History Main / TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized

** The success of the Revolutionary Army's ideals being spread around the world? Mostly owed to good old-fashioned warfare. [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeVilified Then again, against the corrupt World Government, not exactly a hard choice.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The Aldish rebels in Avelpit target and blow up a medical cart, then later sacrifice their child soldier mages, without said children understanding that what they were doing would lead to CruelAndUnusualDeath when the khert reacted, in order to set the khert on fire long enough for their cursed leader to talk to an ally without their curse killing them. Their leader was also going to give war prisoners to Shaensigin dooming them to a slow death and use as food provisions, though he grabbed the child with them out of the group to be sacrificed to the salt lizard.

* This is a major issue in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising''; the Resistance has noble motives for rebelling against the Builders, but Lio Convoy’s “[[ShootTheDog no matter the cost]]” attitude quickly leads to them becoming a bunch of ultra-ruthless psychos that are hardly any better than the Builders and drive out all the sane members for [[SarcasmMode the hideous crime]] of not playing jump rope with the MoralEventHorizon. By the end, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Lio comes to deeply regret everything about the Resistance]] and [[spoiler:the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happy ending]] only comes about, in part, because most of the radicals die [[HeelRealization or learn their lessons]] in the Vehicon Apocalypse.]]

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Skrull Kill Krew. That the Krew members are essentially suffering from Mad Skrull-Cow Disease doesn't help.
* ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'' featured the royal family of Homeworld as good guys, displaced from their home by violent revolutionaries under the leadership of the ObviouslyEvil Baron Karza. Karza's rhetoric seems to involve a lot of class warfare elements, with him promising immortality to the commoners.

* Quite a few ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse comics have attempted to extend this to the Rebel Alliance, trying to [[BlackAndGrayMorality soften the line between good guys and bad guys]], as well as explain how the cash-strapped outfit got its money. Sometimes it's just down to the occasional {{jerkass}} pilot, such as Jal Te Gniev (who later makes a HeroicSacrifice after watching a teenager he'd abused [[TakingTheBullet take the blaster bolt]] for him--and shooting with a gun that he'd bought to ''kill'' Gniev). However, it did sometimes come down to situations where in order to keep working, the Alliance and later New Republic would have to kill innocents themselves.\\
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In fact, after the Rebels won at Endor, destroying the Death Star, one of the first acts of the New Republic they established was to execute Grand Admiral Osvald Teshik for war crimes after he was captured in this battle. With Palpatine and Vader dead, he was pretty much one of the highest-ranking Imperials captured. Tragic fact that Teshik was one of the few decent Imperials.

* The [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants Brotherhood of Mutants]] from the ''Franchise/XMen'' comics are an example of a revolutionary group of this type that never seems to get very far with their revolution. The few times they ''have'' seized a measure of control, such as when Magneto took over the nation of San Marco in the 60s or when he (later retconned into an impostor of him) briefly seized control of New York during the "Planet X" story, out came the [[PuttingOnTheReich M-armband wearing stormtroopers]] and guillotines and, in the latter story, even ''crematoriums''.

SubTrope of ChangeVsStatusQuo.