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The Gang of the Green Gorillas were one of the Strangely-Colored Secret Societies of the Prime Universe, notable for their long-standing enmity with the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids. They were made up of literal green-coloured, sapient gorillas whose principal purpose in life was to get the rest of the universe to believe that green was a normal colour for a gorilla to be.
History
They were among the creatures genetically engineered by Professor Scarper of the First Horde using a mutagen initially developed to create creatures loyal to the Horde. Even after the Horde stopped funding Scarper's experiments, erasing all knowledge of themselves from him or them, this meant that Scarper's creations were compelled to form Strangely-Colored Secret Societies of their own. The gorillas followed this pattern, arranging themselves into the Gang of the Green Gorilla. (PROSE: The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies) Having settled on making everyone believe that all gorillas were green as a goal, they adapted brainwashing technology to artificially instill this belief in ordinary people.
As early as 1978, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids encountered evidence of the Gang's activity in the form of people randomly abducted by the Crew on the Prime Earth who showed signs of Gorilla brainwashing. However, being unaware of the Gang's existence at the time, the Cupids didn't know what to make of them and released them back on Earth without reversing the conditioning.
In December 1986, a group of Green Gorillas took control of the town supermarket of Vanityville, emptying it of all Christmas paraphernalia and instead forcing the shopping customers to buy their green-gorilla merchandise, at gunpoint. They encountered a group of Clockwork Cherubs of the Crew, led by Commander Amadeo-378, by coincidence. Noting the affected humans' unhappiness, the Cupids decided the Gang's aims seemed oppose to their own and decided to defeat them, kicking off the Skirmish at the Vanityville Supermarket. The Cupids were victorious, although the Gang's scientists subsequently learned how to reverse Cupid romanticisation.
Thereafter, the Cupids went on to oppose the Gorillas on many occasions, “from the depths of the Amazonian jungle to the very North Pole”. (PROSE: The Green Gorillas) When they received their first letter from the Society of the Rhyming Dove, the Cupids briefly feared it was a trick from the Green Gorillas, trying to lure them into a trap. (PROSE: The Society of the Rhyming Dove)
When the Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat began accumulating financial resources under the guise of “MuskCo”, they bought out and raised the prices on the companies which provided the Gorillas with the chemicals they needed to power their brainwashing rays. Deciding was enough was enough, a large force of Gorillas attacked the Muskrats' headquarters around the same time that a team of Scarlet Wings Cupids attacked them for much of the same reason (as the Muskrats had also bought the lumber mill which supplied the Cupids with the wood they needed to craft their arrows). After the Gorillas forced the smaller and less numerous Muskrats to sign over ownership of the chemicals, the Cupids ambushed a few of the Gorillas and romanticised them, thus getting them to be temporarily loyal to the Crew and further intimidate the Muskrats into giving the Crew control of the lumber mill. (PROSE: The Mélange of the Mauve Muskrat)
When the Faction of the Fooling Fish fraudulently edited their own Cupid Fact File in 2019, they claimed to be “the greatest of mysterious organizations, better than those marauding magpies or gangrenous gorillas”. (PROSE: The Faction of the Fooling Fish)
At some point, one Green Gorilla was captured by the Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries and imprisoned at Research Laboratory 6. When Pessimist-242 was captured, he ended up in a cell opposite to the Gorilla's, and the Gorilla managed to convince the Cupid to aid in a Laboratory-wide escape plan, putting his intelligence and his ability to highjack the electric locks to good use. The plan ended up succeeding, with Pessimist parting ways with the other escapees just after the Gorilla used his superior strength to pry open the ceiling hatch that would allow the rest to escape the building. (PROSE: Pessimist and the Dromedaries)
When the Cupid Suggestion Box was put up for public use in the Cupid Homeworld by the Copper-Colored Council of Elders, Celebration-665 left a suggestion to invite the Gang of the Green Gorilla, who he'd heard were “real party animals”, for a party in the Homeworld — with no apparent awareness that the Gorillas were sworn enemies of the Crew. The Elders naturally rejected the idea. (PROSE: The Cupid Suggestion Box)