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* ''Webcomic/BatmanWayneFamilyAdventures'': Bruce gets antcy pretty much immediately when put on bed rest to recover from injuries and tries to sneak into the Batcave to do some work as Batman.

* Said almost verbatim in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', only replace "fight" with "race". One car gets totalled so badly... well, [[http://www.pixar-planet.fr/psd/capture_perso/cars/armstrong2.jpg see for yourself.]]

* Happens a LOT on ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Deadly Years", while suffering from a disease that causes accelerated aging, Captain Kirk wants to go to the bridge and take command to fight the Romulans even though he's in no condition to do so (worse, his mental deterioration has made him [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance unaware of how unfit he really is]]).
** In "Journey To Babel", Kirk pretends to be recovered from a stab wound and returns to the bridge so that Spock will step down and provide a needed blood transfusion for his father Sarek. He intends to return to Sick Bay as soon as this is accomplished, but the enemy attacks at just the wrong time.
** On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', while imprisoned by the Dominion, Worf is made to fight against increasingly experienced Jem'Hadar soldiers. He [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy continues to fight]] despite his constantly worsening injuries, even past the point where [[HonorBeforeReason he clearly has no chance of winning]]. His determination does, however, earn him the respect of his final opponent [[spoiler:who refuses to kill him. It gets him executed.]]
** Janeway in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' does this several times, as does Tuvok (he continues performing his duties after being blinded by a Krenim torpedo in "Year of Hell").

* Played for laughs in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' - As both a BloodKnight and {{Determinator}}, Uzu Sanageyama insists on continuing a fight even after he's been thoroughly defeated. The problem with this is that, since combatants are almost invariably defeated by [[ClothingDamage destroying their]] [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Goku uniform]], this means that he insists on carrying on with the battle [[FullFrontalAssault completely naked]]. [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn Gamagoori does not approve.]]

* Van Fanel in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': neither the near-complete destruction of his mech nor his own dangerously serious injuries are enough to dissuade him from trying to rush straight to the battlefield on foot (or rather [[spoiler:[[WingPull by wing]]]]) while screaming that he can still fight.

** In the beginning of ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' (taking place immediately after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''), Luke Skywalker is still suffering from the [[ShockAndAwe barrage of Force lightning]] he got from Darth Sidious which ''calcified his skeleton''. In spite of this he goes on a mission to rescue Wedge, and while he's recovering from the operation simply hearing a trooper hurrying down the hall is enough to activate his ChronicHeroSyndrome and make him [[JumpedAtTheCall commandeer a floating chair to find out what's going on]] in spite of ''everyone'' telling him to go back to bed. Ironically, when he finally calms down and agrees to stay put [[SpiritAdvisor Obi-Wan shows up]] [[RegularCaller and tells him he has to go]].

* Urthstripe the badger in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' novel ''Salamandastron''. In this case, he's delirious as well as severely injured. The hares tried to keep him down by tying him into bed. [[TheDeterminator He gets up]] [[UnstoppableRage to fight anyway.]]

--> '''Ramsus:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Don't do anything rash, Miang!]] [[TooDumbToLive I still have one arm left!]]

* [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Baron Wulfenbach]] of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' constructs a HumongousMecha so he could walk around without technically leaving his bed.
** And his son toughs out a bullet wound long enough to give the impression that he's NighInvulnerable.
*** Twice. [[spoiler:''And'' wrestles down a HumongousMecha after the second one.]]
** And then Tarvek convinces his NinjaMaid to drug him with enough [[BottledHeroicResolve stimulants]] that he can escape from his hospital prison bed and charge into a maze of death traps. Of course, the drugs wear off pretty quickly after he goes for a rodeo ride on a [[HumongousMecha devil dog]], and he's in [[HeroicRROD worse shape than ever]].

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Issue #24 has Tangle the Lemur, who's trying to buy time for her friends to escape, boasts this as [[ZombieApocolypse the Metal Virus]] spreads around her. [[KilledMidSentence She doesn't get to finish]] before the infection finishes and she becomes another Zombot in the crowd.

See also {{Determinator}}, MajorInjuryUnderreaction, ObviouslyNotFine, and BelatedInjuryRealization.

** In the beginning of ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'' (taking place immediately after ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''), Luke Skywalker is still suffering from the [[ShockAndAwe barrage of Force lightning]] he got from Darth Sidious which ''[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome calcified his skeleton]]''. In spite of this he goes on a mission to rescue Wedge, and while he's recovering from the operation simply hearing a trooper hurrying down the hall is enough to activate his ChronicHeroSyndrome and make him [[JumpedAtTheCall commandeer a floating chair to find out what's going on]] in spite of ''everyone'' telling him to go back to bed. Ironically, when he finally calms down and agrees to stay put [[SpiritAdvisor Obi-Wan shows up]] [[RegularCaller and tells him he has to go]].

* Faust VIII from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' regularly does excruciatingly painful things to himself that no sane doctor would do. Then again, LoveMakesYouCrazy... It might also be justified in that he's implied to be a morphine addict. From Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "When Yoh broke his leg during their fight. Faust tore the broken bone right out of his leg and had Eliza bring him another similar in size, reasoning that replacing the broken bone was faster than letting it heal."

** In the gacha game ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', this is played more lightly. [[UsefulNotes/TheShinsengumi Okita Souji]] is quite known for this historically, so when [[GenderFlip she]] wins a battle, she may claim, "Okita-san's big victory! Yep! [[IllGirl My body is all fine!]] I Can Still Fight" and immediately followed with an IncurableCoughOfDeath.

---> "My bones and guts are still inside me. I can't stay put any longer in this situation".

* In episode 49 of the first season of ''Anime/{{Beyblade}}'' Ray is directly attacked by Bryan's bit-beast Falborg's wind attacks. After winning the second match and tying the score, Ray blacks out. His teammates worry about him and try to talk him out of going back out there for the third match, but Ray doesn't listen. Ray is almost killed during the third match, but his bit-beast Driger saves him and Ray manages to win the battle.

** Incidentally, he 'broke in' by ''driving an armored truck through the front wall''. Because the second Kira was killing aybody she saw try to enter from her vantage point outside the building.
* Most exorcists in ''Manga/DGrayman'' are like this, but Allen Walker really takes the cake. There was that one time he was pulling off a rescue mission with one arm falling apart and his other hand broken in half while being continuously electrocuted. Allen asked the man he was rescuing to bite down on his broken hand so he could lift him because it couldn't function well enough to lift him on its own. The best example is probably when he gets thrown into a wall so hard it leaves a large crater and his resulting injuries are so severe he can't move anymore. He lets his sentient Innocence weapon take control of his body so he can still fight. Allen Walker. Is. Fantastic.
* Occurs fairly frequently in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' due to sheer stubborness (and in Vegeta's case, pride). Sometimes their partner tells them to tag out, but just as often the situation is so dire that even ''this'' sort of help is accepted because it gives a stronger protagonist more time to recharge.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': A standard for Ash's Pokemon, and Ash himself. Even Team Rocket have had their moments, most notably in buying time for their Weezing and Arbok to escape a powerful poacher.

* Crow Hogan takes on this trope in the World Racing Grand Prix Arc of ''Anime/Yugioh5Ds''. After his replacement team member Akiza also gets attacked, Crow decides to duel against the nasty Team Catastrophe that injured them both. [[spoiler: [[TheDeterminator With a half-broken arm, he manages to beat an enemy duelist all while figuring out then dodging their insanely cheap trick that makes motorcycles crash.]]]]

* Near the end of the ''{{Franchise/Star Wars|Expanded Universe}}'' EU novel ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}'', Depa Billaba (suffering from a combination of mental and Force breakdown) invokes this trope verbatim: "I can fight. I can ''always'' fight." She eventually goes on to defeat Mace Windu in single combat.
** Another ''Star Wars'' [=EU=] story has the ARC Trooper Alpha, pretty much the badass among badasses of the clone troopers, get crippled from the waist down when General Grievous impales his spine on a pair of lightsabers. When Obi-Wan Kenobi calls for medics, Alpha instead insists that he just give him a blaster. After all, his arms and eyes are still fully functional, so he can still shoot.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has this as a game mechanic. As long as Travis is still on his feet when he loses all his health, the player can [[SmashingSurvival furiously waggle the sticks]] to make him regain a bit of health and keep fighting. It can be done up to [[UpToEleven four times]].

* In an alternate ending of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'' film, Robin is in bed with an injury suffered rescuing Maid Marian from the sheriff. A rider is coming and Robin insists on dressing and getting up.

--> "My bones and guts are still inside me. I can't stay put any longer in this situation".

-->'''Dilios:''' It's [[EyepatchOfPower only an eye]], my lord. The gods saw fit to grace me [[OnlyAFleshWound with a spare]].

* In the boxing world, Smoking Joe Frazier EMBODIES this trope. The man would quite literally never stop coming forward giving him his nickname as he resembled a continuous train on its tracks. All of his losses either came from a decision or otherwise the fight was stopped. Hell, after being knocked down at lest seven times in two rounds, he STILL kept coming forward against Foreman, and would have got up against Ali in the Thrilla in Manila had it not been for his manager. Plus he had a cataract in one of his eyes meaning he fought many fights of his career partially blind. The man always could carrying on fighting and most likely would keep on doing so until he keeled over and died. Demonstrated here: http://youtu.be/x9l_RrjjTMc
* Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart, two Delta Operators who fought and died during the Battle of Mogadishu. If anyone know's who I'm talking about, these TWO men single handedly heald of hordes of Somalis, killing 24 before they were overrun themselves... And to make it even more interesting, there's unofficially 1000 of equally well trained men like these two. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gordon Just]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Shughart Sayin'...]]

* Gustav´s Danish contemporary Christian IV suffered the loss of an eye during ''his'' campaign in the Thirty years war. His response? "I Still Live!" His response, and attitude, was rendered so badass, the whole incident became the central tbeme of the Danish royal hymn.

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* Literature/HonorHarrington at the end of ''Flag In Exile''. Honor has: been called a whore for most of the book, [[spoiler:blamed herself for an industrial accident which killed a group of schoolchildren, learned that the "accident" was sabotage, had her armoured shuttle shot down so thoroughly it blew up, and saved from a point-blank assassination when ''Grayson's spiritual leader'' [[HeroicSacrifice threw himself in front of her]], and generally [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.]] She finally gets to the Council Chamber, battered, bruised, limping and exhausted, presents her evidence, and names the man who's been orchestrating all of this...who promptly claims a traditional form of justice and demands to face the Protector's Champion in trial by sword combat. And guess who that is? The Protector, seeing that she's in no shape to fight, begins to back off from his proclamation (which will undermine his authority for all time), but she cuts him off:]]

** After [[spoiler:disemboweling and decapitating her opponent on the floor of the Council Chamber]], she then goes on to design a strategy to allow the Grayson navy to fight [[spoiler:and win a space battle in which they were outnumbered about three to one without getting any sleep for the day or so after the swordfight as that would hurt morale.]] After coming up with the battle plan, she delegates the actual execution to her flag captain. He hadn't been blown up recently, had had a good night's sleep, and generally in better condition to judge when the best time to start each stage of the plan was.

* In the boxing world, Smoking Joe Frazier EMBODIES this trope. The man would quite literally never stop coming forward giving him his nickname as he resembled a continuous train on its tracks. All of his losses either came from a decision or otherwise the fight was stopped. Hell, after being knocked down at lest seven times in two rounds, he STILL kept coming forward against Foreman and would have got up against Ali in the thriller in Manilla had it not been for his manager. Plus he had a cataract in one of his eyes meaning he fought many fights of his career partially blind. The man always could carrying on fighting and most likely would keep on doing so until he keeled over and died. Demonstrated here: http://youtu.be/x9l_RrjjTMc

** Matthew Stafford put himself on the map by doing this during his 2009 rookie season with the Detroit Lions. Trailing the Cleveland Browns by 6 in the final seconds of their Week 11 game, Stafford tossed up a Hail Mary, at which point two things happened: the Browns committed pass interference in the end zone, giving Detroit one last shot from the one-yard line, and Stafford went down hard and separated his non-throwing shoulder on impact with the turf. To the absolute shock of everyone watching, as the Lions began preparing for that last-chance play, Stafford, who just seconds earlier had been doubled over in pain on the sidelines, stepped onto the field and proceeded to throw for the game-winning touchdown. What really made the moment was that Stafford was mic'd up for the contest, so fans were treated to an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvIwyikbRU up-close look]] at exactly what unfolded in those final minutes.