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{{quote|''"I could break your body, but I could never destroy your spirit."''|'''The Champion''' to [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]]}}
The spirit of a true hero is an awesome thing. The heroes can do anything if they are driven enough. They will not surrender, they will not stay down. Death, [[The Virus]], [[Wangst]], they are all to be shrugged off when the chips are down. No [[Despair Event Horizon]] for them.
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* [[Worth Living For]] (As it gives the hero a reason to keep fighting)
Not to be [[I Thought It Meant|confused with]] [[Fate/stay night|the Servants]]. Or literal [[The Hero|Heroic]] [[Our Spirits Are Different|Spirits]].
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* Schererazde in the [[Arabian Nights]] in a weird but definite sort of way. Man, what kind of girl first volunteers for near certain death, then has the audacity and sheer nerve to tell stories while having sex with a pending execution hanging over her.
* There's a reason Yoda is the Grandmaster of the Jedi Order. After Order 66, Obi-Wan [[Despair Event Horizon|despairs]] that they may be the last Jedi. Yoda responds,
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== Live Action TV ==
* Worf made a fine showing of this trope on an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. Detained in a Dominion prison camp, the Klingon was forced to fight a near continual series of one-on-one fights with progressively more skilled Jem'hadar and little time to rest with no medical attention between fights. Finally, he reaches the lead Jem'hadar, who beats the unholy hell out of him. However, Worf refuses to admit defeat, and rises to go another round. It's clear that the Jem'hadar could easily finish and kill him at this point, but instead...
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** A lesser example in Ikat'ika, who maintains this even after being told he will be executed unless he kills Worf. Definitely [[Honor Before Reason]], anyway.
* Londo speaks admiringly of humanity's heroic spirit in the opening of ''[[Babylon 5]]''. During the Earth-Minbari war, humanity was getting utterly [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomped]], but kept fighting to the death, [[Humans Are Special|long after any other race]] would have [[Despair Event Horizon|succumbed to despair]].
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* Captain Malcolm Reynolds in ''[[Firefly]]'', starting with his very first scene in the pilot, showing his refusal to lay down arms when he's caught on the losing side of the battle of Serenity Valley, and reiterated often after that. Played up more than ever in the [[Big Damn Movie]]. Ditto Simon Tam- a mild-mannered [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Fish Out of Water]] who isn't much good at fighting, but will go to ''any'' lengths to [[Papa Bear|protect his baby sister]]. Including {{spoiler|offering to be burned at the stake with her when their present company decides she's a witch. (Luckily for them, the rest of the crew arrived just in time to rescue them.)}}.
* Deconstructed in ''Stargate Atlantis''. Most people can't survive the Wraith mind control and just get eaten. All the wraith worshipers were those strong enough to take it, and were often very heroic beforehand, making their fates kind of tragic.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Dungeons
** There's a lot of examples of this in the 4th edition of the game. As a side effect of the efforts to give healing abilities to more classes (and avoid the [[The Medic|You gotta have a Cleric!]] problem of earlier editions), there's a lot of powers that allow characters to expend Healing Surges and regain lost [[Hit Points]] that are described as
** ''[[Dark Sun]]'' dwarves have "focus", their current obsessively followed major goal. Game mechanics gives bonuses to save and skill checks while performing tasks leading directly toward this goal.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Tabletop Game)|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.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' 's story arc of "Rise of the Eldrazi" depicted a horribly outclassed humanity fighting against [[Eldritch Abomination|plane eating elder gods]] called the Eldrazi. One card in particular, "Time Of Heroes", sums up this idea in its flavor text: "...The threat of the Eldrazi presented a simple choice: lay down your weapons and die for nothing, or hold them fast and die for something."
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has Willpower, which can be spent to throw off mental influence, or to enhance ability rolls. Channel one of your Virtues for the latter use, and the action is all but guaranteed to succeed if that Virtue is high enough. So, basically, by being a heroic person, you can channel the raw [[Power of Love]] (Compassion), [[The Fettered|level-headedness and discipline]] (Temperance), [[Hot-Blooded|Hot Bloodedness]] (Valor), or sheer [[Determinator|determination]] (Conviction).
* ''Spellbound Kingdoms'' [http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=62332 combat system] has motivation mechanics built in as "Inspirations". Once per battle per Inspiration, a character can have Heart roll along with normal attack, defence or other roll and use the best value. The strength of an Inspiration counts as a bonus to Heart roll if it can be [[Large Ham|hammed out]]
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** Saber, too. And they are the [[Battle Couple]] of that route.
* [[Kingdom Hearts]]: 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 [[Anti-Hero]] 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 near impossible to do.
** [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Terra]] may trump even Sora though. After spending his story trusting [[Obviously Evil|Obvious Villains]], getting convinced his friends have betrayed him and {{spoiler|causing the death of his surrogate father}}, he finally proves just why the Keyblade chose him: {{spoiler|after Xehanort pulls a [[Grand Theft Me]] on Terra at the climax of his final bosses and takes complete control of Terra's body, Terra's ''armour'' rises up to confront Xehanort, who's theoretically at his prime at this point, and beats the hell out of, quite literally, ''himself.'' After that? He kneels down and waits for 11 years before Sora runs across him in Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+, where he's widely regarded as [[That One Boss]] of an ''entire series littered with them''.}}
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' Compilation, especially ''[[Crisis Core]]'' - Zack Fair, who will just NOT quit, even in the face of impossible odds. It takes an ''army'' to kill him, and even then, ''he kills most of them.''
* The cast of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' run on this like a car runs on petrol. Not only is it implied to be the source of their massive strength, most of them would probably be [[Determinator|long dead without it]].
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** The fact that Monkey is so small compared the Thing (though [[Flying Brick|no less super strong]]) makes it almost even more awesome.
*** For extra fun, we have the [[Casting Gag]] of Randy "Macho Man" Savage playing the cartoon's version of The Champion.
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* The Finnish concept of 'sisu' is pretty much this.
* In [[World War 2]], Tom Lea said of a young [[Semper Fi|Marine]] at the Battle of Peleliu:
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{{#related:Humans Are Warriors}}
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