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{{trope}}
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Sometimes, when writers feel the need to avert [[Terrorists Without a Cause]], they use this stock motivation, where the members of a guerilla/insurgent/terrorist/freedom fighter/resistance/etc. movement and/or organisation justify their actions by claiming they desire for foreign occupiers to leave their nation. This is both [[Truth in Television]] and [[Older Than Feudalism]], dating at least back to the 1st century BCE with the Sicarii zealots in Roman-occupied Israel.
A rather peculiar case of this trope occurs with some [[Animal Wrongs Group
▲Sometimes, when writers feel the need to avert [[Terrorists Without a Cause]], they use this stock motivation, where the members of a guerilla/insurgent/terrorist/freedom fighter/resistance/etc. movement and/or organisation justify their actions by claiming they desire for foreign occupiers to leave their nation. This is both [[Truth in Television]] and [[Older Than Feudalism]], dating at least back to the 1st century BCE with the Sicarii zealots in Roman-occupied Israel.
▲A rather peculiar case of this trope occurs with some [[Animal Wrongs Group|Animal Wrongs Groups]], who claim humans are occupying the Earth.
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== Multiple Media ==
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** A series of insurgent operations on Manaan by the native Selkath managed to drive [[The Empire]] offworld (though, {{spoiler|much like the Rebel Alliance}}, they received help from Darth Vader.)
*** The films themselves, too. The first one in particular has been viewed as an allegory for the [[Vietnam War]], while [[Revenge of the Sith]] was seen as an [[Iraq War]] allegory. [[Word of God|Lucas]] actually confirmed the Vietnam connections, but denied any intentional Iraq allegory.
* The Guiding Hand in ''[[
* The ''[[V (TV series)|V]]'' franchise (no, not [[V for Vendetta|that V]]). A human resistance group tries to expel the aliens who have taken control of Earth.
== Anime and Manga ==
* The Black Knights and other groups fighting the Britannian occupation of Japan in [[Code Geass]]. However, the ''leader'' of the Black Knights has a more complicated motivation.
== Film ==
* Check out the page image on ''[[Hedwig and The Angry Inch]]'', which subverts this for humor: "Yankee Go Home... With Me"
* The Scottish rebels in ''[[Braveheart]]''.
* [[Billy Wilder]]'s ''One, Two, Three'' with the "Yankee / Russkie go home" balloons.
* Subverted in ''[[Life of Brian]]'', where the aforementioned zealots are too busy squabbling amongst themselves (when the Romans aren't correcting their grammar) to do much. Particularly the Popular Front of Judea.
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* ''[[The Wind That Shakes the Barley]]'' is all about this, during the War of Independence in Ireland. It doesn't paint anybody solid white, but the guys that deviate from solid Resistance action are definitely not regarded well compared to the stalwarts, and never mind England. Historical figures, incidentally.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Red Dawn]]'', when the Wolverines are going to shoot their prisoners.
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'''Jed''': "Because...WE LIVE HERE!" ''(shoots soldier)'' }}
* Most propagandistic war films from China, Russia, any number of Eastern Bloc countries feature this trope in spades, dealing either with the Japanese or Nazi invasions.
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** ''City of Craftspeople'' features some tranforms the setting into Middle-Age Europe, with invaders looking just like the aforementioned Teutonic Order.
** Brutally inverted in "9th Company", which plays in Afghanistan - and the Soviet troops are the occupiers.
* The White Lotus sect mentioned above from ''[[Once Upon a Time
* Colonel Kurtz describes this in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. In his haunting speech to Captain Willard, he claims that the reason why America is eventually going to lose the war is because to us the war isn't a matter of life and death—the Americans viewed Vietnam as a matter of containing Communism in the larger Cold War, while the Vietnamese wanted the Americans out of their country so much that they were [[The Unfettered|willing to do whatever it took to win]]. Kurtz commends them, saying that if he had even so much as 10 divisions (about 100,000-200,000 troops) of men like that willing to do whatever was necessary to win, then the [[Vietnam War]] could be won with alarming speed.
== Literature ==
* [[Robert Heinlein]] novel ''[
** Also Heinlein's short story "Free Men," which appears in several different anthologies, including ''Expanded Universe'' and ''The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein.'' In this story, the invaders' identity is never specified.
* Jerry Pournelle's story ''Sword and Sceptre''. A rebel group on the planet New Washington hires Falkenberg's mercenaries to help remove the invading troops from their sister planet Franklin.
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** The [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Barrayarans]] themselves, including Miles' grandfather, fit this trope themselves a few generations before the books in question.
* ''[[The Riftwar Cycle]]'' has this as the given reason the moredhel (dark elves) hate humans. Which makes sense, really, given that said occupation has driven the moredhel to live in the barren Northlands where they have to slaughter each other over scraps of food.
* The motivation of much of the Syrian rebels in ''[[The Egyptian]]''. Although Sinuhe doubts the sincerity of their motives.
* [[The Tomorrow Series]] from Australia.
* Used frequently in the works of [[Harry Turtledove]], for example, the Canadians resisting American occupation in Timeline191, or the English resisting the Spanish in ''[[
* Two of the earliest ''[[
* The human resistance against the Psychlos in ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''.
== Live Action TV ==
* The Maquis of ''[[Star Trek]]: [[Deep Space Nine]]'', who were made up of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|colonists who refused to move off colony worlds that were ceded to the Cardassians in the truce that ended the war between the two nations]].
* The Bajoran Resistance fighting the Cardassian occupation of Bajor in ''[[Star Trek:
** Lampshaded when a disfigured victim of one of Kira's bombs confronts her with the fact that he was just a civilian who did the laundry. Kira's reply amounts to "you're Cardassian, you were all here uninvited so you were all guilty."
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** Note that the "victim" {{spoiler|Had just killed nearly all of Kira's friends from her old resistance cell.}}
* The Narn Resistance against the Centauri occupation of Narn in ''[[Babylon
* ''[[Star Trek:
* Happens, not once, but three times in Ronald Moore's new ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' series:
** Tom Zarek's movement to repudiate the Colonial federal government from his homeworld of Sagittaron, which led to Zarek destroying a government building to achieve his ends and being imprisoned for it.
** A resistance movement arises on Caprica in order to attempt to expel the Cylon occupiers, which Helo, Boomer and Starbuck all make contact with at some point. {{spoiler|They get rescued in the season two finale. The Cylons decide to leave the 12 Colonies}}.
** The anti-Cylon resistance movement on New Caprica, who justify their attacks (particularily their [[Suicide Attack
* Many, many ''[[
== Video Games ==
* The eponymous ''[[Freedom Fighters (
* In the ''[[Europa Universalis]]'' expansion ''InNomine'' you'll get two kinds of these types of rebels: "Patriots" seek to have areas of a certain culture defect to another state with that culture. (eg. french patriots in provinces owned by the Netherlands will try to defect to France) Nationalists support a particular nation-state, and either want to defect to that state if it exists, or [[Order Reborn|recreate it]] if it doesn't.
* From the second installment onward, the ''[[Half Life]]'' series focuses on liberating Earth from the Combine.
* The first-person shooter ''[[Project Reality]]'' features Iraqi Insurgents as a playable faction, pitting them against the occupation forces of the [[Yanks With Tanks|US Army]], [[Semper Fi|US Marines]], and [[Brits With Battleships|British Army]].
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** Although he's shown to be right in at least one occasion that Orlais will try to conquer Ferelden again.
* The story of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' follows the exploits of a militia squad - well, Welkin says it best.
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* The first part of ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius
* The civilians caught in the crossfire between Soviet and NATO troops in ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]''. The ''Resistance'' expansion pack is all about this trope and deals with it a suprisingly nuanced matter.
* Kicking [[The Empire]] out of [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
** Likewise the Stormcloaks in [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]] want [[The Empire]] out of Skyrim, although their plans aren't quite as grand as those of Dagoth Ur.
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