->''"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's[sic] natural manure"''
-->--'''Thomas Jefferson'''

Ah, yes! Do you smell that? Smoke and fire? You can see the flying molotov cocktails. You can see the Riot Police frantically deploying from their [=APCs=], armed with their ballistic shields and tear gas? Do you hear the screams as the nation burns down with the fires of liberation?

This is the index of Civil Unrest Tropes, covering all things where society and chaos intersect.

Often occurs [[YouWouldNotWantToLiveInDex in hellish places]] and when [[HelpHelpThisIndexIsBeingRepressed indexes cry for freedom against their tyrants.]] Part of PoliticsTropes.
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!!Tropes:
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'''Related indexes:'''
* HelpHelpThisIndexIsBeingRepressed
* HumanRightsIssues
* RebelTropes
* TerrorismTropes
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* AnarchyIsChaos: Removal of government or laws results in widespread violence.
** AnarchoTyranny: A corrupt regime decides to maintain a state of perpetual lawlessness so that nobody has the time to rebel against them.
* AssassinationAttempt: Someone (usually a powerful leader of some sort) is targeted for murder by their enemies.
** {{Tyrannicide}}: Assassinating a brutal tyrant to end their repressive reign.
* BalkanizeMe: A larger country splits into multiple smaller ones, often following civil war or political instability leading to its collapse.
* BurningTheFlag: Desecrating a (domestic or foreign) national flag as a statement of protest.
* CivilWar: An internal military conflict in which government forces fight with a rebel movement or other rival factions for control of an entire country (or at least a region within it).
* CrapsackWorld: The world is a miserable place to live in, breeding enough resentment for civil unrest to happen.
** {{Dystopia}}
* LesCollaborateurs: A member of the conquered group who works with the conquerors willingly.
* TheCoup: Overthrow of the government by illegal means other than full-scale rebellion.
** MilitaryCoup: Military officers overthrow their (usually civilian) superiors to seize control of the government for themselves.
* DefiantStoneThrow: A meek character publicly defies a much more powerful character as a symbolic act.
* DividedWeFall: Dissension within the hero's alliance.
* DraftDodging: When someone (illegally) refuses to enlist for [[{{Conscription}} mandatory military service]], often as part of an anti-war movement or more general dissent against the government.
* DystopianOz
* EmergencyAuthority: A public official is granted authority powers they wouldn't otherwise legally have in order to avert a catastrophe. This often ends badly.
* EnemyCivilWar
* FailedState: A nation whose central government has all but collapsed, leaving it unable to perform basic functions.
* FantasticTerrorists: Extremist militants who are motivated by FantasticRacism or some other ideology that can only exist within a SpeculativeFiction setting.
* FullCircleRevolution: The old corrupt regime is overthrown by a new corrupt regime, which is at least just as bad as (if not even worse than) their predecessors.
* GraffitiOfTheResistance
* HeroWithBadPublicity: The public hates this heroic character.
* IconOfRebellion
* LingeringSocialTensions: Tensions remain between groups after a conflict.
* ManifestoMakingMalcontent: When a character writes some kind of manifesto, it's a sure sign of them posing a danger to the current way of things.
* MobWar: When rival [[OrganizedCrimeTropes criminal organizations]] fight with each other for control of territories. In extreme cases, this may be caused by (or result in) a prolonged state of violent lawlessness for a city or region, with local authorities being too corrupt or incompetent to restore law and order.
* MovementMascot
* OccupiersOutOfOurCountry: Get out of our country, you foreign imperialist oppressors!
* OutcastRefuge: A (relatively) safe haven for those oppressed during civil unrest.
* PoliceBrutality: Violent abuses by law enforcement officers against common citizens can be both a cause and effect of politically-charged protests and riots; from cops injuring or killing somebody inspiring public outrage against that incident, to protestors getting attacked by riot police even if they weren't acting violently.
* PostPeakOil: A world where oil has run out.
* PowderKegCrowd: One spark away from a riot.
* PrisonRiot: Mass violence erupts inside a detention facility, often due to the inmates rebelling against the guards and jailors.
* ProtestByObstruction: Protesting the destruction of something, usually a tree or building, by chaining yourself to that thing or otherwise physically blocking it off.
* RabbleRouser: Someone who stirs a mob up to act.
* RageWithinTheMachine
* ReignOfTerror
* LaResistance: A revolutionary movement trying to fight back against the current regime in power.
* RestrainedResistanceRecklessRebellion: Where one side advocates a restrained, controlled approach while the other goes all in, consequences be damned.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeBureaucratized
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified
* RevolvingDoorRevolution
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: A traitor is rewarded with betrayal in turn.
* SecretPolice: A law-enforcement/intelligence agency tasked with brutally cracking down on all dissent against the government.
* SlaveLiberation: Slave laborers try to win their freedom, often by escaping from (or even revolting against) their masters.
** GladiatorRevolt
** UndergroundRailroad
* SparkOfTheRebellion: A small act of defiance against The Empire kickstarts a rebellion.
* StagedPopulistUprising: What seems to be a popular revolution is actually not being done with the people's best interest in mind.
* SuffrageAndPoliticalLiberation
* TorchesAndPitchforks: An angry mob is formed to engage in rioting.
** TornApartByTheMob: When a lynch mob brutally murders anyone they consider to be their enemy.
* UrbanHellscape: The inner-city area that is overrun by crime and poverty.
* VelvetRevolution: The revolution is (mostly) peaceful.
* TheVoiceOfAGeneration
* VoiceOfTheResistance
* WretchedHive
* YouCannotKillAnIdea
** CantStopTheSignal: Killing me won't stop the information from getting out.
* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Depending on where your personal bias leans, rebel fighters are either heroic revolutionaries resisting the oppressive regime, or evil terrorists who only desire to be violent oppressors themselves.
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