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''[[Plagiarism of the SavageMen (short story)|Plagiarism of the SavageMen]]'' was created as a topical satire of a [https://old.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/f4g9qv/this_2016_concept_art_by_matthew_savage_looks/ then-ongoing controversy] in the ''[[Doctor Who (series)|Doctor Who]]'' surrounding the perceived resemblance between a piece of 2016 armchair concept art by artist Matthew Savage for a new design of [[w:c:tardis:Cyberman|Cybermen]], and the design used for the helmet of [[w:c:tardis:The Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] as seen in the 2019 trailer for Series 12 of the TV series, which did not credit Savage. The dispute would eventually be settled amicably between the artist and the BBC along terms not disclosed to the public.  

As such, despite obviously having a very different storyline and main characters, ''The Rainbow Adventures'' is presented as a sort of spoof of ''Doctor Who''. Not only do the conspicuously-named SavageMen correspond to the Cybermen, with the pivotal cranial light-bulb matching the head-lamp which was one of the main smoking guns between the Savage and Series 12 Cybermen designs, but ''[[The Death? Planned It!]]'' references the title of ''[[w:c:tardis:The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', the first TV Cyberman story, while ''The Moonbeams'' references ''[[w:c:tardis:The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', the second such story. In ''The Moonbase'', the Cybermen confusingly claimed to have previously met the Doctor on "[[w:c:tardis:Planet 14|Planet 14]]" rather than the previous "Tenth Planet" in an apparent retcon of the Cybermen's origin which caused considerable tangles in later continuity; this is referenced in ''Plagiarism of the SavageMen'' with the SavageMen being retconned in ''The Moonbeams'' to have originated in the [[14th Cosmos]].