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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
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This is not about the phrase, so things that are only mentions of it, and variations on it, are not examples. Basically this is when people are willing to fight to the death for freedom. Sometimes they actually do end up dying for it, but this trope is solely about being willing to die for freedom, regardless of the result. Expect a Rousing Speech or two, or in pessimistic cases Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die. Can overlap with I Die Free when those fighting for their freedom are on the losing side and they have only that choice left. And there are many bloody revolutions in Real Life. Compare Martyrdom Culture. |
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The trope is mocked in Night Watch, where zealous revolutionary Reg Shoe shouts at the enemy, "You can take our lives, but you can never take our freedom!" There's a long pause and some mumbling while everyone runs that sentence through their heads again and decides that, yes, it's the stupidest battle cry they've ever heard. Sure enough, Carcer answers "Wrong!" and shoots him. Later he comes back as a zombie and spends his unlife campaigning for minority rights. | |
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Harriet Tubman in Harriet, also true to Real Life. She leaps off a bridge into a roiling river when cornered, rather than be recaptured and enslaved again. | |
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Dream SMP: L'Manburg plays with this a lot in its War for Independence. At the start of the war, Wilbur, its first leader, declares an equivalent of this during the secession of L'Manburg, stating that its citizen-members would rather die than give in to Dream's corrupt rule. Dream, being a Control Freak who considers the entire server to be his property (in a Divine Right of Kings sort of way), retaliates to this by delivering death to the L'Manburgians' doorstep, manipulating Eret to betray the nation and have everyone else Lured into a Trap to be outright massacred in the Final Control Room by Dream and his allies. Wilbur is willing to stand down after the massacre (given it doubles as his Cynicism Catalyst, it makes sense in hindsight), but Tommy isn't, and plays this trope fully straight by having a Duel to the Death against Dream for L'Manburg's independence; while Tommy loses the duel and his second canon life in the processnote Each DSMP character has three canon lives; every Revolution-era L'Manburgian other than Eret lost their first canon life in the Final Control Room massacre, he ends up negotiating L'Manburg its independence anyway after trading his Cat and Mellohi discs, two items Dream wants, for it.note Wilbur, being Tommy's Big Brother Mentor-figure, initially tried to talk him down from this, believing L'Manburg's freedom and independence to be not worth Tommy's life, but ultimately gives in. | |
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In Supernatural, when Sam and Dean join Charlie in larping at the end of the episode, Dean legit quotes the Braveheart speech word for word. | |
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Discworld: Those tiny blue William Wallace stand-ins, the Nac Mac Feegle. "Nae king! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!" Then again, they also think they're dead and in warrior paradise, so their views on getting killed are a little unique. The trope is mocked in Night Watch, where zealous revolutionary Reg Shoe shouts at the enemy, "You can take our lives, but you can never take our freedom!" There's a long pause and some mumbling while everyone runs that sentence through their heads again and decides that, yes, it's the stupidest battle cry they've ever heard. Sure enough, Carcer answers "Wrong!" and shoots him. Later he comes back as a zombie and spends his unlife campaigning for minority rights. |
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Freedom is the entire theme of Stormblood in Final Fantasy XIV. The nations of Doma and Ala Mhigo were invaded and captured by The Empire and both nations have resigned to being under their suppressive rulers. It's only when the Warrior of Light and their fellow Scion companions come in to give aid that the peoples of the enslaved nations start to fight back and are willing to sacrifice their lives to regain the freedom they had lost. | |
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Inuyasha: Kagura is enslaved to Naraku but is determined to obtain her freedom. Sesshoumaru warns her that her path will lead to her death if she's not careful, but she persists anyway because there is no other alternative for her. Eventually, even though she knows it will cost her life to do so, she saves Kohaku from being killed by Mouryoumaru and is promptly killed by Naraku. Bittersweet because she realises as she's dying that the only way she could ever gain her freedom was by dying, but that it is true freedom. Lampshaded later on by Mouryoumaru when he accidentally angers Sesshoumaru's by insulting Kagura's willingness to die for her freedom, an ideal and death he views as worthless. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four, with the Brotherhood. It turns this was set up by the Secret Police, though, as only Thought Criminals would join such an organization and so the Brotherhood gathers all potential rebels while the loyal Party members ignore it. | |
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In Scion, when the Raven and Heron kingdoms invade the Lesser Races' Sanctuary island, Exeter makes it clear that he's willing to die defending it, which leads to this speech: | |
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In the backstory of Path of Exile the kingdom of Ezomyr was forcibly annexed by the Eternal Empire. The Ezomytes were enslaved en mass and the kingdom driven into poverty. When the Purity Rebellion rose up against the excesses of the Empire, the Ezomytes took to the field against the Empire's legions and kept fighting despite hideous casualties (losing three men for each legionnaire they killed) until they won. | |
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Mandalay: Tanya would rather kill her ex-lover and die of Black Fever in the city of Mandalay than return to a brothel and be a sex worker. | |
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Shows up in Part III of The Cartoon History of the Universe, in the bit about the Zanj Rebellion. "Zanj" was a term for East African slaves (bought from their native rulers in what is now Kenya and Tanzania) who were employed in southern Iraq's production of sugarcane. They rose in revolt against the Arab, Persian, and Turkish rulers of the Abbasid Caliphate, and (as Gonick notes) fought ferociously for their freedom (primarily because the alternative was death). It's specifically brought up in this panel: | |
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Animorphs is built on teenagers repeatedly risking their lives to fight alien brain-controlling slugs enslaving humanity. Ax finds this exact phrase in a book of quotes and wonders if the Yeerks would've invaded if they knew humans thought like that. Other species targeted by the Yeerks frequently have a "free or dead" attitude. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls backstory, St. Alessia, the "Slave Queen", led a uprising of Cyrodiil's native human population against their Ayleid masters, who had dominated Cyrodiil since time immemorial, for the freedom of the enslaved humans they kept. After risking her life to escape slavery herself, she would ally with the Nordic Empire, rebel Ayleid lords, and even the gods themselves to defeat the Ayleids. | |
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One Piece: The residents of Cocoyashi Village spent eight years enduring the oppressive rule of Arlong while Nami gathered the funds to buy their freedom. When Arlong arranged to have those funds stolen, the villagers decided to march on Arlong Park and either take their freedomback or die trying. | |
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Older Sister Maid in Maoyu, when she had to impersonating Crimson Scholar, and being arrested for being heretical. | |
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Spoofed in Chicken Run: | |
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William Wallace and his fellow Scotsman in Braveheart, and Real Life. FREEDOM!!! |
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Spoofed in Dubious Company, where a village revolts against the Evil Overlord, declaring this. After getting stomped by Mary and Sue, they renounce the revolt as if it never happened. This confuses Tiren to no end. | |
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In Dragon Age II Anders seems to believe it's better if mages die fighting for their freedom rather than live in the Circle, that for him is nothing more than a Gilded Cage. He blows up the Chantry to provoke a war and force mages to rebel or be slaughtered. | |
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"Can You Run" by the Steeldrivers (Chris Stapleton's former band), narrated by a (soon-to-be-former) slave during The American Civil War. | |
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Impulse (2018): Dominic, one of the teleporters, would rather shoot himself and take his 8-year-old son with him than let him be taken by the people who experimented on him. | |
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