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The SavageMen were a race of brutish robots. Though Sketchbook-430 “invented” them as a fictional antagonist for The Rainbow Adventures, with at least two incompatible backstories, he soon discovered that they really existed in the 14th Cosmos.
Nature
The SavageMen were large, brutish robots, resembling a demonic version of a Clockwork Cherub, with large, curving horns protruding from their vaguely skull-like heads. They had short, vestigial-looking wings, and, for unclear reasons, a large, fragile-looking light-bulb on their skull, which flashed when they talked. Most units' bulbs were yellow, while leaders had larger, red bulbs. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)
History
In The Rainbow Adventures, the SavageMen were initially depicted in The Death? Planned It! as the descendants of a group of Clockwork Cherubs who had become stranded in a pocket dimension and had meddled with their own programming to find a way to escape, losing their “humanity” (as it were) in the process and emerging as the malevolent SavageMen. In the next episode, The Moonbeams, which, due to a miscommunication within the Department of Entertainment, was actually a parallel development of the same story outline, they were given a different origin story where they had a “ranting mad scientist” creator, on whom they quickly turned. In the episode as screened, the Rainbow Kids alluded to having met similar creatures before “in the 14th Cosmos”, a hastily-dubbed retcon meant to disguise the lack of narrative connections between the two stories, which didn't actually match the events of The Death? Planned It!.
However, shortly after the episode premiered in the Cupid Theatre, a group of real SavageMen from the real 14th Cosmos crossed over into the Cupid Homeworld through a Rift, looking physically identical to their portrayal in the cartoons. They explained that the Supreme Court of the Fourteenth Cosmos had given them sole ownership of their own copyright and design, and demanded to be credited on any further episode of The Rainbow Adventures featuring their coincidental fictionalised counterparts. They then departed again, with Rainbow Adventures creators Sketchbook-430 and Paintbrush-122 swearing off monster-design for fear of any similar incidents happening in the future. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)