History Determinator / WesternAnimation

* Many characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', but especially Captain America and Ms Marvel. As far as they're both concerned, this is humanity's [[PlanetOfHats hat]], and the Kree and the Skrulls definitely understood this after they were through with them.
--> (''To Vision'') '''Captain America:''' You think I'm fighting for me, to save my own life? That's why you'll never win. I'm not fighting for me. I'm fighting for them! And that's something you'll never understand, machine! It's the very thing that makes us human.
--> (''To Skrulls'') '''Captain America:''' There's more to human beings than our bodies and minds-- something you'll never understand. Our spirit! We never surrender! We never give up!
** In the 19th episode of Season 2, "Emperor Stark", the Purple Man manages to use his mind control powers on Tony to build him a satellite to amplify said powers, and we learn that Iron Man was still fighting him months later while Purple Man was right next to him. Cap may have written the first book on HeroicWillpower, but Tony wrote the sequel to it.
* Captain Clown from the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE4TheLastLaugh The Last Laugh]]", who takes a ridiculous amount of crowbar shots to the head. [[spoiler: Being a robot helps with that.]]
* Red Hood, of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' suffered the same chemical bath as the Joker (being his counterpart from the MirrorUniverse ). However, he didn't crack (albeit he did, in his own words, "bend"), and he kept this up throughout his career, repeatedly battling whole teams of villains with nothing but large spades (the playing card symbol, much like Batman's batarangs) and grit. His response to electroshock torture? "Ahaha, it tickles!"

* Saint Walker from ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries''. Climbs a mountain in search of a savior to battle the Red Lanterns, and when he reaches the top [[spoiler:he seemingly finds nothing there]]. Instead of giving up, he keeps hope and vows to find a way to battle the Red Lanterns, [[spoiler:resulting in the [[HopeSpringsEternal Blue Lantern of Hope]] to come to him, its reflection showing him to be the savior he was searching for, and give him the first Blue Lantern ring.]]
** Heroic willpower is the Hat of the Green Lantern Corps. Hal Jordan's character, in particular, is built of this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
** In the SeriesFinale, with no time to come up with a better plan, ''Batman'' keeps on coming after [[spoiler:[[PhysicalGod Darkseid]]]] with nothing more than his fists, feet, and utility belt, relentless even though the other tosses him away casually. After the last such attempt, irritation is evident.
--->'''[[spoiler:Darkseid]]:''' You still try to fight? (''tosses him thirty feet'') Can't you see that it's hopeless?
--->(''Franchise/{{Superman}} gives him a flying punch, then a right hook, and pins [[spoiler:Darkseid]] against the wall by the throat, one-handed'')
--->'''Superman:''' That man won't quit as long as he can still draw breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem.
** Batman also provided a page quote for the main {{Determinator}} article:
--->'''Dr. Destiny''': But you're different. You don't have any special powers.
--->'''Batman''': Oh, I have one, Johnny. I never give up.
** Earlier in the series was another example. Shining Knight, an embodiment of the KnightInShiningArmor trope, was fighting [[spoiler:a mutated and transformed General Eiling]] and refused to give in no matter how badly he was beaten.
--->'''[[spoiler:General Eiling]]:''' You can't win.
--->'''Shining Knight''': [[BadassCreed I'll die as befits a knight: Defending the weak!]]
** Then there's Wonder Woman in the adaption of ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything''. She absolutely gets the shit beat out of her by Mongul for almost the entire episode and refuses to stay down even though each hit she takes brings her closer and closer to death. She shows that you CAN be on the receiving end of a total CurbStompBattle and still look badass.
*** And, after this, she gathered all her remaining forces to free Batman from Black Mercy, resist to the plant's attempts to dominate her, and [[spoiler: throw it at Mongul]].
** Captain Atom in ''Flashpoint''. He gets a horrible ass whooping by Superman when trying to keep [[spoiler:Huntress from helping the previously tortured Question escape Cadmus]]. Though Supes is perfectly fine at the end of the Battle, Cap is beaten so badly his suit cracks and he's barely able to walk, much less throw a punch. And yet he still keeps coming until he's completely unconscious.
--->'''Superman:''' You fought a good fight, stay down!
--->'''Captain Atom:''' ...I can't do that, Superman. (''rushes him'')
--->'''Superman:''' (''dodges his attacks and punches Captain Atom into the wall'')

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' episode, "The Sinister Prime Minister," Spidey is the only one who knows that a foreign Prime Minister has been abducted by a impostor and must strike again and again in order to rescue him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''' Robin, playing the Franchise/{{Batman}}-esque BadassNormal [[TheLeader Leader]] role in his team. He is described as "stubbornly determined to the point of being crazy".
-->'''Starfire:''' They are too numerous to fight! What shall we do?\\
'''Robin:''' Fight anyway!
** This goes [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill triple-overload]] for anything involving Slade and sometimes even ''[[WhatTheHellHero further]]''.
** One episode in particular shows that Slade had found a way to weaponize this against Robin. One of his masks that Robin had in storage released a chemical that caused Robin to see Slade when he wasn't there, driving him into a frenzy, especially since the other Titans couldn't see Slade (him not being there and all). Robin's heart is straining and he is likely to drive himself to death trying to stop a foe that isn't there. It takes a psychic assist from Raven to clear his head, and it cost her a bit of pain in the process, because she could feel the blows Robin's mind told him he was receiving in the fight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Emperor Belos [[spoiler:has spent the past 400 years working to ensure his plan to kill everyone on the Boiling Isles comes to fruition without a hitch. He's mutilated his body to allow himself to live far past his natural lifespan, and then manipulated and fearmongered the population into compliance until he was installed as Emperor and practically worshiped as a god. After his plan for the Day of Unity was thwarted and his body was liquefied by the Collector launching him into a wall, Belos ''still'' does not give up, regenerating FromASingleCell by consuming woodland creatures, possessing both Hunter and Raine to get what he needs, and in the end, possessing the body of ''[[GiantCorpseWorld the Titan itself]]'' to cleanse the world of those he deems unworthy. However, this attitude has made him chronically incapable of ever admitting fault or entertaining the idea that he might be wrong about witches being inherently evil, to the point that he ''murdered his own brother'' for falling in love with one.]]

* Brock Samson from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Ambushing him made him mad and tranquilizing him lead to the new guy being choked to death ''after'' they rammed him with a car to knock him out like a silverback gorilla. Slamming the car into him only pissed him off even more. Driving over him in a bus knocked him out for a bit, but he still got back up more ''pissed'' than hurt. Even exposure to the [[ThrownOutTheAirlock vacuum of space]] had little effect outside of being a little frozen and a bloody nose.

** Candace. She never gives up of her objective of bust her brothers, despite the number of failures.