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* TheLethalConnotationOfGunsAndOthers: PlayedForLaughs in an AprilFoolsDay one-shot where his family of ninjas (and gunslinging sidekick) is murdered by their only weakness: "Bullets... from a gun."
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* MacrossMissileMassacre: In a storm. A nasty storm. With '''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs pterodactyls]]'''.'''pterodactyls'''. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p23 Seriously]].
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* LamePunReaction: Invoked in the AltText, which says that it's easy to make a lame pun acceptable just by having the Doctor complain about it.
* LampshadeHanging: And what wonderful lampshading it is! It's ''everywhere'', even in the AltText. At one point, [=McNinja=] can't lampshade a plot because he's laughing too hard at the inanity of it all.
* LatexPerfection: Sean's "technomage" getup is pretty convincing. Dan's pirate costume successfully fooled a whole ''bar'' full of pirates. Though, the masks are typically only convincing [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p46/ when portraying weathered, wrinkly faces with obscuring facial hair]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted. When Gordito, who is physically less than five feet tall, and weighs maybe a hundred pounds, fires a shotgun, the recoil might reasonably be expected to knock him over. Instead, it ''propels'' him in an arc over the desk behind him and into a chair with enough force to topple it. Played straight with Doc a page or two later.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: As a result of his encounter with "the wizard", Doc is the only person on Earth who knows his real name.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After the Dr. catches a spy in his office and asks what he knows, he says that he knows that the Dr. talks into the wall sometimes, which may or may not be a reference to the Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts that occur at the end of every chapter. It gets {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* LethalChef: Mitzi's pickled beets are apparently just this side of edible, even when they're not poisoned.
* LetsGetDangerous, with BadassBoast: A rare instance where the hero says it on behalf of his sidekick. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p35 And it's awesome.]]
* LibationForTheDead: Well, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p83/ pizza]] for the dead.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Sparklelord.]]
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[invoked]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the AltText on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p52 this page]]. And then on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p80 this one]] too, for good measure.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p62 Inverted]]: ''losing'' to the giant robot causes everything to fall apart.
%%* LoanShark: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p27 Lampshaded and mocked]].
* LotusEaterMachine: When Sean McNinja is possessed by the Wizard Ghost he sees his father giving him a highly uncharacteristic hug while saying "computers are kinda cool", embracing his nerdy side. This was a part of the Ghost's possession process.
* LoveBubbles: When the Ultimate Diplomat pays you a compliment, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p99/ you know you've been complimented.]]
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* MadeOfExplodium: Averted, Doc actually settles for "two of three" since nothing will explode if he throws the BigBad off a cliff onto sharp rocks. He's satisfied with the end result.
** Played straight with the [[EveryCarIsAPinto multicar pileup]] blocking the road into town, and with [[ExplodingBarrels many a barrel]].
* MadeOfPlasticine: The clones of Old [=McNinja=], as they were made with low-quality cloning technology.
%%* TheMafia: Led by KING RADICAL.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: In a storm. A nasty storm. With '''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs pterodactyls]]'''. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p23 Seriously]].
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p88/ Dark Smoke Puncher's truck.]]
* MagicMusic: For Doc, the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme (see MusicalAssassin).
** At one point, a bystander mistakes it for Huey Lewis and the News' "I Want A New Drug" and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p14/ yells out the wrong chorus]], causing Dr McNinja to lose his "Ghostbusters ''ohm''".
* MagicPants: Averted in the "Monster Mart" arc, causing Doc to feel a [[HeroicBSOD crippling sense of physical inferiority]]. Inverted with Paul Bunyan's Disease, which actually makes clothes ''grow'' on the afflicted when they transform.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Showcased [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p29/ here]].
-->'''Judy''': Everyone is impressed because '''you were unconscious while he beat you for an hour'''.\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': Well, you were right. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I needed a nap]].
* ManOnFire:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ Dan does this to himself on purpose.]]
** Dr [=McLuchador=] sets the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services on fire, sends him off a skateboard trick ramp and into a tub of murky liquid. [[spoiler: The liquid completely heals the burns within seconds, proving to the people of Cumberland that [=McLuchador=] is a very competent doctor. And proving to King Radical that he is radical]].
** The [=McNinjas=] eventually face the one foe they don't know how to deal with: a pirate who's on fire[[note]][[BrickJoke Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire]][[/note]].
%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Sparklelord and King Radical]]
%%* MaskedLuchador: Dr. [=McLuchador=].
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Inocktec in "Death Volley": an ancient, generically-South-American people who invented the game of tennis and whose "tennis temple" houses a device (supposedly) capable of destroying the entire world.
* McNinja: The [[TropeNamer McNinja family]] originally hails from Ireland and immigrated to the United States at some point.
* MeatOVision: Implied [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p37 here]] [[AltText ("What Ben sees is a man with dreadlocks made of fried chicken legs.")]]
* MechaMooks:
** In Issue One Half, Dr. [=McNinja=] starts viciously slaughtering the employees at [=McBonalds=], revealing them to be robots. At the end, he thoroughly {{Lampshade}}s the fact that he would have looked like a serial killer if they hadn't been robots.
** The Inocktec temple guards.
* MergedReality: The Dr.'s universe exists between our world and the Radical Lands, and as such is a balance between mundane and awesome. [[spoiler:King Radical's main motive is to save the dying Radical Lands by throwing the Dr.'s universe out of balance in favor of radicalness, which will result in the two worlds merging and erasing everything too mundane in the Dr.'s world in the process]].
* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:Doc got Benjamin Franklin II to make clones of him who would acquire as much knowledge as possible, and later join together so Doc would gain decades of knowledge instantly.]]
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: At the beginning [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p20 here]] and in the alt-text [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p65/ here.]]
* MeteorMove: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p42 Through at least two decks.]]
* MetronomicManMashing: A gorilla who caught Doc by surprise does this to him, and [[CurbstompBattle continues long after he has fallen unconscious and woken again]].
* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p1/ Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja]]" opens with one, with Ben in the Michael role (complete with V-jacket!). Turns out it was [[AllJustADream Doc's nightmare]]... and then the actual ninja zombies show up.
* MightyLumberjack: Lumberjacking makes people susceptible to Paul Bunyan's Disease, which causes those it affects to turn into a giant lumberjack who is "enraged at how many trees still stand within his vicinity."
* MindControlEyes
* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Happens a fair bit:
** Played for laughs on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9 this page]]: "James! The leader of our group. He invented jet boots, and he used them to kick people."
** And then there's Martin, who is basically The Hulk, who uses his ability to advertise his chain of super-markets. [[spoiler:Oh, and do work for the mafia]].
** But easily topping them both: Using a [[TimeTravel Time Portal]] for [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p36/ garbage disposal.]] And a septic tank, somehow.
* MistakenForTerrorist: Doc on a plane. It's an honest mistake.
* MobBossSuitFitting: When [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p34/ Donald [=McBonald=] mistakes King Radical for the Burger King]], the latter decides to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p35/ update this wardrobe]].
* MockGuffin: The book of Inocktek technology from "Death Volley" supposedly contains all the great cultural and technological treasures of the ancient Inocktek people. However, when it gets translated, it turns out to be twelve hundred pages about how great tennis is (with a healthy amount of racist overtones). [[spoiler: Later we learn that the real book, that contains the secrets of the Radical Land, actually got switched out by Hortense on the plane ride back to the USA.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The next page after the [[TearJerker rather heartbreaking ending]] of ''First Generation Ninja American'' was delayed for a few days due to Chris Hastings' drawing tablet breaking, which gave fans time to think about the revelations of the chapter and think about what it meant for the comic as a whole. When it returned, the first page of the next storyline has a news anchor sitting prepared to do the morning news...[[ElephantInTheRoom but is incredibly nervous due to the raptor breathing down his neck.]]
--> '''News Anchor''': In sports n--\\
'''Dinosaur''': '''RAAAAAAAAAA'''\\
'''AltText''': Why yes, screwing with news anchors IS a theme of this comic.
* MoodyMount: Yoshi the raptor won't let anyone but Gordito ride him. Unless Gordito is in danger.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Even though doctors are sworn to take no life, there's no shortage of grisly deaths at the hands of the titular character.
* MundaneAfterlife: Purgatory is a restaurant. With really bad service. The worst. The existence of Heaven and Hell is implied, however.
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** The Crater of Racial Tolerance.
** In order to save the world, humanity's champion must [[spoiler:play tennis against an ancient robot.]]
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67 awesomely firing a plumber.]]
** The AltText makes this into a RunningGag by providing absurdly mundane explanations for characters acting in a dramatic manner. Example: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p5 "I need to get MY SLIPPERS."]]
--->'''Bee Man:''' That was... the most ''menacing'' promise of dine and dash I've ever seen.
** How can shamrocks be made cool? By having frozen versions of them be used as throwing stars.
* MundaneSolution: How does Gordito and Judy deal with the Victor, the half-spy-half-plumber? [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67/ They fire him and hire someone else.]] Of course, the comic makes it out to be very [[MundaneMadeAwesome awesome]].
* MundaneUtility: According to the AltText from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p85 this]] page: "Everything in the [=McNinja=] household has hidden displays for security alerts. They are also wired to the microwave, so they know when pizza bagels are done."
* MusicalAssassin: Doc becomes one when he runs out of holy weapons to use against the third [[spoiler:Nasaghast]]. Inspired by a memory of his dad, he proceeds to spend four pages doing nothing except humming the [[MagicMusic theme from Ghostbusters]]. It begins with him tentatively humming it, but culminates with him screaming the finale as he does [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 this]] and then [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p69 this]].
** He does it again [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p13/ here]].
* MustMakeAmends: [[spoiler: After he had to screw over the Friend Brothers while infiltrating King Radical's court, Doc makes sure to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p81/ pay them back]].]]
* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: Or rather ''My Motorbike Is A'' ''[[spoiler: Unicorn]]''.
* MysteriousBacker: Ben's "eternal life serum" research was backed by a reclusive Eastern European billionaire, who gave his name as {{Alucard}}. Cue HeadDesk from Dr. [=McNinja=].
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Agent Bearclaw. Ninja names apparently take this route if Dark Smoke Puncher is anything to go by. Mitzi and Dan just use their real names.
* {{Necromantic}}: [[spoiler:In a village of sapient gorillas, the village doctor desperately wanted to bring his wife, who died of illness, BackFromTheDead. Towards this end, he murdered other women and used their body parts in an attempt to repair her. According to Dr. [=McNinja=], the pseudo science involved could never have worked, but thanks to magic from ThePowerOfLove, she ''does'' comes back. As a MultipleHeadCase. Enraged at her new state, she ultimately drags her husband with her when she falls to her death.]]
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Dark Smoke Puncher.
* NewhartPhonecall: Played abnormally straight in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p40 this strip]].
* NewspaperDating: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p29 Parodied.]]
--> '''Newspaper''': It is Oct 4th, 1979! That's it. Nothing is going on. Slow day. No one even died.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p53 Uh oh.]]
-->'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': NO! It can't be! I was pretty sure you were dead!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mitzi accuses Gordito of this when he knocks out a possessed Dark Smoke Puncher rather than shooting him, ostensibly making her kill him instead. Gordito [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]], however.
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe RealLifeWritesThePlot example in Dr. Knickerbockers, the [[SlasherSmile crazy smiling]], [[EvilLaugh evil laughing]] midget doctor. Apparently [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p40 a similar being haunts Kent Archer's nightmares]], making it grievously difficult for him to ink pages in which Knickerbockers appears.
** Naturally, the AltText takes a dig at this: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p9 "Kent took a really long time to ink the last panel. He kept getting tears and vomit all over the page."]]
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p4 the opening pages of chapter 17]]. "From now on this comic is going to be 100% Chris Hastings Nightmare Diaries."
** And don't forget: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p27 When I say "HAPPY" you say "BIRTHDAY"!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p89 Early cloning experiments.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p56 NASA's security system.]]
%%* {{Ninja}}: Doc and his family.
* NGOSuperPower: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p31 King Radical]] appears to have his own private army.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Too many instances to name.
** NinjaPirateZombieRobot Monkey Clown BANDITO WEREWOLVES. Well, not in that order.
* NoFullNameGiven: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with "''Now I know you've never been to my office, so you've never seen the degree that hangs by my desk. So I will let you know -- it's made out to ''Dr.'' [=McNinja=], not ''Judas'' [=McNinja=].''" Later [[HandWave handwaved]] when [[spoiler:talking to his clone, "''You never told anybody our name, did you? 'Cause, you know... [[NoodleIncident the wizard]].''"]] The reason is later shown in "First Generation Ninja American." [[spoiler:As a kid, he and his grandfather got in over their heads when a simple assassination turned into a fight against a really powerful ghost wizard. His name and his grandfather's life were the price paid to seal the ghost wizard.]]
* NoKillLikeOverkill: President Funkhowser donates some of her blood for the doctor to perform tests on. A fish tank full.
-->'''President Funkhowser:''' [[CrazyPrepared In case you need enough to fill a pig with it and do experiments on the pig.]] I don't know how you people do things. Get to work.
%%* NoSell: Catholic School nuns learned long ago to resist mustaches of authority.
* NoodleIncident:
** In "Army of One."
--->'''Dan:''' Who would call us on Katanaka?\\
'''Mitzi:''' Your father's still dead, right?\\
'''Dan:''' Well, we'll never be sure, but I don't think he'd just call.
** Un-noodled as of "First Generation Ninja American."
** [[spoiler:Where Dan got the skeletons in "The End: Part 1" to fake the deaths of Gordito (a child), Judy (an adult gorilla), and Yoshi (a velociraptor), though judging by the look in his eyes when he says that where he got the latter two skeletons was more interesting, he clearly enjoyed it.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Despite glaring Death in the face, Frans Rayner survived falling off of a cliff and landing on sharp rocks. When the rocks pierced his head, he ''swallowed half of his brain'' to prevent damage to it]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dark Smoke Puncher, who tries to hide his GadgeteerGenius tendencies and general geekery behind a facade of bad slang and acting cool.
* ObstructiveBureaucracy: Whoever decides the budget for Washington D.C. The city was designed to transform into a GiantMecha but the project was never finished due to budget restraints.
* ObviouslyEvil: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22/ Victor.]]
* OffModel: "[[AltText So long, pirate ship I drew slightly differently in every panel.]]"
* OffscreenTeleportation: pulled by Mitzi on Gordito with a StealthHiBye [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p29 here]]
* OhCrap: "Rayner, party of one, your table is ready."
** King Radical provides a priceless example [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p38 here]].
** Happens three times in a row: Once with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p76 a space dinosaur]] and twice more with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p77 Doc]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p78 and Chuck]].
** When Doc, [[spoiler:undercover as Dr [=McLuchador=]]], has to take the ninja drug from D.A.R.E. He's internally freaking out over the fact that it was never tested on a life-trained, natural born ninja. And then he gets a ''double dose''.
*** When Doc's overdrived ninja instincts start spiraling out of control, you can see [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p81/ King Radical]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] making a ''terrified'' face.
** Franz Rayner, when he sees [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p138/ Maria Funkhouser return]], and all his men stop listening to him, as he's no longer the real President]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In a particularly strange way, too. Sean/Dark Smoke Puncher uses a lot of slang to try and conceal from his parents that he's a nerd. Occasionally, he'll forget it, or in the case of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p36/ this strip]], he forgets, and tries to tack it on at the end.
-->'''Sean''': Yeah, this is a prototype. It's designed to set off a contained chemical reaction so that whatever it's blowing up immediately converts to harmless fiber. It's a way to limit collateral damage... dawg.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Nasaghasts have shown an almost single-minded devotion to their GhostlyGoals of avenging attacked astronauts, to the point that they will endanger other astronauts and even the entire planet if necessary. And yet, when Doc points that out, the nasaghast actually responds with ShrugTake, which prompts a BigWhat from the Dr.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist:
** Ben Franklin cloned himself to enable a much longer than normal lifespan and has made quite a few scientific advancements in the process.
** With Ben Franklin II's help, the Doctor split himself into a number of clones, each of which went off and got a degree in a specific field. After a few years, the original and all of the clones rejoined into one body, the Doctor we know today, with ''all of the knowledge acquired'' from the clones -- except for one, which is why he doesn't know agricultural science.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Usually played straight, but averted at a critical moment. [[spoiler: Doc's many injuries missed his arteries and vital organs, but they were clearly life-threatening because he'd lost so much blood. Doc immediately left the field of battle and didn't return until he'd patched himself back up.]]
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Smoke Puncher revealed himself to be a Nerd when he called Gordito out for trying to impress his father with a line he ripped from ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', which Gordito quickly realises he would only know if he read the books.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Vengeful spirits that don't avenge themselves but any other astronauts who could be harmed. With an impressively NightmareFuel design [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p01/ to boot]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can be created through using TheDarkArts for ImmortalityImmorality, or by being drained of blood by an existing vampire. Vampires cannot be photographed or reflected. As far as weaknesses are concerned, they are compelled to count fallen grains of rice, are vulnerable to holy symbols, and they can be killed by wooden stakes or [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight]]. Sebastien's coven is comprised of languid, gothy vampires; Dracula has very evident strength, intelligence, and resourcefulness.
* OverlyLongGag:
** Almost - Chris Hastings originally planned to do an entire week of Dr. [=McNinja=] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p33 falling down stairs]]. Instead, it became just one strip. Of course, [[UnreliableNarrator who knows if he was telling the truth?]]
** Played with again in the AltText to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p23 this]] strip: six more pages of bodies getting disintegrated and mashed together!
** Eventually played straight with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/18p4 the second panel]] of the "Judy Gets a Kitten" story arc, in which the good doctor is still going on about what to get at the supermarket from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/18p1 before]].
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* LamePunReaction: Invoked in the AltText, which says that it's easy to make a lame pun acceptable just by having the Doctor complain about it.
* LampshadeHanging: And what wonderful lampshading it is! It's ''everywhere'', even in the AltText. At one point, [=McNinja=] can't lampshade a plot because he's laughing too hard at the inanity of it all.
* LatexPerfection: Sean's "technomage" getup is pretty convincing. Dan's pirate costume successfully fooled a whole ''bar'' full of pirates. Though, the masks are typically only convincing [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p46/ when portraying weathered, wrinkly faces with obscuring facial hair]].
* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted. When Gordito, who is physically less than five feet tall, and weighs maybe a hundred pounds, fires a shotgun, the recoil might reasonably be expected to knock him over. Instead, it ''propels'' him in an arc over the desk behind him and into a chair with enough force to topple it. Played straight with Doc a page or two later.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: As a result of his encounter with "the wizard", Doc is the only person on Earth who knows his real name.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After the Dr. catches a spy in his office and asks what he knows, he says that he knows that the Dr. talks into the wall sometimes, which may or may not be a reference to the Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts that occur at the end of every chapter. It gets {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* LethalChef: Mitzi's pickled beets are apparently just this side of edible, even when they're not poisoned.
* LetsGetDangerous, with BadassBoast: A rare instance where the hero says it on behalf of his sidekick. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p35 And it's awesome.]]
* LibationForTheDead: Well, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p83/ pizza]] for the dead.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:Sparklelord.]]
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[invoked]] [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the AltText on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p52 this page]]. And then on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p80 this one]] too, for good measure.
* LoadBearingBoss: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p62 Inverted]]: ''losing'' to the giant robot causes everything to fall apart.
%%* LoanShark: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p27 Lampshaded and mocked]].
* LotusEaterMachine: When Sean McNinja is possessed by the Wizard Ghost he sees his father giving him a highly uncharacteristic hug while saying "computers are kinda cool", embracing his nerdy side. This was a part of the Ghost's possession process.
* LoveBubbles: When the Ultimate Diplomat pays you a compliment, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p99/ you know you've been complimented.]]
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* MadeOfExplodium: Averted, Doc actually settles for "two of three" since nothing will explode if he throws the BigBad off a cliff onto sharp rocks. He's satisfied with the end result.
** Played straight with the [[EveryCarIsAPinto multicar pileup]] blocking the road into town, and with [[ExplodingBarrels many a barrel]].
* MadeOfPlasticine: The clones of Old [=McNinja=], as they were made with low-quality cloning technology.
%%* TheMafia: Led by KING RADICAL.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: In a storm. A nasty storm. With '''[[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs pterodactyls]]'''. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p23 Seriously]].
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p88/ Dark Smoke Puncher's truck.]]
* MagicMusic: For Doc, the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme (see MusicalAssassin).
** At one point, a bystander mistakes it for Huey Lewis and the News' "I Want A New Drug" and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p14/ yells out the wrong chorus]], causing Dr McNinja to lose his "Ghostbusters ''ohm''".
* MagicPants: Averted in the "Monster Mart" arc, causing Doc to feel a [[HeroicBSOD crippling sense of physical inferiority]]. Inverted with Paul Bunyan's Disease, which actually makes clothes ''grow'' on the afflicted when they transform.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Showcased [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p29/ here]].
-->'''Judy''': Everyone is impressed because '''you were unconscious while he beat you for an hour'''.\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': Well, you were right. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint I needed a nap]].
* ManOnFire:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ Dan does this to himself on purpose.]]
** Dr [=McLuchador=] sets the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services on fire, sends him off a skateboard trick ramp and into a tub of murky liquid. [[spoiler: The liquid completely heals the burns within seconds, proving to the people of Cumberland that [=McLuchador=] is a very competent doctor. And proving to King Radical that he is radical]].
** The [=McNinjas=] eventually face the one foe they don't know how to deal with: a pirate who's on fire[[note]][[BrickJoke Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire]][[/note]].
%%* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Sparklelord and King Radical]]
%%* MaskedLuchador: Dr. [=McLuchador=].
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Inocktec in "Death Volley": an ancient, generically-South-American people who invented the game of tennis and whose "tennis temple" houses a device (supposedly) capable of destroying the entire world.
* McNinja: The [[TropeNamer McNinja family]] originally hails from Ireland and immigrated to the United States at some point.
* MeatOVision: Implied [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p37 here]] [[AltText ("What Ben sees is a man with dreadlocks made of fried chicken legs.")]]
* MechaMooks:
** In Issue One Half, Dr. [=McNinja=] starts viciously slaughtering the employees at [=McBonalds=], revealing them to be robots. At the end, he thoroughly {{Lampshade}}s the fact that he would have looked like a serial killer if they hadn't been robots.
** The Inocktec temple guards.
* MergedReality: The Dr.'s universe exists between our world and the Radical Lands, and as such is a balance between mundane and awesome. [[spoiler:King Radical's main motive is to save the dying Radical Lands by throwing the Dr.'s universe out of balance in favor of radicalness, which will result in the two worlds merging and erasing everything too mundane in the Dr.'s world in the process]].
* MesACrowd: [[spoiler:Doc got Benjamin Franklin II to make clones of him who would acquire as much knowledge as possible, and later join together so Doc would gain decades of knowledge instantly.]]
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: At the beginning [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p20 here]] and in the alt-text [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p65/ here.]]
* MeteorMove: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p42 Through at least two decks.]]
* MetronomicManMashing: A gorilla who caught Doc by surprise does this to him, and [[CurbstompBattle continues long after he has fallen unconscious and woken again]].
* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p1/ Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja]]" opens with one, with Ben in the Michael role (complete with V-jacket!). Turns out it was [[AllJustADream Doc's nightmare]]... and then the actual ninja zombies show up.
* MightyLumberjack: Lumberjacking makes people susceptible to Paul Bunyan's Disease, which causes those it affects to turn into a giant lumberjack who is "enraged at how many trees still stand within his vicinity."
* MindControlEyes
* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Happens a fair bit:
** Played for laughs on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9 this page]]: "James! The leader of our group. He invented jet boots, and he used them to kick people."
** And then there's Martin, who is basically The Hulk, who uses his ability to advertise his chain of super-markets. [[spoiler:Oh, and do work for the mafia]].
** But easily topping them both: Using a [[TimeTravel Time Portal]] for [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p36/ garbage disposal.]] And a septic tank, somehow.
* MistakenForTerrorist: Doc on a plane. It's an honest mistake.
* MobBossSuitFitting: When [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p34/ Donald [=McBonald=] mistakes King Radical for the Burger King]], the latter decides to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p35/ update this wardrobe]].
* MockGuffin: The book of Inocktek technology from "Death Volley" supposedly contains all the great cultural and technological treasures of the ancient Inocktek people. However, when it gets translated, it turns out to be twelve hundred pages about how great tennis is (with a healthy amount of racist overtones). [[spoiler: Later we learn that the real book, that contains the secrets of the Radical Land, actually got switched out by Hortense on the plane ride back to the USA.]]
* MoodWhiplash: The next page after the [[TearJerker rather heartbreaking ending]] of ''First Generation Ninja American'' was delayed for a few days due to Chris Hastings' drawing tablet breaking, which gave fans time to think about the revelations of the chapter and think about what it meant for the comic as a whole. When it returned, the first page of the next storyline has a news anchor sitting prepared to do the morning news...[[ElephantInTheRoom but is incredibly nervous due to the raptor breathing down his neck.]]
--> '''News Anchor''': In sports n--\\
'''Dinosaur''': '''RAAAAAAAAAA'''\\
'''AltText''': Why yes, screwing with news anchors IS a theme of this comic.
* MoodyMount: Yoshi the raptor won't let anyone but Gordito ride him. Unless Gordito is in danger.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Even though doctors are sworn to take no life, there's no shortage of grisly deaths at the hands of the titular character.
* MundaneAfterlife: Purgatory is a restaurant. With really bad service. The worst. The existence of Heaven and Hell is implied, however.
* MundaneMadeAwesome:
** The Crater of Racial Tolerance.
** In order to save the world, humanity's champion must [[spoiler:play tennis against an ancient robot.]]
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67 awesomely firing a plumber.]]
** The AltText makes this into a RunningGag by providing absurdly mundane explanations for characters acting in a dramatic manner. Example: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p5 "I need to get MY SLIPPERS."]]
--->'''Bee Man:''' That was... the most ''menacing'' promise of dine and dash I've ever seen.
** How can shamrocks be made cool? By having frozen versions of them be used as throwing stars.
* MundaneSolution: How does Gordito and Judy deal with the Victor, the half-spy-half-plumber? [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67/ They fire him and hire someone else.]] Of course, the comic makes it out to be very [[MundaneMadeAwesome awesome]].
* MundaneUtility: According to the AltText from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p85 this]] page: "Everything in the [=McNinja=] household has hidden displays for security alerts. They are also wired to the microwave, so they know when pizza bagels are done."
* MusicalAssassin: Doc becomes one when he runs out of holy weapons to use against the third [[spoiler:Nasaghast]]. Inspired by a memory of his dad, he proceeds to spend four pages doing nothing except humming the [[MagicMusic theme from Ghostbusters]]. It begins with him tentatively humming it, but culminates with him screaming the finale as he does [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 this]] and then [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p69 this]].
** He does it again [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p13/ here]].
* MustMakeAmends: [[spoiler: After he had to screw over the Friend Brothers while infiltrating King Radical's court, Doc makes sure to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p81/ pay them back]].]]
* MyHorseIsAMotorbike: Or rather ''My Motorbike Is A'' ''[[spoiler: Unicorn]]''.
* MysteriousBacker: Ben's "eternal life serum" research was backed by a reclusive Eastern European billionaire, who gave his name as {{Alucard}}. Cue HeadDesk from Dr. [=McNinja=].
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Agent Bearclaw. Ninja names apparently take this route if Dark Smoke Puncher is anything to go by. Mitzi and Dan just use their real names.
* {{Necromantic}}: [[spoiler:In a village of sapient gorillas, the village doctor desperately wanted to bring his wife, who died of illness, BackFromTheDead. Towards this end, he murdered other women and used their body parts in an attempt to repair her. According to Dr. [=McNinja=], the pseudo science involved could never have worked, but thanks to magic from ThePowerOfLove, she ''does'' comes back. As a MultipleHeadCase. Enraged at her new state, she ultimately drags her husband with her when she falls to her death.]]
* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Dark Smoke Puncher.
* NewhartPhonecall: Played abnormally straight in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p40 this strip]].
* NewspaperDating: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p29 Parodied.]]
--> '''Newspaper''': It is Oct 4th, 1979! That's it. Nothing is going on. Slow day. No one even died.
* NeverFoundTheBody: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p53 Uh oh.]]
-->'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': NO! It can't be! I was pretty sure you were dead!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mitzi accuses Gordito of this when he knocks out a possessed Dark Smoke Puncher rather than shooting him, ostensibly making her kill him instead. Gordito [[TakeAThirdOption takes a third option]], however.
* NightmareFuel: An in-universe RealLifeWritesThePlot example in Dr. Knickerbockers, the [[SlasherSmile crazy smiling]], [[EvilLaugh evil laughing]] midget doctor. Apparently [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p40 a similar being haunts Kent Archer's nightmares]], making it grievously difficult for him to ink pages in which Knickerbockers appears.
** Naturally, the AltText takes a dig at this: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p9 "Kent took a really long time to ink the last panel. He kept getting tears and vomit all over the page."]]
** Also, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p4 the opening pages of chapter 17]]. "From now on this comic is going to be 100% Chris Hastings Nightmare Diaries."
** And don't forget: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p27 When I say "HAPPY" you say "BIRTHDAY"!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p89 Early cloning experiments.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p56 NASA's security system.]]
%%* {{Ninja}}: Doc and his family.
* NGOSuperPower: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p31 King Radical]] appears to have his own private army.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Too many instances to name.
** NinjaPirateZombieRobot Monkey Clown BANDITO WEREWOLVES. Well, not in that order.
* NoFullNameGiven: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with "''Now I know you've never been to my office, so you've never seen the degree that hangs by my desk. So I will let you know -- it's made out to ''Dr.'' [=McNinja=], not ''Judas'' [=McNinja=].''" Later [[HandWave handwaved]] when [[spoiler:talking to his clone, "''You never told anybody our name, did you? 'Cause, you know... [[NoodleIncident the wizard]].''"]] The reason is later shown in "First Generation Ninja American." [[spoiler:As a kid, he and his grandfather got in over their heads when a simple assassination turned into a fight against a really powerful ghost wizard. His name and his grandfather's life were the price paid to seal the ghost wizard.]]
* NoKillLikeOverkill: President Funkhowser donates some of her blood for the doctor to perform tests on. A fish tank full.
-->'''President Funkhowser:''' [[CrazyPrepared In case you need enough to fill a pig with it and do experiments on the pig.]] I don't know how you people do things. Get to work.
%%* NoSell: Catholic School nuns learned long ago to resist mustaches of authority.
* NoodleIncident:
** In "Army of One."
--->'''Dan:''' Who would call us on Katanaka?\\
'''Mitzi:''' Your father's still dead, right?\\
'''Dan:''' Well, we'll never be sure, but I don't think he'd just call.
** Un-noodled as of "First Generation Ninja American."
** [[spoiler:Where Dan got the skeletons in "The End: Part 1" to fake the deaths of Gordito (a child), Judy (an adult gorilla), and Yoshi (a velociraptor), though judging by the look in his eyes when he says that where he got the latter two skeletons was more interesting, he clearly enjoyed it.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Despite glaring Death in the face, Frans Rayner survived falling off of a cliff and landing on sharp rocks. When the rocks pierced his head, he ''swallowed half of his brain'' to prevent damage to it]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dark Smoke Puncher, who tries to hide his GadgeteerGenius tendencies and general geekery behind a facade of bad slang and acting cool.
* ObstructiveBureaucracy: Whoever decides the budget for Washington D.C. The city was designed to transform into a GiantMecha but the project was never finished due to budget restraints.
* ObviouslyEvil: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22/ Victor.]]
* OffModel: "[[AltText So long, pirate ship I drew slightly differently in every panel.]]"
* OffscreenTeleportation: pulled by Mitzi on Gordito with a StealthHiBye [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p29 here]]
* OhCrap: "Rayner, party of one, your table is ready."
** King Radical provides a priceless example [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p38 here]].
** Happens three times in a row: Once with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p76 a space dinosaur]] and twice more with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p77 Doc]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p78 and Chuck]].
** When Doc, [[spoiler:undercover as Dr [=McLuchador=]]], has to take the ninja drug from D.A.R.E. He's internally freaking out over the fact that it was never tested on a life-trained, natural born ninja. And then he gets a ''double dose''.
*** When Doc's overdrived ninja instincts start spiraling out of control, you can see [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p81/ King Radical]] [[FunnyBackgroundEvent in the background]] making a ''terrified'' face.
** Franz Rayner, when he sees [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p138/ Maria Funkhouser return]], and all his men stop listening to him, as he's no longer the real President]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In a particularly strange way, too. Sean/Dark Smoke Puncher uses a lot of slang to try and conceal from his parents that he's a nerd. Occasionally, he'll forget it, or in the case of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p36/ this strip]], he forgets, and tries to tack it on at the end.
-->'''Sean''': Yeah, this is a prototype. It's designed to set off a contained chemical reaction so that whatever it's blowing up immediately converts to harmless fiber. It's a way to limit collateral damage... dawg.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Nasaghasts have shown an almost single-minded devotion to their GhostlyGoals of avenging attacked astronauts, to the point that they will endanger other astronauts and even the entire planet if necessary. And yet, when Doc points that out, the nasaghast actually responds with ShrugTake, which prompts a BigWhat from the Dr.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist:
** Ben Franklin cloned himself to enable a much longer than normal lifespan and has made quite a few scientific advancements in the process.
** With Ben Franklin II's help, the Doctor split himself into a number of clones, each of which went off and got a degree in a specific field. After a few years, the original and all of the clones rejoined into one body, the Doctor we know today, with ''all of the knowledge acquired'' from the clones -- except for one, which is why he doesn't know agricultural science.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Usually played straight, but averted at a critical moment. [[spoiler: Doc's many injuries missed his arteries and vital organs, but they were clearly life-threatening because he'd lost so much blood. Doc immediately left the field of battle and didn't return until he'd patched himself back up.]]
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Smoke Puncher revealed himself to be a Nerd when he called Gordito out for trying to impress his father with a line he ripped from ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', which Gordito quickly realises he would only know if he read the books.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Vengeful spirits that don't avenge themselves but any other astronauts who could be harmed. With an impressively NightmareFuel design [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p01/ to boot]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires can be created through using TheDarkArts for ImmortalityImmorality, or by being drained of blood by an existing vampire. Vampires cannot be photographed or reflected. As far as weaknesses are concerned, they are compelled to count fallen grains of rice, are vulnerable to holy symbols, and they can be killed by wooden stakes or [[WeakenedByTheLight sunlight]]. Sebastien's coven is comprised of languid, gothy vampires; Dracula has very evident strength, intelligence, and resourcefulness.
* OverlyLongGag:
** Almost - Chris Hastings originally planned to do an entire week of Dr. [=McNinja=] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p33 falling down stairs]]. Instead, it became just one strip. Of course, [[UnreliableNarrator who knows if he was telling the truth?]]
** Played with again in the AltText to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p23 this]] strip: six more pages of bodies getting disintegrated and mashed together!
** Eventually played straight with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/18p4 the second panel]] of the "Judy Gets a Kitten" story arc, in which the good doctor is still going on about what to get at the supermarket from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/18p1 before]].
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