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Then, just when everything seems to be lost, something happens. With a sudden all-out effort, the hero rises, often presaged or accompanied by a [[Theme Music Power-Up]], ready to rejoin the battle -- and, this time, despite the apparently crippling injury just sustained, there's no question at all that the hero's going to end up standing over the villain's smoking corpse -- or, more generally, triumph in whatever way is appropriate for the genre. It is also traditional to deliver a [[World of Cardboard Speech]] in the process.
This trope is heavily relied on in [[Professional Wrestling]]. Hulk Hogan in particular carried wrestling for approximately eight years doing this, to the point where the moment a hero starts [[No Sell|shrugging off]] his opponent's offense is still called "[[Punch
There are hundreds of ways to do this same trope, but some of the most popular ones are:
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Compare [[Determinator]] (who stays up because he never went down to begin with), [[You Are Already Dead]], [[And Your Little Dog, Too]], [[Let's Get Dangerous]], [[Rage Breaking Point]].
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{{quote| '''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him. And that no longer holds my interest.}}
** The Jem'hadar's superiors disintegrate him on the spot for his noble sentiment.
* The Doctor gets in one of these every so often on ''[[
{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet, and then I'm going to save the Earth, and then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky!<br />
'''Dalek:''' But you have no weapons! No defenses! No plan!<br />
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