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* Tom Purdom's novella "Bank Run" includes "purpose-conditioned" mercenaries, psychologically programmed to be Determinators.
* [[L.A. Confidential|Bud White]] spends years investigating a series of prostitute killings only he believes to be connected. {{spoiler|When he finally gets his man and beats him to death despite suffering massive injuries in the process, "Bud White refused to die. (...) He survived massive shock, neurological trauma, the loss of over half the blood in his body."}}
* From the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' ''Last Chancer'''s novels comes Colonel Schaeffer. He and his personally chosen squads of felons and prisoners are given the most dangerous, desperate and vital missions the Inquisition can come up with. He's been run over by a tank, had his eyes cut out, shot uncounted times and gotten into fist fights with daemons. The Mechanicus has kept him alive for over 300 years by adding new parts to him whenever the old ones get shot off. To quote one of the men under his command, 'He has never failed'.
* {{spoiler|Darkfur}} in ''[[The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness|Ghost Hunter]]''. {{spoiler|She fights an eagle owl, survives a fall from a cliff into a river, travels through an ice-storm in the (literally) freezing rain, treks over an icy wasteland - all the while with a nasty injury on her leg, [[Mama Bear|and all in the name of rescuing her cub Pebble]].}}
* In ''[[Redwall|Mossflower]]'', Martin the Warrior fits this trope perfectly. After being repeatedly savaged by a wildcat and being knocked down time after time, this mouse keeps rising back up to fight some more, refusing to just lie down and die.
* Miles Vorkosigan of the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' has this approach to pretty much anything he sets his mind to. Four foot nine inches tall, with brittle bones, he really wants to go into the army. Aged seventeen, he undergoes a [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] in order to be allowed to try the physical... and breaks both his legs a few minutes in. A normal person would choose another career at this point. Miles... finds a side entrance. And later, when he asks someone to marry him... he always tries again when he gets a refusal. From three different women. In one case, repeatedly over the course of several years. Just as well the man has charm.
* [[Gone with the Wind|Scarlett O'Hara]].
** Melly has her moments too, when it comes to defending Scarlett.
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