Raygun Gothic
subgenre
Flash Gordon
Football star Flash Gordon, travel agent Dale Arden and eccentric scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov are pulled through space to the planet Mongo, ruled by the tyrannical Ming the Merciless — who has set Earth in his crosshairs purely for sport. Flash must rally Mongo's warring kingdoms, the hawk-men of Sky City and the forest-dwelling Arboria, into a single rebellion before Ming's whim wipes out his home planet.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
1939, an alternate New York besieged by giant robots stomping through Manhattan. Mercenary pilot Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan and journalist Polly Perkins — his ex — race to uncover who is behind the attacks, chasing the trail across the globe to a hidden island fortress where a mad scientist's decades-old plan for 'the world of tomorrow' is finally coming to fruition.