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->''"The fountain of youth is real, and it's in the blood of dozens of girls across the world. Their secret is known by few, yet desired by all. They are pawns in the most dangerous of games. We are the Resistance. Our mission is to find these girls, and protect them from those who want to use them and destroy them, and we document what happens to them, ''
->''so that their stories live on. This is the story of one of those girls.''
->''We are the Resistance. We will not be stopped."''
-->-- OpeningMonologue of each Chapter

''[=LG15: the resistance=]'' is a WebOriginal VlogSeries and a FromTheAshes SpinOff of ''WebVideo/{{Lonelygirl15}}''. It features the efforts of Jonas, Sarah, Reed, and the mysterious Hymn of None as they attempt to fight against the sinister [=LifesBlood Labs=].

Stylistically, it is quite different from ''lonelygirl15'', with the overall tone of the program being somewhat darker and more action-based. Also unlike its predecessor series, it features weekly [[RecapEpisode recap episodes]] in the form of "Chapters". Due to some episodes being permanently lost, these are the only way to watch every video of the series proper.

''the resistance'' may be watched on its official website, beginning with [[http://www.lg15.com/episodes/view/14 Chapter 1]]. A list of blogs in the series with links, including some not available on the official website, may be found [[http://www.lg15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=List_of_LG15:_The_Resistance_videos here]].

The series proper began on September 20th, 2008, but prior to that the series existed in the form of various prologue videos and an AlternateRealityGame. The series concluded on December 12th, 2008. Due to the economy, the second season has been suspended until further notice. To compensate, EQAL launched a contest to integrate a fan series into canon, which produced ''WebVideo/LG15TheLast''.

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!!This series provides examples of:

* ApologeticAttacker: In Chapter 5, Maggie apologizes to a [=LifesBlood=] Labs security guard, who thinks she is saying sorry for running away, before kicking him to the floor.
* TheBadGuyWins: The finale has [[spoiler: [[EvilAllAlong Sarah]] delivers Maggie and Jonas to the Order, giving them the means of breeding trait-positive babies. Sarah herself proudly announces that she's about to brought into the ranks of the Elders for her accomplishment, giving her the immortality she's been seeking.]] The only saving grace for the Resistance is found in TheStinger.
* BreedingSlave: [[spoiler:[[TheMole Sarah]] reveals in the finale that the Order intends to use the newly-captured Jonas and Maggie to breed a new "crop" of trait-positive babies.]]
* CatsAreMean: In "Feline Feariousness", Reed rants about how cats are evil, manipulative, and steal souls, and finishes by urging viewers to "Get rid of your cat, before your cat gets rid of you!"
* CardCarryingVillain: [[spoiler: Sarah Genatiempo]] is revealed to have been this [[TheMole all along]] in the finale. "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Hello? McFly?]] ''I'm evil!'' Totally, completely, and ''utterly'' evil."
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dr. Leonard J Alderman, who doesn't hesitate to steal, kidnap, or torture providing it furthers the company's aims.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sarah.
* DistressedDude: Jonas gets captured by [=LifesBlood=] Lab goons in "Abduction!", then rescued by Sarah in "Mace In Yo Face!"
* DumbBlonde Subverted with Sarah. While she can be pretty ditzy (e.g., holding maps the wrong way up), she also repeatedly shows herself to be competent, manipulative, and prone to being a Deadpan Snarker. She also frequently plays up the "dumb blonde" stereotype to her advantage.
* EngineeredHeroics: The finale reveals that [[spoiler:Sarah's rescue of Jonas in "Mace In Yo Face!" was this, as she arranged his kidnapping and rescue herself to gain his trust.]]
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Sarah has been working for the Order the whole time.]]
* EvilGloating: The finale features a memorable instance of this: "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Hello? McFly?]] I'm EVIL!"
* EvilerThanThou: [=LifesBlood=] Labs along with the good old Order of Denderah, the AncientConspiracy from ''lonelygirl15'' who don't take kindly to their new rivals. LBL don't exactly do anything to endear themselves to the Order either, as Sarah notes:
--->'''Sarah:''' They're so bad that they're stealing from the bad guys! That's like taking candy from a baby. Who is totally evil!
* EvilVersusEvil: [=LifesBlood=] Labs and the Order of Denderah are enemies, and both of them are built around exploiting trait-positive girls for selfish gains in different ways - LBL to manufacture highly-profitable medicines, the Order to give their Elders immortality.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: The finale ends with [[spoiler:Jonas and Maggie both being captured by the Order, followed by Sarah gleefully explaining to Maggie that the two of them are going to be used as [[BreedingSlave breeding slaves]] ([[RapeByProxy with all that entails]]) to give birth to a "new crop" of trait-positives for the Order to kill. TheStinger takes a tiny amount of the punch out of this, but the two of them are still left facing a brutal imprisonment with a very slim chance of ever being rescued.]]
* FlashBack: The show makes frequent use of these to show Maggie's past.
* FromTheAshes: It's set just over a month after the end of ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'', and features two of the same main characters plus one. Jonas, Sarah, Reed, and the mysterious Hymn of None as they attempt to fight against the sinister [=LifesBlood=] Labs.
* GratuitousSpanish: Played straight with "Fun Things to Do in Hiding - Volume Dos!"
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The [=LifesBlood Labs=] goons are pretty incompetent. The "Mace in Yo Face!" and "Done Dirt Cheap" incidents are particularly shameful. Although the "Mace in Yo Face" incident is justified because [[spoiler:those weren't real LBL henchmen]].
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Jonas in the beginning, due to everything that's happened to him in he previous series.
* ImmortalitySeeker: In the season finale, [[spoiler:Sarah Genatiempo]] reveals this to be their goal.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [=LifesBlood=] Labs, especially in chapter 12.
* ImprovisedWeapon: The Chapter 3 video "Done Dirt Cheap" includes a sequence in which Jonas and Sarah fight off security guards using the camera and the Samsaran Doctrine.
* InUniverseCamera: Like its predecessor series, this show has a camera that the characters are perfectly aware of and frequently carrying around with them.
* LiveEpisode: "Signal Lost" was originally recorded live. It appears in an edited form as a scene in Chapter 6.
* MadScientistLaboratory: [=LifesBlood=] Labs, and specifically Maggie's "magical place filled with wonders"
* TheMole: The finale revealed that [[spoiler:Sarah Genatiempo]] was in the Order all along.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** In "Split", Hymn Of None [[spoiler: / Maggie]] tells Jonas that the FBI is showing up at his door to arrest him for the events of the ''lonelygirl15'' series finale, forcing him on the run and to rejoin the fight against the Order. As it turns out, [[spoiler:that was a lie, and the FBI agents really did just want to talk to Jonas about the Order, as they're trying to fight it too. As a result of that lie, Jonas and Maggie both end up imprisoned by the Order, doomed to suffer for who-knows-how-long.]]
** The audience helps the Resistance out, helping them out with several tasks across the series. [[spoiler:All of which helped Sarah and the Order succeed in their evil plan.]] TheMole even calls the viewers out for this in the finale.
* NoFourthWall: Part of the premise of ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' and this show, as stated by Word Of God, is that there is no fourth wall. The characters are always aware that there is an audience, and often address them directly. However, the characters do not know that they are fictional, so perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the fourth wall exists — it's just transparent.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: A favourite trick of Sarah, carried over from ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}''. The Chapter 3 video "Done Dirt Cheap" is a good example. Furthermore, while she appears to be TheDitz a lot of the time, she's arguably the smartest member of the Resistance.
* OpeningMonologue: "The fountain of youth is real, and it's in the blood of dozens of girls across the world..." This is shown over a montage of all the natural trait positive characters to appear in ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'' and ''WebVideo/KateModern''.
* PeaceAndLoveIncorporated: [=LifesBlood=] Labs. They're not nearly so friendly when the cameras are off.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Infusions of Trait Positive blood can extend the human lifespan considerably, but [[spoiler:Maggie]]'s blood grants total immortality.
* RayOfHopeEnding: After the brutal DownerEnding featuring [[spoiler:Jonas and Maggie being captured by the Order and Sarah about to ascend to the rank of Elder]], TheStinger shows [[spoiler:Reed meeting up with Daniel, implying the two of them will keep the Resistance going.]]
* RecapEpisode: Released every week once the series proper started, right up through the finale.
* {{Retcon}}: The finale applied a couple of these to ''WebVideo/{{lonelygirl15}}'', such as the revelation that Sarah [[spoiler:was evil all along]] or that Jonas [[spoiler:is a trait positive male]].
* RefusalOfTheCall: This is how Jonas Wharton reacts when the Hymn of None attempts to persuade him to lead the Resistance in the first chapter, "A Call To Arms". In the end, the FBI turn up investigating claims that Jonas has committed acts of terrorism and murder, which forces him into action.
* RuleOfCool: Sarah invokes this to explain why she put [[TrunkShot the camera in the trunk]] at the start of "3:00 PM".
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* ShirtlessScene: Jonas. He didn't manage to go four episodes without taking his shirt off.
* ShoutOut:
** Sarah mentions ''[[Franchise/StarWars The Return of the Jedi]]'' and ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' in "Fun Things to Do in Hiding -- Volume Three!"
** Jonas snarks in "Ticket To Ride" (the Chapter 2 opener) that the Samsaran Doctrine "sounds like something out of a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game."
** The title of "Done Dirt Cheap" is a reference to the {{Music/ACDC}} song "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)".
** The first two chapters contain several allusions to ''Film/TheMatrix'', both direct and indirect.
** In Chapter 12 episode "Going Down", Jonas whistles part of the theme from ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' before rescuing Reed.
** In "3:00 PM - The Meet-Up" (listed as "4:00 PM" in its recap episode), Sarah says she put the camera in the trunk "because it'll be cool, like ''Film/PulpFiction.''"
** The finale has this line, referencing ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'': "Hello? [=McFly=]? I'm ''evil''!"
* SlipknotPonytail: Sarah does this in the Chapter 2 video "Sexy Librarian Strikes Again", when she takes her hair out of her "Research Nerd" bun.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Happens to Reed in the Chapter 6 video "Road Head Butting":
--->'''Sarah:''' What? Do you always do what you're told?
--->'''Reed:''' Depends on who's telling.
--->'''Sarah:''' ''(beat)'' What if I'm telling you?
--->''(Reed smiles and thinks for a moment, then suddenly spills his drink in his lap. Sarah laughs hysterically.)''
--->'''Reed:''' [[LampshadeHanging ...I just wet myself.]]
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: The Chapter 1 finale "Split" plays with this effect a lot (including a bit at the end where the two cameras meet).
* TheStinger: After the credits roll on the finale's recap episode, we see Reed's "We Are the Resistance" video. [[spoiler:He reaches the address Maggie gave him in "2:00 PM" ("3:00 PM" in the recap) and pounds on the door. After a few seconds, Daniel opens it, implying he and Reed will keep the Resistance alive.]]
* StereotypicalNerd: "Bad Decision?" features "the sexy nineteen-year-old fact finder also known as... Research Nerd!" This is actually Sarah invoking the trope with NerdGlasses, a collared shirt and tie, and her hair tied back in a ponytail.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Maggie is shown to have spent a lot of time strapped to an operating table in Flashbacks.
* SyntheticVoiceActor: The Hymn of None, [[spoiler: who later revealed to be the girl in the flashbacks, Maggie]].
* TheTeaser: "A Call To Arms" used the original prologue trailer video as a cold opening, before fading to the OpeningMonologue.
* ThanksForTheMammary: Reed does this to Sarah by [[AccidentalPervert accident]] when he runs to greet her in a dark room in chapter 12.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Sarah whacks a security guard with the Samsaran Doctrine in "Done Dirt Cheap".
* TrunkShot: "3:00 PM" opens with one... because Sarah put the camera in the trunk deliberately to get one.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: [[spoiler:The cure for trait-positivity doesn't exist. The box they get their hands on in the finale only contains a gun that Sarah uses to capture Jonas on behalf of the Order.]]
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->''"Toodles!"''