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1->''"So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found\
2Among the faithless, faithful only he;\
3Among innumerable false, unmoved,\
4Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,\
5His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;"''
6-->-- '''Creator/JohnMilton''', ''Literature/ParadiseLost''
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8This character is the kind of person who sees [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized the faults]] in LaResistance, whether it be that [[FullCircleRevolution the rebels are no better than the oppressors themselves]], or that [[VillainousUnderdog they were wrong in rebelling from the beginning]]. They break off from the already existing rebellion to act against said rebellion. Often, but not always, this means appealing to their original superiors from the faction the rebels acted against from the beginning, reasoning that the rebellion was unjustified. Others [[StartMyOwn start their own]] resistance, fighting against both TheEmpire and the original rebellion, knowing that the empire deserved to be brought to justice, but also that the methods of the original resistance cannot be justified either.
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10[[DefectorFromDecadence This is usually triggered by some kind of immoral action]] of the RebelLeader who defected in the first place. Either by a FaceHeelTurn or [[BitchInSheepsClothing always being a real bastard beneath their nice demeanor]], they will end up having some sort of KickTheDog[=/=]MoralEventHorizon moment to make the Rebellious Rebel [[WhatTheHellHero call this out to the leader]] and leave the rebellion, or [[CrapsackWorld depending on the setting]], get killed for wronging their superiors.
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12Usually found in military situations, but not always. Compare AntiMutiny, where the leader is disloyal and their subordinates arrest them for it, and TheLastDJ, whose conflicts with their superiors are chronic, who has no superior to their superiors they could appeal to, but generally faces nothing worse than ReassignedToAntarctica. Contrast DangerousDeserter.
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14See also AntiAntiChrist, EnemyCivilWar, DividedWeFall; this trope clearly pits a hero against a villain. Compare WhiteSheep. Also the Type 3 ChaoticNeutral.
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22* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the Black Knights desert Zero after finding out some of his secrets, although they were [[BatmanGambit manipulated]] so that they thought he had betrayed them.
23* In Chrono's backstory in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', he was originally fully behind the Sinner's rebellion [[DefectorFromDecadence against demon society]]. However, he couldn't agree with [[DarkMessiah Aion's]] tactics and ended up rebelling against the Sinners, and eventually joined [[ChurchMilitant The Magdalene Order]].
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27* Soames from ''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}'' was originally a soldier for one side in a DividedStatesOfAmerica situation, who intended to defect from the rebels back over to the US army. On the way to do so, he got an infection, had a vision, and decided to enjoy the freedom of being on neither side instead. By the time the story begins, he has an entire squad of soldiers who have joined him.
28* Jack Frost of ComicBook/TheInvisibles had shades of this at first, being so anarchist he rejected even the minimal and fluid authority of a cell of the Invisibles.
29* Loki in their newer incarnations. Past Loki successfully noticed that he became a traitor in his villainy so he made arrangements to change that by dying and other very extreme measures (like not being one of anything). The kicker is? Most people don't want them to! Why? Because Loki's other setting is a chaotic trickster which is really not something the powers that be can use. [[Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard Their predictable evil was actually good for making the Asgardians look good in comparison and create an "easily" defeatable threat to stabilize their society]]. So they're currently rebelling against rebelling because that counter-intuitively causes things to stay the same. Got that?
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33* ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': Tall Shadow breaks off from [=SkyClan=] with a good portion of the Clan due to anger at Clear Sky's actions of kicking out cats for their disabilities, and Thunder Storm in turn decides to break off and create a new Clan because Tall Shadow not taking Bumble into the group after Turtle Heart's death due to being a house cat incapable of fighting makes Thunder Storm see her as no different from Clear Sky.
34* ''FanFic/TheVictorsProject'': Nolan De Naro is a vehement and committed Rebel, who serves as an ally of the main characters for a long time, but ultimately breaks away from them for their decision to break Katniss and Peeta (who he views as a CategoryTraitor) out of the arena, causing them to reluctantly declare him open game for TheReverseMole they have in the career alliance.
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38* ''Film/FreeStateOfJones'': The film centers on a group of disgruntled white farmers and fugitive slaves rising up to fight the Confederacy, which itself was deemed the "rebels". Jones County, Mississippi secedes from the Confederacy just as the Confederate States did.
39* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseRussellFamily Madison Russell]] is revealed to be [[spoiler:part of Alan Jonah's EcoTerrorist group alongside her mother, but she rebels against them and steals the ORCA from them after she realizes they're willing to murder billions of people to achieve their aims, and after [[EvilerThanThou King Ghidorah]] takes control whilst Jonah [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist refuses to try and stop him]]]].
40* ''Film/LandOfTheBlind'': Joe becomes one of these when he realizes that their RebelLeader is more than just a WellIntentionedExtremist but KnightTemplar bordering on MagnificentBastard.
41* Saw Gerrera in ''Film/RogueOne'' from ''Franchise/StarWars'' quit the Rebel Alliance with his Partisans due to conflict over their ''modus operandi'', as Saw's was at odds with their [[BlackAndGreyMorality morals]], [[NiceJobBreakingItHero goals]], and caused [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters negative public relations]], not helped with his growing paranoia on who to trust due to receiving several assassination attempts and being poisoned to the point where he needs mobile life support by the time we see him in ''Rogue One''. [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe material]] further elaborates on the tension between the two groups, with the final season of ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' television show detailing what exactly was the final straw for Saw and the Alliance for the former to split away.
42** The movie's protagonist, Jyn Erso, is a stubborn, defiant loner who constantly frustrates her potential friends and allies with her unwillingness to work productively with them or trust them. In a line that became infamous for its use in a pre-release trailer, but didn't make it into the movie itself, Jyn tells the leadership of the Rebel Alliance, "This is a rebellion, isn't it? I rebel."
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46* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has David. He starts out as a very-reluctant new addition to the team's anti-Yeerk resistance movement, only to rebel against them and briefly become a side unto himself.
47* Literature/TheObernewtynChronicles has two groups of these.
48** A passive version is Gilaine and the other Misfits in the Druid’s camp. The Druid is rebelling against the Council but is if anything more fanatically opposed to Misfits.
49** After the Battlegames, the Obernewtyn Misfits become this to the main rebellion, and force them to look closer at what their plans actually involve.
50* Creator/JohnMilton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' has one angel, Abdiel, in Satan's legions refuse to join his rebellion.
51* In ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', Horus's attack on the Marines on Isstvan IV was motivated to prevent this. The survivors were uncommonly enthusiastic about opposing him and the rest of the treacherous forces thereafter; they bogged them down for months.
52%%** Garro and the crew of the ''Eisenstein'', who go to BringNewsBack.
53* In ''[[Literature/FamiliasRegnant Winning Colors]]'', treasonous senior officers try to use their ship; their juniors realize the treachery and mutiny. ([[YouAreInCommandNow Leading to a very junior officer being in command]].)
54* In Gav Thorpe's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' story "Renegades", when Gessart decides to take their company renegade, several Marines speak against him and are murdered. Later, another one, Rykhel, takes a saviour pod from their ship in hopes of [[BringNewsBack getting back with news]] [[BearerOfBadNews of their treachery]]; Gessart is enraged that he didn't speak up when challenged, and though they are fleeing the danger that Rykhel is going into, he [[MaliciousSlander claims that he fled from fear]].
55* Creator/RobertAHeinlein:
56** In ''Literature/TheRoadsMustRoll'', when the workers are organizing their strike on the grounds that transportion being so necessary, they should use their clout for extortion, one worker objects that the terms of their employment are not actually oppressive; when the strike actually occurs, he goes to the boss to offer his help. [[spoiler:The strikers murder him in a parlay.]]
57** In ''Literature/TheLongWatch'', Interplanetary Patrol Lieutenant John Dahlquist, after a superior attempts to recruit him into a coup attempt, instead makes a HeroicSacrifice by barricading himself in the nuclear armory and manually disabling all the nuclear weapons, taking a fatal dose of radiation in the process. He [[DyingAlone dies alone]], sitting by the door he barricaded. Radiation levels are so high that robots must be used to recover his body and put it in a lead coffin for [[DueToTheDead a hero's funeral]].
58* In Creator/BenCounter's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Soul Drinker|s}}'', not all the Soul Drinkers are bewildered by Chaos -- particularly not the young ones. Sarpedon and the others hunt them down. (Which gives Sarpedon particularly painful memories when he realizes they were right.)
59* In Creator/JamesSwallow's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' ''[[Literature/BloodAngels Deus Encarmine]]'', Koris and other respected veterans argue against the manifestation and that they should remain loyal to their chapter master, which is why Stele [[spoiler:uses sorcery to throw them into the Black Thirst and their deaths]]. Later, in ''Deus Sanguinius'', Rafen fights against Arkio's claims to authority against even their Chapter Master and Chapter.
60* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''The Literature/{{Uplift}} War'', the chimp forces [[CombatByChampion challenge their planet's invaders to face them with equal forces]]. The enemy commander orders an all-out attack, contrary to the laws of warfare, and a subordinate kills him. On hearing of it, the invader's leader immediately conveys a pardon to the subordinate.
61* In a rare LawfulEvil[=/=]ChaoticEvil variant, in Creator/BenCounter's ''Daemon World'', the Word Bearers, traitor Space Marines, have come to the planet to hunt down a renegade Word Bearer; if they allowed anyone to leave ''them'', their Legion would fall apart.
62* Garm Bel Iblis from Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy is an unusually mild example. He was a major part of the young Rebel Alliance and split with it because, after Bail Organa's death on Alderaan, he saw Mon Mothma as gathering more and more power to herself and her closest allies. His smaller, separate rebellion didn't get in the other one's way but harassed the Empire on its own. Even after Mon Mothma's Rebellion won and reformed into the New Republic, he stayed away, seeing his former ally seem to consolidate power even further. But when someone from the New Republic needed rescue, he did it and accepted the formal invitation to join. Not long after, he saw ''why'' Mon Mothma did as she did. Not for personal power, but because so few people could be trusted with the responsibility of billions of lives.
63* Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' series has a variation on this trope, as applied to a mutiny. Some of Anu's mutineers rebel in horror when they realize his true, megalomaniacal motives and spend the rest of their lives trying to make right their mistake, forming a third faction that watches over the descendants over the original loyalists to the Captain (aka the Human race).
64* Early on in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, the Havenite [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Legislaturalist Regime]] is overthrown by the [[DecadentCourt Committee of Public Safety]]. After cleaning house of all "subversive elements" in the Navy (who they blamed the rebellion on) and instituting a tyrannical rule (''still'' labeling themselves as "rebels") they manage to upset many surviving Navy personnel. The remainder stays quiet for most of the series, but then the truth of the rebellion comes out.
65** It also turns up in his Safehold series. If you label TheChurch as TheEmpire and [[TheEmpire The Charisian Empire]] as LaResistance, then the Temple Loyalists are this. Creator/DavidWeber seems to like this trope.
66* Katniss Everdeen in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', especially since she never meant to start a rebellion in the first place. On top of that, in ''Mockingjay'', she really doesn't care much for President Coin, and the feeling is mutual.
67* {{Zig Zagg|ingTrope}}ed in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''; Sam Vimes is sent 30 years back in time and takes the place of his old mentor, John Keel. The city is on the brink of a bloody rebellion that will replace the Patrician with one who, in hindsight, is just as bad. With three decades more life experience than his also present younger self, Vimes can see the rebellion clearly as a sham, and [[NotInThisForYourRevolution has no more patience with the rebels than the authorities]]. He still has to play the part that the original Keel did, however, in order to preserve the timeline but concentrates on just protecting a few streets from needless bloodshed. The zig-zagging is in him considering whether this was true of the real Keel as well; they performed nearly the same actions, but young Vimes thought Keel was a genuine revolutionary, and only now realizes that may not have been the case.
68-->'''Vimes:''' I was just a young fool, I didn't see it like this. I thought Keel was leading the revolution. I wonder if that's what he thought, too?
69* Michio Pa in ''Literature/TheExpanse''. She starts out a belter and joins the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized OPA]] to rebel against the oppression against the inner planets. Then, the leader of the OPA gets her girlfriend killed thanks to sending her [[GeneralRipper on a mission with a bad commanding officer]], so Michio jumps ship and joins the Free Belter Navy, an OPA splinter faction. She then realizes the boss of the Free Belter Navy is TheSociopath who doesn't give a hoot about the Belt at all so she [[StartMyOwn starts her own splinter faction]] inside a splinter faction from a revolutionary organization. [[spoiler:She ends up [[EnemyMine being forced to work with Earth and Mars, the factions she started rebelling against in the first place]], and is voted the head of the Spacing Guild.]]
70* ''Literature/TheOutlaws'': Following the November revolution, the Communist extremists attempt to overthrow the new Social-Democratic government, which is perceived by them as traitorous to the workers' cause, by starting a new revolution.
71* In ''Literature/NakedCameTheStranger'', the hippie Arthur Franhop allowed himself to be drafted because his friends had all dodged in so many creative ways that the only truly cool thing left to do was to join the army. His friends congratulated him on his imaginative stand. Luckily for him, he ended up in Maryland directing traffic.
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75* Or as ''Monty Python'' likes to say, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE Splitter!]]''
76* Played with Cara in ''Series/TheMandalorian''. Her issue wasn't with the Rebellion itself, but with the post-war duties such as peacekeeping and bodyguarding politicians. She did not take the transition well and took an "early retirement" (implied desertion), given that she fully expected a bounty on her head.
77* On ''Series/{{Roseanne}},'' the title character's mother, Bev, is very old-fashioned and conservative while her own mother, Nana Mary, is a CoolOldLady who talks about having numerous affairs and abortions when she was younger. In one episode (albeit in the [[CanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] eighth season), the two have a talk where Mary notes that Bev is just as naturally rebellious as she is -- it's just that her rebellion had to go in the other direction.
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81* Literature/TheBible:
82** It includes a minor figure named Mered, whose name means "rebel". Jewish tradition identifies him with Caleb because when ten of the twelve spies rebelled against Moses, he (along with Joshua) remained faithful and "rebelled" against them.
83** Korah also leads a rebellion against Moses, and he and all his followers die from it; however, the Bible specifically notes that Korah's sons survived. Traditionally they abandoned their father's side just before God smote everybody else.
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87* In ''Podcast/EighteenSixtyFive'', as in real life, Andrew Johnson stayed loyal to the Union during the civil war despite being a Southerner. On the other hand, he holds many views that aren’t all that different from the Confederates. He believes that blacks are inferior to whites, wants the South to be granted amnesty as quickly as possible, and even allows former Confederate generals to resume positions of authority within the South.
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91* In 2008 Pro Wrestling Revolution was born as part of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, started with the goal to take pro wrestling back to where it was supposed to be and to acknowledged the lucha libre culture that was being shunned in the USA. But a year in Fabe Ramirez made it increasingly clear that all who were not with Revolution were against Revolution, so Billy Blade started a Vendetta against it. Five years in, Vendetta Pro became an official NWA member.
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95* Jim Raynor from ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' is a borderline case in that he only leaves LaResistance when it has already defeated TheEmpire through dubious means, and [[MeetTheNewBoss begins its transition into the '''new''' Empire]]. He becomes the new Resistance, and throughout ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' his major worry is that he'll turn out just as corrupt as his former allies.
96* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the Argent Dawn is an offshoot of the Scarlet Crusade, which initially split from the Church of Light because the latter was unable to deal with the undead threat. The Argent Dawn split off when it turned out that the Crusade had crossed over from ChurchMilitant to FantasticRacism and [[spoiler:ReligionOfEvil]].
97** Likewise, the Scryers split off from Prince Kael'Thas' forces after it became apparent that the outcast prince was suffering from a bad case of WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
98* Pretty much the entire point of ''VideoGame/RedFactionII''. You start the game as part of a mercenary group who are trying to oust the corrupt government of Earth. [[spoiler: Then it turns out that the head of the mercenary group just wants the secret nanotech weaponry/cybernetics for himself, and wants to take over the whole planet. Cue you and a couple of buddies defecting to save Earth from ''him''.]]
99* ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander2'': Thalia and her brother see themselves as trying to liberate the Illuminate from UEF control, but later after siding with the Cybran terrorist Gauge, he reveals that all that they have been doing are terrorist acts for his gain. The last mission has them trying to stop Gauge and the Royal Guardian terrorists.
100* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', this is the stance of many [[HornyVikings Nords]] in regards to the Skyrim {{Civil War}}. Skyrim has long been a major supporter of the [[TheEmpire Third Tamriellic Empire]], which was founded by Talos (more commonly known by his Imperial name of Tiber Septim), one of their [[TheParagon great cultural heroes]] who [[DeityOfHumanOrigin ascended to godhood]] as the Ninth Divine after his death. However, when Septim's dynasty ended during the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion Crisis]], the Empire entered a swift decline. By the events of ''Skyrim'' some 200 years later, the Empire is [[VestigialEmpire a shell of its former self]], reduced to just three functional provinces. While they managed to fend off the [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri Dominion]] during the [[GreatOffscreenWar Great War]], they were forced to accept a humiliating treaty to end it, known as the White-Gold Concordat. One of the provisions of the Concordat is a ban on Talos worship, enforced by the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmeri (High Elf)]] religious extremists, the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]]. Most Nords [[RealMenLoveJesus would rather die than stop worshiping Talos]], so the Holds of eastern Skyrim broke off and formed the Stormcloak Rebellion, named after its leader, [[RebelLeader Ulfric Stormcloak]]. While there are still Nords who genuinely support the Empire, many other Imperial-aligned Nords suggest that this is done out of a sense of tradition, a belief that independence would be disastrous for their homeland, and outright distrust for the [[FantasticRacism nationalistic]] and HumanityIsSuperior attitude held by Ulfric and his Stormcloak army.
101* Red Hood in ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' views Batman's attempt to restore the old status quo as soft and misguided, while also disagreeing with Superman's strict dictatorship, leading him to forge his own path.
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105* Blake Belladonna of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' was once a member of the White Fang, a rebel [[LittleBitBeastly faunus]] group striving for [[FantasticRacism equal rights]]. When it became corrupt under new leadership, she ended up cutting ties with the organization and running. [[spoiler:By the end of Volume 4, she becomes determined to "take back" the White Fang.]]
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109* In the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Eret is this during the L'Manburg War for Independence, betraying L'Manburg after Dream makes him [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer he can't refuse]]. He eventually grows to be a RegretfulTraitor after he realizes the ramifications of his betrayal are far more severe than he initially anticipated once the CerebusSyndrome settles in.
110* ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'' Season 9: Grian initially vowed to not take part in the resistance against King Ren, so he [[LoopholeAbuse opens "Resistance Assistance" and becomes a consultant for Impulse's resistance]]. This is later exploited by Ren himself, who hires Grian to resist the resistance.
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114* The alternate dimension version of Buford in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' doesn't have a problem with the rebellion, [[CommanderContrarian he just likes rebelling]].
115-->'''Phineas-2:''' Are you part of the resistance?\
116'''Buford-2:''' Yeah, and I got so good at that, I started resisting THEM, too!\
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118'''Candace-2:''' Buford, [[ReversePsychology keep resisting.]]\
119'''Buford-2:''' [[LogicBomb No.]]\
120 '''Candance-2:''' Good.
121* On ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', non-bender Asami Sato defies [[spoiler:her father]] and refuses to join the Equalist rebellion with him against Benders.
122* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse,'' much of what we hear about Greg's family presents them as stuffy and overly conservative, with him as the kid who ran off, [[ShedTheFamilyName changed his name to]] "[[AwesomeMcCoolname Universe]]" and tried to become a rock star. The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode "Mr. Universe" actually has him and Steven argue about this, with Steven saying that he would have preferred the sort of stable but restrictive childhood that Greg hated.
123-->'''Greg:''' You grew with actual ''freedom!''\
124'''Steven:''' I grew up ''[[LivesInAVan in a van]]!'' I never went to school! I'd never been to the doctor until ''two days ago!'' [...] My problem isn't that [[HalfHumanHybrid I'm a Gem]], my problem is I'm a ''Universe!''
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128* During the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeKingdomsShuWeiWu Three Kingdoms period of China]], the general Dong Zhuo seized control of the Han Empire in 184 and ruled as a tyrant. After he was driven to the western capital of Chang'an, he was assassinated in 192. The remnants of his forces under Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji rallied their forces and allied with various bandit and rebel groups in the area to capture the capital and take his place, but after a mere three years began fighting among themselves, [[NoHonorAmongThieves beginning with Li Jue murdering Fan Chou]]. This became so bad that some of the bandits who allied with them previously now helped the Emperor escape the city and fought numerous running battles as they tried to escort the Emperor back to the imperial capital of Luoyang.
129* In UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, shortly after Virginia voted to secede from the Union, the counties in the area now known as West Virginia voted to secede from the state and join the Union. Much Virginian outrage ensued.
130** The western half of Virginia had been pushing to form its own state as early as 1820; the secession just gave them the opportunity to make it so. This involved LoopholeAbuse: the official position of the Union federal government was that secession was ineffective, the Confederate states never left the Union, so if a government in control of a substantial portion of the state's territory was willing to declare for the Union, it would be recognized as the legitimate government of the state.[[note]]This also happened with Kentucky and Missouri, which were at times in part controlled by Confederate forces and had "provisional" Confederate governments alongside the "official" Union ones.[[/note]] As a result, a "provisional" "restored" government of Virginia assembled consisting of the state's Union loyalists; as it controlled all of the western part of the state and most of the northern part (as Union troops had occupied it to protect Washington, DC) as well as substantial portions of the coastline (which the Union had occupied as a base for campaigns aimed at seizing the Confederate capital at Richmond), it was recognized as the legitimate government of Virginia. This "new" government of Virginia--which, not coincidentally, was based in the western city of Wheeling (which borders ''Ohio'' and is only 15 miles ''traveling'' distance from Pennsylvania) then gave permission for West Virginia to break off and become its own state (under the Constitution, if a new state is going to be created from a chunk of a state's territory, both Congress and the legislature of the state need to agree), which it then did. The rump "restored" government then moved to Alexandria and continued to administer Northern Virginia and the Union-held coastal areas until Union forces retook Richmond in 1865.
131** There were several notable Virginian military officers who stayed loyal to the Union, such as Winfield Scott, William Terrill, and George Thomas. Thomas would become one of the Union's best officers, but would be disowned by his family for fighting against his state. When he died in 1870, not a single blood relative attended his funeral. Another notable one was Robert Lee's cousin Samuel Phillips Lee, who served as an Admiral in the Union navy. When asked why, he said "When I find the word Virginia in my commission, I will join the Confederacy."
132** UsefulNotes/AndrewJohnson was the only Southern senator to remain loyal to the Union. In his own words: "Though I fought against [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Lincoln]] I love my country. I love the Constitution and swear that it and the Union will be saved as [[UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson Old Hickory Jackson]] did in 1832. Senators, my blood, my existence I would give to save this Union." As you might expect, the South reviled him as a traitor while the North hailed him as a hero (and nominated him to be Lincoln's Vice President in 1864).
133*** The North stopped hailing him as a hero, though, when he wanted to "go easy on" what they viewed to be the "traitorous" South during Reconstruction. He became one of only three U.S. presidents in history to have the Senate try him on impeachment charges. Most (though [[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trumps-not-richard-nixon-hes-andrew-johnson/ not all]]) historians now consider this to be a grave miscarriage of justice. (Not that they think Johnson was a good president -- he is generally considered mediocre at best -- but he did not deserve impeachment.)
134** Near the end of the Civil War, Georgia became disgruntled with the direction the Confederate government was headed and attempted to ''secede from the Confederacy'' and go it alone as an independent country.
135** The Quartermaster General of the Union Army was a fellow named Montgomery C. Meigs,[[note]]Not to be confused with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Meigs his namesake and great-great-great grandnephew]].[[/note]] who was from Georgia; he considered his loyalty to the Union higher than the loyalty to his state, which pissed off a large number of Georgians. It also earned him the enmity of Robert E. Lee, whose sole reason for leading the Confederate Army was that he couldn't bear to fight against his home state of Virginia (Lee wasn't particularly attached to slaveholding[[note]]This isn't to say he opposed slavery; he was an active slaveholder, after all, and had no intention of voluntarily relinquishing his slaves. Rather, he wasn't particularly interested in defending the institution of slavery from political attack, and would have accepted abolition without complaint had it happened through the political process, especially if it meant being "compensated" monetarily (which seemed the most likely route based on how other jurisdictions, including both the Northern states and the independent countries of Latin America, had done it).[[/note]] and was a mild opponent of secession for Virginia until it happened). In retaliation, Meigs, taking advantage of the Union Army's control of Lee's plantation in Arlington (across the Potomac from Washington, DC), decided [[TakeThat to use Lee's plantation as a burial ground for the Northern dead]], and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment ordered that Union officers--including Meigs' own son John--be interred in Mrs. Lee's former flower garden]]. Out of this order born of spite, we have Arlington National Cemetery.
136** Really, going into detail about ''every'' incidence of this in the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar would fill up pages and pages. To summarize it, there were so many insurgents, guerrillas, and rebels in Confederate territory that, for all practical purposes, the Confederate government was only actually in control of about half of its claimed territory in Spring 1865 (when the capital at Richmond fell, after which point the "Confederate Government" was practically a nonentity). There were literally hundreds of counties all across the Confederacy in open, declared rebellion, some of them as early as ''1861'', and that's not counting the thousands of small guerrilla bands that sprung up throughout Confederate territory. They were numerous enough that, even if the South had won the war, they likely would have collapsed into a civil war of their own almost immediately afterwards.
137** In fact, Unionists from every Confederate state sent regiments north to the Union Army. Many of these were in whole or in part regiments of Black troops (mostly escaped slaves), but every Confederate state except South Carolina also sent units of Whites who disagreed with secession. One of these White regiments, the 1st Alabama Cavalry, served as William Tecumseh Sherman's escort during his famous March to the Sea.
138* A good example of that possible scenario in the American Revolution can be seen in the tragic and prolonged cycle of the Mexican Revolution(s), in which it was usually the same band of warlords (most famously, Francisco "Pancho" Villa) rising up against the corrupt government to depose it, and placing one of their own in charge... who would eventually be seen as corrupt by his former friends, starting the cycle anew. This went on for ''decades''.
139* During UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, about 15 to 20% of the American colonists were loyalists/Tories who remained loyal to Great Britain. When the Patriots finally won the Revolution, the loyalist losers were... [[TorchesAndPitchforks not]] {{t|arAndFeathers}}reated [[HumiliationConga well]] by supporters of independence.
140** A third of those people left, mostly for Canada; these people were given the title [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist United Empire Loyalist]], which to this day is used as an unofficial hereditary honour by their descendants. The atrocities on both sides were overwhelmingly between loyalists/patriots and rebels/republicans, too.
141** Benedict Arnold. Of course, his reasons were feeling unappreciated and having mounting bills.
142*** Most of the reasons given were to discredit Benedict Arnold for his defection. He was almost universally considered to be the best general in the Continental Army. Politically connected officers, over a period of several years, launched all sorts of personal attacks against Arnold, including numerous unjustified court-martials and investigations. In addition, he was passed over by numerous incompetent, but politically connected officers for larger commands and was saddled with numerous dead-end assignments. Unlike many other officers in the Continental Army, Benedict Arnold was one of the few that joined under idealistic reasons. The Continental Congress, in his instance, [[FullCircleRevolution acted with all the same vices and flaws they accused the British Parliament of committing]]. In the end, Benedict Arnold was convinced there was no difference between the two and the British were willing to promote him on merit despite his lack of political influence with Parliament.
143* "If Canada is divisible, so is Quebec" was the main argument that was used against Quebec's secession plans in the 1990s. The resource-rich (and First Nations-dominated) north threatened to secede from Quebec and rejoin Canada; various other bits (mostly English-speaking communities near the borders, but noises were made in emphatically-francophone Montreal itself) did the same.
144* The conflict in Bosnia evolved this way, with Serbs wanting to go out of it after it went out of Yugoslavia. Kosovo faces the same problem.
145* This also happened a lot in post-USSR time.
146** And in Ukraine during World War II. Quite a number of West Ukrainians refused to fight for either the Soviets or the Nazis, instead fighting both for Ukrainian independence.
147*** Ukraine was ''even more complicated'' during the Russian Civil War. In addition to the Red (Bolshevik) Army and the White (Monarchist, Reactionary) Army, there was also the Green (anti-Bolshevik socialist) Army, the Black (Anarchist) Army, and various Ukrainian nationalists as well.
148*** Though it's slightly less complicated than it sounds; the Red, Black, and Green Armies, while not really allied, largely left each other alone until they'd defeated the Whites.
149** Che Guevara was disappointed that the USSR backed down on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and sought to spread communism his way. His actions caused the USSR to distance themselves from him, his exploits in Congo were an utter failure and he finally met his end at Bolivia.
150** The American Communist Party ended its longstanding support for the Soviet Union in 1989. Because after decades of blindly supporting Soviet militarism and gulags, it was ''glasnost'' and ''perestroika'' which was going too far.
151* Resistance against communist dictatorships was common in the Eastern Bloc after WWII. In some countries, such as Bulgaria, it was joined by some of the rebels who fought the nazis before and during the war, especially when the new governments started weeding out "the enemy with a Party card", i. e. communist party members who didn't agree with the dictatorship, including those who stayed true to the ideology.
152* In the Vietnam War hill tribes like the Montagnards and the Hmong declared against the Communists because VC supply routes happened to go across their ancestral lands. In their case, they formed what amounted to a LaResistance to LaResistance.
153* It is a general rule of rebellions in general that the rebels will be fighting rebels against it. This applies even in normal democratic factionalism dressed up in the language of rebellion; someone who ends up not supporting a given special interest can be called a CategoryTraitor.
154* Pretty much the morning after the votes were tallied on the Brexit, parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland who had overwhelmingly voted to remain within the EU started wondering whether the United Kingdom should really remain so. What comes of this remains to be seen and will likely depend on the conditions Britain can negotiate.
155* Lots of them in Syria, mostly due to the Free Syrian Army's very own atrocities.
156* [[https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-texas-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/BmdWCP8B When a petition was formed asking for Texas to secede from the Union after the reelection of]] UsefulNotes/BarackObama, a similar petition was created asking for the city of Austin[[note]]the state capital of Texas and a notoriously left-wing place by Texas standards[[/note]] to secede back to the U.S.
157** When a handful of Californians threatened to secede from the Union after the election of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, some of the Northern Most Counties threatened to secede back as the State of Jefferson (not that this was the first time they made such threats, just the first time they made the threat after full State Secession was discussed.).
158* The UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution had its fair share of coups, counter-coups, uprisings, political backstabbing and general politicized violence, but the most famous is probably the War in the Vendée, a region in Western France that started rebelling when priests were asked to swear loyalty to the state over the church and finally erupted into full-blown civil war when King Louis XVI (who was very popular in the Vendée) was deposed and later beheaded. It is here that the French Revolution gets most of its war crime scenes.
159* Similar to the Quebec example above, the proposed region of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabarnia Tabarnia]] would like to remain with Spain if Catalonia became independent.
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