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'''Bobby Heenan''': "Of course I'm right, I'm the brain!"|''W.O.W. Unleashed''}}

 

* [[The 13th Warrior|Lo there do I see my father. Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers...]]

* In ''[[300]]'', this seems to be more or less expected of the soldiers. Of course, [[This Is Sparta]].

Dilios: It's [[Eyepatch of Power|only an eye]], my lord. The gods saw fit to grace me [[Only a Flesh Wound|with a spare]]. }}

* Humorously by the Black Knight in ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' as his limbs get hacked off insists he can still fight.

* In the ''[[Discworld]] novels, Sam Vimes does this all the time.

* Merric from ''[[Tortall Universe|Lady Knight]]'':

* Urthstripe the badger in the ''[[Redwall]]'' novel ''Salamandastron''. In this case, he's delirious as well as severely injured. The hares tried to keep him down by tying him into bed. [[The Determinator|He gets up]] [[Unstoppable Rage|to fight anyway.]]

* Starting in about the third book and continuing from there, [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] tends to be beat to hell and back before the final showdown, and heads into battle when in any other circumstances he'd be in too much pain to go on.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' ''[[Horus Heresy]]'' novel ''Legion'', Mu checks this with Soneka: should he really be up? He assures her that the medical papers were just to convince the authorities that his erratic behavior had been combat fatigue.

** In [[James Swallow]]'s ''The Flight of the Eisenstein'', after Garro loses his leg, he still hobbles into the fight, with help from another Death Guard, who tells him he's in no condition to fight.

* In Lee Lightner's ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' [[Space Wolf]] novel ''Sons of Fenris'', when Jeremiah [[Bottled Heroic Resolve|revives]] his fellow Dark Angels, he asks Nathaniel how his wounds are; Nathaniel answers, "I can fight."

* This is the climax to ''[[Ivanhoe]]''. Nobody will fight for Rebecca {{spoiler|1=except for Brian DuBois-Guilbert; the Templars, knowing that, have tapped to be their champion against her}}, but Ivanhoe, still suffering from the side wound that has kept him unconscious for most of the book, shows up to defend her, still barely able to keep on his horse. In the book, {{spoiler|1=he wins by virtue of DuBois Guilbert's guilty conscience-induced heart attack}}, while the movies play it much more straight.

* Eowyn tries to pull this in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. They drag in Faramir to stop her; he points out that the army has gone too far and she can't catch up, and if the battle does come to them, she would be better able to fight if she rested now.

* Much of the cast of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series have done this at some point or another... Harry especially, obviously, because the kid was practically marked at birth. A humorous example from HBP was when Harry had been arguing with an annoying Quidditch teammate (Cormac McClaggen) during a match, who was trying to show another player how to do their job during a match. When Harry tells Cormac to get back to his own position, Cormac accidentally knocks Harry unconscious and, for the umpteenth time, he finds himself in a hospital bed, remarking furiously to Madame Pomfrey,

"I'm afraid that would be considered overexertion." }}

* ''Every single character'' in the [[Wheel of Time]] has pulled this at least once. Every main male character except for Mat has pulled this at least five times. The record probably goes to Rand, especially as he has another character with an empathic bond with him nearby at almost all times shocked at how he endures the pain of his unhealed wounds.

* [[Honor Harrington]] at the end of ''Flag In Exile''. Honor has: been called a whore for most of the book, {{spoiler|blamed herself for an industrial accident which killed a group of schoolchildren, learned that the "accident" was sabotage, had her armoured shuttle shot down so thoroughly it blew up, and saved from a point-blank assassination when ''Grayson's spiritual leader'' [[Heroic Sacrifice|threw himself in front of her]], and generally [[Hamlet|suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.]] She finally gets to the Council Chamber, battered, bruised, limping and exhausted, presents her evidence, and names the man who's been orchestrating all of this...who promptly claims a traditional form of justice and demands to face the Protector's Champion in trial by sword combat. And guess who that is? The Protector, seeing that she's in no shape to fight, begins to back off from his proclamation (which will undermine his authority for all time), but she cuts him off:}}

** She goes on to design a strategy to allow the Grayson navy to fight {{spoiler|and win a space battle in which they were outnumbered about three to one without getting any sleep for the day or so after the swordfight as that would hurt morale.}} After coming up with the battle plan, she delegates the actual execution to her flag captain. He hadn't been blown up recently, had had a good night's sleep, and generally in better condition to judge when the best time to start each stage of the plan was.

** Practically anytime one of the competent admirals, captains, or [[X Os]] is injured, they are going back to their bridge as soon as they regain consciousness regardless of what the doctor thinks unless they are physically unable to move themselves there or there's someone above them to order them back to bed.

* In ''Call of Duty 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'', you rescue an informant named Nikolai from a brutal imprisonment. Nikolai is handed a weapon and quotes this trope word-for-word.

* Villainous example: In ''[[Xenogears]]'', Ramsus tries for this after getting the crap beaten out of him by {{spoiler|Fei's alter ego, Id}}, only for his partner Miang to fly him out of the battle. Technically, it was only his [[Humongous Mecha|Gear]] that was damaged, not him, but [[Curb Stomp Battle|the way that battle was going]], he still wouldn't have lasted much longer.

* Subverted in ''[[Inazuma Eleven]] 2'', a large number of Raimon soccer club members gets hurt, sent to hospital, and is never used again during the main game. {{spoiler|Someoka}} is injured during one point, and the first thing Coach Hitomiko does is sacking him off the team.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', Dwarves have been known to keep fighting until they pass out from pain. Then again, so does everything else.