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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Brom Gerald Brom's]] novel ''The Child Thief'' is a nightmarish take on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan Peter Pan]]. It begins with a kid running from drug dealers and just gets progressively weirder from there. And for extra spice, it adds [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombies]], too!
* Valente's ''Literature/TheOrphansTales'' features most of the tropes above, wrapped in a [[RecursiveReality Recursive Narrative]] drawn heavily from [[Literature/ArabianNights Arabian]], [[Creator/HansChristianAndersen Danish]] and [[http://russian-crafts.com/russian-folk-tales.html Russian]] fairy tales. Plus {{pirate}}s!
** Sei's saga in ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}'' features some [[CoolTrain amazing visions of locomotive mythology]].
*** November's saga = ''Brrrrrrr..." or perhaps that should be [[BeeAfraid ''Buzzzzzzz...]]''
* As a promotional tour for her novel ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}'', Catherynne M. Valente toured several cities by train (mirroring the locomotive and city themes throughout the book). During that tour, Valente, her fans and various collaborators staged readings, shows and musical performances, often in costume.
** Fans and performers were often painted with "tattoos" that recalled the mystical map-tattoos that appear on people who have been to Palimpsest. Several of them have gone on to make those tattoos permanent.
*** The [[http://orphanstales.com/ajanabh/ Ajanabah]] setting from the ''Orphan's Tales'' series has been spun off into artwork, jewelry, fire-spinning shows, costumes, and several albums.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythpunk#Other_proposed_derivatives Mythpunk]] refers to "a subgenre of mythic fiction" in which classical folklore and fairy tales get hyperpoetic postmodern makeovers. Coined by author Creator/CatherynneMValente, the term describes ''[[http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/263738.html a brand of speculative fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern fantastic techniques: urban fantasy, confessional poetry, non-linear storytelling, linguistic calisthenics, worldbuilding, and academic fantasy.]]''

->''"Sei had never been comfortable in the presence of books. Their natural state was to be shut, closed, to grin pagily from shelves, laughing at her, promising so much and delivering such meanness, such thinness. They displayed only men and women with dead eyes and rituals of living she could not understand. When closed, books gave impressions of perfection. They did not need her."''
-->--'''Cathrynne M. Valente''', ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}''

->''"We raise and raze our city like the strangest house of cards..."''
-->-- '''S.J. Tucker''', "We are Shangri-La"

* ''LightNovel/BibliothecaMysticaDeDantalian'' does it in-universe: storybooks have powers that can be drawn into RealLife, and it's the job of the main characters to stop such effects before they harm people. [[AntiHero Some of them]] are more willing to ShootTheDog than others.

* ''Manga/KagihimeMonogatari'' also does it in-universe: the main character is an avid reader and [[FanFic amateur writer]], so he's more than pleased to find out that fairy tales begin to play in real life... initially, anyway.

* Indie musician [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.J._Tucker S.J. Tucker]] has released, as of 2010, three albums based on Valente's work, toured with her to support ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}'', and sometimes performs in costume as characters from Valente's work. The first two albums in this series - ''For the Girl in the Garden'' and ''Solace and Sorrow'' are based upon the first two Orphan's Tales novels; the third, ''Quartered'', is based on ''Literature/{{Palimpsest}}''.

* ''HouseOfLeaves''.

Characterized by [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel baroque multicultural fashion]], [[EveryoneIsBi alternative/ queer sexuality]], [[AdaptationExpansion bizarre retellings]] of [[TwiceToldTale familiar faerie tales]], [[ImHavingSoulPains pervasive anxiety]], [[BigNo fear of inevitable change]], [[MindScrew elaborate symbolism]] and [[{{Deconstruction}} radical reinterpretation]], mythpunk is a cross-media movement. Although largely defined through literary works like Andrea Jones's ''Hook & Jill'', Francesca Lia Block's Literature/WeetzieBat series and Catherynne Valente's ''Literature/TheOrphansTales'', the mythpunk aesthetic occasionally manifests in music (The Decemberists), film (''Pan's Labyrinth''), jewelry and other media forms.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Enough is more of [[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] blends with [[CassetteFuturism Formicapunk]] put, however, it does contains (due to directly surreal) some elements from this punk itself, but only cases for Skips-centric or special episodes in show and there even few themes from {{Cyberpunk}} in several episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is Cartoon Network's first miniseries with plot begin to Boys named Wirt and Greg get lost to seemly endless countryside that said set to [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica Antebellum America-like area]] named "The Unknown" and they want return home, The show has heavily Mythpunk overtones and most of all tropes throughout miniseries, And there some people theorized the show was semi-(post)modern retelling of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'' with American and some European folklore into mix.

* ''Franchise/FactionParadox'', as a ''Doctor Who'' spinoff about a cyberpunk voodoo death cult, is built entirely on this trope.

* ''Franchise/FactionParadox'', as a Doctor Who spinoff about a cyberpunk voodoo death cult, is built entirely on this trope.

** The ''Franchise/FactionParadox spinoff'' range, as a whole.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Enough is more of [[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] blends with [[CassetteFuturism Formicapunk]] put, however, it does contains (due to directly surreal) some elements from this punk itself, but only cases for Skips-centric or special episodes in show and there even few themes from {{CyberPunk}} in several episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is Cartoon Network's first miniseries with plot begin to Boys named Wirt and Greg get lost to seemly endless countryside that said set to [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica Antebellum America-like area]] named "The Unknown" and they want return home, The show has heavily Mythpunk overtones and most of all tropes throughout miniseries, And there some people theorized the show was semi-(post)modern retelling of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]'' with American (with some European) folklore into mix.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', Enough is more of [[UrbanFantasy Urban Fantasy]] blends with [[CassetteFuturism Formicapunk]] put, however, it does contains (due to directly surreal) some elements from this punk itself, but only cases for Skips-centric or special episodes in show and there even few themes from {{CyberPunk}} into mix.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is Cartoon Network's first miniseries with Plot begin to Boys named Wirt and Greg get lost to seemly endless countryside that said set to [[UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica Antebellum America-like area]] named "The Unknown", The show has heavily Mythpunk overtones and tropes throughout miniseries, And there some people theorized the show was semi-(post)modern retelling of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]''.

While Cartoon Network is most of the time a [[LigtherAndSofter Lighter and Softer]]-theme channel for rest of history put sometimes they do have darker and grim cartoon shows to time and time again. Put only two know shows actually contain Mythpunk either under or over.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is Cartoon Network's first miniseries with Plot begin to Boys named Wirt and Greg get lost to seemly endless woods that said set to Antebellum America area named "The Unknown", The show has heavily Mythpunk overtones and tropes throughout miniseries that have it's dark side as big plot-driven major theme, And there some people theorized the show was semi-postmodern retelling of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante's Inferno]]''.

* Blog/{{Mythpunk}} is a blog featuring mythologized stories of historical characters along with dinosaurs, zombies, and the like.
* Literature/HitherbyDragons features mythpunk takes on Myth/GreekMythology, the Buddha's life story, and various 80s kids' cartoons, among other things.

* ''LightNovel/DantalianNoShoka'' does it in-universe: storybooks have powers that can be drawn into RealLife, and it's the job of the main characters to stop such effects before they harm people. [[AntiHero Some of them]] are more willing to ShootTheDog than others.

* Tim Burton's 2010 version of ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' treads this territory with gusto.

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[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythpunk#Other_proposed_derivatives Mythpunk]] refers to "a subgenre of mythic fiction" in which classical folklore and faerie tales get hyperpoetic postmodern makeovers. Coined by author Creator/CatherynneMValente, the term describes ''[[http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/263738.html a brand of speculative fiction which starts in folklore and myth and adds elements of postmodern fantastic techniques: urban fantasy, confessional poetry, non-linear storytelling, linguistic calisthenics, worldbuilding, and academic fantasy.]]''

* ArabianNightsDays: Middle-Eastern influences (or outright) homage is common.

*** November's saga = ''Brrrrrrr..." or perhaps that should be [[EverythingsWorseWithBees ''Buzzzzzzz...]]''

** This is a staple of Vernon's [[TheVerse Verse]], and is perhaps most readily appreciated in ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'' or ''{{Gearworld}}'', where mythic events are frequently mashed together in strange contrasts or placed in the most anachronistic contexts imaginable.