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* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico|Gekiganger]] [[Gekiganger 3|3]]''. (More so in the actual show than in the [[OVA]].)

** Interestingly enough, according to [[Word of God]], despite its 1970s-esque appearance, it was actually made in the 2090s, which means it's an example of this even ''in-story''.

* Many of the ''[[Gundam]]'' works set in the Universal Century deliberately try to maintain a consistent art style reminiscent of the 1980s, right down to the [[Eighties Hair]]. If you look closely, you'd notice that the characters of ''[[Gundam Unicorn]]'' wouldn't look out of place in ''[[Zeta Gundam]].''

* When Yuya's classmate finally gets [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''[[Risky☆Safety]]'', the director chose to make the episode as a [[Silent Movie]] complete with inter-titles instead of hiring a voice actress for the character.

 

* It's not unknown for a flashback or 'never before told' story to be [[Retraux Flashback|drawn in the style of a certain time period]]. An excellent example is ''The Age of the Sentry'' miniseries, whose titular hero was supposedly Marvel's [[Superman]] [[Expy]] in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s [[Jack Kirby]] and 1980s [[Frank Miller]]. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[Comics Code|Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.

* [[Iron Man]] and [[Doctor Doom]] once travelled back in time to a New York City circa the Silver Age (thirty years earlier in real time, perhaps ten or twelve in terms of Earth-616 chronology). The art was drawn and colored to resemble the comic book art of that period.

* One sequence in ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'' features Herc hallucinating that he's reliving previous adventures due to being poisoned. When action is presented from his view, the comic suddenly appears to shift to a seventies artstyle and coloring. They even pan from Black Widow's modern look to her look from when she was on the Defenders with Hercules to emphasize it.

 

* The newsreel at the beginning of ''[[The Incredibles]]''.

** Also, one of the DVD bonus features is an "authorized adaptation" of a Mr. Incredible adventure, in the form of a cheaply-animated and simple-minded old kiddie cartoon with considerable "aged recording" noise. (The cartoon can also be viewed with Mr. Incredible and Frozone chiming in their comments, [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K-style]].)

* The 1930s style song "The Spirit of Adventure" over ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'''s closing credits is in lo-fi monophonic sound.

* The ending credits of ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'' run against sepia still images of scenes from the film redrawn in the style of E.H. Shepherd's line drawings from the books. Tigger in particular looks ''completely'' different from the Disney version.

* 2011 French romantic comedy ''[[The Artist]]'' is 1) shot in the old 1.33:1 [[Aspect Ratio]], 2) [[Deliberately Monochrome]], and 3) a [[Silence Is Golden|silent film]].

* ''[[Hobo with a Shotgun]]'' is made to look like it was made in the early '80s, complete with Technicolor, music, and film grain.

* For ''[[Back to the Future: The Ride]]'', the short "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Gs-tEqDqQ#t=6m28s Doc on the March]" was done in the style of an old newsreel, with Doc inserted into various footage ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' style. See him get an autograph from Thomas Edison! Watch him get a photo of [[The Beatles]]! Witness him resisting the urge to bump off Richard Nixon!

* The Bayeux Tapestry-esque opening of ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'', complete with the film's Nazi invasion depicted in Medieval tapestry style

* Just about anything directed by Wes Anderson (''[[Rushmore]]'', ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'', ''[[The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spCknVcaSHg his American Express commercial]) is full of it. Actually, Wes Anderson himself is pretty Retraux. ([[Outdated Outfit|Have you seen how he dresses?]])

* The "Maroon Cartoon" opening of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' is made to look like an animated theatrical short from the 1940s, when the movie is set.

* Several parts in ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'' are made to look like older films, including an old, silent movie.

* The Mel Gibson crime movie ''Payback'' is very stylized film-noir; colors are washed out, characters wear vintage clothing, even the cellular car phones are rotary dial.

* While the 2019 version of ''[[Little Women]]'' is not itself Retraux, the publicity photos of the [[All-Star Cast]] definitely are; they were taken by a period-style camera with an actual period lens, on tin type instead of on film. [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-story-behind-these-authentic-1800s-style-pictures-of-the-little-women-cast-1.5454249 See them here].

 

* ''[[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]'' is a fantasy tale written as a Jane Austen pastiche, right down to using obsolete spellings of common words.

* ''[[The Onion]] Presents: Our Dumb Century''.

* ''Jimmy McDonald's Canada'' was a parody of current events shows from [[The Sixties]], filmed in black and white, and occasionally stopping to advertise cigarettes. Richard Waugh, who played Jimmy, somehow managed to convey "[[The Sixties]]" in his very speaking voice.

* ''[[Mad Men]]'' on AMC is supposed to be set in the early 60s, and is filmed with a dark, slightly fuzzy/grainy look to it. This is in keeping with the show's obssessive focus on setting—the furniture is all vintage, along with the clothing. Even to the point of making the actors wear authentic undergarments that are never seen.

* The DVD menus of ''[[The IT Crowd]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOkoP5GGQI The first series] is a pastiche of vintage computers, complete with tape loader and extremely elaborate (for a DVD '''menu''') parodies of ''[[Head Over Heels]]'' and ''[[Jet Set Willy]]''. And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY52wyb6tM the second series] does to 16-bit games what the first did to 8-bit.

* ''[[Yo Gabba Gabba!]]'' has an 8-bit sounding opening, prominently features chiptunes during scene changes, and occasionally features episode filler scenes that pays homage to 80s video games, complete with blocky graphics.

* ''[[Hustle]]''. An exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black & white silent movie.

 

* [[Pop Revival]]

* The [[Foo Fighters]]' 2011 album "Wasting Light" was recorded entirely on analog tape in Dave Grohl's garage.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* The short-lived Wrestling Society X was home to Matt Classic, a wrestler who had been in a coma since the '50s, and wrestled in the same style that won him the World Heavyweight Championship in 1952—including such devastating moves as the head vice, the abdominal stretch, and the airplane spin. Matt Classic was portrayed by Colt Cabana, who was in his mid-20s at the time.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Soulcaster]]'' and ''Soulcaster II'' have 8-bit-style graphics.

* The [[Nintendo 3DS]] game ''[[Mutant Mudds]]'' is done using NES-style graphics and sound. Taken even further, there are hidden levels that mimic the monochrome color schemes of the [[Game Boy]] ("G-Land") and [[Virtual Boy]] ("V-Land").

* ''[[Free Civ]]'', a free indie remake of the ''[[Civilization]]'' games is done in the image of the early entries of Sid Meier's series.

* ''[[Bioshock]]'' has a number of touches like tutorial videos and commercials meant to emulate the style of 1940s-50s advertising.

** Pretty much any of the Videlectrix games on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' (with the exception of ''Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People''): ''Peasant's Quest'' is at least as good, if not actually better, as many of its "contemporaries" which it mimics, such as ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]''.

*** To add to the retrauxness, the employees of Videlectrix are the Brothers Chaps dressed up in polo shirts and fake mustaches. And their games are programmed on an Apple IIe.

* In episode 35 of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'', a [[Clip Show]], Yami asks Kaiba if he remembers the time the two of them first met, which is shown as 'a time when the video quality wasn't very good, and the audio was all muffled and scratchy'. Clips from the first episode are used in black and white, with a fake moustache and monicle painted onto Kaiba, and a 'silent movie' motif with old-style dialogue printed on the screen and an upbeat piano theme.

{{quote|'''Kaiba''': "Your brash nature offends me, Mr. Moto! I shall soon put an end to your impertinence!"

 

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