History Main / ClockPunk

* In the prologue of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', Spider-Gwen confronts an alternate version of the bird-themed supervillain Vulture from a universe centered around the Italian Renaissance, accidentally transported into her own universe. A self-declared genius and engineer, the Vulture employs various gadgets and machinery inspired by inventions of the Renaissance, including lamp oil bombs based on Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter sketch, GreekFire grenades, and jointed wooden wings pulled by strings. This Renaissance style also [[ArtStyleClash extends to his animation]], as he is portrayed like a living parchment sketch with constant scribbles and descriptions around his weapons.

* In the prologue of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', Spider-Gwen confronts an alternate version of the bird-themed supervillain Vulture from a universe centered around the Italian Renaissance, accidentally transported into her own universe. A self-declared genius and engineer, the Vulture employs various gadgets and machinery inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, including lamp oil bombs based on da Vinci's helicopter sketch, GreekFire grenades, and jointed wooden wings pulled by strings. This Renaissance style also [[ArtStyleClash extends to his animation]], as he is portrayed like a living parchment sketch with constant scribbles and descriptions around his weapons.

* In the prologue of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'', Spider-Gwen confronts an alternate version of the bird-themed supervillain Vulture from a universe centered around the Italian Renaissance, accidentally transported into her own universe. A self-declared genius and engineer, the Vulture employs various gadgets and machinery inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's inventions, including lamp oil bombs based on da Vinci's helicopter sketch, Greek fire grenades, and jointed wooden wings pulled by strings. This Renaissance style also extends to his animation, as he is portrayed like a living paper sketch with constant scribbles and descriptions around his weapons.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer analogue computers and planimetres]], used on universities and technological institutes to resolve difficult mathematical problems before the emergence of electronic computers .

As the basic technology predates steam, clockpunk devices need another source of power. Wind or water mills can fit, but clockpunk machines [[WindUpKey may literally have to be wound with a key]]. [[FridgeLogic Science-savvy audiences may note that the amount of energy stored in a clockpunk device often seems far greater than the amount of energy it takes to rewind them.]] Given such practical problems, writers who don't want to just HandWave things may resort to more fantastical power sources, such as gunpowder -- or, very often, FunctionalMagic or UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}. Fascinatingly enough, the latter fits the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance Renaissance]][=/=][[BaroqueMusic Baroque]] style of the genre very well; this was the last era of European history when serious scientists could study such things without losing all credibility. Clockpunk settings may mix their Renaissance[=/=]Baroque feel with lighthearted fantasy; due to FantasyGunControl, mixing Clockpunk tech with FunctionalMagic is less of a strain on WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief than more advanced technologies.

* See [[ComicBook/IronMan Lord Iron's]] armor and some of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Sir Richard Reed's]] creations in ''ComicBook/{{Marvel 1602}}''.

* Although most of the technology in ''WesternAnimation/TheSteamEnginesOfOz'' is {{Steampunk}}, some of the Tin Man's automaton soldiers are clearly clockwork. (And, as a MythologyGag, look like Tik-Tok from the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' novels.)

* Numerous [[ArtifactOfDoom SCP's]]:
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-217 SCP-217]], a virus which turns the organisms it infects into clockwork creatures, in the Website/SCPFoundation.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a more [[FarEast Far Eastern]] variation of this. They have very few to several elements in Fire Nation's military throughout seasons (book) 1 and 2. This punk was even explored in comparison with {{Steampunk}} in a season one episode when the Gang visits the Northern Air temple, which is now occupied by Earth Kingdom refugees. Their unofficial leader was named "The Mechanist"; his personality and talents in creating technology were based on daVinci himself.
** [[spoiler:But only one of his inventions, the Air Balloon, which later upgraded, became plot element two seasons later. It was used by the Fire Nation's Military during the invasion of their capital to capture warriors, leading to the loss of the attackers.]]

* ''[[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'' -- the Secret History of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse -- has Leonardo with an [[JetPack ornithopter-pack]] and Gallileo creating a Clock Punk weapon to fight ''[[PlanetEater Galactus]]''. And since the Marvel Universe is still around four hundred years later, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu he presumably won]].[[note]]Of course they did. "This Is Not How The World Ends."[[/note]]

* ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'' and its sequel give Creator/VincentPrice a clockwork orchestra. Many of his deathtraps also make use of impractical clockworks, giant screws, and other analogue technologies.
* While she's not ''really'', the Creator/JulieAndrews character Truly Scrumptious disguises herself as a clockwork ballerina to get into the castle in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''. That this isn't immediately dismissed as unbelievable implies that the Toymaker (played by none other than Creator/BennyHill) is regarded as talented enough to create such a thing (which makes one wonder why he's not in the dungeon with the other inventors working on a flying car).

** The [[Film/Hellboy2004 first movie]] has a Russian mausoleum with clockwork [[DurableDeathtrap deathtraps]]. One of the villains, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, is a clockwork [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie]] {{Cyborg}} [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi]] assassin.

* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' dabbles in this a bit, with the camerawork paying careful attention to the enormous cog-like millwheels of the house, or Cpt. Vidal's thematically-important pocket watch. Also, the same director's first feature movie ''La Invención de Cronos'' tells a tale of bio-mechanical clockwork artifact prolonging the life of its user.
* The film ''Film/ReturnToOz'' features a wind-up, clockwork mechanical man, Tik Tok. Though seemingly from the {{Steampunk}} era, he is entirely cog-and-spring-powered.

Clockpunk settings are often populated by {{Clockwork Creature}}s. Expect invocations of Creator/LeonardoDaVinci and UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton. This may connect to other PunkPunk styles, especially SteamPunk and CattlePunk -- and also DungeonPunk.

* ''[[ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} S.H.I.E.L.D.]]'' -- the Secret History of the MarvelUniverse -- has Leonardo with an [[JetPack ornithopter-pack]] and Gallileo creating a Clock Punk weapon to fight ''[[PlanetEater Galactus]]''. And since the MarvelUniverse is still around four hundred years later, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu he presumably won]].[[note]]Of course they did. "This Is Not How The World Ends."[[/note]]

* ''Anime/ClockworkFighters'' uses this sort of imagery.

* ''Anime/ClockworkPlanet'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an entire planet including its orbit made of clockwork parts]].

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* ''The Economist'' had a strip captioned "The car that has Big Oil shaking in its boots," and pictured a terrified business man looking at a wind-up car big enough to ride in.
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