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[[File:ggmain20080502 2952.jpg|link=Girl Genius|frame|Slightly Better Than Death!]]
Your [[Heroic Resolve|will]] is still unyielding, but your body is not up to the task. You'd say [[I Can Still Fight]]. You'd say you can [[Bring News Back]]. You'd be lying; [[You Can Barely Stand]], no matter how desperately you need to.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Chopper will occasionally use a Rumble Ball to increase his strength. If he takes three of these within a six hour time limit, though, he will turn into a monstrous form with incredible strength but little to no control. It causes his body to tear itself apart, and afterwords he will find it impossible to move. There's a reason he's only resorted to this twice thus far.
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* Strongly averted in ''[[Iron Man]]'' issue 169. After having a couple of drinks, Tony battled Magma but is beaten. So, he retreated and went to get fortified by drinking some more. He ended up passing out.
== Fan
* A not-quite-heroic example: Nod fanatics in ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' tend to employ a very potent drug that can, among other things, keep their blood oxygenated for at least a full minute after ''their heart has stopped'' and they're clinically ''dead.'' The drug and its use are based on real-life accounts from US military personnel who fought militia and insurgents using similar drugs (primarily [[wikipedia:Epinephrine|epinephrine]]).
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* The ''[[Max Payne (film)|Max Payne]]'' film's climax begins with Max taking a dosage of [[Psycho Serum|Valkyr]] to keep himself from freezing to death. He then goes on a mook-slaughtering acid trip.
* In ''[[Universal Soldier]]'', Van Damme is only able to defeat Dolph Lungren after he takes a dose of supersoldier serum.
* ''[[The Batman (2022 film)|The Batman]]'': After Batman is downed in the final battle and Selina gets in trouble, he injects himself with something to get back up.
== Literature ==
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* One of the earliest of [[David Drake]]s [[Hammer's Slammers]] stories revealed that the Slammers' body armor has a pair of emergency injectors built into it: one is a painkiller, and the other is this. They look like a couple of small badges or medal ribbons on the armor's breastplate, but grab the "badge" and pull downward....
== Live
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'':
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* In an episode of ''[[Smallville]]'' called Rage, Green Arrow took a drug to give him a [[Healing Factor]]. Unfortunately, it had the side effect of [[Psycho Serum|giving him RAGE]].
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Morpheus," the team (plus some [[Red Shirts]]) are infected with a parasite that makes them want to sleep. Once they are asleep, it then eats their brains to death. Naturally, nobody wants to have that happen, so they have to stay awake for a few days while trying to find a cure. At one point they resort to caffeine pills and other chemical stimulants, but have to stop when the drugs cause one [[Red Shirt]] to have a heart attack and die.
* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Like the medical example in Real Life, Dr. Franklin of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' develops a stims habit to cope with the demands of his job.
** This seems to be a common pitfall among doctors in the B5 universe. In "The Quality of Mercy," it's mentioned that Dr. Rosen lost her medical license over stims use, and in "Hunter, Prey," Dr. Jacobs uses stims to keep himself awake while he runs from the law. Granted, the second example isn't a sign of an addiction to the drugs, but doctors seem to reach for them whenever they're in a tight spot.
* Not so much heroic, but there is an episode of [[Law and Order SVU]] where a 10-year-old girl at an exclusive private school has to keep using stimulants to stay awake and study so she can keep up with everyone else. She ends up going a little psycho as a result of the meds and killing her roommate.
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[StarCraft]]'': features Terran marines and firebat / marauder class infantry using stimpacks to boost combat efficiency from "cannon fodder" to "tactically superior to everything that they can hit". Usually used at the start of engagement and actually deplete health reserves for the combat boost.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'': Snake injects himself with nanomachines several times to keep himself on his feet throughout the second half of the story.
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** When The Other was possessing Agatha. She kept taking various stimulants in order to keep working otherwise Agatha would be able to reassert control if she dozed off.
** Also, "[[Hulking Out|Violetta Crush!]]" moment with [//www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20191025 Montebaarg Beef Boy Elixir].
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20121224065839/http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1031461/blue-yonder-prologue-page-7/ they use this on Jared to keep him going when they have to escape capture.]
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has combat stimms. That are ''supposed to'' be used when a soldier needs to stay up despite fatigue or wounds, and evidently are known to "blood-nannies" so they won't be purged right away like other potential toxins. And if left unchecked, some people abuse them. [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-12-04 Like] [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-12-18 Elf]. Even after she kicked it, she retained [[Tsundere|propensity for violent mood swings]] and [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-11-27 some baggage] from the experience for a long while.
* ''EatATau'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20171001221638/http://eatatau.smackjeeves.com/comics/2505482/face-to-face-xii/ Face to face (XII)] illustrates how this sort-of-works.
== Western Animation ==
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