# 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 (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
* "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