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Want to know how unpopular a leader of a country is? Usually, it goes no further than if even the leader's own military forces can't stand him and proceed to attempt to overthrow the ruler by rogue soldiers going against their commanders-in-chief. At worst, expect the country to become a military junta (a state run by the military) afterwards, which is when the military plans to take over the existing government, ushering in a new empire under martial law. Often, this is led by a power hungry General Ripper who believes the current administration is soft, and that their nation should eliminate all their enemies and suppress dissent with an iron fist. Expect the general's dream to be a new government based on "efficiency", where citizens are conscripted into manual labor to build for the new expansionist government, with any protesters being shot on sight or at least jailed. Cue a threat that's got numbers, technology, and high-power weaponry — these can range from just the leader and a few groups of soldiers covertly trying to take over to the entire armed force of the country going on full-scale attack. On the flipside, this can occur due to genuine concern for the well-being of the empire, especially if their commander-in-chief and the nation's leader also turns out to be The Caligula. Given what Real Life leaders of military coups mostly end up doing, this isn't usually the case in Real Life. Note that a military official beating a politician out of office by political means like the ballot box, even if said box was stuffed, does not qualify as a military coup. A military coup requires that the military force a change in who wields what power by militaristic or otherwise explicitly extralegal means, such as assassinations or fighting directly against them — modern constitutions do not legally sanction the Klingon Promotion. Military coups committed by the recognized leader already in power are also possible, provided the military is used by said leader for a power grab he shouldn't legally have; such "auto-coups" or "self-coups" might involve, say, a head of state unilaterally dissolving a legislative assembly that was meant to serve as a check on his power. This can be Truth in Television. Most coup attempts in Real Life are either led by a military officer or someone with their backing—in unstable countries the military is often the only entity that has the organization, discipline, speed, and access to arms necessary to pull off a coup. All this is needed for a coup to work, as the more time that is needed to secure strategic points the more time a coup's opponents have to organize a response. Subtrope of The Coup, which is the trope you want if it's not the military leading the charge. If this takes place in your country, it's Day of the Jackboot. |
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Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War features one as part of the speculative future decline and fall of the United States. The last elected head of the increasingly decaying and corrupt Republic, Sam Warner, is a well-meaning but ineffective man, and unable to maintain national unity as a crippling economic crisis strikes, the federal government weakens and states begin to secede. After Warner and most of his cabinet are killed in an improbably successful lone-wolf suicide attack, General Wesley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overrides the constitutional line of succession and establishes an outright military dictatorship, trying to hold the country together with naked force. | |
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Star Trek Online: In the backstory, a political dispute between then-Praetornote prime minister equivalent Taris and Imperial Fleet supreme commander General Velal led to Velal starting an uprising to install the exiled Sela in her place. Taris vanished into thin air when the fleet reached the new capital Rator III, and Sela ascended. She later declared herself Empress. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): After the military dictatorship of Neptunia is overthrown when they try to fight and enslave humanity, they're replaced by a more democratic government... which only lasts about a year and a half before being taken out in a military coup by the military "masters" of the old government. | |
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In The Mirage, the Library of Alexandria mentions an attempted coup against the Joeseph P. Kennedy Administration by Commander Nixon. Subverted by the fact that it failed, and instead it was LBJ who seized power five years later through a "regular" coup. | |
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Melromarc briefly undergoes this in Family of the Shield, following Naofumi Iwatani slowly winning back the support of the public as The Paragon due to his actions; all the while King Aultcray constantly belittled and demeaned him for a crime he never committed by imposing arbitrary laws meant to prevent Naofumi from ever getting stronger to confront The Waves they had summoned him to stop. Which finally reached its' breaking point when the King threatened Naofumis' party: largely unaware that Naofumis' Party was actually Naofumis' family. After Naofumi stated his intentions to leave Melromarc to protect his family, the Royal Knights whose own families and loved ones were saved because of Naofumi started a coup to place Princess Melty in-charge of Melromarc to convince Naofumi and The Iwatani Family to stay. | |
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By the Hands of the People revolves around this. In 1848 a revolution breaks out in Arendelle to dethrone the royal family. Elsa and Anna are imprisoned and then executed. | |
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Honor Harrington: Esther McQueen attempts a military coup against the Havenite regime herself, entirely in line with the series' tendency to parallel the French Revolutionary Wars (with Esther "Admiral Cluster Bomb" McQueen in the Napoleon role) — only for the series to go Off the Rails when Esther's Coup fails. The next such coup is a subversion: Thomas Theisman seizes power from the Committee of Public Safety in a textbook military coup, then proceeds to get rid of said power just as fast as he can possibly manage, instead setting up a Cabinet with an acting President under the rules of Haven's first Constitution (with a few strategic tweaks to ensure that there won't need to be another coup any time within the next several millennia). In the end, he takes the job of Secretary of War and Chief of Naval Operations, but only agrees to become Secretary of War so he can make sure the Navy can't do to his government what he just did to the CPS. Near the end of Uncompromising Honor, the Mandarins, the five unelected bureaucrats who control the Solarian League, are arrested and overthrown by the military, which sues for peace with the Grand Alliance of Manticore and Haven. |
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Earth's Alien History: Following the conclusion of the Reaper War, Marshal Daena T'Drak exposes the Matriarchs' corruption (most pointedly their undermining of her war effort just to make themselves look better) to the public and arrests them, taking over and declaring herself Empress, reunifying the declining Asari Republics as a unified Empire. A very unique example, in that due to the exact circumstances, this is all essentially voted for by the public. General Rahm Tak, backed by conservative elements in the Votanis Collective military and civilian government, overthrows and executes the Chancellor and most of his ministers for the "treason" of joining TeTO. In response, Vice-Chancellor Silora Voske (who escaped the coup and subsequent purge by sheer luck) takes asylum in TeTO's colony on New Votanis and declares herself the acting head of a Government in Exile, backed militarily by TeTO. |
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The Simpsons: In "Cape Feare", Lisa's pen pal Anya writes that the president of her country has been overthrown and replaced by General Krull. | |
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Timeline-191: Attempted in Settling Accounts: In at the Death, in an Alternate History universe's Confederate States of America in 1944. Sadly, it fails, and Jake Featherston, the local Adolf Hitler analogue, stays in power for the remainder of the war, bringing the Confederacy to ruin. | |
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The Death of Russia: When the portion of Siberia that's still nominally loyal to the National Salvation Front asks General Alexander Lebed to take over their provisional government for the duration of the Second Russian Civil War, he responds by denouncing the Fascists and Communists alike and having his forces arrest all the local NSF officials, taking over the region as a military dictator. When the Cuban military gets word of Fidel Castro wanting to send soldiers to Russia to fight on Anpilov's side in exchange for resources to alleviate a worse Special Period (with spare resources being something no Russian government has for obvious reasons), the army kills both Fidel and his brother and installs a junta that sees democracy return by 1996. Kim Jong-il is overthrown and killed in a military coup led by Jang Song-Thaek, his brother-in-law who feared Kim's invasion of the Far Eastern Republic would lead to a US/ROK invasion that would see everyone flung against the wall, and preferred to become a Chinese Puppet State instead. |
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Metal Wolf Chaos starts with US Vice President Richard Hawk seizing power with the help of the military and starting a totalitarian regime. President Michael Wilson has to fight his way out of the White House grounds with his personal suit of Powered Armor to start taking the country back. | |
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The story for Front Mission 2 takes place in Alordesh (future Bangladesh) when pro-coup factions in the Alordeshi security forces attempt to overthrow the pro-OCU government and OCU troops stationed in the country. | |
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The notorious Lyrical Nanoha doujinshi Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha BetrayerS is set in an Alternate Timeline wherein the eponymous "Betrayers" (led by Hayate and including Nanoha, Teana, and the Wolkenritter) staged a coup to take over the TSAB. | |
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Played with in The Night Unfurls. It's not the country's own military per se that intends to overthrow the current regime, but rather the most renowned mercenary group (the Black Dogs) with close ties with said country (Eostia) that does so. Moreover, said mercenary group decide to invoke the trope after heading the Grim Up North, taking over the Black Fortress, and attaining N.G.O. Superpower status as a result of making full use of the orcs and the resources of the fortress. | |
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RWBY: With Penny loose with the Winter Maiden's powers, the Relic of Knowledge in Salem's hands, and his few loyal forces weakened, General James Ironwood declares martial law across Atlas. When the remaining councilmen come to him to protest, he shoots Sleet in cold blood to remove him as an obstacle, with Camilla reacting in horror. | |
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The bad guys in The Man from Barbarossa are Russian army officials who plan to overthrow their current government and start a global war. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Glemmy Toto attempts to launch one of these against resident Big Bad Haman Khan. The coup fails to achieve its objectives, and instead succeeds in splitting Axis-Zeon's forces, resulting in a devastating Enemy Civil War that, ironically enough, saves The Federation from an Axis invasion. | |
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Discussed in The Crown (2016). Lord Mountbatten is approached by a number of bankers and businessmen alarmed at Harold Wilson's socialist policies. Their plan is to overthrow the elected British government, take it over themselves, and install Mountbatten as a figurehead ruler. He points out that overthrowing an established First World democracy like Great Britain would require the unquestioning loyalty of tens of thousands of troops, which he didn't have even in his heyday. | |
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Attack on Titan: During the Uprising Arc, the shadow conspiracy in charge of the government attempts to do The Purge against the Survey Corps and capture Eren for sinister purposes. When Erwin is taken for a trial, he manages a ploy with Commander Pixis to make an Engineered Public Confession by convincing the nobles that Wall Rose has fallen. When they make clear their intentions to abandon more than half of humanity to die this convinces Commander-in-Chief Zackly and the rest of the military to defect and install Historia Reiss as the queen. Later in the series, there's the Yeagerists, a faction of the military hoping to support Eren's plan to wage war against Marley. They stage a coup against the military junta, killing Zackly and taking over the military. |
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James Bond: Landsea '89 naval exercise in Win, Lose or Die is based on a fictitious scenario where the military of Soviet Union, unhappy with the then-president Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost-policy, takes over and shows off their power in several skirmishes in the sea. The next item would see something like that almost happening for real. The bad guys in The Man from Barbarossa are Russian army officials who plan to overthrow their current government and start a global war. |
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Babylon Berlin features an attempted one by ultra-nationalist, proto-fascist, monarchist military officers calling themselves the "Black Reichswehr". The plan is Very Loosely Based on a True Story, as there were a lot of coup attempts during the Weimar era of Germany. | |
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Nomeansno's song "Rich Guns" depicts a coup in an unspecified Latin American country staged by a bloodthirsty, plutocratic regime. | |
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In Zero Requiem, Lashare stages a successful one when his sellsword company is hired protect Myr from the Jolly Fellows and the Golden Company. | |
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: The Grand Finale reveals that Major-General Beale and the upper echelons of the Civic Republic Military are planning on using their pending destruction of Portland (specifically the public shock and fear of this "mysterious, unexplained accident") as an excuse to overthrow the Civic Republic's civilian government and install martial law, so that they can more openly enact their paranoid policy of wiping out every survivor community outside their control. They never get the chance to enact this, as Rick kills Beale after learning his plans, and then he and Michonne wipe out the assembled corrupt leadership by detonating the poison gas stockpiled for their Portland attack. | |
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Metal Gear: The plotline of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater deals with the GRU trying to dispose of Khrushchev, with Volgin masterminding the entire coup against Khrushchev. Sokolov also implies that the coup was occurring quite a while before, but Khrushchev managed to put down any resistance until Kennedy's assassination. Naked Snake (an American agent) is called in to stop Volgin and the Boss from continuing with the coup, as it would have otherwise led to World War III. The South American rebels in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are strongly implied to be waging one of these against the new regime. |
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The Lost Fleet: The fear of one of these drives more than one subplot in the second story arc, because the Alliance's Space Navy has a charismatic leader to rally around in the form of Captain Geary, whose reputation they'd built up to King in the Mountain levels as wartime propaganda only to discover that a) he wasn't technically dead and b) he lived up to that reputation. The civilian leadership are only slightly reassured to learn that Geary is far too much of a loyal and honourable officer to even entertain the idea, because that the officer who Geary abruptly replaced had been under suspicion of planning one. These suspicions turn out to be well-founded. Several of these kick off in the Syndicate Worlds as a result of the titular Lost Fleet's fighting withdrawal inflicting such heavy losses that public confidence in the Executive Council and their ability to put down rebellion both fall apart. One particularly notable example is the Midway system, which was the focus of the spinoff series The Lost Stars. |
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The South American rebels in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are strongly implied to be waging one of these against the new regime. | |
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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare begins with one. | |
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Megazone 23 has BD's faction in the military launch a coup against top officials and other military officer who are complacent to keep the masquerade that everyone's on a moving spaceship and not on Earth. | |
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Seven Days in May has this planned against an unpopular President of the US by the very popular Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with the plot being it getting discovered and then the President's men trying to prevent it. | |
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Paradise Lost", we have Starfleet Admiral Leyton convincing the government to enact martial law on Earth, secretly in preparation for him to launch a coup and put in a government that will be able to protect Earth from the Dominion. Amusingly enough, both Admiral Leyton and General Hague were played by the same actor. The reason General Hague had a bridge dropped on him in B5 was because the actor was unavailable for a key episode... he was filming this episode of Deep Space Nine. | |
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xXx: State of the Union features an attempt by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and rogue members of the military to overthrow the sitting President during a State of the Union address in a False Flag Operation. Specifically, his reasons for such are that the President is closing down overseas bases and in the Secretary's opinion, putting the U.S. in jeopardy through appeasement. | |
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This actually happens midway through the second game of Super Robot Wars: Original Generation when the Jerkass Kenneth Garret leads a coup to toss out the main squadrons former boss Laker and impose a harsher military rule. Unlike many examples, you are basically forced to accept this and allow Kenneth to become your new boss while Laker is "on vacation". Fortunately, things spiral out of control almost immediately afterwards to force Kenneth to give you free rein to do as you please and save the Earth, but at the end of the story, Kenneth's faction is still in control. In the next game, they are still in control, but once again an unexpected disaster forces Kenneth to allow the heroes to do as they please without him micromanaging to save the Earth; however, in the ending, Kenneth is still in control, getting fed up with having to rely on the "soft" heroes, and making plans for a new task force to protect the Earth. They debut in the next game, and soon after your team is forced into a position where you accidentally kill an important politician and are declared terrorists, allowing you to finally actively resist them. In a twist, however, it turns out that Kenneth was just the pawn of another character all along. | |
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It's implied that this trope occurred in the beginning of Super Mario Bros. (1993) when Koopa, wearing what is evidently a top General's uniform, demands to know the meteorite shard's location from Daisy's (soon to be dead) mom when ambushing her in the tunnel leading to the dimensional portal. Not to mention that his former boss and Daisy's father, King Bowser, is de-evolved into fungus. | |
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The Imperial Ilum storyline in Star Wars: The Old Republic has Darth Malgus declare himself Sith Emperor (believing Emperor Vitiate, who hasn't been seen in public for years, to be dead) and lead Imperial splinter forces and alien rebels in a coup attempt against the Dark Council (the de facto rulers of the Empire and especially the Sith religious order). | |
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In episode 38 of Eureka Seven, Colonel Dewey Novak of the U.F. Forces leads a coup to overthrow the U.F. Sage Council. | |
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Tropico: The military will be annoyed if you don't constantly build new military buildings and increase your military power, and your soldiers will grumble if you don't constantly increase their wages. Eventually they'll get tired of it and take over. You basically have to spend tons of money to keep them happy, rule the island with an iron fist, or just fire all your soldiers at the beginning of the game and ignore the thus powerless militarists altogether, saving yourself a lot of grief. In Tropico 4, the state of your soldiers' needs influences how they feel about their commander-in-chief: if they're unhappy with their lot, General Rodriguez will warn you of their dissatisfaction and to address their needs before they rise up against you. Along with the needs of everyday citizens, the military has to be big enough for the island's population and have enough generals to maintain discipline. |
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Ghost Recon: The Xbox version of Ghost Recon 2 has the Korean People's Army launch a coup due to the military budget being allocated to civic projects instead of the KPA to maintain combat readiness. The plot of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has the player character assisting Mexican loyalists in fighting off a coup by a rogue general opposed to the signing of a security agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico. |
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Landsea '89 naval exercise in Win, Lose or Die is based on a fictitious scenario where the military of Soviet Union, unhappy with the then-president Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost-policy, takes over and shows off their power in several skirmishes in the sea. The next item would see something like that almost happening for real. | |
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The War Minister from Varicella is trying to do this. | |
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In Power Play, a group of military officers angry at the corruption and repression of an unnamed European government plan to take over the country and restore civilian government, but one of the plotters assumes power instead. | |
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In the first chapter of Daughter of Fire and Steel, General Zod stages a military coup, dissolves the Kryptonian Science Council and assumes total authority. | |
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Last Resort has another heroic example, as the military and Secret Service plan to lockdown Washington, DC and take over the White House to arrest the current President. The President was in the midst of being impeached when he ordered a nuclear attack on Pakistan based on false evidence and then began turning America into a Police State. The coup members take great care to ensure the Constitution will otherwise remain intact as they plan to hand the presidency over to the Speaker of the House and the Secret Service chief makes it clear that when the Marines arrive to arrest the President, they must show him the respect due his office. | |
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Valkyrie is about an attempted coup against Hitler by Wehrmacht officers with some help from minor German politicians. See the Real Life section for more details. | |
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From a Certain Point of View: It's revealed that Grand Moff Tarkin planned to use the Death Star to stage one against Palpatine. Differently from Grand Moff Trachta above he had properly planned to deal with the Sith, with Darth Vader implied to be part of the conspiracy and the supreme commander of the Navy being confirmed as a member. | |
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Steel Rain is about an attempted military coup in North Korea that threatens to start a second Korean War, this time with nukes. Ironically, the general who at first seems to be launching the coup turns out to be protecting the capital and the nuclear arsenal from the conspirators. | |
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The Bible has an early example in Jehu's coup against Jehoram, King of Israel. | |
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A Brief History of Equestria: At the height of the Lake Trot Crisis, General Wind Whistler stages one of these, leading roughly two-thirds of the Celestine Junta's military against Commander Sullamander, aided by a simultaneous Gladiator Revolt by her lover, Hurricane. Sullamander and Wind Whistler are both killed during the coup, leaving Hurricane to take over. A few years later, Sullamander's remaining loyalists, led by Hurricane's mother Star Saber, attempt to stage a counter-coup. Unfortunately for them, Star Saber is a total idiot, and the coup fails before it can even really start. |
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In Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, a coup d'etat takes place after Belka surrenders, with several high-ranking Belkan officers refusing to accept defeat and pushing for a rematch. | |
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Legacy of the Force: At the height of the Second Galactic Civil War, Admiral Niathal (head of the Galactic Alliance military) and Jacen Solo (head of the Galactic Alliance Guard) exploit a legal loophole that allows them to oust and arrest Chief of State Cal Omas (on the grounds that his ineffective leadership was weakening the war effort) and establish a junta to handle the war directly. To her credit, Niathal intended this to be a temporary emergency measure, and had no idea at the time that Solo had become a Sith Lord who intended to turn the Alliance into his own empire; when she realized she'd been played, she immediately switched sides to support the Jedi rebels. | |
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In Patlabor 2: The Movie, a series of terrorist attacks gives the appearance of a military coup. | |
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In the flashback chapters in Gunka No Baltzar, Rudolph launched a coup in Weissen in order to increase the military's influence over the country's policies. The coup failed and the conspirators committed suicide, but the media's favorable portrayal of the conspirators won over civilian support to give the military more autonomy. | |
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The plotline of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater deals with the GRU trying to dispose of Khrushchev, with Volgin masterminding the entire coup against Khrushchev. Sokolov also implies that the coup was occurring quite a while before, but Khrushchev managed to put down any resistance until Kennedy's assassination. Naked Snake (an American agent) is called in to stop Volgin and the Boss from continuing with the coup, as it would have otherwise led to World War III. | |
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Unsounded: General Bell is plotting to overthrow the current Queen Sonorie, who was elected by the nobles and council, because he thinks she's too week and kind to the Inak and their historical enemies in Alderode, as he wants to wage an all out war and invade rather than trying to politically cripple Alderode. His plot comes to a head in Port Morstorben were he has many redundant assassination attempts set up. | |
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In Hitman (2016), 47 is sent to Marrakesh to eliminate Moroccan General Reza Zaydan, who intends on using the unrest caused by large-scale con artist Claus Strandberg's escape from custody as a pretext to perform one. | |
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This Bites!: While it hasn't happened yet, this is the end goal of the New World Masons, a Benevolent Conspiracy of pirate crews and a splinter sect of Marines led by Smoker, Tashigi and Hina, which is aiming at allowing the latter group to overthrow the World Government in order to free the world from its corruption. | |
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At the end of the second season of Blake's 7, Supreme Commander Servalan uses the chaos caused by sabotage of the Federation Master Computer as both a pretext and opportunity to seize control of the Federation. Unfortunately, the sabotage causes permanent damage to the Federation, and she finds herself The Generalissimo of a Vestigial Empire. | |
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The plot of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter has the player character assisting Mexican loyalists in fighting off a coup by a rogue general opposed to the signing of a security agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico. | |
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Napoléon (2002): Napoléon Bonaparte attempts to sweet-talk the Directorate into granting him and two other consuls Emergency Authority powers, but when the body proves too unruly (and one representative attempts to assassinate him), he instead uses his soldiers to disband the assembly and force them to pass power onto him. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): After President Laura Roslin interferes with Commander Adama's authority over his own people, Adama stages a military coup and assumes total authority. Unlike other examples however, he eventually realizes the situation has gone too far and willingly hands power back to the President. | |
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This is also part of the plotline of the arc Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison, as several graduates of the Imperial Academy, led by Headmaster Gentis, attempt to overthrow Palpatine and Vader, although they're somewhat successful in poisoning Palpatine with the biological weapon Aorth-6. Ironically, one of the people involved in putting down the coup is Grand Moff Trachta, who is the instigator of the (chronologically later) military coup listed above. Gentis' coup, however, is intended to end Palpatine's rule so that no more Imperial officers will be sent to their deaths by him, as Palpatine evidentially did not live up to his promise of there being peace after the Clone Wars, so Gentis is completely justified in committing it. | |
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AKIRA: In the film, when Colonel Shikishima — who already has his hands full in trying to stop the rampaging Tetsuo from destroying Neo-Tokyo — learns that the civilian government plans to arrest him, he declares a state of emergency and orders the military to overthrow the government. In the manga, the Colonel, desperate to find Akira, initiates the military coup in response to the government's tepid response to the crisis. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Kuvira, formerly of Zaofu, leads a military unit that forces every state in the splintered Earth Kingdom into submission, ostensibly so Prince Wu, the legal heir to the throne, can take over the newly reunited land. Instead, at his coronation, she declares herself leader of the new Earth Empire. | |
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Madam Secretary: How Liz solves the A-plot of "The Linchpin". After the ambassador who negotiated a peaceful transition of power in Algeria abruptly drops dead of a heart attack before the deal can go through, the Algerian president hangs his agreed-upon successor and marches to war. At the climax, Liz convinces the more moderate head of the Algerian military to place him under arrest and take over, with a carrot of the rebels accepting the original peace deal and promise of elections, and the stick of NATO using his ground forces for target practice. | |
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The titular mercenaries of the Hammer's Slammers series have been hired by many factions either starting or defending against a military coup. Eventually, a presidential candidate on Colonel Hammer's homeworld hires them to eliminate his competition, but the Colonel decides the planet would be better off with himself in charge. | |
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In Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Venezuelan businessman and technocrat Ramon Solano backs a military coup lead by his stooge General Carrera to take over the country. After Carrera takes power, he repays Solano by naming him Venezuela's new president. | |
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This is one of the three endings in Republic: The Revolution, if you choose Force as your primary policy. | |
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Prophecy Approved Companion: Qube questions how the Evil Emperor rose to power as told in the first chapter: | |
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This is pretty much the whole objective in Junta, which is set in a South American Banana Republic. At some point one or more of the Generals will conspire to depose the ruling Presidente and put one of their own in his position. | |
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The end of A Very British Coup implies this after Britain's socialist Prime Minister defies a plot to blackmail him into resigning. | |
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The Footprint of Mussolini: In 1942, the Turkish military overthrows their government in order to join the Roman Alliance in its conquest of Greece. The People's Liberation Army, with the support of the Soviet Union, decides to overthrow Mao and sue for peace before they lose everything. Mao is arrested while visiting the USSR so he can be used as a bargaining chip, and the PLA launches a purge of his loyalists within the government. Jiang Qing becomes the new leader of Red China, and the China War comes to an end. With Communism collapsing across the Stalingrad Pact, a group of Serbian military officers led by Slobodan Milošević seize power from Tito in order to avoid a war with Croatia. |
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Divergent: In Insurgent, Evelyn ensures that the Factionless are armed and leads an insurrection, becoming the de facto new leader of the Chicago walled community. | |
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The villain in Antz is the leader of the ant army attempting to do away with the queen's power, kill off all the workers, and create a soldier run colony. Knowing ant society, this is incredibly ill advised, but he is fairly crazy. | |
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3Below: The main plot of the show is kicked off by General Morando leading his forces in an attack on the capital of Arkidion-V, killing the king and queen and forcing their children to flee to Earth. He proceeds to then set himself up as the new absolute ruler of the planet until La Résistance manages to launch a revolution against him at the end of the series. | |
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In Revenge of the Sith, the Jedi High Council, having discovered that Chancellor Palpatine was actually Darth Sidious, the Sith who had orchestrated the Clone Wars to put himself in power, attempt a coup, planning to kill him and overthrow the Senate to eliminate the corruption and his control over the Republic... Just as Planned: Palpatine had already in place measures to eliminate the Jedi and turn the Republic in the Galactic Empire but needed a legal excuse to do so, thus he revealed himself to Anakin knowing he'd report him to the Council and how they'd react. | |
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Babylon 5 has a heroic example, with General Hague leading an attempted coup against the increasingly oppressive President Clark. General Hague catches a bridge a few episode later, and Captain Sheridan eventually takes charge of the rebelling forces. It is mentioned by several officers who refused to support the coup later on that it wasn't because they thought Clark was a good guy or anything, but rather because they felt it was wrong for the military to oppose the government, nothing less than treason. These officers at least made a point to try and avoid situations where they'd have to fire on civilians or do any of the nastier things that Clark ordered. This didn't mean that many of them were unwilling to fight the rebel forces, however. At the end Clark's own Vice President is about to remove him with the help of the military, but he shoots himself before they arrive. Soon after a new president who actually respects the Earth Alliance Constitution is installed, Sheridan is forced to resign from Earthforce, and he accepts so long as his followers are given amnesty, since what he did was the product of an extreme Godzilla Threshold and absolutely must be seen as such for the Earth Alliance's restored democracy to last. | |
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Star Trek: Nemesis: The entire Romulan Senate is assassinated by Shinzon and a group of Romulan generals who were promised that he would invade the Federation. | |
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An early episode of Noir has the title characters targeting key members of a 'security firm' that specializes in helping military units set these up. | |
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In The Ruins of an American Party System, the Troika ruling the Soviet Union come to fear that Grand Marshal Tukhachevsky might stage one of these thanks to his immense popularity with, and control of, the Red Army. He doesn't intend to initially, but when they try to preempt this by ousting him from the Party, he and his enraged followers do stage a successful one. | |
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In Fractured (SovereignGFC), a small government department called the United Defense Command grabs more and more power, eventually turning the Citadel Council into a government In Name Only. Of course, the rationale is galactic security since the Reapers have arrived. | |
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