History Main / CattlePunk

* The Jim Jarmusch Film ''DeadMan'' starring JohnnyDepp features an American 1800s Western-like setting with robots and other anachronistic technology: all, of which, combined with Jarmusche's atmospheric black-and-white cinematography, make the story startlingly spooky. Fittingly so, as it's the story of [[spoiler: a man's journey into death.]]

* The 1935 serial ''[[ThePhantomEmpire]]'' with Gene Autry as ''The Singing Cowboy'' who discovers an advanced underground civilization with robots and other high tech.

* ''WildGuns''

* Italian comic book character Zagor often met vampires, werewolves, aliens, mad scientists and a number of other unusual creepy crawlies.

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

See the inversion, SpaceWestern.

* ''[[TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.]]'' definitely qualifies, being a Western adventure with steampunk technology and an alien tech "orb".
* ''TheWildWildWest''. The series is the ur-example of this genre.

* PennyArcade's Sand project.
* ''NextTownOver'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane powers in a quintessentially Old Westish setting

* TheLoneRanger had a 60's animated cartoon that turned this trope on and off as the producers desired. Among example plots, we have: an entire ghost town taken over by an anti-social madman of a ventriloquist who used mannequins and his talents to drive away real folk (preferring the company of his dolls) who try to set up, a magician in a devil costume named Mephisto who used a mixture of stage magic and apparently real spells to commit crimes, a botanist who created a valley filled with mutant plants capable of killing people, a German aviator attempting to take over the West with an armada of zepplins, an assassin who used explosive clocks as his weapon of choice, and a villain-worshipping child prodigy who would come up with (and pull off) plans like leading a gang of crooks on spring-heeled boots or becoming the general of an army of animated toys.
* The 90s animated series ''The New Adventures of Zorro'' had Diego fighting SteamPunk cyborgs and magical foes. To even the odds, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Grey Owl]] provided Zorro with his own magical assistance, and Barnardo was reinvented as a GadgeteerGenius.

* The late-80's cartoon BraveStarr bounces between this and SpaceWestern, being set on the distant-future planet of New Texas.

* ''{{Knights of the Dinner Table}}'' would be the TropeNamer, as one of the games the group frequently plays is literally titled "CattlePunk." The game, known for it's grim style as well as the lethality (players going through dozens of characters in a session), along with several alternate history "supplements" fit the description quite well.

* The Jim Jarmusche Film DeadMan starring JohnnyDepp features an American 1800s Western-like setting with robots and other anachronistic technology: all, of which, combined with Jarmusche's atmospheric black-and-white cinematography, make the story startlingly spooky. Fittingly so, as it's the story of [[spoiler: a man's journey into death.]]

* The Jim Jarmusche Film DeadMan starring JohnnyDepp features an American 1800s Western-like setting with robots and other anachronistic technology: all, of which, combined with Jarmusche's atmospheric black-and-white cinematography, make the story startlingly spooky. Fittingly so, as it's the story of [[spoiler: a man's journey into death.]]

* ''Damnation'' portrays the United States torn by Civil War that lasts for at least several decades.
* ''Fallout New vegas'' combines this with Zerust

* ''Next Town Over'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane powers in a quintessentially Old Westish setting

* ''Next Town Over'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane power in an Old Westish setting populated by forgettable, mundane bystanders

* The video for Pink's "trouble" is this with possible elements of DesertPunk.

* The parts of ''After America'' set in Texas.

* The ''{{Firefly}}'' verse , though nominally a SpaceWestern, could also be considered a StandardSciFiSetting [[XMeetsY crossed with this]]. The Core Worlds are {{Terraform}}ed paradises "rich and flush with the new technologies"; CrystalSpiresAndTogas, {{Flying Car}}s, [[HollywoodHealing advanced medicine]], {{Energy Weapon}}s, everything you'd expect to see [[ExtyYearsFromNow Five Hundred Years From Now]]. The Rim Worlds, on the other hand, received minimal attention, resulting in worlds that [[CaliforniaDoubling look very much like Southern California]]; deserts, forests, etc. Technology-wise, "Once they're terraformed, the (Alliance)'ll dump settlers on there with nothing but blankets, hatchets, maybe a herd." On these worlds, as there is no industry to build or even maintain advanced technologies, people are stuck with HomemadeInventions and [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture Manual Labor]] - horses, revolvers, QED cowboys. Occasionally, some local warlord will be packing a laser pistol and driving a hovercar, but they're the exception, not the rule. On top of ''that'', the Alliance just won TheWarOfEarthlyAggression, and [[TruthInTelevision just like]] TheAmericanCivilWar, they aren't too eager to let the former rebels develop those industries. This means advanced technologies ''can'' be found in many places - in the hands of {{Dirty Cop}}s.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' verse , though nominally a SpaceWestern, could also be considered a StandardSciFiSetting [[XMeetsY crossed with this]]. The Core Worlds are {{Terraform}}ed paradises "rich and flush with the new technologies"; CrystalSpiresAndTogas, {{Flying Car}}s, [[HollywoodHealing advanced medicine]], {{Energy Weapon}}s, everything you'd expect to see [[ExtyYearsFromNow Five Hundred Years From Now]]. The Rim Worlds, on the other hand, received minimal attention, resulting in worlds that [[CaliforniaDoubling look very much like Southern California]]; deserts, forests, etc. Technology-wise, "Once they're terraformed, the (Alliance)'ll dump settlers on there with nothing but blankets, hatchets, maybe a herd." On these worlds, as there is no industry to build or even maintain advanced technologies, people are stuck with HomemadeInventions and [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture Manual Labor]] - horses, revolvers, QED cowboys. Occasionally, some local warlord will be packing a laser pistol and driving a hovercar, but they're the exception, not the rule. On top of ''that'', the Alliance just won TheWarOfEarthlyAggression, and [[TruthInTelevision just like]] TheAmericanCivilWar, they aren't too eager to let the former rebels develop those industries. This means advanced technologies ''can'' be found in many places - in the hands of {{Dirty Cop}}s.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' verse , though nominally a SpaceWestern, could also be considered a StandardSciFiSetting [[XMeetsY crossed with this]]. The Core Worlds are {{Terraform}}ed paradises "rich and flush with the new technologies"; CrystalSpiresAndTogas, {{Flying Car}}s, [[HollywoodHealing advanced medicine]], {{Energy Weapon}}s, everything you'd expect to see [[ExtyYearsFromNow Five Hundred Years From Now]]. The Rim Worlds, on the other hand, received minimal attention, resulting in worlds that [[CaliforniaDoubling look very much like Southern California]]; deserts, forests, etc. Technology-wise, "Once they're terraformed, the (Alliance)'ll dump settlers on there with nothing but blankets, hatchets, maybe a herd." On these worlds, as there is no industry to build or even maintain advanced technologies, people are stuck with HomemadeInventions and [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture Manual Labor]] - horses, revolvers, QED cowboys. Occasionally, some local warlord will be packing a laser pistol and driving a hovercar, but they're the exception, not the rule. On top of ''that'', the Alliance just won a WarOfEarthlyAggression, and [[TruthInTelevision just like]] TheAmericanCivilWar, they aren't too eager to let the former rebels develop those industries. This means advanced technologies ''can'' be found in many places - in the hands of {{Dirty Cop}}s.

* The ''Firefly'' verse is both this and a regular future setting. The Core Planets have futuristic architecture, flying cars, advanced medicine and all that jazz. The frontier worlds on the outer edges of the system have been terraformed rather less well however, and tend to be dry planets with little vegitation. Their medicine is less advanced and the pretty much live with 20th century tech in large settlements and even more primitive stuff further out.Add in the revolvers, use of horses, cowboy slang etc and you get small cattle punk settlements on barren, rocky plantes and moons.