Basic Trope: A Victorian-inspired setting that uses futuristic steampowered technology.
- Straight: Bob is the captain of a flying steampowered airship, and he flies around a world that mirrors the technology of the 19th century Victorian era but more advanced.
- Exaggerated: Bob uses social media with his steampowered smartphone. The Internet is powered by aquatic machines that capture the sonar of dolphins.
- Downplayed: The stetting uses Victorian-inspired aesthetics on some machinery, but the technology otherwise isn't steampowered.
- Justified: The world has some kind of natural phenomenon that makes electricity unusable, and lacks natural gas and oil deposits, so for the lack of better alternatives, people in the setting built on and perfected their already existing steam-based technology.
- Subverted: The world is inspired by the Victorian era, but doesn't contain futuristic technology.
- Double Subverted: The world seems like it's inspired by the Victorian era without any futuristic technology, but in reality it exists, just hidden from the eyes of the common people.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: It appears that Bob lives in a Victorian era setting with futuristic technology, but then it turns out the technology isn't steam-based and people just adopted the aesthetics as a fad, only for it to be later revealed to be using steam-engines after all, but they are so advanced they are closer to Applied Phlebotinum.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: the Victorian era author did not foresee the development of other means of mechanical propulsion.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: Bob encounters the oppression and horrors of the 19th century such as imperialism, racism, poverty, slavery, and classism - which are all further exaggerated by advanced technology.
- Reconstructed: The social development of the world turns out to be as accelerated as its tech development, and Bob encounters plenty of suffragettes, early socialists, non-European mad geniuses and swashbuckling heroes, and other assorted "miscreants" who challenge the status quo - really putting the "punk" in "steampunk".
- Played For Laughs: ???
- Played For Drama: Bob is captured by Sky Pirates and gets in a battle with them.
- Played For Horror: Bob ends up having to fight a Victor Frankenstein wannabe or a similarly terrifying Mad Scientist.
