As the person who coined the term “Dreadpunk,” I can verify that it is indeed a newfangled way of saying “Gothic horror.” I created it, fang-in-cheek, to describe the wave of Gothic horror that we saw a couple of years ago: Penny Dreadful, Crimson Peak, etc. I love that stuff but the term itself was largely a goof.
Thanks for not being insulting about the term. The humor of it flew over a lot of people’s heads. I’m sincere about the material but come on… much like the original usage of steampunk or splatterpunk, it’s not meant to be taken 100% seriously.
@@d.christophertatum2936 One could easily make the case that the best content to come out of either tends to not take itself TOO seriously. It allows a lot of creative freedom to be tongue in cheek or camp things up every once in a while.
I was just looking that up. I've been searching the punk term for "medieval gothic horror fantasy" and couldn't find any. Dreadpunk could work, but I've been calling it "Transylpunk" all this time because... Dracula lol. Or maybe "Occultpunk" or something just for Horror Fantasy in general like Constantine
1:27 Dieselpunk 2:14 Decopunk 3:17 Atompunk 4:40 Raypunk 5:40 Biopunk 6:56 Clockpunk 8:12 Silkpunk 9:07 Stonepunk 10:05 Elfpunk 11:28 Myticpunk 12:34 Gothpunk 14:04 Cattlepunk 15:08 Sandalpunk 16:03 Steelpunk 17:40 Rest punks these are some punks that were not included or if more or less. Greenpunk Medievalpunk Airpunk: still in development Bitpunk Steampunk Chinese Finally, I want to add that nanopunk is a tiny technology to solve health problems, for example in the TV series like Magical Godfathers or Jimmy Neutron they make a chapter where they enter a person in a tiny ship
@@jazzysoggy12 if we’re going off technology/aesthetics alone, in most developed parts of the world, touchscreen smartphones are a pretty ubiquitous part of our lives. So I guess you could call the 2010s and early 2020s era thus far something like “ScreenPunk” or “SmartPunk”. something like that…
Just a speculation...but there's definitely alternate universes where each of these genres are an everyday reality and our reality is there science fiction
@@justinwinn01 solarpunk is a society that runs on 4 energy sources water, wind, sun, and muscle. Its almost like cottage core means sustainable living along with the environment being mixed into society
Here are a couple more punk genres that are less thought about: Skypunk/sailpunk - this genre is classified by flying airships. Specifically Flying vessels reminiscent of boats crossed with blimps or hot air balloons. Basically lots of canvas, wood, rope, sails, and balloons. While it can be incorporated into steampunk and similar genres with steam-powered blimps and such, pure skypunk will primarily harness the wind to move the ships around like sailboats rather than some other major fuel source. Treasure Planet is probably the most notable work that falls within this genre. Oceanpunk - This genre is like steampunk but underwater. The style draws from the style of old diver helmets and nautical equipment designed to be submerged in the ocean. The movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire draws a bit from this aesthetic with its submarine. Gungan City in Star Wars also has many oceanpunk characteristics. One really cool source of a lot of these punk genres similar to steampunk is the Myst games. They have lots of steam, sky, and ocean punk elements throughout.
wait holy shoot so, in most steampunk there is some sort of burning fuel source for their airships with smoke or steam hence the name, but i think Castle in the Sky has Skypunk with all of the different flying airships that have propellers? maybe im wrong im gonna research it haha :)
The only one i did not see mention is stichpunk, probably cause it only really has 3 things(to my knowledge) that take the conecpt and run with it. Those being a movie called 9, little big planet, and a tabletop rpg called threadbare. Its basically, no humans, just plush,plastic, or ragdoll like characters who are all that remain of life most of the time.
I think 9 is also a good idea of a sort of "Soulpunk" theme, since the stitchpunks are basically machines being powered and/or operated by the power of a soul.
I love *"SAILPUNK"* inspired by the Age of Sail (1600-1800) so the focus is on Discovery, Adventure, Colonialism, imperialism, Piracy, Trade and exploitation. Airships are plentiful. Expect at least a small sprinkle of supernatural elements (think pirates of the Caribbean) The "Clockpunk" described here is similar, but that focuses more on the Renaissance/Baroque era (I know it as "Da Vinci Punk")
@@jazzysoggy12 most peoples experience with atom punk is fallout. So when people think of atompunk they think of the fallout genre rather than atompunk itself.
The core genres are SteamPunk of Victorian Era, DieselPunk of WW2, AtomPunk of Early Cold War and SpacePunk of late. Rest of Punk genres are basically variations. So you absolutely could see steam engine in ClockPunk, just it would not be the dominant technology. Cyberpunk is not a Retrofuturism, even if Classic Cyberpunk is dated. The original Punk genre is a part of SF. BioPunk is subgenre of Cyberpunk and commonly minor theme in those.
I clicked on this thinking I would be educated on hardcore punk, pop punk, post-punk, grindcore, crust, d-beat, and stuff like that. But I was in fact wrong
Solarpunk is the most recent punk genre that’s been popular in today’s fiction. Its athletic is having advanced technology meets with nature with a blend of African & Acient Asia culture. Think Wakanda from Black Panther, or read Jade City to get the feel of being in a Solarpunk.
@@CarolinaBury because a fictitious Utopia by definition challenges the world we live in, by showing us what we could have if we took the action needed to solve out modern problems (Climat Change, Government corruption, etc).
One that is probably really niche is Fleshpunk, in which living, organic components are used in technology, structures, and just the world itself. I remember a David Cronenberg movie about living video game controllers that you plug into yourself. And this genre has a couple video game mentions, such as Agony (and its upcoming sequel), where you travel through a Hell that is composed of fleshy terrain and squishy buildings, and then the upcoming game, Scorn, which has factories and machinery made of bone and flesh, and you even wield a living gun!
First of we should make destination between SF branch of Punks and Retrofuturistic Punks. Cyberpunk begin as actual SF, which was though vogue as it was only guessing how cybernetic future would look like. This lead to over stylisation, heavily inspired by Future Punk style of Babilon AD and heavy metal magazine. With rise of hacker culture genre evolved in post-cyberpunk more closer to its scientific route. Other sub-genres like BioPunk (dark underbelly of medial industry) and SolarPunk (ecoscams and ecoterrorism) are still actual SF. What become reality, with toxic electric cars pushed as ecologic. Meanwhile a lot of authors refused to abandon dated aspects of classic cyberpunk, even embracing some more dated elements as part of so called CassetePunk (deliberate Retro-CyberPunk). Other authors fallowed this trend bringing back other dated visions of the future for the settings. This lead to all Retro-Punk genres, with most notable success of the SteamPunk. There is a lot of sub-genres, though core ones are SteamPunk (19'th century), DieselPunk (prior WW2), AtomPunk (50-70's) and SpacePunk (80-90's). Related to specific periods of retro-futurism. Other genres are variations of those.
Highly informative. Never knew other Punk genres outside cyber and steam. Figured they were kind of listed under those two since you could easily splice the genres together into a cohesive world.
Here are some examples of retro futuristic punks that I think will be more more popular in the future: Memphis punk (Late 1980s/Early 1990s) Y2Kpunk (Late 1990s/Early 2000s) Frutiger Aero punk (Late 2000s/Early 2010s) Flat Design/Corporate Design punk (Late 2010s/Early 2020s)
As a frequent resident of TV Tropes, I was pleased to see how many genres I'd heard of made the list, and surprised at how many I hadn't (partly suspicious you made them up :P) There are also a few more genres I was disappointed to not see on the list and would love to see mentioned if you ever make a sequel. Solar Punk- Idealistic future setting run on sustainable energy and covered in greens Scavenged Punk- Everything is dredged up from the world that was before. Sure, you see it in Mad Max, but it also applies to settings filled with little people and living rodents, borrowing resources from the big folks. Ocean Punk- Adventure out on the high seas, with wooden ships, iron men and pirates for days Desert Punk- Technically part of both Cattle Punk and Steelpunk, but could warrant a mention of its own Dungeon Punk- Medieval fantasy is taken to the logical extreme, with mighty machines that run on pure magic And last but not least, Capepunk- Punk sensibilities applied to superheroes for realism (read: cynicism) showing the consequences of thrusting superpowers on ordinary young people hopped up on angst.
It occurred to me while I was re-watching this that there's another aspect to silkpunk you didn't mention--I'm guessing because you might not have known; I think it's kind of obscure. That's the idea that Far Eastern research into the development and application of gunpowder went a lot further than it did in reality, up to and including the use of gunpowder as a fuel in mechanical engines--basically think of a steam or piston engine that runs on gunpowder instead of coal or gasoline. The only example I can name is Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin.
I really appreciate this list and the effort it took to put it together, nice little resource. As some the others have pointed out, it would be nice if you did an updated version with the additional "punk" genres that have become more prominent since this video's first release. One correction however, Sandalpunk has been known by another name since the 60's: sword and sorcery.
Thanks for differentiating all the punk genres and introducing me to new ones! Ever since I watched The Big O, I discovered I was a Decopunk fan. I didn’t even know there was a term for it at the time.
Pretty solid! Your missing Trashpunk though! It expands the punk genre to be in a trash covered wasteland, often as a result of humanities dependency on technology, and explores our relationship to the decaying environment, social upheaval, and the emotional impact it all has on us.. It's a bit of a lesser known punk but still amazing!
Great video, thanks! My whole life I watch movies like Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Batman, Conan, Shadow,... and I didn't know for this! I heard about sub-genres steampunk, cyberpunk, but these sub-genres of sub-genres, never! For exampe, I felt before some connection between Batman, Shadow, Dark City, Superman of course,... but never heard for decopunk!
Clockpunk is often attributed to the Renaissance, but need not dwell there. A particularly good example is Benoit Socal's Syberia games, which takes place in the 1990s and has mechanically powered technology of what can be stylistically attributed to Deco and Diesel (I don't know how to classify spring-powered soviet spacecraft though).
The existence of the DecoPunk genre/aesthetic implies the existence of other early 20th century art movement inspired Punk genres/aesthetics, such as NouveauPunk, CubistPunk, DadaPunk, SurrealPunk, FuturePunk, FauvPunk, VortPunk, and StijPunk. But we’re not ready for that conversation…
@@Bob11212-y honestly it feels like those two are (unfortunately) incompatible. They don’t feel like they could belong or cooperate together (if you know what I mean, from an aesthetic/artistic sense). Now a blend of Dieselpunk and Atompunk might work, as well as Cyberpunk and Teslapunk. But in terms of what it would look like, it might be something along the lines of prewar fallout except the machinery is more slick and maybe more capable (with atom technology being reserved for roles such as police and military).
My favorites are: Raypunk, Atompunk, and Dieselpnk. I especially love Raypunk for its blend of science fiction with fantasy and fairytale elements. This characterized a lot of old-school sci-fi and pulp fiction, particularly from the nineteen-teens up until the late 40s or so.
before i watched, the term salvagepunk / junkpunk was something i was reminded of, although based on the 'desert' setting that was mentioned when describing steelpunk, i believe it fits in there. Mad Max, Wall-E and Borderlands are all examples ! i believe a big difference would be the cities in steelpunk have simply evolved to fit that aesthetic, whereas in salvagepunk if there are cities at all they are probably a total wasteland
i wanna make one called khaopunk thats a large combination of a few of these (more specificly cyberpunk, steampunk, deiselpunk, clockpunk, elfpunk, biopunk, decopunk, cattlepunk, steelpunk, teslapunk, dreadpunk) just all mixed into one mess of emotion covering important topics of self and earth
Honestly this is really useful inspiration for my fantasy setting which started with the idea of several fantasy universes of different "punk" genres colliding, and now with this guide I have been able to decide on it being dieselpunk (with some cattlepunk) vs clockpunk vs either silkpunk or classic fantasy.
One you may have missed is cassette futurism. Its not huge as the other punk, but it's one kajornkekver is enough to make it worth a mention: Alien...and I guess that includes Aliens too. It can be most clearly seen in Alien Isolation. Almost allof your saved games and menus comes in late 70s cassettes
Yeah. Not a "punk" as often it comes through in steelpunk. As we modernize, it becomes a way of giving characters physical objects to hold as opposed to cyperpunk where objects are virtual. Cassettes replace books and can carry information in a way that is easy to produce and requires characters be physically somewhere to share and use.
@@blademaster9575 I'm guessing something like Full Metal Alchemist, involving a lot of magic, possibly science, with maybe a little less of a typical fantasy aesthetic. Idk, ig I'll look it up myself
The explanation was really good work on your editing the video with more of a visual to what you're talking about every second a couple jokes here and there with a cool effect and you'll go a long way
Opiumpunk aka Oriental / Asian steampunk fuses the steam technology of Opium Wars period with Eastern aesthetics. The running theme is imperialism (the Main Enemy), and the speculative technology was steam + gunpowder + oriental mystical arts (chinese or Japanese)
What you call Sandalpunk is simply the sword & sandal genre of fantasy. I'd think that true Sandalpunk should include the use of weird technology in a world like Atlantis. The earliest example of this that I know is the novel The Lost Continent by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1899).
There is also Splatterpunk, which I believe is a subgenre of Biopunk, but more gore related. Think of it like the grindcore/goregrind aesthetic. Or those 80s, 90s and '00s splatter horror movies
About Biopunk, what's on my mind are stories that revolve around devices or machines that are made mostly, if not entirely, of flesh and bones. Like the flesh/bone gun and VR devices in the movie Existenz, contraptions in the game Scorn, or maybe computer mainframe made of huge brain-like structure, or maybe an array of brains interconnected to each other forming something like a grid computing. Easy to turn into a horror story but really hard to turn into other genres like action-adventure.
What were the films used in Elf and Steel? I recognized most of them, but not the first one for Elf nor the animated ones for Steel. Thanks for posting this; I think you've given the best, most inclusive summaries on this topic I've recently seen.
Honestly, the most surprising thing about all this was that these are actual genres, and not something J.P Beaubean made up for his “Steampunk” episode of Terrible Writing Advice.
What about Sailpunk or does that just blend in with Clock Punk? cause you did have the Zeppelin Sea ships that are usually the primary factor of Sail Punk, with Sailpunk being usually set in more stripped down nature filled environments. and Cassette Futurism, isn't Punk by name but is usually lumped in. There is also Aetherpunk which is a more fantasy magic version of a mix of steam and cyber punk.
I was familiar with dieselpunk, and I'd heard "solarpunk" used. Most of these I was also familiar with, but lacked a name for. Thank you for uploading this. :)
So basically, steampunk is the victorian era to ww1, decopunk is the post ww1 to pre ww2 era, diesel punk is for ww2 and alternative ww2 endings like Wolfenstein, and atompunk is the post ww2 era to the late 60s of the cold war.
Great video and I love the visual examples you use to relate the genre to other media. I know you touched on it briefly in the intro but I'd be curious to hear what your thoughts are on what differentiates a punk genre from a similar non punk genre. Raypunk vs. Pulp sci-fi Weird west vs. Western fantasy Silkpunk vs. Eastern fantasy I feel like I can feel the difference but can never quantify it.
Punk looks at the downside of such a world. H.G.Wells and Jules Verne were not steampunk. Those writing a century later, fully cognizant of why these authors’ visions of the future could not work, but wishing to evoke the style, are steampunk.
cassette futurism or formicapunk is more of a cyberpunk,however; it's takes place in the 80s where cassettes, IBM PC, Gameboy(some notably based on monochromatic LCD), non-powerful cellphone,laser and retro computer software which the CD was absent.
Great video. I'm definitely on the aesthetic side, so love Steam, Atom, Deco and Dieselpunk. Plenty of genres I'd never heard of. If I had the time I'd love to get into games like BioShock.
@@JohnBradford14 for the ones I didn't know, cattlepunk looks interesting; in general, it is hard to say, I love Atompunk, but taking a lot of interest in something a little bit older, I am between Dieselpunk and Decopunk, I love art deco and a lot of that aesthetic
I know you meant for your timestamp to say "Gothpunk" instead of "Godpunk", but Godpunk sounds like a really cool subgenre idea. With a setting like a Renaissance painting of either Greek/Roman mythology or Christianity. Or other religions because why not?
@@luismedina5792 It's subgenre of superhero fiction. It is basically the same as traditional superhero stories but with a realistic and deconstrutive tone. The movie Chronicle is a good example.
Some tracks: -Autumn from Vivaldi's Four Seasons (clockpunk) -Master Machine by TeknoAXE (biopunk) -Hono no Megami by Adrian von Ziegler (silkpunk) -When the Music Goes Around by TeknoAXE (decopunk) -TeknoAXE royalty free music #24 (cheap hair metal) (steelpunk) -I See Her (dream girl) by Sofa Bob (atompunk) -Palomita Retoños del Rio (cattlepunk) -Future Gladiator by Kevin Macleod (sandalpunk) -Giant Leap by Topher Mohr (raypunk)
One big one is missing from here is Solarpunk, which is if the people of the (usually near) future focused on building cities based on sustainable/ green technology.
I,ll try to organize this by time period being referenced and used as retrofuturist inspiration prehistoric times: stonepunk iron age: sandalpunk middle ages: silkpunk, mithpunk modern age: clockpunk early contemporary age (1789-1914): steampunk, cattlepunk interwar period(1919-1939): decopunk, gothpunk WWII and sino-japanesse war (1936-1945): dieselpunk early cold war (1945-1962) Atompunk late 60 and early 70s: raypunk late 70s and early 80s: steelpunk late 80s, early 90s: ciberpunk late 80s, early 90s: biopunk
Great and informative video. A few that you left out were Solarpunk: a utopian outlook on the future that explores conservation and productive energy renewal. Not many films explore this but 2067 might be one. Hydropunk: a similar outlook on the future with a heavy emphasis on using water to fuel technology and sustain life. The TH-cam original, Sherwood, explores a dystopian world where floating towns are sustained with grown and synthetic crops and the technology reflects that. I don’t count Waterworld as that falls more into apocalyptic fiction.
@ 6:46 Does anybody know what movie this is? Also the aesthetic that we see in guardians of the galaxy, would that also fall under the realm of cyber punk or is this another genre all together?
I’m surprised you didn’t mention post-cyberpunk/cyberprep (A more optimistic take on the technology and themes) of cyberpunk and Cassette futurism (Cyberpunk era technology but done more realistic). A lot of Cartoon Networks post 2010 out put like Regular show, Steven universe and Ok go are Cassette futurism for some reason.
Here are some other punk genres (and more info on Biopunk): *Soft Biopunk is Not limited by what time period it can be based on, and not limited by what setting it can take place like how described in the video, while Hard Biopunk has settings that are mostly organic-based, (and usually takes place on alien planet, especially including flesh structures.), the example of Hard Biopunk is "Scorn". *Modempunk is the sci-fi punk genre that has aesthetics based on 1970s and (early) 1980s. Which usually has futuristic theme but more of with 1970s and early 1980s era-based technology, especially including floppy disks and cassette tapes. And stereotypically depicted with technology that has a lot of unnecessary blinking lights. Basically, what many people in 1970s and early 1980s thought that what the future could look like. Main examples are “Cowboy Bebop” and “Back to the Future”. *Aetherpunk is a punk genre that combines technology with supernatural, such as magic. With architecture usually including gold and stained-glass windows. It is more fantasy themed than sci-fi, and especially spiritual-based. Someone claimed that one example of this punk genre is "League of Legends". *Castlepunk is a sci-fi punk genre that is mainly set in a time-period based on Dark Ages (also known as “Middle Ages”) with advanced technology. This can also feature supernatural fantasy elements such as magic. Similar to Aether-punk but is less spiritual-themed. *Skypunk is the punk genre that focuses on the settings set high above the surface of a celestial body. Mainly has floating landmasses such as floating islands and floating rocks. And is not limited by what time period it can be based on, and not limited by what culture-base it can take place. *Dreampunk is the punk genre that is mainly surreal imagery and esoteric symbolism and other dream aspects, usually with hidden symbolism. And usually has non-linear plots and mostly without explanation. Main examples are “Alice in Wonderland” novel and “The Wizard of Oz” novel, but can be more surreal than those examples. *Portalpunk is a sub-punk genre that focuses on portals and other means of transportations to another celestial body or dimension. It is the main sub-punk genre for ALL isekai narratives. And can be in ANY main punk genre, also can be combined with other sub-punk genres. *Mesopunk is a sub-punk genre that is just sci-fi with Mesoamerican-based culture, that also can have supernatural elements, especially Mesoamerican-based mythological themes. *Capepunk is a sub-punk genre that can be set in any time period but it mainly features “superhero” themes, or other “superpower” themes that are usually not fantasy-themed but can usually be sci-fi themed. *Oceanpunk is the sub-punk genre that is set with post-apocalyptic flooded settings. *I am sure there is "Pixelpunk" which is a punk genre that has pixel ascetics. *Splatterpunk is just a "sub-punk genre" that focuses on excessive overuse of gore and violence. T-T (Example is "Hellraiser")
I once played a tabletop system called Necropunk, which is biopunk sci fi but the most valuable material is human bone, which conducts psychic energy and can be made into weapons and stuff.
I'm not sure whether or not this is enough for its own punk genre, but there's this idea of everything being powered by some form of anomalous/arcane/paracausal energy emanating from crystals. One example of this is Storm Hawks, where these crystals are used to power special weapons and transforming vehicles.
As the person who coined the term “Dreadpunk,” I can verify that it is indeed a newfangled way of saying “Gothic horror.” I created it, fang-in-cheek, to describe the wave of Gothic horror that we saw a couple of years ago: Penny Dreadful, Crimson Peak, etc. I love that stuff but the term itself was largely a goof.
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Thanks for not being insulting about the term. The humor of it flew over a lot of people’s heads. I’m sincere about the material but come on… much like the original usage of steampunk or splatterpunk, it’s not meant to be taken 100% seriously.
@@d.christophertatum2936 One could easily make the case that the best content to come out of either tends to not take itself TOO seriously. It allows a lot of creative freedom to be tongue in cheek or camp things up every once in a while.
I like dreadpunk
I was just looking that up. I've been searching the punk term for "medieval gothic horror fantasy" and couldn't find any. Dreadpunk could work, but I've been calling it "Transylpunk" all this time because... Dracula lol. Or maybe "Occultpunk" or something just for Horror Fantasy in general like Constantine
1:27 Dieselpunk
2:14 Decopunk
3:17 Atompunk
4:40 Raypunk
5:40 Biopunk
6:56 Clockpunk
8:12 Silkpunk
9:07 Stonepunk
10:05 Elfpunk
11:28 Myticpunk
12:34 Gothpunk
14:04 Cattlepunk
15:08 Sandalpunk
16:03 Steelpunk
17:40 Rest punks
these are some punks that were not included or if more or less.
Greenpunk
Medievalpunk
Airpunk: still in development
Bitpunk
Steampunk Chinese
Finally, I want to add that nanopunk is a tiny technology to solve health problems, for example in the TV series like Magical Godfathers or Jimmy Neutron they make a chapter where they enter a person in a tiny ship
Suggestion for non included punk: Pentium punk, essentially twentieth century cyberpunk
What punk is our world?
@@jazzysoggy12 if we’re going off technology/aesthetics alone, in most developed parts of the world, touchscreen smartphones are a pretty ubiquitous part of our lives. So I guess you could call the 2010s and early 2020s era thus far something like “ScreenPunk” or “SmartPunk”. something like that…
@@Brianna-eo8nu What about “siliconepunk” or something like that
@Dorian Redwine that's candlepunk
Just a speculation...but there's definitely alternate universes where each of these genres are an everyday reality and our reality is there science fiction
I am aware
Lol I can't imagine it being a very exciting read XD
Well most of them are very technologically superior so we must be more of past
We'd be an example of a dystopia...we never know what there popular culture might be..
@@JohnBradford14 not for the wolfenstein series. That is a dieselpunk genre where there history is an actual nightmare
good video!
another cool genre is 'frostpunk' maybe as an honorable mention
or solarpunk which is basically an eco-friendly futuristic aesthetic.
You need to play the game "frostpunk" it kept me up all night playing it, also the movie Snowpiercer would fit perfectly in that genre.
What's an example of solarpunk?
@Zelda of the Moon Garden maybe in warframe? Its a beautiful game and the orokin has a similar aesthetic.
@@justinwinn01 solarpunk is a society that runs on 4 energy sources water, wind, sun, and muscle. Its almost like cottage core means sustainable living along with the environment being mixed into society
I used that for one of city
Here are a couple more punk genres that are less thought about:
Skypunk/sailpunk - this genre is classified by flying airships. Specifically Flying vessels reminiscent of boats crossed with blimps or hot air balloons. Basically lots of canvas, wood, rope, sails, and balloons. While it can be incorporated into steampunk and similar genres with steam-powered blimps and such, pure skypunk will primarily harness the wind to move the ships around like sailboats rather than some other major fuel source. Treasure Planet is probably the most notable work that falls within this genre.
Oceanpunk - This genre is like steampunk but underwater. The style draws from the style of old diver helmets and nautical equipment designed to be submerged in the ocean. The movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire draws a bit from this aesthetic with its submarine. Gungan City in Star Wars also has many oceanpunk characteristics.
One really cool source of a lot of these punk genres similar to steampunk is the Myst games. They have lots of steam, sky, and ocean punk elements throughout.
Bioshock is also a great example of oceanpunk!
Cloudborne is skypunk
wait holy shoot so, in most steampunk there is some sort of burning fuel source for their airships with smoke or steam hence the name, but i think Castle in the Sky has Skypunk with all of the different flying airships that have propellers? maybe im wrong im gonna research it haha :)
Could Treasure Planet be considered skypunk? Or some mixture of steampunk, skypunk and raypunk?
@@127Kronos yeah, definitely. I'd say mostly skypunk with some steampunk and a sprinkle of raypunk.
The only one i did not see mention is stichpunk, probably cause it only really has 3 things(to my knowledge) that take the conecpt and run with it. Those being a movie called 9, little big planet, and a tabletop rpg called threadbare. Its basically, no humans, just plush,plastic, or ragdoll like characters who are all that remain of life most of the time.
So basically a mature version of Toy Story?
@@graneius7618 no, it's more about sewn things.
@@viola308 I knew those creepy stuffed toys were going to rise up and kill us all!
I think 9 is also a good idea of a sort of "Soulpunk" theme, since the stitchpunks are basically machines being powered and/or operated by the power of a soul.
Would the game ‘It Takes Two’ fall into this category?
Pretty awesome video. I have been wondering about the punk genres and this helps a lot
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@@joaquinkurozaki2624 ??
@@robowindseeker n-nothing
I love *"SAILPUNK"*
inspired by the Age of Sail (1600-1800) so the focus is on Discovery, Adventure, Colonialism, imperialism, Piracy, Trade and exploitation.
Airships are plentiful.
Expect at least a small sprinkle of supernatural elements (think pirates of the Caribbean)
The "Clockpunk" described here is similar, but that focuses more on the Renaissance/Baroque era (I know it as "Da Vinci Punk")
Also...the wolf among us is an excellent example of elfpunk genre too
when the wolf is SUS
sussy?
Amogus
That’s pretty sussy
The wolf where...?
my favourite genre is "Daft Punk"
True
I've heard it's becoming popular,....
around the world.
@@lauragraves4342yes, they are Harder, Better, Faster and Stronger now
Mines hardcore punk
You must be DAFT to like Daft Punk! In a GOOD way, that is!
The only Punk genre I knew, other than Cyber and Steam, was Diesel Punk lmao; how tf do you only have 41 subs with videos this informative?
I only knew cyberpunk, steampunk, DieselPunk, ClockPunk, BioPunk,
None of you guys know Atompunk?!
@@jazzysoggy12 most peoples experience with atom punk is fallout. So when people think of atompunk they think of the fallout genre rather than atompunk itself.
@@Demicleas Aw, gotcha
The core genres are SteamPunk of Victorian Era, DieselPunk of WW2, AtomPunk of Early Cold War and SpacePunk of late. Rest of Punk genres are basically variations. So you absolutely could see steam engine in ClockPunk, just it would not be the dominant technology. Cyberpunk is not a Retrofuturism, even if Classic Cyberpunk is dated. The original Punk genre is a part of SF. BioPunk is subgenre of Cyberpunk and commonly minor theme in those.
You deserve more subs this was a good video
I clicked on this thinking I would be educated on hardcore punk, pop punk, post-punk, grindcore, crust, d-beat, and stuff like that. But I was in fact wrong
I do love post-punk, though.
Solarpunk is the most recent punk genre that’s been popular in today’s fiction. Its athletic is having advanced technology meets with nature with a blend of African & Acient Asia culture. Think Wakanda from Black Panther, or read Jade City to get the feel of being in a Solarpunk.
Sounds like a trash style. Atom punk is the way to go
It's a nice utopia with tree computers
I really want tree computer for some reason
Sounds kinda like Afropunk
I don't get why they call an utopian aesthetics punk
@@CarolinaBury because a fictitious Utopia by definition challenges the world we live in, by showing us what we could have if we took the action needed to solve out modern problems (Climat Change, Government corruption, etc).
One that is probably really niche is Fleshpunk, in which living, organic components are used in technology, structures, and just the world itself. I remember a David Cronenberg movie about living video game controllers that you plug into yourself. And this genre has a couple video game mentions, such as Agony (and its upcoming sequel), where you travel through a Hell that is composed of fleshy terrain and squishy buildings, and then the upcoming game, Scorn, which has factories and machinery made of bone and flesh, and you even wield a living gun!
You should look up CARRION (the game)
That would be a version of biopunk.
that's biopunk like Akira and or prototype.
Would Scorn fall under this? probably yes seeing as it's basicaly HR Giger the game.
@@PALITINEB00RS Empire of Corpses is this to a T the film is a world where Frankenstein tech goes mainstream
I wish you put a caption in telling us what movies/shows you had playing.
Some of these look great!!
Solarpunk is also pretty cool.
Yep I was disappointed to see it wasn't included. That or Lunarpunk.
One of the few with a positive outlook, and not a bad goal to strive for
First of we should make destination between SF branch of Punks and Retrofuturistic Punks.
Cyberpunk begin as actual SF, which was though vogue as it was only guessing how cybernetic future would look like. This lead to over stylisation, heavily inspired by Future Punk style of Babilon AD and heavy metal magazine. With rise of hacker culture genre evolved in post-cyberpunk more closer to its scientific route. Other sub-genres like BioPunk (dark underbelly of medial industry) and SolarPunk (ecoscams and ecoterrorism) are still actual SF. What become reality, with toxic electric cars pushed as ecologic.
Meanwhile a lot of authors refused to abandon dated aspects of classic cyberpunk, even embracing some more dated elements as part of so called CassetePunk (deliberate Retro-CyberPunk). Other authors fallowed this trend bringing back other dated visions of the future for the settings. This lead to all Retro-Punk genres, with most notable success of the SteamPunk. There is a lot of sub-genres, though core ones are SteamPunk (19'th century), DieselPunk (prior WW2), AtomPunk (50-70's) and SpacePunk (80-90's). Related to specific periods of retro-futurism. Other genres are variations of those.
@@UNSCPILOT It is the only one that actually may impact our planet, and for the better too.
Fun fact: atom punk is actually more effective and cleaner than solarpunk
Highly informative. Never knew other Punk genres outside cyber and steam. Figured they were kind of listed under those two since you could easily splice the genres together into a cohesive world.
Omg !! I thought this is a million views video because of the quality and references !!; U deserve 100k+subs
Thank you! That means a lot!
I didn’t even realize he was underrated
Here are some examples of retro futuristic punks that I think will be more more popular in the future:
Memphis punk (Late 1980s/Early 1990s)
Y2Kpunk (Late 1990s/Early 2000s)
Frutiger Aero punk (Late 2000s/Early 2010s)
Flat Design/Corporate Design punk (Late 2010s/Early 2020s)
As a frequent resident of TV Tropes, I was pleased to see how many genres I'd heard of made the list, and surprised at how many I hadn't (partly suspicious you made them up :P) There are also a few more genres I was disappointed to not see on the list and would love to see mentioned if you ever make a sequel.
Solar Punk- Idealistic future setting run on sustainable energy and covered in greens
Scavenged Punk- Everything is dredged up from the world that was before. Sure, you see it in Mad Max, but it also applies to settings filled with little people and living rodents, borrowing resources from the big folks.
Ocean Punk- Adventure out on the high seas, with wooden ships, iron men and pirates for days
Desert Punk- Technically part of both Cattle Punk and Steelpunk, but could warrant a mention of its own
Dungeon Punk- Medieval fantasy is taken to the logical extreme, with mighty machines that run on pure magic
And last but not least,
Capepunk- Punk sensibilities applied to superheroes for realism (read: cynicism) showing the consequences of thrusting superpowers on ordinary young people hopped up on angst.
It occurred to me while I was re-watching this that there's another aspect to silkpunk you didn't mention--I'm guessing because you might not have known; I think it's kind of obscure. That's the idea that Far Eastern research into the development and application of gunpowder went a lot further than it did in reality, up to and including the use of gunpowder as a fuel in mechanical engines--basically think of a steam or piston engine that runs on gunpowder instead of coal or gasoline. The only example I can name is Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin.
I really appreciate this list and the effort it took to put it together, nice little resource. As some the others have pointed out, it would be nice if you did an updated version with the additional "punk" genres that have become more prominent since this video's first release.
One correction however, Sandalpunk has been known by another name since the 60's: sword and sorcery.
Thanks for differentiating all the punk genres and introducing me to new ones! Ever since I watched The Big O, I discovered I was a Decopunk fan. I didn’t even know there was a term for it at the time.
lmao same i like that old batman type vibes from it there should a punk genre tag in MAL at this point to help us out
you might wanna try No Guns life
This is the best , shortest , clearest video describing on punk style by choosing relevant movie and anime as example.
I'm surprised he didn't mention the new Wolfenstein games, when bringing up dieselpunk.
Pretty solid! Your missing Trashpunk though! It expands the punk genre to be in a trash covered wasteland, often as a result of humanities dependency on technology, and explores our relationship to the decaying environment, social upheaval, and the emotional impact it all has on us.. It's a bit of a lesser known punk but still amazing!
Another name for this is Salvagepunk.
Mad Max and Waterworld
wall e?
Great video, thanks!
My whole life I watch movies like Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Batman, Conan, Shadow,... and I didn't know for this! I heard about sub-genres steampunk, cyberpunk, but these sub-genres of sub-genres, never!
For exampe, I felt before some connection between Batman, Shadow, Dark City, Superman of course,... but never heard for decopunk!
Clockpunk is often attributed to the Renaissance, but need not dwell there. A particularly good example is Benoit Socal's Syberia games, which takes place in the 1990s and has mechanically powered technology of what can be stylistically attributed to Deco and Diesel (I don't know how to classify spring-powered soviet spacecraft though).
The existence of the DecoPunk genre/aesthetic implies the existence of other early 20th century art movement inspired Punk genres/aesthetics, such as NouveauPunk, CubistPunk, DadaPunk, SurrealPunk, FuturePunk, FauvPunk, VortPunk, and StijPunk.
But we’re not ready for that conversation…
lets make DadaPunk a real genre
Thought this was a bigger channel because of the quality keep it up 👍🏾
Amazing vid bro had me intrigued through the whole thing. Hope you get 1 mil subs
I just want a blend of Steelpunk and Deiselpunk. I love the heavy industrial/war vibe
I love the kind of "alternate world wars" that can come with dieselpunk
Sovietwave
@@daltonb6007 although i have not played it is the wolfenstein series like that? :O
I mean mad max is like that. At least the third movie is.
@@Bob11212-y honestly it feels like those two are (unfortunately) incompatible. They don’t feel like they could belong or cooperate together (if you know what I mean, from an aesthetic/artistic sense). Now a blend of Dieselpunk and Atompunk might work, as well as Cyberpunk and Teslapunk. But in terms of what it would look like, it might be something along the lines of prewar fallout except the machinery is more slick and maybe more capable (with atom technology being reserved for roles such as police and military).
My favorites are: Raypunk, Atompunk, and Dieselpnk.
I especially love Raypunk for its blend of science fiction with fantasy and fairytale elements. This characterized a lot of old-school sci-fi and pulp fiction, particularly from the nineteen-teens up until the late 40s or so.
Anyone else think that batman has been in all of these?
Never let them tell you Batman is anything other than punk. There are those who say he’s a fascist and those people don’t understand.
great vid, insanely underrated channel
It was very educational, thanks a lot man ♥️
that techno/edm vs grunge analogy was very satisfying. thanks, good vid
0:30 cyber punk
0:42 steampunk, 1870s
the others:
1:25 dieselpunk, 1910s, 1940s
2:14 decopunk, 1920-1940s
3:22 atompunk 1950-1965
4:37 raypunk, maybe 2300s
5:39 biopunk, any era
6:48 clockpunk, 1500- early 1800s
8:10 silkpunk, 1500s-1800s
9:05 stonepunk, 300 million to 10,000 BC
10:01 elfpunk, urban fantasy, 1850s-near future
11:24 mythpunk, 1600s-1800s
12:33 gothpunk, modern day
14:02 cattlepunk, 1830s-1880s, prior to steampunk
15:04 sandalpunk, 2500BC- 500AD
16:01 steelpunk, near future-2060
I love how about half or more of the clips used are from anime
Unfortunately, Japan seems more interested in having diverse genres of sci-fi and fantasy represented in their media than Hollywood does.
@@JohnBradford14 yeah
before i watched, the term salvagepunk / junkpunk was something i was reminded of, although based on the 'desert' setting that was mentioned when describing steelpunk, i believe it fits in there. Mad Max, Wall-E and Borderlands are all examples ! i believe a big difference would be the cities in steelpunk have simply evolved to fit that aesthetic, whereas in salvagepunk if there are cities at all they are probably a total wasteland
It’s my fav one
“Now your just making up words” -soldier boy
i wanna make one called khaopunk thats a large combination of a few of these (more specificly cyberpunk, steampunk, deiselpunk, clockpunk, elfpunk, biopunk, decopunk, cattlepunk, steelpunk, teslapunk, dreadpunk) just all mixed into one mess of emotion covering important topics of self and earth
Honestly this is really useful inspiration for my fantasy setting which started with the idea of several fantasy universes of different "punk" genres colliding, and now with this guide I have been able to decide on it being dieselpunk (with some cattlepunk) vs clockpunk vs either silkpunk or classic fantasy.
One you may have missed is cassette futurism. Its not huge as the other punk, but it's one kajornkekver is enough to make it worth a mention:
Alien...and I guess that includes Aliens too.
It can be most clearly seen in Alien Isolation. Almost allof your saved games and menus comes in late 70s cassettes
Yeah. Not a "punk" as often it comes through in steelpunk. As we modernize, it becomes a way of giving characters physical objects to hold as opposed to cyperpunk where objects are virtual. Cassettes replace books and can carry information in a way that is easy to produce and requires characters be physically somewhere to share and use.
G’day mate, a truely engaging and educational ☮ of work. Many thanks for making it!
I semi-searched for this and besides what I was looking for found way more and it has been great. Fantastic video
Where's *Arcanepunk* tho ?
What is arcane punk?
@@blademaster9575 I'm guessing something like Full Metal Alchemist, involving a lot of magic, possibly science, with maybe a little less of a typical fantasy aesthetic. Idk, ig I'll look it up myself
Eberron campaign setting
The explanation was really good
work on your editing the video with more of a visual to what you're talking about every second a couple jokes here and there with a cool effect and you'll go a long way
Opiumpunk aka Oriental / Asian steampunk fuses the steam technology of Opium Wars period with Eastern aesthetics. The running theme is imperialism (the Main Enemy), and the speculative technology was steam + gunpowder + oriental mystical arts (chinese or Japanese)
any examples?
Well done video, engaging and insightful. I look forward to more of your content.
Some of these felt like a stretch.
What you call Sandalpunk is simply the sword & sandal genre of fantasy. I'd think that true Sandalpunk should include the use of weird technology in a world like Atlantis. The earliest example of this that I know is the novel The Lost Continent by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne (1899).
There is also Splatterpunk, which I believe is a subgenre of Biopunk, but more gore related. Think of it like the grindcore/goregrind aesthetic. Or those 80s, 90s and '00s splatter horror movies
So stuff like Empire of Corpses intro scene cutting open a neck to attach a mechanism to revive dead
resident evil
Splatterhouse
About Biopunk, what's on my mind are stories that revolve around devices or machines that are made mostly, if not entirely, of flesh and bones. Like the flesh/bone gun and VR devices in the movie Existenz, contraptions in the game Scorn, or maybe computer mainframe made of huge brain-like structure, or maybe an array of brains interconnected to each other forming something like a grid computing. Easy to turn into a horror story but really hard to turn into other genres like action-adventure.
What were the films used in Elf and Steel? I recognized most of them, but not the first one for Elf nor the animated ones for Steel. Thanks for posting this; I think you've given the best, most inclusive summaries on this topic I've recently seen.
Glad you liked it! The first one for Elf is "Carnival Row", and the animated one for Steel was the animated adaptation of "The Dark Knight Returns".
@@JohnBradford14 thanks and thanks again for posting this
Honestly, the most surprising thing about all this was that these are actual genres, and not something J.P Beaubean made up for his “Steampunk” episode of Terrible Writing Advice.
Tim Burton & H.R. Giger.....that combo would make for a fantastic story setting.
This was fantastic. I actually didn't know about a lot of those
Sorry, but the level of SASS for the title is astonishing XD I love it
Do we have to add “punk” to everything?
What about Sailpunk or does that just blend in with Clock Punk? cause you did have the Zeppelin Sea ships that are usually the primary factor of Sail Punk, with Sailpunk being usually set in more stripped down nature filled environments. and Cassette Futurism, isn't Punk by name but is usually lumped in. There is also Aetherpunk which is a more fantasy magic version of a mix of steam and cyber punk.
Think about "IndiaPunk". People riding Mechanical Elephant. Medieval Forts and cities with Indian Hypothetical Technologies. And on and on.
Digital Devil Saga?
I’m making a universe that is a mixture of steampunk, and dieselpunk and I’m having a lot of fun.
I wanna see, may i hope into the bandwagon ♪～(´ε｀ )
I was familiar with dieselpunk, and I'd heard "solarpunk" used. Most of these I was also familiar with, but lacked a name for. Thank you for uploading this. :)
Woooooow their is a awful lot of Punk genius out their. Thanks soooo much for sharing with us.
So basically, steampunk is the victorian era to ww1, decopunk is the post ww1 to pre ww2 era, diesel punk is for ww2 and alternative ww2 endings like Wolfenstein, and atompunk is the post ww2 era to the late 60s of the cold war.
Great video and I love the visual examples you use to relate the genre to other media.
I know you touched on it briefly in the intro but I'd be curious to hear what your thoughts are on what differentiates a punk genre from a similar non punk genre.
Raypunk vs. Pulp sci-fi
Weird west vs. Western fantasy
Silkpunk vs. Eastern fantasy
I feel like I can feel the difference but can never quantify it.
Punk looks at the downside of such a world. H.G.Wells and Jules Verne were not steampunk. Those writing a century later, fully cognizant of why these authors’ visions of the future could not work, but wishing to evoke the style, are steampunk.
I was expecting something like MesoPunk as a way of representing Mesoamerican Cultures with their big cities and God influences
I know many of these sub genres but holy fuck this is another level
cassette futurism or formicapunk is more of a cyberpunk,however; it's takes place in the 80s where cassettes, IBM PC, Gameboy(some notably based on monochromatic LCD), non-powerful cellphone,laser and retro computer software which the CD was absent.
Great video. I'm definitely on the aesthetic side, so love Steam, Atom, Deco and Dieselpunk. Plenty of genres I'd never heard of. If I had the time I'd love to get into games like BioShock.
Well... Although I was a little skeptical at first to the title, I actually did not know like 6 or 7 of the mentions. Cool video.
Thank you! Which one was your favorite?
@@JohnBradford14 for the ones I didn't know, cattlepunk looks interesting; in general, it is hard to say, I love Atompunk, but taking a lot of interest in something a little bit older, I am between Dieselpunk and Decopunk, I love art deco and a lot of that aesthetic
I know you meant for your timestamp to say "Gothpunk" instead of "Godpunk", but Godpunk sounds like a really cool subgenre idea. With a setting like a Renaissance painting of either Greek/Roman mythology or Christianity. Or other religions because why not?
10:02 Oh my god you put Vindsvept music in the video, I love it lol
Good vid. My only grievance is that you didn't include splatterpunk and capepunk. Just to name a few.
capepunk?
@@luismedina5792 It's subgenre of superhero fiction. It is basically the same as traditional superhero stories but with a realistic and deconstrutive tone. The movie Chronicle is a good example.
Imagine searching this up with the intention of finding new types of music
Jade Empire, ohhh man good shit.
Hell yeah!
Some tracks:
-Autumn from Vivaldi's Four Seasons (clockpunk)
-Master Machine by TeknoAXE
(biopunk)
-Hono no Megami by Adrian von Ziegler (silkpunk)
-When the Music Goes Around by TeknoAXE (decopunk)
-TeknoAXE royalty free music #24 (cheap hair metal) (steelpunk)
-I See Her (dream girl) by Sofa Bob (atompunk)
-Palomita Retoños del Rio (cattlepunk)
-Future Gladiator by Kevin Macleod (sandalpunk)
-Giant Leap by Topher Mohr (raypunk)
One more
CapePunk: basically superheroes examples are watchmen the boys and kingdom come
Great stuff - and yes, learned three or four new ones (or at least new names for ones I'd heard of under different names)!
That's great! Which ones?
@@JohnBradford14 Elfpunk and cattlepunk in particular :) Sandalpunk I think I'd heard of as "desertpunk".
Solopunk or solar punk?
One big one is missing from here is Solarpunk, which is if the people of the (usually near) future focused on building cities based on sustainable/ green technology.
I,ll try to organize this by time period being referenced and used as retrofuturist inspiration
prehistoric times: stonepunk
iron age: sandalpunk
middle ages: silkpunk, mithpunk
modern age: clockpunk
early contemporary age (1789-1914): steampunk, cattlepunk
interwar period(1919-1939): decopunk, gothpunk
WWII and sino-japanesse war (1936-1945): dieselpunk
early cold war (1945-1962) Atompunk
late 60 and early 70s: raypunk
late 70s and early 80s: steelpunk
late 80s, early 90s: ciberpunk
late 80s, early 90s: biopunk
Interesting enough, Cyberpunk 2077’s word fits well into your definition of steel punk. Mike pondsmith really gave his TTRPG a heavy metal feel
I love Deco punk
That's what I use for City of Tittan
Also know Atlanta as in Altopic plate
Great and informative video. A few that you left out were
Solarpunk: a utopian outlook on the future that explores conservation and productive energy renewal. Not many films explore this but 2067 might be one.
Hydropunk: a similar outlook on the future with a heavy emphasis on using water to fuel technology and sustain life. The TH-cam original, Sherwood, explores a dystopian world where floating towns are sustained with grown and synthetic crops and the technology reflects that. I don’t count Waterworld as that falls more into apocalyptic fiction.
@ 6:46 Does anybody know what movie this is? Also the aesthetic that we see in guardians of the galaxy, would that also fall under the realm of cyber punk or is this another genre all together?
Maximum ride
amazing video i wish people knew more about more punk genres
also steelpunk isn't even a thing,
its just called PUNK punk or just punk since the steelpunk is just regular punk
Great video! Really informative. Can anyone tell me the music around 11:05 when elfpunk is explained ?
Was surprised to see Last Exile immediately along with the Dieselpunk title haha
Afropunk is amazing as well. Wendell & Wild is a great example of this.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention post-cyberpunk/cyberprep (A more optimistic take on the technology and themes) of cyberpunk and Cassette futurism (Cyberpunk era technology but done more realistic). A lot of Cartoon Networks post 2010 out put like Regular show, Steven universe and Ok go are Cassette futurism for some reason.
Is cyberprep pro-corporation?
Here are some other punk genres (and more info on Biopunk):
*Soft Biopunk is Not limited by what time period it can be based on, and not limited by what setting it can take place like how described in the video, while Hard Biopunk has settings that are mostly organic-based, (and usually takes place on alien planet, especially including flesh structures.), the example of Hard Biopunk is "Scorn".
*Modempunk is the sci-fi punk genre that has aesthetics based on 1970s and (early) 1980s. Which usually has futuristic theme but more of with 1970s and early 1980s era-based technology, especially including floppy disks and cassette tapes. And stereotypically depicted with technology that has a lot of unnecessary blinking lights. Basically, what many people in 1970s and early 1980s thought that what the future could look like. Main examples are “Cowboy Bebop” and “Back to the Future”.
*Aetherpunk is a punk genre that combines technology with supernatural, such as magic. With architecture usually including gold and stained-glass windows. It is more fantasy themed than sci-fi, and especially spiritual-based. Someone claimed that one example of this punk genre is "League of Legends".
*Castlepunk is a sci-fi punk genre that is mainly set in a time-period based on Dark Ages (also known as “Middle Ages”) with advanced technology. This can also feature supernatural fantasy elements such as magic. Similar to Aether-punk but is less spiritual-themed.
*Skypunk is the punk genre that focuses on the settings set high above the surface of a celestial body. Mainly has floating landmasses such as floating islands and floating rocks. And is not limited by what time period it can be based on, and not limited by what culture-base it can take place.
*Dreampunk is the punk genre that is mainly surreal imagery and esoteric symbolism and other dream aspects, usually with hidden symbolism. And usually has non-linear plots and mostly without explanation. Main examples are “Alice in Wonderland” novel and “The Wizard of Oz” novel, but can be more surreal than those examples.
*Portalpunk is a sub-punk genre that focuses on portals and other means of transportations to another celestial body or dimension. It is the main sub-punk genre for ALL isekai narratives. And can be in ANY main punk genre, also can be combined with other sub-punk genres.
*Mesopunk is a sub-punk genre that is just sci-fi with Mesoamerican-based culture, that also can have supernatural elements, especially Mesoamerican-based mythological themes.
*Capepunk is a sub-punk genre that can be set in any time period but it mainly features “superhero” themes, or other “superpower” themes that are usually not fantasy-themed but can usually be sci-fi themed.
*Oceanpunk is the sub-punk genre that is set with post-apocalyptic flooded settings.
*I am sure there is "Pixelpunk" which is a punk genre that has pixel ascetics.
*Splatterpunk is just a "sub-punk genre" that focuses on excessive overuse of gore and violence. T-T (Example is "Hellraiser")
You forgot Aquapunk, Latinpunk, and Icepunk
I once played a tabletop system called Necropunk, which is biopunk sci fi but the most valuable material is human bone, which conducts psychic energy and can be made into weapons and stuff.
Arcanepunk is my personal favorite, it mixes magic and science
Weird to see Robocop not classified as cyberpunk - I feel like it's a big part of the modern conception of Cyberpunk
Can you make a list of all the TV shows/movies you used in the clips? So many fascinating-looking bits of stuff I don't recognize
Seconded, recognized many but want to see all
Yeah fr fr
I'm not sure whether or not this is enough for its own punk genre, but there's this idea of everything being powered by some form of anomalous/arcane/paracausal energy emanating from crystals.
One example of this is Storm Hawks, where these crystals are used to power special weapons and transforming vehicles.
Crystalpunk. Also, Atlantis: the Lost Empire
Nanopunk uses nanotechnology and it's kinda similar to cyber and biopunk.
I hope we see more Southeast Asian Silkpunk stories in the future