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* It's an [[Evil Versus Evil]] scenario, but you've got to give Superman's pre-Crisis [[Evil Counterpart]], Ultraman credit, flying into the [[Omnicidal Maniac|Anti-Monitor]]'s antimatter wave in a last attempt to save Earth-3 from destruction. When Power Ring demands to know what he's doing he gives a classic Superman smile and replies "What I have done all my life. I fight to the very end."

* Skurge the Executioner in "The Death and Life of Skurge the Executioner", a ''[[Thor]]'' graphic novel. Single-handed, he held off an army of the dead. "He had a grin and a gun and the grit to do it."

** And when a new arrival asks about the one to whom even Hela bows her head, the answer is always the same: he stood alone at Gjallerbru, and that answer is enough.

{{quote|And when a new arrival asks about the one to whom even Hela bows her head ... the answer is always the same ... he stood alone at Gjallerbru ... and that answer is enough.}}

* It's been noted that Silver Age villain Whiplash I/Blacklash must have had solid steel cojones, given that he repeatedly goes up against Iron Man armed with...a titanium whip and nothing else, no power armour, no magic, no lasers, no nothing.

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* In ''Captain's Fury'', the fourth book of the ''[[Codex Alera]]'', when Gaius Sextus unleashes a fearcrafting on Kalarus' Legions the entire force is instantly routed. Many simply die of fright, and the rest are paniced to collapse and flight. However, one single ''legionare'' resists the mental assault and actually raises his sword in defiance. Amara feels pity for him and regrets that the reward for his courage, which was greater than the entire rest of his Legion, is to be killed by the First Lord

* In Margaret Sidney's ''Five Little Peppers and How They Grew'', little Phronsie Pepper interrupts a burglary. One of the burglars rushes at her, "his arm upraised", but the other one grabs him, shouting, "Stop!" They flee, leaving her unharmed and the loot behind.

* There's a minor villain in [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Operation Time Search'' who when captured by the authorities refuses to spill his secrets. In sentencing him to be [[Mind Probe]]d, the [[The Good King|Emperor]] replies:

{{quote|Evil are you, and the willing servant of evil. Yet courage is yours if in an ill cause.}}

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