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Steampunk is influenced by and often adopts the style of the 19th-century scientific romances of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, and Edward S. Ellis's The Steam Man of the Prairies. [15] Several more modern works of art and fiction significant to the development of the genre were produced before the genre had a name.
The band Zeromancer take their name from Neuromancer. [142] The film The Matrix (1999) drew inspiration for its title, characters and story elements from the Sprawl trilogy. [143] The characters of Neo and Trinity in The Matrix are similar to Bobby Newmark and Molly ("Johnny Mnemonic", Neuromancer). [97]
Steampunk author Sara M. Harvey made the distinction that decopunk is "shinier than dieselpunk;" more specifically, dieselpunk is "a gritty version of steampunk set in the 1920s–1950s" (i.e., the war eras), whereas decopunk "is the sleek, shiny very art deco version; same time period, but everything is chrome!" [39]
Astro Boy and other robot characters from the 2009 film of the same name; Several characters in Terminator Salvation (2009) including Marcus Wright, the T-800, several T-600's, The Motor-Terminators and The Harvester; GERTY 3000 from the 2009 film Moon; The Stitchpunks and others from the animated film 9 (2009) Robo from Super Capers (2009)
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions ...
Van Kleiss (Generator Rex) – main antagonist; Kowalski (Penguins of Madagascar) – team's scientist and inventor; Doctor Krieger (Archer TV series) – head of the ISIS applied research department; Professor Membrane (Invader Zim) – super-scientist; "the man without whom this world falls into chaos, and the inventor of Super Toast"
The Lady Mechanika, a comic series in the steampunk genre, [1] was originally planned as a six-part story. [2] Lady Mechanika's look was inspired by steampunk fashion icon Kato. [3] Aspen MLT agreed to produce the serial and began publishing them on an infrequent basis. The first issue of Lady Mechanika, issue #0, debuted and sold out in ...
His stage name is a play on the main character from the movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (which in itself was a play on "crackpot", a slang term for an eccentric inventor). Professor Jager (Scott Folsom), Ectoplasmic Apparition Containment Specialist - Co-founder of the group, Jager's backpack (the Electro-Ionized Matter Cannon) powers a "steam ...