Do Not Go Gentle moments in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- The Bridge: The Halloween Episode has Showa Godzilla realize they're fighting a losing battle against Godzilla Earth and he is going to die if he stays. So he decides to run headlong into the fray and blitzes Godzilla Earth with a barrage of beam attacks, slashing with his superheated spines, and managing to grievously wound the titan.
- Pokémon: Equestrian Champions: In the chapter "One Last Trick Up My Sleeve", Trixie and Flash Sentry are paired to battle each other in the first round of the Equestria League, and Trixie knows that she likely has no chance against Flash, but resolves to make him work for his win regardless instead of forfeiting and running away. Her special Trick Room strategy successfully gives Flash a run for his money, managing to successfully defeat one of his Pokémon and tie with another, but once it is destroyed during the final battle, Trixie realizes it is only a matter of time before her Sagic is defeated by the stronger Prongs, but refuses to give up. Trixie ultimately loses the match, but is cheered on by the entire crowd for her performance, leaving her in Tears of Joy, and even Flash thanks her for the fun battle.
- The RWBY Loops, unusually for a Groundhog Peggy Sue story, has an example in the CFVY machines. Upon discovering that they had, in fact, been suffering from a degenerative memory loss, they took the opportunity to join in defending their reality from ending permanently. It is explicitly pointed out that they will not be coming back with the reset.Velvet: I asked you, long ago, to let me live by my own terms. Now I'm asking you let us die by our own terms.
Fox: As warriors and heroes.
Yatsuhashi: As defenders of Remnant.
Coco: ...As Huntsmen and Huntresses. - The Weaver Option: During the raid on Commorragh the Imperium frees many slaves whose bodies have been booby-trapped such that leaving the Dark City will be fatal. Given the limited time and space they have to work with, the Imperium cannot hope to disable all the traps and evacuate them. What they can do is give the slaves a weapon and let them die taking revenge on their captors.
- Danganronpa Class Swap 2 - Jabberwock Island: After the second culprit is found guilty, they attempt to fend off their impending execution by taking Hina hostage with a knife.
- In a fanfic that has Doug in a coma after being shot, Carol reads the poem in question to Mark, believing that they shouldn't take him off life support on the chance he might recover.
- In Chapter 12 of Fate/Stay Night fanfic Nerve Damage, Archer Napoleon Bonaparte refuses to kneel before a stronger enemy Servant, and maintains that it would be unfitting of a Heroic Spirit to do anything less than meet his death standing. Impressed by his bravado, Gilgamesh lets him go."This is a good death. I will not bend my knee. No hero will bend his knee to a threat." A chuckle. "A good run I suppose, short as it is. I, a hero with a legend barely two hundred years old, to one whose own spans four thousand years back. Perhaps it was hopeless in the beginning, but I matched your power until the very end, and in death, I will meet the standard. I will die standing."
- Salvaged: Kayta Hiro, the oldest living victor during the 3rd Quarter Quell, spends his last moments on the roof of a lumber mill, shooting at peacekeepers with a rifle.
- Queen of Shadows: During the Battle of Awaji, Gurando tells his soldiers that yes, most of them will probably die, but they will go down fighting and serve as an inspiration for the rest of humanity.
- Bound Destinies Trilogy: In Blood and Spirit, Terminus mocks Link, labeling him a Doomed Protagonist who is destined to succumb to Majora's influence and become the demon's servant. Fi similarly warns him that not even the Master Sword's safeguards can help do more than slow the process down temporarily. Despite all this, Link continues to resist.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Pony POV Series, Strife's Villain Song, "Your Last Stand", actually encourages her opponents to fight back as long as possible and die with honor, despite knowing her victory is inevitable.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: In the sidestory "Twenty Gyarados Bill Gaiden", during the climax, several soldiers realize they won't survive against Bill's remaining Gyarados. Rather than trying to run away or cower in fear, they decide they'll take down as many as they can to make things easier for their comrades.
- In A New World, a particularly extremist family of Lunarians have had enough of the human expansion on the False Moon and decide to take action. By seizing control of Earth-bound comms channels and triggering a nuclear war at a global level, triggering a holocaust and decimating Humanity. It all goes downhill for them after that.
- Old Man Henderson: After a while of crazy gaming, a few cults have cottoned on to the fact that Old Man Henderson tricked them into fighting each other with a penthouse suite, a helicopter, and a yacht, and began chasing him with lesser horrors from the beyond. Realizing that he's going to die anyways, Henderson goes out with a blaze of glory, rigging an ice-rink full of explosives, and using a bit of obscure mythos lore to KILL HASTUR. PERMANENTLY. After this, the DM flipped the table over in anger.
