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 First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. It al ...

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 ''The Resistance Banker'' ( nl, Bankier van het Verzet) is a 2018 Dutch World War II period drama film directed by Joram Lürsen. It is based on the life of banker Walraven van Hall who financed the Dutch resistance during the war. It became ...

'' (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 ''Resistance 2'' is a 2008 science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. The game was released in North America on November 4, 2008, in Australia o ...

'', sequel to ''Resistance: Fall of Man'' **''

Resistance 3 ''Resistance 3'' is a 2011 science fiction post-apocalyptic first-person shooter developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. ''Resistance 3'' is the final installment in the ''Resistance'' tri ...

'', 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 Anita Hale Shreve (1946 – March 29, 2018) was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, '' Past the Island, Drifting'' (published in 1975), was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976. Early years ...

* ''The Resistance'' (Applegate novel), an ''Animorphs'' book

Music

Groups and labels

Resistance Records Resistance Records was a Canadian record label owned by Resistance LLC which was closely connected to the organization National Alliance. It produced and sold music by neo-Nazi and white separatist musicians, primarily through its website. Adver ...

, 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'' (IQ Album), 2019 album

Songs

* "Resistance" (song), a 2010 song by English alternative rock band Muse *"Resistance", a song by Japanese band

High and Mighty Color High and Mighty Color (stylized as HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR) was a Japanese rock band active from 2003 to 2010. They had two vocalists; a male and a female. History Formation and Anti-Nobunaga The band started in Okinawa when Sassy and Meg left a ...

*"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 ''New Surrender'' is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Anberlin, released on September 30, 2008. It is the band's first album on a major label, after signing with Universal Republic Records on August 16, 2007. The album pe ...

Television

Series

* ''Resistance'' (TV series), a 2014 French television period drama *''

Star Wars Resistance ''Star Wars Resistance'' is an American 3D animated comic science fiction television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation. It follows Kazuda Xiono, a New Republic pilot who is recruited by the Resistance to spy on the growing threat of the ...

'', 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 ''Dr Who'' audio presentation *'' Resistance: Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement'', an earth liberation magazine

Politics and military

Resistance (YBNP) BNP Youth (formerly Young BNP, BNP Crusaders, Resistance, Youth BNP, BNP Youth and YBNP) is the youth section of the far-right British National Party (BNP). History In 2002, the Young BNP chairman Mark Collett chose the Odal rune as the logo fo ...

, 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 Resistance movements during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. In many countries, r ...

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

German resistance to Nazism Many individuals and groups in Germany that were opposed to the Nazi regime engaged in active resistance, including attempts to remove Adolf Hitler from power by assassination or by overthrowing his established regime. German resistance was ...

Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance movement (the ''Resistenza italiana'' and ''la Resistenza'') is an umbrella term for the Italian resistance groups who fought the occupying forces of Nazi Germany and the fascist collaborationists of the Italian Socia ...

Korean Resistance The Korean independence movement was a military and diplomatic campaign to achieve the independence of Korea from Japan. After the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, Korea's domestic resistance peaked in the March 1st Movement of 1919, whic ...

Polish resistance movement in World War II The Polish resistance movement in World War II (''Polski ruch oporu w czasie II wojny światowej''), with the Polish Home Army at its forefront, was the largest underground resistance movement in all of occupied Europe, covering both German ...

Resistance movement A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objectives ...

, an organized effort to oppose a legally established government or an occupying power **

Civil resistance Civil resistance is political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime. Civil resistance operates through appeals to the adversary, pressure and coercion: it ...

Draft evasion Draft evasion is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces of one's nation. Sometimes draft evasion involves refusing to comply with the military draft laws of one's nation. Illegal draft e ...

, also draft resistance, organized or personal opposition to military conscription **

Nonviolent resistance Nonviolent resistance (NVR), or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, ...

Resistance through culture Resistance through culture (also called cultural resistance, resistance through the aesthetic, or intellectual resistance) is a form of Dissent, nonconformism. It is not Political dissent, open dissent, but a discreet stance. A revolt "so well hidd ...

* Resistance: Young Socialist Alliance, an Australian Marxist organisation *

White Aryan Resistance White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is a white supremacist and neo-Nazi organization in the United States which was founded and formerly led by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Tom Metzger. It is based in Warsaw, Indiana, and it is also incorporated ...

The Resistance (American political movement) The Resistance (also known as the #Resistance) is an American liberalism in the United States, liberal political movement that protested the Presidency of Donald Trump, presidency of Donald Trump, starting in November 2016. It later expanded to inc ...

, a movement protesting the presidency of Donald Trump

Science and healthcare

Botany and horticulture

Disease resistance in fruit and vegetables There are a number of lines of defence against pests (that, those animals that cause damage to the plants we grow) and diseases in the orchard, principal among these being the practice of good husbandry, creating healthy soil and ensuring high st ...

Pesticide resistance Pesticide resistance describes the decreased susceptibility of a pest population to a pesticide that was previously effective at controlling the pest. Pest species evolve pesticide resistance via natural selection: the most resistant specimens su ...

Plant disease resistance Plant disease resistance protects plants from pathogens in two ways: by pre-formed structures and chemicals, and by infection-induced responses of the immune system. Relative to a susceptible plant, disease resistance is the reduction of pathoge ...

Ecology

Resistance (ecology) In the context of ecological stability, resistance is the property of communities or populations to remain "essentially unchanged" when subject to disturbance. The inverse of resistance is sensitivity. Stability and disturbance Resistance is one o ...

Healthcare

* Disease resistance, the ability of an organism to resist diseases it is susceptible to * Airway resistance, a concept in respiratory physiology *

Antibiotic resistance Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when microbes evolve mechanisms that protect them from the effects of antimicrobials. All classes of microbes can evolve resistance. Fungi evolve antifungal resistance. Viruses evolve antiviral resistance. ...

, used for bacteria resistant to antibiotics *

Drug resistance Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a medication such as an antimicrobial or an antineoplastic in treating a disease or condition. The term is used in the context of resistance that pathogens or cancers have "acquired", that is ...

, the reduction in effectiveness of a drug *

Psychological resistance Psychological resistance, also known as psychological resistance to change, is the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly exhibit paradoxical opposing behaviors in presumably a clinically ...

, the forces that counteract progress in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy *

Response based therapy Response-Based Therapy is the application of response-based practice (abbreviated as RBP) in the area of therapy. The overall approach conceptualizes humans as active agents responding to and within richly complex social contexts. It is informed ...

, counselling involving discussion of victims' acts of resistance to violence

Physics

Electrical resistance The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. Its reciprocal quantity is , measuring the ease with which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallel ...

, the measure of the degree to which a conductor opposes an electric current through that conductor *

Friction Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. There are several types of friction: *Dry friction is a force that opposes the relative lateral motion of ...

Drag (physics) In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding flu ...

("air resistance"), fluid or gas forces opposing motion and flow * Geological resistance, a measure of how well minerals resist erosive factors **

Hydraulic conductivity Hydraulic conductivity, symbolically represented as (unit: m/s), is a property of porous materials, soils and rocks, that describes the ease with which a fluid (usually water) can move through the pore space, or fractures network. It depends on ...

, the ease with which water can move through pore spaces or fractures in soil or rock *

Hardness In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by either mechanical indentation or abrasion. In general, different materials differ in their hardness; for example hard ...

, in materials science * Thermal shock resistance, a measure of resistance of a material to temperature jumps. *

Thermal resistance Thermal resistance is a heat property and a measurement of a temperature difference by which an object or material resists a heat flow. Thermal resistance is the reciprocal of thermal conductance. * (Absolute) thermal resistance ''R'' in kelvi ...

, a measure of difficulty of heat transfer through a substance **

Thermal conductivity The thermal conductivity of a material is a measure of its ability to conduct heat. It is commonly denoted by k, \lambda, or \kappa. Heat transfer occurs at a lower rate in materials of low thermal conductivity than in materials of high thermal ...

, how well heat is conducted through a substance **

Thermal resistance in electronics Thermal resistance is a heat property and a measurement of a temperature difference by which an object or material resists a heat flow. Thermal resistance is the reciprocal of thermal conductance. * (Absolute) thermal resistance ''R'' in kelvi ...

, heat considerations in electronics design

Other uses

Resistance (creativity) Resistance is a mythical concept created by American novelist Steven Pressfield that illustrates the universal force that he claims acts against human creativity. It was first described in his non-fiction book '' The War of Art'' and elaborated ...

, a concept created by author Steven Pressfield illustrating a purported mythical universal force he claims acts against human creativity *

La Résistance (professional wrestling) La Résistance is a professional wrestling tag team and former stable who performed for World Wrestling Entertainment. The name of the team is a reference to the French Resistance. History World Wrestling Entertainment Debut The stable was create ...

Resistance welding Electric resistance welding (ERW) is a welding process where metal parts in contact are permanently joined by heating them with an electric current, melting the metal at the joint. Electric resistance welding is widely used, for example, in manufa ...

, a group of welding processes *

Support and resistance In stock market technical analysis, support and resistance are certain predetermined levels of the price of a security at which it is thought that the price will tend to stop and reverse. These levels are denoted by multiple touches of price wi ...

, concepts in the technical analysis of securities in finance