History Main / DieselPunk

* 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 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.
* ''Literature/TheIronDream'' (1972) by Creator/NormanSpinrad

* ''Literature/DocSidhe'' (1995, 2001) by Creator/AaronAllston mixes dieselpunk with UrbanFantasy

* The novel ''Literature/BitterSeeds'' (2010) by Ian Tregillis , which is set during a UsefulNotes/WW2 where psychic Nazi supers fight demon-summoning British blood-sorcerers. Quite [[DarkerAndEdgier GrimDark]].
* The ''Literature/ClockworkCentury'' series by Cherie Priest, an AlternateHistory American Civil War where the Republic of Texas discovered oil fifty years early. The Confederates are quite proud of their '[[HumongousMecha walker]]' which runs on diesel as opposed to the SteamPunk Union verions. Coal-diesel engines are also used by paddlesteamers and the eponymous CoolTrain in ''Dreadnought''.
* ''Literature/TheGhost2010'' by George Mann takes place in a world that is moving from SteamPunk (coal driven cars, airships) to this (biplanes with rocket boosters) with hints of RayGunGothic (holographic statues and videophones).
* ''Iskriget (The Ice War)'' (2011) by Swedish SF author Anders Blixt is an "antarctic" spy adventure taking place in an alternate 1940, in which German and Czech republicans rebel against the heavy-handed rule of the Habsburg emperor. It includes, among other genre attributes, diesel-electric Miyazaki-style cloudships and ice juggernauts.
* ''Empire State'' (2012) by Adam Christopher is this taking place across several dimensions and times and combines Noir with Weird War as the eponymous Empire State is in a never ending war with a mysterious Enemy.
* The flashback segments of Creator/NickHarkaway's ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}'' have elements of this, particularly the train and submarine used by Edie's employers.
* The ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay'' take place in a {{Magitek}} dieselpunk world of airships and jet fighters.
* Larry Correia's ''Literature/GrimnoirChronicles'' combines this, magic wielding mutants called Actives and AlternateHistory.
* A major part of ''Ack Ack Macaque'' by Gareth L. Powell is a MMPORG starring the title character set in a Weird War WWII featuring things like tripod tanks and Nazi ninjas.
* ''Literature/VictoriaANovelOf4thGenerationWar'' gradually develops into a RetroUniverse based on this. By the end of the story, the Victorian state uses little "real" technology invented after the 1930s, but has still developed cold fusion, Tesla-tech and various other kinds of SuperScience. They also make extensive use of [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]], politics and culture have a strong pre-World War II touch (including Nazis), and people dress in 1930s to 1950s fashion.
* ''Literature/ShatteredContinent''.

* ''Literature/TheAngaranChronicles'' ''current'' timeline is set on the continent of Angara during their Industrial Revolution the technological level being at our 1940s. But with elves and dwarves. The novella ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/123095410-the-angaran-chronicles-hamar-noir/ Hamar Noir]]'' is ''Diesel Noir.'' Although set during their Victorian era.
* ''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.''

* ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'': A collection of loosely-connected early cosmic horror stories written in the 1890s, which projects "20 Minutes Into the Future" a weirdly dystopian world under Pax-Americana following an alternate-future world war, with a seemingly shining future corrupted instead by the unearthly influence of a mysterious, mind-shattering alien play, "The King in Yellow", with most of the stories in one way or another describing the impact of the play on doomed, mad, and despairing characters who succombed to the irresistable temptation to look upon its forbidden pages. The setting comes across today like Lovecraftian alt-history set in a strange sort of Diesel-Punk world of gigantic floating battleship-fortresses, friendly neighborhood suicide-booths for final relief of all the world's remaining ills, and an uneasy contrast between the shining light of utopian progress, and the secret influence of a foul, shadowy, otherworldly corruption just beneath the surface.

* ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' (1982-1983), a single-season series from TheEighties of the Deco and TwoFistedTales variety.
* In a ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' (2008-) episode, Brown Betty had a world straight out of the 1950s, yet everyone was using ({{Retraux}}) cell phones and computers. And Walter's lap took it to the next level.

* In 2010, Toyota created an ad series for their Avalon series that were decidedly dieselpunk. The first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7fgIQatJlo "Train,"]] was set in an art deco train station (complete with a Twentieth Century Limited-inspired locomotive), where the characters are wearing 1940s-inspired clothes and a cover of Mr. Sandman by Music/{{Pomplamoose}} plays in the background. The second, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGn09UWkjyE "Plane,"]] depicted men and women in 1940s-inspired aviation uniforms as a Douglas DC-3 flew in the background.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Diesel Noir to be precise. The series has a very 1930s-1940s aesthetic, but more modern devices like cell phones are common.

* In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' (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]] Leman Russ battle tank and the Imperial Navy [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101101065235/warhammer40k/images/d/dc/Imperial_Navy_Lightning.jpg Lightning]] fighter.
** The Orks' vehicles are a mix of this and [[Main/TheApunkalypse a scrappy post-apocalyptic style]]. In particular, their aircraft tend to be scrap-encrusted pastiches of real-world designs from the 1940s and 1950s.

* ''TabletopGame/CrimsonSkies'' (1998)
* ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' (2000), basically the same premise as ''Weird WWII''
* ''TabletopGame/WeirdWars'' (2001), a little-known UsefulNotes/WorldWarII equivalent of ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' .
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Sun_%28role-playing_game%29 Children of the Sun]]'' (2002)
* ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS WWII: Weird War II]]'' (2003), UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Giant Tanks, Diesel-Powered PowerArmor (though if you want, you can design it to use gasoline), [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi Super Science]], SovietSuperScience, [[RuleOfThree Allied Super Science]], ''Japanese Super Science'', intercontinental bombers, psychic powers, conspiracies, {{flying saucer}}s, aliens[[note]][=GURPS=] is the sort of system where flying saucers showing up in the Second World War doesn't ''necessarily'' mean aliens exist[[/note]], {{Death Ray}}s, {{ray gun}}s, [[AuthorAppeal conspiracies before the war]], {{Kaiju}}, Mecha, Alternate Timelines[[note]]With at least one setting featuring ''nine different timelines interacting with each other'', each with their own [[FantasyConflictCounterpart equivalent of WW2]](assuming their version isn't just World War 2)[[/note]], ([[{{Mundanger}} non-superpowered]]) cannibals, {{super soldier}}s, a ton of different types of magic, [[RuleOfThree conspiracies after the war]], non-giant monsters, superheroes, high-tech jets, the HollowEarth, and that's just scratching the tip of it. Some of the other WWII books edge into this with stuff like the Maus and other weapons and vehicles that never got produced or mass produced.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' (2004) has a MagiTek version.

* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' (2006) by Exile Games Studio. TwoFistedTales meet ''The LostWorld''.

* ''[[http://www.fallen.se/ Operation: Fallen Reich]]'' (2009) by Fallen Publishing.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Cosmopol}}'' (2010) ... and how.
* ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' which is set in a dystopian future where Earth is abandoned, and most of the solar system is colonized by mega corps who derive their style from old Earth cultures, from Feudal times to Cold War era society.
* ''TabletopGame/AT43'' the U.N.A., Red Blok, and the Karmans have this as part of their theme, while mixed with CyberPunk which the Therians use. The setting is a typical space dystopia, albeit some what [[CrapsaccharineWorld nicer]] that most.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Dust}}'', a series of wargames, based on Paolo Parente's comic and set in an alternate 1947 with walking tanks, energy weapons, superheroes, zombies and war-apes.
* Despite ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' being Raygun Gothic, the Nazis have war-walkers based on Ancient Martian design and the airships also qualify.
* ''TabletopGame/RavagedEarth'', a TabletopGame/SavageWorlds setting by Creator/RealityBlurs. It is 30+ years after the Martian invasion, and the world has undergone drastic changes thanks to the effects of the alien metal the Martians' tripods were made of.

* ''[[https://roanrpg.com/ Roan]]'' is a game with a setting based on [[/index]]''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', although [[SerialNumbersFiledOff with multiple divergences]], one of the most explicit being the 1940's technological levels and the deliberate focus on pulp-style derring-do.[[index]]
* ''TabletopGame/AgeOfSteel'' is a game set in a world similar to ours in the 1920s, with [[MiniMecha diesel-powered mechs]], airships and personal automatons being commonplace.
* ''[[http://ada-rpg.org/tiki-index.php/ Akroydiesel Age RPG]]'' is a dieselpunk game, complete with airships, anti-gravity dogfights, and diesel-powered mechs.
* ''TabletopGame/TrailOfCthulhu''
* ''The Day After Ragnarok'': an AfterTheEnd rpg where the Nazis manage to summon the Midgard Serpent at the end of WorldWar2. The giant serpent is killed when the Americans fly the Trinity Device into its eye on a suicide mission. Much of the world is devasated by the serpent's radioactive blood and venom and its body crushing most of Europe and North Africa. The surviving nations harvest strange elements from its body allowing some very dieselpunk developments, like jetpacks and Marconi pistols (a heat ray); magic and the supernatural make a comeback as well, mixing in elements for the most part deliberately mimicking Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian stories.
** In fact, there are several hints that the events of the Conan stories actually happened in this setting. Djehuti-Yamun, leader of the world-wide serpent cult known as the Children of Set, is heavily implied to be Thoth-Amon.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' games.
** ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' (1981)
** ''Beyond Castle Wolfenstein'' (1984)
** ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' (1992)
** ''Spear of Destiny '' (1992)
** ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' (2001)
** ''Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'' (2003)
** ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein|2009}}'' (2009)
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' (2014) is a Diesel Dystopia set in a world where the Nazis have won.
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'' (2015)
** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' (2017) continues the dystopian tale of the New Order.
* ''VideoGame/PowerStrikeII'' (1993), a UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem VerticalScrollingShooter by Creator/{{Compile}}, released only in Europe and Australia (not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/GameGear title of the same name, also by Compile, which is a completely different, more conventional space shooter). The main character is a bounty hunter, whose job is to shoot down SkyPirates in an alternate 1930s setting.

* ''[[VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsCreatureFromTheKrustyKrab SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab]]'' starts off with a Ratfinks-inspired level, named ''Diesel Dreaming'', where [=SpongeBob=] races against NightmareFace versions of Patrick, Plankton, and Gary.

* ''VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture'' (1998)

* ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne|1999}}'' (1999) revolves around 1930s pulp heroes fighting off mad science and Lovecraftian monsters in a very dieselpunk mode.
* ''VideoGame/AirfixDogfighter'' (2000)
* ''VideoGame/CrimsonSkies'' (2000) all the way, to the point of being the TropeCodifier of this style in VideoGames. Emphasis on dieselpunk {{Sky Pirate}}s, {{Cool Plane}}s and {{Cool Airship}}s.
* ''The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces'' (2008), a video game for Nintendo Wii loosely based on the anime Anime/TheSkyCrawlers.

* ''VideoGame/{{Progear}}'' (2001) has technology somewhere between UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

* ''VideoGame/IronGrip'' (2006)
* ''VideoGame/IronBrigade'' (2011), best described as "World War I with Mecha -- against an invasion of television monsters."
* Outerlight Ltd.'s ''VideoGame/TheShipMurderParty'' (2006), a very warped tale set in an art deco cruise liner.
* 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) UnderwaterCity and we do not know how different the surface world 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.
** ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' (2007)
** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' (2010)
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'' (2008, 2010) has some elements of World War II dieselpunk, namely the Wunderwaffen and Teleporters developed by the Nazis.
** The zombies level featured in the 4th DLC of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' takes this theme to a whole new level with a World War I setting featuring giant robots, wireless transmission of electricity, and a special zombie-operating PoweredArmor that actually runs off of a diesel backpack.
** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' returns zombies with a distinctly FilmNoir-inspired yet patently dieselpunk setting.
* ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' (2008)
* ''VideoGame/AkaiKatana'' (2010) takes place before or during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'' (2011): World War 2 meets ''Jurassic Park''.

* The ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' (2012) has the rare InUniverse material [[JustifiedTrope Justifying]] the setting, a specially treated and processed "[[CallASmeerpARabbit whale]]" oil known as [[{{Unobtainium}} trans]]. The substance itself would be identical to diesel if it wasn't luminous blue or incredibly volatile.
** ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' continues with even more pseudo-magic clockwork machinery.
** ''VideoGame/DishonoredDeathOfTheOutsider'' has an occult-driven {{Cyborg}} as a protagonist.
* ''VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures: On the Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness'' is about an OccultDetective agency battling EldritchAbomination Gods in an AnachronismStew version of 1920s America overrun with oil-and-clockwork powered robots and mad cultists. It couldn't possibly be any ''more'' dieselpunk!
* ''VideoGame/MarchOfWar'': While atomic does appear in this MMOTBS, it is exclusively as a special superweapon project. The rest of the technology is entirely rooted in dieselpunk themes, albiet with... modifications for some of the factions.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Machinarium}}''

* ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' had ended its ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' DLC line with Origins, a very much dieselpunk UsefulNotes/WorldWarI setting. {{Giant Mecha}}s, [[PowerArmor diesel-powered armor]], perk drinks, tanks, and weaponry. All of this makes the return of the original crew from earlier games so much more [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. And of course, the main appeal, [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies the antagonists]].
* In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'' units built by the Purity factions have a definite dieselpunk flair. Take a look [[http://well-of-souls.com/civ/images/be_purity_cavalry_progression.jpg at their tanks]], [[http://well-of-souls.com/civ/images/be_purity_naval_progression.jpg their warships]] and their AirborneAircraftCarrier [[http://images.multiplayer.it/thumbs/images/2014/08/13/2kgmkt_civbe_concept_purity_lev-destroyer_jpg_0x0_q85.jpg the LEV Destroyer]].
* ''Douglas Adams' VideoGame/StarshipTitanic'' is thoroughly suffused with Art Deco, from the design of the starliner itself to its robot staff. Better still, it actually uses Dieselpunk motifs such as pneumatic tubes.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' is set in the period in which this genre is set and many of the vehicles never came off of the drawing board.
** Same applies for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''.
* While borrowing more [[/index]]CyberPunk[[index]] themes, ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' certainly contains Dieselpunk aesthetics, most prominent are the zoomers. Haven City also has some of this aesthetic.

* ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' is a TwoFistedTales story set in the Thirties and its MassiveMultiplayerCrossover roster of available party members includes the Rocketeer, as well as Nazis with jetpacks.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'' series, WWI ended differently and WWII never happened. Unfortunately, Asia and Europe got invaded by aliens instead.
* Parodied in the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' series, which (although ostensibly taking place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture) are set in a bizarre version of WWII(with some Korean/Vietnam-era trimmings), where propeller-powered planes, railway guns, and zeppelins coexist with HumongousMecha, [[MilitaryMashupMachine Land Battleships]] (literally a ''Yamato''-class battleship with tank treads bolted on), {{Zeerust}} aliens, and {{Wave Motion Gun}}s.
** In the seventh entry, the villains are a time-traveling army from the future . . . still driving the same WWII-era vehicles, except now they're painted blue and shoot laser beams.
** Same thing applies for the 2021 remake, ''VideoGame/MetalSlugCodeJ''.
* ''VideoGame/InSomniaTheArk'' is a dystopian dieselpunk RPG that takes place in a decaying art deco space station.
* ''VideoGame/Tower57''
* ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}'':
** The Port Town of Parm and the Garlyle Forces from the first ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' straddle a vague line between this and SteamPunk.
** ''VideoGame/GrandiaXtreme'': Nortis, of the {{Kaiserreich}} variety.
* ''VideoGame/TheSinkingCity'' combines dieselpunk tropes with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] horror.
* ''VideoGame/{{Factorio}}'', an [[JustOneMoreLevel addictive]] factory-builder, uses a decidedly diesel punk aesthetic, which fits in quite nicely with all the pollution produced by many a factory players end up building. Among the non-period things rendered in the aesthetic include nuclear reactors, laser turrets and the rocket you launch to win the game.
* ''VideoGame/IronHarvest'' is a RealTimeStrategy game set the same universe as ''TabletopGame/{{Scythe}}''.
* ''VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture'' is a 90's point-and-click adventure game set in an Art-Deco styled nation only known as "The Empire" where bits of meteorite that fell to the Earth containing an unknown substance (called xenium in the art book) became the country's primary fuel source to power not only some of the trains, but also many of the titular gadgets seen throughout such as the Sensorama, which was originally intended by the Empire's dictator to be a brainwashing device, and the Ark, an excavating drill that can transform into a plane. Players take on the role of a government agent hired to investigate a group of scientists who claim that a planet-destroying comet is rapidly approaching.
* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' is a First Person puzzle horror game based on the InkblotCartoonStyle of animation of the 1930s, and is done in black and sepia tones.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is likewise based on InkblotCartoonStyle very evocative of ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' or ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', but is a colorful RunAndGun-style game, and features a jazz score reminiscent of the era.

* ''Anime/RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsOfHonneamise'' (1987) shows an early UsefulNotes/ColdWar era version of this trope.[[/index]]
* Some of the Creator/StudioGhibli films take place in a mythical Diesel Deco-style Europe: [[index]]
** ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' (1986). The [[StateSec villains]] are [[BigFancyCastle based]] [[CoolAirship around]] this trope, while the heroes are more rooted in SteamPunk.
** ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' (1989)
** ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' (1992) takes place in a fictionalized Mediterranean setting between WWI and WWII. Besides (possibly) fictional use of air pirates and the magical realist-style presentation of Porco's being a pig, ''Porco Rosso'' incorporates historically accurate cues that indicate Italy is about to come under UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini's leadership.
** ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' (2004)
* ''Anime/SuperAtragon'' (1995): The [[MilitaryMashupMachine undersea-battleship ''Ra'']] is a superbly rendered piece of dieselpunk technology and style, plowing the seas of the modern world.
* ''Franchise/KerberosSaga''
** ''Manga/KerberosPanzerCop'' (1988-2000)
** ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'' (1999)

* ''Anime/Metropolis2001'', also the manga by Creator/OsamuTezuka.
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' (2001-2010), a rare combination of dieselpunk and {{Magitek}}.
* ''Anime/LastExile'' (2003) combines dieselpunk with SteamPunk.

* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' (2007), also the book.
* ''Anime/XamdLostMemories'' (2008-2009)
* ''Anime/TheSkyCrawlers'' (2008) depicts a future in which war has been eliminated, but corporations wage a continual war using clones and WWII-style aircraft for the public's amusement.
* ''Anime/{{REDLINE}}'' (2010) is a mix of SpaceOpera and a load of dieselpunk elements.

* ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' is a mixture of dieselpunk aesthetics and CyberPunk technology.

* ''Manga/FutagoNoTeikoku'' is set in a ConstructedWorld heavily based off 1930s Asia, with much of the technology, such as flying airships, modeled on World War II era advancements. The central conflict is itself a FantasyConflictCounterpart of WWII, particularly Imperial Japan's occupation of China.

* 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]] 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.

* Several comics by Dean Motter including:
** ''Mister X'' (1984-1990)
** ''Terminal City'' (1996-1998)
** ''Electropolis'' (2001-2002)
* ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'' (1993-1999) brought us a GrimDark pulp superhero fighting serial killers and bizarre menaces in a 1930s CityNoir.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' (1995-2010)
* ''ComicBook/TheNevermen'' (2000, 2003) features mechanically enhanced '40s-era fighters keeping [[CityNoir the city]] safe from crazed supervillains.

* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' (2007-) is a walking incarnation of this trope who's matured over the decades (he's been punching all kinds of strangeness in the face since the 30's) into an all-around ScienceHero.
* ''ComicBook/IgnitionCity'' (2009)
* ComicBook/{{First Wave|DCComics}} (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]].
* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'' is Franchise/{{Batman}} as written by Mike Mignola- our caped crusader in a shadowy 1920s setting. With Cthulhu.

* ''ComicBook/CarbonGrey'' (2011-)
* ''ComicBook/{{Dust}}'' by Paolo Parente, the inspiration for the Dust series of TableTopGames below.

* ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'' (1999-2000): The story is set in an alternate universe circa 1949, complete with [[FlyingCar flying race cars]] and villains clad in zoot suits.

* ''Film/JMenForever'' (1979) by the Creator/TheFiresignTheatre parodies this style.
* The ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' films. In fact, if you want to explain dieselpunk to someone, the Indy films are [[TropeCodifier probably the best place to start]].
** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (1981)
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' (1984)
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (1989)
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' (2008)
* ''Film/TheElementOfCrime'' (1984) combines Diesel Noir and Diesel Desolation, for very grim results.
* Russian film ''Film/PervyeNaLune'' ("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.
* ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' (1985)

* ''Film/TheRocketeer'' (1991)

* ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' (1994).
* ''Film/TheShadow'' (1994)

* [[Film/RichardIII The 1995 film adaptation]] of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' by Creator/WilliamShakespeare. It is [[SettingUpdate set in 1930s Britain]] (coupling [[DayOfTheJackboot Diesel Dystopia]] with PuttingOnTheReich and numerous {{Shout Out}}s to ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 1984]]'')
* ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}'' (1996)

* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''
** ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' (1999)
** ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' (2001)
** ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' (2008)
* ''{{Film/Titus}}'' adapts the play Theatre/TitusAndronicus by Creator/WilliamShakespeare to a surreal AlternateHistory where Rome survives to the present day that seems at times like a dieselpunk version of UsefulNotes/FascistItaly.

* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'', set in an alternate 1939, straddles a midpoint between this and RaygunGothic. The [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelin]], Joe's [[CoolPlane plane]], [[spoiler: the [[CoolAirship flying airstrip]] and the amphibious aeroplanes]] look relatively banged-up and industrial, while [[MadScientist Totenkopf]]'s robots, [[spoiler: hologram and rocketship]] are streamlined and Art Deco.
* ''Film/TheCallOfCthulhu'' (2005)
* In ''Series/TinMan'' (2007), parts of the O.Z. (especially Central City) have a strongly dieselpunk aesthetic.
%% * The titular city in ''Film/CityOfEmber'', is hinted to have significant dieselpunk influences in its heyday. Of course, it's all decaying now...
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' (2009) -- the parts set in the 1930s and 1940s.

* ''Film/YesterdayWasALie'' -- ''Film/DarkCity'' meets ''ComicBook/SinCity'' meets quantum physics and the nature of reality.
* ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'' -- even though it's set in the future, it has substantial Diesel Punk aestethics.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (2011) It plays straight the trope in regards to technology used -- creations of the 1940s blown up to the next level.
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* The Polish film ''Film/Hardkor44'' 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.
* An upcoming Hungarian film starring Mark Hamill, ''Thelomeris'', is a mix of dieselpunk and {{clockpunk}}.
* The live-action adaptation of ''Film/{{Casshern}}'' (2004) takes place in an effectively-portrayed Diesel Weird War/Diesel Desolation setting.
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* ''Film/IronSky'' (2012) contrasts the dieselpunk of the Moon Nazis against the [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture white plastic/metal iTechnology]] of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ''Dimensions: a line, a loop, a tangle of threads'', an independent film about time travel, set in the 1930s.
* ''Film/DakotaHarris'' includes alien technology, Nazi agents, a lost Polynesian civilisation, and a gang of SkyPirates operating in the BermudaTriangle.

* ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'' is mainly Weird War horror and gore but also has some subtle dieselpunk technology in the Russian soldiers' radio and camera gear.
* ''Film/IllangTheWolfBrigade'' (2018) as a Korean live-action update to Jin-Roh.
* ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': The "H" segment is set in a universe where World War II was fought by anthropomorphic animals. The setting has very diesel punk feel: especially [[TheBaroness Frau Scheisse's]] elaborate industrial DeathTrap.
* ''Film/ThingsToCome'' - an adaptation of Creator/HGWells' novel ''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'' - could perhaps be called the TropeCodifier. It is a series of vignettes involving an apocalyptic never-ending world war fought with super-weapons, germ warfare that results in zombie-like infected pursuing survivors through desolate city ruins, a post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by feudal warlords in the rags of WWI uniforms, a secret cabal of scientists in giant aircraft who seek to rebuild the world through the miracles of Diesel-Punk super-science (similiar to the BenevolentAlienInvasion plots that would follow in the '50s), a CrystalSpiresAndTogas utopian future forged from diesel-and-electrical-powered industrial might (weirdly taking on most of the trappings of an Orwellian Dystopia played straight, such as an elitist ruling class and giant public view-screens for a "Big Brother" style leader to give thundering filibusters on), and a metropolis threatened by megalomaniacs driven by fears of whatever awaits mankind's first trip into space, and defended by caped ProtoSuperhero ScienceHero types. Most of these ideas would develop separately on their own before coming back together in various combinations as different flavors of modern Diesel-Punk.

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' gives WWII an alternate history ending with some serious punk attitude.

* ''Film/DarkCity'' (1998)

* The ''VideoGame/NaziZombies'' (2008, 2010) game mode of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' has some elements of World War 2 dieselpunk, namely the Wunderwaffen and Teleporters developed by the Nazis.
* The zombies level featured in the 4th DLC of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'' took this theme to a whole new level with a World War 1 setting featuring giant robots, wireless transmission of electricity, and a special zombie operating power armor that actually runs off of a diesel backpack.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' returns zombies with a distinct FilmNoir inspired yet patently dieselpunk setting.

** ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored 2}}'' continues with even more pseudo-magic clockwork machinery.

* ''[[VideoGame/SpongeBobSquarePantsCreatureFromTheKrustyKrab SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab]]'' starts off with is a Ratfinks-inspired level, named ''Diesel Dreaming'', where [=SpongeBob=] races against NightmareFace versions of Patrick, Plankton, and Gary.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' (2003-2009). Though it's a little more leaning towards RaygunGothic than Diesel.

Generally, Dieselpunk can take inspiration from [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist films]], FilmNoir, [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]] {{Pulp Magazine}}s and {{Radio Drama}}s, and [[TheForties 1940s]] [[CrimeFiction Crime]] and [[MilitaryAndWarfareComics wartime comics]], period propaganda films and newsreels, wartime pinups, and other entertainment of the early [[The20thCentury 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.

* ''[[https://roanrpg.com/ Roan]]'' is a game with a setting based on [[/index]]''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''[[index]], although [[SerialNumbersFiledOff with multiple divergences]], one of the most explicit being the 1940's technological levels and the deliberate focus on pulp-style derring-do.

* ''Literature/Victoria2014'' gradually develops into a RetroUniverse based on this. By the end of the story, the Victorian state uses little "real" technology invented after the 1930s, but has still developed cold fusion, Tesla-tech and various other kinds of SuperScience. They also make extensive use of [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]], politics and culture have a strong pre-World War II touch (including Nazis), and people dress in 1930s to 1950s fashion.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' gradually develops into a RetroUniverse based on this. By the end of the story, the Victorian state uses little "real" technology invented after the 1930s, but has still developed cold fusion, Tesla-tech and various other kinds of SuperScience. They also make extensive use of [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld zeppelins]], politics and culture have a strong pre-World War II touch (including Nazis), and people dress in 1930s to 1950s fashion.

Generally, Dieselpunk can take inspiration from [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist films]], FilmNoir, [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]] {{Pulp Magazine}}s and {{Radio Drama}}s, and [[TheForties 1940s]] [[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.

* ''Film/ThingsToCome'': I might go as far as to say that the 1933 H.G. Wells novel ''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'' that this 1936 film adaptation was based on, along with Robert W. Chambers' novel ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', might be the Ur-Examples of this genre, but this early sci-fi film specifically would surely be the Trop-Maker for Diesel-Punk (not to mention most Post-Apocalyptic sci-fi, including AfterTheEnd Mad Max clones and ZombieApocalypse movies!) This movie, presented in a series of vignettes, has a little bit of everything: an apocalyptic never-ending world war fought with super-weapons, germ warfare that results in zombie-like infected pursuing survivors through desolate city ruins, a post-apocalyptic wasteland ruled by feudal warlords in the rags of WWI uniforms, a secret cabal of scientists in giant aircraft who seek to rebuild the world through the miracles of Diesel-Punk super-science (in a BenevolentAlienInvasion role that would be later be developed into the more optimistic Cold War saucer films), a Crystal Spires and Togas utopian future forged from diesel-and-electrical-powered industrial might (weirdly taking on most of the trappings of an Orwellian Dystopia played straight, such as an elitist ruling class and giant public view-screens for a "Big Brother" style leader to give thundering filibusters on), and a metropolis threatened by megalomaniacs driven by fears of unknown Cosmic Horrors awaiting mankind's first trip into space, and defended by caped superhero scientist-inventors! Most of these ideas would develop separately on their own before coming back together in various combinations as different flavors of modern Diesel-Punk, but ''Things to Come'' would surely be close to the place where they came together first with a recognizably Diesel-Punk visual aesthetic!

* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'' (2011): World War 2 meets ''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Jurassic Park]]''.

Vastness is key. This was the age of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Airships}} Zeppelin,]] the [[CoolBoat modern battleship]] and the [[CoolBoat ocean liner,]] the [[CoolPlane flying-boat airliner,]] and the skyscraper. It also saw the first multinational corporations (in the modern sense), large-scale social engineering, and mass political movements. UsefulNotes/WorldWarI was still fresh in memory as the Great War, the most colossal conflict in the history of mankind. Man is dwarfed by his creations and things are subsumed into abstractions.

* ''VideoGame/[Cuphead]'' is likewise based on InkblotCartoonStyle very evocative of ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' or ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', but is a colorful RunAndGun-style game, and features a jazz score reminiscent of the era.

* ''VideoGame/[=Cuphead=]'' is likewise based on InkblotCartoonStyle very evocative of ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' or ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', but is a colorful RunAndGun-style game, and features a jazz score reminiscent of the era.

* ''VideoGame/[[Cuphead]]'' is likewise based on InkblotCartoonStyle very evocative of ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' or ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'', but is a colorful RunAndGun-style game, and features a jazz score reminiscent of the era.

* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' is a First Person horror game based on the InkblotCartoonStyle of animation of the 1930s (Disney, Merrie Melodies, Betty Boop, etc.).
* ''VideoGame/[[Cuphead]]'' is likewise based on InkblotCartoonStyle, but is a RunAndGun-style game, and features a jazz score reminiscent of the era.

* ''VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture'' is a 90's point-and-click adventure game set in an Art-Deco styled nation only known as "The Empire" where bits of meteorite that fell to the Earth containing an unknown substance (called xenium in the art book) became the country's primary fuel source to power not only some of the trains, but also many of the titular gadgets seen throughout such as the Sensorama, which was originally intended by the Empire's dicator to be a brainwashing device, and the Ark, an excavating drill that can transform into a plane. Players take on the role of a government agent hired to investigate a group of scientists who claim that a planet-destroying comet is rapidly approaching.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' (2007), also the book.

** ''LightNovel/ThePrincessAndThePilot''
** ''LightNovel/ThePilotsLoveSong''

Generally, Dieselpunk can take inspiration from [[TheRoaringTwenties 1920s]] [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist films]], FilmNoir, [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]] [[PulpMagazine Pulp Magazines]] and [[RadioDrama Radio Dramas]], and [[TheForties 1940s]] [[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.

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 ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' and ''Film/ThingsToCome'' are closer to the Dieselpunk tradition as it stands.

** ''LossOfSensation'' -- where robots look not like humans, but like retro-{{Mecha}}, and are used to destroy capitalist system and free workers.[[note]]ties in somewhat with Theatre/{{RUR}} (the abbreviation "R.U.R" is used) but not based on that play[[/note]]

* ''[[Film/{{Frankenstein1931}} Frankenstein]]'' (1931) and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935)

** ''LightNovel/ToaruHikushiENoSeiyaku''

* 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]] Leman Russ battle tank and the Imperial Navy [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101101065235/warhammer40k/images/d/dc/Imperial_Navy_Lightning.jpg Lightning]] fighter.

* ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS WWII: Weird War II]]'' (2003), UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Giant Tanks, Diesel-Powered PowerArmor (though if you want, you can design it to use gasoline), [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi Super Science]], SovietSuperScience, [[RuleOfThree Allied Super Science]], ''Japanese Super Science'', intercontinental bombers, psychic powers, conspiracies, [[FlyingSaucer flying saucers]], aliens[[note]][=GURPS=] is the sort of system where flying saucers showing up in the Second World War doesn't ''necessarily'' mean aliens exist[[/note]], [[DeathRay Death Rays]], [[RayGun ray guns]], [[AuthorAppeal conspiracies before the war]], {{Kaiju}}, Mecha, Alternate Timelines[[note]]With at least one setting featuring ''nine different timelines interacting with each other'', each with their own [[FantasyConflictCounterpart equivalent of WW2]](assuming their version isn't just World War 2)[[/note]], ([[{{Mundanger}} non-superpowered]])cannibals, [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]], a ton of different types of magic, [[RuleOfThree conspiracies after the war]], non-giant monsters, superheroes, high-tech jets, the HollowEarth, and that's just scratching the tip of it. Some of the other WWII books edge into this with stuff like the Maus and other weapons and vehicles that never got produced or mass produced.

* TabletopGame/RavagedEarth, a TabletopGame/SavageWorlds setting by Creator/RealityBlurs. It is 30+ years after the Martian invasion, and the world has undergone drastic changes thanks to the effects of the alien metal the Martians' tripods were made of.
* TabletopGame/{{Scythe}}, based on the art of Jakub Rozalski.

** ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout1}} Fallout]]'' (1997)
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' (1998)

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' (2008)

** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' (2015)

%%* ''{{Machinarium}}''

* Parodied in the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' series, which (although ostensibly taking place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture) are set in a bizarre version of WWII(with some Korean/Vietnam-era trimmings), where propeller-powered planes, railway guns, and zeppelins coexist with HumongousMecha, [[MilitaryMashupMachine Land Battleships]] (literally a ''Yamato''-class battleship with tank treads bolted on), {{Zeerust}} aliens, and [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Guns]].

* ''Franchise/KerberosSaga

* ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}'' (2001), also the manga by Creator/OsamuTezuka.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' (2007), also the book.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (2011) It plays straight the trope in regards to technology used -- creations of the 1940s blown UpToEleven.

* In a ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' (2008-) episode, Brown Betty had a world straight out of the 1950s, yet everyone was using ({{Retraux}}) cell phones and computers. And Walter's lap took it UpToEleven.

* ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS WWII: Weird War II]]'' (2003), UsefulNotes/WorldWarII with Giant Tanks, Diesel-Powered PowerArmor (though if you want, you can design it to use gasoline), [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi Super Science]], SovietSuperScience, [[RuleOfThree Allied Super Science]], ''[[UpToEleven Japanese Super Science]]'', intercontinental bombers, psychic powers, conspiracies, [[FlyingSaucer flying saucers]], aliens[[note]][=GURPS=] is the sort of system where flying saucers showing up in the Second World War doesn't ''necessarily'' mean aliens exist[[/note]], [[DeathRay Death Rays]], [[RayGun ray guns]], [[AuthorAppeal conspiracies before the war]], {{Kaiju}}, Mecha, Alternate Timelines[[note]]With at least one setting featuring ''[[UpToEleven nine different timelines interacting with each other]]'', each with their own [[FantasyConflictCounterpart equivalent of WW2]](assuming their version isn't just World War 2)[[/note]], ([[{{Mundanger}} non-superpowered]])cannibals, [[SuperSoldier super soldiers]], a ton of different types of magic, [[RuleOfThree conspiracies after the war]], non-giant monsters, superheroes, high-tech jets, the HollowEarth, and that's just scratching the tip of it. Some of the other WWII books edge into this with stuff like the Maus and other weapons and vehicles that never got produced or mass produced.

** Taken up to eleven in the seventh entry, where the villains are a time-traveling army from the future . . . still driving the same WWII-era vehicles, except now they're painted blue and shoot laser beams.

** The Landkreuzer P. 1500 [[MeaningfulName Monster]]. Instead of a pair of naval guns, this bad boy was to be made up of a single ''Schwerer Gustav'' railway cannon. To put this into perspective, the cannon this baby packed would have been lobbing shells that were ''[[UpToEleven fourteen feet tall and almost three feet wide]]'' (a bit over four meters, with an 800 mm caliber).