![]() Though seemingly from the Steampunk era, he is entirely cog-and-spring-powered. ![]() Return to Oz features a wind-up, clockwork mechanical man, Tik Tok.Vidal's thematically important pocket watch. Pan's Labyrinth dabbles in this a bit, with the camerawork paying careful attention to the enormous cog-like millwheels of the house, or Cpt.Justified in that it's set in a railroad station built in the late 19th century and not checkable since the original Gare Montparnasse is long gone and the mid-century-modern replacement no doubt was planned to use the same electric-pulse synchronized analog clocks you'd find in a large public High School (and may have been upgraded to all-digital). Hugo's aesthetic is based heavily on clockwork.And at the end, Hellboy and Prince Nuada fight on giant, moving cogs. And the eponymous army is made up of clockwork robots even the crown that controls them fits together like clockwork. In Hellboy II: The Golden Army, there's Wink, an ogre with a chained clockwork Rocket Fist.One of the villains, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, is a clockwork zombie Cyborg Nazi assassin. Hellboy (2004) has a Russian mausoleum with clockwork deathtraps.The Hellboy films are full of Clockpunk:.Cronos tells the tale of a bio-mechanical clockwork artifact prolonging the life of its user.That this isn't immediately dismissed as unbelievable implies that the Toymaker 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). While she's not really, Truly Scrumptious disguises herself as a clockwork ballerina to get into the castle in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.Many of his deathtraps also make use of impractical clockworks, giant screws, and other analogue technologies. Phibes and its sequel give the eponymous character a clockwork orchestra. Gunpowder Fantasy is also overlap when it comes to gunpowder as a fantastic resource. This may connect to other Punk Punk styles, especially Steampunk and Cattle Punk - and also Dungeon Punk. Expect invocations of Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton. Clockpunk settings may mix their Renaissance/Baroque feel with lighthearted fantasy due to Fantasy Gun Control, mixing Clockpunk tech with Functional Magic is less of a strain on Willing Suspension of Disbelief than more advanced technologies.Ĭlockpunk settings are often populated by Clockwork Creatures. Fascinatingly enough, the latter fits the Renaissance/ 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. ![]() Given such practical problems, writers who don't want to just Hand Wave things may resort to more fantastical power sources, such as gunpowder - or, very often, Functional Magic or Alchemy. 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. Wind or water mills can fit, but clockpunk machines may literally have to be wound with a key. ![]() The visual style draws on the Renaissance and Baroque eras, so mechanisms and casings will typically be adorned with intricate decorations and carvings, making some very beautiful-looking machinery if it's done right.Īs the basic technology predates steam, clockpunk devices need another source of power. If that genre could be built on a lot of steam-powered technology and Victorian fashions and images, why not look a little further back, to the era that invented more basic technologies and had its own style? Hence, in Clockpunk stories, gears and simple machines predominate, and feature in both heavy machinery and portable devices. This style of Speculative Fiction seems to have arisen in the wake of Steampunk (as a recognized phenomenon, at least one can find a fair number of older clockpunk-like fictions). A Setting Trope similar to and perhaps derivative of Steampunk, involving lots of artsy clockwork mechanica.
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