'''Basic Trope''': A character who has strong physical skills and magic.
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Hiro]] has strong physical power and is also the RedMage.
* '''Exaggerated''': Hiro can learn more magic than anyone else and becomes stronger than any other party member.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Hiro is a knight, who learns a healing spell and [[KillItWithFire fireball]] spell, to diversify his combat powers.
** Hiro is a mage, who trains along with the knights so that he is not helpless against a PowerNullifier, but he still isn't nearly as good at hand-to-hand combat as they are.
** Hiro is a mostly ordinary civilian, who just happens to have picked up a little swordfighting and a spell or two.
* '''Justified''':
** Hiro fights with a magically-imbued sword.
** Hiro feels the need to balance out his skills, so he will be able to at least get by if he cannot use his magic.
** Hiro wore heavy armor all the time during his training, even while studying magic and sleeping, and he recites magical theorem while sparring with his master.
** Hiro knows a form of magic that boosts his physical abilities.
** Hiro is a swordsman with natural magical powers, due to his ancestry.
** Hiro's culture has everyone, even those who can use magic, learn how to use weapons, and possibly armor.
* '''Inverted''':
** An AloofArcher, who uses neither magic nor hand-to-hand combat, but fights well anyway.
** Hiro is the only party member with high ''[[StoneWall resistance]]'' to both physical and magical attacks.
** In a world where practicing both magic and fencing is the norm, Alice fights exclusively with her sword, and Bob fights exclusively with spells.
* '''Subverted''': Hiro is a Mage who wears armor... but only to try to defy SquishyWizard, not because he can actually fight without magic.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...at least that's [[ObfuscatingDisability what he'd like you to think]].
* '''Parodied''': Hiro is the [[MasterSwordsman best swordfighter in existence]], and can spam-attack dual-wielded Infinity [[KillItWithFire Firestorm]] +9000, but ironically can't [[CripplingOverspecialization tie his shoelaces, start a campfire, or even enchant a sword]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Hiro is a knight, who learns one healing spell to help a friend in a moment of need, just in case Marcy is taken out, but then never needs to use it. Then he sees how useful Dennis' combat magic is, and decides to take a level in lightning. That works [[StoryBreakerPower incredibly well]], until [[NoSell he meets an enemy immune to it]]. Then, his trusty old sword saves the day.
* '''Averted''':
** The rules of the world make it impossible to be powerful with both magic and swordfighting, so Hiro has to pick one or the other.
** There is no magic in the work's setting.
* '''Enforced''': "I've got a loner hero, and I'm a swordfighting expert, but he needs to have magic, too. I know: I'll make him a MagicKnight."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Before long, I'll have you casting Fireball with the best of us. And then: you will be a MagicKnight."
* '''Invoked''':
** A country of magic users has an entire military of Magic Knights, divided into groups based on which end of the spectrum they favor.
** Hiro was tired of people stereotyping mages as [[WeakButSkilled weak old men]] and warriors as [[UnskilledButStrong big knuckleheads]]. So, he decided to master both disciplines to prove them wrong.
* '''Exploited''':
** Hiro is stripped of his ability to use magic in an AntiMagic zone and has to rely on his subpar swordplay, or...
** He is trapped in a magnetic zone where he has to ditch his weapons and armor, relying on his less than impressive magic.
* '''Defied''':
** Hiro doesn't learn any magic, so that he can become a highly skilled swordfighter. Meanwhile, Emperor Evulz has undead minions fight for him, so he doesn't have to worry about this "swordfighting" business and can concentrate on taking over the world.
** Alternatively, Hiro focuses entirely on magic, leaving his sword-fighting skills quite lacking, making him a SquishyWizard against Emperor Evulz's hordes.
* '''Discussed''': Hiro's player discusses the benefits of being a "Gish" with his tabletop buddies.
* '''Conversed''': "The way Hiro combines swordsmanship and magic sure makes him an asset to our group." "Yeah, but [[BadassNormal Lance]] could beat him in a duel, and [[SquishyWizard Dennis]] could chant circles around him."
* '''Implied''': Hiro is a RetiredBadass. While his past exploits are never shown on screen, when Alice looks through his old equipment, she finds both a sword and a SpellBook.
* '''Deconstructed''': Hiro can't keep up with ''two'' [[TrainingFromHell grueling training regimens]] at once, and he eventually starts to [[CantCatchUp lag behind his friends in power]].
* '''Reconstructed''':
** He takes advantage of his versatile abilities and finds ways to combine classes. He ends up able to fight 3/4 as well as a full knight, and use magic 3/4 as well as a full mage. Net result: 3/2 as much power as anyone else.
** [[CrutchCharacter Hiro carries most battles, getting the pure-class party members through fights that by rights should have ended their quest right then.]]
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