History Main / RaygunGothic

* ''Manga/GiantRobo'': Although the OAV was produced in the early 90s, it retains the look and feel of the 60s manga it was based on.

* [[http://www.raygungothicrocket.com/blog/ Guess what's staying]] at Pier 14 in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco for 14 months starting in August 2010?

** The SpaceX [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship Starship],] especially after the switch from a carbon fiber body to a stainless steel one in the prototype phase.

** ''[[http://www.warehouse23.com/products/gurps-classic-alternate-earths GURPS Alternate Earths]]'' explores the AlternateHistory of "Gernsback," which is basically 1930s science fiction come to life.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'', especially in its earlier seasons (as they were made in the early 1960s). This particularly leads to ZeerustCanon, as the look of the inside of the TARDIS (particularly the big hexagonal console with a glass column that moves up and down) and the Daleks (very ArtDeco, but with plungers) can only really be changed so much before they don't look like they're supposed to any more. It should also be noted that during the early Sixties, there was an obsession with hemispheres as being futuristic (similar to the modern-day HighTechHexagons aesthetic) which helps to explain the round things on the TARDIS walls and the weird little orbs on the Dalek armour, all of which would cause fan despair if it were removed. This aesthetic carried on showing up as late as the early 70s thanks to the show's NoBudget nature - the original Sonic Screwdriver as used by the Third Doctor was actually an unused prop from ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' (which began in 1965) and hence looks [[FashionDissonance 60s as heck]]. While the new series modernised everything as much as possible - starting off during the Ninth Doctor's tenure with a semi-organic, {{Steampunk}} influenced TARDIS interior and weighty-looking, almost industrial Daleks - the sonic screwdrivers are still knowingly designed to follow this aesthetic, perhaps because in the Ninth Doctor's tenure it's revealed that the screwdriver is laughably low-quality, dated technology.

The MadScientistLaboratory and [[ShinyLookingSpaceships Spaceship]] are among the most commonly used locations in a Raygun Gothic setting. The most commonly used monsters tend to be [[NuclearNasty nuclear mutants]] and [[AlienTropes aliens in general]], although friendly aliens are just as likely to appear, either as the heroes or as characters for the cast to meet.

** From [[Creator/EdWood the same director]], ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'' also mixes the '30s and '50s flavours of this trope, with a MadScientist in an OldDarkHouse, trying to create a NuclearNasty in his MadScientistLaboratory. The film's working title was ''Bride of the Atom''.

%%* ''{{Film/Tomorrowland}}''

* Some of the elements in ''Pinball/TheTwilightZone'' are reminiscent of this, particularly the rocket.

* Episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' that involved aliens or space travel frequently contained a sizable dose of this aesthetic, and [[UpToEleven even more so]] if the episode in question was a comical one.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'' is ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' written InTheStyleOf... a 1950's sci-fi magazine story. ''Voyager'' is a silver cigar-shaped RetroRocket equipped with everything from atom-tipped torpedoes to a radium-heated coffeemaker in the captain's cabin.

** Adam Strange also appeared in some ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}'' comics and fits in very well because the title already had a certain Raygun Gothic aesthetic.

* The slideshows in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk_L8BL0r48 intro]] of ''{{VideoGame/Reunion}}''. The space battle between them is instead inspired by ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]''.

* ''Film/FireMaidensFromOuterSpace'' has Earth using this kind of technology, in contrast with the CrystalSpiresAndTogas neo-Classical style of the Fire Maidens (and their dad) themselves.

* ''Film/BedtimeStories'': The final story Skeeter and the kids make up together is set in a futuristic space arena very much adhering to this trope

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' was always very much this way, although [[Film/StarTrek2009 the 2009 reboot]] combines it with the aesthetics [[EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture of an iPod]] and looks every bit as cool (or trite, depending on your perspective) as that implies.

* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfRadGravity'', leans by virtue of the player character being a CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth archetype.

* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfRadGravity.''

* ComicBook/{{Zot}}, who lives in the far-flung future year of 1965. Note that ''Zot!'' began publication in ''[[{{Retraux}} 1984]]''.

* Pick a Creator/GerryAnderson TV show, any Gerry Anderson TV show. ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', ''Series/{{Stingray}}'', ''Series/CaptainScarlet'', ''Series/FireballXL5''...

* ''Anime/ProjectBlueEarthSOS'' is set in an alternate version of the 90s tha leans heavily into this aesthetic.

* ''Anime/ProjectBlueEarthSOS''

[[caption-width-right:308:''Literature/TomSwift Jr. in The Race to the Moon''. Our bet's on the rocket though.]]

* Episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' that involved aliens or space travel frequently contained a sizable dose of this aesthetic, and [[UpToEleven even more so]] if the episode in question was a comical one.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' visits this genre in the 2022 set ''Unfinity''. ("Un-sets" are how ''Magic'' does its less serious and more light-hearted set themes, often with an element of SelfParody - the perfect place to lean into [[Zeerust]].)

** The SpaceX [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship Starship]] especially after the switch from a carbon fiber body to a stainless steel one in the prototype phase.