History Main / TheRemnant

* The aftermath of the UsefulNotes/IranianRevolution led to a number of groups seeking to overthrow the Islamic Republic and restore a prior regime in Iran. Problem is they can't agree on ''which'' prior regime, leading to several different Remnants who all want to establish their own regime. The most prominent, the National Council of Iran, seeks to reinstall the Shah, with the son of the ousted Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi very much active in that respect. A few remnants angle for a socialist regime like that of Mohammed Mossadegh, who was himself overthrown by the Shah's regime (with CIA help). The most controversial is the People's Mujahideen of Iran; the U.S. government (well aware of its role in the Iranian Revolution) officially declared it a terrorist organization for its more violent approach, but every now and then you'll find U.S. politicians getting caught donating to them.

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock'': In ''Our Army at War'' #170, Easy Company is held hostage by a 2nd Lieutenant from WWI who lost all his men trying to take a hill and [[ShellShockedVeteran snapped from the grief.]] He’s been hiding out in a farm on the French countryside this whole time waiting for “reinforcements” to give it another go, and that fighting has actually kicked up again in the area ’’and’’ a bunch of G.I.s fell into his lap, he finally has his chance. [[spoiler:He’s mortally wounded in the firefight and buried on the hill.]]

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock'': In ''Our Army at War'' #170, Easy Company is held hostage by a 2nd Lieutenant from WWI who lost all his men trying to take a hill and [[ShellShockedVeteran snapped from the grief.]] He’s been hiding out in a farm on the French countryside this whole time waiting for “reinforcements” to give it another go, now that fighting has actually kicked up again in the area. [[spoiler:He’s mortally wounded in the firefight and buried on the hill.]]

* ''ComicBook/SgtRock'': In ''Our Army at War'' #170, Easy Company is held hostage by a 2nd Lieutenant from WWI who lost all his men trying to take a hill and [[ShellShockedVeteran snapped from the grief.]] He’s been hiding out in a farm on the French countryside this whole time waiting for “reinforcements” to try to take the hill again. [[spoiler:He’s mortally wounded in the firefight and buried on the hill.]]

* In ’’[[ComicBook/SgtRock Our Army at War]]’’ #170, Easy Company is held hostage by a 2nd Lieutenant from WWI who lost all his men trying to take a hill and [[ShellShockedVeteran snapped from the grief.]] He’s been hiding out in a farm on the French countryside this whole time waiting for “reinforcements” to try to take the hill again. [[spoiler:He’s mortally wounded in the firefight and buried on the hill.]]

** The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados Confederados]]" were a group of Southerners who fled to Brazil after the war. The Brazilian Empire had offered Southerners subsidized transport to Brazil, cheap land, and tax breaks, in exchange for lending their expertise in cultivating cotton. A few of them had hoped to continue building the Southern cause from there, but most simply thought life would be better in Brazil than in the South, now mostly destroyed and dominated by the Yankees. Their descendants still live in the area maintain some of the traditions of the Antebellum South.

* ''Film/LongjohnSilver'': When Silver and Jim arrive return Treasure Island, they find Israel Hands and a handful of pirates who survived the events of ''Film/TreasureIsland1950'' are still stranded on the island, and out for revenge.

** During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan of all people [[RightfulKingReturns located the rightful heir to the throne]], Prince Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkerim, and invited him to Tokyo with the intent of using the Turkish minority in China to revive the empire with Abdülkerim as a PuppetKing right next to UsefulNotes/{{Manchuria}} and Mengjiang, creating a buffer state against the USSR they could use to further their invasion of China. However, the Soviets noticed what they were trying to do and had ''their'' puppet ruler of UsefulNotes/{{Xinjiang}}, Sheng Shicai, steamroll their weak forces before they could become a threat. Abdülkerim then fled to India before seeking asylum in the US and being [[NeverSuicide found dead mysteriously]] in a New York hotel.

* After [[TheGreatPoliticsMessup the fall of the Soviet Union]], a few places weren't too keen on being part of a "new" country. Belarus has been accused of this the most, what with its very Soviet-like dictatorship and StateSec setup; the new Central Asian republics also had a lot of continuity with the Soviet era, in many cases retaining their leaders from back then. Perhaps the weirdest is Transnistria, a Russian-majority unrecognised breakaway state in Moldova that still uses many symbolic trappings of the Soviet Union like the famous hammer and sickle.

** The Old Republic era had the Sith Triumvirate of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', a terrorist organization made up of remnants of Darth Revan's Sith Empire. Unlike other, similar factions throughout the ages, their focus was less on restoring TheEmpire and more on [[KillEmAll killing Jedi]] wherever they could find them [[GenreSavvy so they could do whatever they wanted virtually unopposed]]. The result became known as the First Jedi Purge, with [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Order 66]] being the Second.

** Sauron himself qualifies, as he is the former right hand of the previous Dark Lord, Morgoth.

* In ''Literature/{{Reds}}'' the US government tried to declare the election which saw the American Worker's Party win void and arrest all members of the AWP. This resulted in an armed insurrection which turned the United States of America into the United American Socialist Republic. The USA is, in the "now" of the alternate timeline, a BananaRepublic controlling Cuba and a few small islands, firmly in the hands of a quasi-fascist military junta.

** After the Zangyack Empire is defeated in the FinalBattle of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', it's stated in a newspaper later that the Empire has split into multiple warring factions. One remnant faction, led by the deceased emperor Ackdos Gill's nephew Bacchus Gill, shows up in ''Film/TokumeiSentaiGoBustersVsGokaigerTheMovie'' as the main antagonist though he has already beaten the Gokaiger and strong-armed them into service when he shows up.

** As of 7th Edition's "Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia", Abbadon's Thirteen Black Crusade resulted in a victory for the forces of Chaos and the complete destruction of Cadia. The Cadian Regiments still exist as a fighting force due to evacuated civilians and other deployments across the galaxy but Cadian recruits will be a bit hard to come by now...

** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Dr. Gero and his Androids are technically this -- the Red Ribbon Army is long defunct as an organization, but Gero, one of its founding members, tries to continue the cause, though with a heavy focus on killing Goku, partly because Gero wants revenge because Goku is responsible for the Army's defeat in the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', though it's also out of practicality, since Goku would likely interfere anyway. [[spoiler:In both Trunks' timeline and in the regular timeline, his plans [[GoneHorriblyRight are a bit too effective]] in so many ways, but he never lives to see it happen.]] It's not drawn attention to, but the Red Ribbon Army iconography is notable on all of Gero's androids except Cell. The Red Ribbon Army as an organization also are the main antagonists of ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ'', even if [[spoiler:it's basically just Android 21 at that point.]]

* ''The Bridge: A Shimmer in the Dark'', a crossover between ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' and ''Fanfic/TheShimmerverse'', features as its main antagonist Countess Mircalla, the last remaining one of Nightmare Moon's Generals, leading a reserve force that is all that's left of the latter's shattered army. Notably, she's lost faith in the cause, but keeps going [[MyMasterRightOrWrong out of debt to her former master]] (and because she knows that if she doesn't, the AlwaysChaoticEvil Nightmare forces will tear her apart for disloyalty).

* In ''Fanfic/RepairsRetrofitsAndUpgrades'', Kuvira's supporters continue to uphold the ideals of the Earth Empire and defend its territory despite her being captured and abandoning her ambitions. They're still extremely well trained, armed, organized and equipped, enough to [[spoiler: oppose the United Forces on even footing and attempt to "rescue" Kuvira]].

* ''Series/ZNation'': Both regular versions of this and more sympathetic ones appear from time to time, but the most notable is General Arthur [=McCandles=], who commanded the infection response forces in Virginia, and still broadcasts as if he's in command of a major force, but by the time they main cast encounter him, he's a bedridden ZombieInfectee who only has a single, neurotic living soldier left under his command. On the flip side, the first few episodes of season 4 feature feature a Marine lieutenant and a few soldiers (one of whom is his daughter) running a benevolent refugee camp.

* In Season 3 of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', TheFederation has been reduced to this, and the eponymous ship is key to rebuilding it BackFromTheBrink.

* The Millennium Group from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' is a single battalion of Nazi soldiers who have voluntarily undergone [[OurVampiresAreDifferent artificial vampirification]] in their mission to give World War II another go. They're a variation on the usual type, since they're not fighting for Nazism, but because they ''[[BloodKnight really]]'' [[BloodKnight like war]]. Especially the Major, their mad leader.