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* Played with in ''{{Uncharted}} 3''. One level consists mostly of Nate staggering around the Rub' al Khali desert, growing more tired and thirsty the whole time. By the time he reaches a GhostTown, he can barely stand. Just a few minutes later, he gets into a gunfight with no problem whatsoever.
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* J in the beginning of ''MenInBlack'' runs down an alien (with some help from passing vehicles) known for its speed and is not winded at all after the chase that left the alien a little tired. This is part of what gets him into the [=MIB=] in the first place.
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* J in the beginning of ''MenInBlack'' ''Film/MenInBlack'' runs down an alien (with some help from passing vehicles) known for its speed and is not winded at all after the chase that left the alien a little tired. This is part of what gets him into the [=MIB=] in the first place.
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* In addition to his strength and fighting prowess, Fezzik of the novel ''ThePrincessBride'' has ''arms'' that have inexhaustible stamina; the rest of his body can wear out, but his arms are always as fresh as ever.
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* In addition to his strength and fighting prowess, Fezzik of the novel ''ThePrincessBride'' ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' has ''arms'' that have inexhaustible stamina; the rest of his body can wear out, but his arms are always as fresh as ever.
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If this is a character in general avoiding biological functions, it's BottomlessBladder. When {{super hero}}es don't seem to need sleep, it's a TripleShifter. If your mounted creature can do this, then it's one of those AutomatonHorses.
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Drugs to do this are BottledHeroicResolve. If this is a character in general avoiding biological functions, it's BottomlessBladder. When {{super hero}}es don't seem to need sleep, it's a TripleShifter. If your mounted creature can do this, then it's one of those AutomatonHorses.
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* ''DeadIsland''. Averted ''hard''. Everything takes stamina, including ''attacking'' with a melee weapon, so you can forget about the "melee spam" tactic seen in games like ''Left4Dead''. This becomes a real issue when you're facing multiple zombies.
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No, the aesop is speficially that the Tortoise, PACED himself. Whereas the Rabbit exhausted himself completely by running full tilt.
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A variation on MadeOfIron with elements of ImplacableMan. Rather than being able to take insane amounts of punishment, someone is able to to carry on in a more mundane manner as long as the RuleOfCool, RuleOfDrama, or RuleOfFunny dictates. For example, police officers in most police procedural who seem to be able to stay awake for several nights and still chase the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]], and the Tortoise in the Tortoise and the Hare [[AnAesop Aesop]]. In games it is an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break From Reality]] to keep the game from getting bogged down.
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A variation on MadeOfIron with elements of ImplacableMan. Rather than being able to take insane amounts of punishment, someone is able to to carry on in a more mundane manner as long as the RuleOfCool, RuleOfDrama, or RuleOfFunny dictates. For example, police officers in most police procedural who seem to be able to stay awake for several nights and still chase the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]], and the Tortoise in the Tortoise and the Hare [[AnAesop Aesop]]. In games it is an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break From Reality]] to keep the game from getting bogged down.
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* In ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', Aragorn and Legolas seem to be sprinting non-stop across miles and miles of land to chase down the kidnapped Hobbits, with Gimli barely keeping up and heavily winded.
** Doesn't really apply as the baseline for this trope is humans, but the characters in question are an Elf, a Dunedain, and a Dwarf.
** In the book, at least, it is mentioned that this is in fact abnormal and not just something they can all do all the time. It is apparently named "The Deed Of The Three Friends" and ballads are sung about it.
*** The book also lets them rest a bit more than the movie, where Gimli states that it's been three days pursuit with no food, water or rest. In the book they at least pause so that Gimli and Aragorn can sleep while Legolas keeps guard, since his Elvish superpowers include the lack of a need to sleep.
** Doesn't really apply as the baseline for this trope is humans, but the characters in question are an Elf, a Dunedain, and a Dwarf.
** In the book, at least, it is mentioned that this is in fact abnormal and not just something they can all do all the time. It is apparently named "The Deed Of The Three Friends" and ballads are sung about it.
*** The book also lets them rest a bit more than the movie, where Gimli states that it's been three days pursuit with no food, water or rest. In the book they at least pause so that Gimli and Aragorn can sleep while Legolas keeps guard, since his Elvish superpowers include the lack of a need to sleep.
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* In ''[[TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'', Aragorn and Legolas seem to be sprinting non-stop across miles and miles of land to chase down the kidnapped Hobbits, with Gimli barely keeping up and heavily winded.
** Doesn't really apply as the baseline for this trope is humans, but the characters in question are an Elf, a Dunedain, and a Dwarf.
**winded. In the book, at least, it is mentioned that this is in fact abnormal and not just something they can all do all the time. It is apparently named "The Deed Of The Three Friends" and ballads are sung about it.
***it. The book also lets them rest a bit more than the movie, where Gimli states that it's been three days pursuit with no food, water or rest. In the book they at least pause so that Gimli and Aragorn can sleep while Legolas keeps guard, since his Elvish superpowers include the lack of a need to sleep.
** Doesn't really apply as the baseline for this trope is humans, but the characters in question are an Elf, a Dunedain, and a Dwarf.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Karnazes Dean Karnazes]]. Just take a look at his article on Wikipedia.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides Pheidippides]] was said to have run 150 miles (Athens to Sparta to Marathon) and then 26 miles (Marathon to Athens) to bring word of victory at the Battle of Marathon.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheidippides Pheidippides]] was said to have run 150 miles (Athens to Sparta to Marathon) and then 26 miles (Marathon to Athens) to bring word of victory at the Battle of Marathon. He died soon after reaching Athens.
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* The novella ''The Long Walk'' by Stephen King. The plot revolves around ordinary humans being able to go as far as possible. Failure is...unpleasant.
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* It's canon in ''Star Trek'' that fresh, healthy Vulcans can charge their systems to go a week or two without sleeping. Used in the novels a lot when the crisis lasts for a long time.
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* The novella ''The Long Walk'' by Stephen King. The plot revolves around ordinary humans being able to go as far as possible. Failure is...unpleasent.
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* HARSHLY averted near the end Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory. The pilots are fighting non stop for hours, Kou is seen injecting himself with what's probably a stimulant to keep himself going. It's also very visablly takeing its toll on him.
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* HARSHLY averted near the end Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory. The pilots are fighting non stop for hours, Kou is seen injecting himself with what's probably a stimulant to keep himself going. It's also very visablly visable that this is takeing its toll on him.
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* The characters of ''[[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. It got mentioned a time or two there, but never since.
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* The characters of ''[[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. It got mentioned a around.
** In season one, Jack Bauer does find enough time to get a catnap at roughly the seventh episode (when he's holed up in a building with a waitress he's taken hostage). He also finds time to eat a frozen dinner during his debriefing at CTU (in fact, the only other time he's shown eating is at the beginning of the fifth season). Aside from this, however, Jack and every other character on the show can function overnight ortwo there, but never since.forego eating for extended periods of time. This appears to be the reason why most later seasons begin at 7 or 8 AM (making it so that the characters are really only staying up overnight) instead of late hour season starts.
** In season one, Jack Bauer does find enough time to get a catnap at roughly the seventh episode (when he's holed up in a building with a waitress he's taken hostage). He also finds time to eat a frozen dinner during his debriefing at CTU (in fact, the only other time he's shown eating is at the beginning of the fifth season). Aside from this, however, Jack and every other character on the show can function overnight or
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* ''{{Lost}}'' episodes 3x21 (''The Greatest Hits'') through 4x03 (''The Economist'') take place over a period of three ''really'' busy days and all main characters are shown to stay up on both nights with no sights of exhaustion by the end of the third day.
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* ''{{Lost}}'' episodes 3x21 (''The Greatest Hits'') through 4x03 (''The Economist'') take place over a period of three ''really'' busy days and all main characters are shown to stay up on both nights with no sights signs of exhaustion by the end of the third day.day. Though the very first handful of episodes show a paraplegic man unexpectedly gaining his legs back...
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* Subverted in ''ArtemisFowl''. Several characters refer to being fatigued towards the end of the book (having been continuously awake for almost two days) but keep going. [[spoiler: It turns out that this is a function of the Time Stop; while within it, one's state of consciousness cannot shift naturally, regardless of how tired they are. Even heavy injury leaves one barely conscious (if delirious), while inducing unconsciousness through drugs causes an individual to return to the normal flow of time.]]
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* After being forced to leave Azure City, Vaarsuvius of the OrderOfTheStick has stopped “trancing,” leaving [[AmbiguousGender him/her/it]] rather haggard. This was recently revealed to be due at least in part to [[spoiler:guilt over surviving the invasion by hiding while their allies were being slaughtered]].
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* ''{{Lost}}'' episodes 3x21 (''The Greatest Hits'') through 4x03 (''The Economist'') take place over a period of three ''really'' busy days and all main characters and are shown to stay up on both nights with no sights of exhaustion by the end of the third day.
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* {{Beowulf}} is remarked as being able to swim for three days and nights underwater to reach the lair of Grendel's mother. This is just one of the hyperbolic superhuman feats attributed to him througout the poem.
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* {{Beowulf}} is remarked as being able to swim for three days and nights underwater to reach the lair of Grendel's mother. This is just one of the hyperbolic superhuman feats attributed to him througout throughout the poem.poem.
* Averted, strangely enough, in the HarryPotter series. There aren't that many examples of grievous wounds or strenuous physical effort, but Harry himself suffers from the normal fatigue expected of a teenager. Especially prevalent in the [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]], where long hours of studying, practicing Occlumency, Quidditch workouts, and [[CatapultNightmare being woken up]] whenever Voldemort stubs his toe take their toll, causing him to fall asleep during the end-of-year O.W.L. exams, resulting in him tanking the History of Magic essays and leading directly to a laser-guided CatapultNightmare. Poor kid needs to manage his time better.
* Averted, strangely enough, in the HarryPotter series. There aren't that many examples of grievous wounds or strenuous physical effort, but Harry himself suffers from the normal fatigue expected of a teenager. Especially prevalent in the [[HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]], where long hours of studying, practicing Occlumency, Quidditch workouts, and [[CatapultNightmare being woken up]] whenever Voldemort stubs his toe take their toll, causing him to fall asleep during the end-of-year O.W.L. exams, resulting in him tanking the History of Magic essays and leading directly to a laser-guided CatapultNightmare. Poor kid needs to manage his time better.
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** Just to break that down with some impressive math skills, that means that, assuming he does one sit up every second, he would have to be doing sit ups non-stop, once a second every second, for [[BeyondTheImpossible almost an hour]] to meet this regimen. Most people don't do that many in a year.
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* Rock Lee from {{Naruto}} goes to great lengths in training so he can be a great ninja [[BadassNormal with only physical abilities]]. He gives himself insane rules, where if he doesn't finish the task he's on, he'll do something harder. For example: If he cannot kick a log 400 times, he will jump rope 500 times. It seems to have worked quite well.
* Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical War Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. This was given a LampshadeHanging in the third chapter when he realized how he's not tired at all despite running so long while carrying someone on piggyback and using high-level magic, with the implication that it's likely a side-effect of the [[LostTechnology Lost Logia]] he picked up.
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* Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical War Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. This was given a LampshadeHanging in the third chapter when he realized how he's not tired at all despite running so long while carrying someone on piggyback and using high-level magic, with the implication that it's likely a side-effect of the [[LostTechnology Lost Logia]] he picked up.
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* Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical War Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. This was given a LampshadeHanging in the third chapter when he realized how he's not tired at all despite running so long while carrying someone on piggyback and using high-level magic, with the implication that it's likely a side-effect of the [[LostTechnology Lost Logia]] he picked up.
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* Rock Lee from {{Naruto}} goes to great lengths in training so he can be a great ninja [[BadassNormal with only physical abilities]]. He gives himself insane rules, where if he doesn't finish the task he's on, he'll do something harder. For example: If he cannot kick a log 400 times, he will jump rope 500 times. It seems to have worked quite well.
* Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical War Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. This was given a LampshadeHanging in the third chapter when he realized how he's not tired at all despite running so long while carrying someone on piggyback and using high-level magic, with the implication that it's likely a side-effect of the [[LostTechnology Lost Logia]] he picked up.
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* Tohma of ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical War Chronicles Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. This was given a LampshadeHanging in the third chapter when he realized how he's not tired at all despite running so long while carrying someone on piggyback and using high-level magic, with the implication that it's likely a side-effect of the [[LostTechnology Lost Logia]] he picked up.
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* In ''RunFatboyRun'', this is how unathletic, heavy smoker Dennis finishes the marathon on a sprained ankle. Fueled by the fact that he had something to prove to himself, to his ex-girlfriend, and pretty much everyone else in his life ''except'' his son, who believed in him the entire time.
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* ''[[FalloutNewVegas Fallout: New Vegas]]'' averts this in Hardcore mode - going for too long without sleeping will increasingly weaken your character, and eventually ''kill'' them if allowed to go long enough.
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** [[spoiler: The fact he was continually reliving the traumatic event of being able to do nothing while they died led him to conclude sleep was... not productive...]]
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* Rock Lee from ''{{Naruto}}'' goes to great lengths in training himself so he could be a great ninja [[BadassNormal with only physical abilities]]. For instance, in one filler episode he was shown finishing up over a ''thousand'' push ups.
** TruthInTelevision, or at least on the thousand pushups. There was one NFL player who attributed his enormous physique to the 1500 pushups and the 1500 sit-ups he did every day.
*** Good lord, the ''tedium''...
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** TruthInTelevision, or at least on the thousand pushups. There was one NFL player who attributed his enormous physiquelog 400 times, he will jump rope 500 times. It seems to the 1500 pushups and the 1500 sit-ups he did every day.
*** Good lord, the ''tedium''...have worked quite well.
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* Herschel Walker, former NFL running back, may be the single most determined man on the planet. In place of lifting weights, he chose to use basic push ups and sit ups to keep his body in top form. As of 2010, his daily workout still consists of ''3,500 sit ups and 1,000 push ups.''
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** Actually the reporters covering the story mention he only stops to eat and sleep.
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* ''DeadRising'' and its sequel both have the main character leading a physically very active life for three days straight (possibly a full week in the first game), without a wink of sleep. [[HyperactiveMetabolism Food, drink]] and [[SavePoint bathroom breaks]] are available in quantity, though.
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