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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': This is effectively common throughout the series. Many characters take on a miscellany of battles against deadly enemies without as so much a single decrease in stamina and after receiving several injuries, they press onward without any sign of fatigue.

* Cirronians in ''Series/{{Tracker}}'' have a biological adaptation which eliminates the need for sleep. Fans theorize they might go into some kind of meditation state, but it was never made canon.

* Kagami's Zone on ''Manga/KurokosBasketball''
* In Manga/DragonBall, Frieza is established to have poor stamina when fighting at full power during the Namek Arc. Since the anime infamously added a ton of {{Padding}} to this part of the battle, the original ''Z'' run never really makes it apparent as Goku and Frieza duke it out for a grand total of ''19'' episodes.

* The characters of ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' manage without sleep just fine for twenty-four hours plus however long they'd already been up. Speaking of which, season one started at midnight, meaning they were up for more like ''two'' days without sleep the first time around.

* ''{{VideoGame/Bully}}'': You can run nonstop without tiring and go the whole game without eating or going to the bathroom. You do pass out at 2 AM though.

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* J in the beginning of ''Film/MenInBlack'' runs down an alien known for its speed, across blocks up a building, and is not winded at all after the chase that left the alien a little tired (somewhat justified by J taking some shortcuts like a bus and a freight elevator). This is part of what gets him into the [=MIB=] in the first place.

* At one point in ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'', Wei gets captured by some goons and brutally tortured, including getting slashed multiple times, having a hammer dropped on his foot, and taking a power drill to the knee. When he wakes up, he can barely move, and only manages to kill two guards by relying on luck and surprise. However, once you open the door to the next room and regain full control, Wei's suddenly back to running, jumping, and fighting as if nothing happened at all.

* Your player character in ''VideoGame/OneWayHeroics'' travels across the world without letting the [[RatcherScrolling encroaching darkness]] consuming the world catch up to them. Days and nights will pass and you never have a chance to sit down and rest. Only after they defeat the source of the darkness do they collapse from utter exhaustion.

* Played with on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', where Mac's been called out several times about his seemingly rare periods of sleep. Jo once had Flack drag him home for some rest. This show seems to ask for it more than the original CSI, because there doesn't appear to be another shift at the lab, just Mac's team.

* ''VideoGame/TotalWar:WarhammerII'' features the Perfect Vigor trait. Units with this trait never suffer any stamina penalties. After a forced march over difficult terrain, they could fight several battles, lose most of their health, and fight just as well as if they'd had a pleasant night's rest.

* Cliff Young, an Australian potato farmer, ran and won a 544-mile foot race at the age of 61, beating competitors more than half his age while wearing overalls and rain boots. His strategy? While the other runners ran for seventeen hours a day and slept for seven, Young ran at a relaxed pace for five days straight without stopping for sleep or food. He broke the previous record by nearly ''two days''. It's worth noting he didn't KNOW they were supposed to take breaks.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''': Harry Dresden seems to fall into this trope under a certain interpretation of it. Most of the books involve him being slowly damaged far past the point normal people would be falling to pieces, and still fighting. By the end of most books he's a wreck, but with the bad guys defeated. He generally recovers but some wounds don't go away. In one book, a physician points out how Dresden's body seems to not retain the wear and tear of his activities the way a normal person's would. Dresden concludes that a wizard's power gives them a very limited HealingFactor, which is probably responsible for their centuries-long lifespan. He can be injured, and doesn't heal any faster than normal, but his injuries can heal ''completely'' given enough time; his scar tissue heals at the same rate as normal injury, rather than staying static. The neat bit is that this is biologically plausible; there is a lab-mouse genetic line (known as MRL) that does the same thing (though presumably it's for a different reason).

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' and its related stories by Creator/DavidEddings, Belgarath is said to be able to go without sleep for way longer than should be humanly possible if he's really focused on something. His daughter, a physician, reflects on this, and considers it to be AchievementsInIgnorance--he doesn't '''know'' it's impossible, so he does it. Mind you, this being [[CrazyAwesome Belgarath]], it's entirely possible he knows it's impossible and just doesn't care.