History LaResistance / Videogames

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', several characters are a part of ''some'' kind of rebellion. But the one that embodies this trope is the main character, Ragna the Bloodedge. He's against the oppressive NOL and they put a bounty of 90,000,000,000 on his head. He's a huge threat to them and shows it by destroying several of their buildings within a matter of minutes. The name of his {{Leitmotif}} ''is'' "Rebellion"!

** Throughout the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]]'s history, many of its subjects have revolted against their oppressive theocratic government. One of these rebel groups, Sesa 'Refumee's so-called "Heretics", are the {{Hero Antagonist}}s of ''VideoGame/Halo2''[='s=] first two Arbiter levels, and another is the Banished, who are quickly becoming a RisingEmpire in the wake of the Covenant. Furthermore, the Covenant are said to have previously put ''sixteen'' rebellions by the Grunts.

** Throughout the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]]'s history, many of its subjects have revolted against their oppressive theocratic government. One of these rebel groups, Sesa 'Refumee's so-called "Heretics", are the {{Hero Antagonist}}s of ''VideoGame/Halo2''[='s=] first two Arbiter levels.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', Ezio Auditore builds up the Italian Assassins to become a resistance group against Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare Borgia's control of Rome and Italy.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': By the 1760s, the American Brotherhood of Assassins 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 Brotherhood. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' reveals that an Assassin-turned-Templar was instrumental in dismantling the American Brotherhood, leaving it in the state Connor eventually finds it in.
** The entire Assassin Brotherhood in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' was revealed to be an Egyptian resistance group known as the Hidden Ones, formed by Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya to stop the Roman takeover of Ptolemaic Egypt.

** ''Arma 2'' features the [[DirtyCommunists "Chernarussian Movement of the Red Star"]] (called ''CHDKZ'' for short and sometimes the "Chedakis") as the main OPFOR faction fighting against the protagonists of the [[SemperFi U.S. Marine Corps]] and your allies of the local {{Ruritania}}'s army, the Chernaus Defense Forces. A third side, an independent faction called "Nationalist Party of Chernarus" (or ''NAPA'' for short), is small guerilla group that fights both the CHDKZ and the government forces, although they become a possible ally through the campaign.

* ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'' has the Skyhaven Resistance, who has been fighting the Talus Dominion ever since they grew in power. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the resistance was divided after the members learned that their commander Yunma Fei was actually a Talus Princess, making them rebel against her.]]

* ''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...]]]]

* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': One is formed when [[spoiler:Gilbert took over the Rhem Kingdom. Later chapters reveal that the leader of the resistance is King Dolza Rhem, the man whom Gilbert deposed in the first place.]]

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': One major twist ([[GambitPileup among several others]]) at the end is that [[spoiler:neither Ocelot nor Big Boss]] are the series [[spoiler:BigBad]], but have been LaResistance ''[[GoodAllAlong 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]].]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSingularityWish'': There is a memo warning members of the research project about an organization called "The Cult of the Singularity" which allegedly wants to sabotage the project. [[spoiler:Late in the game, the player discovers that Talia is actually a cult infiltrator and is the one who releases Iteration 5601 into the omnimatrix.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{SOON}}'': Atlas recruiting the Atlas of 2013's help to [[spoiler:built the anti-robot bomb]] also accidentally creates a resistance movement in the future. [[spoiler:By 2023, the only surviving member of the Resistance is Fang.]]

* ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'': Cruz's characterization plays this trope straight, but your team as a whole {{deconstruct|edTrope}}s it as they decide to go far beyond saving their hometown and personnel. [[spoiler:This involves them brutally murdering incompetent LaResistance groups protecting their villages for trivial reasons.]]

** The [[RagtagBunchofMisfits GG's]] in particular fit this in both games as the final third of the games amp up the threat level when the cops get replaced with the [[TheDreaded Golden]] [[ProfessionalKiller Rhinos]], but the GG's were the only gang that actively fought back against the group.

* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'': These games often have a resistance movement on the ground aiding your efforts in the air.
* ''VideoGame/AgentUSA'': 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.
* In ''VideoGame/AlQadimTheGeniesCurse'', the increasingly oppressive government causes people are starting to organise resistance. The leader is the Caliph's cook, and she helps you get where you need to go. In the end, [[spoiler:the Caliph turns out to have been under the mental control of the real villains, who you defeat, so a revolution isn't needed]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'': Being a military sandbox simulator, Arma loves this trope, serving both as [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized antagonists]] and [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified allies]].
** ''Arma 2'' features the [[DirtyCommunists "Chernarussian Movement of the Red Star"]], called ''CHDKZ'' for short and sometimes as the "Chedakis", are the main OPFOR faction fighting against the protagonists of the [[SemperFi US Marine Corps]] and your allies of the local {{Ruritania}}'s army, the Chernaus Defense Forces. A third side, indepedent faction called "Nationalist Party of Chernarus", or ''NAPA'' for short, is small guerilla group that fights both the CHDKZ and the government forces, altough they become a possible ally through the campaign.
** ''Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead'': After the government of Takistan is defeated by the US and NATO. They are still resisted by the [[MiddleEasternTerrorists Takistani Republican Militia]], formed by TheRemnant from the Takistani army and anti-US takistani civilians guided by [[TheFundamentalist religious fervor]]. Meanwhile the US forces are helped by the local indepedent "Takistani Guerillas", later the local guerillas turn on the US and their allies, becoming the main antagonist force. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
** ''Arma 3'': The Freedom and Indepedence Army (or ''FIA'' for short) is a CIA/SIS-backed guerilla force formed by deserters and oppositionists of the AAF (Altis Armed Forces) after their coup. The conflict between the FIA and AAF leaves half of the island's population dead or displaced and results in NATO and CSAT interfering in the war. In the prologue and some showcases, the FIA is actually the ''opposition'' since the players are part a NATO peacekeeping task-force in charge of training and helping the AAF, altough after the CSAT invasion the player starts helping the FIA and becomes a full member of them at the second act of the campaign.
** ''Arma 3: Apex'', features the ''Syndikat'' guerilla group, based in the island nation Tanoa fighting against the local Tanoa Gendarmerie and NATO Pacific Force. Differently from the FIA, they are outright antagonistic, stealing from NGO camps, killing from anyone opposing them and smugling drugs and weapons; and differentely from other antagonistic guerilla groups in Arma, the Syndikat is more interested in criminal activity, making more of a TheCartel. It's also stated that their leader, Solomon Maru, was part of the ''"Red Tiger"'' coup, making them a possible case of MotiveDecay.
** As of ''Old Man'' scenario, with the new Tanoan government become LesCollaborateurs to CSAT, the remaining Syndikat joined up with other movements to form the more political L'Ensemble which makes them antiheroic rather than outright villainous.
* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'': The IRIS Network.
* ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'': The Vox Populi make this a DeconstructedTrope. While their demands are legitimate (the Founders took a page from the Third Reich (literally)) and originally grew out of opposition to the Founder's isolationist and white supremacist policies, [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized their adherence to Chaos causes them to devolve into the very monsters the Founders looked down upon, and now cower in terror of]].
-->Propaganda: They'll take your home, they'll take your life, they'll take your gun, they'll take your wife! (Burma Shave.)
-->One revolution later...
-->Random Vox rebel: Your homes are ours! Your guns are ours! Your lives are ours! Your wives are ours! It all belongs to the VOX!
* ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'' has The Skyhaven Resistance, who has been fighting the Talus Dominion ever since they grew in power. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the resistance was divided after the members learned that their commander Yunma Fei was actually a Talus Princess, making them rebel against her.]]

* ''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]].

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': On [[MirrorUniverse Praetorian Earth]], 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.
** The Resistance were portrayed as both [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters Terrorists and Freedom Fighters]].
** The Warden faction would send you to fight bad guys and rescue sympathetic journalists, while the Crusader faction would send you to destroy water treatment plants to end the public's mass brainwashing or to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope blow up hospitals]] to kill key political figures.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'': One level has you fighting through a '''''Nod'''''-occupied city with the help of resistance fighters.
* ''VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}}'': The Free Drudge is a group who helps the player against the BigBad's BugWar.

* ''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.
* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' has [[spoiler:the Future Foundation, an organization made of former [[AcademyOfAdventure Hope’s Peak]] alumni and staff fighting against the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Ultimate Despair]] and the dystopian world they've created. The survivors of the first game go on to join them]].
* ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'': In the world of this game, 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.

** 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]] [[PetTheDog that bonus he promised them]].

* ''VideoGame/FarCry4'' gives us the Golden Path, a subversion. On the one hand, their opposition to [[TheCaligula Pagan Min]] is perfectly understandable. On the other hand, the two rebel leaders were on opposite sides of a civil war before Min showed up, and both are plotting to eliminate the other once Min is no longer a threat. In the end, their plans for Kyrat (for one, a nation of murderous religious fanatics; for the other, a nation that runs on slave labor and heroin) make them seem no better than the guy they're rebelling against.

** [=AVALANCHE=] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' are not a military group but self-described ecoterrorists whose immediate focus isn't as much about breaking Shinra's corporate stranglehold (although they don't ''like'' it) than blowing up planet-bleeding Mako power plants.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': Humans Fighting the Combine. 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]].

** The Insurrection is made up of 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 initially viewed sympathetically by most of humanity, but when they started killing people much of that good publicity went down the drain.

* ''HAZE'': The last Free Radical Design game, which is [=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'''''.)

* ''[[VideoGame/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.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': While mostly backup, the cunningly-titled Group fall under this category. Starring: TheHero [[PlayerCharacter Link]], 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 a Hyrulean bazooka]]. Link himself joins the group when he reaches Telma's Bar.

* ''[[VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet LittleBigPlanet 2]]'': TheAlliance are planning to attack the Negativatron, ending his reign over sucking up creativity.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' had a "Resistance" to...the rebel army opposing the government. So it was pretty much The Resistance to The Resistance. Yeah.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': One major twist ([[GambitPileup among several others]]) at the end 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]]]].

* ''VideoGame/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 UsefulNotes/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.
* ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'': Subverted in this 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.
* Creator/ParadoxInteractive: In all of this company's 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/Planetside2'': 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]] [[TheFederation Republic]]), noble freedom fighters or an inconvenience in the way to independence(for the [[BeamSpam Vanu Soreveignity]]).

* ''VideoGame/RedFaction'': The entire premise of this series.
* ''VideoGame/Revolution2002'': Jack Plummer eventually joins up with a group opposing The Corporation. This group is called the Resistance.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': This game 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.
* ''VideoGame/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 badasses.
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': the Marya of Egypt, also known as "The Young Warriors." Essentially started as a resistance movement by UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}} against the rule of his father, [[HumanoidAbomination Pharaoh]] UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, it recruited warriors, disenfranchised priests, mages, and most of the Egyptian populace who hadn't been exposed to [[MysticalPlague the Filth]] over the course of the Black Pharaoh's mass-conversion project. Ultimately, they were able to bring down Akhenaten and officially end [[ReligionOfEvil Atenism's]] reign over Egypt. In the present, when the Cult of Aten returns in the small village of al-Merayah, the Marya return to aid the villagers against them -- and end up allied with the players.
* ''VideoGame/TheSingularityWish'': There is a memo warning members of the research project about an organization called "The Cult of the Singularity" which allegedly wants to sabotage the project. [[spoiler: Late in the game, the player discovers that Talia is actually a cult infiltrator and is the one who releases Iteration 5601 into the omnimatrix.]]
* ''VideoGame/SonicForces'': The plot involves Sonic the Hedgehog joining a resistance force, including [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness his past self]] and the [[CharacterCustomization player avatar]], against Doctor Eggman, who finally managed to TakeOverTheWorld.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'':

* ''VisualNovel/{{SOON}}'': Atlas recruiting 2013!Atlas help to [[spoiler:built the anti-robot bomb]] also accidentally creates a resistance movement in the future. [[spoiler:By 2023, the only surviving member of the Resistance is Fang.]]

* ''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]].]]
* ''[[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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'' the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Belsoto Clan]] invades the island of Kisiwa (a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Africa), forcing the citizens to form a guerilla resistance movement in response spearheaded by the [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Gym Leader]] (sorry, ''Dojo Master'') Musa and conscripting the PlayerCharacter upon their arrival.
* Subverted in the InteractiveFiction game ''Videogame/TimeAllThingsComeToAnEnd''. In an alternate timeline -- with 1985 England under occupation by Nazis -- the player meets up with several resistance members following some Cloak & Dagger antics. They have a plan to attack a train, but you don't go along with this or join their revolution. You simply need their services to alter a set of identity papers. Ultimately you go back in time to 1940 to correct the course of history.
* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 3'': The Lukano Liberation Army.

* In ''VideoGame/XRebirth'' the Heart of Albion are made up primarily of former [[TheFederation Argon]] Fleet officers and crewmen. It formed after the Plutarch Mining Corporation [[TheCoup overthrew the Albion System's elected government]] following the [[PortalNetwork jumpgate network]] shutdown and [[OneNationUndercopyright set itself up as the government]].
* ''VideoGame/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.]]
* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' has [[spoiler:Crash Keyes, founded by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Zero I]]/[[LoveInterest Akane Kurashiki]] to stop [[ReligionOfEvil Free the Soul]] from unleashing a virus that will destroy society]].

--->'''Lucy Flathead''': I was part of the resistance. You know, the magic underground. There's a whole movement in the streets!''
--->'''Dalboz''': Ugh. Well somebody better clean it up. You can get a pretty stiff fine for that sort of thing.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'': LaResistance is featured as the generic "Resistance" opposed to the similarly generic and undeveloped EvilEmpire by the name of "The Authority".

* ''VideoGame/ReVOLUTION'': Jack Plummer eventually joins up with a group opposing The Corporation. This group is called the Resistance.

** The entire Assassin Brotherhood in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' was revealed to be an Egyptian resistance group known as the Hidden Ones formed by Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya to stop the Roman takeover of Ptolemaic Egypt.

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* In ''VideoGame/BlobWars - Blob and Conquer'', Bob leads the blob resistance against the alien occupation.
* ''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]].

* ''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.

** N.O.R.A (No Obligation, Rules, or Authority) from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the name pretty much speaks for itself]]. That said, they're just a group of rowdy youths who like fighting monsters until they and the rest of their hometown are deported in ThePurge--then they try to rally their neighbors to fight back (with limited success). The ''real'' resistence is the Cavalry, an airship fleet of former Sanctum military who want to free Cocoon from the fal'Cie.

*** Granted, both resistance movements were good at their core - the Resistance, which X aligns himself with over the course of the game, seeks to protect the people of Giga City from the Rebellion, which has WellIntentionedExtremist faculty and simply wished for a Reploid-only domain independent of Federation politics. The latter are only seen as evil due to the fact that a few amongst the Federation unjustly branded them as Mavericks, forcing them to develop weapons in order to be heard and acknowledged. Not like the Mavericks Hunters haven't dealt with internal corruption before, though...

* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': the Marya of Egypt, also known as "The Young Warriors." Essentially started as a resistance movement by UsefulNotes/{{Tutankhamun}} against the rule of his father, [[HumanoidAbomination Pharaoh]] UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}}, it recruited warriors, disenfranchised priests, mages, and most of the Egyptian populace who hadn't been exposed to [[MysticalPlague the Filth]] over the course of the Black Pharaoh's mass-conversion project. Ultimately, they were able to bring down Akhenaten and officially end [[ReligionOfEvil Atenism's]] reign over Egypt. In the present, when the Cult of Aten returns in the small village of al-Merayah, the Marya return to aid the villagers against them - and end up allied with the players.

* Subverted in the InteractiveFiction game ''Videogame/TimeAllThingsComeToAnEnd''. In an alternate timeline - with 1985 England under occupation by Nazis - the player meets up with several resistance members following some Cloak & Dagger antics. They have a plan to attack a train, but you don't go along with this or join their revolution. You simply need their services to alter a set of identity papers. Ultimately you go back in time to 1940 to correct the course of history.

* ''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]] [[TheFederation Republic]]), noble freedom fighters or an inconvenience in the way to independence(for the [[BeamSpam Vanu Soreveignity]]).

* ''Franchise/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/GrimFandango'': The Lost Souls' Alliance. "¡Viva La Revolución!"

* ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters'': The Freedom Phantom and the American Resistance he ends up the symbol of by the end of the game.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': Ezio Auditore builds up the Italian Assassins to become a resistance group against Rodrigo Borgia (aka Pope Alexander VI) and his son Cesare Borgia's control of Rome and Italy.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': By the 1760's, the Assassin Brotherhood 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 Brotherhood. ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' reveals that an Assassin-turned-Templar was instrumental in dismantling the New World Brotherhood, leaving it in the state Connor eventually finds it in.

* ''VideoGame/CorruptionOfLaetitia'': Celeste forms a coalition with the demons, Savia village, and several monster species in order to oppose the Elysian church's rule over Elphegort and Eidelwalt.

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'' has [[spoiler:the Future Foundation, an organization made of former [[AcademyOfAdventure Hope’s Peak]] alumni and staff fighting against the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Ultimate]] [[TheEmpire Despair]] and the dystopian world they’ve created. The survivors of the first game go on to join them]].

* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' has [[spoiler:Crash Keyes, founded by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Zero]]/[[LoveInterest Akane Kurashiki]] to stop [[ReligionOfEvil Free the Soul]] from unleashing a virus that will destroy society]].

* The Bora Mining Guilds in ''VideoGame/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.