'''Basic Trope''': An underground rebellion movement.
* '''Straight''': ChaoticGood revolutionaries fight LawfulEvil Empire.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The vast majority of the populace is involved in the resistance... including many of the occupying soldiers.
** Every single person in TheEmpire is also a member of the resistance.
** The resistance has [[NGOSuperpower essentially become a state]] that operates wherever TheEmpire is not looking - with its own underground democratic elections, a system of taxes and welfare programs that operates JustLikeRobinHood, and a military that has extended the practice of VehicularTurnabout to entire tank divisions and aircraft carrier battle groups.
* '''Downplayed''':
** They're not trying to overthrow TheEmpire, they're just protesting so as to gain more say in government.
** ChaoticNeutral revolutionaries fight LawfulNeutral Empire.
* '''Justified''': TheEmpire is [[FascistButInefficient oppressive, but rather inept]] at silencing the dissenters. Formation of a resistance movement is only a matter of time.
* '''Inverted''':
** LawfulGood Republic fights ChaoticEvil terrorists.
** LawfulGood Empire fights ChaoticEvil Resistance.
** It turns out HobbesWasRight.
* '''Subverted''': The resistance's supposed existence [[ResistanceAsPlanned is actually a ploy]] by the Empire to capture anyone who dares to rebel.
* '''Double Subverted''': The people in charge of this ploy, however, secretly recruit the would-be-rebels [[TheStarscream for their own purposes]].
* '''Parodied''':
** The Empire [[DystopianEdict has banned comedy]]. As a result, the resistance consists primarily of disgruntled clowns, writers, and stand-up comedians.
** There's more than one resistance, they don't do anything other than discuss things around a table and angst about how the Empire has oppressed (i.e. improved) their lives, and the only time they actually do something they screw it up by arguing with each other.
** The Resistance consists of a bunch of [[KnowNothingKnowItAll pseudo-intellectual]] college dropouts with naive and unrealistically idealistic views of left-wing revolutions. They spend all day [[SoapboxSadie lecturing others about causes they know nothing about]], [[ParentalIssues ranting online about how their parents are abusive when they weren't]] and [[TheManIsStickingItToTheMan buying expensive communist-themed merchandise]]. [[RevolutionariesWhoDontDoAnything They don't really do any real resisting]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': The resistance succeeds in overthrowing Emperor Evulz, [[FullCircleRevolution but they are not much better]] - but there is another, good resistance movement, but they are actually [[BenevolentAlienInvasion benevolent aliens in disguise]]... And then it turns out it's AllJustADream - [[MindScrew of a resistance member fighting the Empire!]]
* '''Averted''': There's no LaResistance, and the only hope lies with [[TheGoodKingdom another]] [[TheFederation state]].
* '''Enforced''':
** Nothing makes for [[RuleOfDrama high drama]] than a RagtagBunchOfMisfits pitted against insurmountable odds.
** No matter how many times it has been said, the author [[AuthorTract wants to say once more]]: "totalitarianism is bad."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Sir, there have been rumors of a resistance movement-" "Oh noooo, not again..."
* '''Invoked''': [[PunchClockVillain Colonel Garrison]] has had enough of Evulz' atrocities, and founds the resistance to fight him.
* '''Exploited''': A rival nation finds the revolution in the hopes that creating instability will make invasion easier.
** The rich rivals of Evulz fund a StagedPopulistUprising.
* '''Defied''':
** Emperor Evulz devotes considerable resources to hunting down any resistance movements.
** The hero is a staunch Empire loyalist, and he spends all his time leading the counter-revolution. The climax of the story is him throwing the RebelLeader [[DisneyVillainDeath off a bridge]].
** [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized "You've gone too far! I want nothing to do with you or your revolution!"]]
** [[VelvetRevolution "This is a cause I am willing to die for, but not one I am willing to murder for. Remember: we are reformers, not rebels."]]
** "[[WhatTheRomansHaveDoneForUs The Empire gave us]] [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian the aqueduct, the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, public health and brought peace]] while somehow still treated us with respect. Are we really gonna rebel for the sake of rebelling??"
* '''Discussed''': "What are the chances for that resistance group we've been fighting?" "Oh, they'll win... [[AsLongAsThereIsOneMan eventually]]. [[GenreSavvy They're the good guys here]]." "Then maybe we should [--* ahem* [[MookFaceTurn 'reconsider' our allegiances]]?--]"
* '''Conversed''': "I don't see what the hell they're so mad about. [[BreadAndCircuses The Empire gives us plenty of food and good living quarters."]]
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Upon joining the resistance, the protagonist discovers they seriously lack in resources [[WeAREStrugglingTogether and are plagued by infighting]].
** DarkerAndEdgier version: TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, HeWhoFightsMonsters, ReignOfTerror, FullCircleRevolution.
** [[GreyAndGrayMorality Morally ambiguous]] version: YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters.
** Akin to ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne, being a resistance fighter is not as glamorous as fiction makes it seem. The rebels are outmatched and outnumbered against an authority that can snuff them out in an instant, and find themselves constantly on the run and in hiding from the authorities. They can never find a comfortable HQ because the enemy is always on the move, forcing them to sleep in the most uncomfortable places. Merchants are afraid to sell to them lest they be punished for aiding the rebels, meaning they are constantly low on resources. The rebels fear for their families, who can be killed or abducted by the authorities to leverage them over the rebels. The rebels often have to choose between morally grey actions or potentially leaving themselves vulnerable. And supposed allies often turn out to be spies, greedy opportunists, grifters, violent extremists, and other unsavory folk, so the rebels become increasingly paranoid as they do not know who they can trust.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** An appropriately MagnificentBastard helps unite decent resistance movements into a single big one.
** Revolutionaries, [[AntiHero while not exactly heroic]], are still far better than the Empire.
** The RebelLeader, upon discovering these rebel atrocities, decides to hold his followers to a strict code of ethics. From this point on, any rebel caught committing warcrimes or atrocities is put to death.
** TheEmpire is cruel, corrupt, and inefficient enough to have a ZeroPercentApprovalRating, and because of that, vast amounts of people in the populace - and even some of the Empire's [[MookFaceTurn military goons]] and [[RageWithinTheMachine government functionaries]] who are disillusioned with it - are ready to help the rebels with no strings attached. While the rebels still have to deal with the hardships of being in a resistance against a much stronger power, they almost always can find someone who'd help, making their lives somewhat less difficult.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The story is an absurdist, occassionally dark comedy where all sorts of enthusiastic but dumb Resistance members fumble and bumble their way to overthrowing the FascistButInefficient Empire.
* '''Played for Drama''': TheEmpire is a horrific {{Dystopia}}n regime where every government loyalist is ANaziByAnyOtherName, and though the resistance faces insurmountable odds, they cannot afford not to fight it.
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You might click on LaResistance, but you will never take our freedom! Fight on, my comrades!
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