History Main / TheMutiny

* In ''Film/LongJohnSilver'', Long John plots a mutiny on Captain [[=MacDougall==]'s ship. Hawkins discovers Long John's plan and tells the puritanical [=MacDougall=], who decides to maroon Long John and his men on an island that is the secret hideout of Mendoza.

* ''VideoGame/{{Allegiance}}'', a team-based multiplayer [[SimulationGame Space Sim]] / RealTimeStrategy hybrid, has TheMutiny as part of its gameplay mechanics. One player on each team fills the role of a commander, taking care of most of the RTS-level elements of the game -- building bases, investing in [[TechTree research]], and managing the big picture of the battle. At any time, any other member of the team can propose a mutiny, at which point everyone on the team gets a vote -- and if the mutiny passes, that player takes over. This doesn't happen too often, but will happen to commanders who make egregious mistakes, especially if they behave arrogantly or harshly towards the rest of their team despite their own obvious flaws. (Competent commanders can usually get away with it, though...)

* A mutiny was what contributed to the conditions on the GenerationShip of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/OrphansOfTheSky'' (originally two short stories, "Universe" and "Common Sense"), during which the ship's piloting crew was killed off, the survivors later forgetting their original purpose.
* In ''Literature/PayMeBug'', [[spoiler:Velis Enge]] organizes a mutiny against Captain Vindh.

* Henry Hudson's crew [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hudson#Mutiny_and_disappearance mutinied]] during his last voyage in the summer of 1611. Hudson had planned to continue across the icy Canadian waters of the Northwest Passage despite the majority of his crew wishing to return to England. The mutineers set Hudson, his son and seven other crew members adrift, symbolically in what is now Hudson Bay, and they were never seen again. When the remaining crew members arrived in England, they were arrested and later acquitted of murder.

* Several small ones occur throughout ''Manga/OnePiece'', usually when various {{Mooks}} decide the ArcVillain of the week isn't worth working for anymore; this usually [[RankScalesWithAsskicking ends badly for said mooks]]. However, the heroes undergo a much more serious one in the [[Recap/OnePieceWater7Arc Water 7 arc]], where Usopp genuinely loses faith in Luffy and even fights him over whether or not to keep the Going Merry.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Right in the pilot, Galadriel's small company of Elves decide to rebel against her orders to continue the search for Sauron's whereabouts, after finally getting fed up with Galadriel's willingness to constantly risk their live. After getting attacked and almost killed by a cave-troll, they all put down their swords in front of her to communicate their unwillingness to continue her restless quest. Several episode later, Galadriel recounts to Halbrand how deeply betrayed she felt when her company mutinied against her.

* The last mutiny by a Royal Navy ship's company occurred in 1945 on the support ship HMS Edinburgh Castle, as it passed through the Panama Canal. Embarrassingly for the Royal Navy, United States Marine Corps assistance was called for to put down the mutiny. The Edinburgh Castle mutiny is regarded as such a "perfect storm", where all the possible causes of mutiny came together[[note]] Overcrowding, poor rations, irregular pay, inconsistent discipline, bad or weak officers, no form of air conditioning or relief from the heat of an overcrowded metal box in the tropics; and no tropical uniform was issued, the men were still dressed for European seas...[[/note]] that it is taught at military academies as both warning and management problem.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', the War Room erupted into this after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff attempted to call off the Nuclear Strike after he learned from Big Boss that the missile data was fake.

* In the pilot of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'', Commander Ford relieves Captain Stark of duty as she's about to launch a nuclear strike without just cause.

* Henry Hudson's crew [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hudson#Mutiny_and_disappearance mutinied]] during his last voyage in the summer of 1611. Hudson had planned to continue across the icy Canadian waters of the Northwest Passage despite the majority of his crew wishing to return to England. The mutineers set Hudson, his son and seven other crew members adrift, symbolically in what is now Hudson Bay. When the remaining crew members arrived in England, they were arrested and later acquitted of murder.

* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_frigate_Storozhevoy Storozhevoy]]'' Mutiny took place in 1975 when [[TheCommissar the political officer]][[note]]responsible for morale and welfare of the crew as well as ideological purity, and third officer aboard the ship[[/note]] aboard the ship used the grievances of the crew to frame a much larger political statement about Leonid Brezhnev's tenure as Premier. [[CurbStompBattle The Soviet Baltic fleet intercepted the ship, which was boarded and the mutiny put down.]] The instigator of the mutiny was tried and put to death.

* In ''[[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory]]'', after escaping from Amalgam, Tessa explains that they ran of supplies with some members revolting and destroyed the submarine. Later she began acting rash towards the survivors which ended with them leaving her on the road. [[spoiler:It turned to be a ploy to lure Amalgam out into the open.]]

* ''Spaceship Medic'' by Creator/HarryHarrison. The eponymous medic takes command of a spaceship [[YouAreInCommandNow after the other officers are killed]] by a meteor strike. As he has to react to one crisis after another, he ends up alienating the passengers who launch a mutiny under the leadership of a retired GeneralRipper who feels he should be running things instead (as the crew are not involved it's pointed out this is actually [[SpacePirates space piracy]], but it's played the same as this trope). [[spoiler:Fortunately one of the mutineers only joined so he could foil the plot, and quickly arranges a counter-mutiny with the aid of the crew, who remain loyal to their new captain.]]

* ''Literature/TheDeathOfRussia'':
** In the largest mutiny seen in Russia since 1917, a large force of Russian Army troops in Bashkortostan refuse orders to put down a newly independent Tatarstan because President of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov offered them the one thing that Moscow couldn't: enough food to survive the incoming winter.
** After Admiral German Ugryumov [[spoiler:abandons Vladivostok to their fate because they couldn't pay him a good bribe, his sailors turn on him and toss him overboard out of disgust]].
* In ''Literature/PayMeBug'', [[spoiler:Velis Enge]] organizes a mutiny against Captain Vindh.

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* ''Literature/TheFireNeverDies'': When President Wilson issues an order expelling all African-American servicemen from the US Armed Forces (in the middle of the SecondAmericanCivilWar), the result is the Great Mutiny, as thousands of sailors and junior officers choose to turn against the White government and defect to the Reds, bringing roughly two-thirds of the Atlantic Fleet (and the Norfolk Naval Base) with them.
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It's not always illegal. If the commanding officer's actions are illegal, immoral, or are themselves contrary to higher orders, his ranking underling can take action to "relieve him of command," usually using those exact words. [[RebelliousRebel Of course, the captain will still think it's mutiny.]] The junior officer ''will'', of course, be expected to justify his actions before a full inquiry, military tribunal, court martial, or other group of stern old officers in the {{denouement}}. When TheCaptain is the one who is technically disobeying orders from a [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking higher power]], it's an AntiMutiny.