Magic Knight / Live-Action TV

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• A lot of characters in the Buffyverse.
  • Giles is seen in the series only as a watcher and fighter, but in the comics, he is also a warlock, which is why he qualifies for this trope.
  • Wesley starts more as an annoyance, but over four seasons, he becomes a good demon hunter, and in the fifth season, a warlock.
  • Drusilla has magic powers by nature, and being a vampire is not only very strong, but also a good fighter. But actually she is not a real witch.
  • Kumiko Ishihara from the comics is a vampire, and at the same time she is also a witch.
  • Lindsey starts as an ordinary lawyer. But when he returns to Los Angeles, he has become a warlock. He also became a swordsman, and he is strong enough to stay on the same level with Angel.
  • Cyvus Vail, Vocah and Darrow Steele are much stronger than humans as demons (Darrow is a half-demon) and have proven themselves in combat. At the same time they are also powerful warlocks.
  • Cordelia is transformed in the course of the plot into a half-demon. At this time, she is already a swordsman and demon hunter, but also gets magical powers. However, she is not a real witch.
  • The half-demon Whistler can fight with both strength and magical powers.
• Kamen Rider tends to do this in two ways.
  • First, there are some series that feature literal magically-adept warriors:
    • Kamen Rider Wizard and his ally Kamen Rider Beast. Both are magicians and do use magic heavily in combat, but they also have swords (in Wizard's case a sword that turns into a gun) that they're skilled with which can be powered up by their magic. Wizard's Super Mode, Infinity Style, makes him an almost literal example, as the suit seems to have a Knight in Shining Armor motif and has a Cool Sword that doubles as an axe as his preferred weapon. Bonus points for the sword being called the Axcalibur.
    • Every Rider in Kamen Rider Saber qualifies, as they are actual knights who use swords with elemental powers alongside magical storybooks which can provide miscellaneous, magical abilities in combat.
  • Other Kamen Rider series instead have alternate forms where this trope applies to Multiform Balance for lack of a better term; as the forms are not quite as good at fighting as a pure combat build but have special abilities to make up for it, while also not being so reliant on those abilities that the Rider becomes a Squishy Wizard:
    • Kamen Rider OOO's GataKiriBa Combo has a little less power than his Jack of All Stats TaToBa Combo, but it can self-duplicate and overwhelm the enemy with a Zerg Rush.
    • Kamen Rider Drive's Type Technic. Crunching the performance numbers, Type Technic sits between Mighty Glacier Type Wild and Jack of All Stats or Fragile Speedster Type Speed in terms of power, with marginal differences in jumping and running between Types Technic and Wild. What makes Type Technic unique, however, is that he's a master mechanic and multitasker due to the functioning optics placed quite literally in the back of the helmet.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost's and Specter's Edison Damashii has a Lightning Gun and is generally sturdier than the other ranged-weapon forms, which focus on speed over defense. It can also absorb electricity. In the same series, Kamen Rider Necrom's Grimm Damashii is behind his other forms stat-wise, but it's his only one with ranged weaponry in the form of Combat Tentacles.
    • Kamen Rider Build's HawkGatling combination. It has weaker stats than Jack of All Stats RabbitTank, but where it lacks in brawn, jumping height or even running speed, it makes up for the ability to fly, as well as being an excellent marksman with its special weapon the Hawk Gatlinger.
    • In Kamen Rider Zero-One, Zero-One has the Biting Shark form that's optimized for underwater combat — except he never fights underwater. But it also specializes in bladed weapons, giving it a niche that's useful in land battles. Kamen Rider Valkyrie also has her Lightning Hornet form, which isn't as melee-focused as her other form but instead lets her fly and command a swarm of hornet drones.
• Legend of the Seeker:
  • Jeziah, a former student of Zedd's, who turns out to be the enemy in "Elixir", turns himself invisible and fights Richard with a sword.
  • Zedd becomes this after becoming young again and naming himself the Seeker in "Wizard".
  • Darken Rahl may also qualify, as he possesses magical powers and is an experienced sword fighter. He used both to defeat Richard during their first encounter.
  • Nicci, who is a capable combatant as well as the most powerful sorceress in the series.
  • The Mord-Sith, who are elite women warriors, have magical powers, including the ability to resurrect recently dead people.
• Believe it or not, Merlin, the Ur-Example of the old wizard, once got up to this in the 1998 Merlin Mini Series, where he wielded Excalibur before Arthur did, and used it to great effect. After all, he wasn't always old and frail.
• Merlin (2008):
  • By Series 3, Merlin seems to use sword and sorcery equally well together to take down his enemies. It's likely he picked up fighting techniques purely in self-defense from a combination of always being attacked and Arthur's insistence upon using Merlin as a sparring partner (or practice dummy).
  • Morgana knew how to use a sword effectively before she ever discovered that she had magic.
  • Morgause is a witch and also a very skilled swordswoman.
• Mahou Sentai Magiranger and its adaptation Power Rangers Mystic Force, where all major characters were magic users who were also skilled at physical fighting. Magiranger emphasizes this with a character named Dark Magic Knight Wolzard; Mystic Force does it with Wolzard's counterpart Koragg the Knight Wolf, as well as Daggeron the Solaris Knight.
• The Sentinel Knight from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, who has apparently been combining Zordon-level magic with hands-on ass-kicking for over 250 million years. Baddies break out evil robots or Make My Monster Grow? No problem, he'll turn himself giant at will.
• Shadow and Bone: A number of the grisha fight using both the small science along with mundane weapons like guns, axes or swords (often aided by the former, e.g. Jesper is a Durast who can manipulate metal, so bullets he fires never miss). Many are also skilled at unarmed
• Almost every magic-using character in The Shannara Chronicles either starts out as or eventually becomes this. When Mareth is training with Allanon, she asks him why he's teaching her fencing when she could just rely on combat magic, and he tells her that magic has a heavy cost and that it's dangerous to depend too much on it.
• The Witcher (2019):
  • Just like all his previous incarnations throughout the franchise, Geralt has magical abilities that he uses in conjunction with his Master Swordsman skills. In the show he often uses the telekinesis spell “Aard” to blow his opponents back. In Season 2, he makes effective use of the fire spell "Igni" to turn his blade into a badass Flaming Sword.
  • Yennefer is a very powerful sorceress who can slow time, open portals and unleashes a fire storm in the finale. But in the show she’s also skilled with daggers and fights alongside Geralt against a group of Reavers.

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