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* TapOnTheHead: Includes both the 'neck chop' and PistolWhipping variants. Still, you know... ''ninja''.
* TakeAThirdOption:
** After running a poll to determine whether to shade the comic or only use line drawings, Hastings decided to hire another person on to the [=McNinja=] team to do the coloring.
** In AWOL MD, Gordito has to figure out which teacher at school is actually a demon. Since the demon only showed up recently, he checks which teachers are new, and finds that there are only two new teachers; the Gym teacher and the English teacher. He ends up [[spoiler: being wrong either way, because the demon actually pulled a DeadPersonImpersonation of the Math teacher]].
*** [[spoiler: However, it is later revealed that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ the Gym teacher was also a demon]]. Or an everliving folktale. Still evil either way.]]
* TakeThat:
** The [=McDonalds=] {{Expy}}, [=McBonalds=] gives quite a few.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p24 Jack Chick was right!]]
** Also one to Paula Deen in AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p20 this issue]]
** Check the AltText [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p5 here]].
** Blowing up [[spoiler:US Congress]] results in King Radical receiving near unanimous praise.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Dan and Mitzi to the Horrorsaurus in the BadFuture.]]
* [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat The Poster Knew You Didn't Read All Of It]]: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ A poster]] that detailed the recent plot points to [[TheWatson Chuck Goodrich]] ends with the text: "I KNOW YOU DIDN'T READ ALL OF IT. DO IT AGAIN."
* TakeAThirdOption:
** After running a poll to determine whether to shade the comic or only use line drawings, Hastings decided to hire another person on to the [=McNinja=] team to do the coloring.
** In AWOL MD, Gordito has to figure out which teacher at school is actually a demon. Since the demon only showed up recently, he checks which teachers are new, and finds that there are only two new teachers; the Gym teacher and the English teacher. He ends up [[spoiler: being wrong either way, because the demon actually pulled a DeadPersonImpersonation of the Math teacher]].
*** [[spoiler: However, it is later revealed that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ the Gym teacher was also a demon]]. Or an everliving folktale. Still evil either way.]]
* TakeThat:
** The [=McDonalds=] {{Expy}}, [=McBonalds=] gives quite a few.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p24 Jack Chick was right!]]
** Also one to Paula Deen in AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p20 this issue]]
** Check the AltText [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p5 here]].
** Blowing up [[spoiler:US Congress]] results in King Radical receiving near unanimous praise.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Dan and Mitzi to the Horrorsaurus in the BadFuture.]]
* [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat The Poster Knew You Didn't Read All Of It]]: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ A poster]] that detailed the recent plot points to [[TheWatson Chuck Goodrich]] ends with the text: "I KNOW YOU DIDN'T READ ALL OF IT. DO IT AGAIN."
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* Technobabble: In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p13/ this page]], the comic barely tries, simply having the Dr. say "science science", which is {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* 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]].
* 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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* Technobabble: {{Technobabble}}: In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p13/ this page]], the comic barely tries, simply having the Dr. say "science science", which is {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* 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]].AltText.
* 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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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Again, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p27 Doctor. Ninja. Etc.]]
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Again, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p27 Doctor. Ninja. Etc.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Mitzi]], ever since being inflicted with Mummy's Curse. Most obvious in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p63/ this]] comic.
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* TraitorShot: Lampshaded by "Victor the plumber" in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22 this comic]].
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* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p42/ here.]]
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* UnfinishedBusiness: A pizza for Ben Franklin II.
* UnflinchingWalk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p20 Lampshaded]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 here.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p96/ McNinjas know the rule.]]
* {{Unicorn}}: [[spoiler: Sparklelord the motorcycle.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 Beautiful.]]
* UnflinchingWalk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p20 Lampshaded]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 here.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p96/ McNinjas know the rule.]]
* {{Unicorn}}: [[spoiler: Sparklelord the motorcycle.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 Beautiful.]]
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* ViewersAreGoldfish: Parodied in the annotations from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p12 this]] page, then lampshaded in the AltText.
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* WallOfText: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p20/ This strip]], among other examples. Lampshaded in the AltText.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: King Radical, with emphasis on the extremist part.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted and played for gallows humor: The Doctor thinks (almost) nothing of occasionally killing security guards and drug-enhanced ninja mooks, and he gets chewed out for this, big time.
** This is a major plot point in the first arc, where the Doctor actually has nightmares of all the mooks he killed coming back as zombies to get him. When the zombies actually DO come, he truly believes they wanted to came back to life just to get revenge.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Doc has no moral conflicts about unleashing his awesome-fu on anything the Hippocratic Oath doesn't cover (robots, zombies, etc.)
** This is a major plot point in the first arc, where the Doctor actually has nightmares of all the mooks he killed coming back as zombies to get him. When the zombies actually DO come, he truly believes they wanted to came back to life just to get revenge.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Doc has no moral conflicts about unleashing his awesome-fu on anything the Hippocratic Oath doesn't cover (robots, zombies, etc.)
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted and played for gallows humor: The Doctor thinks (almost) nothing of occasionally killing security guards and drug-enhanced ninja mooks, and he gets chewed out for this, big time.
**time. This is a major plot point in the first arc, where the Doctor actually has nightmares of all the mooks he killed coming back as zombies to get him. When the zombies actually DO come, he truly believes they wanted to came back to life just to get revenge.
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* WindsOfDestinyChange: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9/ Christina]] can cause "miracles" to happen, defined as [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane events with a low posibility of occurance]].
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**[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9/ Christina]] can cause "miracles" to happen, defined as [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane events with a low posibility of occurance]].
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** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p02/ I don't know where the river finds all those nickels!! It just does.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p18 "I bet that I could catch the both of you if you were on fire."]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Invoked in the alt text. Hastings says he's often asked what he's on when he writes the comic, then admits he was drunk when he came up with the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p92/ Dubstep Quartet]].
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* TheyFightCrime: Played with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p21/ here]]:
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' I wouldn't say necessarily that [[InvokedTrope we fight crime]] so much as we... take care of problems that need to be solved with violence.
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' I wouldn't say necessarily that [[InvokedTrope we fight crime]] so much as we... take care of problems that need to be solved with violence.
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* WorldOfChaos: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world is already a WorldOfWeirdness. The Radical Lands take this UpToEleven. Everything follows RuleOfCool, the rituals are bizarre, and nearly everything is sentient, including the [[GeniusLoci land itself]]. In fact, the Radical Lands are ''so awesome'', that Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world has to force any element of them that gets imported to be reduced to something more mundane, just to avoid breaking reality.
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* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]] Lampshaded in Army of One, in which both ConservationOfNinjutsu and ConservationOfCompetence work against the Doc for once.
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** Mongo, who has since learned the value of life and refuses to kill (he also learned that [[HulkSpeak fire bad]])
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** The Doctor takes his Hippocratic Oath seriously, most of the time.
** Mongo, who has since learned the value of life and refuses to kill (he also learned that [[HulkSpeakfire: fire bad]])
** The Doctor takes his Hippocratic Oath seriously, most of the time.
** Mongo, who has since learned the value of life and refuses to kill (he also learned that [[HulkSpeak
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* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: Why Dracula didn't use his moon base laser during the dinosaur invasion.]]
-->'''[[AffablyEvil Dracula]]''': They usually don't ''like'' [[spoiler:the laser]].
-->'''[[AffablyEvil Dracula]]''': They usually don't ''like'' [[spoiler:the laser]].
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* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: Why Dracula didn't [[AffablyEvil Dracula]] [[spoiler:didn't use his moon base laser during the dinosaur invasion.]]
-->'''[[AffablyEvil Dracula]]''': -->'''Dracula''': They usually don't ''like'' [[spoiler:the laser]].
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* TactfulTranslation: In the prequel adventure, we see that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p33/ the guy really needs someone to edit his words]] when dealing with gorillas he'd constantly accidentally offend.
* TapOnTheHead: Includes both the 'neck chop' and PistolWhipping variants. Still, you know... ''ninja''.
* TakeAThirdOption:
** After running a poll to determine whether to shade the comic or only use line drawings, Hastings decided to hire another person on to the [=McNinja=] team to do the coloring.
** In AWOL MD, Gordito has to figure out which teacher at school is actually a demon. Since the demon only showed up recently, he checks which teachers are new, and finds that there are only two new teachers; the Gym teacher and the English teacher. He ends up [[spoiler: being wrong either way, because the demon actually pulled a DeadPersonImpersonation of the Math teacher]].
*** [[spoiler: However, it is later revealed that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ the Gym teacher was also a demon]]. Or an everliving folktale. Still evil either way.]]
* TakeThat:
** The [=McDonalds=] {{Expy}}, [=McBonalds=] gives quite a few.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p24 Jack Chick was right!]]
** Also one to Paula Deen in AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p20 this issue]]
** Check the AltText [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p5 here]].
** Blowing up [[spoiler:US Congress]] results in King Radical receiving near unanimous praise.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Dan and Mitzi to the Horrorsaurus in the BadFuture.]]
* [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat The Poster Knew You Didn't Read All Of It]]: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ A poster]] that detailed the recent plot points to [[TheWatson Chuck Goodrich]] ends with the text: "I KNOW YOU DIDN'T READ ALL OF IT. DO IT AGAIN."
* TechnicalPacifist: The Doctor takes his Hippocratic Oath seriously, most of the time.
** Mongo, who has since learned the value of life and refuses to kill (he also learned that [[HulkSpeak fire: bad]])
*** And Gorilla + Bazooka > Mongo
* Technobabble: In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p13/ this page]], the comic barely tries, simply having the Dr. say "science science", which is {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* 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]].
* ThemeNaming: The titles of Radical Land's knights are based on card suits. Ron Wizard is Sir Cowabunga of Clubs, [[spoiler:King Radical/Charles 'Chuck' Goodrich]] was once Sir Sicknasty of Spades, [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] was Sir Hellacious of Hearts, and there was also Dame Dudeical of Diamonds.
* TheyFightCrime: Played with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p21/ here]]:
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' I wouldn't say necessarily that [[InvokedTrope we fight crime]] so much as we... take care of problems that need to be solved with violence.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Again, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p27 Doctor. Ninja. Etc.]]
* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:King Radical overthrows the U.S. government and has Dr. [=McNinja=] declared an enemy of the state. He proceeds to have the Dr. imprisoned in a capsule at the deepest depths of the sea, rendering escape impossible for the Dr. on his own. Said location is also classified, to make it difficult for anyone to mount a rescue.]]
* TimeTravel: Apparently there's evidence for it all over the place: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Thomas Jefferson]], Sparklelord, Chuck Goodrich, and King Radical have all used or been affected by it.
* ToastedBuns: In one BadFuture, a man using a jetpack has horribly burnt legs from the experience. The lack of safety is justified: as he was given the jetpack and [[DeadlyGame set loose by dinosaurs who were paying to hunt him for sport,]] one would assume jetpack safety to be the least of his worries.
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Mitzi]], ever since being inflicted with Mummy's Curse. Most obvious in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p63/ this]] comic.
* TotallyRadical:
** Most of Sean's "cool" slang. Also the joke behind [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p16/ this]] priceless exchange:
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Come on! Let's go bust some asses! What, are you too cool to bust ass with your old man?\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': Dad, that means farting.\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': What, are you too cool to blast ass with your old man?\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': Diarrhea.\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': ''Damnit I want us to go injure people!''\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': That would be 'kick' ass.
** Subverted by King Radical. [[spoiler:Well, the latest one. The prior one went full bore.]]
** And played straight by [[spoiler: Ron Wizard]]
* TrainingFromHell: Doc's entire childhood and adolescence. Gordito gets a taste of it, complete with a TrainingMontage, when he visits the [=McNinja=] family
* TraitorShot: Lampshaded by "Victor the plumber" in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22 this comic]].
* TrustMeImADoctor: "You know who" feels it is important every once in a while to remind people who are having discussions with him that he's a doctor, even while [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p41 arguing with Death.]]
* TrialByFriendlyFire: When the US military attempts to murder [[spoiler:the Doctor and his clone on King Radical's behalf]], a Radical Land soldier asks a human soldier why he isn't firing. He expresses fear of hitting his comrades, but is told to risk it. He ends up hitting a HumanShield, and the targets {{Lampshade}} the fact that RockBeatsLaser because the military's laser guns are not meant for close combat.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p42/ here.]]
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Dark Horse Comics asked who would win; Dr [=McNinja=], or [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Saxton Hale]]? The winner is...[[spoiler:Saxton Hale, by a fair margin of votes. Oh well]].
* {{Ultraterrestrials}}: The asteroid that wiped out most (though not all) of Earth's dinosaurs threw some of them to a distant planet. Crazy space radiation allowed them to evolve to sapience. In timelines where they rediscover a sufficiently intact Earth, they launch an AlienInvasion and treat humans as second class citizens.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p85/ A one-person variant.]]
* UnexpectedVirgin: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73/ It's strongly implied]] that Doc is secretly a virgin. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p06/ Twice]] judging from the definition of "maidens".
* UnicornsPreferVirgins: "Doc Gets Rad" features Sparklelord, a unicorn from another universe who takes the form of a motorcycle when he enters the [=McNinja=] universe. He teams up with Doc [=McNinja=] against their mutual enemy, King Radical. At the end of the chapter, Doc's sidekick Gordito asks [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73/ "Don't unicorns only approach virgins?"]] Doc doesn't like the implications and quickly changes the subject.
* UnfinishedBusiness: A pizza for Ben Franklin II.
* UnflinchingWalk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p20 Lampshaded]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 here.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p96/ McNinjas know the rule.]]
* {{Unicorn}}: [[spoiler: Sparklelord the motorcycle.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 Beautiful.]]
* UniversalDriversLicense: Doc has operated everything from light aircraft to earthmoving equipment. Dan [=McNinja=] might have one too.
* TheUnreveal: We never see Dr. [=McNinja's=] face.
* UnsoundEffect: '''''CREEPEDOUTENOUGHTOBEEASILYTHROWNFROMTHEBIKE'''''.
** Also '''''CEASE AND DESISTED''''' at the end of the first story.
** ''Doc Gets Rad.'' gave us '''''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p6 SICKNASTY!]]''''' driving.
** Also, '''''WHCRUNCH'''''. The alt text parodies this by claiming it wasn't actually a sound effect and Doc just painted it on the ground, where someone landed there, face first.
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p03/ MAGIC!]]'''
** '''''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p15/ YOINKAROO]]'''''
** [[http://www.drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p16/ THE SWEETEST DUNK]]
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p81/ BANISHPOOF]]'''
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p40/ EXECUTIVE POWER]]'''
--->AltText: Other sound effect choices include "HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND"
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* VichyEarth: In the dinosaur timelines, a lot of the dinosaurs would love to just KillAllHumans, or at least deport them to someplace terrible. But enough dinosaurs are ambivalent or even sympathetic enough that the dinosaurs' government is forced to tolerate humans as second class citizens, at least until they can find someplace suitable to ship them to.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Parodied in the annotations from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p12 this]] page, then lampshaded in the AltText.
* VillainousBreakdown: King Radical hides under a blanket when he learns the nature of the Doctor's new motorcycle.
* VillainTeamUp: In the final arc, all of the Dr.'s major enemies ally against him, including King Radical, Dracula, Frans Rayner, [=McBonald=], and the Dr.'s own clone, Old [=McNinja=].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: King Radical is starting to become one.
** [[spoiler: Arguably he could just be showing what's BeneathTheMask as an outlaw with good intentions, very much like the Doctor (the difference being is that the Doctor isn't officially an outlaw; he just has to call "BASE!" to keep his record clean). Until TheReveal that is.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler: Sparklelord is a OmnicidalManiac who wants to destroy everything to take revenge on King Radical and possesses or manipulates people into being evil in order to do this. He's the only villain who isn't PlayedForLaughs and nearly uses his power to make Doc evil.]]
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[[folder:W]]
* WallOfText: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p20/ This strip]], among other examples. Lampshaded in the AltText.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: The abs guy (Justified in that there are probably no shirts that can accommodate his Organic Jet Pack) and Mongo.
%%* WarriorTherapist
* TheWatson: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ Chuck Goodrich]] becomes one so that Dr. [=McNinja=] can review what has been going on in the last few arcs, via a large poster.
* WeaksauceWeakness: McNinja threatens to reveal that one of the more humiliating vampire weaknesses (namely being compelled to count grains of rice) is real if they try to turn him
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner, after getting impaled through most of his body.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: The Doctor's motivation for most of his interactions with his family (mainly his mother), until he gets fed up with them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: King Radical, with emphasis on the extremist part.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p75/ The reveal of the true identity of King Radical.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/29p1/ "First Generation Ninja American"]] reveals why Doc's name is unknown and what happened to his grandfather.
** [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p120/ King Radical has been killed for good]].]]
** [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p128/ The building that Dr. [=McNinja=] was in has been blown up]], and with the good doctor having a combination {{HeroicBSOD}}/{{HeroicRROD}} at that moment, there's a good chance he simply let himself die]].
* WhamLine:
** Chuck Goodrich, '''[[spoiler: CHRONONAUT]]'''
** "Did I do something wrong?" "[[IncomingHam You did indeed, Doctor!]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p32/ You failed]]."
** [[spoiler: When King Radical laments that turning Cumberland into a giant mech didn't work because it only summoned Ron. Ron's response? "Oh my king...make the robot ''do something'']]."
** '''''[[spoiler: King Charles "Chuck" Goodrich: The Most Radical Man in the Radical Land]]'''''
** Pretty much any time the line [[spoiler: "Charles 'Chuck' Goodrich: (description)"]] appears.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p54/ Radical]].
** [[spoiler:"[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p40/ Sparklelord."]] ]]
** "[[spoiler:Patrick. My name is Dr. Patrick [=McNinja=].]]" And then subverted in that [[spoiler: Sparklelord]] is completely unimpressed by this revelation.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p61/ "We need to kill Dr. McNinja."]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p127/ "Do it."]]
* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]] Lampshaded in Army of One, in which both ConservationOfNinjutsu and ConservationOfCompetence work against the Doc for once.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Invoked in the alt text. Hastings says he's often asked what he's on when he writes the comic, then admits he was drunk when he came up with the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p92/ Dubstep Quartet]].
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted and played for gallows humor: The Doctor thinks (almost) nothing of occasionally killing security guards and drug-enhanced ninja mooks, and he gets chewed out for this, big time.
** This is a major plot point in the first arc, where the Doctor actually has nightmares of all the mooks he killed coming back as zombies to get him. When the zombies actually DO come, he truly believes they wanted to came back to life just to get revenge.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Doc has no moral conflicts about unleashing his awesome-fu on anything the Hippocratic Oath doesn't cover (robots, zombies, etc.)
** Bearclaw is haunted to the point of [[ProperlyParanoid paranoia]] by his previous treatment of dolphins when a group of them rescue him.
* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Subverted when Doc insists that they save his clone ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p30 "He's just as much your son as I am!"]]) [[spoiler:Then played straight to help Doc justify killing all of the clones to himself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: In addition to the above,. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p44 "You know you've been a pretty terrible doctor lately, right?"]]
-->'''Gordito''': [[StuffBlowingUp You blew up his helicopters. You blew up the train car.]] You knocked out a crowd of [=McDonald's=] customers. You wrecked a pharmaceutical lab. You cut the faces off several {{pirate}}s. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking You stole a shipment of potato chips.]] [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn You chloroformed ]]''[[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn me]]'' [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn and left me on top of a ]]''[[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn mountain]]'' to fight a robot ''{{bear|sAreBadNews}}'' in the ''[[BattleInTheRain rain]]!''
** And when [=McNinja=] learns that a future disaster he's asked to prevent (hyper-intelligent dinosaurs take over the Earth) is not a scheme of King Radical, and thus in that future King Radical's plans have failed, he suggests he might not be interested in preventing it. Gordito [[SarcasmMode subtly]] shows his [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p21 disapproval]].
** And when Doc distracts his brother, who is in the process of fighting dinosaurs.
** Neatly subverted in the "AWOL MD" arc [[spoiler:After explaining that he and Chuck faked their deaths to ultimately hide from the demon (Chuck) and infiltrate King Radical's gang (Doc). Gordito and the McNinja family point out the effects this had on them. Doc then states that the future King Radical told him that present day KR was up to something. When Doc becomes part of the gang, he can see what was going to happen.]]
** Judy gives Mcninja another one later on when [[spoiler: he cuts down the haunted forest for King Radical]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Dracula]] has grown bored with life, so he's planning to effectively commit suicide soon. But first, he wants to know what awaits him in the afterlife.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** Averted and lampshaded when King Radical contracts the mummy curse and asks Dr [=McNinja=] (undercover as Dr [=McLuchador=]) to cure him.
--->'''Dr [=McNinja=]''' (to himself) I could just let him die. Moral Quandry!\\
'''Radical's {{Mook}}:''' (points a gun at [=McNinja=]'s head) [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike No Quandaries!]]\\
'''AltText:''' That fixes that little corner I wrote myself into.
** Rayner plays around with this: he ''tries'' to shoot Doc to avoid actually fighting him, despite knowing that he will probably use his ninja reflexes to dodge the bullets (he does).
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Done when [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p5 Dr McNinja]] is angry/scared/shocked. It's lampshaded by AltText.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The sheer ridiculousness of most of the comic's storylines means that most fans eventually reach a point where its too much, and they can't believe it any more. The recommended therapy is to keep reading; it will pass in time.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9/ Christina]] can cause "miracles" to happen, defined as [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane events with a low posibility of occurance]].
** One of the [[ItMakesSenseInContext ghost wizards]] appears to be able to do this. He threatens to cast a spell that would stop the billions of coincidences required for someone to stay alive and well for years: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/29p49/ "You will be cursed. The universe will turn its back on you."]] It's never made clear what exactly would happen, as he's thwarted at the last second.
* AWizardDidIt: Anything completely illogical regarding the [=McNinjas=] can be filed under [[HandWave "ninja tricks"]] and of course RuleOfCool.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p02/ I don't know where the river finds all those nickels!! It just does.]]
* WithholdingTheCure: Dracula tells Doc he found the cure for cancer, and then [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p19/ hid it on Mars]]. He thinks it'll be really funny when humanity finds it and realizes just how obvious it is.
* TheWorfEffect: Bearclaw when fighting the robot temple guard.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: If the various {{Bad Future}}s that the various Chucks keep coming back to fix are any indication. Stop a zombie apocalypse, evil robot uprising. Stop that, dinosaur invasion. Stop that, sentient vacuum cleaners. Stop that, etc.
* WorldOfBadass: What King Radical wants to turn the city into. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Dr. McNinja's dimension sits halfway between King Radical's awesome world, and a really mundane one. [[ThisLoserIsYou Ours]]. Or at least, one much like it.]]
* WorldOfChaos: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world is already a WorldOfWeirdness. The Radical Lands take this UpToEleven. Everything follows RuleOfCool, the rituals are bizarre, and nearly everything is sentient, including the [[GeniusLoci land itself]]. In fact, the Radical Lands are ''so awesome'', that Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world has to force any element of them that gets imported to be reduced to something more mundane, just to avoid breaking reality.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The nature of the setting, due to the Dr.'s world [[spoiler:existing between our mundane reality and the awesome Radical Lands]]. While the world lacks an actual {{Masquerade}}, the people of this world act highly adverse to weird stuff and much of it is suppressed or avoided. But it eventually becomes the new normal thanks to King Radical's efforts.
* WorthyOpponent: [[BoldInflation KING RADICAL]] -- the only character capable of giving the protagonist a run for his money in the coolness department.
** This is [[spoiler: Ron's plan to open the portal to Radical Land. Since a giant ass robot isn't radical enough on its own, it needs a radical foe to fight.]]
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Gordito, apparently. [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p08/ She had it coming.]]]]
** Also, Dr. McNinja has no problem either. [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p57/ Hortense had it coming.]]]] Arguably, it was also just an easy opportunity for Gordito to not only [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p58/ follow up, but follow up on his follow up.]]
* WrongInsultOffence:
-->'''Old:''' You soft nurse!\\
'''[=Dr. McNinja:=]''' Oh, you can't seriously try to insult me with that. Doctors prescribe, nurses provide, dummy! Respect!
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[[folder:Y]]
* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: Why Dracula didn't use his moon base laser during the dinosaur invasion.]]
-->'''[[AffablyEvil Dracula]]''': They usually don't ''like'' [[spoiler:the laser]].
* YouFightLikeACow: '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': A properly executed pre-mortem one-liner is '''vital''' to our health.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p18 "I bet that I could catch the both of you if you were on fire."]]
%%* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Zelda thwarts the doctor again!
* YourHeadAsplode:
** Happens to one of the steam-punkesque sky-pirates after being told that his sword is AwesomeButImpractical, his GogglesDoNothing and his {{Anachronism Stew}}ed outfit bears UnfortunateImplications. Also, he dropped a sprocket and someone said Queen Victoria ''was stupid''.
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Boy, I didn't understand a word of what you said back there, and it made a man's head explode.
** [[WordOfGod The author]] thanked a David Malki! of ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' in the AltText for helping him make fun of {{Steampunk}}.
** Happens to a student in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p70/ this strip]].
%%* YoungGun: Gordito.
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[[folder:Z]]
%%* ZergRush: Almost works [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p76 here.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Ninja Zombies, at that.
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[[folder:T]]
* TactfulTranslation: In the prequel adventure, we see that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p33/ the guy really needs someone to edit his words]] when dealing with gorillas he'd constantly accidentally offend.
* TapOnTheHead: Includes both the 'neck chop' and PistolWhipping variants. Still, you know... ''ninja''.
* TakeAThirdOption:
** After running a poll to determine whether to shade the comic or only use line drawings, Hastings decided to hire another person on to the [=McNinja=] team to do the coloring.
** In AWOL MD, Gordito has to figure out which teacher at school is actually a demon. Since the demon only showed up recently, he checks which teachers are new, and finds that there are only two new teachers; the Gym teacher and the English teacher. He ends up [[spoiler: being wrong either way, because the demon actually pulled a DeadPersonImpersonation of the Math teacher]].
*** [[spoiler: However, it is later revealed that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ the Gym teacher was also a demon]]. Or an everliving folktale. Still evil either way.]]
* TakeThat:
** The [=McDonalds=] {{Expy}}, [=McBonalds=] gives quite a few.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p24 Jack Chick was right!]]
** Also one to Paula Deen in AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p20 this issue]]
** Check the AltText [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p5 here]].
** Blowing up [[spoiler:US Congress]] results in King Radical receiving near unanimous praise.
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Dan and Mitzi to the Horrorsaurus in the BadFuture.]]
* [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat The Poster Knew You Didn't Read All Of It]]: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ A poster]] that detailed the recent plot points to [[TheWatson Chuck Goodrich]] ends with the text: "I KNOW YOU DIDN'T READ ALL OF IT. DO IT AGAIN."
* TechnicalPacifist: The Doctor takes his Hippocratic Oath seriously, most of the time.
** Mongo, who has since learned the value of life and refuses to kill (he also learned that [[HulkSpeak fire: bad]])
*** And Gorilla + Bazooka > Mongo
* Technobabble: In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p13/ this page]], the comic barely tries, simply having the Dr. say "science science", which is {{Lampshade}}d in the AltText.
* 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]].
* ThemeNaming: The titles of Radical Land's knights are based on card suits. Ron Wizard is Sir Cowabunga of Clubs, [[spoiler:King Radical/Charles 'Chuck' Goodrich]] was once Sir Sicknasty of Spades, [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] was Sir Hellacious of Hearts, and there was also Dame Dudeical of Diamonds.
* TheyFightCrime: Played with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p21/ here]]:
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' I wouldn't say necessarily that [[InvokedTrope we fight crime]] so much as we... take care of problems that need to be solved with violence.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Again, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p27 Doctor. Ninja. Etc.]]
* ThrownDownAWell: [[spoiler:King Radical overthrows the U.S. government and has Dr. [=McNinja=] declared an enemy of the state. He proceeds to have the Dr. imprisoned in a capsule at the deepest depths of the sea, rendering escape impossible for the Dr. on his own. Said location is also classified, to make it difficult for anyone to mount a rescue.]]
* TimeTravel: Apparently there's evidence for it all over the place: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Thomas Jefferson]], Sparklelord, Chuck Goodrich, and King Radical have all used or been affected by it.
* ToastedBuns: In one BadFuture, a man using a jetpack has horribly burnt legs from the experience. The lack of safety is justified: as he was given the jetpack and [[DeadlyGame set loose by dinosaurs who were paying to hunt him for sport,]] one would assume jetpack safety to be the least of his worries.
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Mitzi]], ever since being inflicted with Mummy's Curse. Most obvious in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p63/ this]] comic.
* TotallyRadical:
** Most of Sean's "cool" slang. Also the joke behind [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p16/ this]] priceless exchange:
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Come on! Let's go bust some asses! What, are you too cool to bust ass with your old man?\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': Dad, that means farting.\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': What, are you too cool to blast ass with your old man?\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': Diarrhea.\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': ''Damnit I want us to go injure people!''\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': That would be 'kick' ass.
** Subverted by King Radical. [[spoiler:Well, the latest one. The prior one went full bore.]]
** And played straight by [[spoiler: Ron Wizard]]
* TrainingFromHell: Doc's entire childhood and adolescence. Gordito gets a taste of it, complete with a TrainingMontage, when he visits the [=McNinja=] family
* TraitorShot: Lampshaded by "Victor the plumber" in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22 this comic]].
* TrustMeImADoctor: "You know who" feels it is important every once in a while to remind people who are having discussions with him that he's a doctor, even while [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p41 arguing with Death.]]
* TrialByFriendlyFire: When the US military attempts to murder [[spoiler:the Doctor and his clone on King Radical's behalf]], a Radical Land soldier asks a human soldier why he isn't firing. He expresses fear of hitting his comrades, but is told to risk it. He ends up hitting a HumanShield, and the targets {{Lampshade}} the fact that RockBeatsLaser because the military's laser guns are not meant for close combat.
* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p42/ here.]]
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[[folder:U]]
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Dark Horse Comics asked who would win; Dr [=McNinja=], or [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Saxton Hale]]? The winner is...[[spoiler:Saxton Hale, by a fair margin of votes. Oh well]].
* {{Ultraterrestrials}}: The asteroid that wiped out most (though not all) of Earth's dinosaurs threw some of them to a distant planet. Crazy space radiation allowed them to evolve to sapience. In timelines where they rediscover a sufficiently intact Earth, they launch an AlienInvasion and treat humans as second class citizens.
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p85/ A one-person variant.]]
* UnexpectedVirgin: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73/ It's strongly implied]] that Doc is secretly a virgin. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p06/ Twice]] judging from the definition of "maidens".
* UnicornsPreferVirgins: "Doc Gets Rad" features Sparklelord, a unicorn from another universe who takes the form of a motorcycle when he enters the [=McNinja=] universe. He teams up with Doc [=McNinja=] against their mutual enemy, King Radical. At the end of the chapter, Doc's sidekick Gordito asks [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73/ "Don't unicorns only approach virgins?"]] Doc doesn't like the implications and quickly changes the subject.
* UnfinishedBusiness: A pizza for Ben Franklin II.
* UnflinchingWalk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p20 Lampshaded]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 here.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p96/ McNinjas know the rule.]]
* {{Unicorn}}: [[spoiler: Sparklelord the motorcycle.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 Beautiful.]]
* UniversalDriversLicense: Doc has operated everything from light aircraft to earthmoving equipment. Dan [=McNinja=] might have one too.
* TheUnreveal: We never see Dr. [=McNinja's=] face.
* UnsoundEffect: '''''CREEPEDOUTENOUGHTOBEEASILYTHROWNFROMTHEBIKE'''''.
** Also '''''CEASE AND DESISTED''''' at the end of the first story.
** ''Doc Gets Rad.'' gave us '''''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p6 SICKNASTY!]]''''' driving.
** Also, '''''WHCRUNCH'''''. The alt text parodies this by claiming it wasn't actually a sound effect and Doc just painted it on the ground, where someone landed there, face first.
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p03/ MAGIC!]]'''
** '''''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p15/ YOINKAROO]]'''''
** [[http://www.drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p16/ THE SWEETEST DUNK]]
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p81/ BANISHPOOF]]'''
** '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p40/ EXECUTIVE POWER]]'''
--->AltText: Other sound effect choices include "HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND"
[[/folder]]
[[folder:V]]
* VichyEarth: In the dinosaur timelines, a lot of the dinosaurs would love to just KillAllHumans, or at least deport them to someplace terrible. But enough dinosaurs are ambivalent or even sympathetic enough that the dinosaurs' government is forced to tolerate humans as second class citizens, at least until they can find someplace suitable to ship them to.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Parodied in the annotations from [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p12 this]] page, then lampshaded in the AltText.
* VillainousBreakdown: King Radical hides under a blanket when he learns the nature of the Doctor's new motorcycle.
* VillainTeamUp: In the final arc, all of the Dr.'s major enemies ally against him, including King Radical, Dracula, Frans Rayner, [=McBonald=], and the Dr.'s own clone, Old [=McNinja=].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: King Radical is starting to become one.
** [[spoiler: Arguably he could just be showing what's BeneathTheMask as an outlaw with good intentions, very much like the Doctor (the difference being is that the Doctor isn't officially an outlaw; he just has to call "BASE!" to keep his record clean). Until TheReveal that is.]]
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: [[spoiler: Sparklelord is a OmnicidalManiac who wants to destroy everything to take revenge on King Radical and possesses or manipulates people into being evil in order to do this. He's the only villain who isn't PlayedForLaughs and nearly uses his power to make Doc evil.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:W]]
* WallOfText: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p20/ This strip]], among other examples. Lampshaded in the AltText.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: The abs guy (Justified in that there are probably no shirts that can accommodate his Organic Jet Pack) and Mongo.
%%* WarriorTherapist
* TheWatson: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ Chuck Goodrich]] becomes one so that Dr. [=McNinja=] can review what has been going on in the last few arcs, via a large poster.
* WeaksauceWeakness: McNinja threatens to reveal that one of the more humiliating vampire weaknesses (namely being compelled to count grains of rice) is real if they try to turn him
* WeCanRebuildHim: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner, after getting impaled through most of his body.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: The Doctor's motivation for most of his interactions with his family (mainly his mother), until he gets fed up with them.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler: King Radical, with emphasis on the extremist part.]]
* WhamEpisode:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p75/ The reveal of the true identity of King Radical.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/29p1/ "First Generation Ninja American"]] reveals why Doc's name is unknown and what happened to his grandfather.
** [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p120/ King Radical has been killed for good]].]]
** [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p128/ The building that Dr. [=McNinja=] was in has been blown up]], and with the good doctor having a combination {{HeroicBSOD}}/{{HeroicRROD}} at that moment, there's a good chance he simply let himself die]].
* WhamLine:
** Chuck Goodrich, '''[[spoiler: CHRONONAUT]]'''
** "Did I do something wrong?" "[[IncomingHam You did indeed, Doctor!]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p32/ You failed]]."
** [[spoiler: When King Radical laments that turning Cumberland into a giant mech didn't work because it only summoned Ron. Ron's response? "Oh my king...make the robot ''do something'']]."
** '''''[[spoiler: King Charles "Chuck" Goodrich: The Most Radical Man in the Radical Land]]'''''
** Pretty much any time the line [[spoiler: "Charles 'Chuck' Goodrich: (description)"]] appears.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p54/ Radical]].
** [[spoiler:"[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p40/ Sparklelord."]] ]]
** "[[spoiler:Patrick. My name is Dr. Patrick [=McNinja=].]]" And then subverted in that [[spoiler: Sparklelord]] is completely unimpressed by this revelation.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p61/ "We need to kill Dr. McNinja."]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p127/ "Do it."]]
* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]] Lampshaded in Army of One, in which both ConservationOfNinjutsu and ConservationOfCompetence work against the Doc for once.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Invoked in the alt text. Hastings says he's often asked what he's on when he writes the comic, then admits he was drunk when he came up with the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p92/ Dubstep Quartet]].
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Subverted and played for gallows humor: The Doctor thinks (almost) nothing of occasionally killing security guards and drug-enhanced ninja mooks, and he gets chewed out for this, big time.
** This is a major plot point in the first arc, where the Doctor actually has nightmares of all the mooks he killed coming back as zombies to get him. When the zombies actually DO come, he truly believes they wanted to came back to life just to get revenge.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Doc has no moral conflicts about unleashing his awesome-fu on anything the Hippocratic Oath doesn't cover (robots, zombies, etc.)
** Bearclaw is haunted to the point of [[ProperlyParanoid paranoia]] by his previous treatment of dolphins when a group of them rescue him.
* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: Subverted when Doc insists that they save his clone ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p30 "He's just as much your son as I am!"]]) [[spoiler:Then played straight to help Doc justify killing all of the clones to himself.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: In addition to the above,. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p44 "You know you've been a pretty terrible doctor lately, right?"]]
-->'''Gordito''': [[StuffBlowingUp You blew up his helicopters. You blew up the train car.]] You knocked out a crowd of [=McDonald's=] customers. You wrecked a pharmaceutical lab. You cut the faces off several {{pirate}}s. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking You stole a shipment of potato chips.]] [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn You chloroformed ]]''[[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn me]]'' [[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn and left me on top of a ]]''[[TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn mountain]]'' to fight a robot ''{{bear|sAreBadNews}}'' in the ''[[BattleInTheRain rain]]!''
** And when [=McNinja=] learns that a future disaster he's asked to prevent (hyper-intelligent dinosaurs take over the Earth) is not a scheme of King Radical, and thus in that future King Radical's plans have failed, he suggests he might not be interested in preventing it. Gordito [[SarcasmMode subtly]] shows his [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p21 disapproval]].
** And when Doc distracts his brother, who is in the process of fighting dinosaurs.
** Neatly subverted in the "AWOL MD" arc [[spoiler:After explaining that he and Chuck faked their deaths to ultimately hide from the demon (Chuck) and infiltrate King Radical's gang (Doc). Gordito and the McNinja family point out the effects this had on them. Doc then states that the future King Radical told him that present day KR was up to something. When Doc becomes part of the gang, he can see what was going to happen.]]
** Judy gives Mcninja another one later on when [[spoiler: he cuts down the haunted forest for King Radical]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Dracula]] has grown bored with life, so he's planning to effectively commit suicide soon. But first, he wants to know what awaits him in the afterlife.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim:
** Averted and lampshaded when King Radical contracts the mummy curse and asks Dr [=McNinja=] (undercover as Dr [=McLuchador=]) to cure him.
--->'''Dr [=McNinja=]''' (to himself) I could just let him die. Moral Quandry!\\
'''Radical's {{Mook}}:''' (points a gun at [=McNinja=]'s head) [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike No Quandaries!]]\\
'''AltText:''' That fixes that little corner I wrote myself into.
** Rayner plays around with this: he ''tries'' to shoot Doc to avoid actually fighting him, despite knowing that he will probably use his ninja reflexes to dodge the bullets (he does).
* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Done when [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p5 Dr McNinja]] is angry/scared/shocked. It's lampshaded by AltText.
* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The sheer ridiculousness of most of the comic's storylines means that most fans eventually reach a point where its too much, and they can't believe it any more. The recommended therapy is to keep reading; it will pass in time.
* WindsOfDestinyChange: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p9/ Christina]] can cause "miracles" to happen, defined as [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane mundane events with a low posibility of occurance]].
** One of the [[ItMakesSenseInContext ghost wizards]] appears to be able to do this. He threatens to cast a spell that would stop the billions of coincidences required for someone to stay alive and well for years: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/29p49/ "You will be cursed. The universe will turn its back on you."]] It's never made clear what exactly would happen, as he's thwarted at the last second.
* AWizardDidIt: Anything completely illogical regarding the [=McNinjas=] can be filed under [[HandWave "ninja tricks"]] and of course RuleOfCool.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p02/ I don't know where the river finds all those nickels!! It just does.]]
* WithholdingTheCure: Dracula tells Doc he found the cure for cancer, and then [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p19/ hid it on Mars]]. He thinks it'll be really funny when humanity finds it and realizes just how obvious it is.
* TheWorfEffect: Bearclaw when fighting the robot temple guard.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: If the various {{Bad Future}}s that the various Chucks keep coming back to fix are any indication. Stop a zombie apocalypse, evil robot uprising. Stop that, dinosaur invasion. Stop that, sentient vacuum cleaners. Stop that, etc.
* WorldOfBadass: What King Radical wants to turn the city into. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Dr. McNinja's dimension sits halfway between King Radical's awesome world, and a really mundane one. [[ThisLoserIsYou Ours]]. Or at least, one much like it.]]
* WorldOfChaos: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world is already a WorldOfWeirdness. The Radical Lands take this UpToEleven. Everything follows RuleOfCool, the rituals are bizarre, and nearly everything is sentient, including the [[GeniusLoci land itself]]. In fact, the Radical Lands are ''so awesome'', that Dr. [=McNinja=]'s world has to force any element of them that gets imported to be reduced to something more mundane, just to avoid breaking reality.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The nature of the setting, due to the Dr.'s world [[spoiler:existing between our mundane reality and the awesome Radical Lands]]. While the world lacks an actual {{Masquerade}}, the people of this world act highly adverse to weird stuff and much of it is suppressed or avoided. But it eventually becomes the new normal thanks to King Radical's efforts.
* WorthyOpponent: [[BoldInflation KING RADICAL]] -- the only character capable of giving the protagonist a run for his money in the coolness department.
** This is [[spoiler: Ron's plan to open the portal to Radical Land. Since a giant ass robot isn't radical enough on its own, it needs a radical foe to fight.]]
* WouldHitAGirl:
** Gordito, apparently. [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p08/ She had it coming.]]]]
** Also, Dr. McNinja has no problem either. [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p57/ Hortense had it coming.]]]] Arguably, it was also just an easy opportunity for Gordito to not only [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p58/ follow up, but follow up on his follow up.]]
* WrongInsultOffence:
-->'''Old:''' You soft nurse!\\
'''[=Dr. McNinja:=]''' Oh, you can't seriously try to insult me with that. Doctors prescribe, nurses provide, dummy! Respect!
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[[folder:Y]]
* YouDidntAsk: [[spoiler: Why Dracula didn't use his moon base laser during the dinosaur invasion.]]
-->'''[[AffablyEvil Dracula]]''': They usually don't ''like'' [[spoiler:the laser]].
* YouFightLikeACow: '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': A properly executed pre-mortem one-liner is '''vital''' to our health.
* YouHaveFailedMe: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p18 "I bet that I could catch the both of you if you were on fire."]]
%%* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Zelda thwarts the doctor again!
* YourHeadAsplode:
** Happens to one of the steam-punkesque sky-pirates after being told that his sword is AwesomeButImpractical, his GogglesDoNothing and his {{Anachronism Stew}}ed outfit bears UnfortunateImplications. Also, he dropped a sprocket and someone said Queen Victoria ''was stupid''.
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Boy, I didn't understand a word of what you said back there, and it made a man's head explode.
** [[WordOfGod The author]] thanked a David Malki! of ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' in the AltText for helping him make fun of {{Steampunk}}.
** Happens to a student in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p70/ this strip]].
%%* YoungGun: Gordito.
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[[folder:Z]]
%%* ZergRush: Almost works [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p76 here.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Ninja Zombies, at that.
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