History Determinator / ComicBooks

** Hell, in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', Doctor Doom is the one of only two characters to resist the zombie hunger! even when CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR and the THING, heroes who are renowned for their HeroicWillpower give in Dr. Doom doesn't. The only other person to resist the change, at least for a time, is Spider-Man.

-->'''Elsie Dee:''' The detonation pwogwam is too compwex to overwide! There's nothing you can do!\\

* Loki at least in their ''Comicbook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' incarnation. They've gone too far, sacrificed too much, did unforgivable things for a chance to ScrewDestiny. And. They. Won't. Stop. Now. Lampshaded by Odin of all people.

-->'''The Champion:''' No, I could never defeat you. I could crush your bones and break your body, but I could never break your spirit.

-->'''Blue Devil''': Want to see real bravery? Take a look at this guy. He calls himself Captain Marvel, the Earth's Mightiest Mortal. Who knows? Maybe he is. Now he's in the middle of a one-on-one throwdown with the Spectre -- an immortal being so incalculably powerful that our Mightiest Mortal's like a paraplegic child taking on a heavyweight prize fighter. From what I understand, Captain Marvel can survive only so long as his magical power source holds out. But the Spectre is bleeding it dry so quickly, Marvel's continued life span can be measured in a matter of seconds, double digits at most. And every one of those precious seconds will be spent in indescribable agony. Regardless, Marvel fights on. Take a note, boys and girls: that's what real bravery looks like.

-->'''The Thing:''' If that girl or her baby is hurt, you won't be leavin' this room alive.\\

** Then, when he fought The Champion.
-->'''The Thing:''' Hold it! This fight ain't over yet... not by a long shot! Ya only won on a technicality! Ya didn’t really beat me! Ya'll never beat me! I'm just too stupid... and ugly... ta know when to quit!

** Hell in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' where every single superpowered character succumbs to the zombie hunger. Doctor Doom is the one of only two characters to resist it! even when CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR and the THING, heroes who are renown for their HeroicWillpower give in Dr. Doom doesn't. The only other person to resist the change, at least for a time, is Spider-Man.

-->'''Azmodel:''' '''''YIELD!'''''\\

** ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''. As Paperinik (his superhero persona), Donald had to face Trauma, an [[AlienInvasion Evronian]] SuperSoldier who has immense SuperStrength and the ability to amplify his foes fear before absorbing it and enslaving them. Knowing what he could do, he came with a PowerArmor that matched Trauma's strength and protected him from the psychic powers, but then he lost the helmet, Trauma used his powers to overwhelm him with fear... And [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trauma060.jpg he fought on]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome scaring the hell out of Trauma and making him plea for mercy as he lost his powers]]! And it's not like he wasn't scared because he was a superhero (as the Evronians and [[HypercompetentSidekick Uno]] thought): [[HeroicWillpower he plainly admitted he was terrified, but he had to stop Trauma, and so he fought on.]]

** For one of the best examples, check out ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #229-230, where Spidey tries to stop the Juggernaut, [[spoiler: and ''succeeds'' by steering him into a recently poured foundation of wet cement, where his own weight pulls him under like quicksand! Oh, the Juggernaut eventually breaks free, but not until long after the battle is over. CrowningMomentOfAwesome, indeed!]].

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', the Clone Saga. [[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming He convinces Nick Fury, the guy whose job it is to prepare for the least likely scenarios imaginable, that he will not go insane, and that he will in fact grow up to be the greatest hero of all time.]]]]

'''The Thing:''' Not a threat. '''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome A promise.]]'''
** And, of course, there was his CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he fought The Champion.

** Pictured on this page is an early example from the "Master Planner" storyline in ''Amazing Spider-Man #50''. After Doctor Octopus stole medicine that had been meant for his Aunt, Spidey tore the entire city apart trying to find him before confronting the villain in his underwater lair, only to have half the complex fall on him; as an omen of his terrible luck, the canister was just out of his reach, as if some higher power was cruelly taunting him. He metaphorically told said higher power to go to hell, and somehow managed to lift several tons of concrete and steel off his back in order to recover it.

** There's also a classic issue where Spider-Man is trapped under a huge machine under piles of concrete in an underwater now-destroyed base that belonged to Dr. Octopus. The weight is truly above his superhuman strength, but Spidey still manages to escape it and proceed to the surface. Why? Because he had just recovered the only radioactive phlebotinum that could save Aunt May. Oh, and he did it after taking a beating and breaking an arm, too.
** Then there was the classic two-issue "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut!" It leaves one wondering who it was that ''really'' couldn't be stopped.

* This is TheHulk to a T, especially when his loved ones are in danger. Regular Bruce Banner as well, he tries to save the day even when he ''can't'' turn into the Hulk. With just his brain and his wits.

** ComicBook/RedRobin drags himself and a wounded League of Assassins member to a jeep, drives across a desert, drags them into a hotel room and provides first aid for them both before passing out after being stabbed through the torso with a wound that's implied to have possibly ''killed him'' since he wakes up next to a Lazarus Pit. Earlier as [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] Tim showed signs of this trait already, at one point when badly burned on the back of his head and neck he still insisted on going out to help deal with a gang war. Prior to that he suited up and took to the roofs while recovering from the [[SyntheticPlague Clench]] even though he was severely weakened and exhausted.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} in most incarnations. ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'' portrayed the fact that Batman died in every incarnation because he refused to give up. Ever. It didn't matter if he was saving a little girl or taking on an impossible foe. He would die trying to save people and/or come out on top.
** {{Lampshaded}} in an issue of ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' where the two heroes are standing in the Mall in Washington D.C., surrounded by an obscene number of supervillains.

** During Day of Vengeance, Captain Marvel has to delay the Spectre for as long as possible. The Spectre is the literal Wrath of God, and Cap has virtually no chance against him. Cap fights him anyway, and the Blue Devil is basically awestruck by his heroism.

* The graphic novel ''ComicBook/ThreeHundred'' (and really, the real life battle that it it based on) makes a note of showing that all of the 300 Spartans (particularly King Leonidas) are some of the most {{badass}} {{determinator}}s imaginable.

** Colossus is the good-guy equivalent to TheJuggernaut once he gets going. He once scaled a demonically-possessed Empire State Building, which had grown to several times its normal height [[{{Badass}} with his bare (steel) hands.]] Just to free his friends from the demonic influences coming from it [[IncorruptiblePurePureness (which he happened to be immune to)]].

** Hal Jordan is not the biggest Determinator among the Lanterns, just (possibly) the best of the Lanterns. Guy Gardner, for all his faults, smugness, and jerkassery, is said to have a willpower so strong that the Green Lantern rings are actually ''unable to contain it.'' He has used a red, yellow, and green ring in the past, and his will is so strong that his rings constantly emit power--even if he's just standing still, doing nothing whatsoever, his ring will spark and flash. That's right, folks. Guy Gardner's willpower is actually ''too strong.'' Which is [[{{BadAss}} awesome.]]

* Perhaps the only real power ''ComicBook/KickAss'' possesses is the fact that he never, ''ever'' gives up. Even when [[spoiler:he gets strapped to a chair and gets his testicles electrocuted for half an hour, his plan for getting out of it is to get the mobsters to punch him until the chair breaks. Then he gets right back up and tells them to bring it. They do, but luckily Hit Girl returns just in time to eviscerate them all]]. Which is either pretty solid deconstruction or straightforward {{Badass}}. The fact he keeps at the whole superhero thing even when he knows full well that the world's not worth saving is ''supposed'' to be a gut-wrenching demonstration of the kind of depths of despair and nihilism he's fallen to, but it reads more like a very well written Moment of {{Badass}}.

::There are many examples that make him the very ''personification'' of this trope. A similar situation and dialogue occurs in ''The Thing: Last Line Of Defense'', which takes place when Sue Richards is pregnant with her and Reed's first kid, Franklin. Bad guy Blastaar beats Ben Grimm to a pulp, and proceeds to attack Sue. She's unconscious and is about to be killed when the half-dead Grimm gets back in the fight with:

'''Blastaar:''' Bold talk from a man [[YouCanBarelyStand who can barely stand]]. And you still make threats.\\

::And, of course, there was his CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he fought The Champion.
-->'''The Thing:''' Hold it! This fight ain’t over yet... not by a long shot! Ya only won on a technicality! Ya didn’t really beat me! Ya’ll never beat me! I’m just too stupid… and ugly… ta know when to quit!

* Superman's cousin ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' never quits. Never. Not even when she's poisoned with Kryptonite, her body is getting stolen by an alien abomination, and her heart has stopped. Even so, she'll keep fighting. In the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc she explains that her mother taught her to never give up.
-->'''Supergirl:''' But then I thought of mother. I remembered all I had to live up to. A daughter of the House of El never quits. I wasn't about to be the first.

** Spidey fits this trope to a 'T'. The classic two-issue "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut!" leaves one wondering who it was that really couldn't be stopped.

** Also the very first Spider-Man Annual which introduced the Sinister Six where Spider-Man lost his powers and then still went to face the six most dangerous villains he had ever fought one after another because it was his responsibility. [[spoiler: He got his powers back after the first fight.]]

** There are many examples that make him the very ''personification'' of this trope. A similar situation and dialogue occurs in ''The Thing: Last Line Of Defense'', which takes place when Sue Richards is pregnant with her and Reed's first kid, Franklin. Bad guy Blastaar beats Ben Grimm to a pulp, and proceeds to attack Sue. She's unconscious and is about to be killed when the half-dead Grimm gets back in the fight with:

** And, of course, there was his CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he fought The Champion.

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--->'''Green Goblin:''' No. No! I kill your true love, you fall in love with someone else. I destroy your life and you build another! [[WhyWontYouDie Why won't you fall down and die?!]]
--->'''Spider-Man:''' Because then, Norman, you would win. And I will never give you the satisfaction.

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* {{Comicbook/Superman}}. In ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', Batman is broken by having himself killed, night after night after night. Only Superman's selfless offer to take those memories (thanks to Mxyzptlk and ComicBook/{{the Spectre}}) enables him to go on. Superman is also seen in the John Byrne reboot boosting the willpower of a group of Green Lanterns' rings. He beat Doomsday after the JLA had been crushed, the story frequently describing him as never giving up.