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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
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** 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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories, starting with "[[Exactly What It Says on 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 Bastards|humans are the occupying force]].
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