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Author: eowynjedi

Jun 16th 2013 at 8:58:07 PM

Oh, I've got a couple for this--EDIT--I see I was too slow, haha.

Also, the description could use some expansion, maybe as to ''why'' Mars is so often used as a setting for these? (My guess is that it's Earth's closest, potentially-inhabitable neighbor and sci-fi loves to put colonies on there all the time with or without rebellions.)

[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
* The end of the first arc in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' reveals that the "Unknown Enemy" are actually the descendents Mars colonists who were callously abandoned when the planet proved deadly to humans. Most of them want revenge on their Earthling cousins and/or to forcibly repatriate themselves to their ancestors' home planet.

[[AC:Literature]]
* The ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'' centers around the struggle between Martian colonists and Earth's governments, which are increasingly controlled by corporations. There are multiple factions of LaResistance who either want to keep Mars preserved, want it to be a place of human freedom that is better than Earth, and/or want it to be a place of scientific discovery (these goals are not necessarily mutually exclusive). Earth, while dominated by corrupt governments and corporations, also faces issues of extreme poverty and overpopulation to which they see many solutions in Mars.