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Whenever a revolution is taking place, when people rebel against an authority, certain motifs often come to be associated with the uprisings. This can take the form of many things such as gestures, songs, objects, figureheads, phrases or even landmarks. Basically anything that can be used to symbolize a societal/political upheaval. The nature of the icon means that it frequently becomes memetic among supporters of the rebellion. Certain icons, hand gestures being the most common, tend to be reused across media and history alike. The "V" gesture (Index and middle fingers pointing upwards with the rest of the hand held in a fist and facing away from the user) is a symbol in the V (1983) miniseries, was used to represent the anti-war movement of The '60s, and also stood for the Victory of the Allies in World War II. Because the icon is usually something that is fairly innocuous, it can be displayed openly amongst rebels as a subversive sort of "Screw you" to the people in power. Only in the most Orwellian of societies is this ever punished. Compare Graffiti of the Resistance and Don't Create a Martyr. See also Movement Mascot. |
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The Lilac flowers in Night Watch. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): When Diana's leading an intergalactic resistance made up of escaped and liberated slaves, she herself is what her resistance fighters are rallying behind despite their very different cultures and creeds. Her symbol has been tagged on things in the capitol, indicating that she has support among the kreel too, since there are no slaves there. | |
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Bas-Lag Cycle: In Perdido Street Station, Jack Half-a-Prayer is a figure Shrouded in Myth who endured being "Remade" by New Crobuzon's brutal justice system and escaped to become an iconic freedom fighter. Having one arm replaced by a giant praying mantis limb was pretty good for his visibility too. Benjamin Flex, the Voice of the Resistance via his seditious newsletter. Although he's captured in Perdido Street Station, his execution only inspires many more people to take up the torch on his behalf. The Perpetual Train in Iron Council was formed when indentured railway labourers rebelled against their New Crobuzon overseers and claimed the train (and the tracks) as a free socialist enclave. When they decide to make a heroic assault against New Crobuzon, Judah Law uses golemetry to freeze them in time indefinitely, keeping the icon alive and untouchable at its proudest moment. Spiral Jacobs, the vagabond, roams around the city of 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 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. |
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: The Zeta Gundam itself is AEUG's symbol of defiance against the corrupt Titans. | |
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In season 5 of Samurai Jack, Ashi discovers the rave who Jack freed in "Jack and the Rave", and once they hear that she is looking for Jack, they make a S-salute with their hands while singing a tribute about him. | |
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V (1983): The "V" hand gesture, and as spray-painted graffiti. | |
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Boko Berikuka in the Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "Walkin' City Blues" is both a nickname for the walking city of the title, and a symbol of injustice for the city's working classes. It turns out that the city is Powered by a Forsaken Child, and Boko Berikuka was the name of that child. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Kudelia Aina Berstein actively tries to become this, and becomes known as "The Maiden of Revolution". She favors diplomacy and reform over open warfare, though. | |
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From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The Team (Dai-)Gurren symbol and flag. | |
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Half-Life 2 has Gordon Freeman, who certainly becomes a Messiah-type figure to the ragtag human rebellion in City 17, and the Lambda symbol, which becomes a common symbol to denote rebels and the caches they hide around the city and surrounding countryside. | |
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G.I. Joe: COBRA, naturally enough, has a red cobra's head with its hood open. | |
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The Hunger Games: The mockingjay pin, and eventually Katniss Everdeen herself. | |
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Les Misérables has two of these: the flag Mabeuf dies waving, and Mabeuf's bullet-ridden coat afterwards. | |
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Gundam 00: Gundams become synonymous with Celestial Being. | |
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In Attack on Titan, Eren Yeager is idolized as a messiah by a cult of crazy bastards, who believe that the city's current leaders are too incapable/unwilling to fend off the Marleyan invasion. (They... may not be wrong about that last part.) It's suggested that the Attack Titan itself, which Eren wields, is some sort of manifestation of the concept of freedom in humanity's subconcious. | |
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: Rebels against the Lunar Authority wear red caps called Liberty Caps. Robert A. Heinlein got the idea from the French Revolution example in Real Life below. The "Simon Jester" symbol, which is used with anti-Lunar Authority graffiti. |
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Discworld: The Lilac flowers in Night Watch. The sign of the turtle in Small Gods, symbolising the rejection of the Omnian dogma that the world is spherical. |
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Minecraft: Story Mode: In Season 2 Episode 5, there are several posters of Ocelots scattered around Beacontown. It is eventually revealed that Lukas reformed the Ocelots to rebel against The Admin, who has stolen Jesse's identity, explaining he reformed the group to remind everyone of what it was like before, including The Admin (who Lukas thinks is his friend Jesse gone mad), directly calling it a symbol for Beacontown to rally around in their rebellion. | |
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In Persona 5, the Phantom Thieves' symbol (which resembles a hat burning from the inside out) eventually gains traction as this trope. Receiving the symbol in the mail is a warning: the thieves have noticed what you're doing and if you don't change your ways within about a month or so, they will change them for you. Of course, those who are cruel on a big enough scale to get noticed are also too arrogant to ever listen... | |
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In Uncanny X-Men, the X and Cyclops himself are actively used as a symbol by/of oppressed mutants. | |
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Victory Gundam: By this point in time in the UC universe, Gundams as a whole are a symbol of resistance, which is why the League Militaire has modeled their mobile suits to be either Gundams or Gundam look-a-likes. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In one story arc, Bajor is threatened by a nationalistic group called the Circle. These extremists spray-paint their symbol as vandalism and in their headquarters. When a beloved war hero from the resistance returns to Bajor, the Circle makes sure to keep him isolated and out of the political scene, lest he become an icon of unity as they try to destabilize the existing government in the leadup to their coup-d'etat. | |
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Le Diamant ("The Diamond") and L'Épurateur ("The Purifier"), two famous figures of the alternate French Revolution in Look to the West. While Le Diamant was a figure with well-known beliefs that went on to influence radical thought for years after his death, L'Épurateur was an unknown soldier who posed dramatically atop the Bastille with a bloodied, upside-down flag and the decapitated head of a reactionary leader.note In-universe history books note that nobody knows who L'Épurateur really was, and for all they know he could have been a simple thug who went to fight for the royalists the next day when they offered him more money. They inspired a stylised diamond symbol and a red flag with an upside-down fleur-de-lys respectively. | |
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V for Vendetta has wearing Guy Fawkes masks, and the "V" in general. V himself is both rebellion and icon. | |
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In Chapter 9 of the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the Fallen Empire, an official resistance is formed to combat the Eternal Empire, comprised of members of both the Republic and the Empire. The symbol of the Eternal Alliance is a combination of both factions' symbol cut down the middle and put together. | |
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The Rebel Alliance's emblem. According to The Force Unleashed, the emblem belongs to the House of Marek and adopted by the Rebels after Galen Marek (a.k.a. Starkiller) gives his life to save them from the Emperor and Darth Vader. After the Continuity Reboot, Star Wars Rebels gave a new origin for the emblem as a creation of rebel artist Sabine Wren, who based it on a phoenix as a symbol of the rebel alliance rising from the ashes of their defeats, burning despite the Empire's attempts to stamp it out. | |
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Gundam Wing: The Gundams themselves become a symbol of Colonial Resistance. | |
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The audio equivalent of the V for Victory sign was the "da-da-da daaa" opening notes of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which form the Morse Code symbol for the letter "V", three dots followed by a dash. | |
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The Wild Rose of the Wild Rose Rebellion from Final Fantasy II. It can be seen on the rebels' Badass Capes, and the phrase itself is used as a password. | |
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Gundam provides several examples: Victory Gundam: By this point in time in the UC universe, Gundams as a whole are a symbol of resistance, which is why the League Militaire has modeled their mobile suits to be either Gundams or Gundam look-a-likes. Gundam Wing: The Gundams themselves become a symbol of Colonial Resistance. Gundam 00: Gundams become synonymous with Celestial Being. Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeon's emblem. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: The Zeta Gundam itself is AEUG's symbol of defiance against the corrupt Titans. Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: Kudelia Aina Berstein actively tries to become this, and becomes known as "The Maiden of Revolution". She favors diplomacy and reform over open warfare, though. |
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Hit-Monkey: As the first season goes on and Monkey takes down more and more criminals, the people of Tokyo come to respect him and note him as a symbol of good. This comes to a head in the season finale when the crowd outside the tower Shinji's campaign is holed up all wear masks of Monkey's likeness. The cherry on top? When Monkey is exposed while trying to infiltrate the tower, the masked crowd quickly joins the brawl. | |
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In Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72, the villainous Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life gets turned into this by the anti-government activists. Ironically, it started because the authoritarian, far-right corporate regime running America in The '80s tried to promote It's a Wonderful Life as The Moral Substitute to A Christmas Carol. A story about a greedy businessman learning the error of his ways — and a quintessentially British story, at that (the Special Relationship having thoroughly gone to hell by that point in time) — was unacceptable to the political classes, while It's a Wonderful Life was seen as supporting the conservative, pro-capitalist, Everytown, America values of George Bailey and Bedford Falls. Unfortunately, the downtrodden masses came to identify Mr. Potter as representative of America's leadership, and before long, protesters and activists were often comparing the state of America to that of Pottersville, the dystopian Alternate Universe Bedford Falls that the angel shows to George. | |
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The red flag in the musical version of Les Misérables, having its basis in real-life revolutions also using the red flag. | |
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Legends of Dune: Serena Butler's infant son Manion becomes the symbol of what becomes known as the Butlerian Jihad against the tyrannical Thinking Machines, after he is thrown from a balcony by the robot Erasmus. He becomes the first martyr in the fight as Manion the Innocent. "Saint" Serena herself joins the ranks of martyrs after she lets herself be taken and killed by the machines to invigorate the masses. Serena's grand-niece Rayna Butler is this for the Butlerian movement during and after the Jihad. She herself becomes yet another martyr when she is publicly assassinated by someone opposing her radical anti-technology views. Rayna's Number Two Manford Torondo, who lost his legs from a bomb, becomes another strong symbol for the movement, although it's less about rebellion now and more about (in their twisted minds) keeping the Imperium from becoming dependent on technology again. Manford's followers (especially his loyal Swordmaster Anari Idaho, who always carries him on her back) see him as nothing less than a living saint. |
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In the second season of Freeman's Mind, Gordon very quickly deduces that the lambda symbol is the symbol of the Resistance which they use to mark their hidden supply caches. He then calls out how monumentally stupid this is, because if he figured it out that easily, the government can too, and can use it to find them and stamp them out. Then again, the entire Resistance appears so incompetently run that Gordon at one point can't help but wonder if it's actually secretly run by the government as a way for them to easily weed out and slaughter dissidents. | |
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The Black Knights of Code Geass use a corrupt Geass Symbol. The protagonist deliberately styles himself as ZERO! | |
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The Ralad symbol meaning "bird" or "freedom" is used by the Resistance in Deltora Quest to identify members. | |
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Legend of the Blue Diamond: Naturally, the Blue Diamond is the symbol of the Diamond Resistance. Lapis and Indigo both have a marking with the Blue Diamond on it, which signifies that they are both apart of the Diamond Resistance. | |
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Game of Thrones: Robb Stark, for the North. By Season 6, his legacy is still inspiring a new Northern Rebellion. | |
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The Perpetual Train in Iron Council was formed when indentured railway labourers rebelled against their New Crobuzon overseers and claimed the train (and the tracks) as a free socialist enclave. When they decide to make a heroic assault against New Crobuzon, Judah Law uses golemetry to freeze them in time indefinitely, keeping the icon alive and untouchable at its proudest moment. | |
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Future Robot Daltanious: By 1995, the entire galaxy has been conquered by the Zaal Empire. When one robot from Earth, Daltanious, begins fighting back against the Zaal forces, word spreads to other planets and they become inspired by Kento and his persistence. | |
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In Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, Kelsier invokes this in his rebellion against the Lord Ruler. Up close, he slowly reveals himself to be an outright Sociopathic Hero, but as the ever-smiling "Survivor of Hathsin", he's a Hope Bringer and highly charismatic leader who rallies the masses and whose Thanatos Gambit cements him in this role as a messianic religious figure for centuries. | |
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The Wire after the death of Frank Sobotka, the International Brotherhood of Stevadores local refuses to co-operate with the federal investigation and paper the town with flyers for Frank's re-election as union treasurer. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series: 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. | |
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The mockingjay in The Hunger Games (or Katniss putting a bunch of flowers on the recently slain Rue). Likewise, District 12's three-finger salute along with Rue's four note whistle — originally District 11's whistle to indicate that the day's labor is over. | |
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In the Trickster's Duet, the symbol for the cultural uprising of an ethnic group enslaved and kept on the bottom rung of society is 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. | |
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From Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the Laughing Man's logo. | |
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In Perdido Street Station, Jack Half-a-Prayer is a figure Shrouded in Myth who endured being "Remade" by New Crobuzon's brutal justice system and escaped to become an iconic freedom fighter. Having one arm replaced by a giant praying mantis limb was pretty good for his visibility too. | |
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In the Enemy at the Door episode "V for Victory", the V sign is used to express disaffection with the German occupiers, with cut-out paper Vs appearing in unexpected places, painted Vs appearing on walls, and an enormous burning V appearing in a field one night. | |
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Dragon Age II: Due to their actions at the Gallows, Hawke's name becomes a rallying cry for oppressed Mages to rise up, ultimately leading to the Mage-Templar War engulfing Thedas. This is despite Hawke having very little to do with the actual reason for those events having occurred, ultimately simply being the Right Man in the Wrong Place, who was forced to use all of their badassery to ride out the wave. There is also the Kirkwall Rebel Symbol, which appears throughout the city. It is basically a crude figure of a dragon scrawled upon walls. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeon's emblem. | |
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The Raynor's Raiders insignia from StarCraft II. | |
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Amphibia: The season 1 finale "Reunion" reveals that Hop Pop standing up to Mayor Toadstool in "Hop-Popular" has made him an icon for rebellion against the Toads, who seem to run the valley. Unfortunately, this has also made him a target for Captain Grime and his men. | |
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The sign of the turtle in Small Gods, symbolising the rejection of the Omnian dogma that the world is spherical. | |
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The Rockerboys in Cyberpunk 2077, a protest movement striking back against corporate and government overreach (same thing, really), have their iconic founder, musician Johnny Silverhand — a character inherited from the Cyberpunk universe's tabletop-RPG origins. He's believed to have been killed in the Fourth Corporate War, but in CP2077, the protagonist discovers that a copy of his personality has survived via Brain Uploading. | |
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Gor: In 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 individual cell interacts with any other cell, they just call themselves that and engage in uncivil disobedience. | |
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Transformers: Some continuities have the Autobot symbol be their slave brand until they threw off their shackles and turned it into a badge of honor. The Decepticon symbol is also a case of this in most stories post 2010, as the Decepticons are depicted as slaves and other low-class 'bots who rebelled against Cybertron's corrupt government, but eventually started going too far. |
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Keffiyeh for Palestinian, and the Palestine solidarity movements. Wikipedia has a long and comprehensive history of how it came to be an icon, which might be useful to clear some confusion in regards of its image in the west. The watermelon also became one for the movement, as it features the same colors as the Palestinian flag, which was banned under Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank until 1993. Watermelon emoji gained prominence on social media during the 2023 Israel-Hamas War. | |
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