History Main / HeroicSpirit

** {{Plucky Girl}} - The Deteminator's younger, more traditionally feminine {{Distaff Counterpart}}; the Action {{Pollyanna}}.

** {{Plucky Girl}} - The Deteminator's younger, more traditionally feminine Distaff Counterpart; the Action Pollyanna.

** {{Plucky Girl}} - The Deteminator's younger, more traditionally feminine Distaff Counterpart; the Action [[ {{The Pollyanna}} Pollyanna]]

** {{Plucky Girl}} - The Deteminator's younger, more traditionally feminine Distaff Counterpart; the Action [[The Pollyanna Pollyanna]]

* Londo speaks admiringly of humanity's heroic spirit in the opening of ''{{Babylon 5}}''. During the Earth-Minbari war, humanity was getting utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]], but kept fighting to the death, long after any other race would have [[DespairEventHorizon succumbed to despair]].

** Given a WholePlotReference in an episode of ''DextersLaboratory'', with Monkey in place of the Thing. The fact that Monkey is so small compared the Thing (though [[FlyingBrick no less super strong]]) makes it almost even more awesome.
*** For extra fun, we have the CastingGag of Randy "Macho Man" Savage playing the cartoon's version of The Champion.

* In a ''Dial M for Monkey" short on DextersLaboratory, Rasslor pummels the heroic primate senseless, but he just won't give up.

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* Tenma from ''{{Monster}}'' just won't break. Ever.

* Ichigo of {{Bleach}} tends to act like this. On at least one occasion he essentially ''comes back from the dead'' just because he's that bent on winning.

* Endou from InazumaEleven has been knocked down so many times by powerful shoots, and even when other people wouldn't have been able to stand, he struggles to his feet so that his team can continue to play and win the match.
* Both Mashima Sero and Haman Karn from [[GundamZZ Gundam ZZ]] are able to block [[FrickinLaserBeams beams]] with sheer willpower, and in Mashima's case, he was even able to reflect said beams, while enduring thousands of volts of electricity.
* Goku, particularly in the DragonballZ arcs could be said to be this.

* Captain Malcolm Reynolds in ''{{Firefly}}''. Played up more than ever in the BigDamnMovie. Ditto Simon Tam- a mild-mannered DeadpanSnarker FishOutOfWater who isn't much good at fighting, but will go to ''any'' lengths to [[PapaBear protect his baby sister]]. Including [[spoiler: willingly being burned at the stake with her when their present company decides she's a witch]].

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[[caption-width-right:300:Standing in the path of a rampaging mutant army to give them back a baby... [[NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Yeah, I think she's got this down]]...]]

->''"I could break your body, but I could never destroy your spirit."''
-->-- '''The Champion''' to [[FantasticFour The Thing]].

[[caption-width-right:300:Standing in the path of a rampaging mutant army to give them back a baby... [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Yeah, I think she's got this one down]]...]]

* KingdomHearts: Sora's heart is exceptionally strong, maybe even one of the strongest hearts in existence. Against all odds, he manages to regain his Keyblade from the AntiHero by merely reciting a quote pretty similar to the one on top of the page. He also managed to keep his free will in the form of a {{Heartless}} - something that is actually IMPOSSIBLE to do.

* KingdomHearts: Sora's heart is exceptionally strong, maybe even one of the strongest hearts in existence. Against all odds, he manages to regain his BFS from the AntiHero by merely reciting a quote pretty similar to the one on top of the page. He also managed to keep his free will in the form of a {{Heartless}} - something that is actually IMPOSSIBLE to do, if one doesn't become a Heartless voluntarily.
** To be fair, [[spoiler:Sora ''did'' become a Heartless voluntarily when he stabbed himself in the chest with the Heart Unlocker.]] Perhaps more impressive is the fact that he managed to save the world ''without actually regaining his body.''

* Londo speaks admiringly of humanity's heroic spirit in the opening of ''[[Babylon5 Babylon 5]]''. During the Earth-Minbari war, humanity was getting utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]], but kept fighting to the death, long after any other race would have [[DespairEventHorizon succumbed to despair]].

* Londo speaks admiringly of humanity's heroic spirit in the opening of ''Babylon5''. During the Earth-Minbari war, humanity was getting utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]], but kept fighting to the death, long after any other race would have [[DespairEventHorizon succumbed to despair]].
--> "The War. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. Where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it; They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones, and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself, never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns, when they ran out guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes in the end. They did this for two years they never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of time."

* Amazing {{Spider-man}} #33 was arguably the best issue of the original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko run. It is the third part of "If This Be My Destiny" three part arc. Spider-Man trapped under a huge piece of equipment after a fight with Doctor Octopus. His Aunt May is dying and needs a serum to cure her. Spidey thinks about giving up, but he's determined not to let Aunt May down. He uses every ounce of strength and will and finally lifts the wreckage off. The sequence was later adapted in the animated series ''TheSpectacularSpider-Man'' in the episode "Shear Strength".

* Amazing {{Spider-man}} #33 was arguably the best issue of the original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko run. It is the third part of "If This Be My Destiny" three part arc. Spider-Man trapped under a huge piece of equipment after a fight with Doctor Octopus. His Aunt May is dying and needs a serum to cure her. Too heavy to Spidey thinks about giving up Determined not to let her down In Spider-Man uses every ounce of strength and will and finally lifts the wreckage off. The sequence was later adapted in the animated series ''SpectacularSpiderman'' in the episode "Shear Strength".
** Spidey also fought off a broken neck. Of course, it wasn't really broken, but with the villain in question (Fusion) being a MasterOfIllusion he didn't ''know'' that until he was clenching his fists and standing up for another go.

* [[YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh!]] has an equip magic card called "Fighting Spirit." A monster equipped with the card gets 300 attack points for every monster on the opposite side of the field. If that wasn't enough, when the equipped monster is supposed to be destroyed, the equip card is destroyed in its place. Pretty much wraps this trope in a nut shell.
** That, or the ConservationOfNinjitsu.