• Rock Lee; who out-Determinators even Naruto to the point of assuming a fighting stance despite the fact that nearly all the major muscle groups in his body have been torn and his left forearm and leg have been completely shattered, while unconscious. Taken to a hilarious degree in a battle where he fights back, and actually has the upper hand, against a villain who attacks him while he's drunk sleeping.
• Jiraiya.He brings himself back to life in one chapter of the manga by willpower alone..
• Taken to extremes in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, where no less than five characters show they are Determinators (even Lazy Ass Shikamaru, if he wants to)
• Hinata, adopting Naruto's ninja way as her own, becomes one by extension, as she refuses to give up against Neji despite her injuries, standing up one last time even after the referee declares her unable to go on.
• And then there's this: "GIVE UP TRYING TO MAKE ME GIVE UP!"

• Son Goku of DragonBall. Before the Cell Saga, he didn't know the meaning of the word surrender! And even when he did then, it was because he knew what he was doing. However, the greatest example was fighting Kid Buu at Super Saiyan 3, which consumes a hell of a lot of energy. As intense as the fight was, Goku was losing energy...and fast. He finally collapses from exhaustion, leaving Vegeta, to take his place in the fight instead. It was for five minutes, or less and Vegeta found himself nearly killed only for Goku to save him and transform into Super Saiyan 3 again, and battle him.
• Vegeta is a bit of Determinator himself. Perhaps even more than Goku, part of why he's such a badass is the insane amount of punishment it takes to bring him down. Seriously, he gets his ARM SNAPPED IN HALF, but when Trunks tries to jump in and help he's all like "NO STAY BACK I GOT THIS".
• Son Gohan inherited the Determinator trait from his father.
• Every last Z Senshi during the Kamehameha struggle between Gohan and Cell, in the anime.

• Team Rocket would also count as Determinators. Look at how long they've tried to catch Pikachu, without success, and they STILL try to do it (almost) every time!

• The hero, of course. Or at least his Superpowered Evil Side.
• And his rival, Seto Kaiba
• Katsuya Jounouchi, proven when he got all the way to the semi-final of Battle City without holding a Egyptian God card.

• Ditto Masaru from Digimon Savers in fact he broke through a shield made by the god of the digital world (even if it had been weakened) with a punch using his determination

"A real man never dies even if he's killed!"

• The young man who gave Kenshin the first slash of his X-shaped scar did so despite being nowhere near Kenshin's level as a swordsman. Kenshin told witnesses, "His skill was nothing. But his desperation to live ... was terrible." It didn't save him.

• It's safe to say almost every girl in this series is a determinator.

• Then there's Yukimitsu Manabu, who has more determination than any of the other Devil Bats, and managed to overcome Agon in the game with the Shinryuuji Nagas. Ojou's Sakuraba and Takami both elevated themselves into great players by never giving up; Takami, particularly, had to overcome a lack of speed that many said killed his chances of being a quarterback. He compensated by practicing the living Hell out of throwing until there wasn't a more precise QB in the country. Monta managed to overcome the Nagas' catching ace, as well. Because catching is all he's good at, he's vowed to become the number one catcher in the world if it kills him. Interestingly, characters who started out hearing threats of "do it, or I'll kill you!" (Sena, Monta, the Ha Ha brothers, etc.), end up deciding for themselves "I'll do it even if it kills me!"

• And let's not forget Gally/Alita herself. She's quite the dogged survivor and determined fighter -she has even survived war on Mars, being sentenced to dying in outer space two hundred years before the events of Gunnm, nearly getting mashed and thrown to the garbage on Chief Bigot's order, being blown apart by Desty Nova, and, depending on whether you're reading Last Order or the ending of the first Gunnm, fusing with the Ladder or being entirely destroyed at the nano-level while looking for the fata morgana. On top of all the more 'regular' fighting and danger, which include the destruction of several of her cyborg bodies. And let's not forget that *just* achieving the Panzer Kunst and the whole training around it is a feat in itself.

• Right after Negi and crew arrive in the magic world, Fate attacks Negi, putting a stone spear through his chest. When he moves to attack the students, Negi stops him by pulling the spear out and hitting Fate in the head with it.
• Later on, Negi gets attacked by a shadow mage. During the course of the fight his right arm gets cut off. His response? "I still have my left!" and attempts a finishing blow. Unfortunately, Jack Rakan stops the fight before we find out if it would have worked or not. And don't worry, he gets the arm back.
• The finals between Negi and Rakan. Good lor'. Negi's got Tears Of Blood, a gaping chest wound and is puking up blood... and he still gets up to fight on. Even Rakan is surprised by his tenacity.
• Negi's tendencies along this line showed as early as vol. 7. When he first asked Evangeline to train him she refused unless he could use the kung fu he was learning from Ku Fei to land a hit on her servant Chachamaru (note that the martial arts lessons only started a couple of days prior, and the challenge was that weekend). At the appointed hour he came, got sent spawling halfway across the courtyard (Evangeline having ordered Chachamaru not to hold back, while Negi insisted on same), and was told to go away. He simply picked himself up and pointed out to Eva that no time limit was set. The resulting beating lasted for over an hour before Chachamaru got distracted and Negi landed a feeble blow.

• That sort of attitude (Determinator for things she cares about) seems to be a hallmark of the archetype. Aoi from Ai Yori Aoshi is another good example.

• Domon Kasshu of the G Gundam is probably the best example, but in G your fighting spirit is your most powerful weapon anyway.
• Gundam00's Determinator surely is... Patrick 'the Immortal' Colasaur unwilling to stop fighting Gundams (and for his love interest) no matter how often he gets shot down. Though, there is Graham Acre (aka Mr Bushido) who keeps fighting up to the point where he 'overcomes reasoning with his recklessness' - and it works.
• Garrod Ran from Gundam X is another example. This trope is the entire reason why Garrod is able to debunk Newtype prophecies again and again. D.O.M.E. even says this outright in the final episode.
• Heero Yuy of Gundam Wing. Shoot him, blow him up, he's gonna complete his mission even if it kills him. Though that's pretty unlikely, even he can't manage to kill himself.

• Rika and Battler Ushiromiya are both fighting to save themselves from horrible fates; Battler in particular has stopped the ceremony to empower an evil witch three times (so far) by the virtue of his sheer refusal to believe in Witches, and it's implied that Rika has been denying fate for hundreds and hundreds of years. God DAMN.
• Keiichi is the one who in the end inspires Rika to keep going. If you want to see a good example of this, see the Miotsukushi-hen ending, where he's cornered by Takano, who's pointing a gun at him, when he gets a pep talk by Hanyuu, and then manages to dodge every bullet, knock pepper spray into Takano's eyes, and escape with Rika and Satoko. GAR to the Nth power.
• Not to mention Takano herself, whose status as Determinator created the fate that Rika spent hundreds of years trying to escape from.

Superman: They're all around us, you know.

Batman: Do you think we can take them? I think we can take them.

Superman: You always think we can take them.
(They can take them)

• All of the Batfamily probably counts, but Jason Todd gets a special mention. In one issue, he's hanging far above the ground, hunted by a tentacled monster as Gotham burns around them.
  Tentacle Monster: Is that your super-power, boy? Too stupid to ever give up?
  Jason: *heh*... Maybe it is.
• In The Cult, he also argues with Batman when Batman, having been tortured and had his will broken by the leader of a cult, wants to give up on Gotham, and he's the one who finally persuades him to go back on his decision. At the end of the series, he also saves Batman's life after dragging himself through the sewers with a bullet in his leg.
• Steph. Her dad was the third-rate villain the Cluemaster, her mother was an addict, she took up crime-fighting to get back at her father, and she basically spent the next several years being strongly discouraged and occasionally tolerated by Batman. Then he made her Robin, then he fired her, then she was tortured half to death, then she came back to Gotham anyway to keep on fighting crime.

• 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 the second, 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. Fuck the third film, there are only two Terminator movies.

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'.

Luke: Yeah well, sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.

• Rand.
• The Aiel, on the other hand, take an oath to be Determinators: 'Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit into Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.'
• The extinct nation of Manetheren, who took this trope to absolutely crazy extremes. The Trolloc Wars devastate the world? The Red Eagle of Manetheren flies at the forefront of every battle against the Dark One's armies. The Manetheren army receives word while still on the field of battle that a massive Trolloc army has Manethren in its sights and there's nothing they can do in time to save their home from a horrific fate? They march home faster than even their allies thought humanly possible and meet the army before it crosses the river into their territory. Said army includes a legion of Dreadlords and Ba'alzamon himself? Doesn't phase them one bit. Their aid from other nations (their one remote chance of surviving) is cut off by betrayal by the Amyrlin Seat? They keep on fighting, only crossing the river and burning its bridges when they don't have any more troops left to fight. They finally have to evacuate their beloved mountain city and flee because the Trollocs are at the gates? Some flee, but a huge part of the non-soldier population (most of which consists of farmers and shepherds with nothing but pitchforks) takes up the slack and rides out to fight the Trollocs in a titanic final battle. Everyone last one of them gets massacred? The Queen, fueled by her anger over the death of her beloved husband on the field of battle, NUKES the entire Trolloc army with the One Power, destroying herself and the abandoned city in the process. The few survivors of Manetheren, rather than fleeing to other lands, decide to stay and rebuild what they can. Holy. Freaking. Crap.

• Big Fido of Men At Arms is a tiny poodle that rose up through the ranks of the feral dog population by being a small, fast, impossible to defeat, killing machine. The narration notes that you could have sandblasted him for five minutes and what was left 'still wouldn't have given up and you'd better not turn your back on it'.
• Then there's Zombies, who are literally fueled by their obstinate refusal to die. Reg Shoe is probably the shining example.
• Vimes might get a couple of points here too. The man managed to outlive zombies, Trolls, and Golems in an alternate universe where the Watch was wiped out by Klatch. Not to mention kill two werewolves with his bare hands - and everything else - getting taken off the list of acceptable targets by the Assassins guild (a move he was inclined to appeal), taking history by the throat and making it cry uncle...the man is the the living embodiment of this trope!
• Granny Weatherwax's behavior approaches this at times. She never loses. Ever. No, not even then. She just wants you to think she lost.
  "If I've got a fault," she said, contriving to suggest that this was only a theoretical possibility, "it's not knowing when to turn and run. And I tends to bluff on a weak hand."
• Also, the Luggage. Yes, its sole purpose for existing was to carry luggage around in extra-dimensional space for its owner, and it was only armed with its own lid as a mouth, a big red tongue, and the hundreds of very short, very small feet it used to move around. But this thing never ever felt fear, was completely immune to every type of magic, could shrug off most physical damage like it was nothing, and always knew where its owner was and the fastest way to get to him/her. It has an amazing track record, fighting across multiple continents and bottoms of oceans, fighting with the incarnation of a God of madness, and smashing through a diamond shell that encased it; it only ever took two breaks of its own free will, one was to get hammered at a bar, and the other was to get it on with a female Luggage on a trip to its home continent, and to the confusion of its current and previous owners somehow father several children. Keep in mind, till this point the Luggage race were seen as well crafted luggage from special trees.

• The Doctor himself. The World Is Always Doomed, sometimes the entire universe, yet he rises to the challenge every single time, even after his own planet was converted to radioactive vapour. The Master is also an exceptional Determinator, having died at least three times and yet still coming back for more.
• The Daleks are even bigger Determinators than the Doctor, utterly devoted to their self-imposed purpose of becoming the only form of life in the universe. Part of this is how they perceive themselves, but you have to admire a species that manages to survive even after being made extinct. Twice. At least. In the new series alone.
• The original series' Cybermen are up there too. By the end they're a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers floating around the galaxy in a derelict spaceship, with no home planet and no influence... and they still refuse to lay down and die. "They never get tired, and they never give up."
• Davros has survived several No One Could Survive That scenarios through sheer willpower, and he has never abandoned his dream of ruling the universe through the Daleks.

• Then there's Starbuck. As she says when someone asks what they're going to do at the end of season two: "Do what we always do. Fight 'em till we can't."

• James T. Kirk. In Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan, it is pointed out that he is so determined to win that he cheated in his "Kobayashi Maru Test", an intentional no-win situation designed to test the character of officers-in-training. He won. The Character Development of the film is that he must deal with losing Spock, there is no way he can keep Spock from dying.

Khan: He tasks me! He tasks me and I shall have him. I'll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares malestrom and round perdition's flames before I give him up!

• One episode had Data dealing with losing at a strategy game by repeating said game over and over and over trying to work out where he'd gone wrong, unable to understand (or accept) the fact that a computer had been beaten at strategy. Eventally he he asked for a rematch, then forced his opponent into a draw instead.
• The Borg, even after their Villain Decay. In the Expanded Universe, they take about six levels in badass
• Likewise, the Jem'Hadar.

• Worf, in By Inferno's Light.
• The cool ships are like this as well. Every version of the Enterprise has taken abuse that would reduce another ship to recycled scrap metal. The USS Voyager was stranded a bajillion light-years from any kind of base that could offer repairs and yet managed to take on, and defeat, hundreds of enemy ships and leave a trail of destruction and reconstruction on its way home. And of course, you have the Defiant which almost singlehanded won the Dominion War.

• There's also Allison Young, the girl whom Cameron's appearance was based on. She doesn't surrender, repeatedly attempts to escape, and when Cameron is about to kill her, she stares her right in the eye and declares she'll never help them.

• Austin lost his "I Quit" match vs. Bret Hart by passing out while in Hart's "Sharpshooter" hold, rather than submit. He'd rather deal with enough pain to make him lose consciousness than give up.

• Characters that take the Diehard feat (and it's required precursor Endurance) tend to be the ones that will finish a fight, even if it kills them. (D&D has a 10 HP buffer between KO'ed and dead as a doornail, Diehard allows a character to ignore the KO and keep fighting at the cost of their few remaining HP)
• The real Game Breaker is the Frenzied Berserker class. When one of these goes into his Unstoppable Rage, she literally cannot be killed or stopped by hit point damage. Her hit points may be less than 100, but you can do millions of points of damage and she'll continue fighting. The Achilles Heel? As soon as she calms down, her wounds suddenly take full effect.
• Some animals in the game, such as badgers and wild boars (as well as their giant-sized monstrous counterparts) are given an ability similar to the Frenzied Berserker.

• The Necrons and their C'Tan gods are [un]living embodiments of this trope. Shoot them, they repair themselves. Blow them to bits with explosives, they reassemble. Rout them, they phase out and will come back for more eventually. Shoot the C'Tan with the combined power of thirteen Blackstone Fortresses, each capable of destroying a star (and the system along with it), and which fire the only weapon in existence, they're noted as powerless against and vulnerable to, and they take a nap (altho how much damage the C'Tan in question sustained is unknown, as it has been "napping" ever since, for 60 million years, and doesn't show any indications of waking up yet). Force the entire race into hibernation, and a few billion years later, they'll wake back up and resume the attack with gusto. Each and every Necron is a Determinator, and there are thousands of them at minimum, complete with physics-bending weapons, vehicles, and starships.
• The Imperial Guard get special mention, as the entire army is one giant Determinator. Unlike their opponents, the regular troops of the Guard are just ordinary men and women who will often break and flee in the face of the mind-breaking horrors they have to fight. However, the Guard itself as an organization is a massive, unstoppable entity that soaks up casualties without stopping, refusing to break and surrender in the face of the tremendous suffering and terror it has to deal with.. The common strategy of the guard is to simply march their men straight into the enemy fire while simultaneously blasting everything infront of them with massed artillery.
• A more specific example would be the Death Korps of Krieg. These regiments are renowned as Determinators in an army of Determinators. The Death Korps soldiers unflinchingly advance under fire and dig in with World War I style tactics, seeing their massive casualties as penance for a planet-wide rebellion on Krieg millenia ago. They won't give an inch of ground as long as there are guardsmen living to grind it out in the trenches.
• The Space Marines embody this trope to the t. Not only are they heavily armoured supersoldiers with the ability to withstand wounds that would kill a normal man thrice over, they are also unshaken n their faith and determination. Some notable examples include the Ultramarines 1st (veteran) company that defended their chapter fortress against the innumerable Tyranid swarms. They managed to hold them back long enough for the orbiting fleet to drive off the Tyranid hiveships, even though it cost them all their lives (as well as several nearly irreplaceable suits of Terminator armour). Also deserving of mention are the Grey Knights, which are always eliter-than-elite's-elite, who has never had any of its order succumb to the call of the Chaos Gods. Then you start going into the named and higher-ranked characters and see what Warhammer 40K is going for. It is said that "A fortress will not stop the Space Marines, although it may slow them down"
• Generally averted with the Tau, whose military doctrine considers ground won as irrelevant beyond being a place to kill the enemy. They consider a heroic Last Stand to be the mark of an incompetent or unimaginative commander, and won't hestitate in retreating from a strong enemy attack. However, that all goes out the window if a Tau army's Ethereal leader is killed. The Tau version of battle-rage involves slowly advancing while pouring ridiculous ammounts of fire into the enemy, only stopping when they run out of ammunition.
• The Orks have an... Interesting view about defeat. Basically, they never lose. If they win, that's good. If they're defeated, they're dead, so that doesn't count. And if they retreat, it's for coming back later fur annuver go with more boyz and More Dakka. Those green barbarians just won't stop coming at your throat until you'd have wiped them all from a planet's ground... And as they emit tons of spores upon their deaths which will form new Orks, even this won't stop them from coming back. Unless you Kill It With Fire, in which you may reduce it.
• Their galactic empire has collapsed. Their species is moving towards extinction and they have no real hope or chance remaining. What do they do? Do they flee the galaxy to live in peace? No, the Eldar keep fighting.

• He gets even more badass. In the Nintendo 64 exclusive Doom 64 (the last game in the Doom franchise before it was rebooted with Doom 3) one powerful "mother" demon resurrects everything Doomguy had killed in his previous fights. His response? Eradicate anything between him and the Mother, kill her, and then stay in Hell to make sure the demons don't try anything like that ever again.

• Original Generations mellows Axel's Determinator personality a little, but he's still intent on stopping Kyosuke. Though he just uses another reason. And when he's Back From The Dead in OG Gaiden and had a Heel Face Turn, he seems to completely lose his Determinator status...
• And speaking of Kyosuke Nanbu, whenever something happens to his partner and lover Excellen Browning, he himself becomes a Determinator, plowing through anything in his path to get her back.
• And, of course, Zengar Zombolt, despite being easily one of the most competent of the heroes and in a powerful machine to boot often finds himself outmatched, outgunned, and even out and out disabled. His response? "Shut up! And listen! I am Zengar Zombolt! The sword that cleaves evil!"

• The "Unsent" from Final Fantasy X are people who've died but still cling to existence through sheer willpower.
• Final Fantasy VIII has Seifer, who refuses to back down no matter how many times he gets his ass handed to him, even after it's been made clear to him that he's being manipulated and used by the Big Bad.
• Galuf from Final Fantasy V does it too. The rest of the party is imprisoned... it looks like the end... then Galuf gets up and beats the hell out of Exdeath single-handedly in a completely awesome Heroic Sacrifice. It's made even more awesome by Galuf refusing to acknowledge that he has no HP left.
• Terra, from Final Fantasy VI. With the defeat of Kefka, the source of magic is gone and all Espers are vanishing from the world. This includes the Half-Esper Terra. Even knowing this, Terra chooses to enter her Trance form and lead the party out of the collapsing Tower. In the final stages of the ending, after the last shard of Magicite has vanished, Terra is still flying in order to lead the airship out, even as her power wanes and she beings to fall. In the end, The Falcon catches Terra, who has reverted to a human form. Not only does she manage to outlive every other Esper on sheer determination, she manages to completely survive, albeit as a human.

• Liquid Snake. Pretty determined to kill his brother. He even beats him up after falling of a story tall Metal Gear.
• Naked Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3 is more straight example in that he keeps on going even though his mentor kicks his ass every time they meet.
• Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 4 is equalled in his stubborn desire to get himself killed only by his inability to give up under any circumstances. A vampire is stabbing you repeatedly in the chest? Just fight harder! A building falls on you? You don’t need your limbs! Someone drops a battle ship on your head? Bring it on.
• Not to mention Solid Snake himself, who spends most of the time between later missions coughing up his lungs and trying to put himself back together with sticky tape. It doesn't stop him for a moment.
• Ocelot - the only character to appear in all the MGS games - is stubborn enough to implant another personality into himself to carry on the plans his idol had for the world.
• Volgin. Beat him up with your fists, grenades, shotgun, and whatever else you may have, and then blow up the weapons hangar with him in it? He blasts his way out with the Shagohod and chases after you, trampling everything and everyone who would get in his way, including flipping over a jet on the runway. Blow up the bridge he’s crossing? He launches the Shagohod out of the wreckage and keeps coming. Pepper the Shagohod with RP Gs until it finally breaks down? He punches his way out of the cockpit, uses his electrical powers to reanimate the blasted husk of a tank, and keeps on coming while you fire more RP Gs and sniper bullets at his exposed body. And he STILL DOESN’T DIE until being struck by a lightning causes the bullets he wears all over his body to explode. Liquid would be proud.

• He has, to date, fought somewhere around ten final bosses in space/collapsing dimensions/in the sky/at the planet's core/etc., with his only protection from the environment being his super form that's running on a timer.
• It's also arguable this is a gameplay feature, as he will never die (except via crushed by objects or falling into pits) as long as he has at least one ring.
• And reportedly (this editor isn't sure as he hasn't yet played it), in Sonic and the Black Knight, his will and determination is what gives him the strength to go super and face the final boss, even after it's already beaten him down.
• Re: "never say die" above: His death in Sonic '06 doesn't count, as that game erased itself out of existence.
• Shadow might also qualify.

• Emiya Shiro from Fate/Stay Night simply refuses to die (or stop) when someone he cares about is in danger, or someone is about to create danger for others. Slashed from shoulder to waist, overloaded nerves in half the body, broken arms and legs, cuts and slashes, loss of sight, flung into the air from wind pressure, thrown out third-floor windows, et cetera... It appears that the closer he is to the verge of death, the more desperate and insane(ly powerful) his attacks become.
• Another protagonist, Tohno Shiki of Tsukihime, is less of a Determinator, but shares the "closer to death, closer to power" attribute.

• Also seen in the final cutscene of Halo 3. As they're rocketing away from an unstable, about-to-explode Halo ring that will destroy Gravemind, the Ark, and their only portal home from intergalactic space, with the odds very slim of them reaching the wormhole in time to escape the blast...
  Cortana: If we don't make it-
  Master Chief: We'll make it.
  Cortana: (softly) It's been an honor serving with you, John.

• Link is matched only by his greatest nemesis, Ganon. Turn Ganon to stone, lock him in a void, or just SLAY him, Ganon will rise again. It just doesn't stick. Of course, it helps that the Triforce bearers have some kind of mutual reanimation clause going on. In Ocarina of Time, when Link defeats him, he coughs up blood and stops breathing. Then, after Link and Zelda escape, he somehow comes back to life and turns into Ganon. After Link kills him for the second time by stabbing him through the head, he shows up again in the very next cutscene having apparently sustained no physical injuries and is just trapped in the Sacred Realm.
  • And after the next stab through the head he receives from Link, he is still able to TALK a few words, before being Taken For Granite. Most fans agree that this probably wasn't lethal either. Spirit Tracks will show if they're right about that.

Nicole Horne: What do you mean, "he's unstoppable"? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, and you outnumber him at least twenty-to-one. Do. Your. Job.

Vladimir Lem: What the fuck is wrong with you, Max? Why don't you just die? You hate life, you're miserable all the time, afraid to enjoy yourself even a little! Face it, you might as well be dead already. Do yourself a favor, give up!

• Another example would be Sarevok, the Big Bad from the first game. After dying there he appears to the player in Throne Of Bhaal, the final instalment, having pulled himself back into a ghostly existence through sheer willpower in order to bargain his (vital) knowledge for the piece of the player's soul he needs to resurrect himself.

  Sarevok;"Ha Ha Ha! I swore I would scratch and crawl my way back into the world of the living... and I have done it!"

• Magus is also a very good example. He survived in a (to him) post apocalyptic world, showering warfare on the world, all to find a way to kill the Cosmic Horror that ruined his life. His most famous quote embodies this trope:

• Ayla is this trope to a T, in fact it's her whole life's philosophy and probably why there's a human race at all in the game world. Her most famous quote says it all:

• The Replica troops are another variation on this, in that they will carry out whatever mission is given to them by their psychic commanders, immediately, without question, and without stopping until it has been completed, with no regard for their own lives. They'll go as far as suicidal frontal assaults to simply wound or slow down an opponent, to the point where they'll attack an enemy in a Humongous Mecha with rifles just to distract and delay it for a couple seconds.

• Dinobot from Beast Wars almost never willingly runs from a fight. This reaches its climax in 'Code of Hero', when his insistence on stopping the Predacons from destroying the early humans costs him his life. Depth Charge also fits this trope, as his persistence to find and destroy Rampage leads to him putting that mission above all else, including stopping Megatron from destroying the Autobots and changing the universe as we know it. Really, Depth Charge needs to get his priorities straight.
• By the end of it, he was on board to stop Megatron. Unfortunately, at that time, Rampage was sent out to stop him.
• In Cybertron, Starscream was so much of a Determinator that he managed to use Heroic Resolve in a way that's usually reserved for... well, the heroic. At one point, he took on the combined might of the entire Autobot team to get the Mac Guffin, dragging himself onward no matter how much damage he took, and taking the victory in the end with one well-timed dirty trick (hey, he is Starscream.)
• Actually, this is a pretty regular thing for Starscream. In Transformers Generation One he tried to take over the Decepticons at every possibile occasion—even after he died and came back as a ghost.
• And in Transformers Animated Starscream kept trying to kill Megatron after dying normally, becoming effectively immortal, dying many times, becoming a head, and then being killed again.

• As does Po himself. Even when Shifu does his best to make Po quit, Po never does. While Po is in the middle of rolling down the mountain due to a kick from Shifu, the other student have the following conversation about it.
  Tigress: If he's smart, he won't come back up those stairs.
  Monkey: But he will.
  Snake: He's not going to quit, is he?

• Perhaps only rivalled by Kazushi Sakuraba's epic 90-minute fight with Helio's son, Royce Gracie in the PRIDE FC. Sakuraba is the Determinator here, as shortly after that fight he showed up for the next one, against the 50 lbs heavier, much better rested, and feared striker Igor Vovchanchyn (pretty much his worst nightmare if you would choose one)and went the distance for another 20 minutes - fighting well enough for the match to be considered a draw. His corner decided to throw in the towel at this point before the extra round was on, just as Royce's corner had done earlier.
  • Not to be outdone (in what is now considered a classic rivalry), a few months later another Gracie, Renzo, faced off with Sakuraba and refused to submit to an armlock to the point where his elbow was broken - and beyond, until the referee had to stop the match because of the injury. Renzo paid tribute to his opponent after the fight.

• Why?
  • Because he was an officier of an army which had completely collapsed, because he did see the blitzkrieg comming and tried to warn french officials and failed to get their attention, because half his country was occupied while the other half was under the control of a puppet state. Because he was raised to believe that the army was some sort of moral elite and saw the role model for the officiers of his generation (Petain) smugly commiting crimes of high-treason, because half the resistance was communist and half of the remaining resistance did not trust him, because Churchill and Roosevelt never really took him seriously: he did start with a lot of handicaps, yet still managed to organize the resistance, to recreate from nearly nothing the French army hundreds of thousands of men strong and make sure that France, which was suppose to know a fate similar to Austria, was considered to be one of the victors.