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This happens in multiple Gundam series, such as the AEUG and Karaba of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and the League Militaire of Victory Gundam.The side manga Oz the Reflection reveals the existence of Peace Mark, a worldwide terrorist faction that hates The Empire just as much as Zero does.

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But the series does explore this issue and search for the place where "resisting the empire" no longer justifies sacrificing civilians. His immense guilt over the infamous Diabolus ex Machina situation in the end of season one has him labelling himself a terrorist after that.

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However, as he goes along, he finds it hard to follow his own code of not involving civilians (see stages 11-14) - and he's surrounded by people who tell him he shouldn't bother. Furthermore, he sees that bombings like the one shown in the first episode are petty, and do nothing to accomplish the goal of freedom. Lelouch debuts his Black Knights with the rescue of a group of Britannian civilian hostages from one of these sorts of groups, promising to defend the weak from those who would abuse power, "whether they be Britannians or Elevens". While the immediately noticeable thing is how unfair it is that the 8 Britannians are given so much more regard than the other victims, there's also the fact that these "freedom fighters" killed 51 Innocent Bystanders from their own people. A large portion of La Résistance that existed before Lelouch entered the scene as Zero were pretty squarely on the wrong side of this - in the first episode, a news broadcast is shown about a terrorist bombing that killed 8 Britannians and 51 "others".

In Code Geass, Lelouch grapples with this issue.

If the hero (and, by extension, the audience) is genuinely misled about who are the good and bad guys, and he finds out later on that he sided with the wrong side, it's a Reverse Relationship Reveal. Which label gets applied long after the fact will most likely depend on which side won and how. May result in Moral Myopia if the supporters of La Résistance accept and excuse actions from La Résistance that they condemn The Empire for doing. Likely to overlap with The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized.

Related to Well Intentioned Extremists and is a subtrope of La Résistance. Tends to happen when dealing with a Villain with Good Publicity, a Hero with Bad Publicity, and A Hero to His Hometown. See also You Rebel Scum! and Occupiers Out of Our Country. During the age of Wooden Ships and Iron Men, people would have been familiar with the idea that "Your Pirates Are Our Privateers." Originally, the term "terrorist" was embraced by the real life Bomb-Throwing Anarchists, who used those bombs to destroy property and did everything they could not to kill people because "I'm a terrorist, not a murderer". While "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" are both relatively modern terms, and the idea that "terrorists" are necessarily the bad guys only appears after World War II, the basic argument of whether unofficial or unlicensed combatants have the same legal protections as officially sanctioned soldiers has actually been around for a while.