History Main / TwoFistedTales

* [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Films]] got in on this too in the '70s, with movies like ''Film/TheLostContinent'', a movie about the crew and passengers of a ship getting stuck in the Sargasso Sea, and encountering sea monsters and a lost civilization descended from Spanish conquistadores, most of which is shamelessly cribbed from Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson's ''Literature/TheBoatsOfTheGlenCarrig''. Their development process for these seemed to start by designing a really cool poster, and then trying to write a movie around it. One movie that, [[WhatMightHaveBeen alas]], never got past the poster was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin simply-titled]] ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zeppelin_v_pterodactyls_1.jpg Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls]]''.

* The {{Franchise/Tarzan}} movies starring Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller are certainly very pulpy, especially the first two, Pre-Code ones - ''Film/TarzanTheApeMan'' (1932) and ''Film/TarzanAndHisMate'' (1934). They're full of exotic locations, heroic derring-do, and high adventure.

* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', a joyfully silly [[HollywoodPrehistory cavemen-and-dinoaurs movie]] featuring Creator/RaquelWelch as probably the single most iconic NubileSavage in pop culture history, being menaced by an entire menagerie of Creator/RayHarryhausen beasties.

* ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'', is a fairly by-the-numbers EscapedAnimalRampage story. The second sequel, however, amps the strangeness back up with more WeirdScience and elements of FilmNoir.

* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' contains elements of this. By extension, often ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' parodies this since it is a parody of ''Jonny Quest''.

* ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'' is a Hong Kong HorrorComedy take on this, with a [[BadassBookworm practicing MD who moonlights as a badass action hero]] getting sucked into a [[JungleOpera jungle adventure]] involving BloodMagic, HumanSacrifice, and demons. It plays out like a mix of ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' and ''Film/TheEvilDead'', but with more martial arts.
* ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' exchanges the jungle setting from its spiritual predecessor ''Jumanji'' for a Flash Gordon-style RaygunGothic atmosphere. Both are based off of books by Chris Van Allsburg; in fact, the Zathura book was a direct sequel to the Jumanji one.

** ''Franchise/StarWars'', another creation of George Lucas, was inspired by elements of the pulp series '' ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' and was in fact originally intended to be a film adaptation of it.

* [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Films]] got in on this too in the '70s, with movies like ''Film/TheLostContinent'', a movie about the crew and passengers of a ship getting stuck in the Sargasso Sea, and encountering sea monsters and a lost civilization descended from Spanish conquistadores, most of which is shamelessly cribbed from Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson's ''Literature/TheBoatsOfTheGlenCarrig''.
** Their development process for these seemed to start by designing a really cool poster, and then trying to write a movie around it. One movie that, [[WhatMightHaveBeen alas]], never got past the poster was the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin simply-titled]] ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zeppelin_v_pterodactyls_1.jpg Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls]]''.
** Another Hammer movie that fits here is ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', a joyfully silly [[HollywoodPrehistory cavemen-and-dinoaurs movie]] featuring Creator/RaquelWelch as probably the single most iconic NubileSavage in pop culture history, being menaced by an entire menagerie of Creator/RayHarryhausen beasties.

** ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' is very similar, only it exchanges the jungle setting for a Flash Gordon-style RaygunGothic atmosphere. Both are based off of books by Chris Van Allsburg; in fact, the Zathura book was a direct sequel to the Jumanji one.

** On that subject, ''The Mummy's Hand'' and its sequels codified the trope of a {{mummy}} as a shambling, mute ImplacableMan who likes to strangle people with their recurring villain Kharis and his repeated run-ins with a family of {{Adventurer Archaeologist}}s.

** The first sequel, ''Film/RevengeOfTheCreature'', is a fairly by-the-numbers EscapedAnimalRampage story. The second sequel, however, amps the strangeness back up with more WeirdScience and elements of FilmNoir.

* ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'' is a horror-comedy version of this, with its MadScientist title character lurking in a spectacular ArtDeco mansion and terrorizing 1920s London, alongside his band of clockwork musicians.
** Taken even further in the sequel, ''Film/DrPhibesRisesAgain'', where Phibes travels to Egypt and gets into a race with an AdventurerArchaeologist to find an ancient tomb that can grant [[LivingForeverIsAwesome eternal life]].

* [[TheMafia Gangsters]], usually of the type that wear pinstripe suits, call each other by crazy nicknames, and wield tommyguns

* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'''s backstory includes a Lost World populated with snake-men, a modern Aztec empire, mass UFO sightings and neo-nazis: not your average Slice of Life setting (even if you ignore the centaurs).

* Marvel's ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'' is mostly a kung fu book, but features strong elements of pulp as well (especially with Orson Randall, the World War I era Iron Fist).

* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' is a very tongue-in-cheek and campy scifi adventure with a RaygunGothic aesthetic, tons of very hammy acting (including a career-definingly loud performance from [[Creator/BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]]), and a kickin' Music/{{Queen}} soundtrack.

* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' books follow this style, with the added twist that the narrator protaganist keeps insisting his acts of daring-do are misinterpretations or just what was necessary to survive.

* ''Fists & [=.45s=]'' was created by dredging out few cardboard boxes of old pulps and then trying to work them out into a game. Unlike most cases, this game is heavy on the actual content of the pulps, rather than their aesthetics alone, only adding to the crazyness.

* The ''Pulp Cthulhu'' supplement for '' TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' does this to the parent game, turning the fraidy investigators to pulp heroes by tweaking the game rules, and adding weird science in mix with the traditional Lovecraftian setting, resulting a setting where insane adventurer is bad news... For the adverseries!

* ''ComicBook/Adventureman'' by Creator/MattFraction, featuring an {{Expy}} of Literature/DocSavage passing on his powers to a single mom and her sisters.

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** The ''Literature/JohnCarter'' novels are classic PlanetaryRomance works, with a richly-drawn world of trackless desert, {{proud warrior race guy}}s, WeirdScience, daring escapes, heroic rescues, airship battles, sword fights, and a square-jawed American hero (whom, sadly, Doug [=McClure=] never got to play) who must sort it all out.

* Creator/KimNewman's Dr Shade ... [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation sometimes]]. Some of the stories featuring him are celebrations of the pulps and others (most especially "The Original Dr Shade") are {{Deconstruction}}s. Also by Newman but not featuring Dr Shade: the Literature/DiogenesClub story "Literature/ClublandHeroes" (definitely a Deconstruction).

* ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'' is a Hong Kong HorrorComedy take on this, with a practicing MD who moonlights as a badass action hero getting sucked into a [[JungleOpera jungle adventure]] involving BloodMagic, HumanSacrifice, and demons. It plays out like a mix of ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' and ''Film/TheEvilDead'', but with more martial arts.

* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' is made of this, to the point its mechanics were build from ground-up toward larger than life heroes doing crazy stunts and simply powering through lesser or trivial obstacles.

* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' is made of this.

* ''Two-Fisted Tales'' from Precis Intermedia Games
* Creator/WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!''.
* ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury''
* ''Pulp Hero'' for the HERO System.
** And its earlier incarnation ''Justice, Inc.''
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' is generic enough to handle the setting, as seen in ''GURPS Cliffhangers'' and ''TabletopGame/GURPSThaumatologyAgeOfGold''.

* The ''Pulp Heroes'' setting in [[{{TabletopGame/d20 Modern}} d20 Past]], full of dashing aviators and mad Nazi science.
* ''TabletopGame/CrimsonSkies'', later adapted into a series of PC and Xbox games, focuses heavily on the [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld Zeppelins]] and SkyPirates aspect of pulp.
* Many adventures had by the Sons of Ether in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', whose Tradition is chock-full of people with names like "Doc Eon" and "the Crimson Claw." Taking an appropriately two-fisted nickname seems to be standard even if you don't use it often.

* ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' is very much this at heart, even with the DieselPunk trappings.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' is intended to have a pulpy, heroic play-style, in a RaygunGothic SpaceOpera setting. It even has a story point system to let you manipulate the plot and pull off almost impossible stunts and bluffs.
* ''TabletopGame/FortuneAndGlory'', one of many AdventureBoardGames by Fighting Frog Games: players take on the roles of pulp archetypes - an AcePilot, an IntrepidReporter, a MadScientist, a GreatWhiteHunter - in a globe-trotting adventure to recover [[McGuffin mystical artifacts]] before a NebulousEvilOrganization (In addition to ThoseWackyNazis, we have TheMafia and a ReligionOfEvil) gets them first.
* The ''Pulp Cthulhu'' supplement for '' TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' does this to the parent game, turning the fraidy investigators to pulp heroes by tweaking the game rules, and adding weird science in mix with the traditional Lovecraftian setting, resulting a setting where insane adventurer is bad news... For the adverseries!

* ''Film/{{Overlord}}'' is probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' movie. It's a pulp take on UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, with square-jawed American paratroopers infiltrating a German-held fortress full of [[StupidJetpackHitler gruesome Nazi science]]. It's a lot of fun.

* The occult