slightly more tanned than her modern counterpart

### Story

Given the historical period and intellectual abilities of Cave Kate, there’s impossible she’s had a leading role in a multinational corporation, compared to its modern counterpart.

## Trivia

* Her bikini is partially inspired by Loana’s fur bikini, the character of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. (1966).
* It is unclear whether the Blue Monkey reduced Kate’s IQ to that of a neanderthal woman or some other archaic human species (considering his crude actions). Taking the words of Mr. Chairman to be true (who descends from a long line of evil geniuses), Cave Kate’s IQ does not even reach half that of Mr. Chairman’s Neanderthal ancestor.

* According the original script, Cave Kate had a few more scenes in the alternate ending:
	+ When D.J. Drake jumps to prevent the Blue Monkey from falling into the lava, Cave Kate approaches the lava puddle where D.J.’s about to fall, and make a concerned grunt;
	+ After D.J. is saved via an electormagnetic phone tool, Cave Kate sidles up next to him, make a affectionately grunt and begins to smell and groom his hair. D.J. tries to ignore his girlfriend’s grooming. Mr. Chairman comments on Cave Kate’s action with a "Very clever";
	+ After finding nothing in her cavemate’s hair, Cave Kate notices insects in Neanderthal Bugs' fur. The cavewoman approaches him and start picking insects off of Neanderthal Bugs.

## Gallery

Kate Houghton become Cave KateCave watch Neanderthal BugsCave Kate analyzes BugsCave Kate performs her battle cryHaving finished her battle cry, Cave Kate looks intently at the trees for something to eatCave Kate when groom her hairCave Kate look what she found in her hairCave Kate finds something in Mr. Chairman’s hairCave Kate grooms Mr. Chairman’s hairCave Kate eats what she found in Mr. Chairman’s hairCave Kate while sniffing her handsCave Kate find somenthingCave Kate picks up the boneCave Kate decides to tie the bone to her hairCave Kate watch indifferent D.J.Cave Kate alongside Mr. ChairmanCave Kate finishes tying the bone to her hairCave Kate takes the bone out of her hairCave Kate tries to figure out what's wrong with the boneCave Kate rescues D.J.Cave Kate brushes her teeth with a stickWhile D.J. looks menacingly at Mr. Chairman, Cave Kate continues to brush her teethCave Kate start to attack TazCave Kate tries to intimidate Taz with her defense mode
## References

1. ↑ https://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Looney\_Tunes\_Back\_In\_Action.pdf