History Main / IWillFightSomeMoreForever

* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'': The Army is fighting against alien life forms that evolve at an alarming rate. While bullets and such can stop individual life forms, dead forms are reabsorbed when possible, and a single cell can start the process all over again anyway. The protagonists find out a match can make a petri dish of the aliens' cells grow at top speed, the end result being nearly three feet long and about two wide. They try to contact the general in charge of the fight, but he's holding a grudge against them, plus has a huge ego, so refuses to take the message. The general never finds out about the fire thing before detonating the ''napalm''.

* ''Literature/TheOutlaws'': This is thehe best way to describe the attitude of those Freikorps soldiers who took part in WW 1. Some of them believe that the war hasn't finished and it is their duty to continue fighting for Germany. Others were simply molded into Blood Knights by the horrible experience of modern combat.

** Inversely they can invoke this on you depending on the player. The guys tend to act cautiously upon first encounter, but put aside MookChivalry after landing several good hits and pile up against you. So if they start geting the upper hand '''[[KnowWhenToFoldThem RUN]]'''. If you try to stay and fight [[ThisIsGonnaSuck good luck with that]].[[note]]It's not impossible to change the tide of the battle if you have enough health and/or skill.[[/note]]

* InUniverse in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''. The secret reports and cutscenes indicate that the side of Cosmos has ''never'' been victorious in any of the numerous cycles of war, yet her warriors continue to fight relentlessly. This is partly helped by them not knowing that they're repeating it in the first place--when they find out in the 12th, two of them decide to frag their own allies in hopes of better odds next time--but it does pay off eventually after thirteen goes.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken-backed_war_theory broken-backed war theory]] posits that war could continue even after nuclear weapons have been used. In a broken-backed war scenario, only military weapons and vehicles on hand prior to the sustained hostilities would be of use, since belligerants would have lost most of their economic potential.

** The last Imperial Japanese Army soldier to surrender was Pvt. Teruo Nakamura, who was contacted on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974, ''twenty-nine years'' after the war ended. Nakamura doesn't quite fit the trope, however, as he did not exactly choose to keep fighting; rather, the island he was on was highly isolated, and he further isolated himself by breaking away from his unit sometime in the 1950s. He was also not ethnic Japanese, but rather Aboriginal UsefulNotes/{{Taiwan}}ese (i.e. he was not ethnic Han Chinese like the vast majority of Taiwanese people today, but rather a member of one of Taiwan's native Austronesian-speaking peoples) , who chose to be sent to Taiwan rather than Japan after Indonesian soldiers "arrested" him. He died of a heart attack in 1979.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', when a typical giant {{monster|oftheWeek}} appears to wreak havoc in the city...

* ''Series/DadsArmy'' invokes the "heroic sacrifice" variant - believing that the Nazis are finally invading, Captain Mainwaring and the platoon prepare to fight to the last man. They're fully aware the haven't a chance of putting the slightest dent in the German forces, but consider that if they buy even a few more seconds for the Regular Army to prepare a real counter-attack, it will have been worthwhile. [[spoiler:Fortunately the whole invasion was a misunderstanding and nobody has to die.]]

This trope can have [[JustifiedTrope a logic behind it]] even if it appears futile. In the face of totally alien technology, it would be presumptuous to think it works the same way as ours, and even an attack with no visible effect might disable some internal systems. Perhaps diverting power to their EnergyShields prevents them from using their more powerful weapons, or otherwise keeps them on the defensive. Even if the attack is truly ineffective, it can be argued that in [[HopelessWar truly hopeless situations]] in which it seems that the aliens' intention is to [[KillAllHumans utterly wipe out humanity]], running away does not make all that much sense either, and [[LastStand dying in battle might even be seen as a preferable fate]]. The attack may also be a distraction to buy civilians time to escape.

Of course, it can be argued that in [[HopelessWar truly hopeless situations]] in which it seems that the aliens' intention is to [[KillAllHumans utterly wipe out humanity]], running away does not make all that much sense either, and [[LastStand dying in battle might even be seen as a preferable fate]]. At best it might even [[HeroicSacrifice buy time]] for the rest of humanity to discover the aliens' weakness.

* ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'', the military keeps attacking despite the fact all they're doing is making him mad as he throws their tanks back into each other, turning them into slag. This is a carryover from the comics, where the military was so obsessed with stopping the Hulk that they couldn't seem to figure out that every time they tried, it cost millions of dollars (and [[CouldHaveBeenMessy no lives]]). [[GeneralRipper General Ross]] in particular was fond of throwing [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} wave after wave of his own men]] into battle, despite the fact that the Hulk would just get angrier and stronger with each successive attack.

* Just about every human soldier, guard, or police officer in ''Manga/ElfenLied''; granted, they don't really know her full capabilities. The first seven minutes or so are a pretty good example of this trope: Lucy escapes and begins walking toward the guards. They fire. She deflects the bullets with her invisible vectors. She continues to walk towards them. [[{{Gorn}} They die.]] [[LudicrousGibs Horribly.]] Variations on this happen multiple times in the first seven minutes, and throughout the series. In general, [[WalkItOff only the protagonists]] [[OnlyAFleshWound can survive]] an encounter with Lucy, even if they're not in one piece afterward, but common grunts seem quite willing to stand their ground and continue firing, even when bullets visibly have no effect, despite the fact that people around them are being literally ripped to pieces by invisible hands. There is only one Nameless non important grunt to attempt to subvert this, the guard who grabs a high power sniper rifle, and, on Kurama's orders, tries to blow Lucy's head off from the safety of his office. It fails of course, but the blow does give her amnesia.

* In ''Film/{{Evolution}}'', the army tries this against alien life forms that evolve at an alarming rate. Their General, shortly after being told fire makes them evolve faster, tells the main characters to shut up and makes things go to Hell. Tell someone that a weapon will make the threat of the week stronger and that's the first thing they'll try to kill it with. The general never finds out about the fire thing before detonating the napalm. They try to call him, but he refuses to pick up the phone.

** This trope describes just about every single faction save the Tau and Eldar. Orks keep on attacking because they're orks, Chaos keeps on attacking because getting their own men killed still counts as killing people in the name of their dark gods, and Imperial troops keep on attacking because of HonorBeforeReason, faith, and {{Commissar}}s for the Space Marines, Sisters of Battle and Imperial Guard (those who aren't secretly worshiping Chaos, at least) respectively.