Fictional resistance movements and groups
Fictional resistance movements and groups commonly appear in dystopian fiction, opposing the tyranny which dominates the setting.
V for Vendetta used the image of Guy Fawkes for the leader of resistance to a fictional police state. This image is now used in the real world by groups such as Anonymous.[1]
In literature
In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, the tyranny is the soul-destroying life of modern western society. The protagonist rebels against this by organising atavistic bare-knuckle fights and then by leading Project Mayhem to destroy civilization. This story developed themes of alienation and anti-consumerism seen in earlier works such as Rebel without a Cause and The Prisoner with the epic, millennial quality of other contemporary works such as The Matrix.[2]
List of fictional resistance movements and groups
- Alice — An ex-employee of the Umbrella Corporation turned anti-Umbrella fighter willing to take down and destroy the same powerful evil megacorporation responsible for the Global T-Virus outbreak in Resident Evil.
- Alliance to Restore the Republic — also Rebel Alliance; the senators who wish to depose the Emperor and restore the Republic in Star Wars.
- Blake's 7 — eponymous rebels against the Terran Federation.
- The Brotherhood — the subversive opposition to The Party in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.
- Chaos Insurgency — a splinter group of the SCP Foundation, created by a rogue task force that went A.W.O.L. with several SCP objects in 1924 and has been in opposition of the Foundation since.[3]
- Maquis — resistance to the Cardassians in Star Trek.
- The Mephi — the underground rebels getting ready to revolt against OneState in We (novel) by Evgeny Zamyatin.
- Merry Men — mythical English band of outlaws lead by Robin Hood opposed to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- The Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army - underground resistance to Voldemort and his Death Eaters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- La Résistance — movement of the children of South Park, Colorado opposing the United States' war against Canada as instigated by Mothers Against Canada in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.
- The Resistance — network of humans and vortigaunts fighting the Combine in Half-Life 2.
- The Resistance — the senators who wish to depose the Supreme Leader and restore the New Republic in Star Wars.
- Song Jiang — leader of outlaws during the Song Dynasty and fictionalized in the Water Margin
- Wartwood Resistance — movement of the residents of Wartwood Swamp, led by Sasha Waybright, Captain Grime, and later Anne Boonchuy, to depose the tyrannical King Andrias in the third season of Amphibia.
See also
- Fictional secret societies
- Terrorism in fiction
References
- Emily McAvan (2012), The Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres, p. 163, ISBN 9780786492824,
as with the use of the iconic Guy Fawkes mask from the Wachowskis' V For Vendetta as a symbol of anonymous resistance at protests
- John M. Stoup, Glenn W. Shuck (2007), "God's Unwanted: Fight Club and the Myth of "Total Revolution"", Escape Into the Future: Cultural Pessimism and Its Religious Dimension in Contemporary American Popular Culture, Baylor University Press
- TwistedGears (6 July 2014). "Chaos Insurgency Hub". SCP Foundation Wiki. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
Further reading
- Junius P. Rodriguez (2007), Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 9780313332722
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