In the
Final Fantasy series of
console RPGs, a
spear-wielding
warrior who
fights by jumping to
superhuman heights, out of the range of all
attacks (and
assistance), and then falls upon his or her intended
target with his or her spear extended for a large amount of
damage.
Kain is the classic
example.
In the real-time strategy game Starcraft, a member of the Templar caste of the Protoss race who, having been mangled too badly to fight but still wishing to fight alongside his comrades, has what is left of his body put inside a spider-like mechanical exoskeleton through the miracle of cybernetics. A dragoon of the Starcraft variety shoots bolts from its phase disruptor at long range.