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{{quote|''"Why Independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"''|'''Jose Rizal'''}}
This trope is sadly [[Truth in Television]], because simply replacing the leaders of a country does little to resolve its underlying social problems. And if the new government doesn't have technical expertise to actually govern, they end up repeating the same mistakes as their predecessors. See the Real Life section below for many examples.
Contrast [[Reign of Terror]], when revolutionary zeal is causing tyranny and blood-letting. One can be the consequence of the other: the people are so sick of the [[Reign of Terror]] that they will put up with the old injustices just to be done with the revolution. See also [[Meet the New Boss]], for when the new villain doesn't start out different and goes straight to being the same.▼
▲Contrast [[Reign of Terror]], when revolutionary zeal is causing tyranny and blood-letting. One can be the consequence of the other: the people are so sick of the [[Reign of Terror]] that they will put up with the old injustices just to be done with the revolution. See also [[Meet the New Boss]], for when the new villain doesn't start out different and goes straight to being the same. Full-Circle Revolution happen anywhere, but tends to happen more often in [[Banana Republic]]s.
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* ''[[Tintin]]'':
** Executed subtly in ''Tintin and the Picaros'': during the course of the book, the heroes help Tintin's friend General Alcazar overthrow the despotic General Tapioca from the leadership of [[Banana Republic|San Theodoros]] (mostly because said despot imprisioned Madame Castafiore and sentenced Thomson and Thompson to death). However, the penultimate panel of the book is almost a carbon copy of an earlier one (showing soldiers patrolling a slum filled with starving people), only a sign now reads "Viva Alcazar" instead of "Viva Tapioca" and the police's uniforms are slightly different, hinting that nothing important has changed.
**Also, Alcazar wants to execute a whole lot of people, starting with Tapioca of course, and is only kept in bay because Tintin is his [[Morality Pet]], showing that Alcazar and Tapioca are as bad as each other. Tapioca actually consoles Alcazar over being stopped -that is, ''the man who just overthrew him and wants to shoot him.'' Similarly, the only reason Tintin became Alcazar's friend in the first place was because he ended up as his lieutenant. A few hours of slippage and he could have ended up as Tapioca's lieutenant just as easily.▼
▲Also, Alcazar wants to execute a whole lot of people, starting with Tapioca of course, and is only kept in bay because Tintin is his [[Morality Pet]], showing that Alcazar and Tapioca are as bad as each other. Tapioca actually consoles Alcazar over being stopped -that is, ''the man who just overthrew him and wants to shoot him.'' Similarly, the only reason Tintin became Alcazar's friend in the first place was because he ended up as his lieutenant. A few hours of slippage and he could have ended up as Tapioca's lieutenant just as easily.
** Earlier books such as ''Broken Ear'' would depict Alcazar and Tapioca committing ''multiple'' coups on a ''daily'' basis against each other.
* I remember an [[Incredible Hulk]] story where the Hulk (technically Bruce Banner who controlled his body as Hulk) was taken to a planet where a green race was enslaved by a red race. The Hulk helped the green people overtake the rulers and before leaving asked them to live peacefully together. Looking through a telescope as he was getting far off he saw the red people enslaved by the green ones and wept.
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