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* [[Warren Ellis]]'s ''[[Ignition City]]''.
* ''Dan Dare''.
* Weird Science by [[EC Comics]] had a lot of streamlined rocketships and cool futuristic tech, espacially Wally Wood's work.
* Flashbacks to Krypton in the ''[[Superman]]'' comics from the [[Golden Age]] through most of the [[Bronze Age]] maintained this look.
* The [[Silver Age]] [[Fantastic Four]] stories often have several [[Raygun Gothic]] elements.
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* [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[Metropolis]]'' may be the [[Ur Example]].
* Too many '50s sci-fi movies to list.
* ''[[Buck Rogers]]''
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is a weird fusion of this trope and [[Cyberpunk]].
* Used in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequel trilogy: The Naboo space fleet and the architecture of Coruscant are modeled after this, while the Republic space fleet morphs over time into the blocky, [[Used Future]] Imperial fleet.
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== Music ==
* [[Doctor Steel]] plays with this aesthetic in his music and interactive Fandom community.
* [[Stereolab]] played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music".
* "IGY," the first track on [[Steely Dan|Donald Fagen's]] 1982 album ''The Nightfly'', is pretty much this trope in a nutshell. He describes a world where there's a [[Cool Train|train running undersea]] from New York to Paris every 90 minutes, everyone gets their own [[Space Clothes|Spandex jacket]], [[Weather Control Machine|weather is controlled]] and solar power is plentiful - and it's all run by computers [[The Computer Is Your Friend|programmed "with compassion and vision."]] The liner notes describe the album as "certain fantasies that might have been entertained by a young man growing up [...] during the late fifties and early sixties, i.e., one of my general height, weight and build."
** The title is a reference to the [[wikipedia:International Geophysical Year|International Geophysical Year]], a scientific event in 1957-8 that was the USSR's excuse to launch Sputnik into space, thus kicking off the "rocket age" for real.
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* ''[[X-COM]]: Apocalypse.''
* The Covenant in ''[[Halo]]'' are modeled after a version of this, as everything they design has a very sleek design. As do most things on the titular halo rings, which are designed by the [[Precursors|Forerunner]]. Understandable, as the Covenant just copied everything they have from the Forerunner.
* Rapture in ''[[
* The character designs for [[Disgaea]]'s EDF soldiers, particularly <s>[[Captain Ersatz|Flash]]</s> '''[[Captain Ersatz|Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!]]'''.
* The Zombie missions in ''[[Call Of Duty 5]]'' qualify.
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* One of the characters in Andrew Kepple's ''Goodbye Cruel World!'' accidentally turns the entire world into this by activating a non-[[wikipedia:Year 2000 problem|Y2K]]-compliant VCR and triggering the bug.
* ''[[Zap]]'' has a lot of aspects of this, especially in the spaceship design.
* Let's not forget [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buck.html Buck Godot - Zap Gun For Hire], which has a lovely ''Zeerust'' feel to it, and was published "late in the 20th century".
* ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' is in love with this trope, married it, and now has a house in the suburbs with two kids and a dog with it.
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** ''[[Futurama]]'' itself is an inversion of this trope, using the [[Raygun Gothic]] style as a backdrop for a [[Crap Saccharine World]] where what would normally be helpful technology is instead [[Everything Trying to Kill You|trying to kill you]].
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''.
* The art style of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' was [http://www.animationartconservation.com/index.php?c=art&p=kim_possible designed] to be like this, and of course, they have all the [[Death Ray|Ray guns]], [[I Want My Jetpack|jet packs]], flying cars and the rest of the [[Applied Phlebotinum|fancy-pants technology]].
* The classic ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "[[Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century]]"
* The TV show ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' features hints of this design style in the design of the vehicles and guns.
* And its sardonic successor ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' continues the tradition of "super-science" and [[Zeerust|retro-looking technology.]]
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' takes place in an alternate-universe version of [[The Seventies]], and features a strong mid-sixties take on how wonderful the future nearly was.
* ''[[Atomic Betty]]'''s art style is largely an homage to sci-fi Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the sixties. See [http://kittycatdiamond.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/atomic_betty_1_800x600.jpg here] for an example.
* ''[[Pinocchio In Outer Space]]''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The website [http://www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm Days of Future Past] collects a great deal of art predicting this kind of future -- good, bad, and ugly.
* Also the [http://www.paleofuture.com/ Paleo-Future] website.
* The Tomorrowland sections of Disney parks were redesigned in 1998 to look like this, Disney having (perhaps wisely) given up on trying to [[Zeerust|keep up with present-day visions of the future]].
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