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| 11 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dieselpunk_by_hayenmill.jpg]] |
| 12 | [[caption-width-right:350: Because SteamPunk isn't [[UsedFuture dirty]] enough. [[https://www.deviantart.com/lipatov/art/Dieselpunk-hovercraft-131993906 Dieselpunk hovercraft]] by Alexey Lipatov.]] |
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| 14 | Dieselpunk is a PunkPunk genre of SpeculativeFiction based on the [[TheRoaring20s 1920s]]-[[The40s 1940s]] period, spiced up with retro-futuristic innovations and occult elements. The Dieselpunk narrative is characterized by conflict vs the [[CrapsackWorld undefeatable]] ([[LostWorld nature]], [[CityNoir society]], [[CosmicHorrorStory cosmic powers]]), heavy use of technology, and GreyAndGrayMorality. The protagonists are often HeroicNeutral and have low social status. |
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| 16 | Generally, Dieselpunk can take inspiration from [[TheRoaring20s 1920s]] [[GermanExpressionism German Expressionist films]], FilmNoir, [[TheGreatDepression 1930s]] {{Pulp Magazine}}s and {{Radio Drama}}s, and [[The40s 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. Vehicles may have exposed engines and customized exteriors. |
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| 18 | Dieselpunk overlaps with TwoFistedTales and RaygunGothic, but differs mostly in its PunkPunk themes. TwoFistedTales explore settings such as HeroicFantasy and SpaceOpera that are not properly a part of Dieselpunk, and RaygunGothic tends to reference a period both chronologically and technologically more advanced or just shinier and more optimistic. Typically, Dieselpunk roots itself in urban and wartime settings of the 1920s to the late [[The40s 1940s]], both literally and figuratively "down to earth". |
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| 20 | If a Dieselpunk setting is presented as an AlternateHistory, a common point of divergence from our timeline is that TheGreatDepression never happened, leading to further economic and technological growth and less of the warmongering typical of the inter-war era. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII may still happen in some Dieselpunk settings, though; see below. |
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| 22 | The term Dieselpunk was popularized by Lewis Pollak and Dan Ross in 2001 as the genre for their RPG ''Children of the Sun''. [[http://wikibin.org/articles/dieselpunk.html Pollak]] stated that it was intended to be on the "darker, dirtier side of SteamPunk" and should be considered a "continuum between steampunk and CyberPunk." (On the other hand, noted reviewer Creator/KennethHite described ''Children'' as "Not really diesel, and not really punk.") |
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| 24 | [[UsefulNotes To be noted]]: unlike [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], the Diesel-powered car in the 1930s was a rare curiosity, only a single model being put into small-scale production [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany in Germany]] during that age (and almost exclusively used as a taxi), but on the other side [[ValuesDissonance the vast majority of the population could not afford cars back then]]. The life of an ordinary citizen was far deeper influenced by the oil-burning [[CoolTrain locomotive]], bus, [[CoolBoat ocean liner]] or neighborhood power plant. Still, during this period steam engines ''were'' gradually being replaced by diesel engines in many areas. |
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| 26 | !!Dieselpunk Variations |
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| 28 | !!!General |
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| 30 | Vastness is key. This was the age of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Airships}} Zeppelin,]] the [[CoolBoat dreadnought battleship]] and the [[CoolBoat ocean liner,]] the [[CoolPlane flying-boat airliner,]] of [[ClockOfPower clockwork wonders]] 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. |
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| 32 | Period technology encompasses everything found in SteamPunk, but internal combustion and electric power in combination with new materials (better alloys, plastics, etc) makes machinery lighter, stronger, and more versatile. The airliner is the prime example of this, but cars, trucks, tractors, and diesel-powered electrical generators are even more important in reshaping the world. [[TankGoodness Armored]] [[MilitaryMashupMachine vehicles]] and usable submarines are less common but still important innovations. Wireless radio leads to the rise of broadcasting as an information medium. Anachronistic super-advanced technology, often of the AwesomeButImpractical variety, such as GiantFlyer, SpiderTank, DisintegratorRay might occur. Such technology might be secret super weapons of a villain, or HomemadeInventions by the hero or his friends. |
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| 34 | 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 ''Franchise/{{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. |
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| 36 | Dieselpunk often focuses upon air travel and combat, including such ideas as literal "[[AirborneAircraftCarrier flying fortresses]]", [[SkyPirate air pirates]], [[CoolAirship dirigibles]], early [=UFO=]s, [[AcePilot hotshot flyboy pilots]], etc. Fascination with military hardware, weaponry and uniforms of the early 20th century is also often in evidence and a great amount of Dieselpunk media is concerned with war, especially the Second World War and fictional variations thereof. Owing to its pulp roots, Dieselpunk is often very adventure-based, full of exotic locales such as MysteriousAntarctica, TheShangriLa, the HollowEarth, etc. Some GeographicFlexibility is to be expected. |
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| 38 | Dieselpunk fiction can encompass the supernatural as well. In dieselpunk adventure, occult practices are MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, and maybe MagiciansAreWizards. The works of Creator/HPLovecraft, tales of Nazi occult research, contemporary expeditions to 'mystical' places such as Egypt, and early research into relativity and quantum physics have greatly contributed to the occult mystique that informs Dieselpunk. This tends to contrast with the 19th-century [[GothicHorror Gothic]] themes and spiritualism that show up in SteamPunk. |
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| 40 | As Dieselpunk is a post-modern look at the past, it is not limited to the tropes and stereotypes that characterized fiction of the day -- instead, it can use these tropes to comment upon the past and reinvent it. Dieselpunk (along with steampunk) can encompass a range of authorial voices and themes. Female characters in Dieselpunk tend to be strong, encompassing [[TheFlapper flappers]] to pin-up girls and much more, and can include [[WrenchWench Rosie the Riveter]]-type [[ActionGirl action heroines]], glamourous [[FemmeFatale femmes fatales]], [[SuperheroTropes costumed crusaders]], [[AdventurerArchaeologist archaeologist badasses]], [[DragonLady dragon ladies]], [[IntrepidReporter tough-talking reporters]] and other types common to pulp fiction of the era. Both male and female characters are typically [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]] with [[UniversalDriversLicense universal drivers' licenses]]. |
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| 42 | Sub-genres are listed below as possible avenues of exploration, but as these categorizations may only describe one or two works, if any, they should be taken with a grain of salt. |
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| 44 | !!!Diesel Deco/Deco Punk |
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| 46 | Also called "Ottensian" Dieselpunk after Nick Ottens, some guy on the Internet, who postulated it. This is the most optimistic form of dieselpunk. Progress seems unstoppable and the future is bright. Things are designed to be stylish and opulent, ornamental and efficient at the same time. Think Bauhaus architecture and design, ArtDeco, Expressionism, the 1939 New York World Fair. A good setting for a ScienceHero. |
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| 48 | !!!Diesel Noir and Dark Deco |
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| 50 | Similar to Diesel Deco, but generally DarkerAndEdgier. Emphasizes the downside of economic and technological progress. Society is plagued by crime and corruption, technology seems to be at its most effective in producing increasingly effective weaponry. The occult basically amounts to BlackMagic (including [[ReligionIsMagic exotic religions]]), SealedEvilInACan might turn up in an archeological dig and subsequently have to be stopped to avoid TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
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| 52 | !!!Diesel Weird War |
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| 54 | UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is being waged (or UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in some instances), but one or both sides are introducing [[StupidJetpackHitler superweapons]], [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien technology]] and/or [[{{Ghostapo}} occult forces]] into the mix, often with one or more [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]] behind it all. For a less extreme variant, something like the real-life exploits of the nascent Special Air Service in collaboration with the Long Range Desert Group (briefly, Film/LawrenceOfArabia upgraded with blast-incendiary explosives and "gunship jeeps"). (See WeirdHistoricalWar.) |
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| 56 | !!!Diesel Dystopia |
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| 58 | Also called "Piecraftian" Diesel Punk, again named for some guy on the Internet. UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did start and may still be in progress; if it isn't, either some kind of UsefulNotes/ColdWar is being waged, or a OneWorldOrder has been established. Either way, TheGovernment is [[BigBrotherIsWatching intrusive]] and [[PoliceState ruthless]], ostensibly to protect the citizens. The political ideology might be any kind of totalitarianism, either one of the many real life examples of the period, a [[CommieNazis mashup]] of those, or a completely fictional [[ANaziByAnyOtherName analogue]]. |
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| 60 | !!!Diesel Desolation |
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| 62 | UsefulNotes/WorldWarII did start and ended because there isn't anything left to fight over, and very few resources left to fight with, or even to sustain civilization. It's essentially a post-apocalyptic milieu, and certainly not a very common dieselpunk flavor. |
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| 64 | Check [[SoYouWantTo/WriteADieselPunkStory here]] for tips on writing your own dieselpunk story. See also the article [[http://people.howstuffworks.com/dieselpunk.htm How dieselpunk Works]]. |
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| 67 | !!Examples: |
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| 69 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 71 | [[index]] |
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| 73 | [[folder:Period Works]] |
| 74 | Dieselpunk is a modern genre, but some of the films and books of the period fit well, in the same fashion that Creator/JulesVerne's books can be posed as SteamPunk. |
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| 76 | !!Sorted by author: |
| 77 | * Pretty much any FilmNoir or crime film of the period. |
| 78 | * Most of UsefulNotes/TheSoviet20s' sci-fi: |
| 79 | ** ''The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin'', a.k.a. ''The Garin Death Ray'', (1926-1927) by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Nikolayevich_Tolstoy Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy]]. It falls between Diesel Noir and Diesel Weird War, as the author manages to poke some fun at TheRoaring20s and UsefulNotes/TheSoviet20s between the lines and also to imagine a dystopian world where Capitalist and Socialist-Revolutionary forces fight each other with poison gas, airships and [[DeathRay Death Rays]]. |
| 80 | ** ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelita_%28novel%29 Aelita,]]'' by the same author, about heroic MadScientist and Russian Civil War veteran flying to Mars, sparking a proletarian revolution there, and engaging in InterSpeciesRomance ([[spoiler:though it turns out to be not so interspecies, after all, as the Martians are refugees from Atlantis]]). Notable for probably the first application of Relativity Theory in science fiction, use of AncientAstronauts trope, and Atlantis myth. See also the 1924 [[Film/{{Aelita}} film adaptation]]. |
| 81 | ** Some works by Creator/MikhailBulgakov, all are united by GoneHorriblyWrong trope, satire on contemporary reality, and scepticism towards communism. |
| 82 | *** ''The Fatal Eggs'', about AttackOfThe50FootWhatever, through unfortunate application of ray icreasing growth and size of organisms. |
| 83 | *** ''Ivan Vasilyevich'' -- a TimeTravel story, with wacky adventures and BlackComedy. |
| 84 | *** ''Literature/HeartOfADog'' -- ArtificialHuman as failure of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_Man New Soviet Man]] idea. |
| 85 | ** ''Literature/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]] |
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| 87 | * Some of the works of [[Creator/KarelCapek Karel Čapek]] |
| 88 | ** ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'' (1921) |
| 89 | ** ''Literature/WarWithTheNewts'' (1936) |
| 90 | * The surreal dystopian writing of Creator/FranzKafka, e.g. ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' (1915) |
| 91 | * By the director-writer couple Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou: |
| 92 | ** ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' (1927), also a novel. |
| 93 | ** ''Film/WomanInTheMoon'' (1929) features retro-space flight (strikingly realistic), an aviatrix is the eponymous protagonist, 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. |
| 94 | * Creator/HPLovecraft and his ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' crop up frequently in dieselpunk. |
| 95 | ** ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'' (1927) |
| 96 | ** ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' (1929) |
| 97 | ** ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' (February-April, 1936) |
| 98 | ** ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'' (April, 1936) |
| 99 | * Creator/HGWells can be seen as a contemporary bridge between Steampunk and Dieselpunk, the evolution of his works reflecting a transition from one to the other over the course of his career |
| 100 | ** ''Literature/{{The War of the Worlds|1898}}'' (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 |
| 101 | ** ''The Land Ironclads'' (1903) and ''The War In The Air'' (1908) - again, Wells makes unsettlingly prescient extrapolations on the future of warfare, forseeing bleak global conflicts where barely-trained ex-grocery-clerks find themselves cowering in trenches from literal war machines and watching in horror as cities are obliterated by fleets of bomb-laden aircraft.[[note]]For context, 1903 was the same year that the Wright brothers first flew the Flyer I. Steering as more than a polite suggestion to the plane was achieved with Flyer III in 1905.[[/note]] |
| 102 | ** ''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'' (1933) by and its 1936 film adaptation ''Film/ThingsToCome'' |
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| 104 | !!Sorted by title: |
| 105 | * ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' (1948) by Creator/GeorgeOrwell |
| 106 | * The ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic (1931-). |
| 107 | * ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'' (1931) and ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' (1935) |
| 108 | * The [[http://www.luft46.com/ Luft '46]] and [[http://www.unrealaircraft.com/ UnrealAircraft]] websites offer some pretty stunning examples of the aviation technology innovations that inspired futurists of that time and dieselpunk authors of our time. |
| 109 | * The ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician comic (1934-). |
| 110 | * ''Non-Stop New York'' (1937): Noir intrigue TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture on a [[{{Zeerust}} futuristic]] Streamline Moderne Flying Boat. |
| 111 | * ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' comic (1936-). |
| 112 | * The WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons (1941-1943) by Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer. Also instrumental in solidifying the RaygunGothic aesthetic. |
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| 115 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 116 | * ''Anime/TheBigO'' (1999-2000) |
| 117 | * ''Manga/BlackCat'' (2005-2006) has modern technology pop up, but the setting overall has a very Diesel Punk aesthetic and feel to it. |
| 118 | * ''Anime/{{Despera}}'', a project by Creator/YoshitoshiAbe seems to be taking place in a setting like this. |
| 119 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' (2001-2010), a rare combination of dieselpunk and {{Magitek}}. |
| 120 | * ''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. |
| 121 | * ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'' |
| 122 | ** ''Manga/KerberosPanzerCop'' (1988-2000) |
| 123 | ** ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'' (1999) |
| 124 | * ''Anime/LastExile'' (2003) combines dieselpunk with SteamPunk. |
| 125 | * ''Anime/TheMagnificentKotobuki'': (2019) World War 2 airplanes flying from cargo zeppelins firmly plants the show here. |
| 126 | * ''Anime/Metropolis2001'', also the manga by Creator/OsamuTezuka. |
| 127 | * ''Anime/{{REDLINE}}'' (2010) is a mix of SpaceOpera and a load of dieselpunk elements. |
| 128 | * ''Anime/RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsOfHonneamise'' (1987) shows an early UsefulNotes/ColdWar era version of this trope. |
| 129 | * ''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. |
| 130 | * Some of the Creator/StudioGhibli films take place in a mythical Diesel Deco-style Europe: [[index]] |
| 131 | ** ''Anime/CastleInTheSky'' (1986). The [[StateSec villains]] are [[BigFancyCastle based]] [[CoolAirship around]] this trope, while the heroes are more rooted in SteamPunk. |
| 132 | ** ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' (1989) |
| 133 | ** ''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. |
| 134 | ** ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle'' (2004) |
| 135 | * ''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. |
| 136 | * ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'' is a mixture of dieselpunk aesthetics and CyberPunk technology. |
| 137 | * ''Anime/VampireInTheGarden'' takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd post apocalyptic setting]] modeled on the Soviet Union with mostly pre 1980's technology and remarkably held back dose of SovietSuperscience. |
| 138 | * ''Anime/XamdLostMemories'' (2008-2009) |
| 139 | [[/folder]] |
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| 141 | [[folder:Art]] |
| 142 | * 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. |
| 143 | * Polish painter [[https://www.jrozalski.com/ Jakub Rozalski]] uses his paintings to document the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, but with giant mechs and... [[BearsAreBadNews bears]]?! |
| 144 | * The art of Stranski (the working name of Lorenzo Etherington), and his guides on how to draw, and how to tell stories with art. Ruined jungle temples, ukelele wielding catgirls, tiki idols, dragon ladies, stoic lion men, more or less realistic period vehicles. Mostly found online or in galleries but some very limited editions were published on Kickstarter. |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 148 | * ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' (1995-2010) |
| 149 | * ''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. |
| 150 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'' is Franchise/{{Batman}} as written by Mike Mignola- our caped crusader in a shadowy 1920s setting. With Cthulhu. |
| 151 | * ''ComicBook/CarbonGrey'' (2011-) |
| 152 | * ''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. |
| 153 | * ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' (1931-), even at the time of its creation, included sci-fi elements that made it influential on dieselpunk. |
| 154 | * ''ComicBook/{{Dust}}'' by Paolo Parente, the inspiration for the Dust series of TableTopGames below. |
| 155 | * 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]]. |
| 156 | * ''Comicbook/{{Hellboy}}'' (1993-) and its spinoffs such as ''LobsterJohnson''. And ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'' (2002-) |
| 157 | * ''ComicBook/IgnitionCity'' (2009) |
| 158 | * ''ComicBook/IronAndTheMaiden'' (2007) |
| 159 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir'': |
| 160 | ** ''ComicBook/IronManNoir'' (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. |
| 161 | ** ''ComicBook/XMenNoir'' 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]]. |
| 162 | * Several comics by Dean Motter including: |
| 163 | ** ''Mister X'' (1984-1990) |
| 164 | ** ''Terminal City'' (1996-1998) |
| 165 | ** ''Electropolis'' (2001-2002) |
| 166 | * ''ComicBook/TheNevermen'' (2000, 2003) features mechanically enhanced '40s-era fighters keeping [[CityNoir the city]] safe from crazed supervillains. |
| 167 | * ''ComicBook/{{Pork}}'' (1984-2012) |
| 168 | * ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'' (1993-1999) brought us a GrimDark pulp superhero fighting serial killers and bizarre menaces in a 1930s CityNoir. |
| 169 | * ''ComicBook/StarNoir'' (2023-present) tells the story of a human detective reluctantly pairing with an alien to catch a shapeshifting serial killer in 1947 Los Angeles. |
| 170 | * ''ComicBook/TysonHessesDiesel'' (2015) |
| 171 | [[/folder]] |
| 172 | |
| 173 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 174 | * ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' is an AffectionateParody of AtomPunk, but a flashback scene has our hero as an EnsignNewbie fighting an airborne invasion by a 1930's-type YellowPeril supervillain. |
| 175 | -->"Steady boys," said Captain Janeway, sipping calmly from a huge thermos of coffee. The determined countenance of the world-famous aviatrix put steel in every man's heart and loins. "Shields up, go to Red Alert, load torpedoes. Put those yellow swine on visual."\ |
| 176 | The crew leapt into action. Armor plate was cranked over the portholes of the streamlined wheelhouse, red filters slid over each lantern and powerful telescopes trained on their foe. Aerial torpedoes shunted into their launch tubes; compressed air pumped into the chambers of the pneumatic cannon. A science-officer wearing a pair of elephantine acoustic-locator ears called out the range and bearing of their target. The ship's computer calculated the firing solution with his slide rule and passed it on to the gun deck via voicepipe. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
| 180 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' (2009), especially when we see parts of the backstory. |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' |
| 182 | * ''Animation/WarOfTheWorldsGoliath'' takes place in an alternate 1914 on the cusp of World War I, with walking tanks and giant heavily armed airships thanks to retroengineered alien technology. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 186 | * ''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. |
| 187 | * ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'' (1971) is either very early Diesel Punk or very late Pulp Horror. |
| 188 | ** ''Film/DrPhibesRisesAgain'' (1972) |
| 189 | * ''Film/BatmanFilmSeries'': |
| 190 | ** ''Film/Batman1989'' |
| 191 | ** ''Film/BatmanReturns'' (1992) |
| 192 | * ''Film/{{Brazil}}'' (1985) |
| 193 | * ''Film/TheCallOfCthulhu'' (2005) |
| 194 | * ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (2011) It plays straight the trope in regards to technology used -- creations of the 1940s blown up to the next level. |
| 195 | * The live-action adaptation of ''Film/{{Casshern}}'' (2004) takes place in an effectively-portrayed Diesel Weird War/Diesel Desolation setting. |
| 196 | * ''Film/CastADeadlySpell'' (1991) |
| 197 | %% * The titular city in ''Film/CityOfEmber'', is hinted to have significant dieselpunk influences in its heyday. Of course, it's all decaying now... |
| 198 | * ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'' (1995) is heavily dieselpunkish in design, in a dark and ominous way. The same goes for the Playstation game based on it. |
| 199 | * ''Film/DakotaHarris'' includes alien technology, Nazi agents, a lost Polynesian civilisation, and a gang of SkyPirates operating in the BermudaTriangle. |
| 200 | * ''Film/{{Dark City|1998}}'' (1998) seems at first to be set in a stylised version of 1940s/1950s America, but gradually reveals itself to be a ScienceFiction film which is not set in America at all. |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'' -- even though it's set in the future, it has substantial Diesel Punk aesthetics. |
| 202 | * ''Dimensions: a line, a loop, a tangle of threads'', an independent film about time travel, set in the 1930s. |
| 203 | * ''Film/TheElementOfCrime'' (1984) combines Diesel Noir and Diesel Desolation, for very grim results. |
| 204 | * ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'' is mainly Weird War horror and gore but also has some subtle dieselpunk technology in the Russian soldiers' radio and camera gear. |
| 205 | * 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. |
| 206 | * ''Hellboy:'' |
| 207 | ** ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' (2004) |
| 208 | ** ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' (2008) |
| 209 | * ''Film/TheHudsuckerProxy'' (1994). |
| 210 | * ''Film/IllangTheWolfBrigade'' (2018) as a Korean live-action update to Jin-Roh. |
| 211 | * 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]]. |
| 212 | ** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (1981) |
| 213 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'' (1984) |
| 214 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' (1989) |
| 215 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' (2008) |
| 216 | ** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny''(2023) |
| 217 | * ''Film/IronSky'' (2012) contrasts the dieselpunk of the Moon Nazis against the [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture white plastic/metal iTechnology]] of TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. |
| 218 | * ''Film/JMenForever'' (1979) by the Creator/TheFiresignTheatre parodies this style. |
| 219 | * ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' |
| 220 | ** ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'' (1999) |
| 221 | ** ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' (2001) |
| 222 | ** ''Film/TheMummyTombOfTheDragonEmperor'' (2008) |
| 223 | * ''Mutant Chronicles'' (2009) |
| 224 | * 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. |
| 225 | * ''Film/{{The Phantom|1996}}'' (1996) |
| 226 | * [[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]]'') |
| 227 | * ''Film/TheRocketeer'' (1991) |
| 228 | * ''Film/TheShadow'' (1994) |
| 229 | * ''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. |
| 230 | * The film ''Film/SuckerPunch'' (2011) is heavy on the dieselpunk. |
| 231 | * A Hungarian film starring Mark Hamill, ''Thelomeris'', is a mix of dieselpunk and {{clockpunk}}. |
| 232 | * ''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. |
| 233 | * ''{{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. |
| 234 | * ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' (2009) -- the parts set in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| 235 | * ''Film/YesterdayWasALie'' -- ''Film/DarkCity'' meets ''ComicBook/SinCity'' meets quantum physics and the nature of reality. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | '''Films not specifically dieselpunk, but which are related or inspirational to the genre:''' |
| 238 | * ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' gives WWII an alternate history ending with some serious punk attitude. |
| 239 | * ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou'' does this without actual advanced technology, dealing more with changing societal standards. |
| 240 | * ''Film/SinCity'' doesn't actually include dieselpunk tech elements (although an incredibly high-tech medical science is at least hinted at), but as a revisionist neo-noir, it's definitely got a dieselpunk attitude. |
| 241 | * Elements of ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', especially the younger days of Carl and his hero, explorer Charles F. Muntz. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 245 | * 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. |
| 246 | * ''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. |
| 247 | * The flashback segments of Creator/NickHarkaway's ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}'' have elements of this, particularly the train and submarine used by Edie's employers. |
| 248 | * Arguably, ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' (1957) which seems to be taking place in an AlternateUniverse [[The40s 1940s]] where WWII never happened, most of the world went Communist, and ''someone'' invented, then destroyed, a futuristic power generator that converts atmospheric static electricity into direct current. The setting qualifies, but the theme is D'Punk inside out, with typical protagonist/antagonist roles reversed. |
| 249 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' (2003-present) |
| 250 | * 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]]. |
| 251 | * ''Literature/BoneSong'' (2007) seasons this with heavy doses of FantasticNoir and UrbanFantasy. |
| 252 | * 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''. |
| 253 | * Creator/IanMcDonald's ''Literature/DesolationRoad'' (1988) and ''Ares Express'' (2001) are a mix of this, DesertPunk and Cyberpunk with the non-city areas being Desert Punk and the cities being a mix of Diesel and Cyber. |
| 254 | * Taylor Anderson's ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'' (2008-) series is this mixed with OceanPunk. Its titular heroes are the crew of a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII destroyer that gets transported via a time-space rift to the Pacific Ocean of an Earth where [[AlternateHistory the dinosaur-killing asteroid never hit and evolution took a different course]]. |
| 255 | * ''Literature/DocSidhe'' (1995, 2001) by Creator/AaronAllston mixes dieselpunk with UrbanFantasy. |
| 256 | * ''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. |
| 257 | * ''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). |
| 258 | * Larry Correia's ''Literature/GrimnoirChronicles'' combines this, magic wielding mutants called Actives and AlternateHistory. |
| 259 | * The ''Hikūshi'' light novels with their emphasis on World War II-style air combat: |
| 260 | ** ''Literature/ThePrincessAndThePilot'' |
| 261 | ** ''Literature/ThePilotsLoveSong'' |
| 262 | ** ''Literature/ToaruHikushiENoSeiyaku'' |
| 263 | * ''Literature/TheIronDream'' (1972) by Creator/NormanSpinrad |
| 264 | * ''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. |
| 265 | * Jonathan L. Howard's ''Johannes Cabal'' series straddles this and Steam Punk. |
| 266 | ** The first book, ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'' (2009) is more Steam. |
| 267 | ** The second book, ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheDetective'' (2010) is more Deco Diesel. |
| 268 | * ''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. |
| 269 | * Though ''Literature/{{Leviathan}}'' (2009) by Creator/ScottWesterfeld is definitely in the SteamPunk genre by how it's presented and what kind of story it is, the Clanker technology is more dieselpunk, as they frequently use gas, oil, kerosene, and diesel, not just steam. Also, the Darwist's "beasties" are a good example of BioPunk. |
| 270 | * As with all subgenres, there is a ''Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk'', edited by Sean Wallace. |
| 271 | * Creator/BruceSterling's novella, ''Pirate Utopia'' takes place in the city-state of Fiume, along the Italian/Yugoslavian border shortly after WWI, an anarchistic enclave where they experiment with death rays and radio guided missiles. |
| 272 | * 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. |
| 273 | * ''Literature/RunningWithRats'' is a dieselpunk fantasy about a group of rebels against a slave society. |
| 274 | * ''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'': It might be unsurprising that the foundational sci-fi author H.G. Wells would have been ahead of the curve on an Unbuilt Trope version of Diesel-Punk, as he was on many other science fiction tropes: in this 1933 projection of the future of a world thrown into an apocalypse by a lengthy world war, one can find many of the Unbuilt tropes of many sci-fi subgenres, in a setting that today looks prescient of Diesel-Punk, and was (along with the 1936 film adaptation) doubtless heavily influential over the subgenre. |
| 275 | * ''Literature/ShatteredContinent''. |
| 276 | * ''Literature/SixChances'' is a dieselpunk fantasy featuring weapons fueled by [[LifeEnergy vitae]] and [[PsychicLink psychic links]] between individuals who are on opposite sides of war that is on the horizon. |
| 277 | * ''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.'' |
| 278 | * The ''Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay'' take place in a {{Magitek}} dieselpunk world of airships and jet fighters. |
| 279 | * ''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. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:LiveActionTV]] |
| 283 | * ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' (2010): Creator/{{Syfy}}'s ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' {{spinoff}} is a mix of dieselpunk and {{cyberpunk}}. The in-story virtual game "New Cap City", which plays an important role in the series is pure Diesel Punk of the Noir variety. |
| 284 | * 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. |
| 285 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': Diesel Noir to be precise. The series has a very 1930s-1940s aesthetic, but more modern devices like cell phones are common. |
| 286 | * A 2013 {{mockumentary}} on Creator/TheHistoryChannel called "The Great Martian War" blended film footage from World War One with CG of Martian tripods. [[http://vimeo.com/107454954 Watch some footage of it here.]] There was also a video game based on the film. |
| 287 | * While the original book version of ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' is generally regarded as describing its heroine Lyra’s world as GaslampFantasy in style, the [=BBC/HBO=] adaptation goes for a ''lot'' of ArtDeco imagery (appropriately enough given all the passenger airships, which belong more in the 1930s than the Victorian age), creating something of a Dieselpunk feel overall. |
| 288 | * ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'' (1982-1983), a single-season series from The80s of the Deco and TwoFistedTales variety. |
| 289 | * In ''Series/TinMan'' (2007), parts of the O.Z. (especially Central City) have a strongly dieselpunk aesthetic. |
| 290 | * 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. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 294 | * The emerging musical genre known as ElectroSwing captures the essence of dieselpunk through remixing vintage jazz-style music and swing with modern technology and house beats. |
| 295 | ** For instance, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBGSJ3sbivI animated music video to "Rock It For Me"]] by Music/CaravanPalace. It's pure dieselpunk, with a giant ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''-inspired robot taking on an alien invasion, built in a factory eerily reminiscent of scenes from ''Film/{{Metropolis}}''. |
| 296 | * Many modern swing and jazz revivalist bands who either faithfully recreate or apply contemporary twists to vintage music have also been considered part of the dieselpunk genre, such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue and Squirrel Nut Zippers. In 2019, swing-ska band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies released a song and music video entitled "Diesel PunX", whose lyricism and musical/visual aesthetic draws directly from the dieselpunk genre. |
| 297 | * Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkekqVPIc2M Hold On Tight]]" is a fourth wall-breaking tribute to pulp serials of the 30s and 40s. |
| 298 | * The video for Music/MichaelJackson's ''Smooth Criminal'' was very dieselpunk, set in a speakeasy with flappers and gangsters, but with a lot of punk attitude and fantastic goings-on. |
| 299 | * The video for Music/LadyGaga's ''Alejandro'' is one-sixth this, one-sixth [[/index]]HoYay[[index]], one-sixth ThoseWackyNazis, and the rest is you know... [[SignatureStyle Lady Gaga]]. |
| 300 | * Music/TheMechanisms were a dieselpunk cabaret band, which also incorporated various genres such as folk and jazz. |
| 301 | ** Music/DrCarmilla was the former frontwoman of The Mechanisms and self-described herself as incorporating VisualKei. |
| 302 | * Music/PostmodernJukebox creates covers of modern songs in the styles of the 1910s-1950s. |
| 303 | * Music/{{Therion}}'s music video for "Initials BB" features dirigible battleships over what appears to be London, with ranks of scantily clad [[PuttingOnTheReich Germanic-uniformed]] women marching (and inexplicably [[FanService flashing their breasts]]). |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 307 | * ''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. |
| 308 | * ''[[http://ada-rpg.org/tiki-index.php/ Akroydiesel Age RPG]]'' is a dieselpunk game, complete with airships, anti-gravity dogfights, and diesel-powered mechs. |
| 309 | * ''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. |
| 310 | * ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' (1981) |
| 311 | ** ''[[TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhuMasksOfNyarlathotep Masks of Nyarlathotep]]'' |
| 312 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Sun_%28role-playing_game%29 Children of the Sun]]'' (2002). |
| 313 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Cosmopol}}'' (2010) ... and how. |
| 314 | * ''TabletopGame/CrimsonSkies'' (1998) |
| 315 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Daredevils}}'' (1982) by [=FGU=]. |
| 316 | * ''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. |
| 317 | ** 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. |
| 318 | * ''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. |
| 319 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' (2004) has a MagiTek version. |
| 320 | * ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' (2000), basically the same premise as ''Weird WWII'' |
| 321 | * ''[=GURPS=] Cliffhangers'' (1989) by Steve Jackson Games. |
| 322 | * ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' (2006) by Exile Games Studio. TwoFistedTales meet ''The LostWorld''. |
| 323 | %%* ''[[http://www.rollspel.com/ravspel/r6.htm Lemuria]]'' (2004) by Rävspel (written for ''d20 Modern'')%%ZCE and a dead link |
| 324 | * The ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' setting of New Capenna has one foot firmly in a {{Magitek}} take on this trope, complete with [[FlyingCar hovercars]], [[LightningGun energy weapons]], and [[SkyscraperCity mind-bogglingly massive Art Deco architecture]], all running on a [[PoweredByAForsakenChild not particularly ethical or sustainable powersource]]. |
| 325 | * ''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. |
| 326 | * ''[[http://www.fallen.se/ Operation: Fallen Reich]]'' (2009) by Fallen Publishing. |
| 327 | * ''TabletopGame/PulpHero'' (2005) by Hero Games. |
| 328 | * ''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. |
| 329 | * ''[[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]] |
| 330 | * Despite ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' being Raygun Gothic, the Nazis have war-walkers based on Ancient Martian design and the airships also qualify. |
| 331 | * ''TabletopGame/RocketshipEmpires1936'' (2008) |
| 332 | * ''TabletopGame/SecretsOfTheThirdReich'' (2008), a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII wargame by Westwind Productions, which has, amongst other things, mecha, powered armour, and vampires. To say nothing of the werewolves. |
| 333 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Scythe}}'', based on the art of Jakub Rozalski. |
| 334 | * ''TabletopGame/TrailOfCthulhu''. |
| 335 | * 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. |
| 336 | ** 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. |
| 337 | * ''TabletopGame/WeirdWars'' (2001), a little-known UsefulNotes/WorldWarII equivalent of ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' . |
| 338 | * ''[[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. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 342 | * Toys/LEGOAdventurers (1998-2003) |
| 343 | [[/folder]] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | [[folder:VideoGames]] |
| 346 | * ''VideoGame/AirfixDogfighter'' (2000) |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/AkaiKatana'' (2010) takes place before or during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII |
| 348 | * {{VideoGame/Anamnesis}} |
| 349 | |
| 350 | * ''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. |
| 351 | * 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. |
| 352 | ** ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' (2007) |
| 353 | ** ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' (2010) |
| 354 | |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'' (2008, 2010) has some elements of World War II dieselpunk, namely the Wunderwaffen and Teleporters developed by the Nazis. |
| 356 | ** 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. |
| 357 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'' returns zombies with a distinctly FilmNoir-inspired yet patently dieselpunk setting. |
| 358 | * 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]]. |
| 359 | * ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' (1996) |
| 360 | * ''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. |
| 361 | * ''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. |
| 362 | * ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'' (2011): World War 2 meets ''Jurassic Park''. |
| 363 | * The ''Franchise/{{Dishonored}}'' series: |
| 364 | ** ''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. |
| 365 | ** ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'' continues with even more pseudo-magic clockwork machinery. |
| 366 | ** ''VideoGame/DishonoredDeathOfTheOutsider'' has an occult-driven {{Cyborg}} as a protagonist. |
| 367 | * ''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. |
| 368 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' -- Usually classified as [[RaygunGothic atompunk]], but takes place in a retrograde enough world to qualify (a world with atomic power but without the transistor[[note]]Effectively, at least. Transistors ''were'' invented, but only a couple of years before the atomic war, so the overwhelming majority of electronics uses vacuum tubes[[/note]]). It's actually {{deconstructed|Trope}} in that the inefficient technology ended up depleting resources faster, thus causing the conflicts that lead to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Great War]]. |
| 369 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' (1997) |
| 370 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' (1998) |
| 371 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutTacticsBrotherhoodOfSteel'' (2001) |
| 372 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutVanBuren''. Cancelled before its release in 2003. |
| 373 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'' (2004) |
| 374 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' (2008) |
| 375 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' (2010) |
| 376 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' (2015) |
| 377 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' |
| 378 | ** There are also some ''Fallout'' Fan Games with their own pages: |
| 379 | *** ''VideoGame/Fallout1Point5Resurrection'' (2013) |
| 380 | *** ''VideoGame/FalloutSonora'' (2020) |
| 381 | * ''VideoGame/FistForgedInShadowTorch'' |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture'' is a 1998 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. |
| 383 | * ''VideoGame/{{Grandia}}'': |
| 384 | ** The Port Town of Parm and the Garlyle Forces from the first ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' straddle a vague line between this and SteamPunk. |
| 385 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandiaXtreme'': Nortis, of the {{Kaiserreich}} variety. |
| 386 | |
| 387 | * In Ross Smith's "Timeline" ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' mod trilogy (c. 1999-2002), rogue Black Mesa scientists adapt teleporter technology for time travel, specifically to help the Nazis complete their Sänger [=AmerikaBomber=] and heavy water projects and conquer the United States. Gordon Freeman must stop the Nazi invasion of time itself. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | * ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik'' (2001) offers a more realistic than RuleOfCool take on the aesthetic, justified [[TruthInTelevision by bits of actual WWII history]]. |
| 390 | * ''VideoGame/InSomniaTheArk'' is a dystopian dieselpunk RPG that takes place in a decaying art deco space station. |
| 391 | * ''VideoGame/IronBrigade'' (2011), best described as "World War I with Mecha -- against an invasion of television monsters." |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/IronGrip'' (2006) |
| 393 | * ''VideoGame/IronHarvest'' is a RealTimeStrategy game set the same universe as ''TabletopGame/{{Scythe}}''. |
| 394 | * ''VideoGame/IronStorm'' (2002) is set in 1964, in an AlternateHistory setting where UsefulNotes/WorldWarI never ended. You'll see televisions and helicopters, while fighting in trenches and mud. Also, the weaponry is fictional but credible for alternate technology from the 1950-1960s. |
| 395 | |
| 396 | * 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. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | * ''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. |
| 399 | %%* ''VideoGame/{{Machinarium}}'' |
| 400 | * 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. |
| 401 | ** 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. |
| 402 | ** Same thing applies for the 2021 remake, ''VideoGame/MetalSlugCodeJ''. |
| 403 | |
| 404 | * ''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]]. |
| 405 | * ''VideoGame/{{Nocturne|1999}}'' (1999) revolves around 1930s pulp heroes fighting off mad science and Lovecraftian monsters in a very dieselpunk mode. |
| 406 | |
| 407 | * ''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! |
| 408 | * ''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. |
| 409 | * ''VideoGame/{{Progear}}'' (2001) has technology somewhere between UsefulNotes/WorldWarI and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 410 | * ''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. |
| 411 | |
| 412 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}'' series, WWI ended differently and WWII never happened. Unfortunately, Asia and Europe got invaded by aliens instead. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | * Outerlight Ltd.'s ''VideoGame/TheShipMurderParty'' (2006), a very warped tale set in an art deco cruise liner. |
| 415 | * ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'' (2003) starts as a relatively realistic game focussed on managing a commando team during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (there are an Axis and an Allies campaign), then it [[GenreShift switches to]] a plot involving a Thor Hammer Organisation (THO), NebulousEvilOrganization supplying both sides with {{Energy Weapon}}s and {{Powered Armor}}s, in order to weaken them enough to be able to TakeOverTheWorld by themselves. Its first sequel, the expansion pack ''Silent Storm: Sentinels'', is set not long after the end of the war and features the eponymous Sentinels as a secret multinational (party members from both sides of the previous game are available) organisation struggling against THO, while the high technology is still there. |
| 416 | * ''VideoGame/TheSinkingCity'' combines dieselpunk tropes with [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] horror. |
| 417 | * ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' (2012) definitely draws on the dieselpunk aesthetic, although the makers prefer to call it Dark Deco. |
| 418 | * ''The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces'' (2008), a video game for Nintendo Wii loosely based on the anime Anime/TheSkyCrawlers. |
| 419 | * ''[[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. |
| 420 | * ''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. |
| 421 | * ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion: Heavy Armor'' (2012) [[ContinuityReboot shifts]] to a WWII Punk setting...in 2082. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that microprocessors are no longer in production due to silicon-eating microbes appearing as early as 2020, hence the technological regression. |
| 422 | |
| 423 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'': The world of Elympios that you visit fairly late in the first game and where much of the sequel takes place is a decaying land where the dingy cities are full of skyscrapers, and the background music is heavy on jazzy saxophones. Its largest city (and only city in the first game), Trigleph, looks like it was pulled straight out of a FilmNoir hard-boiled detective movie. |
| 424 | * ''VideoGame/Tower57'' |
| 425 | * ''VideoGame/TurningPointFallOfLiberty'' (2008) |
| 426 | |
| 427 | * The retro-cult Taerkastens from ''VideoGame/UrbanAssault'', are a 26th century version of this. Since the Taerkastens eschew electronics and related tech, they use propeller powered war planes and giant zeppelins when the other factions are using more standard futuristic units. But what they lack in the electronics department, they more than make up for by being on the leading edge of engineering and material design. The Taerkastens have the most heavily armored units in the game. |
| 428 | |
| 429 | * The ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' series of games is based in an alternate reality continent of Europa, loosely based on WWII Europe. "Ragnite ore" takes the place of petroleum in the game, which is centered on the small country of Gallia, a state rich in said ore, and sought after by the Atlantic Federation and the East Europan Imperial Alliance (roughly, the Allies and the Axis). |
| 430 | ** ''VideoGame/ValkyriaRevolution'' |
| 431 | |
| 432 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' games. |
| 433 | ** ''VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein'' (1981) |
| 434 | ** ''Beyond Castle Wolfenstein'' (1984) |
| 435 | ** ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' (1992) |
| 436 | ** ''Spear of Destiny '' (1992) |
| 437 | ** ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' (2001) |
| 438 | ** ''Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'' (2003) |
| 439 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein|2009}}'' (2009) |
| 440 | ** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' (2014) is a Diesel Dystopia set in a world where the Nazis have won. |
| 441 | ** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'' (2015) |
| 442 | ** ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' (2017) continues the dystopian tale of the New Order. |
| 443 | * ''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. |
| 444 | ** Same applies for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 448 | * ''Webcomic/{{Adventures of the 19XX}}'': [[http://www.kopetkai.com/adventures/]] A [[HeroesRUs secret society]] protecting the world from occult villains. |
| 449 | * Anathema, hosted on Slipshine. |
| 450 | * ''Webcomic/AthenaVoltaire'': [[http://athenavoltaire.blogspot.com/]] A female Indiana Jones much cooler and better-dressed than Lara Croft. |
| 451 | * ''Webcomic/CaptainSpectreAndTheLightningLegion'': [[http://www.captainspectre.com/]] A Rocketeer-style hero done in a retro serial style. |
| 452 | * ''Webcomic/DeepDiveDaredevils'': [[http://deepdivedaredevils.com/?p=176]] A dieselpunk adventure [[RecycledInSpace AT SEA]]! |
| 453 | * ''Webcomic/EvenDeathMayDie'' (formerly ''Strange Aeons''): [[http://strangeaeons.comicdish.com/]]: Nazis, Lovecraft, noir and pulpy intrigue set in a crazy-ass Art Deco MegaCity. |
| 454 | * ''Webcomic/FemmeNoir'': [[http://www.femme-noir.com/]] A sexy P.I. solves mysteries in a shady neo-noir fashion. |
| 455 | * ''Webcomic/IronCrown'': [[http://ironcrowncomic.com/]] An interwar example with mercenaries, monsters, and a dictator's daughter on the run after a coup. |
| 456 | * ''Webcomic/WarbirdsOfMars'': [[http://www.bombshelterzine.com/wordpress/]] Diesel-fied America at war with Nazis, alien invaders and (maybe?) Nazi aliens. |
| 457 | [[/folder]] |
| 458 | |
| 459 | [[folder:WebOriginal]] |
| 460 | %% * ''[[http://www.ryannagata.com/films/1945a/ 1945A]]'' link is defunct and no context is given, feel free to address if you know anything about it. |
| 461 | * ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfTaras'' combines this with BioPunk, featuring a [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack]] / [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccarine]] World of [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised]] Diesel Punk tech, with ActionGirl and WrenchWench characters and more [[OrganicTechnology Engineered]] horrific creatures than can be listed. |
| 462 | * ''Webvideo/TheDangerElement'' [[https://www.youtube.com/battlejitni (The Adventures of Battle Jitni)]], a low budget action movie with heavy diesel punk and TwoFistedTale stylings |
| 463 | * ''Podcast/DecoderRingTheatre'' features several series in the style of 1930-50s radio drama broadcasts |
| 464 | * ''Website/TheGearheart'' ([[http://www.thegearheart.com/ website]]) 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. |
| 465 | * ''WebVideo/TheMercuryMen'', a series set in the 1970's but with a distinctly diesel noir style, about an office clerk facing a small-scale alien invasion with the aid of a daring ScienceHero |
| 466 | * The ''Podcast/TwilightHistories'' episode “True Aztec” is set in a dieselpunk Aztec Empire facing off against an equally dieselpunk Japanese Empire. The episode “The Big Turk” includes some slight elements such as airships and high-speed trains. |
| 467 | [[/folder]] |
| 468 | |
| 469 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 470 | * ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDreamland'', the eighth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', takes the super-spies cum drug lords cum detectives back to 1940s Los Angeles. |
| 471 | ** But even more dieselpunkish than ''Archer: Dreamland'' is the parent series' ''next'' season, ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDangerIsland'', a pulp adventure that winds back the clock some more to the late 1930s (this is all a coma dream in the real Archer's head), set mostly on a French-colonial Polynesian Pacific island. |
| 472 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' (1992-1995, 1997-1999). To a lesser extent ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' keeps some of Superman's timeless feel from the 30/40's. |
| 473 | * ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'' could be considered a humorous take on this concept, with its pseudo-World War I setting and outrageous aircraft designs. |
| 474 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' (2012-2014), a sequel series to ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', is a FarEast ScienceFantasy, UrbanFantasy variant of this, complete with [[MundaneUtility power plants being staffed by people with lighting powers]]. It's particularly apparent in Republic City, a CultureChopSuey of various [[TheRoaring20s 1920s-era]] metropolises with the Asian aesthetics accentuated. The soundtrack has been described as "1920s New Orleans jazz but if it were invented in China". |
| 475 | ** And just like that, it takes more books until the punk's theme and aesthetics eventually appears through most of Book 3 until with Book 4 finally become thing in the universe both technologically and politically with dieselpunk-style [[HumongousMecha giant Mecha]] that avatar crew face with. |
| 476 | * ''WesternAnimation/MrHublot'': Everything is mechanical—Mr. Hublot, the dog, the flies that the dog tries to catch, Mr. Hublot's flowers. The robot people fly to work via propellers in their heads. Yet the cars and the architecture have a 1950s flavor. |
| 477 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' (2002-2006). Though it's a little more leaning towards RaygunGothic than Diesel. |
| 478 | * Second episode of season 3 from ''[[/index]]WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty[[index]]'' have main plot to explore a [[AfterTheEnd dimension that Human civilization has already destroyed while ago]] and focuses on ''Mad Max'' Raiders with their lives and their dieselpunk cars. |
| 479 | * The Disney cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' (1990-1991) and its 1930s pulp adventure style was a high-flying, lighthearted brand of diesel. |
| 480 | * ''Westernanimation/WhatIf2021'', in an episode giving an alternate look at the above mentioned ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', expands on it by having Comicbook/IronMan's father building a suit of armor similar to his during World War II, nicknamed "HYDRA Stomper". |
| 481 | [[/folder]] |
| 482 | |
| 483 | [[folder:RealLife]] |
| 484 | * [[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]], an ambitious project which laid the foundational principals for modern radar in the process of trying to figure out if a practical death ray was possible with then-current technology. |
| 485 | * Since Music/DoctorSteel was a SteamPunk musician who leaned on dieselpunk tropes as well, it isn't surprising to see a lot of dieselpunk fashion sense in the uniforms of the [[Website/ToySoldiersUnite Army of Toy Soldiers]]. |
| 486 | * ThoseWackyNazis designed a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderwaffe series of "superweapons"]] termed ''Wunderwaffe'' (German for "wonder weapon") before and during World War II. Many of them were outlandish and never made it past the prototype stage, but in retrospect were heavily dieselpunk in their design. In fact, many dieselpunk aesthetics are inspired or pulled directly from ''Wunderwaffe'' designs, such as those featured in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Let's take a closer look at a few shall we? |
| 487 | ** The [[TankGoodness humongous]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landkreuzer_P._1000_Ratte Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte]] was a proposed massive 1000-ton [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] [[MilitaryMashupMachine land battleship]] (er...''cruiser'') armed with [[{{BFG}} dual 280 mm naval cannons]] as well as [[MoreDakka various smaller caliber guns]] which might or might not have been mounted on smaller axillary turrets, all powered by no less than two engines derived from submarines. Allegedly, the main turret of this monster was completed before it was realized that Germany could ill afford to operate such an [[AwesomeButImpractical awesome weapon]] by its 1943 state, but it definitely deserves a mention by virtue of sheer scale. |
| 488 | ** 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 ''fourteen feet tall and almost three feet wide'' (a bit over four meters, with an 800 mm caliber). |
| 489 | ** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229 Horten Ho 229,]] a prototype German night fighter built towards the end of World War II, certainly qualifies both in design and function. It even makes a cameo appearance at the beginning of ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder''. Many a gamer can be forgiven for thinking it was just standard dieselpunk hijinks. |
| 490 | * Being of the era which inspired the genre, a lot of actual WWII tech of the type used also qualifies. Prime examples include such distinctive aircraft as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane Hawker Hurricane]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster Avro Lancaster]], virtually [[TankGoodness any tank]], and the aesthetic of uniforms from a variety of combatants or theatres. Pretty much all early war British equipment would count. |
| 491 | * The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner GM Futurliners]], a set of bus-sized art deco vehicles used as a traveling museum presenting the wonders of 1940-50's era technology. |
| 492 | [[/folder]] |
| 493 | |
| 494 | [[/index]] |
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