Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars novels were pure pulp, and Disney's dreadful marketing materials — the gnomic posters; the hectic trailers — made the movie, likewise, seem like a scrum of savage creatures, bloody battles, and manly trials.
During the reconstruction era, images of the "Black Brute" found Black men as vicious and savage creatures, suspicious in the eyes of White men eager to protect White women from their "hyper-sexualized" nature.
In a single hour on that night, a horde of drunken animals in uniform wrecked the possessions, the past and the future of thousands of people, while bloodthirsty, savage, brutal creatures, decked out in and protected by the brown and black uniforms of the ruling party, slaughtered poor, tormented people in the thousands and sadistically abused thousands of wretched people.
The savage creature who snarls at a terrified woman in this painting is in theory a classical Satyr, but looks more like a werewolf.
Five years ago the most savage creature you were likely to come across there was Peaseblossom; now wild boys are ululating and stamping over the sward.
They land on an island, already inhabited by a savage creature called Caliban, the son of a dead witch, Sycorax, and the air-spirit Ariel, who was imprisoned by Sycorax in a pine tree.
Beowulf, the bravest of all warriors, goes to the help of a neighbouring kingdom in order to do battle against takes on the ferocious Grendel, a savage creature who stalks the night.
His partners include a black bisexual (tending toward lesbian), who is also his first woman of color; a savage creature who pounces on him like a wildcat; and beautiful, cosmopolitan Véronique (Karine Adrover), a Frenchwoman he picks up on the subway.
What, exactly, happened to this not-so-savage creature after that is impossible to know.
"The Arabian Desert breeds, among other wild creatures, birds…which are quite as savage against men as lions or leopards….
"A Hunting Scene" (c.1490) depicts a Hobbesian war of all against all as wild creatures are set upon with glee by man-beasts as savage as their victims.
