History LaResistance / Videogames

* ''FinalFantasy'': Every single game in this series that had an evil [[TheEmpire Empire]] has a LaResistance. Examples: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' with the Wild Rose Rebellion against the Palamecian Empire, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' with the [[strike:Insurgence]] Resistance against the Archadian Empire, The Returners in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', AVALANCHE in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', The Forest Owls in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', N.O.R.A (No Obligation, Rules, or Authority) from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much speaks for itself]].

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': By the 1760's, the Assassin Order in the New World has been reduced to little more than two broken-down old men on a dilapidated homestead. It takes a determined Native American/English boy to kick them back into gear and rebuild the Order.

* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet2'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Alliance are planning to attack the Negativatron, ending his reign over sucking up creativity.

* ''YggdraUnion''; Cruz's characterization plays this trope straight, but your team as a whole deconstructs this trope as they decides to go far beyond saving their hometown and personnel. [[spoiler: This involves them brutally murder incompetant, Empire-own LaResistance protecting their village for little reasons.]]

* ''YggdraUnion'': Deconstructs this trope; Cruz plays it straight.

* The ''VideoGame/Halo'' series' expanded universe has this in the form of the Insurrection, a number of rebel groups that want independence for their colonies from the government of Earth. Unfortunately they do this through terrorism, attacking civilian targets after protests didn't do anything. They were actually viewed sympathetically by most of humanity, but when they started killing people all of that good publicity went down the drain.

* ''VideoGame/AgentUSA'': Has a subtle example. Whenever fuzzbodies enter a city the (normally randomly wandering) citizens start dropping crystals to try to fend off the fuzz menace. That's about as useful as they get, though, but being from a game from the early 80's it's more help than one would usually get from games at the time.

* ''VideoGame/{{Ingress}}'': The Resistance, the faction opposed to the Shapers and [[{{Unobtainium}} Exotic Matter]].

* ''GuildWars'': Has a couple of these groups. ''Prophecies'' has the Shining blade and the Ascalonians who choose to stay and fight the Charr; ''Nightfall'' has various groups in Kourna joining together in one of these; ''Eye of the North'' has the Ebon Vanguard. Players join these groups at different times in the storylines.

* ''GuildWars'': Has a couple of these groups. Prophecies has the Shining blade; Nightfall has various groups in Kourna joining together in one of these; Eye of the north has the ebon vanguard. Players join these groups at different times in the storylines.

* ''[[VideoGame/TearsToTiara2 Tears to Tiara 2]]'': the Barcid Party is one, trying to resist [[TheEmpire the Holy Empire]]. Under the leadership of Enneads, they tried to do it peacefully by appealing to Imperial Law and reporting transgressions of Imperial governors, tax collectors, and soldiers. But as it doesn't really work they're always been planning a rebellion.

* ''VideoGame/PlanetsideII'': The New Conglomerate sees itself as this, defending the liberties of everyone(but mostly businessmen) against the tyranic autoritharian rule of the Terran Republic. Depending on who you side with, they can either be seen as ruthless terrorists(for the [[RootingForTheEmpire Terran Republic]]), noble freedom fighters or an inconvenience in the way to independence(for the [[BeamSpam Vanu Soreveignity]]).

* ''{{Starcraft}}'':

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': Has The Renegades, a group of half-elven [[DefectorFromDecadence Defectors From Decadence]] who oppose the Desians that enslave and torture humans [[spoiler:and the Cruxis, who control both the Desians and the [[PathOfInspiration Church Of Martel]].]]

* ''{{Trapt}}'':
** Subverted. Heavy taxation, starvation, and general mismanagement of the kingdom has caused the populace to rise up against the old royalty. Unfortunately for them, the player is one of them -- Princess Allura, the heir apparent. And since the game begins with you inheriting the terrible, demonic powers of The Fiend (aka {{Satan}}), these particular rebels ''do'', indeed, get stabbed, burned, skinned, tortured, and worse...
** Subverted precisely once, hidden away in Sidestory B, where a former knight can be reasoned with. He [[HeroicSacrifice dies two missions later]]. (Not sure what happens if you kill him...)

* The Bora Mining Guilds in ''TachyonTheFringe'', opposing the expansionist efforts of the [[MegaCorp Galactic Spanning Corporation]] into their space. Bora themselves are descended from a radical political movement at the end of the war in the Sol System, who chose to leave the system for the great unknown instead of submitting to the new government. Centuries later, they are rediscovered, and the {{Mega Corps}}s decide to claim their mineral-rich region for themselves. How? Why, LoopholeAbuse, of course. In their rush to leave Sol, and as protest to the new government, they didn't officially file a claim to their new region. Thus, [=GalSpan=] can officially move in and take the area. The free-spirited Bora couldn't give a rat's ass about what Sol or [=GalSpan=] can "officially" do and won't give up their homes. The game plays YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters to the fullest, as it allows you to choose one of two branching paths: Bora or [=GalSpan=]. When fighting for Bora, you are fighting the soulless corporation who doesn't hesitate from blowing up hospitals or civilian colonies for profit. When signing up as a mercenary for [=GalSpan=], you fight terrorists who constantly sabotage the efforts of a progressive corporation to improve everyone's lives.
* The Romulan Republic of ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' starts out as a rag-tag bunch of rebels headquartered out of a flotilla, hounded by the Tal Shiar. They cease to be this trope by the end of their first story arc, [[spoiler; when they establish themselves on Dewa III -- renamed 'New Romulus' -- and manage to establish an alliance with the Federation ''and'' the Klingon Empire]], and by the end of the last Romulan-modified storyline, they are well on their way to being the dominant power in Romulan space.

** Played straight in this game and not so straight in ''Escape Velocity Nova''.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': Ezio Auditore builds up the Italian Assassins to become a resistance group against the Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare Borgia.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': While mostly backup for the Hero, the cunningly-titled Group fall under this category. Starring MasterSwordsman Rusl, ActionGirl Ashei, CoolOldGuy Auru, BadassBookworm Shad, TheBartender Telma, and Bartender Telma's [[RightHandCat cat]], Louise, they're essential to the game. Also, [[Awesome/TheLegendOfZelda Hyrulean bazooka]].

* In all of Paradoxes grand strategy games you face the problem of revolution and rebellion, most notably by taking someone elses land and enforcing your rule on them but revolts can happen in your own country if you push the people to far.

* ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'': SubvertedTrope. This is a Squaresoft RPG, much like ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' that while not called "Final Fantasy", certainly shares many similarities. The player characters are part of a resistance group, but as the game progresses, it seems that the Empire may not be all that evil, and a larger plot emerges. It is specifically mocked when another resistance group called "The Freedom Revolutionaries" is introduced, whose avowed purpose is to be cool and meet girls.

* ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'': Also has it, though it happens offscreen and is only mentioned when members of the Resistance join up the Liberation army.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': While mostly backup for the Hero, the cunningly-titled Group fall under this category. Starring MasterSwordsman Rusl, ActionGirl Ashei, CoolOldGuy Auru, BadassBookworm Shad, TheBartender Telma, and Bartender Telma's [[RightHandCat cat]], Louise, they're essential to the game. Also, [[Awesome/TheLegendOfZelda Hyrulean bazooka]].
* ''TheSaboteur'': Has you play an Irish ex-mechanic/driver who joined the French Resistance about three months after the Nazis occupied France. You'll find the bulk of the resistance, the Foreign Legionnaires most especially, to be {{badass}}es.

* ''AceCombat'' games often have a resistance movement on the ground aiding your efforts in the air.
* ''VideoGame/AgentUSA'' has a subtle example. Whenever fuzzbodies enter a city the (normally randomly wandering) citizens start dropping crystals to try to fend off the fuzz menace. That's about as useful as they get, though, but being from a game from the early 80's it's more help than one would usually get from games at the time.
* The IRIS Network from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''.
* The Vox Populi in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' look to be a deconstruction of this trope. While they originally grew out of opposition to the Founder's isolationist and white supremacist policies, they have been fighting for so long that their original beliefs have become a dogma of [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized blind hatred against the Founders]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has the 'Crimson Raiders' - the last remnants of a defunct corporation's mercenary militia, combined with the planet's locals, trying to overthrow the [[EvilInc Hyperion Corporation]] and their [[SmugSnake semi-charismatic leader]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Handsome Jack]].
* On [[MirrorUniverse Praetorian Earth]] in ''CityOfHeroes'', The Resistance are a high-tech ragtag group who seem to be the [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] of the anarchist CyberPunk gang the Freakshow on regular Earth.
* One level in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'' has you fighting through a '''''nod'''''-occupied city with the help of resistance fighters.
* The Free Drudge in ''{{Conduit 2}}'' is a group who helps the player against the BigBad's BugWar.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'', LaResistance is actually called the Resistance, by both sides--they claim to have no need for a flashy, "formal" name. At most, they are referred to as the Global Resistance, which actually undersells it because there are cells offworld, too.
* In the world of ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', the world is run by demons who infect every facet of life with propaganda and attempts to control the populous. The resistance is "The Order", an organization led by a mysterious masked man who launches smear campaigns and attempts to subvert the demon's stranglehold on society.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. There's the NSF, who're LaResistance to the US government and Majestic 12. Then there's the Luminous Path, who're LaResistance to Majestic 12 and Silouette, who're LaResistance to the "Vichy" French Government and Majestic 12. Finally, the Luminous Path are also LaResistance to The Illuminati, who're already on your side.

* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'' revolves around [[AlmightyJanitor Prinny Instructor]] Valvatorez forming a resistance party to overthrow [[TheGovernment The Corrupternment]] because their most recent policy [[DisproportionateRetribution makes it hard for him to give the Prinnies that bonus he promised them]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'', Selene [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope really isn't this]]. The [[WhamEpisode final stage]] reveals that they are actually TheEmpire the whole time and they try to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness to the player. But little did they know that [[OneManArmy they were messing with the wrong person...]]]]
* Played straight in ''EscapeVelocity'' and not so straight in ''EV Nova''.

* Every single ''FinalFantasy'' game that had an evil [[TheEmpire Empire]] has a LaResistance. Examples: ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' with the Wild Rose Rebellion against the Palamecian Empire, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' with the [[strike:Insurgence]] Resistance against the Archadian Empire, The Returners in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', AVALANCHE in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', The Forest Owls in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', N.O.R.A (No Obligation, Rules, or Authority) from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much speaks for itself]].
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/BahamutLagoon'' (a Squaresoft RPG, much like ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' that while not called "Final Fantasy", certainly shares many similarities). The player characters are part of a resistance group, but as the game progresses, it seems that the Empire may not be all that evil, and a larger plot emerges. It is specifically mocked when another resistance group called "The Freedom Revolutionaries" is introduced, whose avowed purpose is to be cool and meet girls.
* ''FireEmblem: Radiant Dawn'' has the Dawn Brigade led by Micaiah, though it quickly comes to resemble Joan of Arc pushing the enemies out the country, with the heroine being known from everyone, including the enemy, and hailed as a miraculous figure head, and joining and then leading the prince's army.
** ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' also has it, though it happens offscreen and is only mentioned when members of the Resistance join up the Liberation army.
* The Freedom Phantom in ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters''.
* The Lost Souls' Alliance in ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''. "Viva La Revolución!"
* ''GuildWars'' has a couple of these groups. Prophecies has the Shining blade; Nightfall has various groups in Kourna joining together in one of these; Eye of the north has the ebon vanguard. Players join these groups at different times in the storylines.
* Humans Fighting the Combine in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}''. One might not think much of a resistance that puts a theoretical physicist at the head of their battle... but then, he ''is'' [[BadassBookworm Gordon]] [[OneManArmy Freeman]].
* ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' has the Union Forces, which is led by Bahamut against the [[TheEmpire Commonwealth]].
* The last Free Radical Design game, ''HAZE'' (PS3 exclusive), revolves around this very trope. You start out as a sergeant in Mantel Global Industries' PMC (Private Military Corporation) with the purpose to fight against a rebel group, La Mano de la Promesa (or Promise Hand), that has taken over the fictional South-American region of Boa, and has been wreaking havok by ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and the like. In the end, it turns out that Mantel are the bad guys and you, the hero, end up joining La Resistance. (This has not been hidden as a spoiler because this, the main plot-twist in the game, is given away in all advertisements/reviews/'''''the back of the frickin' box'''''.)
* ''{{Homefront}}'' has you being "recruited" into the titular resistance (or the ''home front'') in the first level, right before the fighting starts. Not that you had a choice anyway, since the North Koreans weren't too keen on giving those.
* The Tenkaku from ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}''. They are defeated by the [[TheEmpire Horai]] before the main events of the game occurs.
* ''Injustice'' has Batman and a team of heroes and villains going against Superman's regime, which uses fear to scare people into submission. The Justice League is divided between those who side with Bats, and those who side with Supes.
* The ''IronGrip'' games have you playing as various guerillas and resistance groups fighting [[TheEmpire militaristic empires]]. BadAss LastStand included...
* In ''[[JakAndDaxter Jak II:]] [[DarkerAndEdgier Renegade]]'', the Underground is a darker version of this, without actually falling victim to TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized. While they're willing to employ pretty much anyone who can help, deal with crime lords, and generally behave like terrorists, their leaders are still fundamentally nice guys who are doing the best they can; Torn left the [[XtremeKoolLetterz Krimzon Guard]] rather than support Baron Praxis's continued [[MoralEventHorizon canine-raping]], and seems genuinely concerned for the people in the Slums who risk death when Praxis cuts off the water supply.
* In the original ''MakingHistory'' Gold edition, resistance fighters will spring up and retake undefended regions in occupied territory. In the sequel, they'll rise up and try to fight a government that is doing poorly, or that they feel should not control their ethnic, national, or religious group.
* The collective Reploid protagonists of ''MegaManZero'', aptly (and simply) called the Resistance, fighting against the government that wants to [[DeadlyEuphemism retire]] them.

* One major twist ([[GambitPileup among several others]]) at the end of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' is that [[spoiler:neither Ocelot nor Big Boss]] are the series [[spoiler:BigBad]], but have been LaResistance ''all along!'' [[spoiler: [[WretchedHive Outer Heaven]] had never been about creating a world of eternal conflict, but to bring down the secret rule of [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Patriots]]]].
* ''OperationFlashpoint'' had two different, but related rag-tag groups of civilians and former security forces employees fighting a Soviet invasion of their two [[{{Ruritania}} fictional homelands]] during TheEighties phase of the ColdWar. The aptly named ''Resistance'' expansion pack explored this whole trope in great detail and its whole narrative was seen from the point of view of the LaResistance's members.
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' series. Although they're the straight villains in the first and second games, the third and fourth games reveal that TheEmpire is corrupt, but ultimately the only thing protecting humanity from dangerous biological weapons -- and members of the various LaResistance groups that have cropped up are shown to take a toll on the lives of innocent bystanders.
* In ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness'', the future is [[BadFuture grim]] and [[DarkWorld eerily]] [[GhostCity still]], and a small band of resistance fighters led by Celebi is fighting the rule of Primal Dialga. [[spoiler:Grovyle and the player]] were both members of LaResistance who were sent back in time to try to prevent Dialga from going Primal in the first place.
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'', there's supposedly an underground group opposing the totalitarian regime in Raseir, whose offscreen help you receive at the climax.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'', LaResistance is featured as the generic "Resistance" opposed to the similarly generic and undeveloped EvilEmpire by the name of "The Authority".
* The entire premise of the ''RedFaction'' series.
* ''RuneScape'' is home to Morytania, land of the dead. This is a horrific and dark place, ruled by [[PhantasySpelling vampyres]] who oppress the living inhabitants of the land and require them to pay 'blood tithes'. However, there is a resistance force known as the Myreque. Unfortunately, the odds are not in their favour, at least when the player first meets them.
* ''{{Starcraft}}'''s Jim Raynor (and the [[PlayerCharacter Magistrate]]) are first rebelling against the Terran Confederacy, and, after its fall, against their former partner turned Emperor of the Terran Dominion.

* In ''{{Strife}}'' you have the Front, fighting the EvilEmpire ReligionOfEvil, the Order.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has The Renegades, a group of half-elven [[DefectorFromDecadence Defectors From Decadence]] who oppose the Desians that enslave and torture humans [[spoiler:and the Cruxis, who control both the Desians and the [[PathOfInspiration Church Of Martel]].]]
* While mostly backup for the Hero, the cunningly-titled Group from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' fall under this category. Starring MasterSwordsman Rusl, ActionGirl Ashei, CoolOldGuy Auru, BadassBookworm Shad, TheBartender Telma, and Bartender Telma's [[RightHandCat cat]], Louise, they're essential to the game. Also, [[Awesome/TheLegendOfZelda Hyrulean bazooka]].
* ''TheSaboteur'' has you play an Irish ex-mechanic/driver who joined the French Resistance about three months after the Nazis occupied France. You'll find the bulk of the resistance, the Foreign Legionnaires most especially, to be {{badass}}es.
* The Lukano Liberation Army from ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 3''.
* Subverted in ''{{Trapt}}''. Heavy taxation, starvation, and general mismanagement of the kingdom has caused the populace to rise up against the old royalty. Unfortunately for them, the player is one of them -- Princess Allura, the heir apparent. And since the game begins with you inheriting the terrible, demonic powers of The Fiend (aka {{Satan}}), these particular rebels ''do'', indeed, get stabbed, burned, skinned, tortured, and worse...

* ''YggdraUnion'' deconstructs this trope; Cruz plays it straight.
* Lucy Flathead in ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'' claims to be part of the magic resistance. However, the cutscene just shows her using spraypaint on an Inquisition poster.

* ''OperationFlashpoint'': The rag-tag bunch of people fighting the Soviets in the aptly named Resistance fits the bill perfectly.