Resistance

Resistance may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

• Either of two similarly named but otherwise unrelated comic book series, both published by Wildstorm:
  • Resistance (comics), based on the video game of the same title
  • The Resistance (WildStorm), by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Juan Santacruz
• The Resistance (AWA Studios), an AWA Studios comic book meta series
• Resistance: Book One, graphic novel series by Carla Jablonski with art by Leland Purvis and published by First Second Books

Fictional characters

• Resistance (Star Wars), the primary protagonist organization in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
• The Resistance, one of two factions in Ingress

Films

• Resistance (1945 film), a 1945 French film
• Resistance (1992 film), a 1992 Australian film
• Resistance (2003 film), a 2003 war film, with Bill Paxton
• Resistance (2011 film), a 2011 war film, with Michael Sheen
• Resistance (2020 film), a 2020 war film, with Jesse Eisenberg
• The Resistance (film), a 2011 Chinese war film
• The Resistance Banker (2018), a Dutch drama film

Games

• Resistance (video game series), a series of alternate history sci-fi shooters developed for Sony video game consoles
  • Resistance: Fall of Man, a Sony PlayStation 3 game
  • Resistance 2, sequel to Resistance: Fall of Man
  • Resistance 3, the third game in the main series
  • Resistance: Retribution, a Sony PlayStation Portable game
  • Resistance: Burning Skies, a Sony PlayStation Vita game
• Operation Flashpoint: Resistance, expansion pack of video game Operation Flashpoint
• "Resistance", a map of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer
• The Resistance (game)

Literature

• Resistance (Sheers novel), a 2007 alternative history novel by Owen Sheers
• Resistance (Star Trek), a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel set after Star Trek: Nemesis
• Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945, a 2022 book by Halik Kochanski
• Resistance, a 1995 novel by Anita Shreve
• The Resistance (Applegate novel), an Animorphs book

Music

Groups and labels

• Resistance Records, a white power music label

Albums

• Resistance (Burning Spear album), 1986 album
• Resistance (EP), a 2002 EP by Mika Nakashima
• Resistance (Alove for Enemies album), 2006 album
• The Resistance (Muse album), 2009 album
• Resistance (The Casualties album), a 2012 album by New York street punk band The Casualties
• Resistance (Winds of Plague album), a 2013 album by American deathcore band Winds of Plague
• Resistance, a 2019 album by IQ

Songs

• "Resistance" (Muse song), 2010
• "Resistance" (Clock DVA song), 1983
• "Resistance", a song by Japanese band High and Mighty Color
• "Resistance", a song by Soulfly from Enslaved
• "La Resistance" (South Park song) a song from the musical South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
• The Resistance, song by rock band Anberlin on New Surrender

Television

Series

• Resistance (TV series), a 2014 French television period drama
• Star Wars Resistance, a 2018 American animated television show about the namesake military organization
• Resistance (miniseries), a 2019 Irish TV miniseries

Episodes

• "Resistance" (Battlestar Galactica), a Battlestar Galactica episode
• "Resistance" (Star Trek: Voyager episode), the 28th episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Resistance (Doctor Who audio), a Doctor Who audio presentation
• Resistance (anarchist periodical), anarchist periodical published in New York from 1947 to 1954
• Resistance: Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement, an earth liberation magazine

Politics and military

• Resistance (YBNP), from 2011, new name of Young BNP (ages 18–30), a political youth organization
• HMS Resistance, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned one
• Resistance during World War II
  • French Resistance
  • German resistance to Nazism
  • Greek resistance
  • Italian resistance movement
  • Korean Resistance
  • Polish resistance movement in World War II
  • Yugoslav resistance
• Resistance movement, an organized effort to oppose a legally established government or an occupying power
  • Civil resistance
  • Draft evasion, also draft resistance, organized or personal opposition to military conscription
  • Nonviolent resistance
  • Resistance through culture
• Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance, an Australian Marxist organisation
• White Aryan Resistance
• The Resistance (American political movement), a movement protesting the presidency of Donald Trump

Science and healthcare

Botany and horticulture

• Pesticide resistance
• Plant disease resistance

Ecology

• Resistance (ecology)

Healthcare

• Disease resistance, the ability of an organism to resist diseases it is susceptible to
• Airway resistance, a concept in respiratory physiology
• Antibiotic resistance, used for bacteria resistant to antibiotics
• Drug resistance, the reduction in effectiveness of a drug
• Psychological resistance, the forces that counteract progress in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
  • Resistance (psychoanalysis), the concept of resistance in psychoanalytic theory

Physics

• Electrical resistance, the measure of the degree to which a conductor opposes an electric current through that conductor
• Friction
  • Drag (physics) ("air resistance"), fluid or gas forces opposing motion and flow
• Geological resistance, a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors
  • Hydraulic conductivity, the ease with which water can move through pore spaces or fractures in soil or rock
• Hardness, in materials science
• Thermal shock resistance, a measure of resistance of a material to temperature jumps.
• Thermal resistance, a measure of difficulty of heat transfer through a substance
  • Thermal conductivity, how well heat is conducted through a substance
  • Thermal resistance in electronics, heat considerations in electronics design

Other uses

• Resistance (creativity), a concept created by author Steven Pressfield illustrating a purported mythical universal force he claims acts against human creativity
• La Résistance (professional wrestling)
• Resistance welding, a group of welding processes
• Support and resistance, concepts in the technical analysis of securities in finance

See also

• Resistants, a supervillain group from Marvel Comics

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