

He dies alone, sitting by the door he barricaded. In The Long Watch, Interplanetary Patrol Lieutenant John Dahlquist, after a superior attempts to recruit him into a coup attempt, instead makes a Heroic Sacrifice by barricading himself in the nuclear armory and manually disabling all the nuclear weapons, taking a fatal dose of radiation in the process.In The Roads Must Roll, when the workers are organizing their strike on the grounds that transportion being so necessary, they should use their clout for extortion, one worker objects that the terms of their employment are not actually oppressive when the strike actually occurs, he goes to the boss to offer his help.Later, another one, Rykhel, takes a saviour pod from their ship in hopes of getting back with news of their treachery Gessart is enraged that he didn't speak up when challenged, and though they are fleeing the danger that Rykhel is going into, he claims that he fled from fear. In Gav Thorpe's Warhammer 40,000 story "Renegades", when Gessart decides to take their company renegade, several Marines speak against him and are murdered.( Leading to a very junior officer being in command.) In Winning Colors, treasonous senior officers try to use their ship their juniors realize the treachery and mutiny.The survivors were uncommonly enthusiastic about opposing him and the rest of the treacherous forces thereafter they bogged them down for months. In Horus Heresy, Horus's attack on the Marines on Isstvan IV was motivated to prevent this.John Milton's Paradise Lost has one angel, Abdiel, in Satan's legions refuse to join his rebellion.

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Free State of Jones: The film centers on a group of disgruntled white farmers and fugitive slaves rising up to fight the Confederacy, which itself was deemed the "rebels".

Expanded Universe material further elaborates on the tension between the two groups, with the final season of Rebels television show detailing what exactly was the final straw for Saw and the Alliance for the former to split away. Saw Gerrera in Rogue One from Star Wars quit the Rebel Alliance with his Partisans due to conflict over their modus operandi, as Saw's was at odds with their morals, goals, and caused negative public relations, not helped with his growing paranoia on who to trust due to receiving several assassination attempts and being poisoned to the point where he needs mobile life support by the time we see him in Rogue One.

So they're currently rebelling against rebelling because that counter-intuitively causes things to stay the same. Their predictable evil was actually good for making the Asgardians look good in comparison and create an "easily" defeatable threat to stabilize their society. The kicker is? Most people don't want them to! Why? Because Loki's other setting is a chaotic trickster which is really not something the powers that be can use. Past Loki successfully noticed that he became traitor in his villainy so he made arrangements to change that by dying and other very extreme measures (like not being one of anything).
