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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Judd Winick]] had [[Green Arrow]] spend the year following [[Infinite Crisis]] training to become a swordsman as well as (obviously) an archer. [[Robin Hood]] was explicitly named as the inspiration for this.
** Matt Wagner had [[Green Arrow]] perform this trope during his ''Longbow Hunters'' arc in the 80's as well.
* Miho sometimes employs the sword/arrow combo in [[Sin City]]. Sometimes shuriken are used instead.
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* Tarl Cabot of ''[[Gor]]'' is an expert swordsman, but he's also quite good with the peasant bow, even though everyone else looks down on it because it's a peasant weapon.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' example: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch carry both swords and crossbows, and in Vimes' case various coshes and knuckledusters as well. Oh, and a truncheon.
** In [[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards! Guards!]], one of them (Colon) attempts to kill a dragon with a bow.
* ''[[The Wolfhound (novel)|The Wolfhound]]'' is both an expert marksman and swordsman.
* Richard in [[The Sword of Truth]] is very skilled with his sword, but his gift also makes him a perfect marksman.
* Bazhell in David Weber's ''[[Bahzell]]'' series is known for his sword, but also carries a crossbow. He typically gets off one or two shots before dropping it to charge with his sword. He's also heavily armored. (Scale or ring mail, though he'd probably like plate if he was ever in one place long enough for someone to make him a set.)
* Appears several times in ''[[The First Law]]'' trilogy. Dogman and Grim Harding both use bows almost exclusively, but are still plenty capable with bladed weapons. Ferro Maljinn fits the trope even better, being a deadly archer and swordswoman, switching from one to the other based on how close her enemies are and how many arrows she has left.
== Myth and Legend ==
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** It's also entirely possible to [[Dual Wield|wield a melee weapon in one hand and a hand crossbow in the other]]. The 3.5E sourcebook ''Drow of the Underdark'' even offers a feat for said arrangement, "Versatile Combatant".
* As of the Dawn Solution, Solars in ''[[Exalted]]'' have a Charm that specifically facilitates this combat style: Elegant Dance of Bow and Blade. Furthermore, they can switch between weapons ''mid-combat'' via [[Hyperspace Arsenal]].
* For many of the same reasons mentioned in the Real Life examples below, ''every'' ranged combat unit in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' carries a hand weapon in addition to their bow/crossbow/gun/blowpipe/etc...
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** Early versions of hunters were supposed to be more like this, to the point that hunters started without their pet to learn how to shoot an enemy at a distance and switch to melee when they closed in, rather than relying on their pet to keep them at distance. Their survival talents tree contained talents focusing on close range combat, too. As the game evolved this has dropped considerably, making survival more about traps (which hunters can now deploy with their ranged weapons). If anything, their pets (which, at least for Beastmaster specialists, make up a considerable portion of their damage output), represent the sword now.
** The only other classes with the potential to use both sword and bow are warriors and rogues, who tend to use the bow only for attracting an enemy's attention, at which point the swords carry the battle.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'''s incarnation of [[Kid Icarus|Pit]] uses a bow that he can split into [[Dual-Wielding|two short swords.]]
** And of course, Link is as much an example of this in the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series as he is in his own. [[Kirby]] can get in on the fun too, if he [[Power Copying|copies]] Pit or Link's archery abilities, combined with either the sword he uses for his own Final Cutter recovery move or the Beam Sword item.
* Garr/Woodrow from ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'' can use both a bow and a sword in combat in the [[PlayStation 2]] remake. In the original, he has to choose between one or the other.
* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' features Raven, whose weapon of choice is a "Transform Bow", a bow that literally folds into a dagger.
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* English longbowmen prove themselves to be quite lethal in hand to hand as well as ranged combat when the few bogged-down French knights at Agincourt managed to close the gap (mainly due to the English running out of arrows!). With their variety of weapons (and with the French caught in the mud), the archers played a decisive role in defeating the remaining French.
** (Note) Longbowmen were commoners and could not bear chivalric arms such as the sword. When they were overrun by regular infantry let alone horse they tended to get slaughtered. Much of the strategy at Crecy and Agincourt centered around protecting the archers from French horsemen and maximizing the time the French stayed in the killing ground.
*** The longbowmen DID carry swords - sometimes two-handed swords - but they were sidearms. Sword use requires skill, and certainly the men-at-arms, who were trained to close combat and swordplay since childhood, tended to have an edge (pun intended) over archers. But if they got themselves manouevred to flank or rear of the men-at-arms, results were often devastating, as in Agincourt.
**** The prefered hand to hand weapon of the English Archers of the 100 years war was the maul, which was a terror in the hands of men who could draw a massive Longbow.
* Who could forget [[Jack Churchill]]? In charge of third and then second commando during the [[Second World War]], he was famous for fighting with a longbow and a claymore.
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