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== Film ==

* [[Badass Princess]] Mérida from ''[[Brave]]'' is an ace with a bow and arrow, and she can hit a perfect bullseye while on horseback.

== Literature ==

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Mount ~~and~~ Blade]]'' has the Khergit faction, almost every single one of their faction troops is one of these (with the exception of heavier lancers in the Warband expansion). It's also possible to make your player character one.

* ''[[Mount & Blade]]'' has the Khergit faction, almost every single one of their faction troops is one of these (with the exception of heavier lancers in the Warband expansion). It's also possible to make your player character one.

** If you choose to start in the Khergit Khanate and you don't put any points into riding or horse archery and only use infantry in your battles... Well even the small packs of roaming steppe bandits that provide low level characters exp will stomp all over you. In fact the steppes is probably the hardest starting region because of the prevalence of horse archers.

* ''[[Age of Empires]]'' has them, along with several varieties such as Chariot Archers and Elephant Archers. II has Horse Archers, and two civilisations have them as unique units, namely the Mongol's Mangudai and the Spanish Conquistador (which might not count since it uses a gun, not a bow). III has Dragoons which are basically the same as the Conquistadors from the previous game, some civilisations who have actual horse archers instead of the more usual Dragoon, and the Indians even have gunners firing from camelback. The spin-off, [[Age of Mythology]] has the Turma which throws javelins from horseback, the Centaur<ref>which is both horse ''and'' archer</ref>, and the Chariot Archer from the original game makes a return.

* ''[[Shining Force]] I and II'' have Lyle and May, ''centaur'' archers who are one of the best ranged characters in their respective games.

* ''[[Total War|The Total War series]]'' has them as a staple unit for most cavalry centered factions particularly in...

** ''[[Total War|Medieval Total War I and II]]'' finds them among most of the non-Catholic factions.

** ''[[Total War|Rome Total War]]'' also have them as the core unit of several eastern/steppe factions and Rome itself in the Barbarian Invasion expansion.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' has had a couple of units across the series that fill this role; additionally, this trope is regularly [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] by units of said trope in games which have [[Relationship Values|support conversations]]. The most famous are:

** Midayle, Lester, Andorey, Scorpio, promoted!Leaf and promoted!Lachesis. Vylon is supposed to be this due to being a Master Knight, but he doesn't have a bow (FE 4);

** Selphina (FE 5);

** Sue, Dayan and Shin (FE 6);

** Rath and Uhai (FE 7);

** King Hayden, Ranger!Gerik and Ranger!Neimi (FE 8);

** Astrid (FE 9 and FE 10).