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* The Thing of ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' never gives up, no matter how often his opponents may have beaten him before.

'''The Thing:''' Not a threat. '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|A promise.]]''' }}

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

* Also, say what you like about [[Doctor Doom]], but his obsessive, all-consuming hatred of Reed Richards never, ever, ''ever'' dies, and he ''will'' keep living, and fighting, and plotting Richards' ultimate and final defeat until one of them is dead. [[Comic Book Death|And even then he will not give up.]]

(Spoiler alert: {{spoiler|turns out they can take them}}.) }}

'''Jason''': * heh* ... Maybe it ''is''. }}

* [[The Mighty Thor]]

* Basically every main character in ''[[Sin City]]'': Hartigan, Marv, Dwight, Wallace... some of the predicaments that these characters find themselves in are flabbergasting, yet they never show more than the slightest notion of fear in their endeavors.

** It's also important to note, in final day of the real life battle, the Thespians (from Thermopylae not the other kind) who also stayed with the Spartans to the end to protect the allied retreat. The Thebians, on the other hand... not so much (they eventually surrendered).

* In the Marvel ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' continuity, Snake-Eyes has just been in a helicopter crash, his crush is badly injured, and his head and throat have been burned and implanted with shrapnel-like shards of glass. Ordered to stand down, he writers two letters in the sand: C M. '''C'''ontinue '''M'''ission. Then, he all but single-handedly pulls the mission off.

'''Wolverine:''' You're wrong, lil' darlin'. There's something I can do real good. The real thing I do best ... I don't give up. Ever. I'm expectin' you not to give up, either. }}

* And [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] could be his protege. That's almost as much a part of the character as Spider-Sense and webslinging.

** Protege? Are you kidding? There is not a single major villain in his roster that isn't at least half again as powerful as Spidey. This is what he does.

** Or for that matter, ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #270, where Spider-Man actually *stops* Firelord, leaving the full roster of active Avengers that were riding in as the cavalry to stand around with their mouths agape. When Captain America is impressed, you are officially impressive.

** Once he kept A WHOLE, TALL BUILDING from falling, on his shoulders, allowing everyone to escape. Should be noted that, despite him having super-strength, that's WAY beyond what his powers should allow him, so it almost killed him. And he did it WHILE INJURED.

** Another time, he single-handedly defeated Thermite, Blitz, Eel, Vanisher, Plantman, Tangle, the Super-Adaptoid, Dreadnought and Dragon Man. It's impressive if you consider that just between the Super-Adaptoid, Dreadnought or Dragon Man, they usually required a whole team of Avengers to be stopped.

'''Spider-Man:''' Because then, Norman, you would win. And I will never give you the satisfaction. }}

* The [[Green Lantern]] Corps is full of Determinators, with Hal Jordan being a big one. Seeing as their rings are fueled by will power, this is probably a given.

** Alan Scott, while not a member of the Corps, ''[http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/05/the_highlight_r_1.html wrote the book on willpower!]''

* In the seventh issue of the original ''[[Daredevil]]'' series (wherein he changes from the yellow costume to his more familiar all-red ensemble), Daredevil alone faces off against the Sub-Mariner in a desperate bid to keep him from demolishing Manhattan in a fit of rage. Broken and beaten to a pulp, he still tries to stand and challenge Namor; this feat of courage and determination is so moving to him that he immediately leaves for Atlantis out of respect. ''Hard. Core.'' Namor even remarks that he has faced off against many very powerful enemies, from the Fantastic Four to the Avengers, but never had he seen such bravery, and from the most vulnerable challenger of all.

** '''''Born Again'''''. 'Nuff said.

* Friday in ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'', when he crosses two hundred miles in a few days to take down Highsight while being occasionally attacked by rogue grunts.

* ''[[RED]]'' has Paul Moses, although this is more because despite the fact that he's an old man and retired, several teams of professional killers sent after him and an entire building full of soldiers he has to fight through do not deter him in the slightest. They send wave after wave of men at him and he slaughters all of them without so much as a scratch.

* [[Judge Dredd]]. With no means of transportation left to him, he travels through Death Valley on foot to deliver a plague vaccine to a desperate Mega City Two ("The Cursed Earth"). With Mega City One left defenseless and completely open to saturation bombing and invasion, he refuses to surrender his city to East Meg One ("Apocalypse War"). With his eyes ripped out, he still blindly runs a gauntlet against a psychic mutant monstrosity that can remodel the world around him ("City of the Damned"). There's just no stopping the guy.

** In ''Necropolis'', the Dark Judges burnt his face off, threw him into an acid river and left him for dead in the radioactive wilderness. Big mistake..

** To be honest, it was hardly "[[BFG|just]]" a sniper rifle.

* Smiley Bone from [[Bone]] shows elements of this from time to time, either because he's stupid or insanely optimistic.

* This is [[The Hulk]] 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.

* The Blue Knight of ''[[Astro City]]'', who once hunted a small-time crook over several months for the crime of ''unloading stolen merchandise.''

* During the "In The Beginning" arc of ''[[The Punisher]]'', a psychotic Mafia enforcer named Pittsy quickly becomes the subject of Frank Castle's ire. After the Punisher bashes his head and injures his eye in an earlier fight, Pittsy sneaks into Castle's armory and continues their battle. Castle beats him, stabs him and gouges his eye, all the while Pittsy is screaming vulgarities and continuing to attack. Castle finally throws the gangster out a window, where he lands on and is impaled by a wrought-iron fence. {{spoiler|Later, when Castle is engaging other gangsters outside, he is shocked to see Pittsy still alive, walking with a portion of the fence still impaled through his body and still madly desiring to kill Castle. The Punisher shoots him the face with a shotgun, but the gangster still manages to walk a few more steps after that before falling. Castle tries to convince himself these last few steps were just a reflex from a dying body.}}

* The Kraken in ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]''. Despite having the near-useless power to breathe underwater, he's one tough mother, and probably the most formidable and successful crime-fighter on the team.

* [[Doctor Strange]] has been in too many situations to count where, if he had given up, he would be dead. In one memorable story he faced D'Spayre, the personification of the [[Despair Event Horizon]], and still managed to dredge up the scrap of hope needed to defeat him.

* This is -THE- essence of [[Donald Duck]], the ultimate everyman. Life is grim, he rarely triumphs, when he does his victories tend to be hollow, no one gives him a break...and yet, he'll always keep on trying. There will be no job he won't tackle, no task he'll turn down if the thinks he can succeed at it, despite every single thing going against him.

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