History Main / EvilLuddite

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': The citizens of Neo-Green Life reject any technology newer than agriculture. While they seem to do this because they feel strongly about preserving nature, their extreme take on the ideology is quickly shown to be impractical and dangerous—having medical implants is a capital offense, and no one in NGL would try to stop an epidemic, for example. The country's founder is later revealed to have created NGL [[spoiler:because he had a hellish upbringing and wanted to ruin other people's lives on a grand scale, using the nation's laws as a shield to hide a massive shadow drug operation]].

* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': The citizens of Neo-Green Life reject any technology newer than agriculture. While they seem to do this because they feel strongly about preserving nature, their extreme take on the ideology is quickly shown to be impractical and dangerous—having medical implants is a capital offense, and no one in NGL would try to stop an epidemic, for example. The country's founder is later revealed to have created NGL [[spoiler:because he had a hellish upbringing and wanted to ruin other people's lives on a grand scale]].

*** "[[Recap/CriminalCaseMysteriesOfThePastCase15OutOfSteam Case 15:Out of Steam]]. Abe Mullins, although he's more of a ''crazy'' Luddite, considering how he murdered Orville due to believing that people flying with technology would equal to the end of the world.

* In VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', there are some very nasty-looking protesters bullying an android because androids have taken their jobs.
* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'': The Templars [the Luddite faction] are the ones responsible for murdering ''Chicago''... with [[{{Hypocrite}} something hi-tech]]. Nobody else is even vaguely as terrorist, not even Apostle Corp.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' plays around with this. The Purity First organization is another Luddite terrorist organization, [[spoiler:albeit one unknowingly working with augmented individuals]], but most people against augmentation are bigoted and misguided at the absolute worst. There's also [[spoiler:Taggart, but he's not a Luddite in spirit - he's just trying to advance the goals of the Illuminati]], and, of all people, [[spoiler:Hugh Darrow, who causes a full on ''zombie apocalypse'' [[DrivenByEnvy primarily out of envy for the augmented]] as he himself can't enjoy the upgrades he's given to the world]].

* Manga/HunterXHunter'': The citizens of Neo-Green Life reject any technology newer than agriculture. While they seem to do this because they feel strongly about preserving nature, their extreme take on the ideology is quickly shown to be impractical and dangerous—having medical implants is a capital offense, and no one in NGL would try to stop an epidemic, for example. The country's founder is later revealed to have created NGL [[spoiler:because he had a hellish upbringing and wanted to ruin other people's lives on a grand scale]].

** ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseMysterisOfThePast'':

** ''VideoGame/CrimnialCasePacificBay'': "[[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase47UncivilRights Case 47: Uncivil Rights]]". Larry Newark, the murderer, killed the mayor because she had passed a new law giving robots rights, which led to him losing his job to a robot. There's also the Anti-Robot League (which the killer was part of), an organization campaigning against the victim's Robot Act.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs"Invasion of the Dinosaurs"]], Operation: Golden Age plans to use a rudimentary time machine to return the Earth outside London to a pre-technological age, erasing most of the human race from history so that they can repopulate the planet with eugenically-selected "colonists".

** ''VideoGameCriminalCaseMysterisOfThePast'':

** ''VideoGame/CrimnalCasePacificBay'': "[[Recap/CriminalCasePacificBayCase47UncivilRights Case 47: Uncivil Rights]]". Larry Newark, the murderer, killed the mayor because she had passed a new law giving robots rights, which led to him losing his job to a robot. There's also the Anti-Robot League (which the killer was part of), an organization campaigning against the victim's Robot Act.

%%* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had the RecycledInSpace hippies in "The Way to Eden".

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam "Kerblam!"]], the villain, [[spoiler:Charlie the janitor]], is so afraid of [[JobStealingRobot Job-Stealing Robots]] that he's willing to [[spoiler:murder thousands of Kerblam!'s innocent customers]] to turn people against automated workforces.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'', the Seraphites dislike technology and don't even dare touch the Lost Technology of the pre-outbreak period, as they believe it is full of sin. That said, they have no problem using guns and powered elevators for military purposes.

* In ''VideoGame/NeoScavanger'', Martha's Army is a technophobic militant group of Michigan Luddites that blame technology for the end of civilization. They want to destroy Camp Grayling, a military base in northern Michigan, and will either kill anyone trying to loot it or help whoever volunteers to try and destroy the abandoned facility.

* In ''VideoGame/EmpireToalWar'', certain buildings cause unhappiness due to industrialization. If this industrialization causes too much unhappiness, then the people will launch a rebellion. Whether or not they win, between hundreds and thousands will die. For whatever reason, Luddites don't rise under Constitutional Monarchy, representing British parliamentary monarchy - the very place the Luddites were ever active.

* ''VideoGameCryingSuns'': The Survivalists are groups of humans that believes that humans are better without OMNIs, and used terrorist tactics in order to achieve said goal. Given how screwed humans are when the OMNIs are shut down, however, they may have some points. Also, it's unknown if they're connected to The Shutdown or not, since they're wiped out by the original Idaho, who died fighting them by deliberately crashed a ship full of nuclear weapons on board into their planet that they conquered. [[spoiler:Or, at least that's how the story goes. You'll eventually discover that while the planet this takes place on is glassed, Idaho didn't actually do it, since he refused the order. And they're not responsible for the shutdown either, given how few survivors they have, and they have no access to where the Master Terminal is.]]