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* TheDeadHaveNames: In the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ aforementioned slaying of the security guard]], the guard is KilledMidSentence while saying "Yep, sure do miss my wi-[fe and kids]." The Doctor guesses he [[InsaneTrollLogic misses his white pants]].
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* DeathByOriginStory: Gordito's father
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* DeathIsCheap, but not necessarily easy. Lampshaded in the comic itself, where it complains about resurrections making death meaningless.
* DepravedDwarf: Dr. Knickerbockers.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ "Go everlive somewhere else!"]]
* DepravedDwarf: Dr. Knickerbockers.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ "Go everlive somewhere else!"]]
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* DeathIsCheap, but DeathIsCheap: But not necessarily easy. Lampshaded in the comic itself, where it complains about resurrections making death meaningless.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Doc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 laying down the law]] on a Nasaghast.
** And, well, the chapter is called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Punch Dracula'']]...
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** And, well, the chapter is called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Punch Dracula'']]...
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* {{Dracula}}: One of the many antagonists in the comic.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Doc, to the point of reducing his younger brother to tears.
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* DynamicEntry: King Radical really loves doing these.
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* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Averted. Doc's sword is clearly a ninja-to.
* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually disappear.
** Justified; in "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" for that issue, Doc even points out that those particular clones were created using inferior, outdated technology, and were so unbelievably shitty that they literally melted after they died. Then he plays a video showing how they were going to start literally falling to pieces at any minute anyway.
* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually disappear.
** Justified; in "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" for that issue, Doc even points out that those particular clones were created using inferior, outdated technology, and were so unbelievably shitty that they literally melted after they died. Then he plays a video showing how they were going to start literally falling to pieces at any minute anyway.
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* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually
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* ExpansionPackPast: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s flashback in Army of One.
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* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]]. Lampshaded in the AltText: [[spoiler: He went from being Johnny Cage to Kano!]]
** [[spoiler: Judy's kitten gets one too]] after its run-in with Yoshi.
** US President Maria Funkhouser has one.
* EyeScream:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40 Inverted]] ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p11 TWICE]]''.
** Played straight [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p5/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p14/ here]].
** [[spoiler: Judy's kitten gets one too]] after its run-in with Yoshi.
** US President Maria Funkhouser has one.
* EyeScream:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40 Inverted]] ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p11 TWICE]]''.
** Played straight [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p5/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p14/ here]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Old [=McNinja=] pulls one... and quickly regrets it when he sees just [[KnightTemplar how crazy]] King Radical ''really'' is.]]
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Doc and Chuck Goodrich after the time travel storyline. It ends toward the end of "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court".]]
* {{Fanboy}}: The one copilot astronaut to Chuck Goodrich. [[SpotTheImposter It doesn't end well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: the good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the way.
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
* {{Fanboy}}: The one copilot astronaut to Chuck Goodrich. [[SpotTheImposter It doesn't end well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: the good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the way.
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
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* {{Fanservice}}: The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
** The good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
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* ForgetsToEat: The titular Doctor. Low blood sugar makes him cranky, too.
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* FutureBadass: Happens to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p18 Dark Smoke Puncher (now going by Doctor McNinja too]]), [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 Gordito]] and [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p81/ Yoshi]]]].
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* GirlsWithMoustaches: A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
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* GirlsWithMoustaches: GirlsWithMoustaches:
** A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
** A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
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* GratuitousSpanish: Parodied with the paleontologist banditos.
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* GunKata: Gordito is seen practicing these outside the office [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p5 here.]]
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 It really is]].
** As of ''Space Savers'' and ''Futures Trading'', [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 not so much]]. (Awesome, yes, but not better.)
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** A perfect example in Futures Trading: [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja had {{Dracula}} fire his moon laser at the base of the {{President|Evil}} of the [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Human-Dinosaur alliance]].]]
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** Even starting from there, Doc casually murders a night guard for their outfit.
** His patient's mother is startled by the odd goings-on at his office when that sort of thing should be considered more common place.[[note]]This could be chalked up to King Radical gradually changing Cumberland through the series.[[/note]] Among them, being open in the dead of night is a complete one-off.
** The first few issues are far shorter than the majority to follow, and of course the first half of the series is in black and white.
** Dan is a lot more hostile to Doc early on while later on that would mostly be Mitzi's problem.
** Gordito doesn't show up until issue three.
** King Radical and the Radical Land would not become a part of the story until the switch to colour in ''Monster Mart.''
** His patient's mother is startled by the odd goings-on at his office when that sort of thing should be considered more common place.[[note]]This could be chalked up to King Radical gradually changing Cumberland through the series.[[/note]] Among them, being open in the dead of night is a complete one-off.
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** Dan is a lot more hostile to Doc early on while later on that would mostly be Mitzi's problem.
** Gordito doesn't show up until issue three.
** King Radical and the Radical Land would not become a part of the story until the switch to colour in ''Monster Mart.''
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%%* DarkActionGirl: Hortense.
* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Parodied: Sean's ninja name is "Dark Smoke Puncher", and Doc mocks him for it at one point.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Though not a complete, or even major, departure from the goofy setting and previous stories, ever since ''Doc Gets Rad'' the storyline has gotten considerably darker, with no overt victories and several significant defeats that would be played for tragedy anywhere else.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dr. [=McNinja=] is an interesting example. He's clearly good and heroic, despite being a ninja, but has also committed some decidedly antiheroic, if not downright evil acts. The Doc and his TrueCompanions are certainly more willing to kill than most super heroes.
** It's attributable to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but in the first story he killed a security guard in cold blood (to facilitate a MuggedForDisguise).
* DarkWorld: The Negazone functions as both this and a SpiritWorld. It is a dark reflection of reality with considerable MindScrew relating to the visitor's own psyche. The Dr. [[spoiler:gets trapped there while attempting to rescue the president]].
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The AWOL MD arc gives us two, plus a subversion.
** A demon is masquerading as a teacher at Gordito's school.
** [[spoiler:Dr. [=McNinja=] is impersonating Dr. [=McLuchador=], who died some time ago, to infiltrate King Radical's gang.]]
** To make that impersonation more believable, [[spoiler:Chuck Goodrich impersonates Dr. [=McNinja=] in order to "fight" Dr. [=McLuchador=] and be defeated by him. It's a subversion because Dr. [=McNinja=] is not actually dead.]]
* DeadlyDoctor:
** Dr. [=McNinja=], who "heals with one hand and kills with the other".
** Dr. [=McLuchador=] is a villainous example. Though he means well, his patients tend to end up worse off from his treatments, either due to toxic medicine or "unconventional" wrestling-based methods of applying it.
* DeathByCameo: Two characters, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ a guard killed by]] Dr. [=McNinja=] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ one of Radical's goons]] are based on Chris Hastings.
* DeathByOriginStory: Gordito's father
* DeathInAllDirections: In the tennis temple. the AltText snarks "clearly he dies on the next page".
* DeathIsCheap, but not necessarily easy. Lampshaded in the comic itself, where it complains about resurrections making death meaningless.
* DepravedDwarf: Dr. Knickerbockers.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ "Go everlive somewhere else!"]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** Gordito, who grew his mustache out of sheer willpower. Later subverted when it's revealed that he grew it out of ''panic'', and uses it to hide his insecurities under a badass facade. He finally ends up BecomingTheMask, however.
** The third Nasaghast. Able to deflect the holy shuriken, pulls his head through the sword that impaled him to the ground, launches himself into space, catches a missile and throws it straight at his target.
* DeviousDolphins: Agent Bearclaw used to pretend to be drowning, just so he could kill the dolphins who came to rescue him. So when he falls into the ocean after a real plane crash, and more dolphins show up, he assumes they're here for revenge and panics. But in spite of his fears, the dolphins actually carry him to a nearby island. Relieved, Bearclaw thanks the dolphins for their mercy... and ''then'' the dolphins pull out guns and shoot him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Doc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 laying down the law]] on a Nasaghast.
** And, well, the chapter is called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Punch Dracula'']]...
* DirtyBusiness
* DodgeTheBullet: Played straight by the Doctor; subverted by Beeman.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Occurs in the story [[spoiler: "There Is A Raptor In My Office". It turns out everything was engineered by the Fox News corporation to be an amazing, rating-boosting story. It was thwarted by their weatherman who, earlier in the story, was all puffed up to do a story about three hurricanes in the Atlantic forming a Mickey Mouse shape only to be deflated by a lead in story about velociraptor riding banditos. He stopped it in the end in order to prevent the story from going public just so that everyone would be excited about the weather.]]
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: Gordito is reluctant to wake up Dr [=McNinja=] for this very reason. The good doctor's parents apparently ingrained it into him by attacking him in his sleep, because... well... he's a [=McNinja=].
* {{Dracula}}: One of the many antagonists in the comic.
* DontTryThisAtHome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3 "Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it."]]
* DressedToHeal: The Doctor always wears a lab coat and stethoscope, in addition to the ninja mask and ninja-to.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Doc, to the point of reducing his younger brother to tears.
* DudeNotFunny: Lampshaded during ''There's A Raptor In My Office'' when Yoshi eats a woman's dog. The Alt Text suggests that you do not show this page to animal lovers.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: If a named character is offed permanently in this comic, it's likely to be this trope. [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Gordito relates the story of his father's death to the [=McNinja=] family. [[spoiler:[[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by King Radical just before his own death.]]
-->'''Dan:''' What an incredibly ''awesome'' way to die.
* DynamicEntry: King Radical really loves doing these.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the main reason the author suggests that you skip "Issue One Half". None of the supporting cast is present, the art is crudely done, and Doc is an [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist amoral]] DesignatedHero. "Meet The Doctor" is considered the ''real'' first issue and "Issue One Half" is basically getting the BroadStrokes treatment.
* EnemyMime: Donald [=McBonald=], even if he dresses like a clown. He even [[spoiler: mimes a working parachute after jumping from a window and a working bomb with detonator.]]
* EpicHail: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p94/ "Ha ha! We just sent a distress signal....]]to [[spoiler: DRACULA! KING OF ALL VAMPIRES!"]]
* EscapedFromHell: Not technically Hell, but Dr. McNinja fights his way out of the afterlife by double-teaming Death with the dual manifestations of his doctor and ninja personas.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The very first story arc featured the good doctor himself fighting a child who has turned into Paul Bunyan. The insanity only increases from there.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p37 Hank the pilot.]]
--> '''Random guy in the airplane''': I'm homosexual now!
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''All the King’s Dirtbikes and All the King’s Men'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p85/ ends]] with Dr [=McNinja=], Gordito, the President of the United States, and one of her aides laughing at [[spoiler:King Radical having become "just another person hiding out waiting for the right time to kill Dr [=McNinja=]]"]].
--> '''AltText''': I guess it's kinda funny if you’re stressed or something.
* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Averted. Doc's sword is clearly a ninja-to.
* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually disappear.
** Justified; in "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" for that issue, Doc even points out that those particular clones were created using inferior, outdated technology, and were so unbelievably shitty that they literally melted after they died. Then he plays a video showing how they were going to start literally falling to pieces at any minute anyway.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 It really is]].
** As of ''Space Savers'' and ''Futures Trading'', [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 not so much]]. (Awesome, yes, but not better.)
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Judy, the Gorilla Receptionist.
%%What trope is this for?* CuteKitten combined with the above is what we can expect from the aptly named story arc, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Judy Gets a Kitten"]]
* ExactWords:
-->'''Dinosaur President''': The Alpha Shield can't be broken by anything on earth!\\
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'''Dr [=McNinja=]'s Message''': [[spoiler: Dracula, please fire your moon laser at this precise location.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** His family name is [=McNinja=]. He's a doctor. These are his adventures. Any other questions?
** Issue #8: "Punch Dracula".
* ExpansionPackPast: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s flashback in Army of One.
%%* ExplodingBarrels
* ExplosionPropulsion: In order to catch a bunch of King Radical's goons by surprise. He activates a trap that ''explodes his entire office'' and sends both him and Gordito flying at them.
* {{Expy}}: The "Friend Bros." featured in the beginning of ''A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court'' are expies of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]], with special references to ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' (mostly in the alt-text).
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]]. Lampshaded in the AltText: [[spoiler: He went from being Johnny Cage to Kano!]]
** [[spoiler: Judy's kitten gets one too]] after its run-in with Yoshi.
** US President Maria Funkhouser has one.
* EyeScream:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40 Inverted]] ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p11 TWICE]]''.
** Played straight [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p5/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p14/ here]].
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Old [=McNinja=] pulls one... and quickly regrets it when he sees just [[KnightTemplar how crazy]] King Radical ''really'' is.]]
%%* TheFaceless: The entire [=McNinja=] family.
* TheFaceOfTheSun: The sun of the Radical Lands wears CoolShades and sports a smile on its face.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: The Doctor pretends to ally with Frans Rayner in order to negate his [[ConservationOfNinjutsu Reverse Ninja Law]].]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Doc and Chuck Goodrich after the time travel storyline. It ends toward the end of "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court".]]
* {{Fanboy}}: The one copilot astronaut to Chuck Goodrich. [[SpotTheImposter It doesn't end well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: the good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the way.
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
* FantasticRacism:
** Dan seems to have some prejudices against gorillas.
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Gorillas are cowards! Nowadays you're not allowed to say it, but it's true!
** There also seems to be some [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p2/ racism]] in the Radical Lands. [[AltText Don't tell Ron!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p70/ This]] page explicitly spells it out:
--->'''Alt Text:''' The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is proud to participate in the long history of fantasy stories being a place where characters can be completely unabashed speciesist jerks.
* FantasyKitchenSink:
** Zombies, ghost wizards, vampires, resurrected Ben Franklin ''and'' Hitler, drugs that confer ninja skills, Headless Horsemen, superheroes, a disease that turns you into Paul Bunyan, cloned dinosaurs, thieving lobsters and a mafia led by a radical dirtbiking king (...and a world-ending Mayan tennis machine. Seriously.)
** Of note: the radical dirtbiking mafia leader [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p34/ looks suspiciously like ''The Burger King'']], though the author states that the inspiration of King Radical was actually [[VideoGame/MarioKart King Boo on a Dirtbike.]]
** A perfect example in Futures Trading: [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja had {{Dracula}} fire his moon laser at the base of the {{President|Evil}} of the [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Human-Dinosaur alliance]].]]
* FascinatingEyebrow: One of Doc's many graduate degrees must be in this.[[note]]Helps that his eyes and eyebrows are the only exposed part of his mask[[/note]] Gordito is a quick study.
* FeedItABomb:
** In the Bad Future, this is Mitzi and Dan McNinja's Dying Moment of Awesome. To kill the Horrorsaurus, Mitzi allows it to swallow her while she's got explosives strapped to her chest. Dan follows, because "You didn't pack enough".
** Happens to the Doctor during his rematch against [=McBonald=]. Forcefeeding him a mime bomb, the doc is understandably very worried when he first feels it stuffed in his mouth and forcefully digested.
* FightDracula: The "Punch Dracula" story is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, an opportunity for Doc to get into a fight with the lord of all vampires.
* FlatWhat: Used more than a few times, practically being a RunningGag. One instance is so flat it even lacks [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p26 punctuation.]]
** Another with no punctuation, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 found here.]] Though, considering that [[spoiler: [[ConservationOfNinjutsu a clone]] [[LudicrousGibs just got an arm kicked off in a spray of blood]],]] this is justifiable.
** Yet a third with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/22p02/ no punctuation]]. Though it's a bit understandable, since Doc looks up just in time to see what appears to be a [[spoiler:solid sheet of Christmas in July]] coming straight down at him from a clear sky.
** Even King Radical utters it [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p32/ upon seeing the return of the McNinja Burger.]] Justified in that [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja is supposedly dead, in his/everyone's/Donald [=McBonald's=] mind.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: What is the identity of the strange motorcycle that appears to brainwash the people riding it, and manipulated the Doc into [[spoiler:bisecting the last rider]] and [[spoiler:destroying the last known supply of True Dew]]? A unicorn. Named Sparklelord. Also...
--> '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': I shall. Name you. ''Yoshi''.
* FootnoteFever: The dinosaur-riding banditos speak English with a sprinkling of Spanish, which is always translated in footnotes. Even when the meaning is clear. Even when the word appears multiple times in the same ''panel''.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p33 The editor helpfully explains the meaning of "policía" four times.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p37 "And sometimes,]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p74 they wore tank tops."]]
** Doc seeing [[spoiler:his younger self via time hole]] while chasing after King Rad through the caves.
** Related to the above, Doc is [[spoiler:jumping through time, reliving his memories in the past.]] But then he "jumps too far ahead," to [[spoiler:a memory in the ''future'', where he is a fugitive from the military.]]
** In ''A Cumberland Ninja in Kind Radical's Court'', Chuck tries to read a book, but gives up, throws it away, and announces "This is boring!". A couple of pages later, King Radical does the exact same thing with a pamphlet. [[spoiler: The next storyline reveals that they are alternate versions of the same person]].
** In ''Space Savers'', [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p12/ Chuck saw King Radical kill him]], or a version of him, in the past]]. So he knew exactly what would happen when [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p77/ he jumped into the portal]].]]
** In ''I Told You That Story So I Could Tell You This One'', Dan [=McNinja=] tells Gordito that they always wear their masks so that they can take it off and leave their lives behind if everyone turns against them. In [[spoiler:''Army of One'', Frans Rayner clones the Dr. and through this gets to see his face, saying that someday, this will be very useful]]. Sure enough, in the [[FugitiveArc final arc]], the entire world goes out for the [[HeroWithBadPublicity Dr.'s blood]], and [[spoiler:this leads to Frans Rayner ensuring the Dr. won't be able to use this last resort.]]
*** And at the very end of that arc, [[spoiler:Doc is, in fact, betrayed by his entire family (though admittedly with no other options), and he does remove his mask in order to escape. Once he's saved the day, he takes advantage of the opportunity to start over as a plain old medical doctor. And since Dan finally killed Frans once the real President was brought back, Doc no longer had the threat of being exposed hanging over him. As Dan puts it, "early retirement '''''earned'''''."]]
* ForgetsToEat: The titular Doctor. Low blood sugar makes him cranky, too.
* FreudianExcuse: Parodied in "Monster Mart" where not only is stupidity of an alternate form used as an excuse but gets instant forgiveness granted once told.
* FugitiveArc: The final arc is this. [[spoiler:The BigBad, King Radical, successfully overthrows the U.S. government and has Dr. [=McNinja=] declared an enemy of the state]].
* FutureBadass: Happens to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p18 Dark Smoke Puncher (now going by Doctor McNinja too]]), [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 Gordito]] and [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p81/ Yoshi]]]].
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[[folder:G]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Dark Smoke Puncher, while Doc is more focused on medical and science. Sean is more interested in tech.
* GallowsHumor: How do the creators celebrate an anniversary in their comic? By having something bad happen to the Doctor ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p32 year 1]]: [[spoiler: Doc gets shot to what is apparently his death.]]; [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 year 3]]: [[spoiler: His office explodes in a fiery hellstorm.]]
* GambitPileup: Let's see, we have the Doctor himself, King Radical, and Sparklelord. Dracula, of course. Victor the plumber, who is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain most definitely not the tiniest spy in the world]]. Rayner, who can't seem to stay dead. And whatever Chuck Goodrich is planning.
* GeniusCripple: The father of [=Dr McNinja's=] college friend Martin is a scientific genius confined to a wheelchair. Who also bears a fairly good resemblance to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Stephen Hawking]]. His name? [[CaptainErsatz Professor Birding]].
* GeniusLoci: The Radical Lands are capable of determining the most radical of them all and crowning that person king.
* GenreShift: A momentary one, invoked by the Doctor. At one point, Franz Rayner cloned an army of Doctors to exploit the fact that when they all turned against him, ConservationOfNinjutsu would take effect and even the original Doc would become totally useless. Doc rescues himself by [[FakeDefector "switching sides"]] and teaming up with an unwilling Rayner so as to treat the whole situation like a BuddyCopShow until the clones were slain.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because he so often helps the police, the mayor made a deal with Doc that he could get away with any of the laws he broke while doing his ninja thing if he got to his office before the police did and said "Base!"
* GiantMecha: Part of King Radical's master plan involves turning [[spoiler: all of Cumberland into this by installing haunted wood in every house in the city and using magic to merge them into one of these...because it's RADICAL.]]
** [[spoiler: Washington D.C. was designed to be this, but due to budget restraints it was never completed.]]
* GirlsWithMoustaches: A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
** Girls can contract Paul Bunyan's disease, which may overlap with GenderBender.
* GodzillaThreshold: In ''The End Part I'', Dr. [=McNinja=] makes a bid to stop Radical's [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world shattering]] plans by [[spoiler:using the device he got in his youth in ''First Generation Ninja American'' to summon Sparklelord, an OmnicidalManiac and the only one King Radical truly fears. That and he had to reveal his real name, freeing the Ghost Wizard with a vendetta against him that his grandfather sacrificed himself to seal away.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Since Mitzi and Dan didn't know how to raise a kid to be a ninja, when Doc was a kid they introduced him to Batman comics to inspire him. Doc's obsession with being Batman hasn't let off the gas since.
* GoodIsNotNice: Doc... sometimes.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p41/ This page,]] as explained in the AltText.
* GoshdangItToHeck: "Damn," "ass," and "hell" are about as bad as the profanity gets. Anything stronger is [[CurseCutShort visually bleeped out]] or amusingly censored (i.e. "You have got to be [flarking] [pooping] me.")
** Additionally, the Doctor's standard expression of surprise or dismay is the exceedingly mild "Oh my goodness."
* GratuitousEnglish: The Great Dane himself, Frans Rayner, especially in the older days.
-->'''Frans Rayner''': Hey, Dan, come on. You are just the baby school, and I am the Big League Chew. Why do you try?\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Frans, I can't wait to see how much worse your horrible English will be once your skull is concave. It'll be ''hilarious.''
* GratuitousSpanish: Parodied with the paleontologist banditos.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] ascended to this after [[spoiler:smashing King Radical's space shuttle]]. He's still out there enjoying the world's "slide into entropy," but he could return at any time he pleases.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Dan's fatherly advice covers this subject with regard to alligators.
** Also, [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] rips an arm off [[spoiler:an Old [=McNinja=] clone]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 uses it to bludgeon]] [[spoiler:another clone.]]
** Dr. McNinja picks up [[spoiler: Dracula]] by the legs and uses him as a weapon against [[spoiler: King Radical.]] Bonus points for being an IncrediblyLamePun: [[spoiler: He turned Dracula into a bat.]]
*** And follows that up by throwing [[spoiler: Pope Francis]] at him, [[spoiler: destroying the now-vampirized King Radical. Furious and revenge driven though he might've been before, Radical dies with a smile because of how radical his death is.]]
* GroinAttack: "Hahahahah. He kicked you in your genitals. Ninjas have no honor."
%%* GrumpyOldMan: Dan.
* GullibleLemmings: [[spoiler:King Radical's main motive is to save his own people by sacrificing billions of lives from this world, who he doesn't care about due to being boring. Despite this, the entire country still loves him and supports his efforts.]]
* GunKata: Gordito is seen practicing these outside the office [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p5 here.]]
%%* TheGunslinger: Gordito.
* TheGrimReaper: In Doc's world, Death is a skeletal maitre d' with a tidy little moustache.
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[[folder:D]]
%%* DarkActionGirl: Hortense.
* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Parodied: Sean's ninja name is "Dark Smoke Puncher", and Doc mocks him for it at one point.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Though not a complete, or even major, departure from the goofy setting and previous stories, ever since ''Doc Gets Rad'' the storyline has gotten considerably darker, with no overt victories and several significant defeats that would be played for tragedy anywhere else.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dr. [=McNinja=] is an interesting example. He's clearly good and heroic, despite being a ninja, but has also committed some decidedly antiheroic, if not downright evil acts. The Doc and his TrueCompanions are certainly more willing to kill than most super heroes.
** It's attributable to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but in the first story he killed a security guard in cold blood (to facilitate a MuggedForDisguise).
* DarkWorld: The Negazone functions as both this and a SpiritWorld. It is a dark reflection of reality with considerable MindScrew relating to the visitor's own psyche. The Dr. [[spoiler:gets trapped there while attempting to rescue the president]].
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The AWOL MD arc gives us two, plus a subversion.
** A demon is masquerading as a teacher at Gordito's school.
** [[spoiler:Dr. [=McNinja=] is impersonating Dr. [=McLuchador=], who died some time ago, to infiltrate King Radical's gang.]]
** To make that impersonation more believable, [[spoiler:Chuck Goodrich impersonates Dr. [=McNinja=] in order to "fight" Dr. [=McLuchador=] and be defeated by him. It's a subversion because Dr. [=McNinja=] is not actually dead.]]
* DeadlyDoctor:
** Dr. [=McNinja=], who "heals with one hand and kills with the other".
** Dr. [=McLuchador=] is a villainous example. Though he means well, his patients tend to end up worse off from his treatments, either due to toxic medicine or "unconventional" wrestling-based methods of applying it.
* DeathByCameo: Two characters, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ a guard killed by]] Dr. [=McNinja=] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ one of Radical's goons]] are based on Chris Hastings.
* DeathByOriginStory: Gordito's father
* DeathInAllDirections: In the tennis temple. the AltText snarks "clearly he dies on the next page".
* DeathIsCheap, but not necessarily easy. Lampshaded in the comic itself, where it complains about resurrections making death meaningless.
* DepravedDwarf: Dr. Knickerbockers.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ "Go everlive somewhere else!"]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** Gordito, who grew his mustache out of sheer willpower. Later subverted when it's revealed that he grew it out of ''panic'', and uses it to hide his insecurities under a badass facade. He finally ends up BecomingTheMask, however.
** The third Nasaghast. Able to deflect the holy shuriken, pulls his head through the sword that impaled him to the ground, launches himself into space, catches a missile and throws it straight at his target.
* DeviousDolphins: Agent Bearclaw used to pretend to be drowning, just so he could kill the dolphins who came to rescue him. So when he falls into the ocean after a real plane crash, and more dolphins show up, he assumes they're here for revenge and panics. But in spite of his fears, the dolphins actually carry him to a nearby island. Relieved, Bearclaw thanks the dolphins for their mercy... and ''then'' the dolphins pull out guns and shoot him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Doc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 laying down the law]] on a Nasaghast.
** And, well, the chapter is called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Punch Dracula'']]...
* DirtyBusiness
* DodgeTheBullet: Played straight by the Doctor; subverted by Beeman.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Occurs in the story [[spoiler: "There Is A Raptor In My Office". It turns out everything was engineered by the Fox News corporation to be an amazing, rating-boosting story. It was thwarted by their weatherman who, earlier in the story, was all puffed up to do a story about three hurricanes in the Atlantic forming a Mickey Mouse shape only to be deflated by a lead in story about velociraptor riding banditos. He stopped it in the end in order to prevent the story from going public just so that everyone would be excited about the weather.]]
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: Gordito is reluctant to wake up Dr [=McNinja=] for this very reason. The good doctor's parents apparently ingrained it into him by attacking him in his sleep, because... well... he's a [=McNinja=].
* {{Dracula}}: One of the many antagonists in the comic.
* DontTryThisAtHome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3 "Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it."]]
* DressedToHeal: The Doctor always wears a lab coat and stethoscope, in addition to the ninja mask and ninja-to.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Doc, to the point of reducing his younger brother to tears.
* DudeNotFunny: Lampshaded during ''There's A Raptor In My Office'' when Yoshi eats a woman's dog. The Alt Text suggests that you do not show this page to animal lovers.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: If a named character is offed permanently in this comic, it's likely to be this trope. [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Gordito relates the story of his father's death to the [=McNinja=] family. [[spoiler:[[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by King Radical just before his own death.]]
-->'''Dan:''' What an incredibly ''awesome'' way to die.
* DynamicEntry: King Radical really loves doing these.
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[[folder:E]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the main reason the author suggests that you skip "Issue One Half". None of the supporting cast is present, the art is crudely done, and Doc is an [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist amoral]] DesignatedHero. "Meet The Doctor" is considered the ''real'' first issue and "Issue One Half" is basically getting the BroadStrokes treatment.
* EnemyMime: Donald [=McBonald=], even if he dresses like a clown. He even [[spoiler: mimes a working parachute after jumping from a window and a working bomb with detonator.]]
* EpicHail: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p94/ "Ha ha! We just sent a distress signal....]]to [[spoiler: DRACULA! KING OF ALL VAMPIRES!"]]
* EscapedFromHell: Not technically Hell, but Dr. McNinja fights his way out of the afterlife by double-teaming Death with the dual manifestations of his doctor and ninja personas.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The very first story arc featured the good doctor himself fighting a child who has turned into Paul Bunyan. The insanity only increases from there.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p37 Hank the pilot.]]
--> '''Random guy in the airplane''': I'm homosexual now!
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''All the King’s Dirtbikes and All the King’s Men'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p85/ ends]] with Dr [=McNinja=], Gordito, the President of the United States, and one of her aides laughing at [[spoiler:King Radical having become "just another person hiding out waiting for the right time to kill Dr [=McNinja=]]"]].
--> '''AltText''': I guess it's kinda funny if you’re stressed or something.
* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Averted. Doc's sword is clearly a ninja-to.
* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually disappear.
** Justified; in "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" for that issue, Doc even points out that those particular clones were created using inferior, outdated technology, and were so unbelievably shitty that they literally melted after they died. Then he plays a video showing how they were going to start literally falling to pieces at any minute anyway.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 It really is]].
** As of ''Space Savers'' and ''Futures Trading'', [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 not so much]]. (Awesome, yes, but not better.)
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Judy, the Gorilla Receptionist.
%%What trope is this for?* CuteKitten combined with the above is what we can expect from the aptly named story arc, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Judy Gets a Kitten"]]
* ExactWords:
-->'''Dinosaur President''': The Alpha Shield can't be broken by anything on earth!\\
[...]\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]'s Message''': [[spoiler: Dracula, please fire your moon laser at this precise location.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** His family name is [=McNinja=]. He's a doctor. These are his adventures. Any other questions?
** Issue #8: "Punch Dracula".
* ExpansionPackPast: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s flashback in Army of One.
%%* ExplodingBarrels
* ExplosionPropulsion: In order to catch a bunch of King Radical's goons by surprise. He activates a trap that ''explodes his entire office'' and sends both him and Gordito flying at them.
* {{Expy}}: The "Friend Bros." featured in the beginning of ''A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court'' are expies of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]], with special references to ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' (mostly in the alt-text).
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]]. Lampshaded in the AltText: [[spoiler: He went from being Johnny Cage to Kano!]]
** [[spoiler: Judy's kitten gets one too]] after its run-in with Yoshi.
** US President Maria Funkhouser has one.
* EyeScream:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40 Inverted]] ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p11 TWICE]]''.
** Played straight [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p5/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p14/ here]].
%%* EyeTake
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[[folder:F]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Old [=McNinja=] pulls one... and quickly regrets it when he sees just [[KnightTemplar how crazy]] King Radical ''really'' is.]]
%%* TheFaceless: The entire [=McNinja=] family.
* TheFaceOfTheSun: The sun of the Radical Lands wears CoolShades and sports a smile on its face.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: The Doctor pretends to ally with Frans Rayner in order to negate his [[ConservationOfNinjutsu Reverse Ninja Law]].]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Doc and Chuck Goodrich after the time travel storyline. It ends toward the end of "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court".]]
* {{Fanboy}}: The one copilot astronaut to Chuck Goodrich. [[SpotTheImposter It doesn't end well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: the good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the way.
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
* FantasticRacism:
** Dan seems to have some prejudices against gorillas.
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Gorillas are cowards! Nowadays you're not allowed to say it, but it's true!
** There also seems to be some [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p2/ racism]] in the Radical Lands. [[AltText Don't tell Ron!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p70/ This]] page explicitly spells it out:
--->'''Alt Text:''' The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is proud to participate in the long history of fantasy stories being a place where characters can be completely unabashed speciesist jerks.
* FantasyKitchenSink:
** Zombies, ghost wizards, vampires, resurrected Ben Franklin ''and'' Hitler, drugs that confer ninja skills, Headless Horsemen, superheroes, a disease that turns you into Paul Bunyan, cloned dinosaurs, thieving lobsters and a mafia led by a radical dirtbiking king (...and a world-ending Mayan tennis machine. Seriously.)
** Of note: the radical dirtbiking mafia leader [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p34/ looks suspiciously like ''The Burger King'']], though the author states that the inspiration of King Radical was actually [[VideoGame/MarioKart King Boo on a Dirtbike.]]
** A perfect example in Futures Trading: [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja had {{Dracula}} fire his moon laser at the base of the {{President|Evil}} of the [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Human-Dinosaur alliance]].]]
* FascinatingEyebrow: One of Doc's many graduate degrees must be in this.[[note]]Helps that his eyes and eyebrows are the only exposed part of his mask[[/note]] Gordito is a quick study.
* FeedItABomb:
** In the Bad Future, this is Mitzi and Dan McNinja's Dying Moment of Awesome. To kill the Horrorsaurus, Mitzi allows it to swallow her while she's got explosives strapped to her chest. Dan follows, because "You didn't pack enough".
** Happens to the Doctor during his rematch against [=McBonald=]. Forcefeeding him a mime bomb, the doc is understandably very worried when he first feels it stuffed in his mouth and forcefully digested.
* FightDracula: The "Punch Dracula" story is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, an opportunity for Doc to get into a fight with the lord of all vampires.
* FlatWhat: Used more than a few times, practically being a RunningGag. One instance is so flat it even lacks [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p26 punctuation.]]
** Another with no punctuation, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 found here.]] Though, considering that [[spoiler: [[ConservationOfNinjutsu a clone]] [[LudicrousGibs just got an arm kicked off in a spray of blood]],]] this is justifiable.
** Yet a third with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/22p02/ no punctuation]]. Though it's a bit understandable, since Doc looks up just in time to see what appears to be a [[spoiler:solid sheet of Christmas in July]] coming straight down at him from a clear sky.
** Even King Radical utters it [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p32/ upon seeing the return of the McNinja Burger.]] Justified in that [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja is supposedly dead, in his/everyone's/Donald [=McBonald's=] mind.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: What is the identity of the strange motorcycle that appears to brainwash the people riding it, and manipulated the Doc into [[spoiler:bisecting the last rider]] and [[spoiler:destroying the last known supply of True Dew]]? A unicorn. Named Sparklelord. Also...
--> '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': I shall. Name you. ''Yoshi''.
* FootnoteFever: The dinosaur-riding banditos speak English with a sprinkling of Spanish, which is always translated in footnotes. Even when the meaning is clear. Even when the word appears multiple times in the same ''panel''.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p33 The editor helpfully explains the meaning of "policía" four times.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p37 "And sometimes,]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p74 they wore tank tops."]]
** Doc seeing [[spoiler:his younger self via time hole]] while chasing after King Rad through the caves.
** Related to the above, Doc is [[spoiler:jumping through time, reliving his memories in the past.]] But then he "jumps too far ahead," to [[spoiler:a memory in the ''future'', where he is a fugitive from the military.]]
** In ''A Cumberland Ninja in Kind Radical's Court'', Chuck tries to read a book, but gives up, throws it away, and announces "This is boring!". A couple of pages later, King Radical does the exact same thing with a pamphlet. [[spoiler: The next storyline reveals that they are alternate versions of the same person]].
** In ''Space Savers'', [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p12/ Chuck saw King Radical kill him]], or a version of him, in the past]]. So he knew exactly what would happen when [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p77/ he jumped into the portal]].]]
** In ''I Told You That Story So I Could Tell You This One'', Dan [=McNinja=] tells Gordito that they always wear their masks so that they can take it off and leave their lives behind if everyone turns against them. In [[spoiler:''Army of One'', Frans Rayner clones the Dr. and through this gets to see his face, saying that someday, this will be very useful]]. Sure enough, in the [[FugitiveArc final arc]], the entire world goes out for the [[HeroWithBadPublicity Dr.'s blood]], and [[spoiler:this leads to Frans Rayner ensuring the Dr. won't be able to use this last resort.]]
*** And at the very end of that arc, [[spoiler:Doc is, in fact, betrayed by his entire family (though admittedly with no other options), and he does remove his mask in order to escape. Once he's saved the day, he takes advantage of the opportunity to start over as a plain old medical doctor. And since Dan finally killed Frans once the real President was brought back, Doc no longer had the threat of being exposed hanging over him. As Dan puts it, "early retirement '''''earned'''''."]]
* ForgetsToEat: The titular Doctor. Low blood sugar makes him cranky, too.
* FreudianExcuse: Parodied in "Monster Mart" where not only is stupidity of an alternate form used as an excuse but gets instant forgiveness granted once told.
* FugitiveArc: The final arc is this. [[spoiler:The BigBad, King Radical, successfully overthrows the U.S. government and has Dr. [=McNinja=] declared an enemy of the state]].
* FutureBadass: Happens to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p18 Dark Smoke Puncher (now going by Doctor McNinja too]]), [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 Gordito]] and [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p81/ Yoshi]]]].
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[[folder:G]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Dark Smoke Puncher, while Doc is more focused on medical and science. Sean is more interested in tech.
* GallowsHumor: How do the creators celebrate an anniversary in their comic? By having something bad happen to the Doctor ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p32 year 1]]: [[spoiler: Doc gets shot to what is apparently his death.]]; [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 year 3]]: [[spoiler: His office explodes in a fiery hellstorm.]]
* GambitPileup: Let's see, we have the Doctor himself, King Radical, and Sparklelord. Dracula, of course. Victor the plumber, who is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain most definitely not the tiniest spy in the world]]. Rayner, who can't seem to stay dead. And whatever Chuck Goodrich is planning.
* GeniusCripple: The father of [=Dr McNinja's=] college friend Martin is a scientific genius confined to a wheelchair. Who also bears a fairly good resemblance to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Stephen Hawking]]. His name? [[CaptainErsatz Professor Birding]].
* GeniusLoci: The Radical Lands are capable of determining the most radical of them all and crowning that person king.
* GenreShift: A momentary one, invoked by the Doctor. At one point, Franz Rayner cloned an army of Doctors to exploit the fact that when they all turned against him, ConservationOfNinjutsu would take effect and even the original Doc would become totally useless. Doc rescues himself by [[FakeDefector "switching sides"]] and teaming up with an unwilling Rayner so as to treat the whole situation like a BuddyCopShow until the clones were slain.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because he so often helps the police, the mayor made a deal with Doc that he could get away with any of the laws he broke while doing his ninja thing if he got to his office before the police did and said "Base!"
* GiantMecha: Part of King Radical's master plan involves turning [[spoiler: all of Cumberland into this by installing haunted wood in every house in the city and using magic to merge them into one of these...because it's RADICAL.]]
** [[spoiler: Washington D.C. was designed to be this, but due to budget restraints it was never completed.]]
* GirlsWithMoustaches: A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
** Girls can contract Paul Bunyan's disease, which may overlap with GenderBender.
* GodzillaThreshold: In ''The End Part I'', Dr. [=McNinja=] makes a bid to stop Radical's [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world shattering]] plans by [[spoiler:using the device he got in his youth in ''First Generation Ninja American'' to summon Sparklelord, an OmnicidalManiac and the only one King Radical truly fears. That and he had to reveal his real name, freeing the Ghost Wizard with a vendetta against him that his grandfather sacrificed himself to seal away.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Since Mitzi and Dan didn't know how to raise a kid to be a ninja, when Doc was a kid they introduced him to Batman comics to inspire him. Doc's obsession with being Batman hasn't let off the gas since.
* GoodIsNotNice: Doc... sometimes.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p41/ This page,]] as explained in the AltText.
* GoshdangItToHeck: "Damn," "ass," and "hell" are about as bad as the profanity gets. Anything stronger is [[CurseCutShort visually bleeped out]] or amusingly censored (i.e. "You have got to be [flarking] [pooping] me.")
** Additionally, the Doctor's standard expression of surprise or dismay is the exceedingly mild "Oh my goodness."
* GratuitousEnglish: The Great Dane himself, Frans Rayner, especially in the older days.
-->'''Frans Rayner''': Hey, Dan, come on. You are just the baby school, and I am the Big League Chew. Why do you try?\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Frans, I can't wait to see how much worse your horrible English will be once your skull is concave. It'll be ''hilarious.''
* GratuitousSpanish: Parodied with the paleontologist banditos.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] ascended to this after [[spoiler:smashing King Radical's space shuttle]]. He's still out there enjoying the world's "slide into entropy," but he could return at any time he pleases.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Dan's fatherly advice covers this subject with regard to alligators.
** Also, [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] rips an arm off [[spoiler:an Old [=McNinja=] clone]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 uses it to bludgeon]] [[spoiler:another clone.]]
** Dr. McNinja picks up [[spoiler: Dracula]] by the legs and uses him as a weapon against [[spoiler: King Radical.]] Bonus points for being an IncrediblyLamePun: [[spoiler: He turned Dracula into a bat.]]
*** And follows that up by throwing [[spoiler: Pope Francis]] at him, [[spoiler: destroying the now-vampirized King Radical. Furious and revenge driven though he might've been before, Radical dies with a smile because of how radical his death is.]]
* GroinAttack: "Hahahahah. He kicked you in your genitals. Ninjas have no honor."
%%* GrumpyOldMan: Dan.
* GullibleLemmings: [[spoiler:King Radical's main motive is to save his own people by sacrificing billions of lives from this world, who he doesn't care about due to being boring. Despite this, the entire country still loves him and supports his efforts.]]
* GunKata: Gordito is seen practicing these outside the office [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p5 here.]]
%%* TheGunslinger: Gordito.
* TheGrimReaper: In Doc's world, Death is a skeletal maitre d' with a tidy little moustache.
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