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After La Résistance and their Rebel Leader have defeated the existing government in The Coup or a revolution, they need to construct a new government. The thing is, the audience came to the story for tales of valiant rebels overcoming the jackbooted heel of the oppressor, not valiant administrators overcoming the jackbooted heel of dry rot in the rubber tree farms or administering tax-collection in Mississipi... and frequently, so did the rebels. The result is an administration that only a mother could love. Some rebels are genuinely good at running government; but under others who focus more on the "stick" than the "carrot", it will not be long before the populace starts wishing for the "good old days" of The Empire, when many things were bad, but at least the trains ran on time. The odds of The Remnant coming back begin to increase, as do the odds of the new government adopting the old one's repressive methods in a misguided (and often futile) attempt to restore order. Compare Dystopia Is Hard and Won the War, Lost the Peace. The trope name is a pun on Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. |
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In Night Watch when Sam Vimes gets a chance to relive a revolution that occurred earlier in his life, he spends most of his time trying to keep things as stable as possible. And then there's Reg Shoe, who tries so very hard to get a bureaucratic system set up where everyone gets a fair share, and is unilaterally told to shove off in the time-honored Ankh-Morpork way of "first come first to steal". This is largely because he tries organizing to endure a famine at a time when merchants are just giving steak away to get rid of it before it goes bad. Vimes tries telling him he's just not made to be a revolutionary, but Reg just pulls an I Reject Your Reality. | |
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High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World: Although the Republic of Elm is established after a revolution against the Freyjagard Empire, it's clear that the residents have no experience working with a democratic form of government and many of the officials are either former Freyjagard nobles or Elm village leaders. Additionally, despite having nukes, they start with no respect or trust from other nations, who see them as naive upstarts with no idea how to run a government. Despite their best efforts to learn, they would have lost a trade war with the Freyjagard Empire and would have had their election hijacked by a malicious actor if it weren't for the Luminaries bailing them out. As a result, Tsukasa refuses to go back home until the Luminaries can help the republic get its act together, creating tension between him and Masato, who wants to return to Earth ASAP. | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron leaves this open to the listener. | |
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Discworld: Discussed in Guards! Guards!, where Lord Vetinari points out that the only thing the "good people" are good at is overthrowing the bad people. One day it's the joyous overthrow of the tyrant, then it's everyone complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one's delivering the coal anymore. In Night Watch when Sam Vimes gets a chance to relive a revolution that occurred earlier in his life, he spends most of his time trying to keep things as stable as possible. And then there's Reg Shoe, who tries so very hard to get a bureaucratic system set up where everyone gets a fair share, and is unilaterally told to shove off in the time-honored Ankh-Morpork way of "first come first to steal". This is largely because he tries organizing to endure a famine at a time when merchants are just giving steak away to get rid of it before it goes bad. Vimes tries telling him he's just not made to be a revolutionary, but Reg just pulls an I Reject Your Reality. The strident activist Estressa Partleigh is depicted as a woman with extreme ideas about social and personal equality in a multi-species society and is a typical Soapbox Sadie, who uses her energies campaigning for Equality for Dwarfs - a people who find her to be a bit of an embarrassment. She spends her time agitating for social equality and trying to impose an extreme form of statistics-based egalitarianism on a people who at best look at her with tolerant bemusement. |
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Implicitly averted in ColSec Rebellion. Bureaucrats like Director Galtry are actually the most willing Organization higher-ups to listen to reason and agree to bargain with the rebels. | |
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In Urinetown After the pro-free flushing rebels overthrow Cladwell, Hope takes over. However, while her father's awful policies made using water an expensive privilege, they were the ONLY thing keeping the water supply stable, and everyone dies after they start freely and wantonly using up their reserves. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: After Lordgenome's defeat, the main cast is left with rebuilding aboveground civilization. Unfortunately, it turns out Hot-Blooded determination and piloting giant robots that run on enthusiasm works well in combat, but not in administration. Rossiu is left as the Only Sane Man and ends up having them man the phones during a crisis, which works as well as you'd expect. On top of that, Rossiu's comparative sanity manifests as cynical realpolitik in a setting where giant robots run on enthusiasm, meaning his decisions, which run on I Did What I Had to Do, are never the correct ones for the situation. | |
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In Pippin, Pippin kills his father Charlemagne at the end of Act 1 and is crowned emperor in his place, in the hope of improving the lot of the common people by abolishing taxes and the military. However, at the beginning of Act 2, Pippin finds that these things are easier said than done, and he has to make repeated concessions until his regime is really no different from his father's. He asks the Leading Player for a Retcon, and it actually works, with Charlemagne brought back to life and Pippin left to look for meaning elsewhere. | |
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In the take on the Discworld by A.A. Pessimal, Reg Shoe makes many cameo appearances as a theoretical revolutionary. He meets another misfit who joins the City Watch, in this case a former revolutionary idealist from Far Ãœberwald. Irena Politek is saved from being a Soapbox Sadie by first having undergone Witch training in Lancre, where she discovered stolid Lancre farmers are not impressed by talk of forming soviet collective farms and punch great holes in her ideals. Irena then meets Reg Shoe, and people like the strident activist Estessa Partleigh, where she realises that while people like her could win a Revolution, it would be people like Reg and Estressa, stuffed full of theory and ideals, who would then try to win the peace afterwards and make the New Order actually work. Irena saw the little problems with this and is no longer a whole-hearted communist revolutionary. | |
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Very realistically dealt with in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Bajor has just emerged from half a century of brutal occupation, and is ruled by a 'provisional government' made up of former self-described terrorists. Kira, who's spent her entire life as a revolutionary, starts the series more interested in fighting authority than working with any government. On the other hand, hard-line elements see the provisional government as too weak, and plot to take control to impose greater order. Dealing with these issues is an ongoing problem, particularly in the early seasons. | |
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Referenced (although ultimately averted) at the beginning of Invictus when Mandela and his bodyguards read a newspaper headline by a supporter of the ousted government. | |
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The later Wheel of Time books give this as a big part of the reason for the success of the Seanchan invasion: after years and years of noble Houses overthrowing one another and tearing down all reminders of their predecessors every time, the ordinary people of some countries leap at the chance of some order and stability. | |
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A central theme in Hamilton: Act I is set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War, while Act II is about the first decade or so of American independence from Britain. At one point, Hamilton finds crafting unpopular policy to be more difficult than risking his life on the battlefield, to which George Washington responds "Winning is easy, young man, governing is harder." | |
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In Lawrence of Arabia, the Arab National Council that forms after the occupation of Damascus qualifies. The tribesmen who fought alongside Lawrence had no experience with technology, urban administration, or modern politics, and soon found themselves unable to oversee a modern city. For example, the city's damaged electrical generators could not be repaired because the tribesmen had no engineers. Also, the Damascus hospital was full of dead and dying Turks with no running water, as the Arabs had no doctors and insufficient technological training to restore the city's water pumps. To make matters worse, the tribal chieftains leading the council quickly descended into childish infighting. The situation improved only when the English took over administration of the city. | |
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Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: Defied by the Badass Bookworm Elend after Vin kills the Lord Ruler; he researches the logistics and theory of governance to the point that he needs a few lessons in assuming The Chains of Commanding and forcing people to adhere to a more equitable model of rule. | |
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In Babylon 5, Sheridan led a successful insurrection against the despotic Earth government. But he did it by seizing military property (including a BIG space station) and making unauthorized alliances with alien governments. It doesn't help that he makes everyone else at Earthgov look bad (they were going to overthrow Clark first but the "time was never right", etc.). He's forced to resign when he returns to Earth, and future historians paint him as a 'loose cannon' at best. | |
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