History Determinator / Film

* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: He is a prime example of a Determinator, fighting to the death even when its clear he's gonna lose and has a tendency to solve any problem he's faced with with Brute force or cunning. Flying Enemy? No problem, use atomic breathe to propel you. World destroyer in your base killing ur dudez? Gather up the posse and take it down.

** Rodan is a fellow example. Up until his ''MonsterVerse'' incarnation, whether Rodan was strong enough to shrug off Godzilla, or jobbing for someone else, he absolutely ''would not back down or submit.''

* Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness: Wanda Maximoff. Hoo boy, Wanda Maximoff. It’s definitely not a heroic example, though: she’s willing to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope sacrifice whatever morals she had left]], kill dozens if not hundreds of innocents, and endanger trillions more throughout the multiverse, all in order to reunite with her children.

* Another Kaiju example has to be Film/{{Gamera}}. The amount of punishment he takes in basically all of his movies is legitimately insane, and yet his sheer willpower to keep fighting is even more so. Impaling, losing copious amounts of blood, burning, slicing, blunt force, and even getting his entire arm below his elbow blown clean off (By ''his own'' fireball, mind you, and intentionally at that.) He just powers through all of that refuses to give up, regardless of the odds stacked against him.

** Obviously, ''[[IncrediblyLamePun De Terminator]]''. Villainous ones tend to overlap with ImplacableMan as well:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': Princess Poppy, as shown by her journey montage while she sings "Get Back Up Again," even if SlapstickKnowsNoGender.

* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'''s Sheriff Beuford T. Justice. Run him off the road, plow through his car with an 18-wheeler, run him through a minefield which reduces his police cruiser to nothing but a chassis, engine, and steering wheel. ''Nothing'' will stop him from chasing The Bandit.

** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': Flik wants to gain his colony's approval so darn badly.

* Héctor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', who has spent ''96 years'' of his afterlife trying to cross the Marigold Bridge on Dia de los Muertos [[spoiler: to be able to see his beloved daughter Coco]].

** Sully from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' never gave up on getting Boo home safely.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': Charles Muntz, an explorer who, as a young man, was humiliated with accusations that the giant bird skeleton he discovered was fake. In response, he resolved to retrieve a live specimen of the species if it was the last thing he ''ever'' did. However, he ends up being a {{Deconstructed}} example of this trope, as the film shows exactly what that mindset can do to a person if they don't give up. The bird turned out to be much harder to catch than expected and Muntz, in his refusal to give up, spent ''seventy years'' hunting it. As a result, he become obsessed over his hunt to the point of paranoia and insanity, killing anyone that he encounters that he believes is simply after the bird he is after.

** Woody. In all three ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' movies. He never really gave up on Andy, even when he gave up on himself and even when the other toys gave up on either him or Andy. Or both. Andy sums this up at the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'':

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'':
** Batman refuses to stay down, literally punching his way out of a grave and digging himself out of six feet of Earth before continuing on with the mission without a moment's rest or medical attention.
** {{Deconstructed}} for Wonder Woman, as her refusal to give up a fight is the crux of the Legion of Doom's plan against her. [[spoiler: Cheetah's claws were laced with a drug that made Wonder Woman perceive everyone around her as Cheetah. She continues to fight, attacking innocent bystanders and police in her delusion. Cyborg speculates that the Legion intends for her to keep fighting until she [[HeroicRROD dies of exhaustion]], assuming one of the police don't get a lucky shot in first.]]

* ''[[Film/{{Jack 2013}} Jack]]'' (the 2013 Creator/{{CBC}} film) portrays Jack Layton as this. Jack already had a reputation for valuing perseverance even before this movie came out, but this movie emphasizes it [[UpToEleven perhaps even more so than it's usually emphasized]].

** Héctor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', who has spent ''96 years'' of his afterlife trying to cross the Marigold Bridge on Dia de Muertos [[spoiler: to be able to see his beloved daughter Coco]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', nothing will stop Tip from getting to her alien-abducted mother. That includes the distance between continents and a total lack of knowledge as to where she was even taken. [[spoiler:She does briefly lose hope when she's found the other humans but has no idea where to look, but Oh comes back just in time]].

* ''Film/TheGuilty202'' Detective Joe Baylor is on suspension and answering 911 calls as a dispatcher. Even this doesn't stop him from calling in favors, shouting at people, and practically ruining his career to save a woman who's been kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband.

* Film/TheGuilty(2021) Detective Joe Baylor is on suspension and answering 911 calls as a dispatcher. Even this doesn't stop him from calling in favors, shouting at people, and practically ruining his career to save a woman who's been kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband.