Cattle Punk: Difference between revisions

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Let's face it. Cowboys are awesome. [[The Western]] used to qualify as their own genre so many of them used to be made. The thing is, in the modern world, [[Science Fiction]] is much more high-brow. And yet the awesome allure of cowboys cannot be ignored. Solution? [[Steampunk]] meets [[The Western]].

Not to be confused with Cowpunk, a form of music combining (you guessed it!) Country and Punk, which existed mainly in the 1980s. Although a Cattle Punk movie with a Cowpunk soundtrack would be a good idea.

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Trigun]]''. Desert planet. The Future. High tech not entirely lost, but not in general circulation, but a fairly large proportion of outlaws appear to be bio-modded. Trains replaced by titan things called 'sand steamers,' but you can also take a bus, buy a truck or motorcycle, or ride an ostrich-horse creature called a thomas.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' would be the [[Trope Namer]], as one of the games the group frequently plays is literally titled "Cattle Punk." The game, known for its grim style as well as the lethality (players going through dozens of characters in a session), along with several alternate history "supplements" fit the description quite well.

* The graphic novel ''[[Daisy Kutter]]'' utilizes this setting with surprisingly little ham-handedness, largely because robots appear only when it makes sense for them to do so in the plot.

* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]''. The series is the [[Ur Example]] of this genre.

* ''[[Legend (TV series)|Legend]]'' (the TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie)

 

== Music ==

 

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[[Category:Speculative Fiction]]

[[Category:Otherworld Tropes]]

[[Category:The Western]]

[[Category:Punk Punk]]