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* Agent Paul Ballard from ''[[
* Dani Beck from ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]''. Elliot Stabler admired her for her "over-zealous" reputation, but he was very much in the minority.
* [[The Prisoner|Number Freaking Six]]-'I will not make any deals with you. I resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.'
* In ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'' the [[Kid Hero|Blue]] and [[Gentle Giant|Black]] rangers' motto was "Never Give Up!", which they often used to encourage each other when the chips were down.
** '''All''' the Rangers in [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]], and many other Zordon Era Rangers. Quoth the full version of the original theme song, "No one will ever take them down, the power lies on their si-i-i-i-i-i-i-ide!" Adam gets special mention for his bravery in "[[Power Rangers in Space|Always a Chance]]". He morphs using his damaged original morpher and the damaged Mastodon Power Coin within. He fights and helps Carlos defeat the monster and the Quantrons in spite of the damaged powers ''hurting him the whole time and almost'' '''killing''' ''him''. Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd also count. Defeat after defeat after defeat, even forced to abandon their home palace in Zeo, but does that make them quit? Hell no.
* ''[[
** The Daleks, utterly devoted to their self-imposed purpose of becoming the only form of life in the universe. Part of this is how they perceive themselves, but you have to admire a species that manages to survive even after being made extinct. Twice. At least. In the new series alone.
** The original series' Cybermen are up there too. By the end they're a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers floating around the galaxy in a derelict spaceship, with no home planet and no influence... and they still refuse to lay down and die. "They never get tired, and they never give up."
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** The [[Cool Starship|cool ships]] are like this as well. Every version of the ''Enterprise'' has taken abuse that would reduce another ship to recycled scrap metal. The USS ''Voyager'' was stranded a bajillion light-years from any kind of base that could offer repairs and yet managed to take on, and defeat, hundreds of enemy ships and leave a trail of destruction and reconstruction on its way home. And of course, you have the ''Defiant'' which takes the design principles of the preceeding, turns them [[Up to Eleven]] then asks the question "how can we make this ''more unstoppable?''" And manages to do it too, taking on multiple ships ''each'' five to fifteen times her size and winning.
* It shouldn't be too terribly shocking, considering what she is, but Cameron of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' is pretty darn tough. Little things like getting caught in a massive car bombing don't do much more than give her a limp for a bit.
** Cromartie. Mother''fuck'', Cromartie. He didn't even stop when his head was ''severed from its chassis'' and sent ''into the future''. What did he do? Why, he sent out a remote call to the body that had been resting in a junkyard for eight years, put himself back together, and ''chemically reproduced new skin''. Yeah. They had to [[Boom! Headshot!|destroy his processor]] and bury him before he stopped coming back.
** There is also Allison Young, the girl whom Cameron's appearance was based on. She doesn't surrender, repeatedly attempts to escape, and when {{spoiler|Cameron is about to kill her}}, she stares her right in the eye and declares she'll ''never'' help them.
* Comedy example: Jack Donaghy of ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]''. Among other things, he's grown an inch and a half and defeated a killer peanut allergy on pure willpower.
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* ''[[The Closer]]'''s titular character, Brenda Leigh Johnson.
** Borders on a deconstruction when her obsessive need to close a case involves putting it before all else--her boyfriend's investigations, the rest of the LAPD, her personal relationships, her ''life'' . . . she eventually learns that complete dedication to ''her'' case at the expense of all else isn't healthy. [[Aesop Amnesia|Repeatedly.]]
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' where Ban, the [[The Hero|Red Ranger]], gets a promotion, but won't leave until he's sure Tetsu, the [[Sixth Ranger]], can replace him as the [[Hot
** Determination is a prerequisite for being a [[Super Sentai]] member. Especially the Red Ranger, often owing the their [[Hot
** Amusingly, in the final episode of ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', the Red Ranger (himself one hell of a Determinator) says that he admires Earthlings because the entire race has this as their trait.
* Charlie Crews from [[Life]]. As a cop that's been sent to [
** Crews, in the second season, gets shot in the chest. After he recovers, he {{spoiler|lies to the LAPD that he doesn't remember who shot him, gets the bullet that hit him and keeps it, melts it down later to make a new bullet, barges into the shooter's house and proceeds to shoot him w/ a gun loaded with ''that bullet''}}. It. Was. Awesome.
** The time when his partner got kidnapped by the psychotic Russian mobster known as Roman Nevikov? Yeah, that whole episode was ''epic''. Despite the entire LAPD looking for him as his connection to Roman became known and his only assault weapon getting confiscated, Crews meets up with Roman and exchanges himself for his partner. He gets into the SUV completely weaponless, Roman sitting beside him and 4 or 5 heavily armed Russians surrounding them. ''It was not Roman's wisest move.''
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