History Main / CombatMedic

*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/bleak.html Sergeant David Bleak]], a US Army combat medic who during the Korean war, took down several enemy soldiers ''with his bare hands'' in the midst of an enemy ambush. Staff Sergent Bleak's actions were heroic enough to earn the Medal of Honor, the US military's highest honor for valor.

** Mercy embodies the "Medic" part of this trope, as the Support whose main role is to heal or buff others, or even bring them back from the dead, but she can defend herself with [[EmergencyWeapon a pistol]] ''if'' she really has to. ** Zenyatta is a buffer/debuffer that can also deal decent damage and whose ultimate is a massive [=AoE=] heal. Lucio can passively heal allies around him while his sound gun is good for crowd-control and potential environmental kills.

** In 3rd Edition, efforts to make the Cleric "more fun" to play brought it closer to MagicKnight than Combat Medic: in ''addition'' to remaining the best healer class, the cleric's offensive capacities went up. Having the ability to turn their prepared spells into healing spells also let them devote more slots to their awesome combat buffs. An abusive player can throw the team balance out of whack simply by exploiting all the class's best options, leading to the FanNickname "[=CoDZilla=]".

** "Combat Medic" or "Battle Medic" happens to be a FanNickname for players that focus more on combat then healing when playing as the Medic. As mentioned earlier, this isn't always a good thing, and can frustrate your team if you're not healing them often enough.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', Monks may not seem like it at first glance, but their Stigma Magic/Purification, Chakra, and Revive abilities allows them to function as effective ones in battle, to the point they can outperform Chemists and White Mages in their intended roles - given that they can heal units as easily as they can damage them. However, that's only because the Base Success Rates of their said three abilities happens to scale off of their high Physical Attack in particular, rather than their average Magick Attack.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', Monks beat enemies down with impressive strength, heal surrounding units' HP and MP, AND revive unconscious party members.

** In the Season Twelve episode "So It Goes", a gangster is threatening Ducky and his ex-girlfriend with a large switchblade; Ducky produces an antique scalpel and makes a small nick in the man's coat sleeve. The gangster laughs it off... then drops into a chair, dizzy and short of breath. Ducky calmly informs him that a small opening in his brachial artery will kill him in less than a minute and a half.

*** Elize heals multiple targets for slightly less power and can cure StatusEffects. When she's not healing she serves as the party's primary [[CastingAShadow dark-elemental]] nuker. Both girls can revive KO'd party members, and through the link-system can combine both their healing spells and offensive skills for far greater power than either is capable of alone.

* Finne in ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLiselotte'' possesses healing magic, however she is also a brutally (and comically) effective physical fighter far beyond everybody else in the setting. She's been on record of reattaching ''her own arm'' and defeating two assassins ''at the same time''.

* Finne in ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashisLiveCommentaryOnTheVillainess'' possesses healing magic, however she is also a brutally (and comically) effective physical fighter far beyond everybody else in the setting. She's been on record of reattaching ''her own arm'' and defeating two assassins ''at the same time''.

** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' has [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Giorno Giovanna]] and his Stand, Gold Experience. Unlike Josuke, Giorno not only has the ability to replace severed limbs; he can use his Stand on himself. On the other hand, it does nothing for pain and while it also works wonders in combat, [[GlassCannon its durability leaves much to be desired]].

* Noi of ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}''. The 'Medic' part comes from her magic, able to heal everything from [[TearOffYourFace a ripped off face]], dismemberment and so on. The 'Combat' part is that she's an [[AmazonianBeauty over 6 foot tall wall of muscle]] that can quite literally chop people in two with her bare hands.

* Dr "Ducky" Mallard of ''{{Series/NCIS}}'' served in Afghanistan and Bosnia with the Royal Army Medical Corps before joining NCIS

*** Elize heals multiple targets for slightly less power and can cure StandardStatusEffects. When she's not healing she serves as the party's primary [[CastingAShadow dark-elemental]] nuker. Both girls can revive KO'd party members, and through the link-system can combine both their healing spells and offensive skills for far greater power than either is capable of alone.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Billy Lee Black has the best variety of healing and support spells, but can also deal good damage with his guns.

* In Series/DoctorWho fanfic ''{{FanFic/Gemini}},'' Skeerse, the [[LizardFolk reptilian]] nurse held captive by the super-soldier facility, eagerly treats Nathan’s injuries when the ''Morningstar'' crew commandeer the sick-bay. He then takes up arms when June Harper convinces him to join the escape plan, and reveals that before he came to work at the super-soldier facility, his home-world had been caught in the middle of the Dalek Civil War and he had fought against the Imperials and the Renegades alike
* In the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' FanFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4942679/1/The_Long_Walk The Long Walk]]'', after her HeelFaceTurn it turns out the OC Breech Loader turns out to be something of a medic, knowing all about healing injuries sustained in street battles, and also has a wide knowledge of dealing with drug-related problems. It also turns out that she has absolutely no qualms about hurting people, and can even [[spoiler:defeat Raphael in one-on-one combat]].

* ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'': During an away mission in chapter seven, the USS ''Bajor's'' science officer Birail Riyannis serves this role, mixing it up in firefights and providing first aid to an injured civilian and two members of the away team.
* [[AlliterativeName Alazar Aboudi]] was a Special Forces combat medic in ''Fanfic/MarqueAndReprisal''
* Jane Crocker in the Homestuck fanfic ''FanFic/WarboundWidow''. Because of her Life abilities she's incredibly tough and hard to kill, able to heal shattered bones with ease. Even when faced with loosing a limb she comforts herself with the fact she'd be able to grow it back. Eventually.
* ''Fanfic/BloodAndHonor'': In addition to being a sharpshooter and tactician, Quinn has medical training. He performs first aid in the field several times and can also give follow-up treatment in a medbay.
* In ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'', OL's secondary role to the team is a healer, he uses his abilities to immediately heal the team on site.
** OL is also trying to get the League to get a dedicated Superpowered Healer for their team, as it would make life so much easier. He convinces Batman to get Accomplished Perfect Physician on the team.
* In ''FanFic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'', Beneda notes that this is the key difference between Dr. Tofu and the Dark Kingdom's healers. The former was not only a fully capable healer, but could hold his own in a fight if need be, while the latter consisted of those youma that were too weak to take part in combat.
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': In addtion to canon healers like Tsunade, Shizune, and Sakura, several other characters like Hinata and Shino are trained in medical ninjutsu thanks to it being taught as an elective in the academy [[spoiler:following the Uchiha Insurrection.]]

* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'', both eponymous sides have a healer class who can also deal damage. The Zombie Scientist is more combat focused, having only one healing ability by default[[labelnote:*]]though his stickybombs can be swapped out for another heal ability[[/labelnote]], which is a healing station that can be dropped to heal teammates while leaving the Scientist free to engage in combat far away. Sunflower is a more active healer with less emphasis on combat[[labelnote:*]]her secondary healing ability can be traded in for a damaging one[[/labelnote]], but can freely attack while using her [[HealingHands heal beam]] on a teammate, unlike healers in contemporary shooters. Sunflower's most powerful ability only has offensive use, being a solar-powered DeathRay.

* ''VideoGame/RealityMinds'': Astrake and Reffian are both melee fighters who can use healing magic. Of the two, Astrake is more focused on combat due to having more stackable attack buffs while Reffian is better at healing due to her speed and higher magic stat.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'', all the medic characters have some capability for combat. Soldier: 76 fulfills the "Combat" aspect, being an Offense character who excels at firefights, but can use his ''Biotic Field'' to heal others. Mercy embodies the "Medic" part of this trope, as the Support whose main role is to heal or buff others, or even bring them back from the dead, but she can defend herself with a pistol ''if'' she really has to. Zenyatta is a buffer/debuffer that can also deal decent damage and whose ultimate is a massive [=AoE=] heal. Lucio can passively heal allies around him while his sound gun is good for crowd-control and potential environmental kills. Ana carries a special rifle that lets her [[HealingShiv heal allies by shooting them]] while also functioning as a regular sniper rifle to enemies.
** On the same note, Baptiste is the Support hero that fully embodies the Combat Medic playstyle. Has a three-round burst rifle for mid to long-range combat, a Biotic grenade launcher mounted on his rifle that heals allies, an Inmmortality Field that makes his allies unkillable while they are inside the field and his Ultimate lets him project an Amplification Matrix, which doubles the damage and healing that pass through it for his allies and himself.

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* The [[InsistentTerminology Land Branch]] of the [[BadassIsraeli Israel]] [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles Defense Force]] takes this trope to its logical conclusion with an ambulance that is also a ''[[MilitaryMashupMachine tank]]''.

* [[InsistentTerminology Dr.]] Britt Baker, currently with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling, is a fully licensed and practicing dentist. She started wrestling training shortly before starting dental school at the University of Pittsburgh, and was a three-year veteran of the indy circuit by the time she earned her D.M.D. in 2018. Her current gimmick heavily draws on her dental background.

* [[BadassIsraeli The Israeli Army]] takes this trope to its logical conclusion with an ambulance that is also a ''[[MilitaryMashupMachine tank]]''.

* UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar dictate that in order to hold noncombatant status and be entitled to bear the Red Cross, hospital ships must be totally unarmed, even purely defensive systems like Phalanx CIWS being forbidden. This has presented something of a problem in modern times, as the Red Cross means nothing to a guided missile that misses its intended target and locks onto the first ship it sees. As a result, the Royal Navy, who learned the "indiscriminate missiles" lesson the hard way when the ''Atlantic Conveyor'' was sunk during UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar, has bit the bullet and fitted its [[InsistentTerminology "Primary Casualty Reception Ship"]] RFA ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFA_Argus_%28A135%29 Argus]]'' with a couple of point-defence guns.