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16->''"This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence, kid."''
17-->-- '''Gordon Gekko''', from ''Film/WallStreet,'' on Bud Fox.
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24* Manolo Sanchez from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''. Not even death can keep him away from Maria.
25* Anna in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}''. She takes off after Elsa in the winter storm in a ball gown to avoid losing time, convinces a misanthropic stranger into helping her, attempts to climb a mountain with no mountaineering skills, refuses to leave her sister's castle despite being struck in the heart by ice magic, and [[spoiler:eventually gives up her own life so that Elsa can live, finding the willpower to ''sprint'' to put herself between Elsa and an incoming sword despite having almost completely frozen from the inside out]].
26* In ''WesternAnimation/Home2015'', 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]].
27* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'':
28** 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.
29** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} 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.]]
30* ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'':
31** In [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1 the first movie]], Po sticks around with Master Shifu despite TrainingFromHell that is specially designed to drive him out of the temple, and he is an unfit panda with next to no kung fu training who is undergoing stuff that kung fu masters many times his level do. Not to mention the fact that he's kicked off the temple and has to climb up a few thousand steps to return. This is what earns him the respect of most of the Furious Five, and [[spoiler:he [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in Badass]] when his natural kung fu abilities are discovered]].
32** Po continues the trend in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. Get shot with a cannon? Not a problem. Come back and challenge the BigBad. Get blown up? Get back up and [[spoiler:destroy the BigBad's fleet]].
33* Nana from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'' is a parody of the trope.
34** Also in the sequel a [[SuperPersistentPredator shark]] so determined to take a bite at [[ButtMonkey Mort]] that it chased him onto the shore, across the jungle and ''up a volcano''.
35** Captain [=DuBois=] in ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted''. She even follows the animals to New York, well out of her jurisdiction.
36* Megamind of ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}''. Roxanne Ritchi, who spends most of the film hating him, even tells him that the Megamind she knows would never run from a fight, even one that he had no chance of winning, that it was his best quality.
37* It's easy enough to miss, but Shang actually sends ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' off midway through the "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" segment. That's right, ''he sent her home and relieved the Fa family of their war duty''. But she pulled through because of her pride and intelligence.
38* Creator/{{Pixar}} must be fond of these characters. Going down the list, we have:
39** Woody. In the first three ''Franchise/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'':
40--->'''Andy:''' But the thing that makes Woody special is he'll never give up on you. Ever. He'll be there for you, no matter what.
41** ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'':
42*** Flik wants to gain his colony's approval so darn badly.
43*** You've gotta admire P.T. Flea's dedication: he spends all summer going from ant hill to ant hill looking for the circus bugs he fired, and is willing to do an act that involves burning himself twice a night every other night indefinitely just to get rich. He also doesn't hesitate to leap into battle to set fire to (what he thinks is) a bird to save what's left of his circus act.
44** Sulley from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' never gave up on getting Boo home safely.
45** Marlin from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. His persistence comes across as somewhat badass, just [[BadassUnintentional in a kind of unconventional way]]. And there's Marlin's friend Dory, or Nemo's friend Gill.
46-->'''Marlin''': ''I didn't come this far to be BREAKFAST!''\
47'''Nemo:''' How many times have you tried to escape?\
48'''Gill:''' Eh, I've lost count. Fish aren't meant to be in a box, kid.
49** WesternAnimation/WallE is the ideal blend of this and TheWoobie. Didn't give on on winning Eve's heart (and ours), [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice and gave everything to save humans from an]] [[AIIsACrapshoot insane, demented, or just plain evil autopilot]]]]. He's been [[spoiler:electrocuted]], [[spoiler:dropped into a trash compactor]], and finally [[spoiler:crushed to death in one of the most literal displays of ButtonMashing known to man]]. Surviving on the seemingly barren wasteland formerly known as earth for seven-hundred years is no small feat either, even if you ''are'' a robot.
50** Carl, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}''. A first-class grump, but when the chips are down, will not let a kid be harmed on his watch.
51** Also from the same movie: 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.
52** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' reveals that Mike is one. Ever since he was little, everyone and their mother tell him that he's not a scarer, but he refuses to listen to them. Mike and Sulley also get a duo moment of determination when they [[spoiler:work their way up from mailroom employees to scarers, step by step, after having their spirits crushed by getting kicked out of college.]]
53** HĂ©ctor 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]].
54* Abbot Cellach in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells.'' [[spoiler: He gets shot by an arrow that's ''on fire'', stabbed through with a sword, is left for dead during a winter night, and he lived for over a decade afterwards.]]
55* ''WesternAnimation/SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron: Spirit''. As in, the horse. There are scenes in which it ''looks'' like his spirit's been broken, only for him to fight back again with renewed vigor.
56* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. Maximus; that horse will never give up.
57* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': ''Nothing'' can stop the Thief once he spots something shiny.
58** Subverted at the end of the original, where he and Tack are fighting over the balls, and the Thief just decides that they're not worth it and walks away.
59* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': Princess Poppy, as shown by her journey montage while she sings "Get Back Up Again".
60* Vanellope Von Schweetz from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' has the prime directive to just cross the finish line of her game Sugar Rush. She aims to do that...and '''''win.'''''
61* Judy Hopps of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}''. Fighting a bully who's twice her size? Training to become a cop despite everyone telling her it's impossible? Taking on a case even though she has only 48 hours and no resources? Whatever the goal, once Judy decides to take action, nothing can stand in her way. She means it when she says she doesn't know when to quit.
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65* ''Film/TheTwelfthMan'' : Major Stage is obsessed with capturing Jan and making a clean sweep of the resistance fighters (this is a bit of ArtisticLicenseHistory, as in real-life he may have thought that Jan died in the lake). At one point, he wades into the ice-cold lake himself and times how long he can bear the cold to determine how likely it is that Jan survived swimming to the other side.
66* The protagonist of ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'' certainly doesn't KnowWhenToFoldEm, and it's [[HonorBeforeReason not even about the money]]. No one (maybe even not he himself) knows why he's so determined to keep going until the end, though one reason is to make his son proud of him. He wins everyone over by sheer amazement about his stubborn determination. Not that that's enough to save the day, but pretty close.
67* From ''Film/FortyTwo'', nothing is going to stop Dodgers manager Branch Rickey from getting an African-American player into Major League Baseball. If you're an employee or player who objects to having Jackie on the team, he'll fire you without a second thought. If you're an opposing team who refuses to play against Robinson, he'll ''damn your eternal soul.''
68* ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'': Aron Ralston (also under Real Life examples). His arm is crushed under a boulder while he's hiking, trapping him in a crevice with only the food and water he'd brought for a one day hike. Just surviving as long as he does (five days!) is a feat unto itself, even if he hadn't [[spoiler: amputated his own arm with a dull multitool, rappelled down a cliff, and walked for eight miles before he found rescue]].
69* Lance Corporal William Schofield from ''Film/NineteenSeventeen''. Determined doesn't even begin to cover it.
70-->'''General Erinmore:''' Down to Gehenna or up to the throne; he travels the fastest who travels alone.
71* Following the mutiny in ''Film/AdventureInSahara'', the legionnaires turn Savatt and the few men remaining loyal to him loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. Savatt is the only one to survive, making it back to Legion HQ and immediately collecting a new squadron of troops before marching back to Agadez, determined to retake the fort and see the mutineers hang.
72* Aguirre in ''Film/AguirreTheWrathOfGod'', who carries this out as tragically as can be imagined. A rather common trope in Creator/WernerHerzog's films, to the point that the {{Mockumentary}} ''Film/IncidentAtLochNess'' parodied this, with Herzog himself cast in this role as a director determined to complete a [[TroubledProduction disastrous film production]].
73* ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''. Pretty much everyone in NASA will not give up until the astronauts make it home. Gene Kranz in particular. "Failure is NOT an option."
74* ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. Quaritch. Good ''God'', Quaritch.
75** And Norman, in the battle. Right after getting killed as an Avatar, which was almost fully YourMindMakesItReal, he picked up a machine gun and charged back to the battle in his puny human body. And he isn’t even a soldier- he’s a ''[[BadassBookworm scientist]]''.
76* In the first anthology piece from ''Film/TheBalladOfBusterScruggs'', Buster kills a thuggish man called "Curly Joe" who was holding him at gunpoint. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Curly Joe's brother is distraught to find his brother dead]] and [[AvengingTheVillain demands to duel Buster]]. At first in the gunfight, [[FastestGunInTheWest Buster shoots off the brother's trigger finger before the brother can even react]] and try to draw, but the brother still tries to draw his gun afterward. This prompts Buster to shoot off each of the fingers on the brother's right hand, only for the brother to react by trying to go for the gun with his ''left'' hand. At this point, Buster is starting to become both impressed and exasperated with the guy.
77-->'''Buster Scruggs:''' Looks like when they made this fella, they forgot to put in the quit.
78* The paperboy in ''Film/BetterOffDead''. "I want my two dollars!"
79* Obviously, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'''s Walter qualifies. Especially with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsogswrH6ck the Dude]], when bowling or trading people.
80-->'''Walter:''' The ringer cannot look empty.
81* Angus from the movie ''Film/BlackSheep2007''. After [[spoiler: being turned into a sheep monster, he gets into a HelicopterBlender, GETS BACK UP, gets turned back into a human and is shown to be missing most of his skull, GETS BACK UP, and wanders into the horde of monster sheep to... rejoin the flock]]. It ends poorly for him.
82* In ''Film/{{Blackthorn}}'', Butch Cassidy, now living under the alias 'James Blackthorn', and Eduardo Apodaca find themselves pursued across Bolivia by a posse incredibly similar to the 'super-posse' that pursued him in ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid''.
83* For a relatively "realistic" movie, there are a couple of examples in ''Film/{{Bodyguards and Assassins}}'':
84** The final assassin (Yan Xiaogou) is a highly-skilled martial artist, and as such, [[InstantDeathRadius he is unstoppable in close quarters]] against the mostly untrained opponents he fights. After mowing down a lot of bodyguards and a major named character, one of the last few survivors [[spoiler: shoots him. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome.]]
85** Winner for the film, though, must go to Liu Yubei. [[spoiler: He's introduced as an unkempt tortured drunkard beggar, then appears in bishonen form as TheCavalry to the convoy, with a GrandStaircaseEntrance. He then holds his choke point on the stairs alone against dozens of trained assassins who, to this point, have barely met an even match in single combat. The assassins resort to using chains and hooks, slowly wearing him down to the point where he could barely stand, yet Yubei kills or incapacitates every single one aside from Yan Xiaogou. And still goads Xiaogou into delaying long enough to cut him down thoroughly by [[TraumaticHaircut cutting off the tail of his queue]].]]
86* The title character of ''Film/TheBookOfEli'' takes his '[[MissionFromGod mission]]' seriously enough to continue walking after he's been shot in the gut.
87* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]. At various times, he's shot, thrown off buildings, beat to a bloody pulp, put through horrendous car crashes, been right next to an exploding bomb. And he just gets up, hunts down who did that to him, and keeps on trucking.
88* Scout Leader Erikson in ''Film/{{Bushwhacked}}'' gets his hands cuffed around a tree, but gets out of it by climbing. Using primarily his feet. And breaking off the branches in his way.
89* Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. Much like his comics counterpart, the man does not know the meaning of the word "quit", whether he's being beat down by regular bullies or superhuman Nazi despots.
90--->''"I can do this all day."''
91** Even when Steve's undergoing the SuperSoldier transformation procedure, we have the staff telling Dr. Erskine to stop the experimentation, in fear of Steve potentially dying. However, Steve won't have any of that, actually ''yelling'' for the Doctor to keep going with it.
92--->''"NOOOOOO! Don't! '''I CAN DO THIS!'''"''
93** It gets one step further when dealing with Thanos, [[WorldsStrongestMan one of universe's strongest beings]] - in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelcinematicuniverse/images/9/9a/Cap_vs._Thanos.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20180810191507 he grabs Thanos by the hand]] to shortly hold him back; and in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', where he actually manages to give Thanos a fight, once the struggle leaves him wounded, disarmed, with his previously indestructible shield in pieces, and facing down not only Thanos but an army of hundreds, Steve just straps the remains of his shield tighter to his arm and get ready to take them all on.
94--->''"I keep telling people to move on. Some do. But not us. Not us..."''
95** If none of his post-procedure feats do anything for you, having this [[https://cap-chronism.dreamwidth.org/6115.html?thread=30435 veritable laundry list]] of ailments during TheGreatDepression, a time when employment was hardly guaranteed and most of these conditions had no effective or affordable cure yet, certainly will. Steve, the shrimpy dork from Brooklyn, had to be a supreme Determinator ''just to live long enough to be Captain America''.
96* ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': Carol never gives up, no matter how the odds are stacked against her. At one point we see flashbacks of her being repeatedly knocked to the ground, but each time she falls over, she gets back up again. [[spoiler:It's this determination that allows her to activate SuperMode at the climax of the film.]]
97-->'''Kelly Sue [=DeConnick=]:''' Carol falls down all the time, but she always gets back up -- we say that about Captain America as well, but Captain America gets back up because "it's the right thing to do." Carol gets back up because "Fuck you."
98* Ace Rothstein's initial description of Nicky Santoro in ''Film/{{Casino}}'' highlights exactly why you should NEVER pick a fight with him:
99--> "[[TheNapoleon No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on.]] You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And if you beat him with a gun, [[AxeCrazy you better kill him]], because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead."
100* Harold Abrahams in ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'': "I'll take them all on, one by one, and run them off their feet."
101* Lieutenant (and later Colonel) Viktor Burakov of the Soviet Provincial Police, in ''Film/CitizenX''. The head of the FBI's Serial Crimes Task Force calls Burakov "the one man in the world [he] would not want after him, because he absolutely will not give up."
102* Vincent in ''Film/{{Collateral}}''. After getting in a 100 mph car crash without a seatbelt, he just gets up and runs away. A few minutes later, he gets shot in the face...and just walks it off.
103* Paul Newman's character Luke in the movie ''Film/CoolHandLuke'' is a perfect example of a Determinator. Acts of sheer determination include [[TheBet eating fifty eggs in under an hour to win a bet]], multiple attempts to escape from jail, resisting the worst the warden could give him, and "winning" a boxing match by repeatedly getting up, no matter how many times he was knocked down, until his opponent, who was so far unharmed, refused to hit him any more. His nickname came from his habit of keeping going and refusing to quit when he has absolutely nothing - specifically, the time he won a poker game by bluffing.
104-->'''Dragline''': Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me -- with nothin'.\
105'''Luke''': Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.
106* ''Film/{{Crank}}'': Chev Chelios takes this trope to its logical extreme: if he stops, he literally will die.
107* In ''Film/CryBloodApache'', when Vittorio finds his tribe has been slaughtered, nothing will stop him tracking down the men responsible and killing them.
108* In the Creator/ChristopherNolan [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman movies]] this seems to be Bruce Wayne's true superpower. ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' takes this to ridiculous levels as Bane pulls out all the stops to break Bruce's spirit and body and succeeds at neither.
109--> '''Ducard''': The ''training'' is nothing! The ''will'' is ''everything''! The will to act.
110* ''Film/DadsArmy1971'': Captain Mainwaring may be a pompous blowhard, but he truly wants nothing more than to keep England free from German control, even if it means his own life will be endangered:
111-->'''Captain Mainwaring''': It's a beautiful land, Wilson. They're not going to get it, you know. They're not going to get their hands on it. We shall fight till the last. We shall keep firing until we've only got one round each. We shall save that for ourselves.
112* ''Franchise/DieHard'': And who could forget John [=McClane=]? The dude is a TropeCodifier for the non-invincible action hero. He's faced lethal criminals head-on while armed with only guns and an IndyPloy and never ''ever'' stops until he gets the job done. However, he's also a {{Deconstruction}} of this trope. His determination to do the right thing always gets him battered and wounded by the end of every movie, and his devotion to seeing justice done has estranged him from his family members (to the point where he didn't even know that ''his own son'' had become a government agent).
113* The crew of the ''Leper Colony'' in ''Film/DrStrangelove'' will complete its mission, no matter what.
114* ''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.
115* ''Film/EddieTheEagle'': The titular character and real life Olympic athlete is one. Nothing stopped him from achieving his dream, not the rules, not the injuries, and not his lack of skill at the sport.
116* ''Film/ElCid'': Gravely wounded by an arrow to the chest, El Cid refuses medical treatment that would likely save his life but cause him to miss a critical battle, even though not being treated would cause his death. Before dying he extracts a promise from his wife and closest friends that come morning [[ElCidPloy he would ride out on his horse whether or not he was still alive when the time came]].
117* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'':
118** Max, as he's trying to save his life from imminent death. ''Nothing'' gets in his way from reaching Elysium [[spoiler:, not lethal irradiation, not painful Exo-Suit surgery, not even a stab wound keeps him down for more than a day or so.]]
119** And Kruger. It's his job to be one, though. But his hunt for Max quickly becomes personal, especially when [[spoiler:Max blows half of Kruger's head right off]]
120* ''Film/{{Everest 2015}}'': After being forced to turn back from the summit in his previous attempt, Doug Hansen is resolved to make it to the summit of Everest this time. [[spoiler:He does make it to the summit, but this ultimately costs him his life when he becomes too ill to descend.]]
121* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'''s Malcolm Reynolds proves himself to be The Determinator over and over again in his BigDamnMovie. At one point in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' he takes a sword to the gut and keeps on fighting. That's determination. His antics can also be found on the [[Determinator/LiveActionTV Live Action TV page]].
122* Richard Kimble in ''Film/TheFugitive''. Lampshaded a couple of times.
123-->'''[[spoiler: Dr. Nichols]]''': You never give up, Richard, do you? You ''NEVER GIVE UP!!!''
124** Deputy Gerard has shades of this too, which makes them excellent foils.
125-->'''Gerard''': That's ''my'' man!
126-->'''Rosetti''': Not any more he's not. He's going down. You can help by staying out.
127-->'''Gerard''': ...Arrest us. ''(proceeds to take the building)''
128* "Never give up, never surrender!" from ''Film/GalaxyQuest''.
129* Vincent "Jerome" Freeman in ''Film/{{Gattaca}}''; judged to have a life expectancy under 31 years and subject to debilitating heart weakness, he nevertheless becomes an astronaut despite everyone, from his mother to the original owner of his donor identity, telling him it's impossible. Also, he gets to come home to Uma Thurman.
130* In ''Film/GettTheTrialOfVivianeAmsalem'', the rabbinical court divorce trial lasts for years, but neither Viviane (Creator/RonitElkabetz), who wants to divorce, nor Elisha (Creator/SimonAbkarian), who does ''not'' want to divorce, are willing to give up.
131* Maximus Decimus Meridius from ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. Nothing will stop him from avenging his family and overthrowing the usurper Emperor Commodus. Not one-sided battles, not men or tigers, [[spoiler:not even as it turns being stabbed before what is intended to be a fancy execution -- he ''still'' hands Commodus his ass.]]
132* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}: He is a prime example of a Determinator, fighting to the death even when it's 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.
133** A prime example would be the comic, ''ComicBook/GodzillaInHell''; [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Godzilla gets trapped in Hell]] and has to find his way out. Facing him are the legions of Hell, eternal damnation, and increasing impossible challenges as he travels deeper and deeper into the circles of Hell. But as Hell and its denizens soon find, nothing will stop Godzilla from his goal.
134** This also goes for Mothra- [[BewareTheNiceOnes When she's pushed]], [[MamaBear especially by threats to her priestesses and/or eggs]] [[MotherNature or the Earth]], the Queen of the Monsters's determination matches that of the King's. Also notable for the fact that not even ''death itself'' [[BornAgainImmortality can stop her for long]].
135** Rodan is a fellow example. Up until his ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' incarnation, whether Rodan was strong enough to shrug off Godzilla, or jobbing for someone else, he absolutely ''would not back down or submit.''
136** Godzilla's friend Anguirus is similarly unwilling to stop. Gigan buzzsaw to the face? Dropped from a great height and stomped on by Ghidorah? Used as [[GrievousHarmWithABody an improvised weapon by his own ally]]? Doesn't matter, he's going to keep swinging, and he's going to hit quite hard while doing so.
137* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
138** Even 15 years after the Janjira incident, Joe Brody hadn't given up on finding the truth.
139** Godzilla chases the Muto relentlessly for miles and when he finally catches up to them, continues fighting even as he was being mauled by the two at once while constantly getting back up no matter how severely he's beaten down. Even a skyscraper collapsing on him only slowed him down for a few minutes.
140** Angry mama MUTO after realizing [[spoiler: Ford destroyed her eggs.]]
141* Another, possibly more intense, Kaiju example has to be Film/{{Gamera}}. The amount of punishment he takes in basically all of his movies is completely insane, and yet his sheer will to keep fighting is even more so. Impaling, losing copious amounts of blood, being blown up, slicing, whipping, blunt force, being frozen, poisoned, getting his entire arm below his elbow blown clean off (By ''his own'' fireball, mind you, and intentionally at that), and literally ''dying'' ([[MessianicArchetype only to resurrect three days later]]). He just powers through all of that and ''refuses'' to give up, regardless of the odds stacked against him.
142* DA Frank Scanlon in ''Film/TheGreenHornet'' is a comical example. [[spoiler: when he is revealed to be the main bad guy, he chased the Duo from one part of the city to the other, went all the way to the top of the Daily Sentinel news building. By the time he caught up with the duo he was so out of breath that he couldn't even remember what the name of the flash drive was that had evidence against him.]]
143--> '''Scanlon:''' Alright Reid, hand over the thing.
144* In ''Film/GrimPrairieTales'', Colochez gets shot through the throat during a ShowdownAtHighNoon. Despite this, he manages to stagger the length of the dusty street, knock Martin to the ground, half choke him to death, and then start trying to [[EyeScream gouge his eyes out]]. It is only the fact that he dies from blood loss before he succeeds that stops him from being the ImplacableMan.
145* In ''Film/TheGuardian2006'' we meet a guy named Hodge who has washed out from the UsefulNotes/CoastGuard rescue swimmer school twice and is back for a third go.
146* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': O'Brien tells Susan Ames and the US ambassador in Georgetown that he's determined to enter Johnsontown to find answers about what's going on there, despite Susan showing him a notebook with the signatures of over a hundred people from Johnsontown rejecting his visit, the ambassador reminding him that Guyana is a socialist country with ties with the Soviet Union, ''and'' the latter also reminding him about the armed guards who work for Johnson. O'Brien succeeds in entering, but ends up losing his life on his way out.
147* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
148** Michael Myers spent fifteen years in a mental hospital, waiting for a chance to escape so that he could kill his sister. When he failed in killing her, he then spent the next ten years massacring everybody related to her. Then, depending on which canon you follow, he spent 10-20 years searching for his sister again.
149** Dr. Samuel Loomis as well. He refused to allow anything to keep him from stopping Myers'.
150* They will stop at nothing to get those burgers in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''.
151* In ''Film/TheHeat'' both Ashburn and Mullins go far, even past physical pain, to catch their perps.
152* Paul Rusesabagina, whose RealLife story was chronicled in ''Film/HotelRwanda'', which is often referred to as an African ''Film/SchindlersList''. During the mass genocide in Rwanda in 1994, he managed to save nearly a thousand people who had been marked for death by sheltering them in his hotel and transporting them to safety, and standing up to corrupt military officials and screaming, machete-wielding mobs, [[BadassPacifist all without raising a single firearm]].
153-->'''Paul''': There will be no rescue, no intervention for us. We can only save ourselves.
154* Watanabe from ''Film/{{Ikiru}}'' keeps on pestering the bureaucracy till they give in and build a park over the mosquito-infested cesspool.
155* ''Film/{{Incendies}}'': Nawal is sent to a HellholePrison, where she gains the moniker "The Woman Who Sings" because she defies her guards by singing in her cell. Even after being brutalized by them over 13 years, she never breaks, and she becomes something of a local legend.
156* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] this trope. [[spoiler:The practice of Inception involves [[MindRape placing a simple idea deep into an unwitting subject's subconscious]] so that it will define who they are for the rest of their lives. The main protagonist and antagonist show how this can [[GoneHorriblyRight go horribly right]].]]
157* Dr. Elsa Schneider in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' was determined to get the Holy Grail at any price, including working with the Nazis and sleeping with Indy AND his father. At the end of the film, she attempts to steal it and triggers a CataclysmClimax when she steps over a protective seal. She crashes to the ground and watches the grail rolls away from her, and despite the structure collapsing all around her, she dives after it, which causes her to nearly fall into a crevasse. Indiana, however, catches Elsa just in time, only to have her use her grip on his hand as leverage to reach for the grail below her. Before long, her hand slides out from its black glove and she falls to her death: her determination (see: obsession) serving as her undoing.
158* ''[[Film/Jack2013 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 perhaps even more so than it's usually emphasized.
159-->'''Karl BĂ©langer:''' Tell me we're not going to ask him to fight this election ''on crutches!''
160-->'''Anne [=McGrath=]:''' Try and stop him.
161* ''Film/JeepersCreepers'': The Creeper. Kills anyone that gets in his way, will lose most of his limbs, get harpooned in the '''head,''' get's stabbed multiple times, has to grow a new [[spoiler: HEAD]] and is overall gonna stop at '''nothing''' to catch his prey!!!
162* The first part of ''Film/JuliaX'' is largely a battle between two determinators: with Julia determined to escape, and The Stranger equally determined to stop her.
163* In ''Film/{{Jungle}}'', Yossi is stranded in one of the most hostile environments on Earth, weeks away from the nearest civilization, and with almost nothing in the way of resources. He determines to walk his way out. And succeeds.
164* ''Film/LastOfTheDogmen:'' Lewis is determined to find out the story behind the missing fugitives despite having no real incentive to do so, going to great efforts to recruit Lilian and then search the mountains. The narrator describes him as "just no good at giving up."
165* In ''Film/LeftForDead'', Clem has been following the trail of her runaway husband Blake for months. In that time she endured beatings that left her hospitalized and permanently scarred; given birth; and lost the baby. She continues to pursue him into the remotest parts of Mexico, now carrying the body of her dead son with her.
166* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
167** Samwise Gamgee. He is Frodo's only companion to stay with him clear from the Shire to Mt Doom, in spite of being turned away by Frodo twice, and in spite of Frodo and the others twice secretly conspiring with regards to the journey without Sam or the other hobbits. He also saves Frodo from an EldritchAbomination and Orcs, then carries him partway up Mt Doom on his own back. The only incentive he gets to do any of this is when Gandalf says, "Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee" once, right at the beginning.
168-->'''Sam''': I can't carry it for you... But I ''can carry you!''\
169(cue Reprise of Awesome of the Fellowship {{leitmotif}})
170** Also Gollum, who made pretty much the same journey but under arguably worse conditions. Gollum survived starvation, torture, a trek through the dead marshes and falling off a cliff to get to his Precious. On another note, possession of the Ring extends the bearer's lifespan indefinitely but age catches up to them very quickly once they lose it. Bilbo lived 111 years while barely seeming to age until he gave up the Ring. In comparison, Gollum has staved off ''600 years worth'' of aging and death for several years since losing the Ring. It is possible desire for the Precious is all that keeps him going at this point.
171* On a meta level, ''Film/MadMax1'' was made for [[NoBudget $400K]]. The director ''donated his own car'' to get smashed up in a chase scene.
172* ''Film/ManOfSteel'':
173** Very much Zod. [[spoiler: Even after the entire destruction of his ship, crew, terraformer, and everything he was going to use to turn Earth into Krypton 2.0 was destroyed, he still tried to do "what is best" for Krypton.]] He also overcomes the debilitating effect of his new haywire SuperSenses by concentrating really hard.
174* John Creasy from ''Film/ManOnFire''. Being severely wounded with a partially collapsed lung does not deter him from hunting down, torturing and killing the kidnappers of his charge or anyone else involved.
175* Richie from ''Film/MarsAttacks''. Not wind, not rain and certainly not an invasion with a few million hostile aliens from Mars is gonna stop that boy from getting to the retirement home to save his grandma. Extra points for being pretty much like Luigi from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': he is scared, has no real way to defend himself, but while the attacks sometimes slow him down, he never, ''ever'' stops on his way.
176* This is pretty much the sole reason ''Film/TheMartian'' lasts more than ten minutes. When Watney is left behind and wakes up impaled on a piece of the main transmitter, he slogs his way back to the hab, performs emergency surgery on himself, and only then breaks concentration enough to swear. While he does occasionally come close to giving up, he invariably grits his teeth and keeps going, flatly refusing to die on Mars without first doing everything in his power not to.
177--> '''Watney:''' I'm not gonna die here.
178** Also shows up in the [[Literature/TheMartian the book]] constantly, to the point that when the [[spoiler: airlock explodes]], one of his audio log entries has him losing his cool and saying that he's just going to sit down and die because he's sick of all the survival nonsense. His next audio log lampshades that he's had his temper tantrum and he gets to work on how to survive again.
179* Both Neo and Agent Smith of ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' are up there -- Smith possibly even more so. During their final battle, Smith's [[EvilCannotComprehendGood inability to understand]] Neo's refusal to stay down drives him out of his mind.
180--> "Why, Mister Anderson, why, WHY DO YOU PERSIST?"\
181"Because I choose to."
182* Carl Brashear in ''Film/MenOfHonor'' put up with bigotry, an insane instructor, and [[HandicappedBadass losing his leg]] and was still unbowed.
183* The Black Knight from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' -- is actually a DeconstructiveParody of this, based on the old [[StiffUpperLip British idea of never surrendering]], no matter what.
184* Somewhat a theme of ''Film/MortalEngines'', as Anna can go to great lengths due to her being TheUnfettered and fearing nothing, Hester's initial determination to kill Valentine leads to six months of planning and deliberately getting herself aboard a town eaten by London just so she can have a shot at him, while Thaddeus [[NotSoDifferentRemark directly compares]] Hester's determination to his own - he takes a serious stab wound to the gut and is back at work on MEDUSA ''later that day''.
185* ''Film/AMostViolentYear'': Abel is an aggressive, serious-minded businessman who's determined to close on the oil terminal deal and to succeed as the better-quality option relative to his crooked competitors. Faced with the indifference of law enforcement, he ends up hunting down hijackers himself and eventually delivering an ice-cold ultimatum to those responsible.
186* In ''Film/TheMountie'', Corporal Grayling may be seen as a colossal screw-up in the eyes of his fellow Mounties, but he nevertheless shares this with them.
187-->'''Cleora (narrating)''': In the book of the Mounties, the word "failure" doesn't exists.
188* In ''Film/{{Mustang}}'', Lale is determined to leave her grandmother's house and go to Istanbul.
189* ''Film/TheNovice'': Alex is absolutely set on succeeding in rowing, and surpassing everyone else, no matter what stress it causes her or even injury.
190* ''Film/NowYouSeeIt2005'': Allison does not take "no" for an answer, whether it's trying to convince Danny to work with her, or in trying to save Danny's life. She's always giving it her best, taking any risk necessary to complete her goal.
191* Omar Saeed Sheikh from the movie Film/{{Omerta|2018}} is a man who with a steadfast and focused mind who can commit any kind of atrocity to avenge the grievances felt by his people. He is not deterred by bad food, tough training, the risk of capture or tempted by money.
192* Sands (Johnny Depp) in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico''. Halfway through the film, the villains start to catch on and decide to [[spoiler: drill his eyes out]]. It doesn't stop him. AT ALL.
193* ''Film/OnlyTheBrave'': After hiring Brendan, Eric take the crew on a little jog up to a ridge and back. Brendan is tired to the point of being sick, but he completes the run shows up back at the station with a picture to prove it. Eric lets him stay on though he has to put up with taunts and jeers from the others for some time after that.
194* Raleigh from ''Film/PacificRim''. He's able to handle his mech's neural load solo (it normally takes two people) long enough to kill the {{Kaiju}} attacking his mech after it had killed his brother (while they were still connected) and walk it to shore without guidance from mission control.
195** Stacker Pentecost even more so, as he pilots Coyote Tango solo versus [[spoiler: Onibaba after his copilot blacks out from cancer-induced stress]] for THREE HOURS.
196* Captain Vidal in ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. This makes him an utterly terrifying villain. ([[spoiler:In fact, when he got shot in the head, he actually had the time to feel it!]])
197* ''Film/PatchAdams'' has a weird vibe on this. Adams is "determined" not to do simple things like obey the rules in a hospital or dress up in clothes for his graduation ceremony because he believes that giving people joy override everything else. It's ironic because he doesn't understand that basic people skills like not alienating your professor to the point where he wants to expel you, will also allow you to go far with your goals.
198* Porter from ''Film/{{Payback}}'' wants the money he is owed, will not be stopped by anyone.
199* This is the basis of the Clousseau's success in ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther'' according to David Niven's character. He said in an interview in the last sequel to The Pink Panther that Clousseau was a bumbling idiot but he succeeded because he obeyed "The 11th Commandment. Never Give Up." This doesn't really make sense, since Clousseau succeeded because the writers needed him to succeed, because he was the hero. But it's a nice afterthought.
200* Will 'Elizabeth goes free!' Turner in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''. He has a one track mind about saving her, and he's certainly not too worried about getting himself killed in the process, to the point that he was one of the inspirations for the MartyrWithoutACause trope.
201* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "JustForFun/{{Hello}}. {{My name is Inigo Montoya}}. {{You killed my father}}. {{Prepare to die}}."
202* In ''Film/TheRevengers'', John Benedict sets out to hunt down his family's killer. When Tarp escapes Benedict's first attempt at killing him, Benedict spends more than a year hunting him down across the west.
203* Rocky Balboa of the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' films, as summed up in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASVzkrEKgs speech to his son]]. His claim to fame is surviving a full 15 rounds against an Expy of [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli "The Greatest"]] professional boxer, [[SecondPlaceIsForWinners even though he lost]].
204* ''Film/{{Rudy}}'' was about a guy who never gave up and that was his redeeming quality. The real-life story is also interesting. He was so determined to make a movie about his life, that the coach agreed to let himself be portrayed as a villain so that the movie would be greenlit.
205* Hoffman in ''Film/Saw3D''. He wants Jill. He isn't going to let anything, like a police station full of cops, get in his way.
206* [[LegacyCharacter All the]] Ghostfaces in ''Film/{{Scream}}''. They are beaten by anything the stalked victims have at hand (including [[TheDoorSlamsYou doors]]), trip, fall down stairs... and still keep on going after the victim. (And only PlotArmor saves you)
207* Ethan Edwards, the Confederate soldier-turned-Indian hunter in ''Film/TheSearchers''.
208-->''' Ethan:''' Injun will chase a thing till he thinks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter who'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you. We'll find 'em, just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.
209* ''Film/SeeYouYesterday'': Claudette considering catastrophic failure after failure won't give up until her brother is saved without anyone else dying. Though the final outcome isn't shown.
210* Billy Batson from ''Film/Shazam2019'' devoted his entire life [[IWillFindYou searching for his long-long mother]] whom he got separated from at a local fair when he was 4-years-old. He constantly broke the law and ditched his foster families in order to see her again for the past ''ten years''. [[spoiler:[[AllForNothing However]], he was completely heartbroken upon realizing his mother never wanted him in her life.]]
211* ''Film/ShootToKill:''
212** Stantin goes more than twelve straight hours without sleep tracking down leads on the BigBad, insists on pursuing him through a wilderness (guided by a MountainMan) despite being a CityMouse, and presses on despite being fatigued and half-frozen. When they reach a mountain, he follows Jonathan up despite not knowing how to climb and refuses to let Knox help him out of a deadly situation until Knox promises to use a climbing rope to hoist him up the mountain rather than lowering him back down. He's also willing to go to CowboyCop lengths by posing as a hitman to make the villains' accomplice talk.
213** Knox is pretty relentless in chasing down a dangerous killer to rescue Sarah, and repeatedly tries to get Stantin to turn back so he won't be slowed down.
214* The Driver in ''Film/{{Shuttle}}'' is a villainous version. Car crashes, tire irons to the skull, stab wounds, '''a bullet to the face'''... it won't stop him from getting his product out.
215* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'''s Sheriff Buford 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.
216* In ''Film/SoDearToMyHeart'', Jeremiah, inspired by a song about "Stick-to-it-ivity", tries to earn money for him and his family to travel by train to the county fair by chasing a bee through a swamp in hopes of finding wild honey to sell to the general store. Despite several wrong turns and setbacks, his perseverance pays off when he finds the honey tree and earns a lot of money with all the honey he found.
217* James T. Kirk in the ''Film/StarTrek2009'' movie fits this trope perfectly. He doesn't believe in no-win scenarios and is certainly one stubborn fellow once he sets his mind to accomplishing something, be it graduating from Starfleet Academy early, [[TakingAThirdOption finding a way to beat]] the supposedly unbeatable [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru]], or stopping [[AxCrazy Nero]]. He takes more [[ButtMonkey beat-downs]] than any other character and is consistently degraded or [[YouHaveToBelieveMe doubted]] by those around him, but keeps coming back for more in order to protect his homeworld. He is certainly not too worried about getting himself killed in the process, either.
218** Kirk pretty much sums up his no-win scenario beliefs by saying, in regards to the Kobayashi Maru and many of his persistent actions, "It depends on how you define 'winning', doesn't it?"
219** He does the same thing in the sequel. Also, arguably, so is Spock, right after [[spoiler: Kirk performs a HeroicSacrifice to save the crew. Spock decides to take revenge on {{Determinator}} Khan, beaming down to Earth and chasing after him with the sole purpose of killing him. It's only after Uhura reveals that Khan's their only chance to bring Kirk back to life that he stops.]]
220* Let's not forget the original Captain Kirk. From ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' to ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Kirk does what must be done, no matter what. It is from this Kirk we get the line "I don't believe in a no-win scenario." In the very next film, he asks Starfleet for permission to go back to Planet Genesis to retrieve Spock's body, and when they tell him "no" he steals his old command to do it anyway. And mind, this was just him believing he was returning Spock's corpse to Vulcan. He had no idea his friend was restored, yet. And then, on his way home to face the charges against him for this action, he learns that an alien probe attempting to contact the extinct species Humpbacked Whales is destroying the Earth. His response? He goes back in time to retrieve a pair of whales to communicate with the probe. Then submits himself for court-martial. Of course, Starfleet is so impressed with all of this that they give him back the Enterprise. Whereupon, sent on a rescue mission, he proceeds to tell a "godlike being" to go screw itself when it tries to hijack his ship. And then, just to top off an illustrious career, he helps bring about a lasting peace with the Klingons...'''after''' being framed for the murder of their chancellor by parties on both sides. And that's not counting the stuff he did in his early days back in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
221* ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'':
222** Rey's belief that her family will come back for her someday is enough hope to convince her to make a sparse living scavenging incredibly dangerous junked spaceships for parts (she's introduced perched diagonally on part of a crashed Star Destroyer with nothing to stop her from falling hundreds of feet to the ground), then fighting off multiple enemies to protect her valuables before selling them to the hostile junkyard manager. And she's been doing this since she was five.
223** Even after being [[spoiler:shot by Chewbacca, which up until then was invariably a [[OneHitKill one-hit killer]]]], Kylo Ren [[spoiler:walks out to track down Finn and Rey in the snow on Starkiller Base]]. He then [[spoiler:gets into a lightsaber duel with Finn and puts him a coma, then switches to dueling Rey instead,]] and only stops when he can no longer physically stand up--and he's still trying to get back on his feet.
224* Detective Murakami in ''Film/StrayDog''. After his gun is stolen, he does not stop looking for it. And each time he finds out it's used in a new crime, he only becomes more determined.
225* ''Film/{{Suffragette}}'': Most suffragettes. Emmeline Pankhurst is on the run from the police, but still gives speeches at secret locations. Maud is imprisoned twice, the second time she goes on hunger strike to enforce treatment as political prisoner (which the suffragettes don't get). When Maud's husband [[spoiler: throws her out on the streets she rents an apartment with the help of the suffrage movement]] and continues to participate in the protests. When she loses her job, [[spoiler: fellow suffragettes give her blankets and everything else she needs to sleep in a nearby church]] ... at this point, continuing the fight is the most sensible choice, as she has nothing to lose, but many would have given up regardless. Maud ... does not. There's also Edith, whose husband is worried that, with her already damaged health, another instance of PoliceBrutality might kill her, but Edith refuses to stay home. This is even more impressive as there's no pressure from the leaders; Emmeline Pankhurst expresses understanding for women's difficult situations and the risks they take by participating in the movement, and Edith, the leader of the local group, at one time says that everyone who doesn't want to take extreme risks can leave and she'll think no worse of them for it. Maud decides to stay.
226** There's also Emily Davison, who [[spoiler: attempts to attach the suffrage movement's flag to the king's horse in a horse race, and is trampled to death. Her last words imply she was very aware of that risk or might even have intended a HeroicSacrifice.]]
227* ''Bryan Mills'' from ''Film/{{Taken}}''. Nothing will stop him from saving his daughter. NOTHING.
228-->'''Bryan:''' I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
229* April O'Neil in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014''. Getting fired from her job doesn't stop her from learning the truth.
230* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
231** The eponymous Terminator. Villainous ones tend to overlap with ImplacableMan as well:
232-->'''Kyle Reese''': "He'll find her! That's what he does! [[TheUnfettered That's]] ''[[TheUnfettered all]]'' [[TheUnfettered he does]]! [[ImplacableMan You can't stop him!]] [[AdvancingBossOfDoom He'll wade through you!]] He'll reach down her throat and tear her fuckin' heart out!"
233** Given the hellhole of a future he lived in, Reese himself must have been one to survive. Also, Sarah embraces her inner {{Determinator}} in the climax of the first movie, and practically ''becomes'' a Terminator in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', to the point she's halfway to shooting a defenceless, wounded man in front of his wife and children for something he ''hasn't actually done yet''. Even after that, she's still perfectly capable of firing a 12-gauge shotgun repeatedly after minutes earlier having an inch-thick metal spike rammed straight through her shoulder. In fact, if she hadn't run out of ammo, she would have destroyed the T-1000 herself, without the T-800's help. Even more so in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''.
234** Humanity itself is one in the BadFuture. Every scene shows resistance fighters enduring horrible conditions, constantly outgunned and outmatched. Now remember that Skynet sending the Terminator back to kill Sarah and John Connor is basically the last throw of the dice of a defeated machine intelligence. The resistance in the future smashed the grid, they '''still won'''.
235** The cyborgs played by Arnold in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' [[RasputinianDeath get as much damage as they can]], but don't give up on the mission of protecting John Connor and only stop after the enemy's been neutralized (in the third, in quite [[TakingYouWithMe a literal way]]).
236** In ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', the last lines spoken are this trope to a T.
237---> '''John Connor:''' This battle has been won, but the war against the machines races on. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed.
238** ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' has Sarah Connor continuing to hunt down and destroy Terminators for a quarter century after the events of the second movie. And it gives us Grace and Dani, who are determinators equivalent to Reese and John.
239* Scientist Jane Foster in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. It's clear from her very first scene that she's ready to do anything for her research, namely ''driving directly into a tornado'' to get the data necessary to prove her theories.
240* ''Film/TheGuilty2021'' 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.
241* Momma from ''Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain''.
242-->'''Larry:''' She's not a woman. She's the Terminator!
243* Tony Jaa in ''Film/TomYumGoong'' (aka ''The Protector''). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ditPebZ8g See for yourself.]]
244* It's hardly a surprise when [[spoiler:Begbie is arrested]] at the end of ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}''. At the start of ''[[Film/{{T2Trainspotting}} T2 Trainspotting]]'' he's been [[spoiler:sitting in prison for 20 years, nursing a grudge against Renton]]. He's quite willing to [[spoiler:go back inside]] if that's the price of revenge.
245* Alice, originating from ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' when it comes to completing her mission. In Barber's "Convergence" she murders an entire station of people while looking for the Allspark, and it's implied that this may not be the first time she's done something like this. She also gets [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat hit by a car and reduced to pieces]] in the movie, only to be revealed to be very much still be ticking in the IDW comics. It takes a blade through the chest by ''Sideswipe'' after she [[BullyingADragon tried to ram a NEST blockade]] with a vehicle containing human hostages, to finally take her out of commission.
246* ''Film/TrueGrit'''s Mattie Ross. A 14-year-old girl in pigtails, alone in the American West, is nobody's idea of an arbiter of justice. Nonetheless, she's bent on catching her daddy's killer, and no concerned mother, nor Texas Ranger, nor eyepatch-wearing bounty-hunter, nor wide river, nor bitter weather, nor cold trail, nor misfiring gun, nor band of outlaws, [[LongList nor 100-foot-deep pit filled with snakes]] is going to keep [[DirtyCoward Tom Chaney]] safe from retribution..
247* ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'': Frank, in pursuit of 777. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] somewhat when he tells Will that he gives up too easily.
248* ''Film/ValdezIsComing'': Valdez is determined to get Tanner to pay $100 to the dead man's widow, and nothing—-not even being beaten and left for dead in the desert -- will prevent him from achieving this.
249* Bud Fox, from ''Film/WallStreet,'' is definitely persistent in trying to work his way up the stockbrokers' world.
250* In the 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': This is Brendan's primary fighting style, highlighting him as the hero of the film. He's a heavy underdog all the way through, but always manages to persevere and find a way to win via sustained grappling. In the end, Tommy also shows himself to be, but in a more tragic way. He keeps fighting even after his defeat is certain, refusing to just let go because he's determined to support his best friend's widow [[spoiler:and he breaks down when he realizes that he can't win with one arm]]. This sets Tommy apart from [[MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong Koba]], who taps out when in the same position. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.
251* ''Film/{{Whiplash}}'': Andrew and Fletcher each fulfill this to some extent. Andrew, in his attempts to fully access his potential as a drummer (to the point that he regularly bloodies his hands from wearing on them so often during practice); Fletcher, in how driven he is to motivate his students to succeed, [[spoiler: even keeping Andrew and 2 fellow students isolated from the rest of the band for hours so that they can match his tempo in a harsh bit of practice]].
252* ''Film/WintersBone'': Nothing will stop Ree from saving the family home. Nothing.
253* ''Film/WomenIsLosers'': Celina is very strong-willed, and won't let anything or anyone stop her from climbing out of poverty, whether it's her boss, her abusive father or her negligent baby daddy/husband.
254* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
255** Magneto'll do what it takes to finish his mission and... some old businesses.
256** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
257*** Kitty, who must keep the link open, is at one point stabbed by Logan when his present body reacts violently to mental trauma in the past. And due to how time runs concurrently in the past and present, it's implied that it takes a few days before Logan and co. can properly stop Mystique, which means that she is slowly bleeding out and can't sleep for that period.
258*** Same goes for Mystique, who throughout the film finds more and more damning evidence that Trask really needs to be killed. [[spoiler:It's not until the very end that Charles manages to talk her out of it.]]
259*** The Prototype Sentinel that [[spoiler:goes after Magneto definitely is this. Even as it's being torn to pieces, it still tries to grab him.]]
260* Garcia from the Creator/{{Syfy}} movie ''Film/{{Yeti}}''. Survives a plane crash, travels out into the wild to find the spare radio in the other end of the plane. Breaks his legs running from a yeti, splints the leg with the severed arm of his body, gets chased all the way back to the plane, dragging the radio with him, shot in the eye with a FlareGun when the {{jerkass}} of the movie panics and thinks he's the yeti, and wakes up at the end of the movie to see one of the yetis' arms popping out of the snow. And the movie started with his coach telling him that he "needed to show more heart"
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