Another similar example is Paul Cornell's original Wisdom miniseries for Marvel, in which the villain is a steampunk enthusiast (and also a misogynistic Jack the Ripper walking tour guide prone to moaning about feminists and PC censorship of culture) who ends up summoning an invasion of alternate-reality Wellsian Martians to fulfil his retro-SF dreams.

There's quite a bit of discussion in Britain at the moment about the role played by romanticised pop-culture ideas of Britain during WWII in "hard Brexit as stiffener for a decadent and self-indulgent culture" enthusiasm.