The plot of Rebel is not sophisticated, and in many instances is reminiscent of colonial works by Rudyard Kipling or H. Rider Haggard, depicting the cruelty of a " primitive " society not yet rescued by the forces of civilization ( though in this case, civilization is brought by an African, rather than a white imperialist ).

Wideload's first project was Stubbs the Zombie in " Rebel Without a Pulse ", a 3D-action-adventure game in which the player takes control of the zombie Stubbs in a plot filled with black humor.

The " Wild One " ( seemingly inspired by Rebel Without A Cause ) is an Elder god who only made one brief appearance, in a plot involving the otherdimensional Sorcerer Supreme Shanzar.

2005 saw Hawke star in the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film of the same title, with an updated plot.

Despite their importance in the first game's plot, they play no role in Global Assault.

The plot of Front Mission Alternative revolves around a company of O. C. U. and South African United States ( S. A. U. S. ) soldiers called the Independent Mobile Assault Company ( IMAC ).

The price paid was half the amount of the 6, 250 m² Admiralty II plot, for which the MTR Corporation paid HK $ 1. 82 billion in cash.

* 1944 – World War II: Claus von Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators are executed in Berlin, Germany for the July 20 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends, being allied with the usurping Wizard, were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz.

This plot was resolved in " Storm Front ", Parts I & II.

* June 20 – The powerful Fernando II, Duke of Braganza is executed in Portugal, followed by more than 80 other noblemen, for his plot against the Royal crown.

Ken Follett's 2007 novel, World Without End uses the alleged murder of Edward II ( and the infamous letter ) as a plot device.

In 1857, the queen uncovered a plot by her son ( the future Radama II ) and French nationals in the capital to remove her from power.

The plot of the first serial, “ The Wrong End of Time ”, was inspired by a – possibly apocryphal – story of a German Expeditionary Force supposed to have landed in Britain in 1940, during World War II.

In the first Kingdom Hearts and in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Mushu is a summonable character, and in Kingdom Hearts II, the movie is featured as a playable world named " The Land of Dragons ", with the plot being changed to accommodate the game's protagonists ( Sora, Donald and Goofy ) and Mulan ( both as herself and as " Ping ") able to join the player's party as a skilled sword fighter.

* The plot of the second episode of Blackadder II, " Head ", echoes plot elements of the play, with the titular character, as Executioner, swapping around heads in order to pretend that a criminal is alive rather than dead.

Unlike previous Blizzard titles, such as Warcraft II or StarCraft, players are not directed to mission briefings in which plot exposition occurs and objectives are announced ; rather, Warcraft III uses a system of " seamless quests.

In 970, Harald II was tricked into coming to Denmark and killed in a plot planned by Sigurd Haakonsson's son Haakon Sigurdsson, who had become an ally of Harold Bluetooth.

It has a double complementary plot describing the fall of Richard II and the rise of Bolingbroke, later known as Henry IV.

* In 1524, the Jews of Cairo were delivered on the 28th of Adar from the plot of Ahmad Pasha who sought revenge against the Jewish minter Abraham de Castro who had informed Selim II of Ahmad's plan to cede from the Ottoman Empire.

While still Duke, he was involved in the plot for the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ( but did not participate ), in which thousands of Huguenots were killed ; his reign as king, like the ones of his elder brothers Francis II and Charles IX, would see France in constant turmoil over religion.

In 1696 Marlborough, together with Godolphin, Russell and Shrewsbury, was yet again implicated in a treasonous plot with James II, this time instigated by the Jacobite militant John Fenwick.

After World War II he used what would be the plot of I, the Jury for a comic book character called Mike Danger.

In 1654, Rupert appears to have been involved in a plot to assassinate Oliver Cromwell, an event that would then have been followed by a coup, the landing of a small army in Sussex, and the restoration of Charles II.

Final Fantasy II was the first installment to have chocobos play a role in the plot.

At this time she became the victim of an elaborate plot by Hugh Despenser the younger with the help of King Edward II.

In 1692 a bizarre attempt was made to implicate him in a plot to restore the deposed king James II.

The basic plot of the subsequent episodes involves Satan taking on the guise of a leading world figure in order to meet influential people, such as Queen Elizabeth II, whom he tries to convince to lead more of mankind to Heaven by encouraging them to change their ways.

The 2009 video game Assassin's Creed II features a semi-fictional version of the Pazzi family and the Pazzi conspiracy, acting as early adversaries to the main character Ezio Auditore with an important role in the plot of the game.

The plot revolves around a sinister construction corporation's plans to depopulate, destroy and redevelop the Bronx, and a band of rebels who are out to expose the corporation's murderous ways and save their homes.

The plot revolves around species-related humor, satire, and interpersonal conflict.

" Johnston took the-vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton's then-popular " lost race " novel The Coming Race ( 1870 ), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named " Vril.

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

The 2005 film The Island revolves around a similar plot, with the exception that the clones are unaware of the reason for their existence.

Often, much of the plot revolves around his heritage or mysterious nature.

Work is not glorified either, since the plot revolves around a group of villagers using their vacation time to go on a trip up the Volga to perform in Moscow.

* Machiavelli wrote in 1518 a play Mandragola ( The Mandrake ) in which the plot revolves around the use of a mandrake potion as a ploy to bed a woman.

In the mystery novel The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters ( 1974 ) the central plot revolves around the debate as to whether Richard III was guilty of these and other crimes.

Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.

Labor unions, which had been treated negatively in " The Roads Must Roll ", are here subjected to even more severe and categorical criticism, where a significant portion of the plot revolves around Max's attempts to enter the closed guild system of the spacelines ' officers and crew.

The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz.

The plot of " Evidence " revolves around the question of telling a human being apart from a robot constructed to appear human – Calvin reasons that if such an individual obeys the Three Laws he may be a robot or simply " a very good man ".

The plot revolves around a murder where the forensic investigation discovers that the victim was killed by a hug from a humaniform robot.

In TV interviews, Hitchcock defined a MacGuffin as the object around which the plot revolves, but, as to what that object specifically is, he declared, " the audience don't care ".

Moreover, The Patriot does not depict the American character Benjamin Martin as innocent of atrocities ; a key plot point revolves around the character Benjamin Martin's guilt over acts he engaged in, such as torturing, killing, and mutilating prisoners during the French and Indian War.

Set in a dystopian present, the plot revolves around the contestants of a gruelling walking contest, held annually by a somewhat despotic and totalitarian version of the United States of America.

The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua.

In Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne's novel The Wrong Box, much of the farcical plot revolves around the mis-delivery of two boxes at Waterloo station, and the attempts by the various protagonists to retrieve them.

The plot of the film revolves around the one pharmaceutical corporation that has found a cure but chooses to withhold it from the public in favor of a more lucrative treatment program.

The plot is set in the fictional Indiana Jones universe and revolves around the eponymous protagonist's global search for the legendary sunken city of Atlantis.

The plot revolves around Sylvia, a ditzy psychic, and Nick, her equally odd psychic friend and their trip into the Ecuadorian Andes to find the " source of psychic energy ".

However, the Galactic Empires from Foundation and the CoDominium universe are relatively benign organizations ; indeed, much of the plot of the Foundation series revolves around the issue of who can best and quickest revive the fallen galactic empire, it being taken for granted that this is a positive and worthy aim.

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot revolves around Macon Leary, a writer of travel guides whose son has been killed in a shooting at a fast-food restaurant.