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Whenever a revolution is taking place, when people rebel against an authority, certain motifs often come to be associated with the uprisings. This can take the form of many things such as gestures, songs, objects, figureheads, phrases or even landmarks. Basically anything that can be used to symbolize a societal/political upheaval. The nature of the
Certain icons, hand gestures being the most common, tend to be reused across media and history alike. The [
Because the
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* The Black Knights of ''[[Code Geass]]'' use a corrupt Geass Symbol.
** The protagonist deliberately styles himself as [[My Hero Zero|ZERO!]]
* [[Gundam]] provides several examples:
** ''[[Gundam Wing]]'': The Gundams become a symbol of Colonial Resistance.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', where Gundams become synonymous with Celestial Being.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'': Zeon's emblem.
* The [[Gurren Lagann|Gurren-dan]] symbol and flag.
* From ''[[Ghost in
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' has wearing Guy Fawkes masks, and the "V" in general. V himself is both rebellion and icon.
== Film
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': the Rebel Alliance's emblem.
** In the prequels, Count Dooku serves as the figurehead of the rebel Separatists.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[
** Jack-half-a-prayer from ''[[Perdido Street Station]]''.
** The Perpetual Train in ''[[
*** Benjamin Flex from the same book.
*** Spiral Jacobs, the vagabond, roams around the city of [[Wretched Hive|New Crobuzon]] and spends his days vandalizing the city with drawings of spirals. This occurs during a time of political unrest, and the masses of New Crobuzon adopt it as a symbol of the rebellion, wearing it on their clothing and making the marks themselves. Subverted in that {{spoiler|Jacobs is actually the ambassador of an enemy city and the spirals are part of an extremely powerful and intricate magic that would completely destroy the New Crobuzon, sending ripples of destruction backwards through time.}}
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* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]''. Rebels against the Lunar Authority wore red caps called Liberty Caps. Heinlein got the idea from the French Revolution example in {{smallcaps|[[Real Life]]}} below.
** The "Simon Jester" symbol, which was used with anti-Lunar Authority graffiti.
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* The Lilac flowers in ''[[
* In the ''Tricksters'' series by [[Tamora Pierce]], the symbol for the cultural uprising of an ethnic group enslaved and kept on the bottom rung of society was a crude broken manacle: three small circles as a chain attached to a larger broken circle. This tiny sign of the underground rebellion could be seen
* In the second ''[[
* In ''[[Les Misérables]]'', two of them- the flag Mabeuf dies waving, and Mabeuf's bullet-ridden coat afterwards.
* In ''[[Gor|Magicians of Gor]]'' Tarl and his friend Marcus start a rebellion in Ar by claiming to have heard of the "Delta Brigade" (named after the events in a previous book where the forces of Ar were defeated in a delta) and scratch deltas everywhere. There later becomes an actual Delta Brigade which they have nothing to do with It's like al-Qaeda - no one group has any interaction with any other group, they just call themselves that and engage in uncivil disobedience.
== [[Live
* ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': In a story arc, Bajor is threaten by a nationalistic group called the Circle. These extremists would spray paint their symbol as vandalism or in their headquarters.
* ''[[V (TV series)||V the Miniseries]]'': The "V" hand gesture.
== Music ==
* The main character in the [[Green Day]] song "She's A Rebel" actually calls the subject of the song this:
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== Theatre ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Command
* The Wild Rose of the Wild Rose Rebellion from ''[[
* ''[[
* The Raynor's Raiders insignia from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Guy Fawkes masks were worn by members of the anti-Scientology movement, Project Chanology. This was inspired by the film/comic book, ''[[V for Vendetta]]''.
** (Which in and of itself is rather...ironic. Yes, Fawkes was trying to depose the Protestant Regime...but only so a Catholic one could rise.)
* Guy Fawkes masks
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: the [
**Of course it's a little more complicated then that. It was Christian doctrine to obey the law insofar as one morally can and Christians had no problem with the Roman government remaining in place. The persecution stemmed from the specific act of refusing to pray to the Emperor (the implication of which custom sounded differently to pagans than to monotheists) and the general fact that maintaining a separate and sometimes secretive society provoked fears of conspiracy. But the fish never was an icon of rebellion ''per se''.
* The inverted cross is often used as a symbol of rebellion. Generally, however, people forget it is actually the symbol of St Peter (who, it is said, asked to be crucified upside-down out of respect for his Rabbi, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|and/or]] as a "screw you" to the romans, with his request one-uping them in power), and as such is often used by the Catholic Church as a specific symbol representing him and the Pope.▼
***As an interesting side note, in John McCain's memoirs, he tells that when he was in a North Vietnamese prison, one of the guards drew a fish on the ground in front of him while the others weren't looking.
▲* The inverted cross is often used as a symbol of rebellion. Generally, however, people forget it is actually the symbol of St Peter (who, it is said, asked to be crucified upside-down out of respect for his Rabbi, [[Alternate Character Interpretation|and/or]] as a "screw you" to the
* [[World War Two]]
** The Dutch would wear Orange in defiance to the Nazis. Orange was the symbol of the Dutch ruling family - The House of Orange.
** The V for Victory sign in Britain.
***Of course Britain was an established [[Hegemonic Empire]] that had been a superpower for generations, and was riddled with crusty old traditions. Not only that but many prominent British including [[Winston Churchill]] himself would have proudly owned the term "empire" while Nazis considered themselves revolutionary.
* During the French Revolution, wearing the bonnet rouge (red Phrygian cap) was a symbol of Revolutionary sympathies.
** Later revolutions also used the red flag (e.g. 1848).
* The [http://www.allthatsleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/libyan-rebel-flag.png Libyan rebel's flag]{{Dead link}}
* During the Jewish Revolts, the Jews would mint their own money and mark it with nationalistic/religious references as a sign of loyalty to the cause.
* Revival of Hebrew as a colloquial language was an icon of the Zionist cause. That wasn't exactly rebellion as they were as often allies of [[The British Empire]] as enemies.
* The song "Yankee Doodle" for [[The American Revolution]].
* Symbols of anarchism, including but not limited to: the Black Flag, the Red/Black Flag (used in ''[[
* Communists have the red star and the hammer and sickle, originating in [[Red October|Soviet]] iconography. However, the color red as a symbol of revolution and/or socialism is [[Older Than They Think|much older than Marxist-Leninism]].
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