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2	[[caption-width-right:318: So [[JungleOpera a Jungle Girl]], [[Literature/DocSavage a Super-Scientist]], [[ComicBook/TheSpirit a Masked Vigilante]] and [[ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} an Ace Pilot]] walk into a bar...]]
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4	Once upon a time, there was [[PulpMagazine pulp]]. Pulp was a style of writing that emerged onto the scene in the 1920s, featuring a variety of stories printed on cheap paper (hence "pulp"). Back in the day, pulp content ranged from the {{Cosmic Horror Stor\|y}}ies of Creator/HPLovecraft to the [[FilmNoir noir pieces]] of Creator/RaymondChandler and from the over-the-top action of ''Literature/DocSavage'' to the HeroicFantasy of ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'' and even the RaygunGothic of Hugo Gernsback's Magazine/AmazingStories. The pulp era died down by the late '50s, when the leading distributor of pulp, the American News Company, went bankrupt, although there was a resurgence in the '60s and '70s in the form of the DarkerAndEdgier "men's adventure magazines", which straddled the line between pure pulp adventure and ostensibly-true LuridTalesOfDoom, all with a RatedMForManly aesthetic. These are today best-remembered as things to read at the barber shop while you waited for your turn.
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6	Then, people started looking back on the pulp era {{nostalgi\|aFilter}}cally, and when they did, they usually locked onto the over-the-top stories of ProtoSuperhero characters like ''Literature/TheShadow'', ''Literature/DocSavage'', and ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom''. Many point to ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and the sequel ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, which took 1930s pulp adventures as an inspiration, as the keystone of the pulp resurgence, but whatever kicked it off, pulp has recaptured the heart of many a geek.
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8	Two-Fisted Tales refers to stories told in a style that reflects fondly on the old pulps. This usually means the story will be set in the '20s or '30s, and focus on square-jawed, clever men (and women) of action. Other elements thrown in for flavor include:
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10	* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The men's adventure subgenre had a lot of "man versus [[WildWilderness wilderness]]" narratives, in which ActionSurvivor heroes were tormented by animals ranging from the [[ScaryAnimalsIndex usual culprits]] like [[BearsAreBadNews bears]], [[PantheraAwesome big cats]], [[ThreateningShark sharks]], and the like, to the truly [[PleasantAnimalsIndex improbable and harmless]], as in the infamous ''Man's Life'' story "Weasels Ripped My Flesh!" [[note]]Yes, that's what the Music/FrankZappa album is named after[[/note]]
11	* ProtoSuperhero motifs
12	* SpaceOpera or PlanetaryRomance, where people get around in {{Retro Rocket}}s and other ShinyLookingSpaceships, and everything is [[RaygunGothic smooth-lined and chrome-plated]]. You may also find {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s or outright HumanAliens, and the possibility of BoldlyComing is rarely far off. Combine this with the above ProtoSuperhero and you get CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth
13	* [[MadScientist Mad Science]] and/or WeirdScience. Popular experiments for the those dabbling in these fields include a ManEatingPlant, mucking about with EvolutionaryLevels, or anything involving a KillerGorilla
14	* {{Bold Explorer}}s discovering [[LostWorld lost civilizations]], usually including a JunglePrincess, LivingDinosaurs, and maybe a TempleOfDoom or two. These are usually located either in a place considered "exotic" by western readers, such as a HungryJungle, ThirstyDesert, MysteriousAntarctica, or BeneathTheEarth.
15	** Fanciful depictions of actual civilizations are also fairly common. AncientEgypt, DarkestAfrica, TheShangrila, and MysticalIndia have all been popular subjects. Expect a lot of ValuesDissonance here, too: most of these stories (though not all) take it for granted that the world is a playground for [[MightyWhitey white heroes]] to [[AdventureFriendlyWorld have adventures in]]. If the EvilColonialist does show up as a villain, the emphasis will be put on his personal cruelty, rather than any systemic critique of colonialism itself. Odds are also good that he'll be from [[CreatorProvincialism a country other than that of the assumed readers]], thus drawing a distinction between the "bad, cruel" colonialism of the rival powers and the "good, humane" colonialism that we're doing (whoever "we" are)
16	* [[TheMafia Gangsters]], usually of the type that wear pinstripe suits, call each other by crazy nicknames, and wield Tommy guns
17	* The YellowPeril, usually including a DragonLady
18	* The occult. A lot of ideas from actual occult, pseudoscientific, and theosophical lore found their way into pop culture via pulp science fiction, so tropes like LandmarkOfLore, AncientAstronauts, a SunkenCity, and the HollowWorld fit right in here. Pulp is also the home of the OccultDetective.
19	* Plenty of [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] to be punched out. Most of them will be the source of, exploiting, or ''trying'' to exploit [[StupidJetpackHitler either Mad / Weird Science]] or [[{{Ghostapo}} the Occult]]. In later material, DirtyCommies (often overlapping with the above YellowPeril) would sometimes take their place.
20	* {{Ace Pilot}}s, either flying a CoolPlane, or, if it's a SpaceOpera, a SpaceFighter
21	** {{Cool Airship}}s were very big in the '30s, and turn up occasionally in pulp literature and film serials of that era, but have really found their niche in later {{Genre Throwback}}s, where they became [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld a shorthand for fanciful worlds where the pulp adventures never stopped]]. However, due to their associations with Germany, airships are far more likely to [[DreadZeppelin belong to the bad guys]] than the heroes.
22	* {{Adventurer Outfit}}s
23	* DuringTheWar: Stories about military life or important battles were very popular. They'd usually emphasize [[WarIsHell the horrors of war]], while at the same time [[WarIsGlorious celebrate the bravery of those who had endured it]]. Given when these magazines were being published, it was safe to assume most of the male readers were themselves veterans, so [[ArmiesAreEvil unflattering depictions of the boys in uniform]] were right out; this also meant these stories needed to be [[ShownTheirWork unusually well-researched]].
24	* ChandlerAmericanTime: The pre-war thirties is a popular time frame. As noted above, lots of this stuff was still being published well into the '70s, but even by then it had a very retro-'30s or '40s sensibility, as evidenced by the fact that Nazi villains remained a staple, whether the stories were period pieces set DuringTheWar or not.
25	* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious - Especially in the post-war pulps. The men's adventure subgenre in particular is often credited with bringing cryptids from the fringes of science and into mainstream pop culture. BigfootSasquatchAndYeti were particularly common.
26	* WildWilderness - The men's adventure pulps were often seen as the "outdoors" equivalent to the more "sophisticated", indoors magazines like ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''. Their heroes were typically rugged, outdoorsy types living in [[BleakBorderBase small communities on the edge of the wilderness]] or leading safari tours into the SavageSouth, shipwrecked sailors in lifeboats or on some DesertedIsland, or other varieties of tough guy on some kind of {{Robinsonade}}. This was the perfect environment to meet [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever the improbably violent animals]] and cryptids mentioned above, though some of these stories would temper the carnage with a GreenAesop.
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28	As stated above, Two-Fisted Tales don't often attempt to recapture the varied feel of all the old pulps; it's very rare you'll see someone trying to overlay the Literature/DocSavage feel onto a Cthulhu story ([[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu not that it's impossible]]). Usually, it attempts to focus on the thrilling heroics, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools not that that's a bad thing]].
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30	While most works in the genre are not set during the interwar "pulp era" (though the occasional one, such as ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' [1948], is), Main/TheWestern could be considered an inherently pulpy genre, thanks to it frequently featuring heightened reality, an exotic historical setting (often nostalgically rendered), double-fisted machismo, a sensationalistic tone, plenty of action and/or adventure, print-the-legend storytelling, larger-than-life mythmaking, and fairly clear lines of morality.
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32	Related to DieselPunk and JungleOpera. Often the subject of a GenreThrowback. See also NinjaPirateZombieRobot, TwiceToldTale which requires a specific tale. Also see SwordAndSorcery for a similarly campy style of adventure narrative that was popular around the same time.
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34	See Also: HungryJungle
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36	If you're an author; see SoYouWantTo/WriteAJungleOpera
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39	!!Examples:
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44	* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', a Prohibition-era story with gangsters, serial killers and immortal alchemists, told in ''Film/PulpFiction''-style AnachronicOrder.
45	%%* ''Anime/ProjectBlueEarthSOS''
46	%%* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', particularly the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism more idealistic]] {{manga}} version.
47	%%* ''Anime/GiantGorg''
48	* [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]] of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' takes place just before World War II, with a wisecracking GuileHero protagonist taking on NighInvulnerable super-vampires known as the Pillar Men. In an odd inversion, ThoseWackyNazis are actually on the ''heroes''[='=] side in trying to take out the Pillar Men (and one of them is transformed into a cyborg through '''[[LargeHam NAZI SCIENCE]]'''!)
49	%%* ''Literature/{{Gosick}}'' loved its occult.
50	%%* ''Manga/GiantRobo''
51	%%* ''[[Manga/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]''
52	%%* ''Anime/TheBigO''
53	* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'''s backstory includes a Lost World populated with snake-men, a modern Aztec empire, mass UFO sightings and neo-Nazis: not your average Slice of Life setting (even if you ignore the centaurs).
54	* ''Anime/PorcoRosso'' is a downplayed example, with a plot revolving around an AcePilot who hunts SkyPirates during TheGreatDepression. However, this being a Creator/StudioGhibli movie, the tone is a lot more introspective and pensive than this sort of story is normally about.
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57	[[folder:Comic Books]]
58	* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' features elements of Two-Fisted Tales, with Nazis, [[ManiacMonkeys evil monkeys]], WeirdScience, and the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] crime-fighter Lobster Johnson. A spin-off series featuring Lobster Johnson has taken these elements and cranked them up to eleven.
59	* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' features Axel Brass, one of the universe's "Century Babies" and a CaptainErsatz of Literature/DocSavage, who once headed up an entire secret society of Captain Ersatzes based on the pulp heroes of the era. His adventures and dealings with Elijah Snow are regularly chronicled.
60	* ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' is Creator/AlanMoore's {{Reconstruction}} on everything that made those stories fun and noble.
61	* Marvel's ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'' is mostly a Kung Fu book, but features strong elements of pulp as well (especially with Orson Randall, the World War I era Iron Fist).
62	* In 1997 Creator/DCComics had a "Pulp Heroes" event, in which all their annuals were written in the style of the pulps. Ones that particularly fitted the Two-Fisted Tales paradigm were under the banners "My Greatest Adventure" and "Tales of the Unexpected". "Suspense Detective" also fitted to an extent, although that was more the PrivateDetective trope. "[[RomanceArc Young Romance]]" and "[[NewOldWest Weird Western Tales]]" were based on very different pulp genres.
63	* The Creator/ECComics title ''Two-Fisted Tales'' began with stories of this genre but soon became a (much better) war comic.
64	* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'':
65	** Much of the series is a more modern-day take on this. The titular character is a snarky robot who has fought Nazi mad scientists, Lovecraftian horrors, and an intelligent dinosaur, visited different dimensions, and encountered the ghost of Rasputin.
66	** In-universe, Robo is a fan of Dirk Daring, the Daring Doer of Derring-Do, a radio program that is best enjoyed at certain (i.e. loud) volumes.
67	* Creator/DCComics' ''ComicBook/{{First Wave\|DCComics}}'' imprint, a Two-Fisted Tales and DieselPunk universe that includes Literature/DocSavage, Literature/TheAvenger, ComicBook/TheSpirit and [[JunglePrincess Rima the Jungle Girl]], as well as DCU characters who fit the paradigm like Franchise/{{Batman}} (who in this world is ComicBook/TheShadow, complete with twin guns) and ComicBook/BlackCanary.
68	* Dave Stevens's ''ComicBook/TheRocketeer'' is a celebration of all kinds of Thirties and Forties tropes including this one, and so was the 1991 [[Film/TheRocketeer film adaptation]].
69	* Dominic Fortune, a 1930s "Brigand for Hire" in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Created by Creator/HowardChaykin.
70	* Parodied in ''ComicBook/TalesDesignedToThrizzle'' with ''Two-Fisted Poe''.
71	--> Quoth the raven - '''Lights Out!!!'''
72	** Also, ''The result of a confusing memo: Two-Tailed Fists!'' with a pair of confused gangsters attacked by giant fists with tails.
73	%%* ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir'', especially the ones that involve powers like Spider-Man.%%ZCE
74	%%** The ''Deadpool'' mini was called ''ComicBook/DeadpoolPulp'', rather than ''Noir''.%%ZCE
75	%%* The Moonstone relaunch of ''ComicBook/{{Airboy}}'' focuses heavily on this.%% Beyond the name, what else did it do?
76	%%* ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire'' checks all the boxes.%% ZCE
77	* ''ComicBook/TheGoon'' is sort of a cross between this and supermarket tabloids. The Goon himself and his sidekick Franky are a pair of gangsters straight out of an old newspaper comic, who keep their city safe from zombies, [[MadScientist mad science]], {{eldritch abomination}}s, [[YourVampiresSuck sparkly vampires]], and a whole FantasyKitchenSink worth of weirdness.
78	* The Comicbook/CaptainAmerica arc "The Bloodstone Hunt" is essentially this - Cap has to travel around the globe to exotic locations to get the five fragments of the Bloodstone before Baron Zemo can. Each location is essentially a pulp location in itself.
79	* ''Five Ghosts'' is a deliberately pulp adventure comic whose protagonist, Fabian Gray, is possessed by -- and shares the abilities of -- the ghosts of UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi, Myth/{{Merlin}}, Franchise/SherlockHolmes, {{Dracula}} and Myth/RobinHood. The covers often emulate EC Comics and other Golden Age titles, though the series itself is far less "meta" than ''Tom Strong'' or ''Planetary''.
80	* Many ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} stories that aren't focused on more traditional superheroics are instead pulp-style adventures. In fact, the first 20 or so issues were almost all exclusively pulp stories, with Logan traveling around the seedier parts of the world and fighting supernatural villains. He also spent little time in his iconic costume, not even wearing it at all for the first two arcs.
81	* Creator/GarthEnnis's run on ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' is a full on GenreDeconstruction of Two-Fisted Tales. A romantic view of the pre-war Thirties is only possible by ''intentionally'' ignoring the heinous war crimes committed by the Axis Powers, especially the Nanjing Massacre. A character in the series {{Lampshades}} this, saying he expected more of "rip-roaring" adventure in the Japanese-occupied China.
82	* As part of ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' is ''Where Monsters Dwell'' featuring the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] character the [[AcePilot Phantom Eagle,]] a CoolPlane, [[NubileSavage Amazons]], and an IslandOfMystery full of dinosaurs. It being another Creator/GarthEnnis piece, it's also a DeconstructiveParody, as the Eagle is a send up of these kinds of heroes; sexist, cowardly, and completely incompetent. It's TheNotLoveInterest Clemmie who does all the heroic stuff (and who [[LipstickLesbian gets to have lots of sex with the Amazons.]])
83	* ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'' puts the leading ladies of the DC Universe in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, fighting both ThoseWackyNazis and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
84	* ''ComicBook/{{Adventureman}}'' by Creator/MattFraction, featuring an {{Expy}} of Literature/DocSavage passing on his powers to a single mom and her sisters.
85	* The DC Comics character ComicBook/AdamStrange has significant pulpy elements, namely that the title character is an archeologist who becomes a hero on an alien planet while romancing the daughter of the scientist who brought him there. RaygunGothic design elements, and a PlanetaryRomance concept (that is clearly inspired by Literature/JohnCarterOfMars) make Adam one of the pulpiest of DC's heroes.
86	* In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', the Astro-Naut's adventures are of this nature, featuring an AcePilot waging SpaceOpera battles, fights against {{TheMafia}}, and PlanetaryRomance with the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Xalzana, all exploring a thousand worlds in a sleek silver ProtoSuperhero costume.
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90	%%* ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''
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94	* The version of ''JustForFun/DaringDo'' in ''Fanfic/TheManySecretOriginsOfScootaloo'''s eighth chapter is this trope. It centers around the sale of a legendary diamond in a mafia-owned cabaret, complete with gunfights and a young street urchin who helps out the heroes.
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98	* ''WesternAnimation/MissingLink'' is a throwback to the earlier pulps, in the final days of what would eventually be called SteamPunk. A GentlemanAdventurer, the widow of his old rival, and [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a sasquatch]] go on a ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays''-style globetrotting adventure to [[TheShangrila the Himalayas]] in search of the yeti.
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101	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
102	* The ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' movies, about an AdventurerArchaeologist traveling around the world, outwitting Nazi villains and excavating ancient temples, with some aspects of DieselPunk.
103	* ''Franchise/StarWars'' was inspired by elements of the pulp series '' ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' and was in fact originally intended to be a film adaptation of it.
104	%%* The 1996 movie of ''Film/{{The Phantom\|1996}}''.%%ZCE
105	%%* ''Film/TheRocketeer''%%ZCE
106	* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' is a gleefully silly dieselpunk adventure full of mad science, daring aviators, and globetrotting adventure.
107	%%* ''Film/{{Bullshot}}''%%ZCE
108	%%* ''Film/TheShadow''%%ZCE
109	* This trope is what ''Film/PulpFiction'' is named after, though in practice, it's more of a crime noir tale than anything from the old pulps.
110	* Cult classic ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'', a purposeful homage of Doc Savage.
111	* ''The Adventures of Film/TheLibrarian'' are a modern day pulp adventure spanning, to date, three films and a series.
112	* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', what with gung-ho hero Cap and a group of {{Badass Normal}}s fighting HYDRA, a splinter group of ThoseWackyNazis with WeirdScience death machines powered by [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Asgardian]] magic.
113	* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon\|1980}}'' is a very tongue-in-cheek and campy sci-fi adventure with a RaygunGothic aesthetic, tons of very hammy acting (including a career-definingly loud performance from [[Creator/BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]), and a kickin' Music/{{Queen}} soundtrack.
114	* Creator/AmicusProductions made four Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs-inspired movies in the mid to late '70s, staring Doug [=McClure=] and featuring [[SpecialEffectsFailure big rubber monsters]], [[LostWorld lost worlds]], and [[NubileSavage insanely gorgeous women]]. Three of these - ''Film/TheLandThatTimeForgot'', ''Film/ThePeopleThatTimeForgot'', and ''Film/AtTheEarthsCore'' - are straight adaptations of Burroughs novels (see below under Literature), while the fourth, ''Film/WarlordsOfAtlantis'', was an original story that nonetheless captured the tone of a Burroughs novel.
115	* [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Films]] got in on this too in the '70s, with movies like ''Film/TheLostContinent'', a movie about the crew and passengers of a ship getting stuck in the Sargasso Sea, and encountering sea monsters and a lost civilization descended from Spanish conquistadores, most of which is shamelessly cribbed from Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson's ''Literature/TheBoatsOfTheGlenCarrig''. Their development process for these seemed to start by designing a really cool poster, and then trying to write a movie around it. One movie that, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen alas]], never got past the poster was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin simply-titled]] ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zeppelin_v_pterodactyls_1.jpg Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls]]''.
116	* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', a joyfully silly [[HollywoodPrehistory cavemen-and-dinosaurs movie]] featuring Creator/RaquelWelch as probably the single most iconic NubileSavage in pop culture history, being menaced by an entire menagerie of Creator/RayHarryhausen beasties.
117	* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' is a franchise all about a sapient magical game based on a JungleOpera setting from exactly this kind of genre. The second film takes this even further, with every player sucked into the game and given new avatars based on five stereotypical heroes from a jungle-exploring two-fisted tale.
118	* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' is a trilogy of exactly this kind of story, being largely an action adventure series with the supernatural giving it more of a horror element than most. Taking its title and most of its plot cues from ''Film/TheMummy1932'', it has more in common tonally with ''Film/TheMummysHand'', a 1940s semi-reboot that also belongs squarely in this genre.
119	* ''The Mummy's Hand'' and its sequels codified the trope of a {{mummy}} as a shambling, mute ImplacableMan who likes to strangle people with their recurring villain Kharis and his repeated run-ins with a family of {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s.
120	* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' is another Franchise/UniversalHorror movie that edges into this trope, with a jungle expedition running afoul of a very [[MarsNeedsWomen lonely]] [[FishPeople fish-man]].
121	** ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'', is a fairly by-the-numbers EscapedAnimalRampage story. The second sequel, ''Film/TheCreatureWalksAmongUs'', however, amps the strangeness back up with more WeirdScience and elements of FilmNoir.
122	* ''Film/Overlord2018'' is probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' movie. It's a pulp take on UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, with square-jawed American paratroopers infiltrating a German-held fortress full of [[StupidJetpackHitler gruesome Nazi science]].
123	* ''Film/TheRocketeer'' is another affectionate homage to the two-fisted tales of yesteryear, starring an adventurous pilot, an experimental jetpack, and ThoseWackyNazis.
124	* The Franchise/MonsterVerse movies mix some of this flavour in with all the {{kaiju}} action, particularly in the films featuring Kong: ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' is a LostWorld adventure set in TheSeventies, and in ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'', the big ape travels to an even ''lost-er'' world BeneathTheEarth, where he finds a gigantic axe that basically turns him into a 335-foot tall BarbarianHero.
125	* ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'' is a horror-comedy version of this, with its MadScientist title character lurking in a spectacular ArtDeco mansion and terrorizing 1920s London, alongside his band of clockwork musicians. Taken even further in the sequel, ''Film/DrPhibesRisesAgain'', where Phibes travels to Egypt and gets into a race with an AdventurerArchaeologist to find an ancient tomb that can grant [[LivingForeverIsAwesome eternal life]].
126	* The Pre-Code classic ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'' (1932) could be considered one of the quintessential pulp horror movies (though it also has a fair amount of pulp adventure, as well), being about a shipwrecked sailor (Richard Arlen) who finds himself trapped on a South Seas island ruled by mad scientist Dr. Moreau (Creator/CharlesLaughton). Based on the book ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'' by Creator/HGWells, it's a still-chilling example of the scarier side of pulp fiction with its lurid horror and exotic locales.
127	* Based on a short story of the same title by Richard Connell, ''Film/TheMostDangerousGame'' (1932) is a Pre-Code fusion of pulp action-adventure and pulp horror about a shipwreck survivor (Creator/JoelMcCrea) who finds himself trapped on a remote island controlled by a mad count (Leslie Banks) who's taken game-hunting to the next level. It has heroic action and sensationalistic horror.
128	* The landmark Pre-Code action-adventure movie ''Film/KingKong1933'' is an important work of pulp, being about a giant ape who's discovered by a film crew on an uncharted island. It's got the over-the-top action, awe at the exotic, and fearless adventuring associated with pulp fiction.
129	* ''Film/Batman1989'' largely falls into this style with its pulp-noir aesthetic. The film, about superhero Franchise/{{Batman}} (Creator/MichaelKeaton) fighting to prevent clown gangster the Joker (Creator/JackNicholson) from terrorizing Gotham City, is set in an AmbiguousTimePeriod with some TheForties-style touches in the costumes and architecture. The sequel, ''Film/BatmanReturns'' (1992), mixes in some 1920s GermanExpressionism stylings, with a few aspects of GothicHorror.
130	* The action-adventure-western ''Film/BlowingWild'' (1953) is about a group of oilmen (Creator/GaryCooper, Creator/AnthonyQuinn, and Ward Bond) struggling to survive in bandit-infested territory in South America. It's presumably [[NewOldWest set about the time of its release]] and has pulpy thrills and macho content.
131	* The silent gangster movie ''Film/ThePenalty'' (1920) is about mobster Blizzard (Creator/LonChaney), who unnecessarily had both of his legs amputated as a child, and now plots his revenge on the mistaken doctor (Charles Clary) and the city of San Francisco as a whole. While not a pulp film of the rock-'em-sock-'em action-adventure variety, it's still a crime-drama-thriller with sensationalistic elements, like the main character's [[spoiler:secret lair, complete with an arsenal and operating room, that's accessible through a secret entrance in a fireplace]], and a lurid, morbid plot.
132	* While not as over-the-top as some stories of the pulp aesthetic, ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'' checks many of the boxes for its inclusion here, being a heightened, action-oriented, exciting, and somewhat exaggerated take on a team of lawmen (Creator/KevinCostner, Creator/SeanConnery, Creator/AndyGarcia, and Creator/CharlesMartinSmith) trying to take down the Chicago crime empire of Al Capone (Creator/RobertDeNiro) during Prohibition.
133	* The {{Franchise/Tarzan}} movies starring Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller are certainly very pulpy, especially the first two, Pre-Code ones - ''Film/TarzanTheApeMan1932'' and ''Film/TarzanAndHisMate'' (1934). They're full of exotic locations, heroic derring-do, and high adventure.
134	* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger starred in two fantasy-action-adventure movies based on the pulp character Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian (originally created by Creator/RobertEHoward): ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' and ''Film/ConanTheDestroyer'' (1984). These two HeroicFantasy films, set in a prehistoric dark age, feature hyper-macho heroics, sadistic villainy, and wild action. The intro to the 1982 work, voiced by {{Creator/Mako}}, even promises to "tell you of the days of high adventure."
135	* It's much more grounded than many other pulp works (no fantasy elements here), but ''Film/Dillinger1973'' is a highly pulpy gangster actioner that tells a print-the-legend version of the biography of iconic Great Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Creator/WarrenOates). It has over-the-top shootouts, tough-talking dialogue, an interwar setting, and storytelling that greatly amplifies the excitement of the John Dillinger story.
136	* ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'' is a Hong Kong HorrorComedy take on this, with a [[BadassBookworm practicing MD who moonlights as a badass action hero]] getting sucked into a [[JungleOpera jungle adventure]] involving BloodMagic, HumanSacrifice, and demons. It plays out like a mix of ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' and ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', but with more martial arts.
137	* ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' exchanges the jungle setting from its spiritual predecessor ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' for a Flash Gordon-style RaygunGothic atmosphere. Both are based off of books by Chris Van Allsburg; in fact, the Zathura book was a direct sequel to the Jumanji one.
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141	* ''Literature/AndrewDoran'': Andrew Doran is a Doc Savage-esque GeniusBruiser and square-jawed hero, even if he's more obnoxious and prideful than the majority of pulp heroes. He's up against Nazis, evil cultists, and monsters. The books are done in a deliberate episodic pulpy style reminiscent of older serialized fiction.
142	* ''Literature/BooksOfCthulhu'': The anthology books take a very Pulp hero version of Lovecraft's tales with protagonists that are unafraid to oppose the various cultists as well as forces threatening the world. Occassionally subverted where the protagonists BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu.
143	* The work of Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, providing some of the definitive examples of some of this trope's subgenres.
144	** Literature/{{Tarzan}}, his most famous character, is one of the definitive pulp heroes, practically defining the JungleOpera subgenre: Tarzan is a man [[RaisedByWolves raised by apes]] to become king of the jungle - basically what you'd get if [[Literature/TheJungleBook Mowgli]] were an action hero. His stories are full of lost cities and grand adventure.
145	** ''Literature/TheLandThatTimeForgot'' and its sequels tell a classic LostWorld tale of dinosaurs, feuding tribes of cavemen, volcanic eruptions, and a square-jawed American hero (played by Doug [=McClure=] in the movie) who must sort it all out.
146	** The ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' series is basically a pulp adventure take on ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', with a LostWorld BeneathTheEarth full of good-looking primitive humans, diabolical monsters, plenty of dinosaurs, and a different square-jawed American hero (though one also played by Doug [=McClure=] in the movie) who must sort it all out.
147	** The ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' novels are classic PlanetaryRomance works, with a richly-drawn world of trackless desert, {{proud warrior race guy}}s, WeirdScience, daring escapes, heroic rescues, airship battles, sword fights, and a square-jawed American hero (whom, sadly, Doug [=McClure=] never got to play) who must sort it all out.
148	* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's long writing career is marked by his great love of the pulps and he devoted great energy to his many Two-Fisted Tales. Even his works which aren't in the genre are often informed by it. ''Literature/DocSavage: His Apocalyptic Life'' provides a biography of the pulp era hero and links him to other period heroes.
149	* ''The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril'' has [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy the authors of Doc Savage and The Shadow]] looking into the murder of Creator/HPLovecraft and uncovering a global conspiracy.
150	* ''The Takers'' is an ''Franchise/IndianaJones''-style homage novel by Jerry Ahern, about an [[SelfInsertFic action-adventure novelist]] and his LoveInterest -- an IntrepidReporter who investigates wacky UFO and occult stories -- who team up to investigate the murder of a CIA agent, and the log of a 19th Century expedition searching for {{Atlantis}}. It manages to work in {{Pirates}}, AncientAstronauts, MysteriousAntarctica, {{Flying Saucer}}s, ThoseWackyNazis, a DiabolicalMastermind and his PsychoKnifeNut [[DaddysLittleVillain daughter]], and a nuclear submarine!
151	* Creator/KimNewman's Dr. Shade ... [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation sometimes]]. Some of the stories featuring him are celebrations of the pulps and others (most especially "The Original Dr Shade") are {{Deconstruction}}s. Also by Newman but not featuring Dr Shade: the Literature/DiogenesClub story "Literature/ClublandHeroes" (definitely a Deconstruction).
152	* Zach Parsons specifically called his book ''My Tank is Fight!'' an example of "two fisted pulp history", with a title taken from a punk rock song by Music/TheDarkestOfTheHillsideThickets. It describes the development and hypothetical use of various [=WW2=] super/strange weapons that never quite made it past the prototype stage (if they made it that far at all).
153	* The ''Literature/GabrielHunt'' books, although set in modern times.
154	* In a more lighthearted variant, the ''Literature/DocWilde'' series. Doc even brings his kids along on his adventures.
155	%%* ''Literature/DocSidhe''%%
156	* The novel ''Gods of Manhattan'', in the ''Literature/PaxBritannia'' series of {{Steampunk}} novels, features two-fisted adventurer Doc Thunder (Savage, with elements of Hugo Danner and Superman), and killer vigilante Blood Spider (the Spider, with elements of the Shadow), amongst others.
157	* Literature/LagadinsLegacy belongs to the genre in that it features elements of the Indiana Jones-style adventure story, but also tries to subvert it by including elements of thriller, mystery, and satire.
158	%%* ''Literature/GloryRoad'' is a {{Reconstruction}} of these kinds of stories.%%In what way?%%
159	* The ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novel ''Down'' by Lawrence Miles features "Mr Misnomer, the Man of Chrome", who Benny knows for a fact is a fictional character from 24th century "pulpzines". It also features a hollow world full of dinosaurs, a Nazi villain, a mad computer and all the usual stuff. Turns out to be a deconstruction.
160	* "Adventure Story" by Creator/NeilGaiman is narrated by the son of a WWII soldier who had this type of experience post-war.
161	* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' books follow this style, with the added twist that the narrator protagonist keeps insisting his acts of daring-do are misinterpretations or just what was necessary to survive.
162	* Mark Stephen Rainey's ''Blue Devil Island'' featuring the [[AcePilot Blue Devil Squadron]] facing off against an EldritchAbomination in the South Pacific during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
163	* The ''Captain Riley'' series by Fernando Gamboa, featuring a RagtagBunchOfMisfits on a CoolBoat fighting (who else?) ThoseWackyNazis.
164	%%* ''Literature/DominoLady'', who mixes a healthy dose into the formula as well.%%Dose of what? How?%%
165	* Literature/{{Biggles}} had a few adventures that dabbled in this genre between the wars. It looked as though he were going to end up doing the same thing again after the Second World War, but instead he got a job offer from a comrade in arms who'd gone back to his prewar career as a police inspector, and spent the next decade or so being [[SmithOfTheYard Biggles of the Yard]] instead.
166	* In the ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' series, interludes in the book parts have snippets of the in-universe "broadsheets" featuring headlines, advertisements, and bits of pulp fiction stories. The most recurring being the (heavily embellished) real life adventures of [[GentlemanAdventurer "Allomancer Jak"]].
167	* Publisher and editor Robert Deis has released a whole series of anthology books collecting stories originally published in men's adventure magazines. They include such attention-grabbing titles as:
168	** ''Weasels Ripped My Flesh!'': A grab bag of multiple subgenres.
169	** ''Cuba: Sugar, Sex, and Slaughter'': All stories that involve Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
170	** ''Cryptozoology Anthology'': Stories and articles about [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]].
171	** ''I Watched Them Eat Me Alive!'': [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever Animal attack]] stories.
172	** ''Maneater'': More animal attack stories, but specifically ThreateningShark stories.
173	** ''Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants'': When the men's adventure stuff overlapped with weird fiction, bringing us the occult, HollywoodSatanism, more cryptids, and aliens.
174	** ''The Naked and the Deadly'': A collection of stories by Creator/LawrenceBlock, most of which skew towards DetectiveFiction and the noirish.
175	** ''Handful of Hell'': All stories by prolific writer Robert F. Dorr, nearly all of which are [[DuringTheWar military fiction]].
176	** ''He-Men, Bag-Men, and Nymphos'': Stories by Walter Kaylin, ranging from the noirish to Nazisploitation to SpyFiction, but all of them extremely over-the-top, violent, and horny.
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179	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
180	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Triangle" had elements of this, especially the big ballroom punch-up between British sailors and Nazi goons, not to mention [[AndYouWereThere Scully as a glamorous 1930s spy]] in a [[LadyInRed red dress]].
181	* ''Series/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey'', a short-lived Belisarius series featuring AcePilot Jake Cutter and his adventures in the South Pacific in [[TheThirties 1938.]]
182	* ''Series/BringEmBackAlive'', which [[DuelingShows dueled]] with the above and ended up about as short-lived.
183	* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' brings more of a '60s flavour to this, pastiching the goofy {{Pulp Magazine}}s of the decade. Despite its very '60s aesthetic, however, it's set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and features a very silly Hitler as its BigBad.
184	** The second series carries it further with an over-the-top neon-lit [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Cannon]]-esque version of TheEighties, with [[MerchandiseDriven every episode ending in a toy commercial]] - except that it's actually set during the '60s, with figures like Perron, Kruschev, and Skorzeny running around.
185	* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has this as one of its stock GenreRoulette settings, especially during the Classic series. Many of the Creator/WilliamHartnell-era stories harken back to boy's adventure stories of the '30s and '40s, from "The Daleks" (which has a heavy ''ComicStrip/DanDare'' vibe) to "The Smugglers" (pirates and [[{{Swashbuckler}} Swashbuckling]]). Season 13 and 14 (the "GothicHorror" period) are a particularly good period to find them in - there's a RaygunGothic detective story, a Literature/FuManchu {{Expy}}, and a WhoShotJFK conspiracy thriller; a DarkerAndEdgier, BloodierAndGorier, slightly HotterAndSexier and more 'pastiche-y' tone; and the introduction of a sexy jungle-girl companion inspired by 1900s pulp. Some show up earlier and later than this - bizarrely, "City of Death" was intended to be one, but then someone got the bright idea of asking Creator/DouglasAdams to write it.
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188	[[folder:Podcasts]]
189	* This is ''Podcast/DecoderRingTheatre'''s entire schtick, with both of their main series, ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures'' and ''Podcast/BlackJackJustice'', being heavily influenced by this style.
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191
192	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
193	* ''TabletopGame/AchtungCthulhu'' is taking all the [=WW2=] and post-war pulps about punching ThoseWackyNazis and disrupting their wicked schemes and gives them a ride through the Cthulhu Mythos country.
194	* Creator/WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!''.
195	* ''TabletopGame/{{Crimefighters}}'' is a pulp-themed, role-playing tabletop game from 1981. It emulates the quests of popular Crime and Detective pulp characters (such as Doc Savage, the Shadow, and Agent X-9) against criminal masterminds. The game presents three [[CharacterClassSystem character classes]]: the Defender, an in-universe LawfulGood that fights crime and gains experience by capturing, not killing, offenders; the Avenger, an in-universe ChaoticGood with a penchant for vigilantism and therefore gains experience points by killing criminals; and the Pragmatist, in-universe NeutralGood, that usually abides by the law but is willing to break it in order to bring villains to justice.
196	* ''TabletopGame/CrimsonSkies'', later adapted into a series of PC and Xbox games, focuses heavily on the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Zeppelins]] and SkyPirates aspect of pulp.
197	* The ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' campaign setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is directly based off of old pulp fantasy classics like ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian''.
198	* The ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' campaign setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' combines this with DungeonPunk.
199	* ''Fists & [=.45s=]'' was created by dredging out few cardboard boxes of old pulps and then trying to work them out into a game. Unlike most cases, this game is heavy on the actual content of the pulps, rather than their aesthetics alone, only adding to the craziness.
200	* ''TabletopGame/FortuneAndGlory'', one of many AdventureBoardGames by Fighting Frog Games: players take on the roles of pulp archetypes - an AcePilot, an IntrepidReporter, a MadScientist, a GreatWhiteHunter - in a globe-trotting adventure to recover [[McGuffin mystical artifacts]] before a NebulousEvilOrganization (In addition to ThoseWackyNazis, we have TheMafia and a ReligionOfEvil) gets them first.
201	* ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' is very much this at heart, even with the DieselPunk trappings.
202	* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'' gives detailed instructions on how to create a pulp tale in the sourcebook.
203	* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' is generic enough to handle the setting, as seen in ''GURPS Cliffhangers'' and ''TabletopGame/GURPSThaumatologyAgeOfGold''.
204	* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' is made of this, to the point its mechanics were build from ground-up toward larger than life heroes doing crazy stunts and simply powering through lesser or trivial obstacles. Large section of the core rulebook is dedicated to explaining in detail how to recapture the feel of a FilmSerial in your own scenario, too.
205	* Many adventures had by the Sons of Ether in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', whose Tradition is chock-full of people with names like "Doc Eon" and "the Crimson Claw." Taking an appropriately two-fisted nickname seems to be standard even if you don't use it often.
206	* The ''Pulp Cthulhu'' supplement for '' TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' does this to the parent game, turning the fraidy investigators to pulp heroes by tweaking the game rules, and adding weird science in mix with the traditional Lovecraftian setting, resulting a setting where insane adventurer is bad news... For the adversaries!
207	* ''Pulp Hero'' for the HERO System.
208	** And its earlier incarnation ''Justice, Inc.''
209	* The ''Pulp Heroes'' setting in [[{{TabletopGame/d20 Modern}} d20 Past]], full of dashing aviators and mad Nazi science.
210	* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' is intended to have a pulpy, heroic play-style, in a RaygunGothic SpaceOpera setting. It even has a story point system to let you manipulate the plot and pull off almost impossible stunts and bluffs.
211	* If ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' can be said to have a "default setting," it's this. One of the first supplements was a Pulp Toolkit, and the whole system's emphasis on "Fast Furious Fun!" leads to a very pulpy game experience.
212	** The supplement/source book Thrilling Tales all the way.
213	* ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury''
214	* ''Two-Fisted Tales'' from Precis Intermedia Games
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216
217	[[folder:Video Games]]
218	* The ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series. Set in modern times, but all the elements are there: Indiana Jones-esque hero, lots of bad guys to fight in the middle of a war, exotic locations to visit, women to rescue (and be rescued by), betrayal, and the overall theme. It's essentially the playable form of a pulp hero story.
219	* The ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' series also seems to have elements of this. You're a [[OneManArmy one-man army]] during WWII, stopping the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] from taking over the world with either [[StupidJetpackHitler hi-tech weaponry]] or taking [[StupidBroomstickHitler the supernatural to their advantage]]. The third game even has a final level on a zeppelin.
220	* The VideoGame/{{Ultima}} ''Worlds of Adventure'' spin-offs, ''VideoGame/WorldsOfUltimaTheSavageEmpire'' and ''[[VideoGame/UltimaWorldsOfAdventure2MartianDreams Martian Dreams]]''.
221	* ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'' embraces this demeanor, down to the unlikable but heroic lead.
222	* Parodied in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' with Saxton Hale, a pulp protagonist who owns the company that makes all of the characters' weapons.
223	* ''VideoGame/ValiantHearts'' deconstructs this by placing it in the real-world context of World War 1. The early game focuses on the RagtagBunchOfMisfits tracking down a [[AristocratsAreEvil Diabolical German Baron]] who has kidnapped Anna's ReluctantMadScientist father and used his genius to engineer devastating super-weapons in the name of German Imperialism. However, even once the apparent BigBad is defeated, the War itself continues on and the game shifts focus to the GrayAndGreyMorality of the situation and the extreme personal toll of the war on the protagonists.
224	* An arcade game called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N49AwwUQCO4 The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy]]''. Staring a dashing whip-wielding protagonist, you do things like fend off enemies on speeding motorboats, run away from huge demolition trucks and fight a boss on the wings of a plane.
225	* The ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' [[GameMod mod]] for ''VideoGame/FreedomForce vs The Third Reich'' is a total conversion mod which changes the original game into a homage to pulp stories, with a brand new campaign featuring "Nazi punching! Dinosaur wrangling! Two-fisted action galore!", and a roster of 25 available heroes such as Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, the Rocketeer, [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} Tarzan]], [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Dick Tracy]]...
226	* ''VideoGame/{{Pathway}}'', a {{Roguelike}}/TurnBasedTactics game set in North Africa and Middle-East during the 1930s, where you lead a multinational team of adventurers whose goal is to prevent Nazi occultists to gain archaeological treasures.
227	* The ''VideoGame/EarnestEvans'' trilogy. The titular Evans is a clear ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' homage (though despite the name, Evans is only playable in ''one'' game in the trilogy,) and the series has the cast dealing with [[TheRoaringTwenties Roaring Twenties]]-era gangsters, ancient magic, plenty of globe-trotting to ancient ruins, and a plot to resurrect [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Hastur]].
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229
230	[[folder:Web Comics]]
231	* ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire'', a rare example of a female lead pulp story.
232	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is based strongly off pulpy stories of juvenile adventurers like Literature/TomSwift and WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest.
233	** In-universe, the [[ShowWithinAShow Heterodyne stories]], (often exaggerated) tales about the adventures of heroes Bill and Barry Heterodyne, are enormously popular.
234	* The currently comatose "Modern Pulp" webcomic site, especially ''[[http://www.rorschachcomics.com/sprecken_destiny/?id=1 Sprecken]]'', about a 1930s crimefighter (who used to go by "Mr Midnight") relocated to the 2020s.
235	* ''Webcomic/SemiAutoSemla'' is a webcomic that seeks to emulate the genre and the tone, complete with the gratuitous numbers of damsels in distress and heavy-duty action.
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237
238	[[folder:Web Original]]
239	* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/pulp/ r/Pulp]] is a subreddit devoted to the creation of modern pulp fiction, juicy taglines and lurid covers included.
240	* ''[[http://www.wormwoodshow.com Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery]]'' - horror pulp centering around the mysterious northern Californian town of Wormwood.
241	%%* ''WebVideo/TheMercuryMen''%%
242	%%* ''[[https://forums.darklordpotter.net/threads/the-obamadammerung-by-random-acts-of-shark-t-political-satire.29414/ Obamadammerung]]''%%
243	* The semiprozine [[https://cirsova.wordpress.com/cirsova-magazine/buy-cirsova/ Cirsova Magazine]] was specifically conceived as a place for good ol' pulp-style sci-fi and fantasy stories.
244	* [[https://pulpcovers.com/ Pulpcovers.com]] is a blog that posts the cover art - and sometimes interior illustrations - from pulp magazines and old paperbacks. Sometimes they include a link to a pdf of the original magazine, too.
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246
247	[[folder:Western Animation]]
248	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' contains elements of this. By extension, often ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' parodies this since it is a parody of ''Jonny Quest''.
249	* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' transposed characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book\|1967}}'' into this kind of adventure setting, with Baloo as an AcePilot in a 1930s-inspired WorldOfFunnyAnimals.
250	%%* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''
251	* Through a degree of separation (it's ostensibly based on Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons such as ''Jonny Quest''), ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'', which is what happens when the heroes of Two-Fisted Tales settle down. Weird science, exotic locations, and the patriarch of the family is even named Doc (and could pass for Savage in the right light).
252	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
253	** The ''[[JustForFun/DaringDo Daring Do]]'' series of [[ShowWithinAShow Books Within a Show]], which is heavily [[ShoutOut based on]] ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read it and Weep]]".
254	** As does wherever the hell in Equestria the plot of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E4DaringDont Daring Don't]]" takes place, which reveals all the stuff she writes about ''actually happens''.
255	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' solved mysteries and rewrote history every episode. The [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017 revival show]] takes it up a notch.
256	* ''WesternAnimation/ArcherDangerIsland'' takes the characters of parent series ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' and dumps them, in one of Archer's AdventuresInComaland, into 1938 on the titular Danger Island: a [[TropicalIslandAdventure tropical, French-colonial island]] with cannibal natives, Nazis, volcanoes, [[AcePilot Archer trying to pilot a crude plane]], and all sorts of wild adventures.
257	* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin1991'' is a part of the Franchise/{{Tintin}} franchise that has the titular hero-reporter (and his dog, Snowy) setting off on highly pulpy globetrotting adventures.
258	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'', a computer-animated movie, is based on three Franchise/{{Tintin}} stories: ''The Crab with the Golden Claws'', ''The Secret of the Unicorn'', and ''Red Rackham's Treasure''. Pulpy elements include high adventure, manic action, pirates, exotic locales, lost treasure, and an intrepid hero.
259	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has many elements of pulp-noir, with masked superhero {{Franchise/Batman}} battling supervillains and gangsters who threaten Gotham City. "Dark deco" aesthetics are prominent and the storytelling is moody and heightened.
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