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* Jonouchi from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' does this a lot. Getting back up from extremely brutal attacks in major duels throughout the series, most notable are his duels with Marik, Mai and Varon.

Jonouchi from ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' does this a lot. Getting up from extremely brutal attacks in major duels throughout the series, most notable are his duels with Marik, Mai and Varon.

** The ''{{Naruto}}'' series has this trope in fairly large doses, especially early on when the ''[[IdiotHero Idiot Hero]]'' uses this trope as a substitute for his lack of talent or intelligence that a ninja is normally expected to have.

** The ''{{Naruto}}'' series has this trope in fairly large doses, especially early on when the ''[[IdiotHero]]'' uses this trope as a substitute for his lack of talent or intelligence that a ninja is normally expected to have.

* In ''[[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy 012]]'', while some of his comrades set out on a mission to stop the [[ZergRush influx of Manikins]], the Warrior of Light acts as Cosmos last line of defense... and faces down the Manikin horde, fully prepared to go down fighting to keep them away from Cosmos and take as many with him as he can. He faces at least as many Manikins as the other six warriors, and he holds out just as long if not more so.

* In the final Matrix movie ''MatrixRevolutions'', when Neo and Agent Smith face off in their final battle, Smith has Neo beaten down on the floor and says this tirade:
--> Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting?...You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
--> Neo: Because I choose to.

* [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] gets a few instances of this in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. In "Dragonshy," she successfully overcomes her phobia of dragons - the only creature she fears - when one shows itself willing to seriously injure or kill her friends and uses her superpowered DeathGlare in conjunction with [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath a stern lecture]] to reduce it to tears. In "The Stare Master," she pulls off a similar feat against [[DeadlyGlare a cockatrice]] when it [[TakenForGranite turns Twilight and one of her chickens to stone]] and [[WouldHurtAChild threatens the Cutie Mark Crusaders with the same]].

* [[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]] gets a few instances of this in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. In "Dragonshy," she successfully overcomes her phobia of dragons - the only creature she fears - when one shows itself willing to seriously injure or kill her friends and uses her superpowered DeathGlare in conjunction with [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath a stern lecture]] to reduce it to tears. In "The Stare Master," she pulls off a similar feat against [[EvilEye a cockatrice]] when it [[TakenForGranite turns Twilight and one of her chickens to stone]] and [[WouldHurtAChild threatens the Cutie Mark Crusaders with the same]].

* ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'' is built on this.
* [[AscendedFanboy Nobuo]] of ''HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'', [[spoiler: manages to ''[[RealityWarper warp reality]] and make his fictional powers real'']].

* ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'': The whole titular team has had many of these moments, when the chips are down or one of their own is in trouble. This includes returning from [[spoiler: actual death (twice!)]], defeating a galaxy of near-godlike energy beings, and one member managing to keep himself and his father-like mentor alive for days where both had life-threatening injuries. Among other things.

* Zack Fair, in the FinalFantasyVII prequel ''CrisisCore'', who escapes with Cloud after four years of horrible experimentation by the MadScientist Hojo. Zack steadfastly refuses to give up hope on or abandon the comatose Cloud, taking care of him for nearly a year, then has an epic LastStand in which he battles a massive force from the Shinra army and manages to whittle them down to ''three'' troopers, in order to protect Cloud. And then, after being absolutely riddled with bullets, Zack still manages to give Cloud a TakeUpMySword speech before [[GoOutWithASmile going out with a smile]].
** Cloud himself in the original FinalFantasyVII during the ''real'' flashback to the showdown with Sephiroth in the backstory. Even after he gets run through the gut by Sephiroth's giant sword and lifted into the air with it, he grabs the blade with both hands and uses it as leverage to hurl Sephiroth off the platform into the lifestream pit below. Not bad for a scrawny kid who couldn't make the cut for the SuperSoldier program and had to enlist as a lowly grunt instead.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Shirou gets one-shotted by Gilgamesh while protecting a Saber, who is having a minor HeroicBSOD. This snaps Saber out of it, and she fights Gilgamesh. And loses. [[CurbStompBattle Badly]]. With [[LadyOfWar Sab]][[MasterSwordsman er]] lying on the ground, Shirou pushes himself up with HeroicResolve, projects [[InfinityMinusOneSword Calliburn]] and...gets [[{{Subversion}} one-shotted]]. He then gets up again, as Saber is about to HeroicSacrifice herself to protect him, projects [[NoSell Av]][[InfinityPlusOneSword al]][[ArmorOfInvincibility on]] and reflects Gilgamesh's attack. So, a subversion and a playing it straight within moments of each other.

* The player can activate this themselves in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker]]''. If the player is injured, they can activate a battle cry at the cost of some psyche (essentially willpower). If the player uses a certain battle cry, Big Boss or the MFS Soldier you're controlling will shout '''"It's not over yet!"''' and recover their health, allowing them to continue on, despite their wounds.

* This is SOP with [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]. He's quite possibly the TropeCodifier (him or Spiderman, who he references every now and then, saying 'I follow the Tao of Peter Parker). At one point Harry was facing down a respectable fraction of the senior-most wizards on the planet, each one of them a paragon of destruction, and ''they're scared of him''. He knows that he's gotten by with some combination of this trope, luck, and having good friends, but all they know him as is a zombie-dinosaur-riding-potentially-dark-wizard ''who doesn't lose''. He's fought Demons, Fallen Angels, the Fae, trucked his way through a war consisting of the ''entirety'' of Fae on more or less this trope and pluck, and then executed [[spoiler: Aurora, Lady Summer]]. He's carved his way through armies of super-ghouls to rescue his friends, ''kicked off a war with the Red Court when they took his girlfriend by killing dozens of their lesser leadership'', he's lead an assault on Arctis Tor, the seat of Mab's (yes, ''that'' Mab) power. He's (essentially) won a duel with a Red Court Noble through the medium of Will, in a very HarryPotter-esque literalist take on this trope, fought off an EldritchAbomination that Lovecraft would be proud of, challenged the ''entire'' Senior White Council to a duel, and then showed up. [[BadAss Heroic. Damn. Resolve.]]

->''"Even if you get hacked up once or twice, when you're a {{badass}}, you live through it to fight again."''

* Goku and many of his friends from both the DragonBall anime and manga live and breath this.

* [[RurouniKenshin Himura Kenshin]] relies on resolve often, but during his fight with Shishio, he gets mortally wounded almost half a dozen times, blown up, and knocked unconscious. And that's only halfway into the fight.

->''"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."''
-->-- '''Denis Waitley'''

The hero is battered and bruised; he can't keep up with his enemy. Then the villain picks up a child, girlfriend or similar and draws back his weapon for a killing blow -- and suddenly the hero is able to ignore his wounds and charges his enemy, attacking with [[SpamAttack a flurry of furious blows]] that utterly overwhelms his opponent. Bonus points if given in conjunction with a WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

-> ''"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."''
--> --'''Denis Waitley'''

* The player can activate this themselves in [[MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker]]. If the player is injured, they can activate a battle cry at the cost of some psyche (essentially willpower). If the player uses a certain battle cry, Big Boss or the MFS Soldier you're controlling will shout '''"It's not over yet!"''' and recover their health, allowing them to continue on, despite their wounds.

** An extremely rare villian example in ''{{Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas}}'' is [[{{Determinator}} Wyvern]] [[NobleDemon Rhadamanthys]]. Though he didn't start pouching out the good guys, him made it through multiple [[SuicideAttack fatal injuries]] because of this trope. Somewhat {{deconstructed}}, [[NightmareFuel the horror]].

* This is SOP with [[DresdenFiles Harry Dresden]]. He's quite possibly the TropeCodifier (him or Spiderman, who he references every now and then, saying 'I follow the Tao of Peter Parker). At one point Harry was facing down a respectable fraction of the senior-most wizards on the planet, each one of them a paragon of destruction, and ''they're scared of him''. He knows that he's gotten by with some combination of this trope, luck, and having good friends, but all they know him as is a zombie-dinosaur-riding-potentially-dark-wizard ''who doesn't lose''. He's fought Demons, Fallen Angels, the Fae, trucked his way through a war consisting of the ''entirety'' of Fae on more or less this trope and pluck, and then executed [[spoiler: Aurora, Lady Summer]]. He's carved his way through armies of super-ghouls to rescue his friends, ''kicked off a war with the Red Court when they took his girlfriend by killing dozens of their lesser leadership'', he's lead an assault on Arctis Tor, the seat of Mab's (yes, ''that'' Mab) power. He's (essentially) won a duel with a Red Court Noble through the medium of Will, in a very HarryPotter-esque literalist take on this trope, fought off an EldritchAbomination that Lovecraft would be proud of, challenged the ''entire'' Senior White Council to a duel, and then showed up. [[BadAss Heroic. Damn. Resolve.]]