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Raygun Gothic

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Raygun Gothic	type	FeatureClass
Raygun Gothic	label	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic	page	RaygunGothic
Raygun Gothic	comment	"Welcome to THE WORLD OFnote yesterday's TOMORROW!" Raygun Gothic is a ubiquitous aesthetic of early- and mid-20th century Science Fiction, roughly from Metropolis to Star Trek: The Original Series. Raygun Gothic architecture is modeled after Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and/or Populuxe (aka Googie). Everything is slick and streamlined, with geometric shapes and clean parallel lines constructed of shiny metal and glass, lit prominently by neon. Sweeping curves, parabolas, and acute angles are used to suggest movement — movement into The Future. And of course, futuristic fancy-pants technology of the future is ubiquitous. Ray Guns, Jet Packs, flying cars, Video Phones, Space Clothes, atomic-powered everything, cigar-shaped Retro Rockets and other Shiny-Looking Spaceships, and "electronic brains" capable of calculating complex equations in mere minutes, all decorated with little blinking lights that don't really serve any purpose (but they sure look futuristic!). This is the bright, optimistic vision of The Future that, until sometime in the mid-1960s, the Western world believed was just around the corner. Our failure to make these dreams a reality means that works featuring Raygun Gothic are highly prone to Zeerust. Retro-Futurism is a Genre Throwback to this vision. Stick "Atomic Power" logos on everything, (as well as perhaps slide the scale a bit to the "cynical" side) and you've got Atom Punk. The Mad Scientist Laboratory and Spaceship are among the most commonly used locations in a Raygun Gothic setting. The most commonly used monsters tend to be nuclear mutants and aliens in general, although friendly aliens are just as likely to appear, either as the heroes or as characters for the cast to meet. The only thing that could possibly look more futuristic is Crystal Spires and Togas. See also Zeerust, Weird Science, and Retro Rocket. Contrast with Diesel Punk, Used Future, Cassette Futurism and Everything Is an iPod in the Future. Now of course, while it's true that Technology Marches On, it's also true that the Aesthetics Of Technology will always be basically arbitrary. These days, Everything Is an iPod in the Future because that's the current popular design aesthetic. It will certainly change in time, and who's to say that Art Deco might not come back into fashion one day? Look at the nostalgic design of cars like the Mini-Cooper. Examples
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Raygun Gothic / int_15c6ea11	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): The Casual Interplanetary Travel of the Golden Age Wondy stories is rife with colorful retro rockets, marvelous space travel capable submarines with extra little scalloped fins and so very many types of ray gun.
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Raygun Gothic / int_16712475	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_16712475	comment	The Jetsons is pretty much a perfect example of the era's sci-fi aesthetic, with its futuristic city, flying cars, and robots.
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Raygun Gothic / int_179e4fcf	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_179e4fcf	comment	"The Mayors": Their futuristic weapons are called atomic blasters, and ships use hyperatomic motors.
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Raygun Gothic / int_17e1b994	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_17e1b994	comment	Project Blue Earth SOS is set in an alternate version of the 90s that leans heavily into this aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_17e978e5	comment	Bedtime Stories (2008): The final story Skeeter and the kids make up together is set in a futuristic space arena very much adhering to this trope
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Raygun Gothic / int_19ac6443	comment	Zot!, lives in the far-flung future year of 1965. Note that Zot! began publication in 1984.
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Raygun Gothic / int_1c34acd2	comment	Rocketship Voyager is Star Trek: Voyager written In the Style of... a 1950's sci-fi magazine story. Voyager is a silver cigar-shaped Nuclear Torch Rocket, equipped with everything from atom-tipped torpedoes to a radium-heated coffeemaker in the captain's cabin.
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Raygun Gothic / int_1c77f810	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_1c77f810	comment	The Girl Who Leapt Through Space definitely has a Raygun Gothic feel.
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Raygun Gothic / int_1e81de62	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_1e81de62	comment	The alien message decoded in the final episode of Dark Skies had elements of this, presumably as a nostalgic in-joke, since the rest of the series's aesthetics and mythology were much more modern X-Files-inspired sci-fi.
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Raygun Gothic / int_24515144	comment	Foundation (1951): Starting with "The Encyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "The Traders" and "The Merchant Princes", start calling such devices 'nucleics'. The (collapsing) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch. "The Mayors": Their futuristic weapons are called atomic blasters, and ships use hyperatomic motors. "The Traders": This story starts going into detail about the sort of atom-powered devices that the Foundation has been building since Mayor Hardin proved that Terminus ruled the Four Kingdoms, rather than the other way around. They've made knives that generate a force-field blade, mechanical garbage disposers, and even transmutation machines (actually a modified food irradiation chamber, like a microwave oven).
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Raygun Gothic / int_263d08ee	comment	The cover art of many of the Tom Swift novels.
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Raygun Gothic / int_2b132158	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_2b132158	comment	Which, in turn, was inspired by Buck Rogers.
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Raygun Gothic / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The classic Looney Tunes short Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century. The 2003-2005 Duck Dodgers also carries this theme. Let's not forget about almost every Marvin the Martian appearance.
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Raygun Gothic / int_2bd39fd7	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_2bd39fd7	comment	Realms of Mars from Exile Game Studio promises to be this for sword and planet, much as Hollow Earth Expedition harkened back to adventure pulps.
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Raygun Gothic / int_2cee002d	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_2cee002d	comment	The future in Meet the Robinsons has a very 1950s/'60s "Space Age" type aesthetic, with neat lines, geometric shapes, and pastel colors.
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Raygun Gothic / int_3193e3f3	comment	The 2003-2005 Duck Dodgers also carries this theme.
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Raygun Gothic / int_31b1c820	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_31b1c820	comment	Dan Dare was created as the 1950s British archetype of the trope.
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Raygun Gothic / int_369485e9	comment	Despite its horror trappings, Solar City and much of the world that Halloween Man takes place in has this style to it.
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Raygun Gothic / int_3763420c	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_3763420c	comment	The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness, the third album in the New Albion trilogy, is an "atompunk opera" following the Steampunk of the first album and the Diesel Punk of the second. It features AIs created by converting human consciousness into computer programs, a shopping complex vast enough for one of the main characters to hide away comfortably for a long time, and technology used to open a dimensional portal to the afterlife. In-universe, Mascot 3000 (the first of the aforementioned AI to be created) has a love for pulpy Raygun Gothic adventure comics.
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Raygun Gothic / int_3b11106f	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_3b11106f	comment	Like the source material, the Flash Gordon (1980) movie is full of this; unlike the original, it is one of the first entirely conscious uses of the trope. Of note is that the Cool Airship Ajax is referred to by the delightfully old-timey title of "war rocket". Also note that Zarkov's rocket, built on Earth, does NOT invoke this trope, at least in comparison to the ships of Mongo.
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Raygun Gothic / int_400469e	comment	In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's daydreams of Spaceman Spiff, interplanetary explorer extraordinaire. He wears Space Clothes, carries a Ray Gun, and jets about in a flying saucer with a bubble cockpit and tail fins.
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Raygun Gothic / int_41ecc735	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_41ecc735	comment	Cyborg 009 has shades of this, mainly in the Cyborgs' uniforms and their rayguns.
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Raygun Gothic / int_44809dd4	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_44809dd4	comment	Cosmoknights is this trope meets Feudal Future IN SPACE!.
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Raygun Gothic / int_46076f2a	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_46076f2a	comment	The designs of the Buff Clan in Space Runaway Ideon are reminiscent of this style.
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Raygun Gothic / int_4f115950	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_4f115950	comment	Robin/Red Robin villain Scarab has wears a polished suit of Powered Armor that definitely fits this aesthetic, her helmet even has the central crest-like fin that's so popular for the genre.
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Raygun Gothic / int_505358aa	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_505358aa	comment	The Deadly Tower of Monsters takes every cheesy, dated sci-fi trope there is and uses to craft an early 1970's "movie" that you play through, all while the director of said film gives behind-the-scenes trivia.
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Raygun Gothic / int_50b9086a	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!, being set in a Retro Universe, mixes modern astronomy facts with the '50s-60s Space Race aesthetic. There are shiny flying saucers that are treated as cars, jet packs, geometric/Art Deco houses, rollerskating waiters, and music evocative of '50s-'70s rock, jazz, and Broadway.
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Raygun Gothic / int_52cd1288	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_52cd1288	comment	Flash Gordon, of course. Which, in turn, was inspired by Buck Rogers.
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Raygun Gothic / int_53a0bd32	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_53a0bd32	comment	Episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that involved aliens or space travel frequently contained a sizable dose of this aesthetic, and even more so if the episode in question was a comical one.
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Raygun Gothic / int_53d4b355	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_53d4b355	comment	Starting with "The Encyclopedists", characters have a variety of new devices that are essentially older technology with a smaller energy source, called 'atomics'. As the decades pass, they continue nuclear miniaturization, and in "The Traders" and "The Merchant Princes", start calling such devices 'nucleics'. The (collapsing) Empire uses generators the size of large buildings, while the Foundation creates generators the size of a pocketwatch.
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Raygun Gothic / int_58fc1f8c	comment	Space☆Dandy is a humorous send-up to this era of sci-fi.
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Raygun Gothic / int_5a4bad79	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_5a4bad79	comment	In the ending of Lisztomania a Heavenly rocket ship with wings that look like organ pipes is used.
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Raygun Gothic / int_5b24f228	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_5b24f228	comment	Magnus Robot Fighter, both the Silver Age original and (at least in the beginning) the 1990's revival. More recent revivals have averted this.
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Raygun Gothic / int_5c208620	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_5c208620	comment	Superman: The Animated Series leaned on the raygun gothic look for advanced and alien technology, with Jor-el's Kryptonian home looking like it came right out of a 1950s "House of the Future" article, baby Kal-el being sent to earth in a literal rocket ship, and Lobo's flying motorcycle having more sleek curves than a classic hot rod. This complimented the fact that Metropolis was drawn with a more traditional art deco style, which made the exact time period of the show as a whole sort of unclear.
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Raygun Gothic / int_5c783167	comment	Spoofed and homaged in Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space with Captain Proton tracking down a Tesla doomsday device in the far-flung future of 2009 with its jetpacks, flying cars, domed cities and vast electronic superbrains, not to mention inconceivable marvels like mobile telephones, interstate highways, automatic sliding doors, artificial satellites, and weapons of mass destruction.
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Raygun Gothic / int_608516dc	comment	The Martians from Mars Attacks! seem to dig this style.
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Raygun Gothic / int_62234e01	type	Raygun Gothic
Raygun Gothic / int_62234e01	comment	GURPS Alternate Earths explores the Alternate History of "Gernsback," which is basically 1930s science fiction come to life.
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Raygun Gothic / int_6277095a	comment	Analog: Many early covers of the magazine featured silver rocketships with sleek designs, space stations with clear domes to see the planet they orbit, and people standing next to round doors with shiny metallic spacesuits. The October 1939 issue has a Lensman standing outside of a big circular door. They're wearing a silver suit tight enough to show off their muscles, with knee-high boots, a helmet in their hand, and silver goggles with blue shades. The steps they're standing on have round holes in the sides. The cover of the June 1940 issue has chrome vespas and sidecars zipping down a crome street with chrome buildings in the background, with people holding chrome handguns. Everything is on a slant and there are lots of subtle curves to imply high-speed movement.
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Raygun Gothic / int_64f8faea	comment	The pin from Tomorrowland displays a vision of city with this aethetic, though its combined a bit with Solar Punk. The real city is a bit less shiny.
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Raygun Gothic / int_6a2246c1	comment	"The Traders": This story starts going into detail about the sort of atom-powered devices that the Foundation has been building since Mayor Hardin proved that Terminus ruled the Four Kingdoms, rather than the other way around. They've made knives that generate a force-field blade, mechanical garbage disposers, and even transmutation machines (actually a modified food irradiation chamber, like a microwave oven).
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Raygun Gothic / int_6abf16c2	comment	Big Finish Doctor Who's recurring Space Pirates, the Rocket Men, were based around this Zeerusty aesthetic - they show up in pulp-Pastiche stories (a Planetary Romance about an alien ecosystem and a Space Western) and wear leather suits, art-deco-style helmets, and Jetpacks.
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Raygun Gothic / int_6c3c2216	comment	Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius takes place in a Retro Universe where the technology, vehicles, and buildings resemble the fifties and sixties. As such, Jimmy's inventions tend to fit this trope.
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Raygun Gothic / int_6e3e8a	comment	Robot Monster, one of the definitive bad B Movies of The '50s, is swimming with this trope, with both the human technology (especially the Retro Rocket) and the alien technology (THE BILLION BUBBLE MACHINE!) reflecting this aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_6e97fcc7	comment	Asteroid 5251: The futuristic civilization of Leeir has this look, being mostly constructed out of shiny iron, glass, and glowstone.
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Raygun Gothic / int_72508928	comment	Dresden Codak is in love with this trope, married it, and now has a house in the suburbs with two kids and a robot dog with it.
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Raygun Gothic / int_730859d1	comment	The Adventures of Rad Gravity, by virtue of the player character being a Captain Space, Defender of Earth! archetype.
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Raygun Gothic / int_74c659e6	comment	The look and feel of Rocket Age. The corebook even states that all technology will look sleek, clothing worn by adventurers should usually be form fitting and every space suit has a fishbowl helmet.
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Raygun Gothic / int_755b343f	comment	The Covenant in Halo are modeled after a version of this, as everything they design has a very sleek form. As do most things on the titular Halo rings and other installations built by the Forerunners. Understandable, as the Covenant just copied everything they have from the Forerunner.
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Raygun Gothic / int_76b8cb10	comment	The Fallout series is set in a post-apocalyptic Raygun Gothic world. In Fallout 4, the Institute plays this aesthetic completely straight. The actual ideals, not so much.
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Raygun Gothic / int_7785278d	comment	Rapture in BioShock has strong elements of this in its design to go along with the Dieselpunk and Biopunk.
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Raygun Gothic / int_78d6f120	comment	Destroy All Humans! takes place during the mid-20th century and you're an alien with cool rayguns and a UFO. What else is there to say?
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Raygun Gothic / int_7bc16c4f	comment	The alien rocketship in Earth Girls Are Easy — indeed its depiction of outer space as a whole — has this aesthetic, tweaked with a 1980s Day-Glo color scheme matched by the furry aliens themselves prior to their makeovers. The trope extends to the Animated Credits Opening and Valerie's black-and-white Nightmare Sequence, which even has a Robby the Robot cameo!
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Raygun Gothic / int_7c48915b	comment	In Gunnerkrigg Court, the plot inside the simulator features a spaceship, a Death Ray, and Latex Spacesuits straight out of 1950's pulp sci-fi. See the poster and following pages.
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Raygun Gothic / int_7cf0865	comment	On The Flash (1990), 1950s villain the Ghost adheres to this motif, and is rather dismayed to find that 1990 isn't like this when he awakens from cryogenic sleep.
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Raygun Gothic / int_805343cd	comment	Gru's style in Despicable Me is very much Cold War atompunk.
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Raygun Gothic / int_8192cba	comment	In Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear and Zurg have a Raygun Gothic vibe, more so in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
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Raygun Gothic / int_82d5c9d9	comment	We Happy Few cross this as British it's gets with some Steampunk elements into it. The game set post-WW2 dystopic forest wasteland in alternate Early 60's England/United Kingdom instead of the United States with heavily drew of Mod Subculture and British Survivalism.
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Raygun Gothic / int_840a1985	comment	Space Channel 5 uses more of a 60's and 70's take on this design.
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Raygun Gothic / int_8df5521b	comment	Flashbacks to Krypton in the Superman comics from the Golden Age through most of the Bronze Age maintained this look.
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Raygun Gothic / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element is a weird fusion of this trope and Cyberpunk.
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Raygun Gothic / int_90a3a7f4	comment	The art style of Kim Possible was designed to be like this, and of course, they have all the Ray guns, jet packs, flying cars and the rest of the fancy-pants technology.
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Raygun Gothic / int_91381c35	comment	The characters in Robots all look retro-futuristic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_93985d2b	comment	Plan 9 from Outer Space has its aliens in flying saucers and wearing shiny sleek Space Clothes and using devices like the Dictorobotary and electrode guns, though the movie is also a Genre Throwback to the Gothic Horror of the 1930s, with a Dracula expy lurking in a Creepy Cemetery. From the same director, Bride of the Monster also mixes the '30s and '50s flavours of this trope, with a Mad Scientist in an Old, Dark House, trying to create a Nuclear Mutant in his Mad Scientist Laboratory. The film's working title was Bride of the Atom.
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Raygun Gothic / int_969233f3	comment	X-COM: Apocalypse, blended with some distinctly Cyberpunk elements.
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Raygun Gothic / int_98670fed	comment	Jonni Future from Tom Strong strongly embodies the Raygun Gothic aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek The Original Series, the last unselfconscious example. Subsequent visual media followed the leads of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Real Life space program.
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Raygun Gothic / int_9cc59f9c	comment	Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has a lovely Zeerust feel to it, and was published "late in the 20th century".
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Raygun Gothic / int_9cc9639	comment	The character designs for Disgaea: Hour of Darkness's EDF soldiers, particularly Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!.
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Raygun Gothic / int_9eca95b3	comment	A Portal 2 mod, Portal Stories: Mel has used this idea in the first part of the story taking place in an unnamed town created by Aperture Science's contraction workers. Also the 'Proto-Portal gun' and 'Proto-Long Fall Boots' are versions of their modern counterparts which fall under this trope.
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Raygun Gothic / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	The Godzilla films used this aesthetic for all space-related stuff with a totally straight face well into the mid-1970s. Invasion of Astro-Monster and Destroy All Monsters feature humans in rocket ships vs. aliens in flying saucers, while Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla has gorilla-like aliens running around in silver jumpsuits and carrying laser pistols.
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Raygun Gothic / int_a183d57f	comment	A lot of the look of Futurama as a whole is partly inspired by Raygun Gothic, particularly some of the buildings, the technology and the lot of the Planet Express Ship. The show itself is an inversion of this trope, using a semi-Raygun Gothic style as a backdrop for a Crapsaccharine World where what would normally be helpful technology is instead trying to kill you. More specifically parodied in one episode when a novelty bar is decorated in this style, and the patrons enjoy it in an ironic sort of way. "Everything's so retro!"
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Raygun Gothic / int_a316b82d	comment	Fire Maidens of Outer Space has Earth using this kind of technology, in contrast with the Crystal Spires and Togas neo-Classical style of the Fire Maidens (and their dad) themselves.
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Raygun Gothic / int_a4d1145d	comment	Operation Future: The cover is addicted to bubbles and circles, also having a preference to metal-looking spacesuits rather than fabric, drawing inspiration from the Mercury 7 styles popular at the time of publication.
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Raygun Gothic / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering visits this genre in the 2022 set Unfinity. ("Un-sets" are how Magic does its less serious and more light-hearted set themes, often with an element of Self-Parody - the perfect place to lean into Zeerust.)
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Raygun Gothic / int_ac7adc37	comment	Forbidden Planet, with its rocket ships, spacesuits, and, most memorably, Robby the Robot.
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Raygun Gothic / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Many, many Sons of Ether made use of this aesthetic, their greatest triumph being their alternate dimensional laboratory city - and perfect example of this trope - the Gernsback Continuum. Occasionally an eccentric Technocrat, usually a Void Engineer, would do something similar, particularly if they'd been around for a while.
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Raygun Gothic / int_b212951e	comment	The Outer Worlds has Art Deco designs and garish neon colors everywhere. The game's aesthetic could best be described as this trope getting mixed with Used Future and Cassette Futurism elements.
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Raygun Gothic / int_b3632020	comment	Planet 51 certainly has this aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_b6fa03c3	comment	Larry Doyle's Go, Mutants! is a parody of this.
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Raygun Gothic / int_b7eae70f	comment	Atomic Rockets is a website that starts with this trope, but uses it as a launchpad to explore very hard science-fiction ideas about space flight. It refers to "raygun gothic" as "rocketpunk", to follow "steampunk" and "dieselpunk".
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Raygun Gothic / int_b816684b	comment	Six String Samurai is this trope (atompunk, really) mixed with post-apocalyptic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_b8c91c72	comment	Zap! has a lot of aspects of this, especially in the spaceship design.
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Raygun Gothic / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles takes place in an alternate-universe version of The '70s, and features a strong mid-sixties take on how wonderful the future nearly was.
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Raygun Gothic / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Skitarii/Cult Mechanicus models from Warhammer 40,000 have got some of this aesthetic going on.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c01688c8	comment	Anton Furst's designs for Gotham City for Batman (1989) have some elements of this.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c0d295c4	comment	The Soldier of Team Fortress 2 has several retro rayguns modeled after Weta's "Dr. Grordbort's" line. As have the Engineer and Pyro now, and the Medic and Scout are next in line. In the in-universe canonical comic, Australia and the underwater paradise of New Zealand became this in the 1890's due to their access to Australium, the comic's MacGuffin.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c223e919	comment	Astro Boy: Is the one of the first anime to use this aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c35f9f4c	comment	Tom Smith's filk song "Rocket Ride" is a paean to this old-fashioned space-adventure style:
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Raygun Gothic / int_c410034a	comment	Blasto falls neatly into this trope.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who, especially in its earlier seasons (as they were made in the early 1960s). This particularly leads to Zeerust Canon, as the look of the inside of the TARDIS (particularly the big hexagonal console with a glass column that moves up and down) and the Daleks (very Art Deco, but with plungers) can only really be changed so much before they don't look like they're supposed to any more. It should also be noted that during the early Sixties, there was an obsession with hemispheres as being futuristic (similar to the modern-day High-Tech Hexagons aesthetic) which helps to explain the round things on the TARDIS walls and the weird little orbs on the Dalek armour, all of which would cause fan despair if it were removed. This aesthetic carried on showing up as late as the early 70s thanks to the show's No Budget nature - the Sonic Screwdriver as used by the Third Doctor was actually an unused prop from Thunderbirds (which began in 1965) and hence looks 60s as heck. While the new series modernised everything as much as possible - starting off during the Ninth Doctor's tenure with a semi-organic, Steampunk influenced TARDIS interior and weighty-looking, almost industrial Daleks - the sonic screwdrivers are still knowingly designed to follow this aesthetic, perhaps because in the Ninth Doctor's tenure it's revealed that the screwdriver is laughably low-quality, dated technology. Other things that deserve mentions - the Dalek warships are the most cheesily stereotypical Flying Saucer things ever, designed as they were for the 1950s-B-Movie-influenced "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". They were redesigned with a 00s-SF Used Future paint job in the new series, but kept the original basic shape, the contrast between the two visual styles coming off as rather silly. The Thals in "The Daleks" favour these kinds of Space Clothes even though they live in a low-tech farming society After the End. "The Robots of Death" uses this as an intentional homage to the 1920s and 30s science fiction the story is based on, with the sets, robots and human costumes all fitting a distinctive Art Deco aesthetic. "The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone" had the Byzantium. Take a look.◊
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Raygun Gothic / int_c47a07c6	comment	Sealab 2020 and its parody, Sealab 2021.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black had the same idea as the above example, interestingly just a few years before the iPod was even developed. It could be justified in that the MiB was formed in the mid-1950s in which this aesthetic was in at the time.
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Raygun Gothic / int_c817238f	comment	The Zombie missions in Call of Duty: World at War.
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Raygun Gothic / int_cc0c4f49	comment	Starship Promise draws a lot of inspiration from '50s Raygun Gothic adventure serials, with some elements of Star Wars and the Used Future of 1980s sci-fi mixed in.
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Raygun Gothic / int_ccc80720	comment	My Life as a Teenage Robot shows this, as the art style being based the old Zeerust cartoons of 40's and 50's.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d08081ff	comment	Atomic Betty's art style is largely an homage to sci-fi Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the sixties. See here for an example.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d0c8185a	comment	The Necromonger fleet from The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) is a much darker interpretation of this aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d0f124da	comment	Jonny Quest's sardonic successor The Venture Bros. continues the tradition of "super-science" and retro-looking technology.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d3896703	comment	Adam Strange also appeared in some Starman (DC Comics) comics and fits in very well because the title already had a certain Raygun Gothic aesthetic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a funny corner case. It's set in an alternate-universe version of the 1930s, so it's often cited as an example of Diesel Punk, but the aesthetics and optimistic worldview are much closer to Raygun Gothic.
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Raygun Gothic / int_d758ed0c	comment	The Planet X missions from TimeSplitters are certainly influenced from this.
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Raygun Gothic / int_e5c5bc22	comment	Several GURPS supplements cover the creation of games with a Raygun Gothic flavor: GURPS Alternate Earths explores the Alternate History of "Gernsback," which is basically 1930s science fiction come to life. GURPS Tales of the Solar Patrol is a more fleshed-out version of the concept, set in a universe consciously modeled after Flash Gordon and 1950s-era Young Adult science fiction stories. GURPS Atomic Horror covers similar material as Solar Patrol, but focuses more on the dark side — stuff seen in 1950s B-Movies such as giant insects, blobs, flying saucers, and so forth. GURPS Steampunk 1 discusses Raygun Gothic by name, primarily as a visual style that follows on directly from the end of the steampunk period, and which is in fact the basis for some modern "steampunk" costumes and visual designs. The two subsequent volumes in the series build on this, providing examples of Raygun Gothic equipment and character types.
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Raygun Gothic / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Lensman. In fact, the bulk of E.E. "Doc" Smith's better-known work is this. Although his early works had their first origins as early as 1917, Smith continued writing into the mid 1960s (he died in 1965), by which time men had travelled in space, and his writing takes on a somewhat different focus and flavour after the first manned flights.
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Raygun Gothic / int_ec5e494a	comment	The Astounding Science supplement for Urban Jungle uses this aesthetic, whether you want to add strange visitors from Counter-Earth to the standard thirties setting, or have Earth science advance to this level by the future space year of 1980.
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Raygun Gothic / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager's Show Within a Show The Adventures of Captain Proton is an Affectionate Parody modeled after 1930's sci-fi Film Serial's like Flash Gordon and Commando Cody.
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Raygun Gothic / int_efa0ebb0	comment	The aliens in It Came from Outer Space have a bit of this in their technology, with their spherical spaceship covered in hexagonal panels. The aliens themselves have a classic '50s Blob Monster look, and were designed by the great Milicent Patrick. The movie also reflects this trope on a thematic level as well as an aesthetic one, dealing with Cold War themes of suspicion, paranoia, and mutually-assured destruction in the dealings between the humans and the aliens.
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