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 Moka Only from Airport 6, 2012

• "Resistance", a song by Soulfly from Enslaved, 2012

• "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 (neo-Nazi magazine), a white supremacist music magazine

• 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

• SSPX Resistance, a catholic traditionalist loosely group formed by Bishop Richard Williamson.

See also

• Resistants, a supervillain group from Marvel Comics