Why rebel against authority

Once Team Dai-Gurren wins , they become their own authority, and the epilogue features the kind of ultra-high-tech society and military that wouldn't get built if everyone spent their time rebelling for the sake of rebelling.

Before his death , Kamina reveals his reason for wanting to fight. He fights so that those of the younger generation like Simon, Rossiu, and the twins can live in a better world. It's one of the defining aspects of his Hidden Depths.

Ultimately though, he entrusts the future to Simon. Hana from 7 Seeds. She dislikes being ordered around, rather taking up the reigns herself and often gets into fights or disagreements with authority figures because of this. Particularly when she refuses to properly play by her team's guide Yanagi's rules or gives him respect, as well as Ango, both with consequences. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Right there in the title. Heck, Lelouch attracting followers to his rebellion through sheer charisma is a major plot point.

It helps that The Empire he's rebelling against is only a couple steps shy of being a Nazi regime. In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba , Sanemi Shinazugawa at first behaves like this upon meeting Kagaya Ubuyashiki, he is rude, dismissive and outright insulting to Kagaya for never risking his own life while the demon slayers do all the fighting.

Kagaya's apology and the revelation that he takes time to memorize the names and backgrounds of every single dead warrior, including Sanemi's best friend, absolutely stun Sanemi into silence and make him realize how wrong he was about him. To top it off, Kagaya says he doesn't need to respect or like him; just keep protecting innocent people. Angel Beats! Since it's the afterlife, they can get away with quite a lot. He physically fights with teachers on a regular basis and goes out of his way to piss them off.

Then again, one of his teachers disciplines him with Ki Attacks , another one tried to make him confess love to Akane during his time as a teacher, and the principal of the school is just batshit insane, so it's kind of understandable. Some of his opinions about the situation they're all in are valid. By the end, he merely comes across as a selfish and destructive jerk. The Macross continuity ups his jerkishness even more; he becomes the manager of a Fire Bomber knockoff that claims it's the original.

Riki in Ai no Kusabi is notorious in the slums for being a very headstrong and defiant Badass Biker rebel. So much so that he's admired by people who have not ever met him but heard of his exploits. He's aware of his status and proud of it until he is Made A Sex Slave. Comic Books. Captain America in the s grew increasing disenchanted with America until it climaxed with him becoming Nomad for a few adventures. Fortunately, he soon realized that he can still be Cap and fight for America's ideals , rather than its government.

He ended up doing it again this time without a name change in the s after a reporter told him that America was about Facebook and voting for the girl with the biggest boobs on American Idol , and not silly things like truth and justice and being able to trust in your government without looking like a fool. John Constantine 's defining trait; he's a Blue-Collar Warlock who dares to kick the snobs - rich , well-connected or supernatural - in the bollocks.

Deconstructed in that while it always proves a worthy pursuit - he has no difficulty finding high-status Asshole Victims in desperate need of humiliation, pain and death - but going to war with the people who own the world inflicts a lot of collateral damage on the world , on him , and on his allies. None of them let him forget that, either. Some of them suggest that he's not so much a champion of the oppressed so much as an adrenaline junkie who uses powerful and amoral opponents as a source of schadenfreude.

Clarice : Sticking your hand in something nasty, getting good and pissed off, getting the blood flowing—vintage John Constantine. Child of the Storm plays with this. On the one hand, as part of Harry's opening up and being able to express his emotions more, he becomes more confident and much more of a Deadpan Snarker due to the profound weirdness of his life, how much of this is being a Stepford Snarker is up for debate , and it is implied that he's playing this trope straight, since he lives with and looks up to the Avengers, who are collectively described by Word of God as 'an anti-authoritarian snark patrol'.

On the other, he gets gently called up on it by Sean Cassidy , who reminds him that there are boundaries, and he visibly takes this on-board. Likewise, the Avengers' habit of acting on more or less their own whim and following their own consciences, combined with their raw power, is not portrayed as a good thing. Doctor Strange, despite technically being an Authority in his own right, is brilliant, ruthless, and arrogant, accepting no authority but his own, often mocking authority.

This is portrayed as occasionally having awesome results - throwing down the gauntlet to the White Council over a young Wanda, and then bullying the entire Council Elite of Skyfathers - it's also not a good thing, particularly where the White Council is concerned: the Council is the definition of The Fettered , keeping wandless practitioners in check, as well as other, darker forces. Strange, by contrast, is practically defined by being The Unfettered , doing more or less whatever he likes and breaking whatever rules he hasn't made.

Ageless : If Ryou does not like the decisions authority figures have made, he is not afraid to behave as though they don't exist and get his own hands dirty, helping Korra leave the South Pole in spite of the White Lotus and jokingly telling Lin that the laws of man do not apply to him.

Subverted in The Mountain and the Wolf : Absolutely no one sees the Wolf's constant justified posturing and abrasiveness as being cool or worthy of admiration it doesn't help that the war he was hired for ended quite quickly, so the Westeros characters are stuck with an unbeatable warmonger unsubtly pushing for a violent conquest of the world when they just want to rebuild their city in peace , even without knowing the full truth about the Chaos gods he worships.

Bonnie and Clyde : The eponymous pair are shown to be cool rebels rather than the brutal murderers they were in real life. This actually sparked real life outrage from the families of their victims. Ferris Bueller's Day Off : Ferris is shown to be a fantastically cool individual who exists solely to defy every rule in society while being a Karma Houdini. Fight Club : Tyler Durden's loud and brash anti-establishment way of thinking taps very well into the frustration and resentment of the working class.

While harmless at first at least as harmless as therapeutic punching of other people go , as the movie goes on, Tyler is shown to be increasingly destructive, narcissistic, and mean-spirited. By the end of the movie, Tyler is, for all intents and purposes, the leader of a terrorist organization, blowing up buildings without any care for what harm they might do to bystanders.

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank : Fingal takes over the computer that controls the world's weather, causing hurricanes, typhoons, and blizzards, probably killing thousands of people. The Fat Man is trying to stop him from doing so. Fingal is the hero of the movie for "fighting against the system"; Fat Man Fat Bastard is the villain. Rebel Without a Cause : Has it in the title.

Revolution : That is precisely the reason people became hippies in the sixties. Rogue One : Jyn Erso is a brilliant but troubled pilot who doesn't like authority in general. Successful rebels act on this assumption, applying discriminate force, coercing the populace into cooperation or compliance, and "proving" authority to be not merely unjust, but a certain loser.

Rebellion is a system and an organizational technique. It can be countered, but not with rhetoric aimed at winning hearts and minds, and not necessarily with economic pump-priming. What is needed is organizational techniques to match the rebel drive -- effective intelligence coupled with a discriminating use of force capable of obtaining compliance from the population.

One major caveat: authorities are not invariably worthy of support from within or without, and careful calculation of ultimate interests should guide U. Also published by Markham Publishing Company, However, it is almost certainly wrong. Multiple studies have found little, if any, relationship between the amount of ethnic or religious diversity in a country and the likelihood it will experience civil war. Moreover, whether different groups express even mild animosity seems to depend highly on circumstances.

For instance, Daniel Posner has found that the Chewa and Tumbuka ethnic groups express significant animosity in Malawi, while the same groups are fairly friendly in Zambia—even being open to marriage across ethnic lines. Similarly, before the civil war in Bosnia, a quarter of marriages crossed ethnic and religious lines. If ancient hatreds are the cause of civil war, why do the same groups seem to experience violent conflict in one time and place and friendly cooperation at others?

As the ancient hatreds explanation fell from favor, Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler among others offered a second explanation. By comparing countries that experienced civil war to those that did not, they found that resource exports were one of the best predictors of conflict. Collier and Hoeffler thus argued that civil wars are primarily driven by greed. Both warlords and common fighters hope that winning a civil war will pave the way to future wealth and power.

A popular example of how resources could fuel conflict involves diamonds, as highlighted in the movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio. These diamonds were then smuggled out of the country, helping to finance the civil war. At one point, conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone constituted 4 percent of the global diamond trade.

Similarly, the UNITA rebel group in Angola gained control of easily-mined diamond deposits which provided an important source of revenue. While there appears to be some truth to the assertion that natural resources and greed drive conflict, the actual situation is somewhat more complex. The initial studies arguing that greed drives civil war looked at factors such as whether a country had a lot of resource exports and did not examine whether individuals or groups were directly motivated by greed.

These rough measures could have multiple different implications, and could also represent sources of grievance. Subsequent studies have cast doubt on the extent to which greed directly drives civil war, as authors [RD4] have found that many rebels express grievance motives rather than greed. While economic factors likely do play a role in conflict, they probably do so by creating grievances.

It is this sense of injustice that drives conflict. In addition, groups are often particularly motivated by having lost the benefits or power they once enjoyed, or fear that changing circumstances will lead to a loss of power and economic benefits. For instance, sectarian conflict in Iraq can be explained, at least partly, by a sense of relative deprivation within each of the major groups.

Under Saddam Hussein, both political power and economic benefits were concentrated within the Sunni Arab population, which represented about 20 percent of the total population.