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17	A place which is like the modern-day real world, only a lot more {{goth\|icHorror}}. Various supernatural creatures lurk just below the surface, often treating humans as cattle at best, and vermin at worst.
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19	The term was coined in the first edition rulebook for White Wolf's TabletopGame ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', and has since been applied not only to ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' series as a whole, but also to many other works that are similar in tone.
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21	If this takes place TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, and with more robots, it's {{Cyberpunk}}. See also UrbanFantasy.
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27	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/GunburedXSisters'': [[AnimeCatholicism Nuns with guns]] hunt vampires preying on humans in a concrete-and-glass cityscape that either consists of cathedrals or strongly resembles them.
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31	[[folder:Art]]
32	* The artwork produced by John Blanche for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is arguably the best example of this trope from a visual perspective. Baroque clothing, skulls, cyborgs, and impossible architecture a defining traits for many of his {{paintings}}.
33	* ''Art/GothicTimes'': All of the {{sculptures}} in the series were designed with Creator/JasonStieva's admiration for classic Gothic (skulls and skeletons, mostly) design accompanied by SteamPunk paraphernalia. In "Shipping Leviathan -- Ark of Apocalypse", there are gears at the bottom that are implied to propel it (considering the ship is too big to row by hand and there are no sails).
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36	[[folder:Comic Books]]
37	* ''Comicbook/TheCrow'' is certainly the TropeCodifier in this genre, if not the UrExample itself. It differs from most Gothic-Punk settings in that the main evil in this setting is human, and the primary supernatural element of the story (the title bird and the revenant avenger) is on the side of the angels.
38	* ''[[ComicBook/HackSlash Hack/Slash]]'' combines the sensibility with 80s Slasher movies.
39	* A literal combination of British punk and magic is the ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' series.
40	* Speaking of hell, ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}''!
41	* ''{{ComicBook/Lucifer}}'' is a lot more punk, exploring what it means to be in rebellion against an omnipotent omniscient being and whether that's futile.
42	* As a work [[{{Troperiffic}} that uses tropes from many horror subgenres]], it's only natural that ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' is this, too.
43	* Sort of played in the comic ''Comicbook/{{Witchblade}}''. Although [[BigApplesauce New York]] in the comics is a big, shiny, towering metropolis, evil still manages to lurk deep inside the dark sewers and alleys.
44	* Played with in ''[[ComicBook/VampireTheMasqueradeVault Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth]]'' where the book invokes the attitudes of the tabletop game but also acknowledges it's been twenty years since the game's heyday. Its protagonist, Cecily Bain, is a former RiotGrrrl who bemoans most of her former colleagues are either old or soccer moms even on the youngest side. Even so, it's still a bright pair of modern cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) full of vampires preying on an unsuspecting populace.
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47	[[folder:Film]]
48	* Film/BatmanFilmSeries
49	** ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'' play this trope to the hilt, following Creator/TimBurton's SignatureStyle. Gotham is gloomy, dark and severe, with a spartan color palate and towering, gothic stone buildings covered in gargoyles. The culture and style is a mishmash of then-modern fashions and retro designs more akin to those of the 1940s. The overall impression is an otherworldly and forbidding place.
50	** ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'': Creator/JoelSchumacher retains a portion of the first two films' gothic ambiance while gradually introducing a more colorful and cartoony aesthetic.
51	* Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy largely abandon the gothic setting of the Film/BatmanFilmSeries. Although darker than the Schumacher films, the Creator/ChristopherNolan films distinguish themselves by using a more realistic and modern aesthetic.
52	* The ''Film/BladeTrilogy'', with its {{Dhampyr}} protagonist and its secret societies of vampires, is the quintessential action movie form of this aesthetic.
53	* ''Film/Constantine2005'' features Creator/KeanuReeves as an exorcist/demon hunter who's out to save the world from a race of rampant hell-demons.
54	* ''Film/TheCrow'' is perhaps the first quintessential gothic punk film. Its visuals are dark, shadowy, and nearly monochromatic, often emphasizing churches, graveyards, and religious iconography. The macabre story heavily dwells on death, morning, and ghosts. On the punk end, the story takes place in an urban hellhole beset by street thugs and junkies.
55	* ''Film/DarkCity1998'' features a dark, shadowy, retro urban world where corpse-white "strangers" plague the unwitting citizens using supernatural powers and high-tech gadgetry.
56	* ''Film/{{Daybreakers}}'' takes place in a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Earth where the vast majority of the humanity has been turned into vampires. Cue [[WhoWantsToLiveForever angsting teens]], kiosks serving blood coffee, windowless buildings, cars with UV-proof black windows, lots and lots of blue lighting and pretty much everyone dressing in black.
57	* The ''Film/Underworld2003'' films exemplify this trope so much that White Wolf accused the filmmakers of ripping off the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''.
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60	[[folder:Literature]]
61	* Creator/AnneRice and her myriad literary successors. Notably, this mostly shows up in the epilogue to ''The Vampire Lestat'' and later novels set in the modern day versus the ones beforehand for obvious reasons.
62	* The ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' books are set in a world with a BrokenMasquerade where vampires operate nightclubs, churches, and other institutions in the United States.
63	* The ''Blackthorn'' series by Lindsay J. Pryor combines Paranormal Romance with repressive social models, Gothic nightclubs, and corrupt officials.
64	* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' books and [[Series/TheDresdenFiles tv series]]. The books skirt the line between action horror and UrbanFantasy with the main difference being Harry has the power [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu to punch out the horrifying monsters around him.]]
65	* The ''Literature/JaneYellowrock'' series has a similar set up to the Anita Blake series where vampires are living openly among human beings but only barely tolerated.
66	* Simon R. Green's ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series is like a more upbeat ''Hellblazer.''
67	* The ''Literature/PrettyWhenSheDies'' series by Rhiannon Frater has a vampire necromancer protagonist living in the modern world while struggling with her condition.
68	* ''Literature/TheShadowspawn'' by Creator/SMStirling.
69	* Literature/TheUnitedStatesOfMonsters novels by Creator/CTPhipps are a Gothic Punk SharedUniverse where the protagonists are all supernaturals living in a BrokenMasquerade world. They tend to be snarky, sarcastic RebelliousSpirit characters fighting against both corrupt governments and evil demons. The center of this world is New Detroit, which has been rebuilt as a vampire utopia.
70	** ''Literature/StraightOuttaFangton'' is the best example of this as its protagonist is a poor black vampire, Peter Stone, working at a gas station who fights demons in his off-hours.
71	** ''Literature/TheMorganDetectiveAgency'' books are about a bisexual {{Dhampyr}} private detective who hunts the supernatural while struggling with her condition as well as FantasticRacism.
72	* ''{{Literature/Vampirocracy}}'', in which vampires have taken over the world and are running it better than humans did.
73	* ''Literature/WeWalkTheNight'' is a deliberate homage to the genre. The secret Order of Kresnik has, for centuries, formed pacts with powerful animal spirits in order to hunt vampires.
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77	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' falls somewhere between here and straight-up UrbanFantasy, especially in the first two seasons. It is yet another VampireDetective series.
78	* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' more or less serves as a AffectionateParody of this genre as three monsters struggle to live as human-like a life as possible.
79	* ''Series/BloodTies2007'' is a series about a private detective teamed up with a 400 year old vampire to fight the supernatural.
80	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the show from which ''Angel'' was spun off, is a LighterAndSofter version thereof, taking many of the tropes of the genre and dropping them into a TeenDrama, especially with the reveal of [[TheMenInBlack the Institute]] in season four. The AlternateRealityEpisode [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E9TheWish "The Wish"]], showing a world where Buffy never came to Sunnydale and so [[BigBad the Master]] was able to carry out his plot, dives fully into this, with the vampires openly controlling Sunnydale, [[VampiresOwnNightclubs turning the Bronze into their headquarters]], plotting to industrialize the harvesting of human blood, and leaving the town's human population cowering in fear and mounting an ineffectual resistance.
81	* While mostly UrbanFantasy, it seems that ''Series/Constantine2014'' may prove to be one of these shows.
82	* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' follows VampireDetective Nick Knight as he struggles to become human again while serving as a police officer in Toronto, Canada. He is haunted perpetually by both the misery of normal human evil as well as evil sire.
83	* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'' is a VampireDetective series about a jazz player turned into a vampire and solving mysteries.
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87	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The plane of Innistrad mostly seems like a typical Gothic Horror setting, except that the zombies that constantly menace the populace are the product of mad biologists' experiments with the nature of life and death. [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=226749 A]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220649 few]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=222921 cards]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=234445 suggest]] that technology and science are deceptively advanced given the generally-grim atmosphere throughout.
88	* The definite example of this, but RecycledInSpace, is ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. The language the Imperium speaks is both High and Low Gothic and much of the architecture is in the Gothic style, up to and including space battleships that resemble medieval vaulted cathedrals.
89	* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'' by Creator/WhiteWolf.
90	** As noted above, the original setting, now retroactively called the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'', both named and codified the genre. Beneath the {{Masquerade}}, countless supernatural creatures rule from the shadows and scheme against each other. There are humans who know about this and fight back, but it's presented as a hard life with a short life expectancy.
91	** The ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', by contrast, has taken a deliberate step back from this, or perhaps evolved to Post-Gothic-Punk. The constant angsting has been seriously dialed back, though it still exists in places, and replaced with more of AWorldHalfFull vibe. Furthermore, the anti-authoritarian message spread loud and clear across the very fabric of existence in the [=oWoD=] is gone, since the writing staff consider the over-politicization of the former line to have been detrimental to the final product.
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94	[[folder:Video Games]]
95	* While ''VideoGame/Blood1997'' was straight-up Gothic horror, ''VideoGame/BloodIITheChosen'' takes place in a future featuring a corporate-looking cult that runs around in hoverjets.
96	* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' is a mixture of this, GaslampFantasy, and CosmicHorrorStory.
97	* This is the genre of ''VideoGame/{{Bloodrayne}}'' and its sequels. It is especially prevalent in the second installment that takes place in the modern day.
98	* ''VideoGame/{{Dark}}'' was an attempt to re-bottle the success of Bloodlines and failed. Eric Bane is a newly turned vampire trying to find a vampire strong enough to eat in order to solidify his transformation.
99	* ''VideoGame/DarkWatch'' is a combination of this and SteamPunk.
100	* The ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series is a wonderful example of the genre with Dante being definitely a rebellious spirit, but it's not until ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' that the ''punk'' aspect takes centre stage.
101	* The levels from ''VideoGame/TimeTraveler'' set in 1998 live and breathe this trope featuring both gritty crime-ridden urban slums full of punk street criminals and haunted graveyards full of supernatural creatures such as ghosts, zombies, and vampires.
102	* The latter half of ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption'' is set during the modern era where you are a 800 year old vampire knight.
103	* ''VideoGame/{{Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines}}'' provides a great translation of this trope into video game form.
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106	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
107	* The {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}. ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' is this moreso than ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', although the Heaven's Feel route of the latter dabbles in it what with [[spoiler:Kotomine attempting to unleash Angra Mainyu, an unstoppable world-ending EldritchAbomination that most people may know better as Ahriman.]]
108	* In ''VideoGame/RedEmbraceHollywood'', a lengthy homage to ''Bloodlines'', you are a newly-embraced vampire struggling to survive a conflict between vampire houses. It is notably set in Hollywood.
109	* ''VisualNovel/SekienNoInganock'', a HGame heavily influenced by this in conjunction with SteamPunk (a rare example that is combined with that trope). Basically, every characters in the game is seeped with gothic drawings, clothes and personality. The protagonist constantly have to slay monsters with his trusty companion spirit. The tone... angsty enough that it makes the daily life looks sad.
110	* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' can be considered this. It's set in the 1980s, but there's definitely a lot more emphasis on the [[GothicHorror "gothic"]] than the "punk", taking many plot elements from 18th and 19th-century Gothic novels.
111	* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeCoteriesOfNewYork'', you are a newly turned vampire who must build an alliance of other vampires to protect yourself from the intrigues around you.
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114	[[folder:Western Animation]]
115	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' with "Dark Bunny," a caped crusader who fights crime in "a city that's always nighttime". "Dark Bunny" is a parody of Batman.
116	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Fractured", after being endowed with [[RealityWarper reality-bending abilities]], the grunge biker boy Johnny Rancid Gothic Punk-ifies Jump City, much to Raven's delight and later regret, after they've saved the day.
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