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** Orihime Inoue starts as TheMedic with some BarrierWarrior abilities, but by the X-Cution arc she has fully evolved into this.

* Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure:
** [[AgentPeacock Josuke Higashikata]], from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable ]]''. His Stand, Crazy Diamond, is almost on par with Jotaro's [[LightningBruiser Star Platinum]] when it comes to melee combat. He's also one of the rare instances where the healing power itself doubles as an offensive measure because it works by rewinding time. For example: [[spoiler:he restores a missile fired at him and turns it on the enemy who fired it.]] [[NoSelfBuffs Too bad Josuke can't heal himself with his Stand]].

** ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' 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]].
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean ]]'' has [[spoiler:Foo Fighters, [[WormThatWalks a sapient colony of sea plankton]]]]. She can heal deadly wounds by filling them with her [[spoiler:plankton]] and sewing them on a microscopical level, making her invaluable as TheMedic. However, she can also fire pieces of said [[spoiler:plankton]] like bullets, which, coupled with her ability to [[SuperToughness withstand massive amounts of damage]], makes her just as useful as a fighter.
** ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'' has [[ChurchMilitant Hot Pants]] and her Stand, Cream Starter, [[ItMakesSenseInContext which is basically a spray can that sprays flesh.]] The flesh can be used to blind enemies when [[EyeScream sprayed on the eyes]], or suffocate them to death when sprayed on both the nose and mouth. The flesh also heals cuts and wounds, which is pretty handy for [[HandicappedBadass Johnny Joestar]] and [[BigBrotherMentor Gyro Zeppeli]] to patch up after a fight.

** At first glance, it's easy to mistake Tony Tony Chopper for the TeamPet (even in-universe). However, he's a highly proficient doctor who can be quite the BadassAdorable when pushed. In the fight with the zombie Oars Chopper consistently used his medical knowledge to tip the fight in the Straw Hats' favor.
** Also Trafalgar Law, whose [[PowerUpFood Devil Fruit]] ,appropiately named Ope-Ope Fruit (from "operation"), allows him to cut people up and reassemble them in any way he likes. He's the doctor and captain of the Heart Pirates and his epithet is "The Surgeon of Death".
*** Despite how deadly he is, Law is proven to be pretty damn good at the medic part of combat medic, though he hasn't been shown to use his medical expertise on the battlefield yet (unless you count that one time he guessed where Kaido's heart was while in his dragon form, [[ArmorPiercingAttack before he fried it]]).

* Faust VIII from ''Manga/ShamanKing''.

* ''Manga/SoulEater''

** Stein satisfies his endless curiosity by being a doctor (of a kind) and a crazy awesome meister who has a thing for bladed weapons. Apparently this is because both occupations give him the opportunity to cut things up.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020'' has Trauma Team, which is essentially the same as Doc Wagon above. Their regular ambulance crew includes two "security personnel" whose task is to pacify the pickup zone if necessary. Preferably using the machine gun mounted on the armored ambulance.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', this is a specific job type amongst the military of Eostia. Lily is a notable example, being [[TheMedic a cleric]] in the healer tents, as well as [[TheApprentice an apprentice hunter]] in the battlefield.

* ''TroubleshooterAbandonedChildren'': This is Anne's role. In fact, the reason she joins the cast is to play up the "combat" part. She has used her healing abilities to act as a BackAlleyDoctor of sorts for a while, in spite of still being in her early teens, and while the people around her have done their best to keep her away from the brutalities of combat, she is distressed by the fact that people have died when she couldn't be on site fast enough, and wants to remedy that by developing the skills needed to go into the thick of it.

* ''TroubleShooterAbandonedChildren'': This is Anne's role. In fact, the reason she joins the cast is to play up the "combat" part. She has used her healing abilities to act as a BackAlleyDoctor of sorts for a while, in spite of still being in her early teens, and while the people around her have done their best to keep her away from the brutalities of combat, she is distressed by the fact that people have died when she couldn't be on site fast enough, and wants to remedy that by developing the skills needed to go into the thick of it.

* ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'': Chisa, A WhiteMage with AnAxeToGrind.

* Both healer characters in ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler''. [[WhiteMagicianGirl Ophilia the Cleric]] can attack with her staff and [[HolyHandGrenade Light-based magic]], while also having access to two healing spells that can heal the entire party at once. [[NiceGuy Alfyn the Apothecary]] has a single-target healing skill and a skill that heals status effects. His Concoct ability also enables him to combine ingredients to heal even more, as well as buff his allies and damage enemies. He also has an ice-based attack and can SLAY with his [[AnAxeToGrind axe]].

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' adds War Monks/War Clerics, who use [[AnAxeToGrind axes]] in addition to staves. The DLC adds the Brides, who use [[BladeOnAStick lances]], bows, and staves. Additionally, the Falcon Knights can now use staves in addition to lances and swords, and Thieves can be promoted into Tricksters who use swords and staves.

** In the [[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} the sequel]], Maya is the character with healing abilities with her Harmony tree. Along with the aforementioned healing via bullets, she can make it so that enemies trapped in her Phaselock ability release health orbs if killed and can even revive character doing a LastStand with said ability.
** In the [[Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel Pre-Sequel]], team healing isn't limited to just one character. Athena can heal nearby allies simply by having her shield out. Wilhelm's healing drone Saint can create a healing zone when it's destroyed/recalled. Claptrap can cause the team to regen health simply by dealing elemental damage as well as causing a healing explosion either around enemies he kills or himself when his shields are destroyed.

* All ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'' support champions have some degree of offensive capability, but post-rework Taric is designed for this. His mana regenerates when he deals damage and the cooldown on his heal decreases when he strikes an opponent, so fighting improves his healing and sustainability. His heal spell also heals both its target and himself, allowing him to recover from damage without neglecting his support duties. His Shatter ability used to give bonus armor to himself and an aura that increased the armor of allies, temporarily losing the aura when he activated the spell to damage enemies and reduce their armor. Now he retains the aura and loses the personal armor bonus, letting him use it without weakening the rest of his team.

** The [[Videogame/Xcom2 sequel of the remake]] has the specialist class, which has one ability branch that is outright called battle medic, which has several abilities to improve healing.

* Akiko Yosano from ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs''. Her ability 'Thou Shalt Not Die' allows her to heal wounds, but only if they're half-killed before then or their wounds are fatally-serious. If her patient is only non-lethally injured, she'll have to hurt them some more first.

* Princess Amelia of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' serves as this to her group of friends; she wields powerful WhiteMagic, but is also skilled with Shamanistic Magic and utilizes the latter with [[BareFistedMonk martial arts attacks]]. [[TheMedic Sylphiel]] is better at WhiteMagic than Amelia is, but save for a devastating BlackMagic spell that she practiced religiously to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited impress the man she has a crush on]], she is lousy with attack spells.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Asuna's ALO build, playing as an Undine Healer, but also specializing for rapier sword skills, complementing her experience from SAO. There's a reason she's nicknamed "Berserk Healer."

* The medic corps from ''LightNovel/TheWrongWayToUseHealingMagic'' are this due to their leader's absolutely hellish training. Every member has to be strong enough to fend off any attackers and then be able to heal their comrades on the battlefield or safely bring them back and not die. As a result most combat medics, including the main character, Usato, are far stronger than the rest of their country's soldiers.

* Bill Mauldin's classic WWII comic ''UpFront'' depicted medics at the front alongside the dog soldiers. In one panel a dishevelled medic is told he didn't earn combat pay because he wasn't "in combat."

* Nightcrawler in the ''Comicbook/XMen'' had some medical training and sometimes served as the team's medic, especially during the Creator/ChrisClaremont run.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

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* Several characters from the ''WebComic/WhiteDarkLife'' roleplays qualify, but the standout examples are Matt and Ben Mokary. Matt is a [[PowerCopying mimic]] who also happens to be an angel, and he specializes in WhiteMage-type abilities, but with his ability to assume the powers of just about anyone he can imagine, he can kick a lot of ass. Ben is a more mundane example, "merely" being a highly skilled medic and surgeon as far as his healing abilities are concerned, but, well, he outranks everyone in Orbis save for its queen '''for a damn good reason'''. Annie Belnades (and her daughter, Anastasia) are honorable mentions; their healing powers only work up close and personal, but they can bring people back from nearly anything short of being reduced to LudicrousGibs (therefore falling somewhere in between Matt and Ben in terms of effectiveness), and both are highly skilled and powerful fighters who can easily [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom swat their enemies half a mile away]] with a single blow.

* Lifeline of WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero cartoon is a medic and makes it a rule to not carry any firearms. Doc is another example in the same series.

* Raven from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is shown to be able to heal in addition to her more combat friendly powers. She uses this power exactly twice onscreen.

* The Priestess in ''[[VideoGame/ShiningSoul Shining Soul 2]]'' really is this trope. She is advertised in the manual as being someone who can't really take a few hits and this would make one think that playing the game with her is actually rather hard since you were probably the only person who'd own the game. Instead, she's actually more of a combat medic in that she handles decently with flails and can actually kill people who get too close to her if you ever found someone else to play multiplayer with you.

** Despite how deadly he is, Law is proven to be pretty damn good at the medic part of combat medic, though he hasn't been shown to use his medical expertise on the battlefield yet.

** In their default classes, Squire-class Venus Adepts, Jenna, Piers, and more than half the playables in ''Dark Dawn'' have decent stats or weapon selections ''and'' healing powers (sorry, [[WhiteMage Rief]], [[TierInducedScrappy you're just kind of useless here]]...).

* The Medic NPC from ''VideoGame/HalfLife1: Opposing Force'' has a Desert Eagle and will often engage alien and Black Ops units. In a modification where some maps have a heavy use of the Medic (Sven Co-Op), they'll often open fire first.
* Medics in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' are just regular troops that happen to hand out medkits. They aren't any [[SquishyWizard squishier]] than their compatriots, and are just as capable of fighting.
** Justified by the fact that the Combine will gladly gun them down, since they're alien occupiers and there are no Geneva Conventions left to follow.

*** Leia heals single targets for greater power and can [[StatusBuff raise the party's stats]]. Her traditional healer's staff is actually a [[MartialArtsStaff quarterstaff which she uses to charge into the frontlines]] alongside [[BareFistedMonk Jude]], [[ActionGirl Milla]], and Alvin.

*** Leia heals single targets for greater power and can [[StatusBuff raise the party's stats]]. Her [[SimpleStaff traditional healer's staff]] is actually a quarterstaff which she uses to charge into the frontlines alongside [[BareFistedMonk Jude]], [[ActionGirl Milla]], and Alvin.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Embers}}'' both Katara and Zuko use their bending abilities to heal and fight. Toph subverts this by having a proper training, but preferring to only smash people around. Most healers were taught how to fight in the old days, [[spoiler:until Koh decided that getting rid of them would make it easier for him to destroy all humans]]. It’s hinted that Avatar Kuruk actively defined this trope (splitting healers and warriors) to either save last healers or to avoid [[spoiler:creating another insane Northern Tribeswoman like Avatar Kesuk.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' series, [[VideoGame/MOTHER1 Ninten]], [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Ness]], and [[VideoGame/{{Mother3}} Lucas]], all of whom are also TheHero. Not only are they the best healers, they also have the highest HP counts and boast the strongest physical attacks on their teams

*** Ange may look and act like your typical WhiteMagicianGirl, but note that she [[KnifeNut prefers knives]]. And she is not shy about performing some awesome melee combos with them, either.

* ''Series/HolbyCity'' has Berenice "Bernie" Wolfe, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and explicitly called "the greatest trauma surgeon [the UK] has to offer". By the end of the series, she had been blown up no less than three separate times and declared dead at least once. Shortly after she joins the Acute Admissions Unit at Holby, a multi-car pileup has her asking for permission to organise triage and emergency care as she would on the front lines; her resulting "Kandahar style" medicine [[GeekyTurnOn impresses]] AAU lead Serena Campbell so much that she offers Bernie the position of co-lead and the opportunity to start up her own trauma unit. And when another doctor starts flirting with her girlfriend -- [[OneTrueLove the aforementioned Serena Campbell]] -- Bernie points out acidly that she knows ''thirteen'' ways to kill someone with her bare hands.

* ''Series/HolbyCity'' has Berenice "Bernie" Wolfe, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and explicitly called "the greatest trauma surgeon [the UK] has to offer". By the end of the series, she had been blown up no less than three separate times and declared dead at least once. Shortly after she joins the Acute Admissions Unit at Holby, a multi-car pileup has her asking for permission to organise triage and emergency care as she would on the front lines; her resulting "Kandahar style" medicine impresses AAU lead Serena Campbell so much that she offers Bernie the position of co-lead and the opportunity to start up her own trauma unit. And when another doctor starts flirting with her girlfriend -- the aforementioned Serena Campbell -- Bernie points out acidly that she knows ''thirteen'' ways to kill someone with her bare hands. [[spoiler:Bernie and Serena end up married.]]

* ''Series/HolbyCity'' has Berenice "Bernie" Wolfe, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and explicitly called "the greatest trauma surgeon [the UK] has to offer". By the end of the series, she had been blown up no less than three separate times and declared dead at least once. Shortly after she joins the Acute Admissions Unit at Holby, a multi-car pileup has her asking for permission to organise triage and emergency care as she would on the front lines; her resulting "Kandahar style" medicine impresses AAU lead Serena Campbell so much that she winds up offering Bernie the position of co-lead and the opportunity to start up her own trauma unit. And when another doctor starts flirting with her girlfriend -- the aforementioned Serena Campbell -- Bernie points out acidly that she knows ''thirteen'' ways to kill someone with her bare hands. [[spoiler:And then Bernie and Serena get married.]]

* ''Series/HolbyCity'' has Berenice "Bernie" Wolfe, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and explicitly called "the greatest trauma surgeon [the UK] has to offer". By the end of the series, she had been blown up no less than three separate times and declared dead at least once. Shortly after she joins the Acute Admissions Unit at Holby, a multi-car pileup has her asking for permission to organise triage and emergency care as she would on the front lines; her resulting "Kandahar style" medicine impresses AAU lead Serena Campbell so much that she winds up offering Bernie the position of co-lead and the opportunity to start up her own trauma unit. [[spoiler:And then they get married.]]

** [[BareFistedMonk Kharazim]] is the closest thing to this trope by far. He effectively has the skillset of a melee assassin, but with a few healing abilities thrown in. His trait augments every third basic attack he lands with an effect, which can be modified at the start of the game -- one option is healing an ally, but the others are bonus damage or mana gain and [[CooldownManipulation CDR]] for himself. His heroics are a self-castable buff that prevents an ally from dying, or an AOE where he strikes nearby enemies for max health-based damage.

** Both iterations of Karma serve(d) as this. Pre-rework, she had two charges of Mantra. Her basic Q did AoE damage, her W was a slow when used on an enemy and a speed-up when used on an ally and her E was simply a strong shield. Her passive got her more and more AP the less HP she had. If her skills were empowered, her Q added a procentual AoE heal that additionally scaled with AP, the Speed/Slow was doubled and her shield added a nuke equal to the shielded damage plus [b]80%[\b] of her AP. She was very dangerous at low levels of health, being both a strong combatant and capable support.
*** The new Karma has a passive that reduces the CD of her Mantra Charge when she hits an enemy with spells or basic attacks. Her Q is a notoriously strong nuke when charged, however it's no slouch when used in its basic form either. Her W roots and damages her target, if it's empowered it also heals her for up to 40% of her missing health. Her E is a single target shield that grants movement speed while her empowered E adds strength to the primary target's shield and grants an AoE shield for allies surrounding the shields target, also granting them movement. The longer the fight goes and the more damage she can dish out, the more use can be made of her.

* Many of these exist in ''[[Franchise/ShiningSeries Shining Force]]'':