History Main / BowAndSwordInAccord

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': [[KnightTemplar Kore]] takes this UpToEleven with his crossbows and AXES. He usually [[DualWielding Dual Wields]] one or the other.

* ''Film/KingArthur'': Tristan’s primary weapon is a composite bow wielded from horseback, and he unsheathes a curved Dao-style sword for close combat.

* Some of the Leafmen in ''WesternAnimation/{{Epic}}''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:A bolt to the face or a blade to the gut. Either way works.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', a revamp of the Disco Bandit skill set in October 2013 gave the Disco Bandit a number of combat skills involving [[KnifeNut knives]], on top of their usual affinity for ranged weapons.

** While ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' lacks the weapon switch option, archers automatically switch to the "[[FanNickname murder knife]]" whilst attacking in melee.

** Her younger sister Silmeria uses bow as her primary weapon in battle, while she uses swords for Nibelung Valesti.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Thea Queen when she was the vigilante Speedy. This is due to the influence of her two mentors, her brother Oliver (The Arrow) and her supervillain father Malcolm Merlyn, who is the Dark Archer but taught her to use the sword as well. Everyone else tends to carry either bow or sword, even if they are proficient with both weapons.

* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'': Shows BulletTime training of Amazons in archery and swordsmanship, both on ground and [[HorseArcher on horseback]]. This comes in handy when Trevor accidentally leads the Germans to [[HiddenElfVillage Themyscira]].

* In the Creator/ErrolFlynn version of the Myth/RobinHood legend, ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Robin is an expert fencer ''and'' bowman. (He also wields the quarterstaff, to somewhat less effect.)

* The Na'vi of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' use both bows and knives.

* Red, as the BadassNormal of the cast in ''Film/AvengersGrimm'', sports both a bow and a sword in her quest to kill The Wolf.

* Navarre in ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}'' uses a CoolSword and a [[AutomaticCrossbows double-crossbow]].

** The Uruk-hai captain (Lurtz) at the end of the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing first film]] also employs a bow/sword combo.
* Franchise/{{Rambo}} uses a modern variant, with a compound bow and a large bowie knife (in addition to whatever guns he can get his hands on).
* The Creator/MelBrooks parody, ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' makes an ExaggeratedTrope out of it.
* The Creator/KevinCostner film ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' has Robin Hood doing this because ''he's Robin Hood'' and is good with both.
* ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' shows BulletTime training of Amazons in archery and swordsmanship, both on ground and [[HorseArcher on horseback]]. This comes in handy when Trevor accidentally leads the Germans to [[HiddenElfVillage Themyscira]].

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' feat Opening Volley encourages a playstyle like this: tagging someone with a ranged attack makes them easier to hit with a melee attack.

* JackChurchill, in charge of third and then second commando during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. He was [[TheStraightAndArrowPath famous for fighting with a longbow]] and a claymore (a long-bladed, one-handed basket-hilted sword, not the two-handed great sword). To highlight how awesome this was, there's a (possibly true) story of Churchill leaping onto a tank, breaking the door lock off with the claymore, and then killing the crew inside with it.

* In the Creator/ErrolFlynn version of the RobinHood legend, ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Robin is an expert fencer ''and'' bowman. (He also wields the quarterstaff, to somewhat less effect.)

* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium''

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''
** In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', the Chosen Undead can employ any weapon on right hand and left hand slot, one can carry a sword and a bow (or crossbow) at the same time.
** In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'', the moveset of most weapons are no longer affected by which hand the Chosen Undead used, it is now also possible to aim (or even fire Dark Orbs) with the crossbow by carrying it with both hands, making the Sword and Bow combat more practical.
** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' depicts this as being a standard of the Black Hand Hunters of Lothric (both the one you can summon as a phantom and the one you encounter as an enemy), with both having variants of switching between bow and sword and DualWielding in lieu of carrying a shield. [[spoiler:Towards the end of ''The Ringed City'', Slave Knight Gael uses a chipped [[{{BFS}} Executioner's Greatsword]] and a [[AutomaticCrossbows Repeating Crossbow]] against you, he even incorporates both of them at the same time by leaping to the sky, firing the crossbow mid-air and lands an overhead spinning slash in one of his movesets]].

** The ''Lord of Destruction'' expansion pack for ''Diablo II'' added the ability to switch between two whole sets of wielded equipment with a single keypress, making this set-up tremendously more practical.

* In ''Videogame/ForHonor'', most of the samurai heroes, as well as the Highlander, can use a bow as an optional feat along with their primary melee weaponry. The Valkyrie, Centurion, and Gladiator have a variant that lets them throw a spear, and the Peacekeeper has a crossbow. These weapons are quick to fire, has a very long range, and does moderate damage, but has a lengthy cooldown to prevent it from being abused, making them good for opening a fight or taking down an opponent who is running away.

* Suitably exaggerated with the VideoGame/{{Monster Hunter}}'s arsenal in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite''. She fights with ''[[DualWielding two]]'' swords, a third, [[{{BFS}} humongous]] sword, and an equally-oversized bow. This is after all a woman who hunts dragons for a living. Ordinary weapons just won't do.

* Just one of many combinations possible in ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic''. Everyone can learn to use the bow (including crossbows) in addition to his or her primary weapon (with other weapons being very class specific, the primary weapon is often something other than a sword). There is one exception in the late-game of ''VI'' and ''VII'': blasters. You can wield them together with bows (blasters go in the right hand slot, while bows go on the back), but blasters ''always'' takes precedence when attacking (melee weapons take precedence if they are close enough to attack. Blasters are ranged weapons in the melee slot...), so the only point in going blaster-and-bow is using the bow as a [[StatSticks Stat Stick]].

** ''Brawl''[='s=] incarnation of [[VideoGame/KidIcarus Pit]] uses a bow that he can split into [[DualWielding two short swords.]] This carries over to ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' for himself and his doppelganger Dark Pit.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' adds [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Byleth]] to the roster as DownloadableContent, who uses Claude's signature bow, Failnaught, in addition to the [[WhipSword Sword of the Creator]].

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* Creator/JuddWinick had ComicBook/GreenArrow spend the year following ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' training to become a swordsman as well as (obviously) an archer. Myth/RobinHood was explicitly named as the inspiration for this.
** His sidekick Roy Harper is skilled in knives as well as archery.
* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} trained under both a master archer and a master swordsman. He tends to favor his bow, but when he had to give up his identity, he used his fall-back weapon to become "Ronin".

* Uryū of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', being a Quincy, has the bow for a primary weapon, although he has the Seele Schneider, a LaserBlade that absorbs the spirit particles (reishi) his opponents release whenever they attack. It turns out that this weapon can do even more damage when fired as an arrow.

* ''VideoGame/WallachiaTheReignOfDracula'': [[PlayerCharacter Elcin]] battles Dracula's forces with a bow and arrows and a sword.

* Princess Merida in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is a magnificent archer, able to shoot a sword out of a man's hand when aiming from 20 to 30 yards away, while in the dark ''and on horseback'', and without huitting the man himself. And, when the bow gets taken from her, she uses a sword to beat the tar out of her father, who's an excellent fighter himself and trained her in the use of both of these weapons.