History Webcomic / TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja

The next morning, the Doctor finds a raptor in his office ("[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin There is a Raptor in My Office]]"). This turns out to be the tip of the iceberg, said iceberg being a conspiracy involving paleontologists-turned-banditos, organic jetpacks, Website/MySpace and [[strike: Creator/FoxNewsChannel]][=NewsCorp=]. At least the Doctor gets a [[KidSidekick sidekick]] out of the deal: a [[TheGunslinger gunslinging]], mustachioed 12-year-old named Gordito.

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''The Adventures of Dr. McNinja'' (alternate title: ''RuleOfCool: The Webcomic'') was an action-comedy webcomic by Chris Hastings and Anthony "''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}''" Clark,[[note]]Kent Archer inked the comic from its beginning until he left in 2010; Carly Monardo colored the comic for about a chapter and a half[[/note]] and the love child of the RuleOfCool and the RuleOfFunny.

''[[http://drmcninja.com/issues The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' (alternate title: ''RuleOfCool: The Webcomic'') was an action-comedy webcomic by Chris Hastings and Anthony "''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}''" Clark,[[note]]Kent Archer inked the comic from its beginning until he left in 2010; Carly Monardo colored the comic for about a chapter and a half[[/note]] and the love child of the RuleOfCool and the RuleOfFunny.

The next arc, "Meet The Doctor And His Friendly Staff" introduces Dr. [=McNinja=]'s [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys gorilla]] receptionist, as the two of them race against time to save a patient with Paul Bunyan's Disease (an illness which turns children into giant lumberjacks) from both his lumberjacking tendencies and from some hunters who hunt giant lumberjacks.

-> ''Should anyone need the services of a ninja or doctor, my office is always open.''

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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.]]
* 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 [[spoiler: 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"
* 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 Doc evil.]]
* 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:
** [[spoiler: Gordito, apparently. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p08/ She had it coming.]]]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja has no problem either. [[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!
* 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.
%%* ZergRush: Almost works [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p76 here.]]
* ZombieApocalypse: Ninja Zombies, at that.
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[[folder:P-R]]
* PapaWolf: Dan
-->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': OH YOU SONS OF SEA COWS WILL WISH YOU HAD NEVER BEEN BORN WITH LIMBS ON YOUR BODIES! BECAUSE I'M GOING TO COME ONTO THAT SHIP AND SHOW YOU HOW MANY DELICIOUS STOCKS AND BRAISES I CAN MAKE WITH THEM!
* PaperThinDisguise:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p55 Gordito has been]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p68 donning a couple]] lately.
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p10 here.]] Keep in mind that our protagonist is already a doctor and is already dressed in full medical garb, so his disguise consists of ''a nametag.'' It is apparantly not the first time he's done this. To that particular doctor either.
** Lampshaded [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p60 here.]] [[spoiler:The nasaghasts]] believe Doc was trying to fool them by [[spoiler:putting on another astronaut's suit.]] This just annoys them further.
* ParentalAbandonment: Gordito's parents are dead.
%%* PickACard: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p8 The Great Flying Shooting Juan.]]
%%* {{Pirate}}
%%* APirate400YearsTooLate: SkyPirates.
* PiratesVersusNinjas: The [=McNinja=] clan and a specific group of pirates have their own personal feud. But pirates and ninjas in general are rivals because ninjas think it's funny.
* PoliceAreUseless: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p21 "It's the mayor's job to deal with weird stuff. Look it up."]]
** "[[FridgeBrilliance There is a reason]] [[AltText you so rarely see the police in the pages of this comic.]]"
* PoorCommunicationKills: Responsible for every major problem in both "Space Savers" and "Futures Trading."
* PostVictoryCollapse: After jumping from the moon, once the adrenaline is out of his system, Doc just collapses. "Ohgodmylegs"
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p40/ "We are on Eastern Pain Time, and it is Dan O'clock."]]
--> '''Alt Text:''' From Dan O' Clock to Dan Thirty, all mixed drinks are half-priced.
* PreemptiveDeclaration: At the beginning of ''D.A.R.E To Resist Ninja Drugs And Ninja Violence'':
-->'''Dan:''' Ha. Alright kids, not bad. Not bad. How about a drink in honor of all your beginners luck? Here. I'll pour you a Molson. It's got a higher alcohol content than most American beers. And maybe that will help sterilize all those cuts on your face.\\
'''Punk:''' Uh, what cuts, my man?\\
[[GrievousBottleyHarm *SMASH*]]\\
'''Dan:''' I have no idea.
* PreMortemOneLiner:
** Gordito has a little trouble ''[[IncrediblyLamePun executing]]'' his properly. He's getting better, though.
--->'''Gordito''': ''[talking to a midget doctor]'' Hey... cut the small-talk.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p80 "I spy with my little eye... a ninja who's about to die."]] Subverted on the next page, of course.
** '''"I AIN'T AFRAID OF NO GHOSTS!"''' [[spoiler:*ghostpunch*]]
* PresidentEvil:
** The President of the [[BadFuture future]]. [[spoiler:He's a dinosaur too.]]
** Later, [[spoiler:King Radical.]]
* PressurePoint: [[http://www.drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p27/ "Your turn to go to sleep."]]
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Dark Smoke Puncher, though he does it so his parents won't find out how nerdy he really is (though Doc ''does'' remark that it sounds like he stole the name from someone he beat in ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'').
* ProductPlacement: In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p44 this strip]] as an April Fool's Day gag. The page was edited back to normal on April 2. For those who missed it, Dr. [=McNinja=] was wearing a red t-shirt of himself instead of his labcoat.
* ProfessionalKiller: Being a ninja at least theoretically implies being an assassin for hire. The Doctor isn't having any of that, and his parents see it as a serious defect.
* ProperlyParanoid: [[spoiler: Doc was right to be suspicious of King Radical.]]
* PseudoCrisis: Played for laughs. When the Doc is trying to [[spoiler:infiltrate NASA]], [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p46 a cop gets the drop on him]]. The [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p47 next comic]] reminds you that [+"'''HE IS A NINJA.'''"+] and cuts to him driving the cop's car.
* PsychologicalTormentZone: The White House uses one called the Negazone as a security system. Since most of its victims are super villains or the mentally disturbed, they succumb and lose their sense of self rather quickly. This also has the consequence that the visions used by the keeper of the Negazone are less than effective against a heroic character, at least beyond freaking him out briefly.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Not so much "punch" as "sword swing", as when Doc desperately swings at the final Nasaghast's head but is horrorstruck when his sword simply passes through it without doing any damage.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Done quite frequently, usually by separating the words in different speech bubbles.
-->'''Mitzi''': That. Was. ''Pathetic.''
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': Please. Don't. ''Stabmeintheeyeballs.''
* PunnyName: Gordito Delgado. Translated from spanish it roughly means "Slim Fatty".
* PurgatoryAndLimbo: While Ben Franklin is dead (again) he spends his time in Purgatory, which resembles a ritzy restaurant, waiting for meals representing his sins. After two hundred years he's still on the bread.
* PyrrhicVictory: "Doc Gets Rad". [[spoiler:Doc defeats Sparklelord... but learns that said bike was the only way he could find to defeat King Radical.]]
* QuipToBlack: The Doctor pulls this off when he gets the opportunity to try out his new bike.
-->'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': Judy!\\
'''Judy''': Ugh. ''[tosses sword and motorcycle helmet to Doc]''\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]''': ''[catches and puts on the sword and helmet]'' ''Let's practice.''\\
'''AltText:''' [[LampshadeHanging Then]] [[Series/CSIMiami Horatio]] [[LampshadeHanging jumps out of the bushes and]] [[MemeticMutation puts on his sunglasses.]]
* {{Ramprovisation}}: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p37 These]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p33 three]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p23 examples]].
-->'''Doc:''' Man is only separated from heaven by that which he will not ramp.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After a time-traveller from a dystopian future sits down with [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Cyberdyson]] to explain how their robotic vacuum cleaners eventually become sentient and take over the world, Cyberdyson makes sure the culprit chip is never put into production. Later on, the President is shown to be a decent, reasonable person who just wants to save her country during the events of "All the King's Dirtbikes and All the King's Men." She ''does'' get a little overexcited at the prospect of [[spoiler: piloting a [[HumongousMecha giant raptor-eagle robot]]]], but who wouldn't?
* RebusBubble: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p52 Gorilla + Bazooka > Ninja]]
* RecklessSidekick: Gordito at times, can be incredibly gung-ho. Especially as a gun-toting and raptor-riding sidekick.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner's prosthetic]] robot eye.
* RedshirtArmy: The future rebels are [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p27 not terribly bright]]. Lampshaded in the AltText, where they're referred to as "La revolution incompetente."
* {{Retcon}}: On January 30 2012, the return of the McNinja burger in-comic, Hastings went and changed all "UsefulNotes/McDonalds" references to "[=McBonalds=]" so that he wouldn't have any legal issues printing the book later, including a modified logo and renaming Ronald [=McDonald=] to Donald [=McBonald=]. The protest signs [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p4/ on this page]] only had strokes added over the D's to change them to B's, rather than the letters being redrawn.
* TheReveal:
** About what King Radical is actually planning:[[spoiler: The world of Dr McNinja was created when bleed off from our universe and the Radical Land mixed together. King Radical's master plan is to merge the two universes completely, replacing all the Muggles (including his Army of the Common Man) with Radical citizens, but leaving everyone already Radical (like most of the main characters) untouched. ]]
** Of King Radical's identity: [[spoiler: King Radical is the version of Charles "Chuck" Goodrich from the Radical Lands!]]
* RiseFromYourGrave: The zombies, and [[spoiler:Both Ben Franklins]].
* TheRival: Doctor [=McLuchadore=] is this to Dr. [=McNinja=]. Apparently the former's tendency to treat his patients via insane wrestling moves got on the latter's nerves and the ninja-doctor ran the wrestler-doctor out.
%%* RobotMe: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p45 Here]]
* RoboticReveal: Played straight with [[spoiler:Robot Dracula]], inverted with [[spoiler: Hortense]]
%%* RocketRide: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p48 This page]]
* RocketlessReentry: In the finale of "Punch Dracula", Doc grabs Dracula and jumps off the moon hard enough to take them both on a collision course with Earth. But "Dracula" turns out to be just be a robotic duplicate. So Doc uses the robo-Dracula as a heat shield and safely surfs it down to Earth's surface.
* RuleOfCool and
* RuleOfFunny: Together with RefugeInAudacity, these rules cover everything that happens. ''Everything.'' There's considerable overlap, such as [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p32 blocking a sword swing from Dracula with a stethoscope]]. In the words of the creator, "Dr. [=McNinja=] lives in a world that operates like a Franchise/MortalKombat stage."
** King Radical [[DefiedTrope defies]] this with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p49/ his office]], it's completely normal and bland with a plain desk loaded with paperwork and a water cooler (albeit one filled with Mountain Dew) against the wall; it's because he hates paperwork, so he made his office as lame as possible so that he doesn't want to spend time there.
** This actually gets an [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p107/ in-universe explanation]]. [[spoiler: The [=McNinja=] universe is crammed in-between the Radical Lands and our universe in the multiverse, and there's some bleed-over from both due to the vortex below Cumberland.]]
* RunningGag:
** '''Charles "Chuck" Goodrich: *Insert title here* '''
*** ''[[spoiler:The Most Radical Man in the Radical Land.]]''
** It's Dr. [=McNinja's=] birthday? He's going to die. Spectacularly.
** In the early days of the comic, an ad had the scene in which Doc punches a snake in the face as a selling point. Having dramatic scenes where he punches increasingly awesome beings in their faces has become something of a requirement for each story since then.
** The seemingly unkillable "Birdosaurus" stalking Doc.
*** [[spoiler:At least, until "Paleontologists, Politicians, and Prologue".]]
** Why a gorilla?
-->'''Doc:''' "Because she is a PROFESSIONAL, and she BEHAVES like one!"
* RunTheGauntlet: In ''The End: Part 2'', all of the Dr.'s enemies seek {{Revenge}} and trap him in a magic maze with the intent of causing him emotional trauma then killing him. They fight him with new tricks meant to counter how the Dr. beat them before. The AltText outright {{Lampshade}}s that yes, it's a BossRush.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:S]]
* SceneryCensor: A gust of papers come out of nowhere to block Martin's genitals when he goes back to normal.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: While fighting Paul Bunyan, the cops see Yoshi. They draw the line at [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p3 dinosaurs]].
* ScrewYourself: Dan suspects it of the Doc and his clone. "It's what any of us would do!".
* SeadogPegLeg: As the Doc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p30/ gleefully slaughters a pirate ship]], he proclaims, "Oooh, sorry. You're going to need a second peg leg. Woaah! And you're going to need a peg ''face!'' Haha! ''Peg faces for everyone!''"
** The next chapter has a CallBack when some of the same pirates reappear--and do have peg faces.
* SecretStabWound: Doc spends over an hour being [[MetronomicManMashing pummelled]] by a gorilla before knocking it out with PressurePoint technique. He then nonchalantly says he "needed a nap", (having been unconscious for most of the fight), and retires to a private room to "clean up". He then leans over a nearby washbasin and pulls out the bottom of his mask, causing a small waterfall of blood to ''pour'' out.
* SendInTheClones: [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]]'s plan once he learns about Old [=McNinja=].
* SeriousBusiness: Tennis, and with damn good reason. [[spoiler:Misunderstood reason, anyway.]]
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The good Doctor. "Pirate, you have got some straight up testicular elephantitis, comin' in here, and sittin' next to a ninja."
--> '''Alt Text:''' He's saying the pirate has major balls.
* ShaggyDogStory: The entire "Death Volley" arc appears to have been one. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p72 Or not]]?
* ShapedLikeItself: Used in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p71/ this strip.]]
--> '''Alt Text:''' There's a hilarious joke that I snuck into panel 1753.
* ShipSinking: A pretty conclusive and concise [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p63/ two-for-one deal]].
* ShirtlessScene: The Doc has one [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here.]]
* ShootingSuperman: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p38 "Hello? Ninja?"]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Agent Bearclaw's rescue after falling out of an airplane]].
* ShownTheirWork: The AltText usually confirms what they've studied in regards to things such as blood transfusions or submarine classes.
** One hilarious example is a sequence involving decompression on an airplane, the dramatic "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p16 hole blown in the side]]" type. While the sequence is proceeding, the AltText goes on about how Hastings asked his dad (who had flown a similar plane) what would probably happen, but decided to go with RuleOfCool.
** Maybe not always "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p30 studied]]", but hey, same diff.
** In "Why A Gorilla?", which takes place during Doc's college days, he gives a presentation on vampire myths, indicating that it's true vampires don't resolve on film. Afterward, a student excitedly asks if a bunch of other myths are true, including whether or not vampires are compelled to count rice if you throw it on the ground. A couple pages later, Doc escapes a pair of vampires by doing exactly this, and threatens that if they attack him again, he's telling everyone that myth is real. The AltText suggests burying loved ones with a bag of sand if you suspect they might be vampires to keep them busy--an actual 'remedy' included in early vampire myths.
%%* {{Sidekick}}: Gordito.
* SignatureLaugh: Dr. Knickerbockers, the evil midget doctor: "Eeeheeeheheheheheh!".
* SingleStrokeBattle: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p39 Subverted]]
* SkyFace: At the end of the "DARE to Resist Ninja Drugs and Violence" arc, Doc explains to the readers that Frans Rayner's plan (to [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt become the US President by killing the President]]) would have failed even without Doc's intervention.
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' You see, we were safe from Frans all along... Thanks to the real hero of this story... Ben Franklin. Thanks, Ben... wherever you are.\\
''[The face of Ben Franklin appears in the clouds. Doc's eyes grow wide with shock.]''\\
'''Ben Franklin's sky face:''' I didn't come up with those parts of the Constitution.
* SkyPirates: [[strike:Kidnapped the Doc.]] Thought they kidnapped the Doc, [[spoiler: but it was actually his clone.]] Later, Gordito singlehandedly kills them all because he gets stuck behind on the ship.
* SlowClap: Dan [=McNinja=] thinks the first recorded Slow Clap was delivered by the ninja who witnessed the ancient [=McNinjas=] staving off a {{Pirate}} attack. Then the AltText informs us that this is incorrect: the ''first'' Slow Clap was Peter's reaction upon seeing Jesus [[Literature/TheBible raise Lazarus from the dead]].
* TheSlowPath: Taken by [[spoiler:Mayor Chuck Goodrich]] after his plan to sabotage the [=McNinja=] clones goes wrong.
* SmokeOut: Played straight more often than not. Subverted once, when Doc deployed a smoke bomb as a startled response to encountering someone in public he was trying to avoid.
* SoftGlass: Lots of defenestrations or people using glass windows as entrances, without the worry of being hurt for the latter.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Parodied in the alt text here: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p53 Some of my best myselves are creepy lab clones.]]
* SoMuchForStealth: While the Good Doctor and his Family are ninjas, sometimes even they can mess up when it comes to stealth. Mostly from things they weren't counting on or expecting.
* SoundEffectBleep: In the middle of a July day, Doc looks up to see [[spoiler:a solid wall of snow falling from the sky]] and manages to stammer out [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/22p02/ "What. The. *FUMP*"]].
* SpaceX: Space lasso, because how else can you snatch a time portal?
* SpannerInTheWorks: Old [=McNinja=], for Rayner.
** Both Chuck Goodrich and Alt!Chuck Goodrich's co-pilot in the latest arc.
* SpontaneousMustache: Gordito proves that he is a man at heart (and therefore should be allowed to claim his inheritence) when he concentrates and grows a handlebar mustache through sheer force of will.
* SpoofAesop: Remember, it's better for people to think you're a moron than to think you're a jerk.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p6 Never forget the teachings of those whom you shoot in the face after they become zombies.]] In case you don't have the context for that, [[spoiler:Gordito shot Ben Franklin after he became a zombie.]]
** Also, many of [[NoFourthWall Dr. McNinja's Final Thoughts]] feature this.
* StableTimeLoop: Sparklelord's fate. Also an [[TemporalParadox Ontological Paradox]], because of the question of what happens to his ''mass''.
** [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p76/ As it turns out]] King Radical knows about Chuck Goodrich being a chrononaut thanks to one (and because he's also one).]]
* StarfishCharacter: At death's door, Dr. [=McNinja=]'s soul splits into a doctor and a ninja.
* StatingTheSimpleSolution: The Doctor himself [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p60 wonders why the not-quite-dead Frans Rayner doesn't just sic Mongo on him.]]]]
* StealthHiBye: Utilized to great effect by the good doctor [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p36 here]]. Somewhat understandable considering his love for one of the most prolific users of this trope.
* StealthPun:
** Dr [=McNinja=]'s clone who got a degree in agriculture and has a farm goes by "Old." As in "Old [=McNinja=]." (''[[DontExplainTheJoke E-I-E-I-O]]''.)
*** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p58/ Four pages later]]: [[AltText Old [=McNinja=] has ADHD. EEE AYE EEE AYE OH]]
** In chapter 16, Dan finds Judy in a gambling club called 'Le Brouillard', French for 'the Mist'. All its clientele are... [[Film/GorillasInTheMist uh...]]
* SteppingStonesInTheSky: Dark Smoke Puncher does this with angel-winged flying sharks.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The [[spoiler: Nasaghasts]] seem to work under this. Two are dispatched in short order by the doctor using holy shurikens, and the third taken by surprise and almost killed. Then it [[spoiler: flies into space, catches and ''throws back'' a launched missile, and returns in a surprising BigDamnHeroes moment to save Chuck. Unfortunately, it only acts when astronauts are being immediately threatened and stands by passively while the newly-released second Horrorsaurus tears through the human army (seeing as he's the only NASA astronaut present). But then the Horrorsaurus kills Chuck. And the Nasaghast [[UnstoppableRage grows to immense size and rips the Horrorsaurus apart.]]]]
* StuffBlowingUp: Cars, planes, ships, {{Mayincatec}} temples, trains, helicopters, airships, etc. The comic runs on this trope alongside RuleOfCool.
* StunnedSilence: Derek, the worst person you'll ever meet, is so awful that Dr. [=McLuchadore=] was rendered speechless after hearing three sentences from the man.
* SummonBiggerFish: Doc deliberately [[spoiler: sends a poorly armed Chuck Goodrich into battle against the dinosaur army, because the subsequent attempts to kill him summon a Nasaghast.]]
* SunglassesAtNight: Standard practice for Radical Landers, who tend to favor CoolShades. It gets {{Lampshade}}d by Doc.
* SuperCellReception: The doctor getting phone reception while traveling through space. He didn't lose his connection until he started atmospheric re-entry. It's lampshaded in the AltText that the other end of the call was in a submarine.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Beeman, a Franchise/{{Batman}} wannabe, faces several bank robbers with guns. They open fire on him, he gracefully flips through the air....and then flops across the floor, riddled with bullets. It's been the Trope Image for a long time for a reason.
** The only ones who can defeat a powerful, self-resurrecting demon are those of the Belstein family's "pure" bloodline. So, to keep the bloodline pure, they engaged in inbreeding, resulting in the last of the Belstein line being a crippled invalid.
** When [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p09/ a bunch of "bad dudes" get in the way of determined pizza delivery guys and their tooled out truck....]]
** At the end of the "D.A.R.E" story arc, Doc flat out admits to the audience that the villain's plan to take over the world wouldn't have worked out for a large number of reasons because just to take over America he would've had to have somehow murdered and replaced every single person in both the Judiciary and Legislative branches of government, including the President himself. Not that it would matter due to the massive amounts of constitutional red tape keeping him from going much further than that. [[spoiler:King Radical makes efforts to get around these problems by becoming Vice President first, not being seen as directly responsible for the President's disappearance, killing much of the Legislative branch, and fostering public goodwill.]]
*** [[spoiler:And for a moment, it looks like the trope will work against him when he ends up at a hearing to discuss the fact that both his being responsible for the president's disappearance, and him impersonating his alternate-universe self to be become vice president, are highly illegal. Then explosions ensue.]]
** Doc uses frozen shamrocks to save his family, just to call back to the story about the origin of the [=McNinjas=] he scoffed at earlier. He notes how stupid it is. When things settle down, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint they ask why he didn't just use the regular shurikens he still had in his coat]].
** Doc hopes that he can fly a spaceship just by winging it. When confronted with the ship's control panel, his tune changes pretty quickly.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p29 Of the Soylent Green variety.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p14/ NOT my diary: don't look]]
* [[BadNewsIrrelevantNews Switching To Geico]]: Subverted.
-->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': I'm really sorry, but it looks like the test confirmed it, and your cancer is back. But I do have some good news.\\
'''Patient''': Didja save a bunch of money on your car insurance, Doc?\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': [[VisibleSilence ...]] If any doctor were ever to say that they would lose their license immediately. Do you ''really'' think that's funny?\\
'''Patient''': It's a funny commercial on TV!\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': Is cancer funny to you? Is cancer ''funny'' to you?!\\
'''Patient''': I'm sorry.\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': You should be.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:L-O]]
* 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.]]
* 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=].
* 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]].
* 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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* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesIToO

[[folder:H-K]]
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[spoiler:Sparklelord, when he was [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 an Evil Overlord.]]]]
* HandWave:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p32 "Ninja tricks"]] is the explanation given for how the ninja characters can eat, shower, and brush their teeth without revealing their faces, as Dan [=McNinja=] demonstrates by eating a bagel ''without removing his mask''. (He still has to cut a hole in front to reveal his mustache, however.)
** Several times, we see Doc in an impossible to escape situation at the end of a page. Then the next one simply has a panel saying “HE IS A NINJA”, and continues with no further explanation how he actually managed to survive/escape.
* HardHead: Usually played straight. Averted in one instance when Doc gets a concussion and has a hallucinatory (if helpful) conversation with a roast turkey.
* HasTwoThumbsAnd: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p37 The Abs Man]]
* HauntedHeadquarters: NASA headquarters is inhabited by '''''THE NASAGHASTS''''', which attack anyone who dares to harm astronauts within the building.
* HauntedTechnology: The tennis machine of the Tennis Temple is fueled by the ghosts of all the former champions. [[spoiler:Recovering the knowledge he used to build that machine is a key component of King Radical's scheme, using it to modify the Cumberland zombie defense system.]]
* HeadDesk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p16 At least once]]
* HeadlessHorseman: Dracula, from his moon base, hatches a plot to turn the clone of Benjamin Franklin into a headless horseman in order to find out more about the afterlife. The headless horseman was chosen because it retains its physical form. Turns out they can also travel through space.
* HealItWithBooze: When Dan offers a couple of [[FantasticDrug ninja-drug-using]] punks a drink. He chooses something with a higher alcohol content, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3/ promising that it'll "sterilize all those cuts on [their] face."]] Then pointed out as a [[DontTryThisAtHome bad idea]].
-->'''Alt Text:''' Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it.
%%* HeelRealization: "Sound familiar, Dr. [=McHelicopterexploder=]?"
* HellishHorse: Between Ben Franklin's ghostly equine stalker and Sparklelord the evil unicorn, horses are typically villains in the [=McNinjaverse=].
-->'''AltText:''' I think horses are never not scary in this comic, because they are never not scary in my life.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:King Radical]], FromACertainPointOfView.
* HeroicDolphin: The story Death Volley has the implication of dolphins getting revenge on Agent Bearclaw. His story: "One time I swam out to sea, and pretended to be injured so that dolphins would swim up to rescue me. I did this so that I could kill them with my bare hands."
* HeroInsurance: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p18 "Base!"]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p17 In three easy steps.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Bearclaw, an [=NSA=] agent who makes a hobby out of slaughtering animals with his bare hands.
* HighConcept: The entire webcomic is summarized well in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67/ this]] AltText.
-->'''AltText:''' [[SeriousBusiness Very stupid ideas taken very seriously.]] Dr. [=McNinja=].
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Rayner's mooks. Averted with Old [=McNinja=], who is very competent at staying hidden.
* HiredGuns: In "Death Volley", the doctor is constantly harassed by a gun-toting masked assassin. It turns out the assassin is [[spoiler: his ex, Hortense]], and the client is [[spoiler: [[strike: the doctor's parents]] King Radical]].
* HoldingOutForAHero: Implied in one strip, when the police runs away from the dinosaurs:
-->'''Mayor Goodrich''': The police won't deal with this? \\
'''Driver''': Yeah, we're all pretty used to waiting for Dr. McNinja to handle the weird stuff.
* HollywoodHacking: Played with. Dan's response to seeing King Radical's giant robot formed from all the buildings in Cumberland and powered by planks of wood harvested from a haunted forest? Tell Sean to "Hack it." Later on, Dan himself tries to do it, by throwing a keyboard and mouse at the mech.
* HypercompetentSidekick:
** Judy, the gorilla receptionist.
** And Gordito:
--->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' Do you think I run around with a ''twelve year old boy'' just because I like his inferior grasp of girls and higher level math? Do you think I left him with my psychotic parents because I wanted him to '''die'''? '''No''', you undead pale ponce! '''Gordito''' is the effing '''badass kid'''. So go ahead and finish up your masterful scheme to make me let you kill me, because Gordito's going to slap around whatever ghost lackey you have like he was a pinata on the Mexican day of the dead."
** The {{Mummy}} that accompanies Archibald King of the Hoboes, which grants him immortality and protects him from assassination attempts.
* HypotheticalCasting: [[http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/04/interview-chris-hastings-on-the-adventures-of-dr-mcninja/ In this interview]], creator Chris Hastings said that his casting choices for a ''Dr. [=McNinja=]'' movie would be Creator/SamRockwell or Will Arnett as the Doc, Sam Elliot or Wrestling/HulkHogan as Dan [=McNinja=], and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Mitzi [=McNinja=]. The villains would include Williem Dafoe as Donald [=McBonald=], Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Frans Rayner, Phil Fondacaro as Knickerbockers, and Creator/BelaLugosi as {{Dracula}}, "''Film/TheCrow'' style."
* IAmOneOfThoseToo: Subverted -- Sean calls Gordito out on his inner geekiness, only to backpedal rapidly as he realizes he has just revealed his own.
* IdenticalPanelGag: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67/ The comic]] where Gordito and Judy take care of Victor, the evil half plumber half spy. The four panels have the characters in exactly the same pose with only the narration and dialog changing.
* ImpossiblyAwesomeMagicTrick: There's a flashback to Gordito's father, the Great Flying Shooting Juan (a sharpshooting trapeze artist magician) performing a card trick. The volunteer chooses a card, places it back in the deck, and throws the entire deck into the air. Juan shoots the card in midair... but the volunteer can't find the card afterwards. Then he gets a call on his cell phone...
-->'''Volunteer:''' That was the police. The man who robbed my house... they finally caught him because he was shot in the upper thigh... There was a queen of diamonds in his pocket.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p8 Where do you think Gordito got it from?]]
** Doc too. He hit a pirate on a ship from a plane in motion, despite not having any way to see his target. Especially impressive, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p45 given what his payload was.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: The razor-sharp frozen shamrocks used by the Irish proto-ninjas.
** In the big finale, [[spoiler:Doc weaponized Dracula to turn King Radical into a vampire. Then he throws Pope Francis at him. Radical's last words are about how cool his death will be.]]
* IKnowMortalKombat: Doc claims to have trained his skills with Franchise/{{Batman}}. In reality, though, he's just learned from reading his comic books and watching his movies.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p38/ Averted when Dark Smoke Puncher is possessed by a ghost wizard]].
--->'''Mitzi''': Shoot him!\\
'''Gordito''': But he's your son!\\
'''Mitzi''': Shoot him fatally!
** Gordito doesn't shoot him, but continue to avert it by proceeding to knock him out and having no sort of discussion with Dark Smoke Puncher.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Doc never tells anyone his real name because of "the wizard." [[spoiler:Due to his grandfather sacrificing his name in order to seal a powerful ghost wizard, he can never utter his own name without freeing him.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: A RunningGag in the Space Savers arc involves (who knows what KINDS of) crazy space radiation causing weird things to happen. It is speculated to be how some dinosaurs became sentient and how the Nasaghasts became the vengeful ghosts they are.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p39 Lampshaded.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Parodied. A demon [[YourHeadAsplode kills all of Gordito's classmates]], causing the AltText to say that their heads will grow back after a day or two. And, due to the skills of Doctor McNinja, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p28/ they do.]]
* InASingleBound: Taken to the ultimate extreme -- with enough skill one can apparently jump from the Earth to the Moon, or vice versa.
* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Jefferson Airplane]].
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p54 here]]
** Also, Dr. Birding.
* INeedAFreakingDrink, with DrowningMySorrows: Jose Cuervo: 1; Dr. [=McNinja=]: 0.
* IncendiaryExponent:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire.]]
** In the Monster Mart story, Marty tries to threaten some thugs, it doesn't work, he piles up some barrels of flammable liquid behind him, smashes them and tries again, framed by the firey explosion. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p41/ It works.]]
* IneffectualLoner: Doc manages to turn [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] from a OneManArmy to one of these by invoking 80's buddy martial-arts movie rules.
* InexplicablyAwesome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p97/ Normally, diplomacy is awesome but not quite this effective.]]
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Purgatory is a restaurant. With really, ''really '' slow service.
* InnerMonologue: Often. Doc has been known to argue with his inner voice.
** (And lose.)
** You hush.
** (No.)
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** The Axe Cop crossover proves that, yes, there are some things too crazy to make sense even in this comic.
--->'''Axe Cop:''' If bad guys steal this book [that forces you to be on their team]... I'll chop your head off. After I kill all the bad guys you can heal yourself with your ''doctor power''.\\
'''[=McNinja=]:''' Just... Just protect the book, okay?
** Then there's the pirates.
--->'''Captain O'Shay''': For each one of my men ye touch, I will kill five members of yer family.\\
(''Dr. [=McNinja=] glances at the '''three''' other members of his family, tied up and on the edge of the plank'')\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ...that math does not work out ''at all.''
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p35 BAD MATH PROVES A POINT!]]
--->'''Alt Text:''' The point that you're a total dumbass, Captain O'Shay.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: No matter how many alternate-universe counterparts Chuck Goodrich helps, another one will appear.]]
* InstantChucks: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p37 Chainsaw nunchucks]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Subverted with Judy. Her sign language is translated for the reader, and Ben Franklin II understands it, but Doc doesn't know sign language.
* InventionalWisdom: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p70/ "You just cut the elevator?! What are you doing?!"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Why is there even a button for that?"]]
%%* IronicEcho: Lampshaded [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 by Frans.]]
* ItsBeenDone: "This sounds a lot like ''Series/{{Lost}}''."
%%* ItsPersonal: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 Here.]]
* JawBreaker: Doc does it to a zombie. Since it was undead, it doesn't really kill the thing, but it does prevent it from biting him.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Many later chapters have an increasing amount of {{Call Back}}s (even weird {{Call Forward}}s) to previous weird events, proving they were actually perfectly logical. Quite unexpected, since there is so much weirdness going on, we didn't really think about it. [[spoiler: Until everything (broadly) is [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p107/ explained by King Radical]].]]
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: When attacked by the final [[spoiler:Nasaghast]], Doc is pulled into his own mind and forced to confront the creature there.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The Doctor himself, in Let's Get Rad, due to [[spoiler:Sparklelord's influence]].
* JumpingTheShark: {{Lampshaded}} in the alt text on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p24/ this page]].
* JumpScare: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p27 When I say "Happy" you say "Birthday!"]] [[NightmareFuel HAPPY!]]
* JustForTheHeliOfIt: WordOfGod says that: "Helicopters only exist in this comic to get [[StuffBlowingUp exploded]]. They serve no other purpose." Also, one of the inhabitants of Radical Land is a [[WhenTreesAttack helicopter head ent]]... and yes, that ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p7/ on the tin.]]
* JustOneMan: A plot point in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70Army of ONe]].
* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler: Carl, the weather man.]]
* KarmicDeath:
** Parodied with the anonymous pilot of Bearclaw's airplane, who admits that he deserved to be randomly murdered because he himself intentionally killed some innocent bystanders to show off his piloting skills.
** Agent Bearclaw once [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p34/ swam out to sea]] pretending to be injured so that he could strangle the {{Heroic Dolphin}}s that came up to rescue him. He eventually finds himself stranded at sea for real, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p32 surrounded by dolphins]], and they [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p70/ shoot him to death]] shortly after they rescue him.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: Gordito in the BadFuture. Looks handsome, more badass and his mustache doesn't look hilariously oversized compared to his face..]]
* KillAndReplace: The way Dracula's ghost wizards operate, killing a human host and stealing their body.
** Presumably what happens to [[spoiler: all "lame" people who get replaced with residents of Radical Lands.]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: King Radical's inarguably [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p119/ radical death.]]]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The comic isn't afraid in racking up the killcount and making sure those deceased stay dead. The roster of people permenantly killed are: Ben Franklin II, Beeman, Agent Bearclaw, Dinosaur-timeline Chuck Goodrich, Herschel, (presumably) Zombie-timeline Chuck Goodrich, Ron Wizard, Old McNinja, King Radical, and Dracula. Subverted but later played straight with Frans Rayner.]]
* KillSat: An interesting version in Dracula has ''moon laser''. Which is basically just a giant laseron his moon base that's targetted at Earth.
* KillTheHostBody: The [=McNinjas=] are hired to assassinate a Ghost Wizard, which includes killing the guy it's possessing so they can fight the exposed spirit with holy weapons. [[spoiler: It re-possesses Sean, Dan and Mitzi are fully prepared to kill their own son, but Gordito stops them and shoves a blessed bullet down his throat before it fully takes hold of him instead.]]
* KingOfTheHomeless: Archibald, King of the Hobos.
* KlingonPromotion: Frans Rayner plans on becoming President this way.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: King Radical just wants to make the world radical... even if it means ''killing billions''.]]
* KryptoniteFactor: The Doctor's special anti-ninja drug, which he created to stop Frans Rayner and his personal army of "drug ninjas". After getting a lot of flack for hoarding the drug, he defended his actions by stating that he had "created his own Kryptonite" and therefore wasn't going to let it out of his control.
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%%* DarkActionGirl: Hortense.
* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Parodied: Sean's ninja name is "Dark Smoke Puncher", and Doc mocks him for it at one point.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Though not a complete, or even major, departure from the goofy setting and previous stories, ever since ''Doc Gets Rad'' the storyline has gotten considerably darker, with no overt victories and several significant defeats that would be played for tragedy anywhere else.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dr. [=McNinja=] is an interesting example. He's clearly good and heroic, despite being a ninja, but has also committed some decidedly antiheroic, if not downright evil acts. The Doc and his TrueCompanions are certainly more willing to kill than most super heroes.
** It's attributable to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, but in the first story he killed a security guard in cold blood (to facilitate a MuggedForDisguise).
* DarkWorld: The Negazone functions as both this and a SpiritWorld. It is a dark reflection of reality with considerable MindScrew relating to the visitor's own psyche. The Dr. [[spoiler:gets trapped there while attempting to rescue the president]].
* DeadPersonImpersonation: The AWOL MD arc gives us two, plus a subversion.
** A demon is masquerading as a teacher at Gordito's school.
** [[spoiler:Dr. [=McNinja=] is impersonating Dr. [=McLuchador=], who died some time ago, to infiltrate King Radical's gang.]]
** To make that impersonation more believable, [[spoiler:Chuck Goodrich impersonates Dr. [=McNinja=] in order to "fight" Dr. [=McLuchador=] and be defeated by him. It's a subversion because Dr. [=McNinja=] is not actually dead.]]
* DeadlyDoctor:
** Dr. [=McNinja=], who "heals with one hand and kills with the other".
** Dr. [=McLuchador=] is a villainous example. Though he means well, his patients tend to end up worse off from his treatments, either due to toxic medicine or "unconventional" wrestling-based methods of applying it.
* DeathByCameo: Two characters, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ a guard killed by]] Dr. [=McNinja=] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p14/ one of Radical's goons]] are based on Chris Hastings.
* DeathByOriginStory: Gordito's father
* DeathInAllDirections: In the tennis temple. the AltText snarks "clearly he dies on the next page".
* DeathIsCheap, but not necessarily easy. Lampshaded in the comic itself, where it complains about resurrections making death meaningless.
* DepravedDwarf: Dr. Knickerbockers.
* DestinationDefenestration: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p29/ "Go everlive somewhere else!"]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** Gordito, who grew his mustache out of sheer willpower. Later subverted when it's revealed that he grew it out of ''panic'', and uses it to hide his insecurities under a badass facade. He finally ends up BecomingTheMask, however.
** The third Nasaghast. Able to deflect the holy shuriken, pulls his head through the sword that impaled him to the ground, launches himself into space, catches a missile and throws it straight at his target.
* DeviousDolphins: Agent Bearclaw used to pretend to be drowning, just so he could kill the dolphins who came to rescue him. So when he falls into the ocean after a real plane crash, and more dolphins show up, he assumes they're here for revenge and panics. But in spite of his fears, the dolphins actually carry him to a nearby island. Relieved, Bearclaw thanks the dolphins for their mercy... and ''then'' the dolphins pull out guns and shoot him.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Doc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p68 laying down the law]] on a Nasaghast.
** And, well, the chapter is called '[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''Punch Dracula'']]...
* DirtyBusiness
* DodgeTheBullet: Played straight by the Doctor; subverted by Beeman.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Occurs in the story [[spoiler: "There Is A Raptor In My Office". It turns out everything was engineered by the Fox News corporation to be an amazing, rating-boosting story. It was thwarted by their weatherman who, earlier in the story, was all puffed up to do a story about three hurricanes in the Atlantic forming a Mickey Mouse shape only to be deflated by a lead in story about velociraptor riding banditos. He stopped it in the end in order to prevent the story from going public just so that everyone would be excited about the weather.]]
* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: Gordito is reluctant to wake up Dr [=McNinja=] for this very reason. The good doctor's parents apparently ingrained it into him by attacking him in his sleep, because... well... he's a [=McNinja=].
* {{Dracula}}: One of the many antagonists in the comic.
* DontTryThisAtHome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3 "Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it."]]
* DressedToHeal: The Doctor always wears a lab coat and stethoscope, in addition to the ninja mask and ninja-to.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Doc, to the point of reducing his younger brother to tears.
* DudeNotFunny: Lampshaded during ''There's A Raptor In My Office'' when Yoshi eats a woman's dog. The Alt Text suggests that you do not show this page to animal lovers.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: If a named character is offed permanently in this comic, it's likely to be this trope. [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when Gordito relates the story of his father's death to the [=McNinja=] family. [[spoiler:[[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] by King Radical just before his own death.]]
-->'''Dan:''' What an incredibly ''awesome'' way to die.
* DynamicEntry: King Radical really loves doing these.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This is the main reason the author suggests that you skip "Issue One Half". None of the supporting cast is present, the art is crudely done, and Doc is an [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist amoral]] DesignatedHero. "Meet The Doctor" is considered the ''real'' first issue and "Issue One Half" is basically getting the BroadStrokes treatment.
* EnemyMime: Donald [=McBonald=], even if he dresses like a clown. He even [[spoiler: mimes a working parachute after jumping from a window and a working bomb with detonator.]]
* EpicHail: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p94/ "Ha ha! We just sent a distress signal....]]to [[spoiler: DRACULA! KING OF ALL VAMPIRES!"]]
* EscapedFromHell: Not technically Hell, but Dr. McNinja fights his way out of the afterlife by double-teaming Death with the dual manifestations of his doctor and ninja personas.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The very first story arc featured the good doctor himself fighting a child who has turned into Paul Bunyan. The insanity only increases from there.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p37 Hank the pilot.]]
--> '''Random guy in the airplane''': I'm homosexual now!
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: ''All the King’s Dirtbikes and All the King’s Men'' [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p85/ ends]] with Dr [=McNinja=], Gordito, the President of the United States, and one of her aides laughing at [[spoiler:King Radical having become "just another person hiding out waiting for the right time to kill Dr [=McNinja=]]"]].
--> '''AltText''': I guess it's kinda funny if you’re stressed or something.
* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: Averted. Doc's sword is clearly a ninja-to.
* EverythingFades: Starting about [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p73 here]], the bodies of [=McNinja's=] many clones gradually disappear.
** Justified; in "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" for that issue, Doc even points out that those particular clones were created using inferior, outdated technology, and were so unbelievably shitty that they literally melted after they died. Then he plays a video showing how they were going to start literally falling to pieces at any minute anyway.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 It really is]].
** As of ''Space Savers'' and ''Futures Trading'', [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p20 not so much]]. (Awesome, yes, but not better.)
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Judy, the Gorilla Receptionist.
%%What trope is this for?* CuteKitten combined with the above is what we can expect from the aptly named story arc, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Judy Gets a Kitten"]]

* ExactWords:
-->'''Dinosaur President''': The Alpha Shield can't be broken by anything on earth!\\
[...]\\
'''Dr [=McNinja=]'s Message''': [[spoiler: Dracula, please fire your moon laser at this precise location.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
** His family name is [=McNinja=]. He's a doctor. These are his adventures. Any other questions?
** Issue #8: "Punch Dracula".
* ExpansionPackPast: Dr. [=McNinja=]'s flashback in Army of One.
%%* ExplodingBarrels
* ExplosionPropulsion: In order to catch a bunch of King Radical's goons by surprise. He activates a trap that ''explodes his entire office'' and sends both him and Gordito flying at them.
* {{Expy}}: The "Friend Bros." featured in the beginning of ''A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court'' are expies of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]], with special references to ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' (mostly in the alt-text).
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]]. Lampshaded in the AltText: [[spoiler: He went from being Johnny Cage to Kano!]]
** [[spoiler: Judy's kitten gets one too]] after its run-in with Yoshi.
** US President Maria Funkhouser has one.
* EyeScream: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40 Inverted]]. ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p11 TWICE]]''
** Played straight [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p5/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p14/ here]].
%%* EyeTake
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Old [=McNinja=] pulls one... and quickly regrets it when he sees just [[KnightTemplar how crazy]] King Radical ''really'' is.]]
%%* TheFaceless: The entire [=McNinja=] family.
* TheFaceOfTheSun: The sun of the Radical Lands wears CoolShades and sports a smile on its face.
* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: The Doctor pretends to ally with Frans Rayner in order to negate his [[ConservationOfNinjutsu Reverse Ninja Law]].]]
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Doc and Chuck Goodrich after the time travel storyline. It ends toward the end of "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court".]]
* {{Fanboy}}: The one copilot astronaut to Chuck Goodrich. [[SpotTheImposter It doesn't end well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: the good Doctor himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p11 here]]... and much appreciated, by the way.
** The cover of the fourth book has the doctor posing on his motorcycle with his shirt unbuttoned, showing off a patch of his chest hair.
* FantasticRacism:
** Dan seems to have some prejudices against gorillas.
--->'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Gorillas are cowards! Nowadays you're not allowed to say it, but it's true!
** There also seems to be some [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p2/ racism]] in the Radical Lands. [[AltText Don't tell Ron!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p70/ This]] page explicitly spells it out:
--->'''Alt Text:''' The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is proud to participate in the long history of fantasy stories being a place where characters can be completely unabashed speciesist jerks.
* FantasyKitchenSink:
** Zombies, ghost wizards, vampires, resurrected Ben Franklin ''and'' Hitler, drugs that confer ninja skills, Headless Horsemen, superheroes, a disease that turns you into Paul Bunyan, cloned dinosaurs, thieving lobsters and a mafia led by a radical dirtbiking king (...and a world-ending Mayan tennis machine. Seriously.)
** Of note: the radical dirtbiking mafia leader [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p34/ looks suspiciously like ''The Burger King'']], though the author states that the inspiration of King Radical was actually [[VideoGame/MarioKart King Boo on a Dirtbike.]]
** A perfect example in Futures Trading: [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja had {{Dracula}} fire his moon laser at the base of the {{President|Evil}} of the [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Human-Dinosaur alliance]].]]
* FascinatingEyebrow: One of Doc's many graduate degrees must be in this.[[note]]Helps that his eyes and eyebrows are the only exposed part of his mask[[/note]] Gordito is a quick study.
* FeedItABomb:
** In the Bad Future, this is Mitzi and Dan McNinja's Dying Moment of Awesome. To kill the Horrorsaurus, Mitzi allows it to swallow her while she's got explosives strapped to her chest. Dan follows, because "You didn't pack enough".
** Happens to the Doctor during his rematch against [=McBonald=]. Forcefeeding him a mime bomb, the doc is understandably very worried when he first feels it stuffed in his mouth and forcefully digested.
* FightDracula: The "Punch Dracula" story is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, an opportunity for Doc to get into a fight with the lord of all vampires.
* FlatWhat: Used more than a few times, practically being a RunningGag. One instance is so flat it even lacks [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p26 punctuation.]]
** Another with no punctuation, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 found here.]] Though, considering that [[spoiler: [[ConservationOfNinjutsu a clone]] [[LudicrousGibs just got an arm kicked off in a spray of blood]],]] this is justifiable.
** Yet a third with [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/22p02/ no punctuation]]. Though it's a bit understandable, since Doc looks up just in time to see what appears to be a [[spoiler:solid sheet of Christmas in July]] coming straight down at him from a clear sky.
** Even King Radical utters it [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p32/ upon seeing the return of the McNinja Burger.]] Justified in that [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja is supposedly dead, in his/everyone's/Donald [=McBonald's=] mind.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: What is the identity of the strange motorcycle that appears to brainwash the people riding it, and manipulated the Doc into [[spoiler:bisecting the last rider]] and [[spoiler:destroying the last known supply of True Dew]]? A unicorn. Named Sparklelord. Also...
--> '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': I shall. Name you. ''Yoshi''.
* FootnoteFever: The dinosaur-riding banditos speak English with a sprinkling of Spanish, which is always translated in footnotes. Even when the meaning is clear. Even when the word appears multiple times in the same ''panel''.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p33 The editor helpfully explains the meaning of "policía" four times.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p37 "And sometimes,]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p74 they wore tank tops."]]
** Doc seeing [[spoiler:his younger self via time hole]] while chasing after King Rad through the caves.
** Related to the above, Doc is [[spoiler:jumping through time, reliving his memories in the past.]] But then he "jumps too far ahead," to [[spoiler:a memory in the ''future'', where he is a fugitive from the military.]]
** In ''A Cumberland Ninja in Kind Radical's Court'', Chuck tries to read a book, but gives up, throws it away, and announces "This is boring!". A couple of pages later, King Radical does the exact same thing with a pamphlet. [[spoiler: The next storyline reveals that they are alternate versions of the same person]].
** In ''Space Savers'', [[spoiler:[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p12/ Chuck saw King Radical kill him]], or a version of him, in the past]]. So he knew exactly what would happen when [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p77/ he jumped into the portal]].]]
** In ''I Told You That Story So I Could Tell You This One'', Dan [=McNinja=] tells Gordito that they always wear their masks so that they can take it off and leave their lives behind if everyone turns against them. In [[spoiler:''Army of One'', Frans Rayner clones the Dr. and through this gets to see his face, saying that someday, this will be very useful]]. Sure enough, in the [[FugitiveArc final arc]], the entire world goes out for the [[HeroWithBadPublicity Dr.'s blood]], and [[spoiler:this leads to Frans Rayner ensuring the Dr. won't be able to use this last resort.]]
*** And at the very end of that arc, [[spoiler:Doc is, in fact, betrayed by his entire family (though admittedly with no other options), and he does remove his mask in order to escape. Once he's saved the day, he takes advantage of the opportunity to start over as a plain old medical doctor. And since Dan finally killed Frans once the real President was brought back, Doc no longer had the threat of being exposed hanging over him. As Dan puts it, "early retirement '''''earned'''''."]]
* ForgetsToEat: The titular Doctor. Low blood sugar makes him cranky, too.
* FreudianExcuse: Parodied in "Monster Mart" where not only is stupidity of an alternate form used as an excuse but gets instant forgiveness granted once told.
* FugitiveArc: The final arc is this. [[spoiler:The BigBad, King Radical, successfully overthrows the U.S. government and has Dr. [=McNinja=] declared an enemy of the state]].
* FutureBadass: Happens to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p18 Dark Smoke Puncher (now going by Doctor McNinja too]], [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 Gordito]] and [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p81/ Yoshi]]]].
* GadgeteerGenius: Dark Smoke Puncher, while Doc is more focused on medical and science. Sean is more interested in tech.
* GallowsHumor: How do the creators celebrate an anniversary in their comic? By having something bad happen to the Doctor ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p32 year 1]]: [[spoiler: Doc gets shot to what is apparently his death.]]; [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p21 year 3]]: [[spoiler: His office explodes in a fiery hellstorm.]]
* GambitPileup: Let's see, we have the Doctor himself, King Radical, and Sparklelord. Dracula, of course. Victor the plumber, who is [[MostDefinitelyNotAVillain most definitely not the tiniest spy in the world]]. Rayner, who can't seem to stay dead. And whatever Chuck Goodrich is planning.
* GeniusCripple: The father of [=Dr McNinja's=] college friend Martin is a scientific genius confined to a wheelchair. Who also bears a fairly good resemblance to [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Stephen Hawking]]. His name? [[CaptainErsatz Professor Birding]].
* GeniusLoci: The Radical Lands are capable of determining the most radical of them all and crowning that person king.
* GenreShift: A momentary one, invoked by the Doctor. At one point, Franz Rayner cloned an army of Doctors to exploit the fact that when they all turned against him, ConservationOfNinjutsu would take effect and even the original Doc would become totally useless. Doc rescues himself by [[FakeDefector "switching sides"]] and teaming up with an unwilling Rayner so as to treat the whole situation like a BuddyCopShow until the clones were slain.
* GetOutOfJailFreeCard: Because he so often helps the police, the mayor made a deal with Doc that he could get away with any of the laws he broke while doing his ninja thing if he got to his office before the police did and said "Base!"
* GiantMecha: Part of King Radical's master plan involves turning [[spoiler: all of Cumberland into this by installing haunted wood in every house in the city and using magic to merge them into one of these...because it's RADICAL.]]
** [[spoiler: Washington D.C. was designed to be this, but due to budget restraints it was never completed.]]
* GirlsWithMoustaches: A prank by King Radical results in a bunch of kids, girls included, ending up with bushy beards.
** Girls can contract Paul Bunyan's disease, which may overlap with GenderBender.
* GodzillaThreshold: In ''The End Part I'', Dr. [=McNinja=] makes a bid to stop Radical's [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt world shattering]] plans by [[spoiler:using the device he got in his youth in ''First Generation Ninja American'' to summon Sparklelord, an OmnicidalManiac and the only one King Radical truly fears. That and he had to reveal his real name, freeing the Ghost Wizard with a vendetta against him that his grandfather sacrificed himself to seal away.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: Since Mitzi and Dan didn't know how to raise a kid to be a ninja, when Doc was a kid they introduced him to Batman comics to inspire him. Doc's obsession with being Batman hasn't let off the gas since.
* GoodIsNotNice: Doc... sometimes.
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p41/ This page,]] as explained in the AltText.
* GoshdangItToHeck: "Damn," "ass," and "hell" are about as bad as the profanity gets. Anything stronger is [[CurseCutShort visually bleeped out]] or amusingly censored (i.e. "You have got to be [flarking] [pooping] me.")
** Additionally, the Doctor's standard expression of surprise or dismay is the exceedingly mild "Oh my goodness."
* GratuitousEnglish: The Great Dane himself, Frans Rayner, especially in the older days.
-->'''Frans Rayner''': Hey, Dan, come on. You are just the baby school, and I am the Big League Chew. Why do you try?\\
'''Dan [=McNinja=]''': Frans, I can't wait to see how much worse your horrible English will be once your skull is concave. It'll be ''hilarious.''
* GratuitousSpanish: Parodied with the paleontologist banditos.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] ascended to this after [[spoiler:smashing King Radical's space shuttle]]. He's still out there enjoying the world's "slide into entropy," but he could return at any time he pleases.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Dan's fatherly advice covers this subject with regard to alligators.
** Also, [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] rips an arm off [[spoiler:an Old [=McNinja=] clone]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p66 uses it to bludgeon]] [[spoiler:another clone.]]
** Dr. McNinja picks up [[spoiler: Dracula]] by the legs and uses him as a weapon against [[spoiler: King Radical.]] Bonus points for being an IncrediblyLamePun: [[spoiler: He turned Dracula into a bat.]]
*** And follows that up by throwing [[spoiler: Pope Francis]] at him, [[spoiler: destroying the now-vampirized King Radical. Furious and revenge driven though he might've been before, Radical dies with a smile because of how radical his death is.]]
* GroinAttack: "Hahahahah. He kicked you in your genitals. Ninjas have no honor."
%%* GrumpyOldMan: Dan.
* GullibleLemmings: [[spoiler:King Radical's main motive is to save his own people by sacrificing billions of lives from this world, who he doesn't care about due to being boring. Despite this, the entire country still loves him and supports his efforts.]]
* GunKata: Gordito is seen practicing these outside the office [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p5 here.]]
%%* TheGunslinger: Gordito.
* TheGrimReaper: In Doc's world, Death is a skeletal maitre d' with a tidy little moustache.
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* TheAdventuresOfdRmCnINJA/tROPESitOtO