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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|Animal Wrongs Groups]]s, who claim humans are occupying the Earth.

* The Guiding Hand in ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'' is based upon the kind of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] and out-and-out [[Knight Templar]]-ish people that made up the Boxers at the turn of the century, and if you want to see just how nasty these guys can get, well, look no further than ''Once Upon A Time In China 2'' which pits Wong Fei Hong played by Jet Li against the fanatical and Nazi-like White Lotus sect, and which shows us the other side of the coin by raising issue with rabid anti-western bigotry instead of foreign imperialism and greed with the first movie.

* 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.

* 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.

* The Scottish rebels in ''[[Braveheart]]''.

{{quote| '''Matt''': "What's the difference, Jed? Tell me, what's the [[Not So Different|difference between us and them]]?"<br />

* The White Lotus sect mentioned above from ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin China]] 2'' are singularly nasty [[Knight Templar]] types who want all foreign influence, however beneficial, out of China. These guys are introduced by [[Kick the Dog|burning a dog because it was a foreign breed]], attack and burn down a foreign language school, forcing Wong to take the displaced students of the school to the British consulate, and at one point, they even ''burn a cross'' in front of the consulate in a scene that may remind American viewers of another sect known for its bigotry and intolerance (though with far different goals than the White Lotus).

* 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.

* The motivation of much of the Syrian rebels in ''[[The Egyptian]]''. Although Sinuhe doubts the sincerity of their motives.

* Used frequently in the works of [[Harry Turtledove]], for example, the Canadians resisting American occupation in Timeline191, or the English resisting the Spanish in ''[[Ruled Britannia (Literature)|Ruled Britannia]]''.

* Two of the earliest ''[[Battle TechBattleTech]]'' novels, ''Decision at Thunder Rift'' and ''Mercenaries Star'', involve a small force successfully doing this.

* The Bajoran Resistance fighting the Cardassian occupation of Bajor in ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. ''Deep Space Nine'' also had a Cardassian resistance against the Dominion in later seasons.

{{quote| '''Kira:''' ''"None of you belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For fifty years you raped our planet, and you killed our people. You lived on our land and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ironed shirts for a living. You were all guilty and you were all legitimate targets!"''}}

* The Narn Resistance against the Centauri occupation of Narn in ''[[Babylon Five5]]''.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'' episode "[http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/The_High_Ground The High Ground]". The Ansata terrorists are trying to force the Rutian occupation forces to leave their country.

** The anti-Cylon resistance movement on New Caprica, who justify their attacks (particularily their [[Suicide Attack|Suicide Attacks]]s) on several grounds, among which are expelling the Cylons from their planet.

* Many, many ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' stories, starting with "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]". Notably interesting variations are in "The Mutants", "The Power Of Kroll" and "Planet of the Ood" in which [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters|humans are the occupying force]].

* The eponymous ''[[Freedom Fighters (Videovideo Gamegame)|Freedom Fighters]]'', who are made up of United States citizens organizing armed resistance against their Soviet occupiers in [[Big Applesauce|New York City]]. {{spoiler|Like the Selkath, they had some aid, from [[The Mole|Colonel Bulba, disguised as a man named Mr Jones]].}}

* 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.

{{quote| '''Welkin''': Let's drive these Imperials back out of Gallia! Squad 7, move out!}}

* The first part of ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Radiant Dawn]]'' focuses on the Dawn Brigade's efforts to force Begnion's oppressive occupation army out of Daein.

* 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 (Video Game)|Morrowind]] is part of Dagoth Ur's plan and he's been staging a series of assassinations to disrupt their activities since awakening.

** 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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