History Main / LaResistance

* The Joui from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', who set out to take down the Amanto even if it meant going out into an all-out war with them. They failed. However, Katsura is the only one that makes an attempt to carry out any of the original group's ideals after that failure (and even then, it's kind of laughable); Gintoki decided that fighting stupid enemies was pointless and dropped out, Takasugi became a NietzscheWannabe [[spoiler:in order to avenge the death of his teacher]], and Sakamoto started a company of merchant spaceships.

*** [[spoiler:The Owl confided to Grisha that his own father had been part of another rebel army when he was a child. They were very ineffective, however, and were quickly captured and burned alive while he hid in a closet. This hints at the possibility that there had been several resistance groups since the end of the Great Titan War, all of which failed to accomplish much of anything. The Owl became convinced that they needed to change their approach, and [[PassingTheTorch passed the Attack Titan to Grisha]] after instructing him to infiltrate the Walls and start a family while searching for the Founding Titan.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', The Warweary Villein [[HopeSpot unites the pawns of Prospit and Derse and leads a rebellion against the Black King to end the war on Skaia]]. [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash Then Jack Noir starts his bloody rampage, starting with the combined armies...]]]]

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0511.html The Resistance]] in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is composed of two of the main characters and a bunch of Azurites whose main goal is to fight Xykon's troops who are [[spoiler:currently occupying Azure City after having won a huge battle and taken over the city]]. Eventually, [[spoiler:Haley and Belkar]] leave the group, leaving the paladin Thanh in charge of the Resistance.
** [[WeAREStrugglingTogether There are also two other factions]], one claims The Order corrupted Lord Hinjo, and the other thinks Hinjo was responsible for the death of lord Shojo, and the Order were cohorts. The three groups don't get along at all, [[spoiler:until united due to a makeshift prophecy]].
*** As of strips 825-827, [[spoiler: Redcloak has successfully killed every member of the resistance except for Niu, and destroyed their base]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' the Orange County Liberation Front is a resistance movement trying to take down the Brisby "empire", an obvious Disney parody.

* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' features the rebellion against the BigBad Phobos, with BadassNormal Caleb as the young rebel leader. After Phobos is defeated and imprisoned, the situation is inverted during Season 2, with a small band of Phobos' remaining loyal troops attempting to overthrow the benevolent queen Elyon.

* ''[[LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}} Shimoneta's]]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoV9y_s00M OP]] explains that SOX is fighting the oppression of the Japanese government's censorship laws, which has banned all pornographic material and use of foul language for the last 16 years. Their country now has the highest morality rating in the world, except it's come at the expense of its citizens [[NiceJobBreakingItHero no longer understanding even basic Sex-Ed.]] SOX's goal is to correct the problem, for which, they've been branded as a group of [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters "ero terrorists".]]

*** After Luffy gets [[CurbStompBattle curbstombed into next week]] by Kaido and thrown in the Prisoner Mine, he becomes friends with an old man named [[BadassGrandpa Hyogoro]], formerly the most powerful Yakuza boss of Wano, who agrees to train Luffy after becoming impressed with him. When he later learns that the rebellion is still alive, he becomes overjoyed that he has lived long enough to see it and pledges his support. The rest of the Yakuza bosses follow suit after they are released from prison and mobilize to gather their subordinates before the Fire Festival.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': The Picaros from [[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros the eponymous adventure]]. Tintin demands that their revolution will not see a drop of blood shed, much to the humorous consternation of many involved, [[spoiler:including the dictator being overthrown]].

* ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'': A major story arc follows a young Johnny joining the {{mutant}} resistance against the [[FantasticRacism violently anti-mutant]] government.
* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'': The Picaros from the eponymous adventure. Tintin demands that their revolution will not see a drop of blood shed, much to the humorous consternation of many involved. [[spoiler:Including the dictator being overthrown.]]

* By the third season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang and his TrueCompanions are basically this. See also: [[spoiler: Order of the White Lotus]] in the last couple episodes.
** The invasion force from the Day of Black Sun, made up of the Gang's allies from the two remaining nations opposing the war.
** The Freedom Fighters (no, not [[NamesTheSame the Sonic ones]]) fit this, even if they are a bunch of {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s.
** There are active resistances of Earth Kingdom citizens against the Fire Nation occupying forces throughout the series. We see one of them in "Return to Omashu."
* The Maximals in ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines''.

* The backstory of one chef in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' involved running guns for one of these. "Which one?" "He won't say -- apparently they didn't win."

*** After Luffy gets [[CurbStompBattle curbstombed into next week]] by Kaido and thrown in the Prisoner Mine, he becomes friends with an old man named Hyogoro, formerly the most powerful Yakuza boss of Wano, who agrees to train Luffy after becoming impressed with him. When he later learns that the rebellion is still alive, he becomes overjoyed that he has lived long enough to see it and pledges his support. The rest of the Yakuza bosses follow suit after they are released from prison and mobilize to gather their subordinates before the Fire Festival.
*** Luffy later starts a PrisonRiot, during which he gives a speech to the rest of the prisoners that rekindles their spirits and convinces them to fight the wardens. When they learn that he's a pirate just like Kaido and start having doubts about the rebellion, Momonosuke seals the deal by revealing himself, showing them that the Kozuki Family is still alive. This motivates them to pledge their support.

*** Kin'emon quickly begins to make plans to raid Onigashima during the Fire Festival, where Orochi and his retainers will have a dinner party with Kaido and his crew. However, his plans are leaked to Orochi and the comrades they gathered are imprisoned. [[spoiler:They are liberated at the last minute by Denjiro, who had until now posed as Kyoshiro, one of Orochi's retainers and head of his own Yakuza family, who also pledge their support to the rebellion.]]
*** After Luffy gets [[CurbStompBattle curpstombed]] by Kaido and thrown in the Prisoner Mine, he becomes friends with an old man named Hyogoro, formerly the most powerful Yakuza boss of Wano, who agrees to train Luffy after becoming impressed with him. When he later learns that the rebellion is still alive, he becomes overjoyed that he has lived long enough to see it and pledges his support. The rest of the Yakuza bosses follow suit after they are released from prison and mobilize to gather their subordinates before the Fire Festival.

** In ''[[Anime/LupinIIIMysteryOfTheHemingwayPapers The Hemingway Papers]]'', Lupin finds himself searching for a lost treasure on the island of Colcaca, where a bunch of prospectors and mercenaries have taken over the island and started a war amongst themselves. The native islanders formed The Scorpions, a guerrilla force dedicated to liberating their home. Unfortunately, they were found out and [[CurbStompBattle the result]] [[KillEmAll wasn't pretty]]. Only one member survived, this story's GirlOfTheWeek.

* ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'': The Sufferists, although more of a BlackAndGreyMorality due to their WellIntentionedExtremist leader [[JerkAss Lereal]]. Either way, things [[ForegoneConclusion don't end]] [[KillEmAll well]] [[LeeroyJenkins for them]].

* Team Dai-Gurren from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Not only do they rebel against Lord Genome and his forces, but also the [[spoiler:millennia-long reign of the Anti-Spirals]].

** Another smaller one for the Tontatta Tribe found in Dressrosa. Consisting entirely of dwarfs and one renegade LivingToy, they are dedicated to upending Don Quixote Doflamingo's rule of the kingdom and reinstating the ruling family prior to Doflamingo's coup.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' has Nudist Beach, which live up to the name by being clothed in nothing but strategically placed belts and pouches. They fight against [[ItMakesSenseInContext the usage of clothing for oppression.]]

* The Joui from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', who set out to take down the Amanto even if it meant going out into an all-out war with them. They failed. However, Katsura is the only one that makes an attempt to carry out any of the original group's ideals after that failure (and even then, it's kind of laughable); Gintoki decided that fighting stupid enemies was pointless and dropped out, Takasugi became a NietzscheWannabe [[spoiler:in order to avenge the death of his teacher]], and Sakamoto got a day job.

Not to be confused with the FirstPersonShooter series, ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''. Or with WWE's French-Canadian ForeignWrestlingHeel TagTeam Wrestling/LaResistanceTagTeam.

* In ''[[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/victoria Victoria]]'', a story from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'', the Earth has been taken over by… something. What exactly is never made clear, but they're opposed by the Human Resistance Group, who uses superior numbers and technology to fight back. Whether it eventually succeeds or fails is never elaborated upon.

* Played with interestingly in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' graphic novel ''The Modala Imperative''. Captain Kirk and Spock help the resistance on the planet Modala break up a vicious dictatorship; a hundred years later, the ''Next Generation'' crew arrive to help celebrate the anniversary of the original coup and discover the erstwhile rebel leaders are now beating back an uprising themselves. Then suddenly ''everyone'' must put aside their differences when the ''real'' BigBad beams in -- the Ferengi, who had sold the original dictatorship their weapons and have now come to collect from the current rulers.
** Also in the current comic book series "Year 4", continuing where the original series ended, the rebels attack with the crew present (and later kidnap Kirk) in order to get the Federation to intervene in their conflict...at the same time as the ''government'' tries to blow up the ''Enterprise'', to get the Federation to intervene in their conflict.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'' has a resistance on Solay, trying to topple a pro-Empire king. They call on the Rebel Alliance for help after Endor, but it turns out the head of the resistance had secretly also been pro-Empire -- soon after the king is deposed, the Imperial fleet comes in and imposes martial law, controlling the system directly.
* The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse ''ComicBook/{{Legacy}}'' series, set over 130 years after the original trilogy, has the Sith taking over the galaxy again and the two governments they overthrew, the Galactic Alliance and the Fel Empire, forming two separate resistance movements that initially don't trust each other for fairly obvious reasons.
* A major StoryArc in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' follows a young Johnny joining the {{mutant}} resistance against the [[FantasticRacism violently anti-mutant]] government.
* The Picaros from the eponymous ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' adventure. Tintin demands that their revolution will not see a drop of blood shed, much to the humorous consternation of many involved. [[spoiler:Including the dictator being overthrown.]]
* [[spoiler:Subverted with]] Alpha Trion's group in ''ComicBook/TransformersTransTech''.[[spoiler: Turns out it's a cover for a [[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass sinister plot]] involving the GrandTheftMe of [=TransTech=] bodies]].
* The Two-Fours of ''ComicBook/WeStandOnGuard'' are this to the United States' TheEmpire. The crew includes a former police chief, an actor, and a teenaged survivalist.

Almost inevitably, TheHero will join La Resistance while the battle is already underway, and will grow to become a great champion in the fight against TheEmpire. After all, {{Hollywood|History}} usually [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVillified romanticizes resistance fighters]], for three reasons. The first is rooted in America's origins as rebels fighting against a tyrannical monarchy during UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The second is likewise UsefulNotes/WorldWarII where the conflict between the Resistance and UsefulNotes/NaziGermany fell, as close as it ever has, to clear divisions between right and wrong, and of course, CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority. In most cases in history and in RealLife, resistance movements are complex and confusing events. A common mistake is to confuse resistance movements with revolutionary movements, when this is not always the case. Some resistance movements ''are'' revolutionary, seeking to install a new regime to displace the old. Revolutions, needless to say, are complex, murky and at times brutal affairs. It has led in the past to the new regime forming [[MeetTheNewBoss the new government]] which [[FullCircleRevolution can be as bad or worse than the old.]]

Not to be confused with the FirstPersonShooter series, ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''. Or with WWE's French-Canadian ForeignWrestlingHeel TagTeam Wrestling/LaResistanceWrestling.

->''"Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Marchons, marchons! Qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons!"'' [[note]]''"To arms, citizens! Form your battalions! Let us march, let us march/ Let the blood of the impure soak our fields!"''[[/note]]

* ''Anime/InazumaEleven'' Go! features "The Resistance", a group fighting against Fifth Sector who rule over the JHS soccer world with an iron fist, fixing matches and taking away "real soccer". The Resistance is based at Teikoku and existed before Raimon began their solo fight against Fifth Sector, although Raimon join The Resistance after they beat Teikoku in Holy Road.

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* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTartu'': In this 1943 film, the resistors are the Czechs who don't agree with their Nazi occupiers. Terence is a British spy who has come to infiltrate a gas plant and has difficulty reaching the underground network to complete his mission, and his cover is so good, they think he's trying to infiltrate ''them'' and kill them one by one.
* ''Film/AeonFlux'': The Monicans. who are struggling to bring down the Goodchild regime.
* ''Film/{{Apocalypse}}'': The Haters, which is One Nation Earth's name for underground groups of persecuted Christians during the Tribulation in this film series.
* ''Film/TheArmyOfCrime'': The French film is all about La Resistance, being set in Second World War France during the German occupation. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiche_rouge Based on a true story.]]
* ''Film/ArmyOfShadows'': Another French film about the Resistance, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, an actual Resistance fighter. He was critical of romanticized depictions of the resistance, and called out some of his countrymen for falsely claiming, after France was liberated, to have been resistance fighters.
* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': The AlwaysChaoticEvil city of Sogo has an underground resistance movement that wants to overthrow the Black Queen and start a regime that's more similar to the peaceful, free-loving 41st century Earth. The resistance is led by Dildano, who rescues Barbarella from being executed and they team up to take down the Black Queen. [[spoiler:Ultimately it's all for nothing, as the entire city gets destroyed and everyone in it dies at the end.]]
* ''Film/TheBirthOfANation2016'': A historical drama about Nat Turner and his attempted slave rebellion in the Antebellum South in 1831 (see RealLife for more details).
* In ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' the Autobots are specifically referred to as the Autobot ''Resistance''. [[FridgeHorror What this says about the state of the war...]]
* ''Film/CaptiveState'': Rafe is a member of a resistance cell called "Phoenix" that opposes the Legislators. [[spoiler:It's later shown there's a national network in the US which they're a part of.]]
* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': Has the French partisans and their counterparts from the rest of Occupied Europe. Their singing of "La Marseillaise" (see the page quote) is a key emotional moment in the film.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'':
** The Union in Neo Seoul. A case of AdaptationalHeroism, as in the book Somni states Union is merely a front for Neo Seoul's government to identify and eliminate dissent, while the film plays it straight.
** Cavendish mounts a minor one in the [[spoiler: retirement home]].
* ''{{Film/Defiance}}'': The Bielski Partisans form such a group against German occupation of Belarus, as do the Soviet Partisans also featured in the movie.
* ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'': The John Brown Underground, an abolitionist movement operating out of Canada to undermine the Confederate States of America. Among other things, they're accused of being behind the assassination of John Ambrose Fauntroy IV and the "One Drop Scandal" that led to the suicide of [[spoiler: his son, John Ambrose Fauntroy V]] over accusations of having black ancestry.
* ''Film/DemolitionMan'': Features a resistance which is all about, amongst other things, the "choice to run naked down the street covered in lime jello."
* ''Film/DoubleDragon'': There's a neon-overall-clad teenage resistance named the Power Corps, which is led by the ActionGirl LoveInterest in the battle against Vanilla Ice as played by T-1000.
* In ''Film/EasternCondors'', Tung Ming-sum and TheSquad join up with a band of Cambodian guerillas who are fighting the Vietnamese army. The two groups combine forces to complete the mission of locating and destroying the bunker.
* ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'': Anyone who doesn't take the [[EmotionSuppression emotion-suppressing drug called Prozium]] is labeled as a "Sense Offenser" and rebels against the tyranny of the Grammaton Clerics.
* ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'': A woman from the communist resistance/terrorist organization named the National Liberation Front hijacked Air Force One somehow and crashes it into Manhattan Island in hopes of killing the US President.
* In ''Film/TheForgottenBattle,'' the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Dutch Resistance in the Walcheren area is a small group of young men and women with limited resources. Although one character initially hopes that they might the sort of Resistance who could rescue her brother from imprisonment and execution by the Germans, their activities are mostly limited to cautious spying. However, [[spoiler:this actually proves crucial to the story of the film, as the information which they are able to get to the Allies enables them to get a small force across an obstructive river by boat, outflank the German positions, and win the day.]]
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': In the movie ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', G.I. Joe will become this after Cobra has [[PresidentEvil Zartan become the President of the United States]] and brand G.I. Joe as terrorists and that G.I. Joe must now take the world back from Cobra and drive them out of the country.
* ''Film/TheGirlFromMonday'': The Partisans are a youthful rebel movement seeking to overthrow Triple M, the corporation which rules the future US.
* ''Film/TheGreatEscape'': The "X" organisation composed of a group of Allied [=POWs=] who stage the titular escape attempt. Part of their motivation is to disrupt Nazi operations by forcing them to start a manhunt for escaped prisoners.
** One of the escapees is eventually aided by members of the French Resistance who protect him from a drive-by shooting of Nazi officers and help him make his way to Spain. He's ultimately one of the few escapees who wasn't either recaptured or killed.
* The Czech Resistance against the Nazi occupiers is one of the main focal points of ''Film/HangmenAlsoDie'', being responsible for the assassination of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich in this version of history.[[note]]The assassination of Heydrich was carried out on May 27, 1942 (though he didn't die of his injuries until June 4), and the film was released on March 27, 1943 -- less than a year later. Because the film was made so shortly after the real events, and WWII was still ongoing, the details were not known to the filmmakers. Hence, the film is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory.[[/note]]
* ''Film/{{Harriet}}'': The UndergroundRailroad and its various satellite organizations, as per RealLife.
* ''Film/Hero2002'': Only a small group of five elite assassins is actually seen, but apparently assassins from the other conquered Kingdoms try to kill the [[TheEmpire emperor]] every other week.
* ''Film/HeroesOfTheUnderground'', set during the Sino-Japanese war, has a group of local resistance fighters led by their local folk hero, Dong Yi-shan.
* ''The Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'': The title of the film is actually the name of a resistance group.
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' and both its successors ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'' have civil unrest slowly growing [[spoiler: into a full scale revolutionary war]].
* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'': The Sphere, a benevolent alien supercomputer discovered by the protagonists, has gathered survivors of the Harvester aliens' previous attacks on a secret planet to train them for warfare. At the end of the movie, it asks humanity to join and lead the war against the Harvesters.
* ''Film/ItHappenedHere'': SubvertedTrope, where the protagonist regards the Resistance as worse than the German occupiers.
* Both of Jojo from ''Film/JojoRabbit ''’s parents are active members of the German Resistance against the Nazis. His father defected to fight for the Allies and his mother harbors a Jewish girl in their house and distributes anti-party leaflets around the town. However, she gets busted and is publicly hanged as a traitor.
* ''Film/{{Kanal}}'': About the Polish Home Army and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, in which the Home Army fought for control of the city against the occupying Germans.
* In ''[[Film/LacombeLucien Lacombe, Lucien]]'', a teenaged boy tries to join the Resistance. The leader rejects him, so he joins the Milice (the French Gestapo) instead.
* ''Film/LandOfTheBlind'': The film has the resistance be popular at the beginning, then after taking power become at least as bad or worse than the dictator they overthrew.
%%* ''Film/{{Machete}}'': "The Network" parodies this trope.
* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Has a population of humans attempting to strengthen numbers by freeing people imprisoned in a virtual simulation created by advanced artificial intelligence using them as a fuel source.
* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'': Hilariously parodied, where there's more than one resistance, they don't ''do'' anything other than discuss things around a table, and the only time they actually ''do'' something they screw it up [[WeAreStrugglingTogether by arguing with each other]]. "THE JUDEAN PEOPLE'S FRONT? Splitters!" Even better if you take it as a comment on the state of left-wing and Palestinian movements in that time (though the Jewish rebels then also had this).
* ''Film/NightTrainToLisbon'': This movie, set partly during the dictatorship of Salazar in Portugal, features one of the most relevant groups throughout the film.
* ''Film/NoRegretsForOurYouth'' (1946) is about a left-wing Japanese student who joins the underground anti-war left, as fascism rises in Japan. He's eventually arrested by StateSec.
* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'': A big group of humans [[RebelLeader led by]] [[Creator/MorganFreeman Malcolm Beech]] who live underground the wasteland Earth. [[spoiler: They may or may not be ''all that's left'' of the human race.]]
* ''Film/PimpernelSmith'': This film, which is ''Film/{{The Scarlet Pimpernel|1934}}'' in World Ware II, with a stuffy English professor running a resistance network rescuing Jewish and other persecuted prisoners and funnelling them to Britain.
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Has the pirates of the world resisting termination at hands of the East India Trading Company. Ironically, when your cast is made of an AntiHero couple, a GentlemanThief and an AffablyEvil pirate, the only way to cheer for their resisting the law is by making the Government absurdly evil and corrupt.
* ''Film/RedDawn1984'': The school kids who head off into the mountains to fight the [[RedScare Evil Empire]] in the movie are a perfect example of this trope. Readers here may be more familiar with it being referred to as a documentary on one of the radio stations in GTA Vice City. '''''Wolverines!''''
* ''Film/RedDawn2012'': The same goes for this remake except instead of the Soviet Union, it's now North Korea overrunning the United States.
%%* ''Film/{{Revolution 1985}}'': The Continental Army fighting against the British.
* ''Film/SleepingDogs'': The Resistance guerrillas fighting an oppressive police state that has taken over UsefulNotes/NewZealand.
* ''Film/SoldierOfOrange'': It's pretty much a heroic tale of the Dutch resistance fighting against the German occupiers.
* The trope namer is examined in ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity'', a documentary about France during the years of Nazi occupation. While several Resistance members are interviewed and tell their stories, the film makes clear that the Resistance wasn't universally supported, not by a long shot. A theater owner calls them "[[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters terrorists]]", and a French aristocrat talks about how the Resistance tried to recruit him, but instead he decided to fight for the Germans and joined the Waffen SS.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The [[TheAlliance Rebel Alliance]], who struggle against the [[GoodRepublicEvilEmpire Galactic Empire]] for control of [[TheVerse the galaxy.]]
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', set three decades after the original trilogy, introduces a group called "The Resistance", a scrappy insurgency who fight [[TheRemnant the First Order]]. The Resistance has the unofficial support of [[TheRepublic the New Republic]] (the government born out of the Rebel Alliance), who won't commit to open war with the First Order. The Resistance is technically an aversion -- it exists not as a resistance movement as such, but as a [[PrivateMilitaryContractors private military]] operated by Leia Organa.
*** In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', Poe Dameron introduces himself to the First Order as a Commander "of the Republic fleet", since [[spoiler: with the destruction of the New Republic capital and its fleet, the Resistance is the de-facto [[TheRemnant remnant]] of the New Republic]], but the First Order simply view them as rebels by this point.
* Film/TheResistanceBanker shows both a more traditional version of this trope, but focuses on the Dutch financial elite financing their activities. Instead of attacking Nazis or sabotaging railroads, a lot of what they do is talking to other rich people in restaurants, salons or swimming pool.
* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'': The entirety of the series has the Resistance against [[BigBad Skynet]]'s [[TheEmpire Empire]].
* ''Film/TopSecret'': Has the French Resistance in East Germany. (Why? [[RuleOfFunny Because it's funny]], of course.)
* ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'': Unusually for this trope, this movie focuses on the ''German'' resistance during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII rather than that of the occupied countries.
* Li Jundong from ''Film/WhenTaekwondoStrikes'' leads a Korean resistance movement against the Japanese colonizers. His followers live in a group of huts in the countryside, where he trains them in Taekwondo and sends them on important missions.
* The X-Men of the BadFuture in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', though by the time the movie starts they seem to be able to accomplish little but stay one step ahead of the enemy.
* ''Film/{{Zwartboek}}'' (''Black Book''): Deals with the Dutch resistance in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has the Revolutionary Army, an anti-government faction directly opposed to the World Government and led by none other than Luffy's father, [[DisappearedDad Dragon]]. So far they haven't actually appeared often, but they'll certainly be more important down the line. Luffy's ties to the Revolution have become stronger over the TimeSkip. Robin was protected by them during those two years [[spoiler:and it's recently been revealed that Luffy's other older brother, the long-thought dead Sabo, is alive and the ''second-in-command'' of the Revolutionary Army.]] Smaller examples of this trope include...
** The rebellion of Alabasta; Believing that King Cobra has become TheCaligula, they are completely unaware that they are in fact the UnwittingPawn of Sir Crocodile's coup, and when the rebel leader learns the AwfulTruth, he tries to enlighten his fellow rebels- only to learn firsthand that Crocodile's Baroque Works have infiltrated both rebel and royal armies.
** The Tontatta Tribe found in Dressrosa. Consisting entirely of dwarfs and one renegade LivingToy, they are dedicated to upending Don Quixote Doflamingo's rule of the kingdom and reinstating the ruling family prior to Doflamingo's coup.