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[[File:Reign of Terror.jpg|frame|''"The first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror."'' -- [[Maximilien Robespierre|Robespierre]]]]
{{quote|''"Terror is nothing more than justice. Swift, incorruptible justice."''
Finally, [[La Résistance]] has won, the revolution has occurred and the tyrannous [[President Evil]] has been deposed. This should be the end of [[The Empire]], the establishment of a new era of freedom, peace, prosperity and equality.
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Compare and contrast with [[Full-Circle Revolution]] which has virtually no change in the way things are governed after the revolution. These revolutions are compatible—in that a revolution can produce no real change even after ruthlessly slaughtering large chunks of the population, and indeed, after all this slaughter, people may be quite content to merely get back to the old ways. The Empire variant is [[Crushing the Populace]] where you make sure no one will oppose you through sheer brutality.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* One country that Kino visits in ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' replaced a tyrant king with the rule of majority. First the people voted to kill the king and his family, then his supporters and their family. Then anyone who disagreed with the majority. The country is left with one man after he and his wife voted to kill the third man, and then the wife died of an unrelated illness. ( having a doctor would have helped.)
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* The Egyptian novel, ''The Thief and the Dogs'' has this as the setting's backstory. Said Mahran (the main character) was a [[Just Like Robin Hood]] thief fighting against the colonialist European government during the revolutions of the 1950's. [[It Got Worse|Unfortunately for him,]] his closest allies in the movement, Ilish Sidra and Rauf Ilwan, basically seize power for themselves. The result? Egypt is no better off than it was before (really the only difference is the totalitarian leaders are Egyptian instead of Euroean) and Said is out for revenge as the book starts.
== [[Live
* In ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' 1961 episode "The Mirror" a South American revolutionary overthrows a dictator. The dictator tells him that his mirror "shows him his enemies
** Which teaches us all the [[Fantastic Aesop]] "Don't look into cursed mirrors."
*** Or as the writers probably intended, "paranoia is self-destructive" and "it's [[Lonely at the Top]]".
*** It's left up to the audience to decide whether the mirror was really cursed or if it was all part of the dictator's paranoia.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did an episode set during [[The French Revolution]] that was actually titled "Reign of Terror".
* As did ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'' .
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