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* Garma and Dozle Zabi in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''. Garma attempts to crash his ship into the ''White Base'' while shouting "All glory to the nation of Zeon"; Dozle actually climbs out of the ruined Big Zam and fires a machinegun at Amuro and the Gundam until the Big Zam explodes, killing him.
* Naruto: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/naruto/v57/c537/1.html In this second panel], Kakuzu just ''has'' to lampshade Darui's [[Captain Obvious]] statement.
* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]: {{spoiler|Rika Furude, a normally perky little girl has been tazered and poisoned (with a syringe she'd brought herself, no less) by the local [[Ax Crazy]] [[Yandere (disambiguation)]], Shion Sonozaki. Then, Shion proceeds to add insult to injury by listing the various ways she intends to torture Rika - when Rika suddenly grabs a huge knife, and states (in perfect adult Japanese) that she will not be staying for said torture. Shion sneers and dares her to act, but instead of attempting an escape, Rika steadies the knife against the wall, and [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|headbutts it sideways several times]] while Shion [[Laughing Mad|laughs hysterically]].}}
** {{spoiler|Rena also faces her certain demise this way later in the series, going as far as taunting her killer's plans, beliefs and aspiration to become a god - said killer puts a bullet in her very fast, suggesting that she really struck a nerve.}}
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{{quote|'''Vader:''' Tell me where the rendezvous is, and I may perhaps be merciful.
'''Jobin:''' Save your mercy for someone else. *spits blood in his face* }}
* In ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'', Usagi had a situation where he was fighting a villain who had stolen his swords, a despicable insult to a samurai, and found himself disarmed and wounded against the villain. The villain suggests he may be merciful if Usagi got on his knees and begged. To that, Usagi stood upright in perfect defiant dignity saying, "Whatever fate I have, I will face it on my feet." Fortunately, he soon got the advantage to win the day.
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* V at the end of ''[[V for Vendetta]]''. Mr. Creevey even describes him as, "Defiant to the end."
* ''[[Die Another Day]]'': All [[James Bond]] has to say after [[Dude in Distress|months of brutal torture]] is an appropriately acerbic [[Bond One-Liner]]. General Moon notes that he is "defiant to the end" before apparently having Bond marched in front of a firing squad. (Of course, considering that this is ''[[James Bond]]'' and we're only a few minutes past the title sequence, [[Like You Would Really Do It|nobody believed for a second that he was in any serious mortal danger]].)
* In cinema classic ''[[They Live!]]'', Rowdy [[Roddy Piper]]'s unnamed character makes it to the antenna broadcasting the alien mind-scrambling signal and just manages to start it blowing up when he's fatally shot. He raises his arm out of the fire and flips the aliens off, both as a gesture of defiance and as a declaration of victory (since even if he died, the aliens were about to be exposed).
* In ''[[Plunkett and Macleane]]'', facing certain execution, {{spoiler|Macleane's}} last words before being sentenced are directed at all attending. The speech also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Macleane'''}}: I am guilty of one thing for which I am heartily sorry. Namely cheating my friend and fellow highwayman. A man who has more nobility of soul in his little finger, than any of you bloated bastards have in your entire bodies.}}
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* In ''[[I Lucifer]]'' despite being offered a chance at {{spoiler|redemption and relief from his constant pain as a mortal}}, Lucifer instead opts to {{spoiler|lead a second assault on paradise before likely facing ''eternity in the infinite void alone''.}}
* Lucifer in the ''[[Left Behind]]'' books. He doesn't give Jesus Christ the satisfaction of calling Him Lord until ''Kingdom Come'' when his entire Other Light army has been eradicated in a heartbeat.
* Stonefur in ''[[Warrior Cats]]''. After being held prisoner, Tigerstar [[Kneel Before Zod|him chance to prove his loyalty]], by ordering him to kill [[Fantastic Racism|two half-clan cats]]. Stonefur completely ignores him, and asks his former leader for orders, since he will not take them from any other cat. When she asks him to follow Tigerstar's order, he still refuses to kill them, and vows to protect them instead. After that, Tigerstar sends his henchman to execute Stonefur, who [[Heroic Resolve|despite being imprisoned, starved and barely able to stand]], manages to defend himself. {{spoiler|Tigerstar then sends another henchman, to pin Stonefur down and slice his throat.}}
* In one ''[[Nightside]] nook, Merlin is confronted by the current [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|Lilith}}, who tells him that he can live if he [[Kneel Before Zod|bows down and submits]]. His response:
{{quote|"There is only [[King Arthur|one man]] I have ever bowed to. And you are not fit to polish his armor."}}
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** [http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/image.php?id=19446 A visualization.]
* Combined with [[Big Damn Heroes]] and [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by Zero in ''[[Mega Man X]]'', because he's that cool: In the second Vile fight, Zero went ahead to fight Vile. When X follows, he finds that Zero lost and is locked in an electric cage. An [[Unwinnable]] fight ensues. When X gets hit with Vile's paralyzer again, Zero catches Vile monologuing and breaks out, latching on to Vile's Ride Armor. He purposely overloads himself to destroy the Ride Armor, but Vile survives. X is understandably pissed and [[Heroic Resolve|breaks out of the paralyzer and refills]] his [[Hit Points]], then proceeds to hand Vile his ass.
* This is how Aelia meets her untimely end in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' before you recruit her as an Einherjar.
* In ''[[Persona 3]]'' , [[Lady of War|Mitsuru]] [[Badass Bookworm|Kirijo]] delivers this line to the [[Big Bad]] who is {{spoiler|an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that is set on bringing [[The End of the World as We Know It]]}},
{{quote|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|We've come this far...I WILL NOT SUBMIT!!!]]}}
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Its Walky]]'', {{spoiler|Mike}} used his last breath to hurl taunts and insults at the Martian who was killing him.
* Thief to Black Mage in ''[[8-Bit Theater
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== Western Animation ==
* Stinkmeaner takes this trope up to eleven from ''[[The Boondocks]]''(its played for laughs). After essentially getting himself into a over matched fight he curses his opponent repeatedly while getting beaten to death. Upon ariving in Hell he refuses to surcome to the torture everyone else is facing and trains up to the point where the point where even the Devil himself is amazed enough to send him back to earth.
* In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'':
{{quote|'''Darkseid''': People of Earth - I am Darkseid, Lord of Apokolips. Here is [[Superman|your savior]]... cowed, and broken. I have crushed him as easily as I have crushed all who have dared to oppose me throughout the cosmos. I am power unlike any you have ever known: absolute, infinite, and unrelenting. You have no choice but to prepare for a long, dark future as my subjects... and my slaves.<br />
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* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', Slug captures Wildcat and Batman, and begins lowering them into a pit so they can be eaten by mutant snapping turtles. Wildcat starts insulting Slug, stinging his pride enough to make him pull Wildcat back out so they can fistfight.
* Princess Sally in the third episode of ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]''. When she was captured by Dr. Robotnik, he demanded her to tell where Knothole is located. Sally's reponse: ''"Sure I'll. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|When you get a life]]"''.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Bart Simpson in the episode ''Bart The Murderer''. After he had accidentally ended up in the Springfield mafia's turf, he was taken and interrogated by them, believing that he was a spy. He answered their questions with "eat my shorts" and "don't have a cow". In this case, Bart's insults and tough guy act actually impresses the mafia, convincing themto give him a job as a bartender.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' has Cyborg, dismembered and completely at the mercy of Brother Blood, giving Brother Blood a [[Curse Cut Short]].
* [[Inverted Trope]] in ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' when one of a pair of [[Lizard Folk|lizards]], stuck in the [[Stock Punishment|stocks]], snaps at his [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg|groveling]] companion not to expect mercy from their captors, and angrily gives heroic [[Catfolk]] Prince Lion-O an earful about his [[Motive Rant|motives]] for stealing the Cats' crops that metastasizes into a [[Screw You, Elves]] speech, despite the very real threat of death for confronting the prince of the race who enslaved him. Lion-O's response is to defend the prisoners against an [[Angry Mob]] of [[Catfolk]] and successfully [[Please Spare Him, My Liege|plead with his father]] for their release.
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** Actually it seemed a few of the people put on trial managed to be simply given jail time and eventually freed by simply playing along and giving the court a story they wanted to hear. It's most of the people who put up a fight that went down.
*** And what they wanted to hear were names of other people involved in witchcraft. Corey thought it better to die than commit perjury, and since he'd die anyway, decided to do it the way that let his sons inherit his property.
* Russian partisan girl Zoya Kocmodemianskaya, caught by Nazis and cruelly tortured before execution, said from under the gallows:
{{quote|[[We Are Everywhere|There are millions of Russians. You cannot hang all of us]].}}
* Che Guevara.
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