History Main / TheMutiny

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Diana's entire high command starts feeling like she's risking them unnecessarily and they should take what they've been able to get and move on to live their lives since they don't feel they can actually defeat the empire, though only Sakritt and Ectreba start planning a mutiny. Diana is able to talk them out of it rather easily, though Sakritt does mention the truce has its limits.

* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': Towards the end of Episode 1 "Currahee", all of Easy Company's Sergeants write and submit letters of resignation after Cpt. Sobel has Lt. Winters court martialled, with all of them knowing that Sobel can and will get them killed in action thanks to his incompetence in actually leading a combat unit.

* ''Film/{{Retrograde}}'': A group of men are sent 100 years back in time to prevent a meteor carrying a deadly alien virus from colliding into Earth and bring humanity to the brink of extinction. However, during the mission, one of the commandos, Dalton, tries to take over the ship and kill the other crew so that he can change the past and remake the future in his own image.

* Likewise ''Mutiny in Outer Space'' (1965). The mutiny takes place on a SpaceStation which has become contaminated by a lethal alien fungus. Unfortunately the station commander has fallen victim to SpaceMadness and so has to be removed from command.

*** Spock mutinies in the pilot episode "The Menagerie", falsifying records and taking off with the Enterprise, in order to help [[UndyingLoyalty his former captain Christopher Pike.]] Once [[TheCaptain Kirk]] catches up with them on a shuttlecraft, Spock surrenders calmly...but only after making sure that the computers running the ship will keep on the course he set.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. This forms an important part of Captain Janeway's BackStory. While an EnsignNewbie on the ''Valkyrie'', she led a mutiny of the female crewmembers after the captain decided to land their damaged rocketship on Mercury and establish a colony using the women as a BabyFactory. When discussing the incident however, Janeway is careful not to use the word "mutiny", as officially they merely confined their officers who were suffering from SpaceMadness.

* 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. [[RealityEnsues 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.

* ''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 this is technically [[SpacePirate 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.]]

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', a few times, notably The Black Pearl taken from Jack in the backstory. And Jack in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'' which would've been successful [[spoiler:had Blackbeard not had a mystical sword that controlled the ship.]]

** The pilot episode of ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' ends with Commander Burnham neck-pinching Captain Georgiou and trying to order aggressive actions against a Klingon ship. Georgiou quickly recovers, however, and stops said mutiny by pulling a phaser on Burnham and sending her to the brig before any shots are fired. (This does not, however, stop the Klingons from attacking soon after and starting a full-scale war.)

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015'' has the fittingly titled "Mutiny on Mon Cala" arc, which is all about the Leia, Luke, and Han trying to convince the Mon Calamari navy to turn on their Imperial overseers and join the Rebel Alliance.

*** Spock mutinies in the pilot episode "The Menagerie".
*** In "The Tholian Web" Ensign Chekov asks if the crew of the ''Defiant'' mutinied while examining the ship.

* ''Literature/TreasureIsland'': Captain Flint's crew, under Long John Silver, rebelled in the backstory. They took over the Hispanola in the main story -- although, this one was planned from the beginning, more accurately an infiltration than a mutiny.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': After a failed attempt to assassinate Edea, the ''real'' boss of Balamb Garden, NORG, decided to offer the head of the involved !SEEDs (your party, that is) to her on a silver plate to save his own arse. [[AntiMutiny Cid doesn't take this well, and decided that he's through with this greedy bastard]]. A Garden-wide armed conflict ensues between NORG's goons and students loyal to Cid.

* ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'' is the name given to a pair of films, a 1934 original and a 1962 remake, of the mutiny that went down aboard the HMS Bounty in 1789. A different film, titled simply ''Film/TheBounty'', was released in 1984.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''. In "Take The Celestra", a crew muntinies against their iron-fisted captain, but it's actually a plot by his NumberTwo (who's actually behind the worst of the oppression) to [[TheStarscream seize the ship for himself]].

* As Creator/TomClancy points out in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', what happens is not this trope. That's barratry.

* One of the bloodiest mutinies in the history of the Royal navy occurred aboard the HMS Hermione in 1797, due mainly to the depraved sadism of its captain, Hugh Pigot. Pigot was known as a harsh disciplinarian, even by the standards of the time. The final straw occurred on September 20 1797, when his crew was working on the topsails after the ship had been struck by a squall. Dissatisfied with the progress of the operation, Pigot shouted to his men "I'll flog the last man down!" In the ensuing mad dash by the crew to complete the work and get down to the deck as fast as possible, three young sailors fell to their deaths. Pigot then simply ordered their bodies thrown overboard without any funeral and without showing the slightest degree of remorse. The following morning, a group of sailors stormed into Pigot's cabin, hacked him into submission with knives and cutlasses, and then threw him overboard while he was still alive. 10 additional men were killed in the ensuing mutiny, while the survivors sailed the ship to Spain and request asylum, telling Spanish authorities they had merely sent their officers away on a lifeboat, as with the case of the HMS Bounty 8 years earlier. The Royal navy would eventually recapture the ship and apprehend 33 crew members, 24 of whom would be executed for their role in the mutiny.