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* [[Gundam]] provides several examples:

** ''[[Gundam Wing]]'': The Gundams become a symbol of Colonial Resistance.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'': Zeon's emblem.

* The [[Gurren Lagann|Gurren-dan]] symbol and flag.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Jack-half-a-prayer from ''[[Perdido Street Station]]''.

*** 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.}}

** The "Simon Jester" symbol, which was used with anti-Lunar Authority graffiti.

{{quote| A matchstick drawing of a little horned devil with big grin and forked tail. Sometimes he was stabbing a fat man with a pitchfork. Sometimes just his face would appear, big grin and horns, until shortly even horns and grin meant "Simon was here".}}

* 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 anywhere--vegetable stands, scratched into the corners of glass windows.

* 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 Action Television]] ==

* ''[[V|V the Miniseries]]'': The "V" hand gesture.

 

* ''[[Command and Conquer]]'': The scorpion tail of the Brotherhood of Nod. In addition to their emblem (a scorpion's tail) , the motif includes tank names, their Obelisk's of Light shaped like a Scorpion's tail, and their Temples designed to look like a scorpion. In addition, Kane himself is just a ubiquitous icon for Nod.

* The Wild Rose of the Wild Rose Rebellion from ''[[Final Fantasy II (Video Game)|Final Fantasy II]].''

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* 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]].

* 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]].