La Résistance/Playing With

Basic Trope: An underground resistance movement.
 * Straight: Chaotic Good revolutionaries fight Lawful Evil Empire.
 * Exaggerated: The rebels are all squeaky-clean without exception, and every Empire official Eats Babies for breakfast.
 * Justified: The Empire is opressive, but rather inept at silencing the dissenters. Formation of a resistance movement is only a matter of time.
 * Inverted: Lawful Good Republic fights Chaotic Evil terrorists.
 * Subverted: The resistance's supposed existence is actually a ploy by the Empire to capture anyone who dares to rebel.
 * Double Subverted: The people in charge of this ploy, however, secretly recruit the would-be-rebels for their own purposes.
 * Parodied: The Empire has banned comedy. As a result, the resistance consists primarily of disgruntled clowns, writers, and stand-up comedians.
 * Deconstructed: Upon joining the resistance, protagonist discovers they seriously lack in resources and are plagued by infighting.
 * Darker and Edgier version: The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized.
 * Morally ambiguous version: Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters.
 * Reconstructed: The protagonist, not without problems, helps unite decent resistance movements into a single big one.
 * Revolutionaries, while not exactly heroic, are still far better than the Empire.
 * Zig Zagged: The resistance succeeds in overthrowing Emperor Evulz, but they are not much better - but there is another, good resistance movement, but they are actually benevolent aliens in disguise... And then it turns out it's All Just a Dream - of the resistance member fighting the Empire!
 * Averted: There's no La Résistance, and the only hope lies with another state.
 * Enforced: Nothing makes for high drama than a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits pitted against insurmountable odds.
 * No matter how many times it has been said, the author wants to say once more: "totalitarianism is bad."
 * Lampshaded: "Sir, there have been rumors of a resistance movement-" "Oh noooo, not again..."
 * Invoked: Colonel Garrison has had enough of Evulz' atrocities, and founds the resistance to fight him.
 * Defied: Emperor Evulz devotes considerable resources to hunting down any resistance movements.
 * Discussed: "What are the chances for that resistance group we've been fighting?" "Oh, they'll win... eventually. They're the good guys here." "Then maybe we should * ahem* 'reconsider' our allegiances? "
 * Conversed: ???

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