History Main / GraffitiOfTheResistance

* This is the premise in the ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' games. Rokkaku and his corporation have bought practically all of Tokyo in the future; your player character is a gang leader who sticks his middle finger to Rokkaku by spraying graffiti all over the town.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' has Sabine Wren's signature "starbird" (phoenix), created as a personal tag and later evolving into the symbol of the Rebel Alliance.

* In the film ''Turk 182'' the eponymous graffiti artist writes "Zimmerman Flew, Tyler Knew" plus his name all over town, in order to stir up trouble because his brother, a firefighter, got injured while assisting with a fire rescue while he was intoxicated and the department won't cover his medical bills. (He had been off-duty, but rushed to help anyway when he heard about a fire nearby.) Zimmerman was a Public Works Commissioner who had fled the city for an unspecified crime, and it is believed by some that Mayor Tyler knew about his crimes. Zimmerman doesn't actually have anything to do with Turk's grievance; it was already a graffiti meme when he started.

* The music video for "Born Free" by Music/MIA portrays a dystopia where redheads are targets of state violence. A mural depicting redheaded soldiers and the text "Our Day Will Come" is seen on a wall.

* During the 2020 George Floyd uprisings around the US, the letters BLM and ACAB/FTP, and the phrase "Fuck 12" would be found painted far and wide.

* Some of the Terran Resistance fighters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}}'' are often seen spraying graffiti onto walls, calling to resist the Neosapien rule.

* ''Literature/OlgaDiesDreaming'': Congressman "Prieto" Acevedo visits Puerto Rico to render aid after Hurricane Maria. He learns about a radical organization called "Los Pa%ntilde;uelos Negros" who have provided assistance to parts of the island left to fend for themselves. When he gets to see their spray-painted symbol, a woman in a beret and a bandana hiding her face, he recognizes his mother's eyes and realizes what she has been doing.

* ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'' with graffiti against the Roman occupation; one Roman soldier is [[DoWrongRight more disturbed by the bad grammar]] than the content of the message.

* The main character of ''VideoGame/DeBlob'' paints on buildings to restore color to the city he lives in, which have been drained to grayscale by the INKT Corporation.

** Gaullists opposed to Admiral Darlan ruling Algeria in 1942 after the Operation Torch wrote on the walls slogans such as ''Darlan au poteau''[[labelnote:Translation]]"Darlan to the firing squad"[[/labelnote]] or ''L'Amiral à la flotte''[[labelnote:Translation]]"Throw the Admiral overboard" - pun on "flotte", which means both "water" (colloquial) and "fleet"[[/labelnote]].
* Extremely common in NorthernIreland, with political slogans such as "Brits Out" and "End Internment" being a regular sight.

* The famous "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon_Wall Lennon Wall]]" in Prague, Czech Republic. Under Communism, western music was banned in Czechoslovakia, but was still often smuggled in. After John Lennon's death, a wall in Prague was covered with graffiti relating to John Lennon. The next day, the wall was whitewashed over. The next night, the wall was covered in graffiti again. This cycle continued many times, and today the graffiti-covered wall is a symbol of youth resistance.
* Countless of circled A's used by anarchists. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrectionary_anarchism#mediaviewer/File:Athens_2008_anti-police_graffiti.jpg these]] done during the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Greek_riots 2008 riots in greece]]. On [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#mediaviewer/File:Haymarket_Memorial_Plaque.jpg Haymarket Memorial Plaque]] in Chicago. on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#mediaviewer/File:Riot_Monument.JPG The Haymarket memorial]] in Forest Park, Illinois. [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Graffiti#mediaviewer/File:Berlin-wall.jpg Berlin Wall on November 6, 1989]]
* The "may 68" French revolt: [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mai_68_debut_d%27une_lutte_prolongee.png Mai 68 debut d'une lutte prolongee]] used as posters and stencil graffiti, and a number of slogans like "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Situationist.jpg It is forbidden to forbid.]]", "Cela nous concerne tous"("This concerns everyone."), "Sous les pavés, la plage!" ("Under the cobblestones, the beach."), "Je suis Marxiste�tendance [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]]." ("I'm a Marxist�of the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]] variety.").

** In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', zombie Reg Shoe paints pro-undead-rights graffiti (like "DEAD YES, GONE NO!") on any handy wall in Ankh-Morpork. Subverted in that LaResistance, in this case, consists of ''one'' overenthusiastic zombie who's only a heroic resistance leader in his own mind, and a few friends and neighbors who try to humor him.
** In ''Discworld/NightWatch'', Vimes reflects that even when he was still alive, Reg wrote on walls in the name of The People, even though The People would give him a clip round the ear if they caught him doing it.

* In an EvilVsEvil example, in ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock 2}}'' Lamb's followers write anti-Andrew Ryan (the BigBad of the previous game) graffiti all over the place (including in UV ink on the posters which came with the collecter's edition of the game). Despite being his ideological opposite, Lamb isn't any better (indeed, in some ways she's worse given [[spoiler: Ryan couldn't kill his own son even though he was a LaserGuidedTykeBomb sent to kill him, while Lamb was willing to use her daughter as a test subject]]).