Do Not Go Gentle moments in Western Animation.
- From Adventure Time, this is definitely the opinion of Princess Bubblegum when it comes to protecting her friends and her kingdom. She even says the trope title directly, at one point!
- Zuko, from Avatar: The Last Airbender. He takes everything the world can throw at him and keeps coming back, because of one simple piece of advice his uncle sent to him, engraved on a knife: never give up without a fight.
- Godzilla, in a later-averted Bad Future, takes this to extreme levels though it's not shown on-screen. Godzilla is nominally a hero in the main timeline of Godzilla: The Series, but one could have argued he was just protecting his adopted father. In Future Shock however, Godzilla is stated to have saved the last of humanity from a race of genetically engineered monsters called the Dragmas for no other reason than because he chose to. If the comments made by Future!Mendel are to be believed, he not only went out fighting, he actually killed a few of the Dragmas along the way. He has a memorial statue in his honor in the underground tunnels most of humanity seems to now call home in that timeline.
- Harvie Krumpet: Harvie is about to kill himself with a morphine overdose in the old folks' home when a talk with a fellow patient makes him realizes he has "a lot of living left to do." So he takes off his clothes like the nudist he is, and goes outside to sit at the fake bus stop. The final "fakt" then pops up on screen:"Life is like a cigarette. Smoke it to the butt."
- A two-part episode of TaleSpin features Baloo and Louie being set upon by a veritable army of giant bugs, backed into a corner. Baloo insists that he "ain't gonna play no swan song without a duzzle!" Fortunately, they find a way out without having to fight (and/or die).
- This is a common trend in the Transformers franchise.
- Beast Wars: The final stand of Dinobot in the episode "Code of Hero". After momentarily reflecting on his decision to fight, he singlehandedly defeats all the Predacons, who were destroying a valley where the first humans were living, and with the last of his strength destroyed the Golden Disk, ruining Megatron's plans. He even fights Megatron with a rock on a stick and makes it look good.Megatron: What could you possibly do? (aims his tail gun at Dinobot)
Dinobot: Improvise! (whacks stick onto a rock, smashes his new-formed stone hammer into Megatron, grabs the Golden Disc, and obliterates it with an eye-laser that takes the last out of him)- His replacement Depth Charge does something similar during his final battle with Rampage.
- In Transformers: Armada, the Armada version of Starscream went out similarly to the aforementioned Dinobot, with a lot more shouting. More specifically, he dueled Galvatron to a draw, and then fired at Unicron with everything he had just to draw him out of hiding by goading Unicron into arrogantly smiting him.
- Beast Wars: The final stand of Dinobot in the episode "Code of Hero". After momentarily reflecting on his decision to fight, he singlehandedly defeats all the Predacons, who were destroying a valley where the first humans were living, and with the last of his strength destroyed the Golden Disk, ruining Megatron's plans. He even fights Megatron with a rock on a stick and makes it look good.
