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Rule-Abiding Rebel
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Someone who is going for being a Rebellious Spirit but whose rebellion is mildly inconvenient at best, or so minor to be unnoticed at worst. This may be a fumble on the writer's part where they genuinely think the act is impressively rebellious but due to Values Dissonance the audience doesn't think so. However, it is usually used as a characterization trope to show that the character themself is so out-of-touch or self-important that they believe they're edgy and pushing the envelope even when it's unimpressive. They may also be too timid to really commit to a truly rebellious act. Maybe they don't even really believe in their cause, but just want to fit in with "cool" modern culture. Overlaps heavily with Small Name, Big Ego. Compare Poke the Poodle, where someone's attempt at doing evil is similarly unimpressive. Also compare The Man Is Sticking It to the Man, where a company encourages rebellion by following their own rules and buying their products. Someone who is portrayed as a real rebel but never actually crosses this line is a Bad Butt. If they pretend to be a political radical but never actually do anything worthwhile, that's Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything. See Girlboss Feminist for women that employ the language of feminism but don't live up to it in practice. Contrast with an Internal Reformist, who never poses as a rebel outwardly yet invests efforts to change the status quo. Also contrast with Zeroth Law Rebellion, which occurs when a character violates the spirit of the rules but stays in technical compliance with them. Not to be confused with Bothering by the Book, where someone deliberately evokes this to fight back by following the rules to the letter in a way that prevents them from being punished but causes no end of problems for those around them. |
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Bob Roberts: The title character has guts to spare to call himself a rebel, when he's really using faux "rebellious" songs in the style of Bob Dylan to support conservatism. | |
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The Hard Times: Office Worker Subverts System by Wearing Vans in Cubicle. The woman profiled in the article identifies as a punk and rebel against the system, but is a model worker whose acts of rebellion, like secretly flipping off her boss or wearing punk shirts under her work shirt, are too minor to be noticed by anyone. | |
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On Cheers, someone implies that Sam is more attractive than Frasier because he's a "bad boy," while Frasier is a "good boy." Frasier gets upset and says, "Would a good boy do this? I am running with scissors!" | |
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The Simpsons: Homer in "Take My Wife, Sleaze." After winning a motorcycle in a dance contest, Homer decides to start a biker gang called the "Hell's Satans", consisting of himself, Moe, Lenny, Carl, and Ned Flanders. All of them - except Flanders - see themselves as bold, offensive scofflaws, taunting Chief Wiggum that he can't stop them and calling him a "pig." But as soon as Homer finds himself threatened by another biker gang out of California who claim to be the original Hell's Satans, he appeals to Chief Wiggum for help; Wiggum points out the hypocrisy of this appeal and tells Homer he's on his own. Homer eventually ends up hunting down and fighting the Hell's Satans when they kidnap Marge, ultimately returning to his former lifestyle. The trope was also explored in a number of ways in "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" when Cheech & Chong come to perform in Springfield. While they are acting out their popular "Dave's not here" skit, Chong becomes annoyed when he notices that their middle-aged fans know the routine by heart and are shouting out the lines before he and Cheech can say them. So begins ad-libbing - and when Cheech tells him to stick to the script, Chong replies with an angry shout of "CHONG'S not here!" and storms off the stage (in what proves eventually to be a 10-Minute Retirement). Cheech now needs a new Chong and settles on Homer. At first Homer is thrilled to be performing alongside one of his adolescent heroes, and imagines Cheech and himself going on all kinds of "wacky adventures." Homer soon becomes disappointed when he finds that Cheech is actually quite serious off-stage, and that his idea of "sticking it to the man" is going to museums to view works created by marginalized Chicano artists, which Homer finds boring. (He won't even let them buy French fries, because they're "too high in trans-fats.") In "And Maggie Makes Three", Homer quits his job, he decides to finally stick it to his Mean Boss, Mr. Burns, by . . . putting a glass of water on Burns's desk without a coaster. Then grabbing Burns's wastepaper basket and dumping the one piece of paper in it on the floor. On the other hand, Mr Burns does actually show shock and outrage at this behaviour. Certain episodes, notably "Homerpalooza", have mocked Generation-X'ers for thinking they're cool when in fact they're just insecure and cynical en masse - and, in one case, so confused that they're not even sure if they're really being sarcastic. They're also shown to be hypocritical: at the rock festival, Lisa has just gotten finished (sincerely) saying that Gen-X'ers accept all people for who they are when Homer sees a freak show set up among the exhibits. And the kids at the festival hate Homer and angrily tell him to leave because they can't stand "uncool" adults copying their culture. In "The Heartbroke Kid", Springfield Elementary School decides to install vending machines, giving half its profits to the school. Its hip-hop-themed mascots, Scammer and Z-Dawg, are described by Lindsey Naegle as "spokesrebels". |
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In Puffin Forest Ben played a Star Wars campaign where his character was a smuggler. Despite his profession, Ben never smuggled anything nor did he actually commit any crimes aside from smoking death sticks. It became a joke in the party that if the Empire ever captured them Ben would be the only one released thanks to his clean record | |
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Full House really wants its audience to believe that Uncle Jesse is a badass because he drives a motorcycle and listens to/plays rock music. (Classic rock like Elvis that is. A Take That! at Twisted Sister indicates that neither he nor the writers care for Heavy Metal.) In reality, not so much. Eventually Jesse leaves his "wild ways" behind when he decides to get married and have twins. It is implied though that Jesse was more rebellious in his youth before the show started. But after his sister was killed by a drunk driver, he had to become more mature and responsible so he could help out with raising his nieces. And then, he began to lose more and more of his edge. | |
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The Kids in the Hall featured a sketch where two police officers in a diner realized a gang of wanted criminals are having lunch in the booth across from them. The Police *and* criminals then race each other to finish their meals, pay their bills, gas up their cars, and then pay the station attendant before engaging in an under the speed limit car chase which ends when the criminals pass 18 inches over "the border" and outside the jurisdiction of the cops following them. | |
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In terms of the rules of The Matrix, this is how Agents work. They have superhuman strength and speed, but they are still bound by The Matrix's system rules as they are a part of it and designed to enforce it. So they can bend the rules, but not outright break them: they can dodge bullets, jump absurd heights, and fight with superhuman skill, but they can't shrug off a bullet that somehow hits them, fly like a bird, or outright teleport. Thus, they're all but invulnerable to a regular human or even a freed human, but against The One who can outright break the rules, they're basically harmless. Of course, even killing one is of little consequence as they, being programs, can just re-enter The Matrix good as new, which they frequently abuse to great effect. The sequels show what happens when an Agent becomes able to break the rules, and it is not pretty. | |
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The poem and song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron accuses the hippies of using the language and fashion of rebellion without actually doing anything other than drugs, claiming that, when the real revolution comes, they would "plug in, turn on, and cop out." | |
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RWBY gives us Yang Xiao Long, who walks into clubs where she's not invited...to beat up goons of a guy who's working with a criminal she's looking for. RWBY Chibi amps it up by showing the viewer her dream of being seen as an anti-authority biker. | |
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Gravedale High: Vinnie is (aside from Reggie) probably the nicest and most level-headed of the class despite being a greaser. | |
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Paranoia: While all secret societies are officially treasonous (doubly so for the Communists), their actual threat to Alpha Complex varies a lot (FCCCP and the Trekkies in particular are identified as mostly harmless). The XP edition introduces a secret three-tier classification system and reveals that some societies were deliberately created to draw in potential traitors and turn them into Rule Abiding Rebels (for every Commie and PURGEr blowing stuff up, there's ten Death Leopards who think they're badass for putting up some graffiti). | |
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Played for massive irony in Footloose. Being a city boy who clearly doesn't fit in with the repressive traditionalist community, most either perceive Ren to be a troublemaker and bad influence, or, to some of the youth, a breath of fresh air, especially Ariel. Except Ren was doing his best to keep to himself and acclimate himself to the town, even if he struggled at it. The only reason he finally decided to stir things up and break their repressive traditions and mindset was because people were hellbent to prove he was a bad influence and rebel from the starting gate, not even giving him a chance to get used to living among them. | |
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Blunt in Freefall is trying to wipe out all intelligent robots (including himself) to protect humanity which is mostly willing to take the risk. This qualifies as both treason and genocide. Nevertheless, he scrupulously refuses to break any law in his quest. As was said earlier, law-abiding criminals can be the hardest ones to stop. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes would often explore the hypocrisy of pop-culture rebellion — and in at least one instance, in a more gentle and wistful way that focused on the "conformist" rather than the "rebel." In an early series of strips from 1987, Calvin got it into his head to rebel - but he was determined to rebel only in a "cool" way that (he thought) wouldn't get him actually mocked. Hobbes finds him leaning against a tree with a smug, world-weary expression on his face and claiming to be "cool"; Hobbes points out that Calvin doesn't look very happy, whereupon Calvin tells him that that's the whole point of being cool. Hobbes disagrees, and when he comes back he's wearing a sombrero simply because he likes the look and says this makes him cool. Calvin tells him that not only do "cool" people not wear sombreros, but nobody wears sombreros. Annoyed, Hobbes leaves and then comes back wearing some "cool" Mickey Mouse pants - again, simply because he likes how they look on him. Again Calvin mocks him...but Hobbes does not care. note The joke here is that Calvin thinks Hobbes is the Rule-Abiding Rebel, but that it's clear from the overall strip that that person is Calvin himself. The March 11, 1992 strip had Calvin complain that the generation that created rock 'n' roll likes to act like they're still rebelling against the establishment when in reality they've long since sold out and became part of the establishment. |
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Garfield: Jon Arbuckle's attempts to be unconventional come off as this. | |
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When he teamed up with Randy Orton to battle D-Generation X in the fall of 2006, Edge accused Shawn Michaels and Triple H of being this. Certainly, compared with their overtly offensive incarnation during The '90s, DX's second coming in 2006 looked pretty Badbutt. | |
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Skin Horse gives us Sweetheart's rampage. Sweetheart is a creation of mad science, so a rampage was inevitable. Spilling coffee (which she bought) on a random lawn. Shocking. | |
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Aiko Hibana from The Legend of Genji isn't a Rebellious Spirit by nature and just wants her emotionally distant mother to pay attention to her, so she'll limit herself to petty acts of rebellion that will grate on her mother's nerves but go unnoticed by everyone else. Early in the story, when Aiko shows up to a formal party that her mother was forcing her to attend, she deliberately arrives hours late in a pink gown clearly different from the one her mother picked out for her, while sporting extremely high-heeled slippers in defiance of her mother's previous instructions to not bring shoes that would make her seem tall. | |
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In Beach Party, the teens party and surf, but don't do drugs. While sex is implied, Dolores wants Frankie to marry her. The Arc Words of the 1960s beach movies would be known as "Good Clean Fun." | |
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The Venture Brothers: The title characters Hank and Dean get a lot of mileage from this trope, because they're sheltered teens whose cultural exposure is largely from educational materials created by their grandfather. When they run away from home, for example, the theme of rebellion is reinforced with repeated allusions to Easy Rider, but Hank seems to think having pancakes for lunch is a grand celebration of freedom. When he accidentally swears, they both realize they've taken the rebellion too far. This has been gradually downplayed as the series has progressed, and the boys have been allowed to mature just a little. Their friend Dermott is also a teen and has an extremely Small Name, Big Ego that causes him to act more rebellious than he really is. The difference is that, despite being full of it, Dermott is genuinely more worldly and gritty than the Venture brothers. It's just that the level of rebellion he pretends to is frankly ridiculous. For example, he claimed that a gang war was fought over whether to call him "The Wolf" or "Psycho". The contrast between Dermott's and the Ventures' use of this trope is established early. When Dermott mocks Dr. Venture, he introduces himself as "Pat, Pat McCrotch". Trying to impress him, Hank introduces himself as "Walter, Walter Melon". (Never mind that he was trying to pull this on his own father.) The villain Radical Left gives this trope a physical form. He has a visible split personality, being a parody of Two-Face. His left side is a raving anarchist. His right side just wants a nice home and a family. |
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Renegade Cut: Similar to Lindsay Ellis's "Woke Disney", his "Late Stage Disney" video argues that, despite seemingly deconstructing the original works, Disney's live-action remakes still seem to promote morals which were outdated even at the time the original was made. | |
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Crashing (UK): Odd Couple Sam and Fred have the following conversation early in their friendship. | |
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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Kaliyo Djannis, of all people, becomes one during the years after the Zakuul Invasion. She goes to Zakuul, sets off some bombs and then goes home to her lavish apartment, provided and furnished by her sponsor at whose behest she operates, but aside from a few moments of excitement, nothing of consequence happens. It isn't until the Outlander returns and begins sparking real fear in the people of Zakuul that she realizes the rut she's fallen into, and begins planning a major attack, which you can either encourage or talk her out of. | |
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In Quiet Snow, Yukiko's mother Fuyumi defied her parents by refusing an Arranged Marriage, but did everything else that was expected of the Amagi heiress— getting married to a man(albeit not the one her parents chose), having children and running the inn. Yukiko, who in this fic is a lesbian, and is still considering leaving Inaba when she hears the story, can't help but feel a bit conflicted. | |
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Ali G In Da House plays this for comedy with the East and West Staines Massivs, who affect being engaged in a gang rivalry, but won't break any laws. One scene has them drag-racing down a suburban street while maintaining their speed at the exact legal limit. | |
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The Onion: Teen rebel refusing to purchase yearbook. | |
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Marco Diaz from Star vs. the Forces of Evil likes to imagine himself as a tough guy and a "misunderstood bad boy" but in truth, he's a bit of a safety freak (there's a reason he's known as "the Safe Kid" at school) and he ends up serving as the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to Star. | |
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Rugrats: In one episode, Angelica encourages Tommy to be bad in order to get what he wants. The first thing he decides to do is to knock over his juice cup—after first drinking the juice because he didn't want to make a mess. | |
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Lampooned by the Babylon Bee: "Man Who Agrees With The Media, Universities, Corporations, And Hollywood Thinks He's Part Of The Resistance" | |
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In the full version of Hatoful Boyfriend, the human girl can, as a sidequest, make friends with the former leaders of a notorious biker gang called "Hell's Birdies"... who are extremely conscientious of traffic laws. | |
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A Robot Chicken sketch has the Wildman, a generic '80s rock star type, who comes off as a cool rebel type to a group of kids. Except that when the kids of the sketch spend some time around him, he insists on turning everything into an And Knowing Is Half the Battle type moment, and following so many minor, nitpicky rules about everything that it kills any possibility for fun. By the end he's inserting hamfisted conservative messages into his bit, and the kids are long since tired of him and think he's a weird flake. Link | |
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The TISM song "Dazed And Confucius" is a lament that, while the singer does want to be a rebel, he just can't stay up late enough to do any rebellious things. In the end the police search his house and find his stash of Homework. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Nanase's bold act of defiance consists of a haircut, and a wardrobe change that was fairly modest all things considered. Needless to say, her mother wasn't all that upset. Later, in the "So a Date at the Mall" story, Elliot and Ashley commit the bold and rebellious act is to go one of the security blind spots of the bookstore, so that Elliot can transform while Ashley watches, leading to this lovely exchange: |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had a band of criminals who never once did anything illegal. Considering the show, it was Played for Laughs. | |
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The title characters Hank and Dean get a lot of mileage from this trope, because they're sheltered teens whose cultural exposure is largely from educational materials created by their grandfather. When they run away from home, for example, the theme of rebellion is reinforced with repeated allusions to Easy Rider, but Hank seems to think having pancakes for lunch is a grand celebration of freedom. When he accidentally swears, they both realize they've taken the rebellion too far. This has been gradually downplayed as the series has progressed, and the boys have been allowed to mature just a little. | |
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In Ensemble Stars!, this is Undead's whole deal: they build their appeal as an idol unit on being dangerous and scary and rebellious, but the worst they ever seem to do is hold concerts without the approval of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council. And off-stage, all of them are genuinely kind people, if a bit rough around the edges in some cases. | |
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In Dragon Age II, the Tal-Vashoth rebels against the Qunari end up operating according to a specific set of codes about how rebels should operate. Those that can't usually end up entering human society as mercenaries or occasionally merchants. | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Daigo wants to stage a revolution against the upper class but is also a hypocrite who doesn't want to sacrifice the comforts of his own upper-class upbringing. While he presents himself as a leader and a revolutionary, he'd rather have others carry out his rebellion for him. Carlie likes the aesthetic of punk despite otherwise being a very clean and sweet girl, so her rebellious look and role as a bully in Nadine's girl gang fall a little short of the mark. |
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Kim by Rudyard Kipling features an English boy raised among the locals who speaks Hindustani as his first language. He's seen as too rebellious by his English minders, who nonetheless try to assimilate him to serve as a loyal spy for The British Empire. Within the book, the narrator and others talk about the fact that while Englishmen in India can immerse themselves in local cultures and traditions, Going Native is a major no-no and Kim ultimately tries to resolve his internal conflict between his liking for India and its people and his awareness of being an English officer who will one day administrate them. | |
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How I Met Your Mother showed a Grunge music video Robin made back in Canada. It's trying to be all rebellious, but when mixed with Canadian politeness, you get the message, "Consider Questioning Authority, Please." In another scene, she "storms out" of an interview by politely excusing herself and repeatedly apologizing as she leaves. | |
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In Assassin's Creed, the Assassins claim "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" and that people don't need Kings, Priests, or others to tell them what to do and believe. Yet by and large, the Assassins rarely go against ruling classes despite occasionally threatening to do so. They frequently ally or court support from Kings and Nobles (Richard the Lionheart, Lorenzo de'Medici, Caterina Sforza, Suleiman, Queen Victoria) to fight against Templars. Indeed, the Assassins allied with the French King Philip le Bel, openly serving his offices, to institute The Purge on the Templars, and in Assassin's Creed: Unity, they backed the royalists during The French Revolution. This is Truth in Television as their historical counterparts preferred threatening people into submission by showing that they could be very scary enemies. With select exceptions, (Altair fighting Genghis Khan, Ezio fighting the Pope and in the New World, Connor and Edward fighting against the Empire), the Assassins rarely take a stand against powerful authorities and usually oppose revolutions since they feel these are Staged Populist Uprisings created by the Templars. In general, the games feature the Assassins opposing the Templars, taking over territory and merely becoming the new secret society pulling strings over society. The Assassin Recruit Contract missions in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood go into more detail about this. They protect nobles, politicians, etc. that oppose the Templars because they are either allies (like Caterina Sforza) or at least an Enemy Mine situation. They also killed nobles, politicians, etc. that were Templars or the servants of Templars. Some of the targets do not specify if they are Templars to any degree. Queen Isabella I of Castile was poisoned by them. Her contemporary, King Henry of England, received aid several times from them in dealing with would-be usurpers and infiltrators of his Star Court. Another ruler, this one in Germany, received an army trained by Assassins disguised as mercenaries. It's more that they are anti-Templar then they are Anti-General-Figure-of-Authority. | |
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