Comic Books
- The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books, by Hergé
- 1937 - A coup d'état installs General Alcázar as dictator of San Theodoros (The Broken Ear).
- 1938 - An attempted coup d'état in Syldavia against King Muskar XII, engineered by secret agents of Borduria and Syldavian traitors, to steal King Ottokar's Sceptre, the traditional, empowering royal device. Thanks to Tintin, the theft, and the coup, fail.
- 1958 - General Tapioca deposes General Alcázar, dictator of San Theodoros.
- 1958 - The Governor of Khemed, the Emir Mohammed ben Kalish Ezab, is overthrown in a coup d'état sponsored by Sheikh Bab el Ehr in a slave trade scheme. Aided by Tintin, the Emir Ezab resumes power after six months.
- 1976 - General Alcázar deposes General Tapioca, dictator of San Theodoros, in a bloodless, non-violent coup d'état during carnival (Tintin and the Picaros).
- Fullmetal Alchemist, a Japanese comic (or manga) series, by Hiromu Arakawa
- Towards the end of the series Roy Mustang, along with the soldiers under his command and that of Olivier Mira Armstrong's, launches a revolution in the capital city of Central.
- V for Vendetta, a masked anarchist named V leads a successful non-violent revolution against a fascist regime in a futuristic Britain.
Read more about this topic: List Of Fictional Revolutions And Coups
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