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Sandal punk is a subgenre of the Steampunk science fiction category. It focuses on the classical period or the ancient world before the Middle Ages, usually Ancient Rome, or Ancient Greece, or both, sometimes with hints of The Trojan War never ended.

Examples of Sandal Punk include:


Comics[]

  • The Bronze Age world of Sláine combines Sandal Punk with Stone Punk.

Fan Work[]

Film[]

  • Dreamzone from low-budget Krira the Brave or international as Super K - the Movie has a weird combination with this like most of the Dreamzonian society look Ancient Greek-like and Big Bad Badmess looks lot like Jesus while rest of the setting is mixed mash with Dungeon PunkNote Note:, Science fantasyNote Note:, and Kid's SuperheroNote Note: genres and cliches.
  • 300 with its Persian ninjas, giant warriors, and grenade throwing wizards.
  • Lou Ferrigno's Hercules battles giant extraterrestrial robots.
  • Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts and original Clash of the Titans are set in a version of Greece where fantasy monsters are real. A few are even mechanical (a colossus in the former, an owl in the latter).
  • Disney's Hercules is a loose re-telling of the ancient myths about Hercules with several anachronistic elements.
  • The Atlanteans from Atlantis: The Lost Empire is depicted as possessing technology and science far more advanced than anything recorded in history including laser-spewing hovercrafts, floating monuments, crystals that grant healing and advanced longevity, hyper-awareness of languages created millennia after their own and massive machines. All this while still possessing tribalistic characteristics such as a hunter/gatherer style of living.

Live-Action TV[]

  • An episode of Star Trek: The Original Series called "Bread and Circuses" focused on a parallel Earth discovered in another star system which was home to a modern-day Roman Empire with the mid-20th century technology and media-driven popular culture with gladiator fights being both a part of the modern slavery institution as well as a professional sport.
  • The Doctor Who episode "The Fires of Pompeii," set in that city right before the famous volcanic eruption that destroyed it, had elements of this, particularly its depiction of Roman religion.

Original Animation[]

  • Alternate History Wiki's Great Horned God Michael Jackson is one of not only oddest and mess up example of this punk's appearance, permanent narrative and style to nearly close resemble to Clockpunk-like when its time to reunited with Second Roman Empire where within backstory to mostly explain why Europan paganism isn't fully dead and revived in the early renaissance era instead in the modern era is indirected result surviving original West Roman pagans migrated away Europe before its collapse down to end of Africa (will eventually named "Romanofrica") continent to originally planned invasion put abandon the idea and was unintended result of becoming this for next millennium with "Glass keep lit touch tech" the punk version of lightbulb, mostly Robotic Gladiators to only put used to defended the two nations 'True Western Roman Empire' and Neo Rome's borders with implies both to be semi-utopic unlikes others Sandalpunk examples in this trope (Neo Rome's Psuedo-advancement is reason of keeping the punk existence alive longer before its demise).
    • And couple thin Biopunk elements if hinted their citizens are semi bio-genetically modified to have come gods from their religion and others remain unknown for now or anyway somehow.
      • While its other African Empire (Holy Zeus of Maillia and this universe version of Kingdom/Empire of Mail) also result West Roman migrants is implied kinda semi-used of this punk is remain a mystery.

Web Comic[]

Video Games[]

  • God of War series have few elements of this while fight off all gods (original was Classical and reboot will be Norse).
  • Age of Mythology version of the all playable ancient civilizations combing with Historical Fantasy is this.

Western Animation[]

  • Hercules, the midquel series to the Disney movie mentioned above, is set in an anachronistic version of ancient Greece.
  • The Roman Holidays, a Flintstone style sitcom of the genre.