History Main / TheNativesAreRestless

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* ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'': TropeNamer.

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* Done in one of Creator/LRonHubbard's less crappy novels - the protagonist interrupts the spooked natives with a sniper rifle that shoots joke holograms, starting with Elvis Presley's ghosts dancing around a cursing UsefulNotes/JosefStalin (long story).

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* Parodied in ''Series/TheGoodies'', in an episode set in South Africa where ''[[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped "Apart-Height"]]'' has replaced apartheid and a group of jockeys are planning an uprising; Tim observes that "the jockeys are restless tonight".

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* Music/TheCramps have a song called "The Natives Are Restless" on their 1981 album "Psychedelic Jungle".

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* Alluded to in ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty'' single player campaign. After the Terran forces land on the heavily Zerg-infested world of Char and make a temporary stronghold on it's surface, Tychus J. Findlay says these exact words when implying the Zerg are preparing for massive counterattack.

* Parodied in ''Series/TheGoodies'', set in South Africa where ''[[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped "Apart-Height"]]'' has replaced apartheid, with episode where a group of jockeys are planning an uprising; Tim observes that "the jockeys are restless tonight".

* In his black farces of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica in TheApartheidEra, Creator/TomSharpe uses this as a theme: he exploits the paranoia of white South Africans, especially [[AmoralAfrikaner Afrikaaners]] that They Will Rise Up And Slaughter Us In Our Beds and that prior to being slaughtered, [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt Our Womenfolk Will Experience A Fate Worse Than Death]]. In ''Literature/IndecentExposure'', this is a preoccupation of the South African Police Force, especially [[SecretPolice BOSS]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}'', your colony may be attacked by hostile {{Future Primitives}}, the low-tech descendants of the planet's past civilisation. They'll send raiding parties to cause havoc, and despite their primitive weaponry, their sheer numbers and melee prowess can overwhelm your colonists if defences are inadequate. If you want a PerspectiveFlip, the Lost Tribe starting scenario allows you to play as these planetary natives and fend off pirate attacks.

* ''BabylonFive'': Security chief Garibaldi uses the phrase to comment on rising tensions between the station's inhabitants and the rowdy, recently-arrived [[SpaceMarines Earth Force Marine Corps]] using the place as a stopover.

* A modern variation is appears in ActOfWar, where the Task Force Talon is driving through London at the onset of a major summit, with [[PowderKegCrowd thousands of protesters lining the streets]]. Jefferson even quotes the trope name word by word.

* In his black farces of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica in TheApartheidEra, Creator/TomSharpe uses this as a theme: he exploits the paranoia of white South Africans, especially [[AmoralAfrikaners Afrikaaners]]that They Will Rise Up And Slaughter Us In Our Beds and that prior to being sluaghtered, [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt Our Womenfolk Will Experience A Fate Worse Than Death]]. In ''Literature/IndecentExposure'', this is a preoccupation of the South African Police Force, especially [[SecretPolice BOSS]].

* In his black farces of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica in TheApartheidEra, Creator/TomSharpe uses this as a theme: he exploits the paranoia of white South Africans, especially [[AmoralAfrikaners Afrikaaners]]that They Will Rise Up And Slaughter Us In Our Beds and that prior to being sluaghtered, [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt Our Womenfolk Will Experience A Fate Worse Than Death]]. In ''Literature/IndecentExposure, this is a preoccupation of the South African Police Force, especially [[SecretPolice BOSS}}

->''I flew upstream in a plane with pontoons, and landed on the Amazon above [[{{UsefulNotes/Brazil}} Belim]] without seeing a single person in a loincloth, although I saw many UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan T-shirts.''

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/BeyondTheBlackRiver," the Picts, who are using JungleDrums and raiding the colonists. To be sure the Picts are both white (a point lampshaded in the story) and in what would one day be Europe, but the trope is treated identically.

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* ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'': TropeNamer.

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* Done in one of Creator/LRonHubbard's less crappy novels - the protagonist interrupts the spooked natives with a sniper rifle that shoots joke holograms, starting with Elvis Presley's ghosts dancing around a cursing JosefStalin (long story).

* TheCramps have a song called "The Natives Are Restless" on their 1981 album "Psychedelic Jungle".
* There's a song by (I think) JimmyBuffett called "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" which is the singer warning people not to go outside, because... yeah".

* There was a collection of ''TheFarSide'' entitled ''The Chickens Are Restless''.

* Film/IslandOfLostSouls: TropeNamer.

-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', ''Jungle2Jungle''

* Played straight in ''VideoGame/StarcraftIIWingsOfLiberty'' single player campaign. After the Terran (human) forces land on the [[spoiler:main Zerg ([[BigCreepyCrawlies creepy crawly alien race]]) planet]] and make a temporal stronghold on it's surface, Tychus J. Findlay says the exact words implying the [[spoiler:Zergs are preparing for massive counterattack]].

->''I flew upstream in a plane with pontoons, and landed on the Amazon above [[{{UsefulNotes/Brazil}} Belim]] without seeing a single person in a loincloth, although I saw many MichaelJordan T-shirts.''

* In ''Series/DoctorWho'''s "Inferno," a mineral slime from inside the earth's crust turns people exposed to it into homicidal werewolf-like Primords. At one point, a character (trapped in a building with them) says to the Doctor, "The natives are getting restless."

* ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' once had an article ''Modern endings to classic movie lines''. One of the lines featured was "TheNativesAreRestless Tonight", cut to a disco filled with partying locals.

A DiscreditedTrope from the days of the WhiteMansBurden in works depicting [[DarkestAfrica deepest darkest Africa]], generally describing the moment before the HollywoodNatives rise up and overrun the compound, or [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod abduct the white woman for sacrifice]]. Often indicated by the natives playing JungleDrums. The ''phrase'' is said to go back to the 1933 film ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'', in which Dr. Moreau says this of his half-human / half-beast creations, and has since become a stock phrase for trouble brewing in a group of people. Often a prelude to being ChasedByAngryNatives. Natives, like white villagers, may take up TorchesAndPitchforks when they get restless enough to form a mob.

* There's a British film called ''RestlessNatives'', but it's about a clown and a gorilla robbing buses on a motorcycle.

* Played straight in Creator/RosemarySutcliff's ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth'', ''Literature/TheMarkOfTheHorseLord'' and other novels, except that the natives are the ancient British annoying the colonial Romans.

* Done in one of Creator/LRonHubbard's less crappier novels - the protagonist interrupts the spooked natives with a sniper rifle that shoots joke holograms, starting with Elvis Presley's ghosts dancing around a cursing JosefStalin (long story).

* Played straight in Rosemary Sutcliffe's ''Literature/TheEagleOfTheNinth''. It is about a colony in Roman occupied Britain, after all.

A DiscreditedTrope from the days of the WhiteMansBurden in works depicting [[DarkestAfrica deepest darkest Africa]], generally describing the moment before the natives rise up and overrun the compound, or [[AppeaseTheVolcanoGod abduct the white woman for sacrifice]]. Often indicated by the natives playing JungleDrums. The ''phrase'' is said to go back to the 1933 film ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'', in which Dr. Moreau says this of his half-human / half-beast creations, and has since become a stock phrase for trouble brewing in a group of people. Often a prelude to being ChasedByAngryNatives. Natives, like white villagers, may take up TorchesAndPitchforks when they get restless enough to form a mob.