History PlayingWith / TheMedic

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is broadly characterised as a healer who [[ThouShaltNotKill Shalt Not Kill]], but [[TechnicalPacifist which]] [[ActualPacifist flavour]] [[TrueNeutral of pacifism]] he espouses, how he squares his healing duties with his combat role, and whether he abides by any kind of medical oath, all vary DependingOnTheWriter.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob is shown as a devoted healer and a bloodthirsty fighter... but never both at the same time. Whichever one he is seems to be dictated by the plot.

** Jack's job is to protect a team of healers by fighting assassins.

'''Basic Trope''': Jack's character serves to heal while all his teammates do the fighting.

* '''Inverted''': Jack is a ColdSniper explicitly tasked to ShootTheMedicFirst.

* '''Straight''': Whenever a fight breaks out, Jack is healing while other characters are slinging spells, wielding swords, or shooting arrows. Occasionally, with his back to the wall, he pulls out the HolyHandGrenade and LightEmUp. He also holds the team together.
* '''Exaggerated''': Jack has no interests except healing. In town, he's learning new healing spells or treating the poor at the hospital.
* '''Downplayed''': Jack slaps a band aid on every now and then.

* '''Inverted''': BloodKnight who can't so much as stick a band-aid on a booboo.
* '''Subverted''': While the BigBad is fighting TheHero, Jack launches an attack InTheBack; he had lured the BigBad into thinking him no fighter.
* '''Double Subverted''': Except that it's a weak and ineffectual blow, because he can't really bring himself to attack.

* '''Invoked''': [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 "MEDIC!!!!!"]]
* '''Exploited''': ???

Don't worry, TheMedic will fix you up. [[Film/{{Robocop}} They fix everyone...]]

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Justified''': UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar are in full play, and as a noncombatant, Jack can't fight -- besides, he's no good at it.

* '''Deconstructed''': Jack refuses to fight because he considers himself morally superior to those who do, although he completely relies on their defending him.
* '''Reconstructed''': His teammates throw him off for his attitude, only discover that they need his healing, that they are considerably more blood-thirsty without his calming influence, and that he has serenely gone on doing good without them. After a while, they realize that what they took for his attitude had really been their looking at him while possessed by the GreenEyedMonster for his calm and collected manner and IncorruptiblePurePureness.

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* '''Defied''': [[StarshipTroopers "Everyone fights, no one quits!"]]

* '''Lampshaded''': [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a soldier!"]]

* '''Conversed''': [[{{Predator}} "I ain't got time to bleed."]]

Don't worry, TheMedic will fix you up. [[{{Robocop}} They fix everyone...]]

* '''Inverted''': BloodKnight who can't so much as bandage a wound.

* '''Invoked''': [[TeamFortressTwo "MEDIC!!!!!"]]

* '''Invoked''': "MEDIC!!!!!"

* '''Straight''': Whenever a fight breaks out, Jack is healing while other characters are slinging spells, wielding swords, or shooting arrows. Occasionally, with his back to the wall, he pulls out the HolyHandGrenade and LightTheWay. He also holds the team together.

* '''Reconstructed''': His teammates throw him off for his attitude, only discover that they need his healing, that they are considerably more blood-thirsty without his calming influence, and that he has serenely gone on doing good without them.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a fighter!"

'''Basic Trope''': Jack's character serves to heal.

* '''Averted''': Bob is a well-rounded character whose role as TheMedic does not define him.

* '''Inverted''': CombatMedic

'''Basic Trope''': Jack's character serves to heal, heal, heal -- and then heal some more.
* '''Straight''': Whenever a fight breaks out, Jack is healing while other characters are slinging spells, wielding swords, or shooting arrows.