List of fictional revolutions and coups

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This is a list of fictional coups d'état, coup attempts, revolutions, and revolution attempts in various media: instances that are mentioned or described in fictional works but have not occurred in reality.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Contents

[edit] Books

  • A Very British Coup a 1982 novel by Chris Mullin
    • Features a successful coup against Harry Perkins a left-wing Labour Prime Minister. The result in the TV version (see below) differs.
  • O Senhor Embaixador by Érico Veríssimo
    • First Sacramenteña Revolution - Liberal Revolution, against a corrupt democratic government, broken in the caribbean Republic of Sacramento. Led by António Chamorro, it had installed him as dictator and his wife as the true commander.
    • Second Sacramenteña Revolution - Liberal Revolution, against the dictatorship of António Chamorro, broken in the caribbean Republic of Sacramento. Led by Juventino Carrera and Gabriel Heliodoro, it had installed Carrera as dictator.
    • Dr. Júlio Moreno overthrow - coup broken in the Republic of Sacramento against the leftlist democratically elected Moreno's government. Led by the ex-president Juventino Carrera, it has reinstalled him as dictator.
    • 1959 - Revolución Socialista Sacramenteña - Socialist revolution broken in the caribbean Republic of Sacramento, against the dictatorship of Juventino Carrera. Led by Manuel Barrios, it has installed a socialist government.
  • Seven Days in May
    • Generals unsatisfied with President Jordan Lyman's ratification of a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union develop a plan called ECOMCON, that will divert the nation's communications infrastructure and media to prevent the treaty from being ratified.
  • The Turner Diaries
    • White revolutionaries take back America at the end of 20th century. The Turner Diaries – an account by one of the historic leaders of the Great Revolution – is found and published on the 100 anniversary of the event.
  • The Man Who Held the Queen to Ransom and Sent Parliament Packing
    • Captain Richard Wyatt of the British Army leads a group of soldiers who kidnap the Queen, dismiss Parliament and set up a revolutionary government.
  • The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

[edit] Comic books

[edit] Film and television

  • Akira
    • Colonel Shikishima, upon hearing the civilian government trying to arrest him, orders the military to overthrow the government.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • Azula of the Fire Nation infiltrates Ba Sing Se and is able to take over the Dai Li who then proceed to, once again, take over the Earth Kingdom capital.
  • A Very British Coup a1988 British television adaptation of the 1982 novel by Chris Mullin
    • Features an unsuccessful coup against Harry Perkins a left-wing Labour Prime Minister and in that way differs from Chris Mullin's book.
  • Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
    • At the end of season one, President Roslin interferes with Adama's authority over his own people, convincing Starbuck to hijack a captured Cylon spacecraft and return to Caprica. As a result, Adama stages a military coup and assumes total authority. This results in unrest, rebellion, and ultimately the break-up of the fleet. Later, Martial law is imposed (Fragged) by then Commanding Officer Col. Tigh. The military coup and marital law are finally resolved by Home, Part 2, as Roslin and her followers continue their search for the Tomb of Athena on Kobol as Adama travels there to reunite the fleet. All return to Galactica and Adama reinstates Roslin as President.
  • Patlabor 2
    • Tsuge and the National Defense Family stage a series of terrorist attacks in Tokyo, including a bombing of the Rainbow Bridge with military aircraft and tricking the air force into dog fighting over the city, meant to appear to the civilians like a military coup. The attacks escalate tensions between civilian government, who arrest military officers believed to be involved in the attacks, and the military, who declare martial law. Tsuge takes this opportunity to attack Tokyo with JSDF-marked helicopters and disrupt outside communications, completing the illusion of a military takeover.
  • Seven Days in May
  • The Simpsons
    • Cape Feare
      • Lisa Simpson receives pen-pal's letter informing her that the pen-pal's country has been overthrown by "the benevolent General Krull".
    • Bart vs. Australia
      • As Bart Simpson conducts a series of telephone inqueries to a variety of southern hemisphere locales about the which way does the water turn in their toilet, he calls the presidential palace of a Latin American dictator. When an aide mistranslates Bart's question to el Presidente as "The tide is turning", the dictator panics and, thinking it's a signal from the rebels, flees the capital.
    • Simpson Safari
      • When the Simpson family travels to the African country of New Zanzibar, their guide Ktengi informs them that President Muntu "took over in a bloodless coup - all smothering". At the end of the episode, President Ktengi has ousted Muntu, who works as a flight attendant on the Simpsons' flight home.
  • V,
  • Z
    • In early 1960s, a military coup in an unnamed country (a reference to Greece). A leftist deputy, who was expected to be elected prime-minister in the coming election, is murdered and the authorities try to cover up the crime. After Examining Magistrate managed to prove that the murder was committed by prominent right-wing militaries and prosecute them, the comunists win the parliamentary election and are overthrown by the militaries.

[edit] Star Trek

[edit] Star Wars

    • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace through Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
      • Senator Palpatine of Naboo, Darth Sidious, who is a Sith Lord and, thus, secretly an avowed enemy of the Jedi, is elected Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic in Episode I. In Episode II, he eventually plunges the Republic into a civil war (the Clone Wars) against a secessionist movement called the Confederacy of Independent Systems (or, more commonly, the Separatists) Palpatine really controls both sides, as Palpatine on the Republic side and as Sidious on the Separatist Side, through his apprentice, Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus. He unleashes a massive clone army on the galaxy, which Palpatine himself secretly ordered and controls, while letting the Jedi believe they control it. Palpatine uses the Separatist crisis to retain control longer and persuade the Senate to grant him emergency powers, which he then uses to officially commission the clone army. Subsequently, the Clone Wars begin. In Episode III, Palpatine sas been captured by Dooku and General Grievous (who is unknowingly on orders from Sidious/Palpatine himself), in a daring plan. He is eventually rescued by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin having killed Dooku at Palpatine's urging in the process. However, Grievous escapes, and Palpatine assures Mace Windu that the senate will vote to continue the war as long as Grievous is still at large. Subsequently, Palpatine begins voicing to Anakin his doubts about the Jedi Council's allegiance to the Repubilc, and starts influencing Anakin to share them. Palpatine eventually reveals to Anakin that he, in fact, is Darth Sidious, and tempts him with the power to save Anakin's secret wife, Padmé Amidala, from her death as Anakin had foreseen it in his nightmares. In fact, Palpatine wants Padmé dead, though, somehow, Anakin doesn't realize this. It is also revealed that Palptine has been gathering even more emergency powers and has become a virtual dictator. Anakin tells Mace Windu that Palpatine is Sidious. The Jedi move to arrest Palpatine. Palpatine kills all four jedi who come to arrest him, except Mace Windu. Windu appears to have beaten Palpatine when Anakin arrives. Palpatine tempts Anakin again that he is the only one who can help Anakin save Padmé. Anakin sides with Palpatine, helps Palpatine kill Windu, and becomes Palpatine's new apprentice. Palpatine then tells the newly rechristened Darth Vader to lead an attack on the Jedi Temple, and then go to the Mustafar System and eliminate the Separatist leaders. Meanwhile, Sidious issues Order 66, which forces the clones to turn on their Jedi generals, killing most of them. Palpatine the declares the "Jedi Rebellion" and the Separatists, with Grievous's destruction to have been crushed, announces that the Republic will be reorganized into the Galactic Empire, and that the Clone Wars are over, and then subsequently successfully mainipulates Anakin/Vader into seriously injuring Padmé, although Sidious does not realize that her unborn children were saved. However, he fails to anticipate Anakin/Vader's failure to defeat Obi-Wan--which results in the reconstructed Vader not being entirely what Sidious bargained for.
    • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
      • The decision of Mace Windu and the other Jedi Council members to take matters into their own hands and arrest Palpatine themselves, then rule the Republic until the Senate can re-establish democracy.
    • Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

[edit] Universal Century Gundam

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