History Main / CattlePunk

* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' would be the TropeNamer, as one of the games the group frequently plays is literally titled "CattlePunk." The game, known for its 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 comic book ''Comicbook/CowboysAndAliens'', wherein cowboys and Indians set aside their differences because, hey, aliens are invading.

Let's face it. Cowboys are awesome. TheWestern was one of the most popular film genres from the advent of film through TheSixties, and that's not to mention the books, comics, TV series, and radio. ScienceFiction is at least as awesome, and even older, dating from 1608 and Kepler's ''Somnium''. An obvious recipe for even more awesome is to mash them up.

When SteamPunk meets TheWestern.

* The setting of ''VideoGame/WildArms''is definitely inspired by TheWildWest, with plenty of advanced technology thrown in.

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' episode "[[Recap/Ducktales2017S2E9TheOutlawScroogeMcDuck The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck" dips into CattlePunk by having [[MadScientist Gyro Gearloose]] get stuck in the past. In order to help a young Scrooge (and get home to the present), Gyro builds a set of rocket-propelled mechanical horses and a set of rudimentary steam-powered Gizmoduck armor.

* The ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' episode "Recap/Ducktales2017S2E9TheOutlawScroogeMcDuck" dips into CattlePunk by having [[MadScientist Gyro Gearloose]] get stuck in the past. In order to help a young Scrooge (and get home to the present), Gyro builds a set of rocket-propelled mechanical horses and a set of rudimentary steam-powered Gizmoduck armor.

* ''Radio/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 first issue in the lost in time arc of IDW's ''[[Comicbook/GhostbustersIDW Ghostbusters]]'' ("Displaced Aggression") is Peter Venkman with a poncho, cowboy hat, and steam-powered proton pack, cleaning up a small town menaced by ghostly outlaws.

** ''VideoGame/SteamWorldHeist'' includes the Steambots from Dig, although major changes to the game’s world over the time gap have caused their inspiration to shift partially from Western to anywhere from Prohibition to Soviet Russia in one case.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]] has [[http://www.doctorwhobbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Doctor-Who-series-7-episode-3-A-town-called-Mercy-04_4x3.jpg futuristic sci-fi technology]], moved to the Old West via space.

* ''VideoGame/WildArms''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" the AdventureTown the Swordsmans' Town is this, with a SteamPunk turbine whirring away alongside creaky wooden buildings with saloon doors and a SamuraiCowboy SwordFight culture that hosts a motley crowd of HumanoidAliens and PettingZooPeople.

* Canonically exists as a background element in the ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' universe, where what technology the inhabitants of each world -- especially the more 'backwater' ones -- may have access to can vary wildly after the chaos of the Succession Wars and such things as dedicated civilian [[HumongousMecha 'Mech]] designs specifically for harvesting and livestock herding purposes date back all the way to the heyday of the Star League, if not earlier.

* ''GunMute'', a piece of interactive fiction by C.E.J. Pacian.
* ''VideoGame/{{Vigilante 8}} Second Offense'' has Dallas 13, a robot outlaw driving a supposed Mustang from the future (looking somewhat like a Nissan, though) with hoverpads. 'Trigger. Finger. Calibrated'.

** Also a JustifiedTrope for ''New Vegas'' as the New California Republic has basically rebuilt the US government from scratch. They've just reached the 19th Century level of advancement (along with some 20th and 21st century tech such as manufacturing service rifles, laser weapons, and mini nukes).

* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane powers in a quintessentially {{Old West}}ish setting.
* ''TheGunsOfShadowValley'' is set in an Old West where all of the major characters have superpowers. One of the villains has a mechanical arm, and one of the protagonists has the ability to make steampunk weaponry.

* The 90s animated series ''TheNewAdventuresOfZorro'' 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 graphic novel ''DaisyKutter'' utilizes this setting with surprisingly little ham-handedness, largely because robots appear only when it makes sense for them to do so in the plot.

* DimeNovel inventor FrankReade personifies this trope with his adventures in the West using SteamPunk tech.

* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' verse , though nominally a SpaceWestern, could also be considered a StandardSciFiSetting [[JustForFun/XMeetsY crossed with this]].

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

* The comicbook ''IronWest'' by [=Doug TenNapel=], in which cowboys and Gold Rush prospectors must fight off a robot zombie uprising.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" the AdventureTown the Swordsmans' Town is this, with a SteamPunk turbine whirring away alongside creaky wooden buildings with saloon doors and a SamuraiCowboy SwordFight culture that hosts a motley crowd of HumanoidAliens and PettingZooPeople.

* ''The Legend of Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' has elements of this, set in an AlternateHistory Republic of California where a [[AncientConspiracy European secret society]] tried to keep California out of the Union to ensure that the Confederacy will win the upcoming civil war. ThePlan also involved supplying anachronistic nitroglycerin to the Confederates.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' has three heroes going back to the West chasing a time-travelling supervillain. Thugs stole his time machine and create this setting as a result. The Western heroes that the present heroes meet in this episode also seem to fit this setting though not to such an extreme. When one of them expresses disappointment about having to return the ray guns, [[ComicBook/JonahHex another]] tells him they're not as useful as they look because of their tendency to jam. This was probably a reference to the Dark Age of Jonah Hex's comic, when he was for some reason stuck in a post-Apocalyptic future that wound up being pretty Cattle Punk too.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]'' episode "The Duelist and the Drifter" the AdventureTown the Swordsmans' Town is this, with a SteamPunk turbine whirring away alongside creaky wooden buildings with saloon doors, and a SamuraiCowboy SwordFight culture that hosts a motley crowd of HumanoidAliens and PettingZooPeople.

* ''WildArms''

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}''. Desert planet. The Future. High tech not entirely lost, but not in general circulation, but a fairly large proportion of outlaws appear to be bio-modded. Trains replaced by titan things called 'sand steamers,' but you can also take a bus, buy a truck or motorcycle, or ride an ostrich-horse creature called a thomas. No cattle whatsoever (though the main character's name, Vash, is a mistransliteration of Vache, which is French for cow). There's nothing to graze. Somehow there is purportedly some farming. Main character is a TechnicalPacifist outlaw gunman in a dramatic red duster, with an artificial arm with a concealed submachine gun.

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.

This setting is unusual among the PunkPunk subtropes in that it actually predates SteamPunk, which is generally considered the ur-trope. For this we can thank ''Series/TheWildWildWest'', which pioneered the genre by thinking in terms of TheWestern meets SpyDrama -- which, in practice, ends up looking a lot like SteamPunk.