History Main / CattlePunk

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has Cassidy, once known as [=McCree=], a cyborg gunslinger with TheWildWest aesthetics in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

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* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', an adaptation of the comic book.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (another comic adaptation), full stop.

* ''Film/{{Oblivion 1994}}''

* ''Film/WildWildWest'', an adaptation of the TV series.

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 SpyFiction (when gadget-heavy ''Film/JamesBond'' films were all the rage) -- which, in practice, ends up looking a lot like {{Steampunk}}. It is worth noting that stories in either genre tend to fit into roughly the same time period historically -- between the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

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 SpyFiction (when ''Film/JamesBond'' was all the rage) -- which, in practice, ends up looking a lot like {{Steampunk}}. It is worth noting that stories in either genre tend to fit into roughly the same time period historically -- between the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

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. It is worth noting that stories in either genre tend to fit into roughly the same time period historically: between the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured an episode where Ra's al-Ghul tells Batman and Robin a story (featuring Jonah Hex vs. one of Ra's al-Ghul's sons) that borders on this.
* The late-80's cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' bounces between this and SpaceWestern, being set on the distant-future planet of New Texas.

* One episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' has three heroes going back to the West chasing a time-traveling 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' had this setting briefly during a TrappedInTVLand episode.
* 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 {{Beast M|an}}en.

* ''Justice Riders'', a Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica {{Elseworld}}, in which [[Franchise/WonderWoman Sheriff Diana Prince]] leads the flying Native American [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Katar Johnson]], the SteamPunk engineer [[ComicBook/BlueBeetle Beetle]], the maverick gambler [[ComicBook/BoosterGold Booster]], the fast-drawing [[Franchise/TheFlash Kid Flash]], and the extremely mysterious [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter John Jones]] against rail baron Maxwell Lord, whose plan to control the West combines Felix Faust's magic and alien (Dominator) technology.

* In Volume 9 of AtomicRobo, ''The Knights of the Golden Circle'', the titular atomic robot is sent back in time to the Old West. Played straight as he finds a mad scientist who ISN'T time displaced trying to invade the US with a war zeppelin crewed by outlaws turned into primitive cyborgs.

Not to be confused with Cowpunk, a form of music combining (you guessed it!) CountryMusic and PunkRock, which existed mainly in the 1980s. Cowpunk developed when punk rocker became intrigued by the angry, ThreeChordsAndTheTruth authenticity of 1970s OutlawCountry. Nevertheless, a twangy, edgy Cowpunk soundtrack would be a natural fit for a Cattle Punk movie.

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 Cowpunk soundtrack would be a natural fit for a Cattle Punk movie.

* "High Noon at Camelot" by Music/TheMechanisms combines this with [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend]], of all things.

* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane powers in a quintessentially [[TheWildWest Wild West]] setting.

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has [=McCree=], a cyborg gunslinger with TheWildWest aesthetics in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

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See the inversion, SpaceWestern. A related genre is the WeirdWest, for when the west gets a supernatural treatment.

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When SteamPunk [[JustForFun/XMeetsY goes out to the]] [[TheWestern Wild West]].

When SteamPunk [[XMeetsY goes out to the]] [[TheWestern Wild West]].

When SteamPunk goes out to the [[TheWestern Wild West]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has McCree, a cyborg gunslinger with TheWildWest aesthetics in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

* ''VideoGame/Overwatch'' has McCree, a cyborg gunslinger with TheWildWest aesthetics in TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.

* 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.

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* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' would be the TropeNamer, as one of the games the group frequently plays is literally titled "Cattle Punk." 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.
* ''ComicBook/{{Flesh}}'' features cowboys from the future being sent back in time to herd dinosaurs for their meat.
* The graphic novel ''Daisy Kutter'' 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.
* The comicbook ''ComicBook/IronWest'' by [=Doug TenNapel=], in which cowboys and Gold Rush prospectors must fight off a robot zombie uprising.

* The ComicBook/{{New 52}} ''All-Star Western'' title is often Cattlepunk, with ComicBook/JonahHex dealing with various proto-superhero tropes and SteamPunk villains. The back-up strip ''19th Century Comicbook/{{Stormwatch}}'' starting in #17 is very Steampunk.
* The first issue in the lost in time arc of IDW's ''[[Comicbook/GhostbustersIDWComics 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.

* ''Film/{{Westworld}}'' was kind of an inversion: Late 20th century robotic and ArtificialIntelligence technology were used to re-create the Wild West for entertainment.
* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', an adaptation of the comic book.
* ''Film/JonahHex'' (another comic adaptation), full stop.

* ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'': Although most of the action takes place within a city, two of the protagonists [[spoiler:and the DragonInChief of the first book]] are lawmen from the Roughs. The opening scene takes place in a mining ghost town, and revolvers and rifles have a possibility of using DepletedPhlebotinumShells made by an UltimateBlacksmith of the gunsmithing variety.
* DimeNovel inventor Frank Reade personifies this trope with his adventures in the West using SteamPunk tech.
* ''Literature/ReconstructionSeries'', a WebSerialNovel, is this, with a specifically [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Teslapunk]] twist.

* ''Series/TheWildWildWest''. The series is the UrExample of this genre.
* ''Series/{{Legend}}'' (the TV series starring Creator/RichardDeanAnderson and Creator/JohnDeLancie)
* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' verse, though nominally a SpaceWestern, could also be considered a StandardSciFiSetting [[JustForFun/XMeetsY crossed with this]].

* The video for Music/{{Pink}}'s "Trouble" is this with possible elements of DesertPunk.
* The video for "Music/KnightsOfCydonia" by Music/{{Muse}} has lasers, robots, and unicorns in a setting resembling a 1970s cowboy movie.

* 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. It's not even at all implausible for a [=MechWarrior=] hailing from the right planet to have already grown up piloting one of these machines.

* A RailShooter called ''VideoGame/TinStar'' is set in the Wild West, with robots instead of people. They all explode into gears when they die instead of bleed.
* The setting of ''VideoGame/WildArms'' is definitely inspired by TheWildWest, with plenty of advanced technology thrown in.
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarZero'' differs from other games in the series, taking place on a post-apocalyptic earth and having a more Wild West-themed aesthetic.
* ''Gun Mute'', 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."
* ''VideoGame/RedSteel2'' is set in an alternate-universe desert mashup of samurai swordfights, cowboys, computer hackers, bandits, Japanese culture, and steam locomotives.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'' (which owes considerable inspiration to ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' above) has enough SchizoTech to straddle the line between this trope and SpaceWestern.

* ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', a webcomic whose primary characters wield steampunk weaponry and/or arcane powers in a quintessentially [[TheWildWest Wild West]] setting.
* ''The Guns of Shadow Valley'' 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.
* In ''Webcomic/CwynhildsLoom'' the less populated areas of UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} reflect the American West. {{Cowboy}} hats are quite common, and many people are openly armed.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured an episode where Ra's al-Ghul tells Batman and Robin a story (featuring Jonah Hex vs. one of Ra's al-Ghul's sons) that borders on this.
* The late-80's cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' bounces between this and SpaceWestern, being set on the distant-future planet of New Texas.

* 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 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.

* ''Literature/ReconstructionSeries'', a WebSerialNovel, is this, with a specifically Teslapunk twist.

* ''Series/{{Legend}}'' (the TV series starring Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie)

* High Noon at Camelot by Music/TheMechanisms combines this with Arthurian legend, of all things.

* The Comicbook/{{New 52}} ''All-Star Western'' title is often Cattlepunk, with ComicBook/JonahHex dealing with various proto-superhero tropes and SteamPunk villains. The back-up strip ''19th Century Comicbook/{{Stormwatch}}'' starting in #17 is very Steampunk.

* ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'' 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.

* ''Film/WildWildWest''

* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens''
* ''Film/JonahHex'', full stop.

* Creator/MikeResnick's ''Weird West Tales'' Staring Doc Holiday takes place in an AlternateHistory where Thomas Edison's Steampunk tech butts head with [[MagicalNativeAmerican Geronimo's magic]].