You'd better give up... THINKING I'M GOING TO GIVE UP!
- The title character's "Way of the Ninja" basically consists of this trope.
- Sasuke Uchiha is as a part of his role as Naruto's Foil. While it's not as overstated as his rival's, Sasuke takes an insane amount of punishment in many of his battles and just keeps going. Making it even more impressive is that he doesn't have a bijuu sealed inside of him to augment his stamina. The best example of this is probably when he fights through four kages, kills Danzo, and then, while near-blind due to Mangekyo overuse, fights Kakashi to a standstill, and then still has enough energy left to clash with Naruto one last time before he leaves the battlefield. Later, during the battle against Madara, even after he is run through on his own sword, he keeps trying to get up, despite the fact that he's dying.
- This is exemplified during his final battle with Naruto, despite that both him and Naruto ran out of Chakra, Sasuke still tries to fight Naruto, even down to punches and basic ninja techniques, only giving up because Naruto is even more determined to reform Sasuke.
- Sakura Haruno, in her fight against Sasori, gets out of a cloud of poison gas by detonating a bomb against herself to blow away the gas. This entire battle is Determinator moment after Determinator moment for her, including a scene near the end where she stays standing and continues healing herself while a poisoned sword is completely impaling her, and even tries to insist that Chiyo use the last antidote on herself instead of helping her.
- Just to remind you, you don't die on her watch. She will cut open your chest and give you a heart massage to keep you alive if she's out of chakra to do it the ninja way, dammit.
- Hinata Hyuuga is one of the first people to adopt Naruto's ninja way. Knowing that he's watching, she refuses to give up against Neji despite severe injuries, even standing up one last time after the referee ends the match to keep her from getting killed.
- In the anime she got to do it again and even more impressively when she fought Pain! Unlike in the manga where she gets effectively One Hit Killed (though she actually survives), in the anime she keeps getting up... and getting up... and getting up...
- Rock Lee sometimes out-Narutos even Naruto, once assuming a fighting stance even though nearly all the major muscle groups in his body were torn and his left forearm and leg had been completely shattered. While unconscious, presumably from the pain. In his next battle, he breaks out of the hospital immediately after massive reconstructive surgery to save Naruto from getting into a Hopeless Boss Fight with Kimimaro.
- During his match against Gaara, his mentor was shown telling him in a flashback that his perseverance is what makes him a genius. This is echoed by Kakashi when he sees Lee pull off a Dangerous Forbidden Technique through sheer effort alone.
- Might Guy gets major points during the War when he repeatedly activates the Gates despite not having recovered/healed fully from the prior activations, leaving him practically paralyzed in some instances. Then when even that is proven ineffective, he goes ahead and pulls out the Eighth Gate.
- Taken to extremes in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, where no less than five characters pull a Naruto. Even Brilliant, but Lazy Shikamaru breaks his own finger to dispel an illusion.
- And in the same arc, Kimimaro Just Won't Die. First, he somehow survives being crushed inside a ton-sized ball of sand (which splatters almost everyone it hits like a bug on a windshield) and keeps fighting. Then after being crushed a second time under a desert's worth of sand, he wills himself to life long enough to almost kill his opponents with one last attack. Oh, and he did all of this while suffering from a disease that was on the verge of killing him. Note that it was even stated that he was literally moving on willpower alone.
- Jiraiya believes that the most important thing for a ninja to have is the willingness never to give up. And in his last fight before he dies he brings himself back to life by willpower alone long enough to give Naruto one last clue to defeating Pain.
- Ironically, "GIVE UP TRYING TO MAKE ME GIVE UP!" was Nagato aka Pain's original line. And it probably inspired this line in the book Naruto got it from.
- Itachi Uchiha in his last fight with Sasuke. Due to disease, Itachi had taken medicine to prolong his life until the day he fought Sasuke. In their battle; Itachi had his thigh punctured with a shuriken, his right arm burned, his eyesight deteriorate into nothing, and coughed up blood numerous times. In the end, he succeeded in removing Orochimaru's curse seal and implanted Amaterasu within Sasuke before dying.
- The Fourth Raikage. When confronted by Sasuke's incomplete Susano'o ultimate defense, coated by Amaterasu's unquenchable flames, the Raikage punches through it anyway, sacrificing his dominant arm in order to hit Sasuke. A later move would have done the same thing to his leg, but Gaara stops him from turning himself into The Black Knight. And losing the arm doesn't seem to have slowed him down a bit since then.
- Danzo. Despite all these years, he never gave up on becoming Hokage, and he utterly refuses to let go after his defeat at Sasuke's hands. Even badly wounded and with an arm lost, he tried to kill the latter and Tobi. One feels a bit sorry when his desperation technique doesn't even manage to hurt them.
- Orochimaru, due to his obsession with immortality. By the end of Sasuke's arc, wasn't he killed about three times? And he was significantly weaker than he used to be in his fight against Sasuke, who admits to that being the reason for his victory.
- Sasuke's arc ended with Orochimaru killed in a definitive way by Itachi. Orochimaru returned from that. Granted, he needed help this time, but he still returned.
- Ironically, the Big Bad Tobi aka Obito Uchiha has shown to be the biggest determinator in the series. Nothing, absolutely nothing will stop him. The destruction of his organization; the five great shinobi nations, the immortal zombie Hokages, All-Loving Hero and his own eye battling him at the same time and beating him to an inch of his life or even Madara betraying him and robbing him of his life support. He will simply get up and keep going. Heck, the only reason he lost against Naruto in the first place is because, subconsciously, he wanted to lose.
- Losing half of his body at age 13 only slowed him. So far he has been: struck with a fully powered Rasengan from the Fourth Hokage, poisoned with microscopic insects, set on eternal fire from Itachi, hit by 600 billion bombs from Konan blowing up at his face, pierced in the heart by a Raikiri enhanced kunai from Kakashi, taken over by his Evil Mentor, Madara Uchiha, through the plant side and cut from shoulder to waist by the revived Fourth Hokage a second later. Once he becomes the Ten-Tails's Jinchuuriki, he takes a dozen mountain size gate seals from the First Hokage (a.k.a. God of Shinobi) dropped at his head at supersonic velocity before blowing them up with just raw strength. Not even the might of the Ten-Tails ripping his mind apart gave him pause; he subdued it by the clinging to his love of Rin and the desire to recover his former team. Bonus points for doing with his own willpower what took Naruto help from his parents to subdue a weaker Bijuu. Makes it even more impressive when later even Madara Uchiha couldn't fight the will of the Ten-Tails despite being powerful enough to shrug off everything thrown at him before that.
- And even that is not enough. After his defeat against Naruto and returning to his old self after a talk with Naruto, Kakashi and Minato, Black Zetsu possesses him and forces him to revive Madara, and then makes Obito fight against Kakashi and Minato while slowly and painfully dying, while Madara extracts the Kyuubi from Naruto, stabs Sasuke in the heart, and becomes the Ten-Tails Jinchuuriki. What does Obito do? He overpowers Black Zetsu and uses him as life support, then proceeds to shove his hand into Madara's chest and absorb some of the chakra. He then, along with Kakashi, uses both his Sharingan to teleport both Naruto, Sakura, and himself to the space-time dimension, where he gives Naruto the chakra and thereby effectively saves his life. This guy is, unarguably, THE Determinator of the manga.
- Think he's done? Afterwards, Madara overpowers him, and rips out his eye. And then Black Zetsu, his only source of life support, abandons him, and possesses Madara to revive Kaguya. Then, after almost getting plunged into a river of lava and surviving some dimensional shifts, he is revived by Naruto's Healing Hands. At which point he retrieves a separated Sasuke so he and Naruto can defeat Kaguya and finally gets killed by the ninja goddess herself, with an instant-kill technique, no less. Think he's finally done? He then proceeds to TELEPORT OUT THE AFTERLIFE temporarily and passes his chakra to Kakashi to give him a limited time's worth of his Mangekyo eyes, to which the latter unlocks Susanoo. This man is quite possibly THE most unkillable manga character in history.
