Fictional resistance movements and groups

V for Vendetta used the image of Guy Fawkes for the leader of resistance to a fictional police state. This image is now used in the real world by groups such as Anonymous.

Fictional resistance movements and groups commonly appear in dystopian fiction, opposing the tyranny which dominates the setting.

In Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, the tyranny is the soul-destroying life of modern western society. The protagonist rebels against this by organising atavistic bare-knuckle fights and then by leading Project Mayhem to destroy civilization. This story developed themes of alienation and anti-consumerism seen in earlier works such as Rebel without a Cause and The Prisoner with the epic, millennial quality of other contemporary works such as The Matrix.

List of fictional resistance movements and groups

• Blake's 7 — eponymous rebels against the Terran Federation.
• The Brotherhood — the subversive opposition to The Party in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four.
• Maquis — resistance to the Cardassians in Star Trek.
• The Mephi - the underground rebels getting ready to revolt against OneState in We_(novel) by Evgeny Zamyatin.
• Rebel Alliance — the senators who wish to depose the Emperor and restore the Republic in Star Wars.
• Robin Hood — mythical leader of an English band of outlaws opposed to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
• Song Jiang — leader of outlaws during the Song Dynasty and fictionalised in the Water Margin

See also

• Fictional secret societies
• Terrorism in fiction