With the X-Men, he visits the Savage Land and meets Ka-Zar for the first time.

However, Shang Chi warms with time, or at least shows more his genuine emotions, as when he avenges the death of teammate Orka, forges a measure of friendship with Humbug and forges a somewhat romantic relationship with the more feisty and emotive Tarantula, peaking in a passionate kiss in the Savage Land.

More variants of humanity can be found in the Savage Land ( see places, below.

) Most of the Savage Land races have their origin from a group of primitive ape men who seems to have escaped the Celestial experiments whose influence is present in all modern Homo sapiens.

The Savage Land is a hidden prehistoric land within the fictional Marvel Comics Universe.

The Savage Land was created by the alien Nuwali at the behest of the other-dimensional, nigh-omnipotent aliens known as the Beyonders ( not to be confused with the Beyonder of the Secret Wars ).

The Beyonders eventually grew bored with the experiment, and the Nuwali stopped maintaining the Savage Land during the Late Pleistocene ( the Ice Age era ).

They mastered genetic engineering, which had been used on the Man-Apes when the Nuwali were still maintaining the Savage Land area.

They used their genetic engineering techniques to transform other Savage Land inhabitants like the Golden People, the Lizard Men, the Reptile Men, the Tubantis, and others.

When the Great Cataclysm struck, the Atlantean empire fell and thanks to the machines, the Savage Land locations were spared from sinking into the sea.

In more recent years, the Savage Land was rediscovered by Lord Robert Plunder, who took back a sample of the metal known as " anti-metal " or " Antarctic vibranium " with him.

Fleeing from those who sought to steal this discovery, Plunder took his eldest son Kevin with him for a second trip into the Savage Land.

He grew to adulthood in the Savage Land, becoming the adventurer known as Ka-Zar.

Ka-Zar had many team-ups with the X-Men, who first revealed the Savage Land's existence, Spider-Man, and many other superheroes who had visited the Savage Land.

At one point, Spider-Man teamed up with Ka-Zar to save Gwen Stacy from Kraven the Hunter and Gog at the time when her class and J. Jonah Jameson were visiting the Savage Land.

Many villains have threatened the Savage Land, including Garokk, Magneto and Thanos.

At one point, the Savage Land was decimated by an evil alien named Terminus ( or one of his pawns ) when he destroyed the machines that maintained the tropical climate.

Ka-Zar, Shanna, and Zabu wandered until the High Evolutionary ( with help from the X-Men, M ' rin and Garokk ) restored the region and its creature allowing them to return to the Savage Land with their newborn son.

Sometime after that, Spider-Man had Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy emigrated to the Savage Land after rescuing them from Ringmaster.

is operating in the Savage Land, mining vibranium while using the indigenous population as slave labor, but these operations have been classified, and the operation was apparently decimated by a missile strike from the Helicarrier during an attack by the New Avengers.

The Savage Land is featured in the limited series Claws, serving as a place of revenge for Wolverine and Black Cat on Arcade and White Rabbit.

Alyosha Kravinoff fled to the Savage Land after Punisher sabotaged his zoo.

The New Avengers and the Mighty Avengers head toward the Savage Land where a downed Skrull ship was sighted.

When it came to the confrontation with both Avengers teams, the Savage Land natives, and the heroes from the ship, Mister Fantastic and Abigail Brand used a laser to identify the heroes from the ship as Skrulls.

* The Savage Land appears as one of the arenas in X-Men: Next Dimension.

It has been suggested that it is Celtic: certainly many major rivers in England show pre-Anglo-Saxon origins, such as the Ouse and Avon ; the same name appears in the ' Neen ', the former name of the river Rea in Shropshire, which is retained in the hamlet of Neen Savage.

A stand-in for Jonathan Crane appears in Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty in the form of Scarecrone, a female henchwoman / consort under the employ of Vandal Savage.

A character representing a physical re-creation of the " historical Surak " in his youthful maturity — fashioned by advanced alien technology from telepathically-recorded recollections and expectations held by Mr. Spock, appears in the original Star Trek series episode " The Savage Curtain ", and is portrayed by the actor Barry Atwater.

A struggling ( and terrible ) actor, Kramer briefly lives in Los Angeles, where he accosts Fred Savage, appears in a minor role on Murphy Brown, and is a suspect in a string of serial killings (" The Keys ", " The Trip ").

In Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire and Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams he appears as the scientist Johann Schliemann Spector, known by the locals in Savage Empire by the alias Zipactriotl.

An older Savage appears in DC Universe Presents, fashioned as a serial killer.

* Vandal Savage appears in Young Justice voiced by Miguel Ferrer.

* Vandal Savage appears as the main antagonist in the animated film Justice League: Doom with Phil Morris reprising his role from the Justice League animated series.

* Vandal Savage appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Brian Talbot.

Vanthus Vanderboren appears in the Dungeon magazine's Savage Tide adventure path, but he does not become a death knight until late in the campaign.

He appears in a What If story, where the Savage Land terraforming has taken over New York.

* Ka-Zar appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode " Stranger From a Savage Land!

The squad weapon was the Browning Automatic Rifle ( BAR ) M1919A2 US. 30-06 ( 7. 62 x 63mm ) light machine-gun – the GN also appears to have received the American-made version of the famed World War I British-made Lewis gun. 303 ( 7. 7mm ), the Savage Model 1917 LMG chambered for the US. 30-06 ( 7. 62 x 63mm ) cartridge –, with officers and NCOs receiving the Thompson M1928A1 US. 45 caliber ( 11. 4mm ) sub-machinegun, as well as the Colt M1911. 45 caliber ( 11. 4mm ) automatic pistol as personal sidearm.

* In Justice League, Trevor appears in the three part story, " The Savage Time " ( voiced by Patrick Duffy ), in which the Justice League travel back in time to prevent Vandal Savage from altering the course of World War II.

The theme song was composed and performed by Joseph Interlande, and appears at the beginning of each episode as a jam session amongst the whole Savage family.

It is unclear whether the Vertigo that appears in the Savage Land is another clone or indeed the original Vertigo, though it appears that the original Vertigo never left the Savage Land and does not have any ties with the Marauders.

The game appears in the opening scene of the 1987 film The Princess Bride, being played by Fred Savage.

* Batroc the Leaper appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode " Stranger From a Savage Land ", voiced by A. J.