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* Thomas of Hookton, an very skilled archer in the army of Edward III, is the main character of The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell. He's basically Sharpe with a bow and arrow instead of a rifle, but isn't particularly good with a sword.

* [[Robin Hood]] is a legendary archer. One of the most famous scenes involves him beating a rival's bull's eye shot by splitting the arrow down the middle with his own shot, winning the competition (in fact, people into archery still refer to this kind of shot as "Robin Hooding" an arrow). [[Fridge Logic|Even though that's really the same shot, not a better one.]]

** And the point was that he split his ''own'' arrow, thereby hitting the bullseye twice; in contrast to his opponent who hit the bullseye on his first shot and then merely very close to it on his second.

* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s Middle-earth stories feature a few examples of prominent archers, though they are never characterized as weaker or delicate:

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** The iconic ranger, Soveliss, is [[Our Elves Are Better|an elf]] who specialized in the longbow.

** Riverwind the Plainsman, a stoic human [[Noble Savage]] from the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' setting, uses a longbow.

** [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Sword of Seals]]: Wolt, Dorothy, Sue, Shin, Klein, Dayan. And Hanon the [[Horse Archer]].

** [[Fire Emblem|Blazing Sword]]: Wil, Rath, Rebecca, Louise, Lyn (as Blade Lord), either Bartre or Dorcas (if promoted to Warriors). In the enemy side: Uhai the Soaring Hawk, Denning the Morph.

** [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Path of Radiance]]: Shinon, Rolf, Astrid. Any of the paldins minus Titania are able to learn bows, as well as Boyd when he promotes.

*** [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Radiant Dawn]]: All those listed from 9 plus Leonardo, Oscar and Geoffrey promoted. Boyd and Nolan can only use crossbows and not regular ones.

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