History Main / TheMutiny

* In 1912, a strange form of one occurred aboard the RMS ''Olympic''. After her more famous sister, the [[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic]] sank, with many dying due to lack of lifeboats, the ship was fitted out with new temporary collapsible lifeboats for its next few journeys. However, the crewmen found these new boats to be unsatisfactory, with many rotten and some unable to be opened. After a request for more regular boats to be sent in was denied, the crew went on strike in protest. During a following seaworthiness test of four of the boats, one was found to be unseaworthy, and the White Star Line offered to have it replaced. The strikers again objected, this time to the non-union Strikebreaker crew which had been brought on to replace a previous strike, this time leaving the ship altogether. On shore, the crew were arrested and charged with mutiny but were not punished due to the special circumstances of their case. Fearing that public opinion would be with the crew, White Star allowed them to return to work.

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* ''WebOriginal/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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Here's the situation: you're on a ship. TheCaptain is supposed to be the commanding officer on the ship, and his word is supposed to be law. But sometimes, members of the crew don't see it that way. Maybe someone gets it in his head to become captain himself, and the current captain needs to go. Maybe the captain is a bit too tyrannical or soft for the crew's liking, or they think the captain has lost his mind and is leading them on a suicidal course, and the crew would rather go back to Tahiti. Whatever the reason, someone gets the bright idea to take up arms against the captain and before you know it, we've got a mutiny on our hands.

Militarily speaking, a mutiny is the military form of sedition, a conspiracy to disobey a superior officer whose orders one is legally bound to obey. But in popular fiction, particularly {{pirate}} stories, the term is mainly used for the rebellion of members of the crew against the captain or other person in charge of a ship, either at sea or in space. Just like rebellions on land, a mutiny may or may not be justified, though it's worth telling that mutinies are far less likely to be justified than regular rebellions. In many stories (and in real life) the penalty for mutiny is usually death, so many mutineers do not live long if they fail.

* ''Film/SpaceMutiny'' features The Mutiny... [-IN SPACE-]! ShapedLikeItself and ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* Kirk skirts this line over and over again in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' reboot.

* ''Series/TheExpanse'' features a rare example that is actually legal under military code. When Admiral Sother [[spoiler: turns on Admiral Nygen]] due to his superior's illegal orders about starting a war, this is actually correct. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Souther doesn't live to see it through.]]

* Invoked but not executed in ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E07MuchAdoAboutBoimler Much Ado About Boimler]]", the "freaks" aboard the Osler are planning to take over the ship, believing that the Farm is a lie and the ship is a prison. Boimler rats them out just before they make their attempt in a misguided attempt at trying for a diplomatic solution.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. With the support of Vice-President Zarek, Lt. Gaeta leads a full-scale armed mutiny against Admiral Adama and President Roslin in the episode "Blood On The Scales". By this point in the series, the Colonials have entered into an alliance with a rebel group of Cylons. Unsurprisingly, a large part of the crew is ''not'' happy to be working together with the RidiculouslyHumanRobots who genocided humanity. Zarek really just wants the power of the Presidency, while Gaeta balks at some of the former's more extreme actions and insists on putting Adama in front of a KangarooCourt. [[spoiler:Adama retakes the ''Galactica'' and has all the conspirators executed. This mutiny becomes even HarsherInHindsight with the reveal that the ''Galactica'' was on its last legs and needed the rebel Cylons to fix it, meaning that if Gaeta and Zarek had ''succeeded'', they would have been sitting ducks for the still-hostile Cylon faction.]]

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. With the support of Vice-President Zarek, Lt. Gaeta leads a full-scale armed mutiny against Admiral Adama and President Roslin.

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* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'': [[UpperClassTwit Snowe Vingerhut]] finds himself on the bad end of one when he [[MinorInjuryOverreaction cracks under the pressure of leadership]]. But then, what can you expect when you're only in charge of a crew of much more experienced soldiers thanks to [[WellDoneSonGuy daddy's influence]]?

* ''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...)
* 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.

* ''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.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', there was a mutiny on the Nexus between its arrival and the arrival of the arks, due to leadership that was unprepared for an ApocalypseHow to have taken place throughout the destination star cluster between departure and arrival, and things just getting worse from there. An underling of the Initiative's leaders thawed out the krogan complement early to put down the uprising, with the promise of more political powers if they helped. They banished the surviving mutineers (who become the Exiles faction and are forced to survive as SpacePirates), but then Tann refused to honor the deal with the krogan, who left to set up their own colony on Elaaden rather than put up with it. (Though of note, an email found in the first failed colony suggests Sloane Kelly, who ended up going with the exiles in protest against the use of krogan, had been planning her own thing before the riots kicked off).

* In the second and fifth versions of ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', you can play as a trail guide and monitor an entire wagon party. If you let the morale get too low, your party will kick you off the train and the game will end.
* ''VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn'' begins with the protagonist, an insurance investigator with a magic pocket watch allowing one to see a corpse's last moment frozen in time, watching the last few sailors aboard the Obra Dinn attempt to mutiny against their captain, who proceeds to slay them to a man, leaving him the last living soul aboard the ship [[DrivenToSuicide before taking his own life in despair]]. As the game progresses, the player can discover other mutinies that occurred over the course of the doomed voyage, one of which was the first domino in the tragedy.

* Gloog briefly attempts this in ''[[http://www.agameoffools.com/ A Game of Fools]]''.
* Invoked but not executed in ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''.

* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'': [[spoiler:Vampires of Sandra's hometown were just biding their time. Once Sandra discovers that there is a conspiracy against her, Bloo decides it is time for Sandra to take a nap, and drugs her.]]

* ''Webcomic/JackieRose'': Elizabeth's crew do this when one of them hears that she wants to drop out of piracy after paying off a debut to a criminal and thinks she won't give the men a cut of the profits.

* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': "This is mutiny" is delivered straight by Dick Dastardly in the ''Magnificent Muttley'' episode "Muttley on the Bounty" with Muttley in the Fletcher Christian role and Dastardly as Captain Bligh. Dastardly says this standing on the gangplank Muttley is sawing off the ship.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "The Hasty Hare", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny tries to convince Marvin the Martian that his companion K-9 is trying to stage a mutiny.
-->'''Marvin:''' You mean ''he'' against ''me''?\\
'''Bugs:''' Soiteny! Don't tell me you haven't noticed that low criminal forehead.
* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon, appropriately titled "Mutiny Ain't Nice", has Popeye being captain of a sea expedition and his crew attempting a mutiny for allowing stowaway Olive on board.

* ''Anime/InfiniteRyvius'' is basically a revolving-door mutiny machine.

* In the season 2 finale of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' most of the central cast [[spoiler: gets kicked off the Lost Light and left to fend for themselves against the BigBad thanks to a mutiny led by [[SixthRangerTraitor Getaway]].]] The mutiny is sparked by a combination of [[KarmaHoudini Megatron being let off the hook]] and Rodimus's poor leadership.

* It happens in ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'': During Val-El's sea voyage, his brother Tro-El starts a mutiny, intending to maroon his brother and start out a career as a pirate. However his mutiny fails, and Tro-El and his followers are marooned instead in the island of Bokos, which they turn into a pirate haven.

* ''Fanfic/EarthsAlienHistory'': The Tesskan War ends with the Fillopods, realizing they're doomed to get [[CurbStompBattle curb stomped otherwise]], rebelling against the Tesskans, taking over their fleet, and promptly surrendering to the [[TheAlliance Terran Treaty Organization]].
* The ''Temeraire'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BlackWingsBlackSails'' is built on this trope.
** Laurence's pirate career begins when he becomes captain to a prison ship bound for Australia. Still bound by his gentlemanly sense of honor and morals, and abolitionist ideals courtesy of his father, he treats the prisoners fairly and with decency, which sows distrust among his crew as they come to believe he cares more for the prisoners than his own crew. It culminates in his crew trying to have him removed as he comes down with fever. The prisoners he cared for and the crewmembers sympathetic to him keep him safe and fight back against the mutinying crew, and end up winning the ship back for Laurence, who want him for their captain.
** The same thing eventually happens to Temeraire as a result of his rescue of Laurence- he becomes suspected of disloyalty, with most of the ''Allegiance'''s crew, as well as some of his own twenty-man crew advocating that he be turned over to Laurence entirely, "a black dragon for [Laurence's] black heart".

* ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin''. TruthInTelevision and a cinematic masterpiece.
* Kirk skirts this line over and over again in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' reboot.
* ''Film/HMSDefiant'' placed in the time of Spithead mutiny, the crew plans it from the beginning, and Dirk Bogarde's super-evil, sadistic first lieutenant gives them pretty good reason to do it.
* In ''Film/TheSonOfKong'', the ship crew stages a mutiny because they don't want to go back to Skull Island. Egged on by the villain of the film, but then they throw him overboard too.

* Likewise ''Film/MutinyInOuterSpace'' (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.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' had this happen to Yondu when his faction of Ravagers see him as weak for not wanting to turn Peter in for a bounty placed on him.

* 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.

* ''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.]]
* In ''Literature/BeyondThirty'', while Lt. Turck and his three subordinates are out fishing the ''Coldwater'' is successfully repaired and flies off, leaving the fishermen to their fate. It is implied that Turck's second officer Alvarez, who has clashed with his superior, is behind both the original sabotage and subsequent abandonment.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978''. In "Take The Celestra", a spaceship crew mutiny against the iron-fisted rule of their captain, but it's actually a plot by his NumberTwo (who's behind the worst of the oppression) to [[TheStarscream seize the ship for himself]].
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. With the support of Vice-President Zarek, Lt. Gaeta leads a full-scale armed mutiny against Admiral Adama and President Roslin.
* An episode of ''Series/{{JAG}}'', "Cowboys and Cossacks", plays with both this trope, and the [[InsistentTerminology Barratry gag]] from ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'', when Harm and Bud, while guests aboard a Russian sub, conspire with one of the Russian officers to take the ship from the [[RenegadeRussian renegade Captain]]. Harm explains to Bud that what they are doing can ''not'' be legally defined as mutiny, given that they are not members of the crew. Technically, it's an ''act of terrorism''.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': One is staged by the civilians and scientists in the aptly named "Divided", orchestrated by Rush and Camille, who want power away from the military. [[CurbStompBattle Suffice it to say it doesn't go so well]]. T.J. even points out the stupidity of a bunch of civilians going up against US Air Force Colonel.
-->'''Chloe:''' Don't worry. You won't have to stay in here for much longer.\\
'''T.J.:''' I know , 'cause the colonel's gonna take back the ship. You don't have any idea what you're up against.\\
'''Chloe:''' I think we do.\\
'''T.J.:''' Not a clue. ''(She sits up and glares at Chloe.)'' Sorry, but a bunch of civilians up against the colonel's training and experience?\\
'''Chloe:''' It's about listening to reason.\\
'''T.J.:''' ''(standing up)'' Not once you took this ship. That made it war, and that's what ''we'' do.
* The mini-series ''Series/HoratioHornblower'' features mutiny in its second instalment (episodes "Mutiny" and "Retribution"), which are an adaptation of the book ''Lieutenant Hornblower'', but with notable changes. The lieutenants of HMS ''Renown'' have to deal with a [[InsaneAdmiral Crazy Captain]] and a DoctorJerk who hesitates to pronounce him unfit to command. Too bad Captain Sawyer is a LivingLegend because that only complicate things further and a subsequent court-martial screws the poor men over.
* ''Series/DasBoot'': Wrangel seizes command of U-612 with help from dissident crew members who don't like Hoffmann.
* ''Series/TheTerror'' features one attempted mutiny and two that actually get off the ground, as the chain of command breaks down in the Arctic cold.
** Early on, Captain Crozier decides to ignore Captain Franklin's orders and leave with a party down the Back River, hopefully finding civilization and rescue. This plan is stopped in it's tracks as he is collecting supplies [[spoiler:with the death of Captain Franklin, leaving Crozier in charge of the expedition]].
** After things have truly gotten bad, Hickey stages one, taking men and supplies from Crozier's loyalists, and becoming a recurring threat.
** Finally, Crozier's loyalists don't precisely mutiny, but do ignore orders to bring the sick and dying with them as they march south.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': In the penultimate episode, Commandant Grayza attempts to order her command carrier to turn its weapons on the Scarrans and shoot their way out of the failed negotiations. Captain Braca decides he's had enough of her poor decisions and cites the Peacekeeper code articles that allow him to remove her from power. Grayza attempts to order a sergeant to shoot Braca for mutiny but she's been such a BadBoss that the sergeant sides with Braca instead. Evidently her removal didn't stick as she's restored to power by the WrapItUp miniseries.
* ''Series/TheExpanse'' features a rare example that is actually legal under military code. When Admiral Sother [[spoiler: turns on Admiral Nygen]] due to his superior's illegal orders about starting a war, this is actually correct. [[spoiler: Unfortunately Souther doesn't live to see it through.]]
* The crew in ''Series/OurFlagMeansDeath'' plans several mutinies, including in the first episode against Stede's inept leadership and in episode 9 against [[spoiler:Izzy]] because of his overly strict leadership. For better or for worse, neither of these are successful.
* The three-part Season 2 opener of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' was called “The Mutiny” with Lord Zedd, furious with Rita Repulsa’s failures against the Rangers, take over and send her out into space in a space dumpster.

* Music/RunningWild song "Mutiny" on the album ''Port Royal''.

* In ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'', a mutiny can result if the ship's [[MoraleMechanic Morale rating]] sinks too low. Around 50% Morale, it will slowly degrade the ship's fighting capability as the loyal crew fight the open mutineers and crewmen stop showing up for duty shifts. If it ever sinks to 0%, [[YouLoseAtZeroTrust the ship is basically lost]], and the command staff are well advised to leave before they're caught.

* Though, if one includes the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, that isn't quite the last. It was slightly unusual that, while it started due to poor conditions and inadequate pay, it took on a different tack within a day or two due to the Independence Movement in India. Wiki/TheOtherWiki elaborates it.

* ''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 [[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.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had [[GeneralRipper Captain]] [[TheNeidermeyer Marcus]] lead this against [[BigGood Admiral Winfield]] in the final story of the first season. Why? Because [[InsaneAdmiral he thinks Winfield has lost the will to fight the Neosapiens because he's determined that they rebuild the Exofleet first]]. Even though he knows that the Neosapiens outnumber even a full-strength Exofleet. Neadless to say, his mutiny ends as badly as it possibly could, with Exofleet decimated and Marcus himself shot down. Frankly, it's amazing he managed to drum up any support in the first place, since the one time he took legitimate control (in the first five episodes, when Admiral Winfield was injured by a SpacePirate attack), he got about a third of the Exofleet killed by charging off to fight the Neosapiens (resulting in half the fleet being left behind -- and they were outnumbered to begin with) and then freezing up when the Neosapiens proved stronger. To say nothing of the fact he led Exofleet into several SpacePirate ambushes before that.

** And in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', the crew mutinies after they shipwreck on Blood Island, because they wish to return to their occupation as a BarbershopQuartet.

* In F.M. Busby's ''Rissa Kerguelen'' series, spaceship crews sometimes mutiny in order to get free of their totalitarian government; we see two of these mutinies in the books.

** 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. This also doesn't prevent Burnham from being court-martialed, stripped of rank, and imprisoned.)

* The [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Prinz_Eugen_Mutiny mutiny aboard the Prinz Eugen]] is one of the early defining moments in Clan history in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. It as the basis for their single-minded focus on confirmity as well as an exmple of Nicholas Kerensky's manipulative nature. After taking the Star League Defense Force into the unknown for months on end, some civilians and crews eventually wished to go back to the Inner Sphere and take their chances. Instead of negotiating, General Aleksandr Kerensky dispatched Royal Black Watch marines to recapture the Prinz Eugen, which they did in a bloody boarding action. The end result was that the highest-ranking mutineer, an Admiral, was killed in action, and all officers at or above the rank of Captain were found culpable and executed. The harshness of the response almost set off another round of mutiny, staved off only when Aleksandr Keresensky eventually announced his true plan to find them a home to rebuild and one day return to the Inner Sphere to restore the Star League.

* William Bligh probably had something conducive to the mutiny about him. 19 years later, when he was the Governor of the New South Wales, he had ''another'' mutiny -- the famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_rebellion Rum Rebellion]].