History Main / DieselPunk

** There are also some ''Fallout'' {{Fan Game}}s with their own pages:

* A Website/{{Pixiv}} artist known as [[IHaveManyNames coh, N&S, and k.y.]] has created a series called "[[https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=mars_expedition Mars]] [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=2981724 Expedition]]", featuring girls wearing [[CoolHelmet various headgear with false animal ears on them]], alongside [[ZettaiRyouiki various]] [[DangerouslyShortSkirt other]] {{Moe}} tropes, [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons repres]][[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht enting]] [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets several]] [[UsefulNotes/ChineseWithChopperSupport countries]] [[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships from]] [[UsefulNotes/GaulsWithGrenades throughout]] [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks the]] [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun world]], all with a very WWII-style dieselpunk look to them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne}}'' (1999) revolved around 1930s pulp heroes fighting off mad science and Lovecraftian monsters in a very dieselpunk mode.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'' (2005)

* ''VideoGame/SniperElite''
** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteV2''
** ''VideoGame/SniperEliteIII''
** ''VideoGame/SniperElite4''

* ComicBook/FirstWaveDCU (2009-2010) is a cross between Diesel Noir and TwoFistedTales, with many of the PulpMagazine heroes crossing over with newspaper comics' ComicBook/TheSpirit and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} another guy from the Thirties]].

* The planet Saraksh in ''Literature/PrisonersOfPower'' (1969), one of the Literature/NoonUniverse novels of the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers. There are several dieselpunk HumanAliens civilizations in the series. Practically all of them are FantasticAesop attempts at subtly criticising the state of Soviet society and the military during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar era. One particularly disturbing case was the ironically-codenamed planet "Hope", which suffered from a severely polluted environment for years and was struck one day by a mysterious DepopulationBomb. It's been a RuinsOfTheModernAge ScavengerWorld ever since.

* An upcoming game,''The Sinking City'' combines dieselpunk tropes with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] horror.

* ''VideoGame/InSomnia'', a game being developed in Russia and greenlit for release on Steam, is a dystopian dieselpunk RPG that takes place in a decaying art deco space station.

* ''[[Literature/ClockworkCentury Dreadnought]]'' (2010) by Cherie Priest. Thanks to the Republic of Texas discovering oil fifty years early, the Confederates are quite proud of their '[[HumongousMecha walker]]' which runs on diesel as opposed to the steam-driven Union mecha. Coal-diesel engines are also used by paddlesteamers and the eponymous CoolTrain.

** ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (1927), also a novel
** ''Film/WomanInTheMoon'' (1929) features retro-space flight (strikingly realistic), TheFlapper as one of the protagonists, a conspiracy of capitalists (including one YellowPeril), a MadScientist (a benevolent version) and an atmosphere of pulp fiction of the epoch. Inspired several German rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun, in their pioneer rocket work.

Although the Dieselpunk aesthetic can overlap with RaygunGothic, and though Dieselpunk is known for featuring Tesla technology and Wunderwaffen-style super-weapons, Dieselpunk typically does ''not'' include transistor-based technology, other electronics or atomic power. In fact, another PunkPunk genre label, {{Atompunk}}, was coined to describe fiction in this mode. Atompunk (such as the VideoGame/{{Fallout}} series and the comic book Fear Agent) takes inspiration from 1950s-era aesthetics and fashions such as Googie architecture and Jetsons-style technology, which typically lie outside the bounds of Dieselpunk. The analogue sci-fi of Metropolis and Things To Come are closer to the Dieselpunk tradition as it stands.

Although the Dieselpunk aesthetic can overlap with RaygunGothic, and though Dieselpunk is known for featuring Tesla technology and Wunderwaffen-style super-weapons, Dieselpunk typically does ''not'' include transistor-based technology, other electronics or atomic power. In fact, another PunkPunk genre label, Atompunk, was coined to describe fiction in this mode. Atompunk (such as the VideoGame/{{Fallout}} series and the comic book Fear Agent) takes inspiration from 1950s-era aesthetics and fashions such as Googie architecture and Jetsons-style technology, which typically lie outside the bounds of Dieselpunk. The analogue sci-fi of Metropolis and Things To Come are closer to the Dieselpunk tradition as it stands.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' (1987), thanks to its SchizoTech setting, the machines and equipment of the Imperial forces can have a very dieselpunky feel to them. For example, the [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Imperial Guard]] [[http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/963/ryzalrtcomp.jpg Leman Russ battle tank]] and the Imperial Navy [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101101065235/warhammer40k/images/d/dc/Imperial_Navy_Lightning.jpg Lightning]] fighter.

* ''[[http://www.rollspel.com/ravspel/r6.htm Lemuria]]'' (2004) by Rävspel (written for ''d20 Modern'')

* The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series take place in a very distinctly [[BioPunk Bio]]-dieselpunk world, complete with analogue vacuum-tube computers/robots and a jaw-dropping Art Deco setting. It does not entirely fit any of the types above, as it is set in an abandoned (well, by anything we could reasonably call inhabitants) underwater Gulch (a la Galt) and we do not know how different the surface is. However, the setting does apply. Often erroneously referred to as {{steampunk}}, possibly because the hacking minigame in the first game involves flowing water, leading to some people to think they're powered by steam.

* Polish painter [[http://jakubsan.tumblr.com/ Jakub Rozalski]] uses his paintings to document the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, but with giant mechs and... [[BearsAreBadNews bears]]?!

* ''The Nevermen'' (2000, 2003) features mechanically enhanced '40s-era fighters keeping [[CityNoir the city]] safe from crazed supervillains.
* ''Iron and the Maiden'' (2007)

* ''The Doom That Came To Gotham'' is Franchise/{{Batman}} as written by Mike Mignola- our caped crusader in a shadowy 1920s setting. With Cthulhu.
* ''Marvel Noir'':
** ''Iron Man Noir'' (2010), featuring Tony Stark's "repulsor pump" pacemaker, the Comicbook/IronMan armor itself, and Baron Stucker's lightning-hurling PowerFist -- not to mention background stuff like the sleek super zeppelins. It's unique among the ''Noir'' stories for not even trying to be realistic.
** ''X-Man Noir'' is the least fantastic of the ''Marvel Noir'' settings, but introduces one dieselpunk element in the story ''Mark of Cain'', the Office of National Emergency's [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Dirigi]]-[[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} Carrier]].

* ''Dust'' by Paolo Parente, the inspiration for the Dust series of TableTopGames below.
* ''ComicBook/{{Rork}}'' (1984-2012)

* Russian film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459929/ Pervye na Lune]]'' ("First on the Moon") is a {{Mockumentary}} about secret Soviet flight to the Moon in 1938 (sic!), which features many elements of style of early USSR -- parades of athletes, propaganda boasting about sports and industrial records, dreams about world revolution and building of communistic utopia, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and]] omnipresence of NKVD surveillance with following purgings of dissidents.

* ''The Call of Cthulhu'' (2005)

* The Polish film ''Hardkor 44'', currently in development, is heavily dieselpunk. Set in Warsaw in the summer of 1944, as the Soviet army bears down on Warsaw, it recounts the Warsaw Uprising by the Polish Resistance, to liberate the city before the Russians get there. Then things get weird. As in "[[StupidJetpackHitler The Nazis have cyborgs and mecha]]" weird.

* The live-action adaptation of ''Casshern'' (2004) takes place in an effectively-portrayed Diesel Weird War/Diesel Desolation setting.

Generally, Dieselpunk can take inspiration from [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist films]], FilmNoir, [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]] [[PulpMagazine Pulp Magazines]] and [[RadioDrama Radio Dramas]], [[CrimeFiction Crime]] and [[MilitaryAndWarfareComics wartime comics]], period propaganda films and newsreels, wartime pinups, and other entertainment of the early [[TheTwentiethCentury 20th century]]. As this covers a broad spectrum, the precise sources of inspiration can vary greatly between dieselpunk works. Like SteamPunk, Dieselpunk is a genre dictated primarily by its aesthetics rather than by its thematic content. Both grime and glamour have their place in dieselpunk.

** ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' (1898) is an interesting hybrid, the protagonist and initial setting fitting more into proto-steampunk, but the bleak depictions of global conflict with an inhuman IndustrializedEvil cast a shadow towards the era that would inspire dieslepunk

** ''Spacecraft of the First World War: A Compendium of Fighting Vessels of the Great Powers'' is a speculative fiction e-book by William Flogg, which is a sort of spin-off of ''Literature/WarOfTheWorlds'', set in the 1910's in the aftermath of the Martian Invasion and laid out like a vessel encyclopedia à la ''Jane's Fighting Ships''; following the Martians' failed invasion, humanity gathered and reverse-engineered their leftover technology, utilizing it to create AntiGravity devices and interplanetary warships--''during the'' ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne'' ''era.''

* ''[[http://www.ryannagata.com/films/1945a/ 1945A]]''

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/battlejitni The Danger Element]] (The Adventures of Battle Jitni)''
* ''[[http://www.decoderringtheatre.com Decoder Ring Theatre]] has [[Podcast/DecoderRingTheatre a whole tropes section to itself]].
%% * ''[[http://www.thegearheart.com/ The Gearheart]]'' is a GenreBusting series of interlocking downloadable audiobooks and shorts that combine pulp tropes, conspiracy theories, SpyFiction, fantasy and action with an Old Timey Jazz Age setting. Also contains SteamPunk and ClockPunk motifs. %% example is a link and not a page and therefore breaks the indexing - pls fix
* ''WebVideo/TheMercuryMen'', recently picked up by Creator/{{Syfy}}.

* [[http://io9.com/5936231/how-britains-failed-attempt-to-develop-a-death-ray-changed-the-course-of-world-war-ii Britain's failed death ray.]]

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner GM Futurliner.]]

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* ''Film/Batman1989''