History Main / GothicPunk

* ''Film/TheCrow'' is perhaps the first quintessential gothic punk film. Its visuals are dark, shadowy, and nearly monochromatic, often emphasizing churches, graveyards, and religious iconography. The macabre story heavily dwells on death, morning, and ghosts. On the punk end, the story takes place in an urban hellhole beset by street thugs and junkies.

* Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters novels by Creator/CTPhipps are a GothicPunk SharedUniverse where the protagonists are all supernaturals living in a BrokenMasquerade world. They tend to be snarky, sarcastic RebelliousSpirit characters fighting against both corrupt governments and evil demons. The center of this world is New Detroit, which has been rebuilt as a vampire utopia.

* The artwork produced by John Blanche for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is arguably the best example of this trope from a visual perspective. Baroque clothing, skulls, cyborgs and impossible architecture is a defining trait for many of his paintings.
* ''Art/ShippingLeviathanArkOfApocalypse'' was designed with Stieva's admiration for classic Gothic design with SteamPunk gears at the bottom that are implied to propel it (considering the ship is too big to row by hand and there are no sails).

* The definite example of this, but RecycledInSpace, is ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. The language the Imperium speaks is both High and Low Gothic and much of the architecture is in the Gothic style. Even major battleships are in the same vaulted style.

* The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', by contrast, has taken a deliberate step back from this, or perhaps evolved to Post-Gothic-Punk. The constant angsting has been seriously dialed back, though it still exists in places, and replaced with more of AWorldHalfFull vibe. Furthermore, the anti-authoritarian message spread loud and clear across the very fabric of existence in the [=oWoD=] is gone, since the writing staff consider the over-politicization of the former line to have been detrimental to the final product.
* The definite example of this, but RecycledInSpace, is ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. The language the Imperium speaks is both High and Low Gothic and much of the architecture is in the Gothic style. Even major battleships are in the same vaulted style.
* As mentioned above, Creator/WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'' setting both named and codified the genre.

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* ''Film/DarkCity'' features a dark, shadowy, retro urban world where corpse-white "strangers" plague the unwitting citizens using supernatural powers and high-tech gadgetry.

* Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy largely abandon the gothic setting of the BatmanFilmSeries. Although darker than the Schumacher films, the Creator/ChristopherNolan films distinguish themselves by using a more realistic and modern aesthetic.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}''

** ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and onward largely abandon the gothic setting. Although darker than the Schumacher films, the Creator/ChristopherNolan films distinguish themselves by using a more realistic and modern aesthetic.

* As the name implies, Gotham City in most of its incarnations, especially within the live-action ''Batman'' movies. Both the city and its protector serve as a contrast to the lively, sometimes [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture World of Tomorrow]], city of Metropolis. "Gotham" is actually an old name for New York, first used by Creator/WashingtonIrving.
** It's sometimes suggested that Gotham is basically New York at night, and Metropolis NY during the day. Tim Burton's take on the franchise played this trope to the hilt, [[SignatureStyle naturally]]. ''Film/BatmanBegins'' downplayed it significantly and ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and onwards did away with it altogether, with Gotham becoming a [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed thinly disguised]] DC Universe equivalent of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.

* The movie adaptation of James O'Barr's ''Film/TheCrow'' comic exposed millions to the Gothic Punk aesthetic.
** Creator/AlexProyas tends to do this a lot. ''Film/DarkCity'' was very much a Gothic Punk film

If a film takes place in a Gothic Punk setting, expect its soundtrack to include something by either [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] or Music/DannyElfman.

* While the original ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' was straight-up Gothic horror, ''Blood 2: The Chosen'' takes place in a future featuring a corporate-looking cult that runs around in hoverjets.

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A place which is like the modern-day real world, only a lot more {{goth|icHorror}}. Various supernatural creatures control the world just below the surface, treating humans as cattle at best, and vermin at worst. There's also usually pandemic angst.

* Speaking of hell, ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}!

* The {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}. ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is this moreso than ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', although the Heaven's Feel route of the latter dabbles in it what with [[spoiler: Kotomine attempting to unleash Angra Mainyu, an unstoppable world-ending EldritchAbomination that most people may know better as Ahriman.]]

* The film ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' features Creator/KeanuReeves - as an exorcist/demon hunter who's out to save the world from a race of rampant hell-demons.

* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', more or less serves as a AffectionateParody of this genre as three monsters struggle to live as human-like a life as possible.

* While mostly UrbanFantasy, it seems the show ''Series/{{Constantine}}'' may prove to be one of these shows.

* ''Series/BloodTies'' is a series about a private detective teamed up with a 400 year old vampire to fight the supernatural.

* Played with in ''[[ComicBook/VampireTheMasqueradeVault Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth]]'' where the book invokes the attitudes of the tabletop game but also acknowledges it's been twenty years since the game's heyday. Its protagonist, Cecily Bain, is a former RiotGrrl who bemoans most of her former colleagues are either old or soccer moms even on the youngest side.

* While the original ''Blood'' was straight-up Gothic horror, ''Blood 2: The Chosen'' takes place in a future featuring a corporate-looking cult that runs around in hoverjets.

* This is the genre of ''VideoGame/Bloodrayne'' and its sequels. It is especially prevalent in the second installment that takes place in the modern day.
* ''{{VideoGame/Dark}}'' was an attempt to re-bottle the success of Bloodlines and failed. Eric Bane is a newly turned vampire trying to find a vampire strong enough to eat in order to solidify his transformation.

* As the name implies, Gotham City in most of its incarnations, especially within the live-action ''Batman'' movies. Both the city and its protector serve as a contrast to the lively, sometimes [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture World of Tomorrow]], city of Metropolis. "Gotham" is actually an old name for New York, first used by Washington Irving.