Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 195 - Magic Knight

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
Game-Breaker
Storming the Castle
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Acrofatic
Fat B******
Names to Run Away From Really Fast
Fluffy the Terrible
Deathbringer the Adorable
Dem Bones
BFS
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, The Reason You Suck Speech, was Quagmire to Brian (Family Guy), which got 6 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 161 Onwards
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Sub VS Dub (Anime) / Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry) / Country VS Pop (Taylor Swift) / Casual VS Competitive (Super Smash Bros) / Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)
Cruel and Unusual Death - Executions (Danganronpa)
That One Level - Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II) / Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

Today's trope is Magic Knight. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicKnight

Most mages are of the Squishy Wizard variety, able to work eldritch wonders but not take a punch. And most warriors are Magically Inept Fighters, able to deal and take devastating damage, but their range is limited to the length of their weapon and they'll have trouble with problems they can't bludgeon to death. But who said you can't have the best of both worlds? Whether they're a wizard who picked up a melee weapon and some spiffy armor, or a warrior who learned to cast a few spells, the Magic Knight is every bit as deadly with both spell and sword.

For the purposes of game balance, they'll either be weaker at sword and spell than a pure fighter or mage, generally slower, somehow otherwise limited to being defensive or offensive, or they'll be The Hero, who is expected to be the most powerful character anyway. Usually, the Magic Knight will specialize in a particular class of magic (attack or healing, for instance), effectively making them a hybrid of only two "classes", rather than being an out-and-out "Jack" of all trades. However, being a total Jack-of-All-Stats is also possible, depending on the game.

Another form of balance may be found in their spell loadout. Instead of the wide variety of spells a normal spellcaster can use, they tend to focus on Status Buffs and direct attack spells. Other typical abilities for this class may include infusing their bodies or weapons with elemental powers. Doing the same with Standard Status Effects is not unknown either.

TL,DR: This character is equally proficient in both magical and physical combat.

Nominations:
Geralt (The Witcher)
Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Spawn

Geralt (The Witcher)
The Dragonborn (Skyrim)
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Paladins (Dungeons & Dragons)
Jedi (Star Wars)
Rand al'Thor (Wheel of Time)
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Bayonetta
Ganondorf
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Sun Wukong (Journey to the West)
Booker DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

HM:
The Knight (Hollow Knight)
Zuko (ATLA)
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Bayonetta
Booker DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite)
Cloud Strife
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Rankings so far:
Geralt (The Witcher) - 2 votes
Bayonetta - 2 votes
Booker DeWitt (Bioshock Infinite) - 2 votes
Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Spawn
The Dragonborn (Skyrim)
Paladins (Dungeons & Dragons)
Jedi (Star Wars)
Rand al'Thor (Wheel of Time)
Ganondorf
Sun Wukong (Journey to the West)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
Cloud Strife

Jedi
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