Fictional resistance movements and groups

This article examines the resistance organization in works of fiction that resist tyranny. While these are fiction an author will often seek realism by examining similar historical organizations. Conversely, people's views of real situations are often affected by works of fiction that are part of the social conscience. Several fictional resistance organizations have been named after historical resistance groups.

Fictional resistance organizations

AVALANCHE

AVALANCHE are a resistance group from the video game "Final Fantasy VII", who attempt to save the planet from the Shin-Ra company that is attempting to drain the lifestream from the planet and converting it into 'Mako energy'.

Bajoran Resistance

In the Bajoran Resistance was formed upon the invasion of and brutal occupation of Bajor by Cardassian forces.

British Resistance

In , the British Resistance fights to liberate England from the Chimera with the help of an American soldier named

Brotherhood, The

From the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Dumbledore's Army

In the "Harry Potter" series by J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore's Army is a student organization founded by the main character, Harry Potter, to fight against the Ministry of Magic's control over Hogwarts and to teach other students practical defensive magic.

French Resistance

In "'Allo 'Allo!", it is led by Michelle, this resistance movement fights against the Germans in occupied France during World War II.

Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod

Not a resistance group, but rather a universal manual for potential resistance groups to fight against genocide and ethnic cleansing in the book "Cryptonomicon".

Homeworlds Resistance

In the 1993-1995 sci-fi animated television series "Exosquad", Homeworlds Resistance was an undercover resistance movement on Neosapien-occupied Earth and Venus during the war. Because Mars, the third Homeworld, was controlled and populated primarily by Neosapiens even before the war started, there was no resistance organizations there. The Resistance was composed of people who couldn't fit into Phaeton's regime and abandoned hope that the Exofleet will return some day (in the first years of the war, Neosapiens successfully held it away from the Homeworlds).

Magneto's Resistance Movement

This is Magneto's resistance movement formed in reaction to humanity's racial, other negative attitudes towards the mutant humans who have unusual powers and abilities. While Professor X advocates that humans and mutants are equal, Magneto regards humans as a danger to mutants and that humanity should be forcibly exterminated, while humans believe mutants should either be enslaved or destroyed. Two of its combat details are the Brotherhood of Mutants and the Acolytes, led by Magneto.

Manhattan Resistance

From the EA Games title Freedom Fighters. The Manhattan Resistance is a group that forms in New York City on the island of the same name after the Soviet Union invades the United States of America. The group is led by Isabella Angelina, Mr. Jones (who later in the story turns out to be a Soviet general), and the game's protagonist, Christopher Stone.

Maquis

The Maquis in ', ' and "" were formed when the Federation gave the Cardassian Union some territory in exchange to end a war. Those Federation citizens living in the "disputed territories" formed a paramilitary group for defense, due to Cardassian raids, and also in reaction to being betrayed by their own government. This paramilitary group is called the Maquis, named for the World War II-era French Maquis resistance in German-occupied areas. When the alien Dominion appeared in the Alpha Quadrant, they slaughtered the Maquis. Only a few survived in Federation prison or mental hospital colonies, on "Voyager", or in hiding.

Order of the Phoenix

In the "Harry Potter" series by J. K. Rowling, the Order of the Phoenix is an organization led and founded by wizard Albus Dumbledore to fight against the main antagonist, Lord Voldemort, and his followers, the Death Eaters. The Order of the Phoenix also fought against the Ministry of Magic, the wizarding government, when it was under Voldemort's control in the final book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

Rebel Alliance

The Rebel Alliance is the prominently featured resistance group in the Star Wars movies, from "A New Hope" to "The Return of the Jedi", who oppose the oppressive Galactic Empire. After the fall of the Empire, they become the ruling New Republic.

Red Faction

Red Faction are a resistance group from the video game under the same title, who attempt to escape form Martian mines ruined by the evil company Ultor.

Resistance, The (V)

The RESISTANCE from the movie and TV series "V". In this, aliens invade the planet under the guise of friendship. When the "real" intentions of the aliens are known, the people of Earth form The Resistance. The aliens arrive on Earth in gigantic "Flying Saucers".

Resistance, The (Half-life 2)

The Resistance movement from the computer game "Half-life 2" are a group of people dedicated to overthrowing the Combine empire, an alien civilization that has invaded earth due to the actions of the protagonists (Gordon Freeman) actions in the first Half-Life game.

liders

Some of the "Sliders" TV shows depict resistance groups that fight "native" tyrants and/or aliens, mainly the Kromaggs on the different Earths the main characters encounter as they "slide" from Earth to Earth. The show is set in the present(at the time it was filmed),thus this may qualify as "alternate history". One episode depicted the grisly consequences ofthe successful passage of legislation similar to Prop. 187 in CA., another depictedthe US under Communist rule, yet another depicted what happens as lawyers settlelawsuits in Old West gunfights instead of settling them in court, and yet othershows depict Earth under alien dominion, with some Earths fighting them. AnotherSliders show depicted an Earth that is similar to the "Sword and Sorcery" movies. This impliesthat if you can imagine what ever you're imagining, there is an Earth or more than one Earthin which what you're imagining is that Earth's reality.

Wolverines

In "Red Dawn", The Wolverines, are a resistance cell, named after the wolverine and a high school sports team. Upon the invasion of the United States by Soviet and allied forces, a group of kids form a resistance group when Soviet paratroopers parachute near their school and begin firing on teachers, students. Eventually, their resistance cell, other resistance groups, alongside that of remnants of the US military eventually drive out the Soviet and allied invaders.

Fictional resistance fighters

*Ensign Ro (Star Trek:TNG)
*Princess Leia (Star Wars)
*Mike Donovon (V, the TV series)
*Magneto (The X-Men, the Marvel Comics franchise)
*Han Solo(Star Wars)
*Luke Skywalker(Star Wars)
*Major Kira, a Bajoran Resistance commander, now a delegate of Bajor on DS-9(Star Trek:DS-9)
*Christopher Stone {Freedom Fighters EA Games}

See also

* List of fictional military organizations

External links

* [http://www.starwars.com www.starwars.com]
* [http://www.startrek.com www.startrek.com]
* [http://www.scifi.com Sci Fi Archives:Sliders]
* [http://www.marvelcomics.com Marvel Comics]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/ "Red Dawn"]
* [http://www.thevisitors.info/ "V" TV series]