History Webcomic / TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja

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* AboveGoodAndEvil: What Mitzi believes the ideal ninja should be. ''Somebody's'' got to be available to assassinate people on both sides.
* AcceptableTargets: Diabetics, InUniverse, as far as the doctor is concerned. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p2 They're]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p5 always]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p24 whining.]]
* AchillesHeel: or, more specifically, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p4 Achilles' Right Butt Cheek]] Frans Rayner has one; and he has the ability to relocate it. [[note]]It was in his right butt cheek when he battled Dan for the leadership of the Ninja school they both attended. In "D.A.R.E. To Resist Ninja Drugs And Ninja Violence Part 2" Dr [=McNinja=] discovers that Frans has moved it to his left eyebrow.[[/note]] What makes Dr [=McNinja=] particularly threatening to him is his ability to identify its location. [[spoiler:In the "Army Of One" story, it was revealed that Rayner relocated his vulnerable spot to his leg before it was amputated, so he doesn't have one anymore.]]
* ActionMom: Mitzi, a rare example who is ''entirely willing'' to sacrifice her children if necessary, although in the specific example in question it was to save him from a FateWorseThanDeath.
* AffablyEvil: King Radical. Sure, the guy's a crime boss, but he's so cool most normal people don't even mind.
%%** {{Dracula}}.
* TheAhnold: Frans Rayner, although his backstory actually hews closer to The Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme or The Creator/ChuckNorris. Geographically, he'd be more like the Creator/DolphLundgren. Doctor [=McNinja=] himself (minus the accent) in the "Army Of One" story arc.
* AllMythsAreTrue: And ''will'' show up in certain arcs if they get so much as a passing mention.
* AltText: Musings on the story, a pithy phrase, the punchline to the strip or even [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p44 little]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p46 stories]] are all stuck in here. It can generally be assumed that even if the strip itself does not contain a joke, the AltText will. Chris will also bitch about how hard pirate hats are to draw whenever there are pirates, because perspective is difficult with their odd shape. He hates trees too.
* {{Alucard}}: Lampshaded. It's pretty easy for the Doctor to figure out who "Mr. Alucard" is. It's not as obvious for Benjamin Franklin II, which brings us to an arc that was almost 2 years long. Doc's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p16 reaction]] says it all.
* AmericanEagle: The White House is guarded on the astral plane by a bound spirit in the form of an anthropomorphic bald eagle. However, it's implied that his true form is a cephalopoid EldritchAbomination and he plans to take horrific revenge when he breaks free of his binding.
* AndIMustScream:
** The Mummy curse. Your body slowly and gradually turns to dust. Doc says all your molecules are still alive and sentient, so the cursed one would live eternally, but without body speak of, and his/her consciousness spread all over the world.
** Sparklelord's fate was to be eternally trapped in a StableTimeLoop, repeating the same events for all time. [[spoiler:Doc sprung him so he could stop King Radical.]]
* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: "Doctor [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts" at the end of [[OnceAnEpisode every chapter]]. Spoofed all to hell, as you may have guessed.
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Gordito's father was assassinated by PETA. To be fair, his closing act was pretty brutal.
* AntagonistInMourning: After Dr. McNinja fakes his death, King Radical muses that he was one of the few radical things about Cumberland.
* {{Anticlimax}}:
** Discussed in the AltText fairly frequently. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p61 Here's an example.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p83/ Here's another.]]
** After many years of being a sworn enemy of the [=McNinjas=], [[spoiler:Rayner]] finally dies [[NotQuiteDead (for real)]] when Dan casually walks up behind him and [[NeckSnap breaks his neck]]. [[spoiler:Dracula]] doesn't do much better. [[spoiler:He's been vampireing it up for hundreds of years--[[TemptingFate and just got done bragging about it]]--when Sean hacks one of his portals to send him to a desert... the bright sunlight instantly vaporizes him.]]
* AntiHero: Doctor [=McNinja's=] a hero, no doubt about it, but he's kinda vicious about his methods. [[spoiler: The unicorn motorcycle, Sparklelord, advanced those tendencies into outright ''villainy''.]]
** A good chunk of this ends up coming from his ''unhealthy'' obsession with taking down King Radical [[spoiler:until Radical is finally beaten]]. His friends, especially Gordito, easily notice this, and after the [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] incident, Gordito actively starts [[WhatTheHellHero shunting Doc back on the right track]] whenever his obsession gets to him.
* AntiVillain: King Radical. Sure he's the head of a nefarious crime ring and he's definitely hiding ''something'' but all of his actions benefit the community, and he seems to be in it primarily [[ForTheLulz for the fun of it]]. He's later revealed to be working on an actual EvilPlan, but even that has a bit of moral greyness in it, as in saving something at the expense of something else. By the end, though, he's become enough of an evil jerk not to count any more.
--> "Ah, I remember when I got letters from readers defending King Radical. No more." --''AltText to "The End, Part 2", comic 97''
* AnyoneCanDie: WordOfGod is that as the GrandFinale is in motion, nobody is safe. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted though. Of the heroes, only Farmer [=McNinja=] dies and in a HeroicSacrifice. All the heroes manage to make it out okay while the villains (save possibly for [=McBonald=]) are killed one by one.]]
* ApatheticCitizens:
** The residents of Cumberland, Maryland don't particularly care when the mayor installs a citywide anti-zombie system, and a rampaging Paul Bunyan is treated by the police as ordinary police work, not worthy of exceptional notice. Now dinosaurs, ''that'' is taking it too far. Which makes one wonder how they took it in the future when [[spoiler:intelligent space dinosaurs have occupied Earth]].
** When Doc [[spoiler:surfs out of the sky on a robotic laughing Dracula]], the main reaction is being offended because he gives the finger while doing so.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 4 or 5 in the fourth time line. PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Archnemesis}}:
** Parodied with the "Birdosaurus", whom the Doctor considers one just for being so annoying.
--->'''Doctor [=McNinja=]''': I hate you. I hate you so much. I will hunt you down forever. When you die, my laughter will be so ''bright'', it will be the last thing you will hear, ''see, smell'' and ''feel''.
** More seriously, Frans Rayner, movie star and professional ninja killer, could claim the title against the Doctor for a few stories. Later, he becomes a DegradedBoss[[note]]Yes, it's a video game trope, and yes, it totally applies here anyway[[/note]], and King Radical steps in as a world-threatening greatest enemy.
** Sparklelord and King Radical are also each other's arch-enemies. [[spoiler: The Radical people invaded Sparklelord's lands and changed him physically against his will with magic, and in return he betrayed them and mostly destroyed the Radical Lands until being banished to another world by King Radical.]]
** In the last stories, [[spoiler: the Doctor becomes cursed and immediately gets most of his important old enemies and rivals so angry at him that they ''all'' decide killing him is their top priority, so basically he becomes the Archnemesis to all of them. Naturally enough, they form a LegionOfDoom.]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Sean calling Gordito out [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p24 here]]
** [[spoiler:Sparklelord]] is described as a combination of "Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, atomic bombs and Seabiscuit."
* ArtEvolution: The comic has evolved from black and white to computer-shaded black and white to color. It has also gone through several colorists, and each change was noted in the AltText.
* ArtifactOfDoom:
** The much-mentioned motorcycle, which was actually a [[spoiler: crazed unicorn warlord with mind-control powers. Can't forget the mind-control powers.]]
** World-ending Mayan tennis machine, anyone? [[spoiler: Averted.]]
* ArtisticLicenseLaw:
** When the [[spoiler: Vice President admitted to an assassination attempt on President Funkhouser because he wanted to be president she says]] he's going to be exiled for treason. To be found guilty of treason he'd have to either levy war against the U.S. or give aid and comfort to enemies of the U.S. Additionally they'd need two witnesses to an overt act or for him to confess in an open court. Dangling from the fist of a HumongousMecha probably doesn't count as open court. Regardless, [[spoiler: Funkhouser]] bypasses this particular problem [[TakingAThirdOption by throwing him into space.]]
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Lampshaded when absolutely no attempt is made to accurately depict a submarine's operations.
-->'''Submarine Captain:''' Do all that stuff we have to do to shoot at him and then '''''FIRE TORPEDOES!'''''
* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Various dinosaurs appear on the scene. No attempt is made to make them faithful depictions of real dinosaur species. AltText reinforces MST3KMantra to the fullest.
* AscendedExtra:
** Bearclaw in the main webcomic, and Beeman in the back-up story for the third print volume.
** Archibald, King of the Hobos, originally a character conceived for a t-shirt, became an InUniverse character and mayor of Cumberland.
* AssholeVictim: Something of a running gag thus far is invoking this trope in an increasingly forced or unlikely way, after the good doctor becomes responsible for their death somehow.
** Invoked by King Radical who [[spoiler: has surrounded himself with an army of jerks and the absolute worst people he can find, because he intends to kill them and replace them with citizens of the Radical Lands.]]
* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Physician, heal thyself!"
* AsYouKnow: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p29/ "Oh. Thanks for catching us all up on that. We all knew it. But thanks."]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p34/ A hilariously blatant example.]] Chuck claims to have known all of that on the next page.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/30p24/ Gordito, who lived through the events, deals with this with his uncles.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Persons who contract Paul Bunyan's Disease turn into fifty-foot-tall lumberjacks. [[spoiler: The disease is weaponized in "Futures Trading".]]
* AuthorAvatar: Ron Wizard, Hasting's ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' character, is King Radical's court magician.
* AwesomeButImpractical: [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] has a bionic laser eye, which is incredibly lethal. Unfortunately it lacks an external power source, and so burns his own calorie reserves for fuel. Even ''one'' shot is enough to render him unable to fight.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Did you not read the title?
* AwesomenessIsAForce: In "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court", Doc discovers that King Radical is attempting to channel the power of, well, "Radicalness", to open the portal to Radical Land. The more "rad stuff" King Rad does, the stronger the portal becomes. [[spoiler:This is in part being used as a means of seemingly killing the lamest people in Cumberland, the creeps serving under King Radical and using them as gates for the people of the Radical Land]].
* AWizardDidIt: What the AltText to the July 1st, 2011 news entry/fill-in comic implies.
* AxCrazy: A whole heaping lot of it to go around.
* BackFromTheDead: Ben Franklin, via cloning; the Doc himself, via invoking OnlyAFleshWound; [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]], thanks to NeverFoundTheBody.
* BackToBackBadasses: Invoked as the only way to counter [[spoiler: Frans Rayner's InverseNinjaLaw advantage]] during the Army of One arc.
--> '''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p77 DOC AND THE DANE: TWIN FISTS OF FURY]]'''
** Played straight in ''The End: Part 2'' between Doc and Old McNinja. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Old they didn't have each other's backs as much as they thought]].
* BadassBandolier: Ron sports two of these. Their only use seems to be to look awesome. That is sufficient.
* BadassBoast: Doctor [=McLuchador=] woke up a giant crab monster from hibernation, and needed to put it back to sleep with a "large concussive blast". Unfortunately, it destroyed the tank and helicopter he had prepared to do that. So what next?
-->'''[=McLuchador=]:''' I'm going to punch you ''very'' hard.
* BadassBookworm: How can a ninja doctor not be one? [[spoiler: His brother Sean is also one of these, though he's still hiding it from his parents.]]
* BadassBeard:
** Zigzagged by Frans Rayner, whose ''neck''beard caused everyone at the American Ninja Guild to laugh at him, but is capable of blocking attacks from ninjas.
** Played straight with John McNinja, Dan's dad and the Doc's Grandfather. Having chosen to just straight up cut out the lower half of his mask after taking a page from his son's book of revealing facial hair.
* BadassCreed: Gordito borrows Roland's from ''Literature/TheDarkTower'', impressing Dan - but not Sean, who's also read the books (though he refuses to admit it).
* BadassLabcoat: As worn by the good Doctor.
* ManlyFacialHair: Both Dan [=McNinja=] and Gordito sport impressive moustaches, considered remarkable in-universe. Dan's 'stache is always [[RuleOfFunny visible through his ninja mask (it has a hole especially for the mustache)]]. This is important, because the moustache is, in fact, [[spoiler:the outward expression of tremendous badassery and commands instant respect. This is why Dan was made the leader of the group and Rayner was [[StartOfDarkness sent away humiliated]].]] Despite years of study and experimentation, Dan still doesn't have a concrete idea as to ''exactly why or how this works''. Also, while Dan just sort of gets his via the power of being a [=McNinja=], [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p12/ Gordito grows his through SHEER FORCE OF WILL]]. Fuck yeah. And he's still ''early into his puberty'', lest we forget.
** [[spoiler: The Ultimate Diplomat]] has one, which is impressive, considering [[spoiler: he's a ''dinosaur'']].
** Can't leave out [[spoiler: Ron Wizard]] who has a mustache large enough to put even Gordito to shame.
* BadassPacifist: The Ultimate Diplomat, who makes hardened warriors and ninjas throw down their weapons with a single sentence.
* BadFuture: [[spoiler: The world's ruled by dinosaurs, humans get hunted for fun, and [[HumanResources food for humans]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial is definitely not made out of dead humans]]]]
** There have been multiple Bad Futures, all averted thanks to Chuck Goodrich travelling back in time. Other ones include a ZombieApocalypse caused by Ben Franklin's eternal life serum, and a RobotUprising of vacuum cleaners. However, every time Chuck prevents one of these, it just shunts us into a new timeline where a ''different'' BadFuture will occur, and a different Chuck will come back to stop it.
* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: [[spoiler: Sparklelord.]] Lampshaded and handwaved in the AltText.
* BatmanColdOpen: ''Monster Mart'' begins with Doc and Gordito battling another giant lumberjack, this time with a giant blue ox. The book-only story ''Beyond Winter Wonderdome'' begins with Dr. McNinja battling [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext fish-man Elvis impersonators.]]
* BattleCouple and BadassFamily: Dan and Mitzi; the [=McNinja=] family as a whole. Probably includes Gordito, who's basically Dr. [=McNinja's=] adopted kid at this point. And maybe Judy and Yoshi, which means that this BadassFamily includes a ''[[strike:deinonychus]] velociraptor, a gorilla receptionist, and a Mexican kid with a mustache and guns.'' Meaning the ninjas are the ''normal'' part of the family.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Doc gets dragged into one during his fight with the third [=NASAghast=].
* BeardOfEvil: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p22 Victor]], along with being ObviouslyEvil.
* BenevolentArchitecture: {{Lampshaded}} [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p23 here]] and now the page imae too!
* BenevolentBoss: a plot point that foils the [=McNinjas=] using stealth. In the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p40/ sky pirate arc]] the captain's insistence that recapturing the doctor is worthy of a bonus causes him to start verifying the identity of the crew in front of him when he asks their names so he can make a note on the roster. He gives the benefit of the doubt that he simply can't find 'Johnson' the name given by one of the [=McNinjas=], but finds Neville Johnson on the roster. [[YankTheDogsChain Then the real Neville Johnson]] pipes up that that's him and he's the only Johnson on the ship.
* BerserkButton: Quite a few going around.
** It's generally not the best idea to [[PowerOfFriendship threaten the friends of an]] {{expy}} of [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]].
** The Birdosaurus is this for Doc.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p70 dolphins finally get you to land,]] don't stick around to thank them. (Of course, that's because they're getting revenge for [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p34 this.]])
* BewareTheSillyOnes: While King Radical's intentions have always been somewhat questionable, there was at least some wacky element to them. [[spoiler:Then he blows up Congress.]]
* BigBad: One each arc. The {{Big Bad}}s seen so far and the story arc they first appeared in: Donald [=McBonald=] ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p1 Issue One Half]]), Pirates ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p1 So what IS a McNinja?]]), the Jet Pack Man ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p1 There is a Raptor in My Office]]), Frans Rayner (D.A.R.E To Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence Parts [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p1 1]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p1 2]]), Dracula and the Ghost Wizard ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p1 Punch Dracula]]), Robster ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p1 Monster Mart]]), Sparklelord ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p1 Doc Gets Rad]]), the President of the Human/Dinosaur Alliance ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p01 Futures Trading]]), King Radical again ([[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p01 A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court]]).
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p64/ Archibald's Mummy pulls one]] in "All The King's Dirtbikes and All The King's Men".]]
* BigEntrance: Dr. [=McNinja=] makes a pretty good entrance [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p6/ here,]] mainly as a ShoutOut to Franchise/{{Batman}}.
* BilingualBonus: On [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p26/ this page,]] the first three lines of runes can be translated to [[spoiler: "This sphinx will shoot [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] laser eyes if you".]] The rest of the sentence and text is covered up, though the next part might be [[spoiler: "donat [sic] answer the question right,"]] whereas the rest is too covered to read, though it has repetitions of the word "fat".[[note]]The whole visible part goes "This sphinx will shoot fucking laser eyes if you donat a ... estion rig ... fat in ... ht ... lly fat a ... en eats a ... e fat ge ... la eve ... is ... st"[[/note]]
* ABirthdayNotABreak: A Meta example. The comic tends to celebrate its anniversaries by inflicting some misfortune on the Doctor. ''The End: Part 1'' finally subverts this by bailing him out of a nasty predicament instead.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The comic finally ends with the Dr. [=McNinja=] faking his death, estranged from his family, unable to trust them ever again and his family most likely never being able to know what he looks like due to finally taking off his mask. Although most of his enemies are dead or gone, most of his friends are still alive and now he is able to start a new life as a normal doctor, finally free from the obligation to be Doctor McNinja. And everything bad it entails (not to mention the curse from the Ghost Wizard.]]
* BlandNameProduct: [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds McBonald's]] angers Doc by selling the McNinja burger [[spoiler: and are at it again when everyone believes the good Doctor to be dead]].
* BloodierAndGorier: The epic battle at the end of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p1 "Army Of One]."] Due to there being many, many identical combatants, [[spoiler:all of them being Dr. [=McNinja=] clones,]] it isn't necessary to keep them all alive and in one piece for the story to continue. Plus they're all clones made from an older and less effective cloning technology.
* BloodyHilarious: Gordito [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p31/ fails his skill check.]]
* BloodKnight: Dan [=McNinja=] would even kill the little boy giant lumberjack and turn his body into a roof. Doc increasingly shows hints of being as AxCrazy as him but occasionally feels bad about it.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Citizens of the Radical Empire aren't concerned with our concepts of "Good" and "Evil". They just care about how cool something is. Invading a forest and twisting the forest creatures to fit their ideals of what's cool? Neat! Attacking the military with a [[HauntedTechnology ghost powered]] HumongousMecha built from the city, [[InferredHolocaust killing huge numbers of people in the process]]? Totally awesome!
* BodyHorror: The comic has two good examples of this.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p37/ "[He] has a disease that turns his butt into a spider at night."]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p66/ The deadly curse of the mummy.]]
* BoringButPractical: Doc invokes the trope during a fight with Radical when King Radical uses ChainsawGood against a simple sword, saying that his sword is an actual weapon while King Radical's weapon is meant for cutting wood and that things don't have to be exciting to be better.
* BrainDrain: King Radical and his Mafia prevent the brain drain from occurring in Cumberland, MD, by encouraging high school and college graduates to stay in the area. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p26 Very strongly]] encouraging.
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:The End]] is turning into this for [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja himself.]] After so many years of arrogant behavior on the virtue of [[spoiler: trying to be Batman]] and failing to learn any concrete lessons, his lack of tact and strategy has finally caught up with him.
* BreakingAndBloodsucking: "Why a Gorilla" begins with a vampire, in mist form, entering the bedroom of a sleeping blonde woman. It turns out it's Doc in a wig, who promptly stakes the vampire and kicks him out the window.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: "Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Final Thoughts," in which he often delivers [[strike:AnAesop]] a SpoofAesop on the events of the previous chapter.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p73 "I don't like adressing mature issues in my comic."]]
* BreatherEpisode: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Judy Gets a Kitten]]." [[spoiler:Subverted. Then double subverted, so everything's okay.]]
* BrickJoke: The "Birdosaurus" that the Doctor off-handedly punched keeps coming back at the most inconvenient times. It's getting close to being a RunningGag.
** Acknowledged by the Doc himself, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p83/ here ]]
** The throwaway one-liner about Peg Faces comes back in the background of a frame a few issues later.
** Ninjas can't catch you if [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ you're on fire]], not even [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p56/ the [=McNinjas=]]].
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p34/ The dolphins]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p70/ get revenge.]]
* BringMyBrownPants: Martin Monster threatening a mobster [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p30/ with "psychic powers"]] while activating some RedEyesTakeWarning results in this.
* BulletCatch: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p13/ Rocket-propelled grenade catch]], actually.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: In the end, Dr. [=McNinja=] saves the U.S President and the world. But since his family "turned" on him (Since they were willing to kill him at the behest of Franz who, at the time still having control of the military, threaten to shoot them otherwise), he estranges himself from them and heads off to parts unknown with no goodbyes as part of their ninja code. The upside though, he can now leave behind his life as a ninja and commit full time to being a doctor.]]
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Doc. The man is a great doctor, but he'll wear a ninja mask the whole time he's treating you. As an aside, he has even "disguised" himself as another doctor with the mask still on. The administrators of the hospital in question have gotten tired of this routine.
* CallBack: The comic really likes to do this, especially in the later chapters.
** In one comic, a demon kills half of Gordito's classmates, their heads exploding as the result of a spell they were being used as {{Human Sacrifice}}s for. The AltText says "Don't worry, all their heads grow back in the next story. (Honest!)". Sure enough, In ''All the King's Dirtbikes and All the King's Men'', Gordito says that his classmates' heads have been growing back funny.
** In "The End", Doc receives a call from his lawyer, Brad, who last appeared on the 4th page of the 0th issue, almost a decade prior.
** In "D.A.R.E.", Dan sets himself on fire to escape the drug ninjas and says ninjas can't catch you if you are on fire. The comic's associated store page sells a t-shirt with the same phrase, depicting 3 ninjas standing off from a guy on fire. In "The End" part 2, a bunch of pirates get set on fire and die. But one turns out to be so tough that he survives and comes after the ninja family while still on fire. The ninja family then proceeds to express confusion saying that they can't catch him, while in the exact same pose as the t-shirt.
** In "The End: Part 2", Doc finally lives out the [[spoiler: moment in time he saw in Futures Trading, where he's hiding in a building while a voice from outside threatens to have it bombed if it doesn't come out.]]
** [[spoiler: Franz Rayner ends up [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p122/ becoming the]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p123/ president]].]]
** [[spoiler: He survives the bombing by stealing a uniform from a guard named Jonesy. All the way back in the second issue he had stolen a uniform from a guard named Convery [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness killing him]], and after his cover was blown proceeded to kick another guard named Jonesy in the face. Convery and the second Jonesy both looked quite similar to each other (due to being [[CreatorCameo based on the likeliness of Chris Hastings]]) and both ended up dead. Because of the LawOfConservationOfDetail, it's possible that both Jonesy's were the same person.]]
** [[spoiler:The Finale has the Doctor, finally taking off his mask after feeling like everything has turned against him and there is no hope at all. Just like what his [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p32/ father told Gordito]], and true to Dan's word. Absolutely nobody is sure if they'll ever see him again or will even recognize him]].
** From the last page, all the way back to the second: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p2/ "We don't hire]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p146/ night janitors."]]
* CallingMeALogarithm: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p44/ Narcomancy]], which isn't really a word, no.
* CaptainErsatz:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p19/ Parodied]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p20/ mercilessly]] with [[BeeBeeGun Bee]][[Franchise/{{Batman}} man]] in-universe.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p28/ Dr. McLuchador.]] [[spoiler:Somewhat justified as he is actually [=McNinja=] in disguise, and the real [=McLuchador=] died a while ago. Somewhat less justified in that this meant there really was still a Doctor [=McLuchador=]]].
* CarFu: A lot to go around in the comic. As well as [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p27 Bike Fu.]]
* CastFromCalories: [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body--and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand and leaves him delirious and disoriented.
* CasualDangerDialogue: "There is a raptor in my office."
* CatchAFallingStar: {{Lampshaded}} here: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p35 "Thank you for saving me, Superman."]]. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p48 Played straight here,]] though.
* TheCavalry: Several in "Futures Trading." First, [[spoiler: the Nasaghast]] returns, and saves [[spoiler: Chuck]] from certain death at the hands (er, claws) of a raptor. Then, a few pages later, who comes in to bust the Doctor and Sean out of a tight spot? [[spoiler: Yoshi]]! Then, at the climax, [[spoiler: Dracula and his ''moon laser''.]]
* CerebusSyndrome: [[spoiler: With the ''utter destruction'' of the US Capitol Building,]] King Radical jumped from "wacky alternate universe savior" to "brutal terrorist", and dragged the series into a very dark, very scary new light.
* ChainsawGood. Chainsaw nunchuck, even better.
* ChandlersLaw: Problem: you have a whole family of ninja performing a rescue, but pirates aren't much of a challenge, and you can't send the ninja in because they're already there. Solution: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p43 send in the UBER-ninja]].
* CharacteristicTrope: RuleOfCool / SerialEscalation
* CharmPoint: Moustaches are SeriousBusiness.
* CharlesAtlasSuperPower: The organic muscle jetpack. And to a lesser degree, almost everything the Doctor does, ever.
** Frans Rayner, whose perfect body control allows him to move around weak points in his body [[spoiler:and survive a fall onto rocks from lethal heights by rerouting vital organs out of the way]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Creator/BruceLee]], who ''jumped to the Moon.''
* ChekhovsGag: Too many to count, but [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p29 this]] deserves special mention. (Don't spoil it if you haven't already read up to there - it's the sort of joke that takes ''years'' to mature.)
** Eventually becomes something of a boomerang brick.
** There's also an arc-long example in ''There Is A Raptor In My Office''. ''"But I have '''diabeeeeeteeees.'''''"
** In the AltText [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p45 here]], Chris mentions that he was disappointed with King Radical's entrance, and decides to have skateboarding trumpeters announce his presence next time. They do.
** Dan [=McNinja=] boasts that he absorbed the poison from his wife's picked beets so that he'll later be able to shoot it from his eyes, "Like a toad." He does just that later on.
** King Radical saying he was going to use a special warhead to blow up an orphanage. [[spoiler: He was, just not with the kids inside because he was having a new one built on the old site. (The warhead is a special, non-atomic version which blows stuff up without the messy elements of radiation and half-life; instead, it gives beards to the people who behold the explosion).]]
** There's a double at the end of "Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja". One is an in-story reference [[spoiler: when he catches the baby launched by the anti-zombie system]], the other in the alt text calls back to "There Is A Raptor In My Office".
** In the alt text of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p80 this page]] it alludes to making Doc's brother the protagonist once Doc is dead. Cut to "Futures Trading", where [[spoiler: [[LegacyCharacter Doc is thought to be dead...]]]]
** A character invented as an alternate explanation of something [=McNinja=] said in the alt text [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p44/ here]] and [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p46/ here]] becomes something real [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p41/ here.]]
** We have [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p21/ Mikey, cured by Doc, but forever unable to grow a beard.]] 6 years worth of webcomics later, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p50/ we visit Mikey again in the dinosaur infested future, where we see Mikey get dumped once again.]]
** In the AltText of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p50/ this page]], Hastings comments "I think I'll have [the birdosaurus] stalk Doc forever now." Sure enough, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p76/ four books later]]...
** Dark Smoke Puncher [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p19/ hides all sorts of rocket launchers]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p88/ in his truck.]] [[AltText Hee hee!]] On a related note, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p31/ if it did explode]], [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p90/ how awesome would it be?]]
* ChekhovsGun: Very frequent. If, early on in an arc, an ability is explained or an obstacle brought up that forces the protagonists to take a different route to solving their problems, you can bet the ability will be required and the obstacle will have to be dealt with in spite of all efforts to the contrary.
** Doc's ability to punch ghosts by humming the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme appeared several story arcs before again becoming vital in his fight with the Nasaghasts.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p7/ Paul]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p8/ Bunyan's]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p56/ Disease]].
** Remember way back [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p16/ here]] when we found out that [[spoiler: Dracula has a moon laser]]? It just got important [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p94/ in "Futures Trading"]].
** Remember the cloaking device King Radical used to disguise himself as a cop? [[http://www.drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p20/ He put it to better use]].
** The [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12/ Inocktec technology]] was probably due to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p29/ time travelers]]. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p75/ Time travelers indeed]].
** Way back at the conclusion of DARE Part 2, Doc explains that one power hungry jerk couldn't become president and take over the whole government unless they also killed the legislative and judicial branches. [[spoiler:President Radical [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p03/ took this advice to heart.]] ]]
** Doc's first name being a secret is mentioned a few times, including Why A Gorilla? and Army of One. This is later explained during the encounter with the ghost wizard (Mentioned in Army of One) during the First Generation Ninja American arc. [[spoiler: We learn Dr. McNinja's true name, Patrick, is used to complete a the Wizard's Curse at the conclusion of The End: Part One with an assist from Sparklelord]]
** The summoning device from "First Generation Ninja American" isn't actually used until two arcs later, where it's used to summon [[spoiler:Sparklelord.]]
* ChekhovsGunman:
** Well, lookie [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p63 here]].
** The [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p4/ The lawyer]] is back with a [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/31p07/ name.]]
* TheChewToy: Doc just can't catch a break some days.
* TheChosenOne: Every future so far has some disaster that will doom humanity, and every time [[spoiler:Chuck Goodrich.]] is chosen to go back in time and stop it. Subverted, however, in that all he's accomplished is to create parallel realities where the disaster doesn't happen, not save his own. Up to and including [[spoiler: the Radical Land.]]
* ChristmasMiracle: Katanakka Miracle, anyway.
* ChurchMilitant: The Roman Catholic church is surprisingly badass, hiring the [=McNinja=] clan as mercenaries to stop a ghost wizard ''and'' providing holy relics for them to use as weapons, including a substantial chunk of the [[PublicDomainArtifact True Cross]], [[{{Squick}} nunchaku made from the bones of Mother Teresa]], the holy shurikens Doc uses against [[spoiler:the Nasaghasts]] -- and bullets blessed in the Pope's mouthwash for Gordito's gun.
** Taken about as far as it can possibly go when Dr. [=McNinja=] is able to use ''Pope Francis'' as a weapon. Yes, really.
* CityOfAdventure: Cumberland. Considering the town family doctor is a ninja superhero, this isn't too surprising.
* ClassicalMovieVampire: Dracula himself looks ''just like'' Bela Lugosi.
%%Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples* CleanCut: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p39 Subverted]] and lampshaded.
* ClingyMacGuffin: The evil horsie [[spoiler: ridden by Ben Franklin after he turns into a Headless Horseman]]
* CloneArmy: Frans Rayner had a shoddily-made army of Dr. McNinja clones produced in order to invoke ConservationOfNinjitsu on the original.
* CloneByConversion: [[spoiler: King Radical's]] plan turns out to be doing this on a massive scale (more specifically [[spoiler: converting people into the inhabitants of the Radical Lands, where he came from]]).
* CloningBlues: Mostly averted with Benjamin Franklin II, who is basically a continuation of the original Franklin in a new body. Also averted with Dr. [=McNinja's=] own clones from college; they seem to consider themselves one person with multiple bodies and are happy to merge with him once their tasks are complete.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:Old [=McNinja=]'s]] clones show brief signs of individuality before they get slaughtered. But again, they were made with inferior cloning technology which is why they were both less clever than the doctor [[spoiler: and Old]] as well as MadeOfPlasticine
%%* ClueFromEd: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p12/ Parodied here.]] Lampshaded in the AltText.
* CodeName: The [=McNinja=] family. Dan and Mitzi have since gone back to their original names; Sean's is "Dark Smoke Puncher."
* ComesGreatInsanity: According to the doctor, one side effect of possessing [[spoiler: an organic jetpack]] is insanity due to lack of oxygen.
* CompellingVoice: Tyranoman, the Ultimate Diplomat is capable of getting people to drop their weapons simply by disapproving. A mere compliment from him left the Doctor himself weak on his knees.
* ComputerEqualsMonitor: Spoofed [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p24 here]].
* ConflictingLoyalty: In one arc, [=McNinja=]'s dual urges to kill and heal become externalized in the form of his father needing him to battle the greatest threat to all ninja kind while simultaneously being asked by his mentor to help him complete an immortality serum.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: A law of nature in the arc [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 "An Army Of One"]]
** It was also referenced [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p18 years earlier]] in a throwaway gag involving ninja zombies, but nonetheless established as a real force in the [=McNinja=] universe.
* TheConstant: There will always be a Charles "Chuck" Goodrich, who will always discover a time-space portal, and will always use it to try and prevent an apocalypse. [[spoiler:Even in alternate universes, such as the Radical Lands.]]
* ContinuityCreep: Issues One Half, One, and Two are one-shot stories, and other than a throwaway line in Issue Two they certainly don't make any ''less'' sense if one doesn't read the previous issues. Issue Three makes brief mention of Issue Two, but then near the end of the storyline has a plot point that makes absolutely no sense without having read Issue One Half. With Issue Four, a more-or-less continuous storyline starts, and from that point on it's written with the assumption that the reader has read previous issues.
* ContinuityNod: At [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p30 one point]] in "So What Is A [=McNinja=]?" Doctor [=McNinja=] attacks a crew of pirates in the dark and [[GoryDiscretionShot (presumably)]] cuts off their faces. In "D.A.R.E To Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence" he encounters pirates with peg faces, noting they must have been among the ones he fought.
** And of course, we can't forget [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p50 this strip]]. Particularly, the alt text, which lists a specific other strip. Which one? Naturally, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p19 the one where he CALLED the exact method of death he'd deliver to the]] BigBad.
* CoolButStupid: The AltText for [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67 this]] strip (in which Doc focuses his energy to fight ghosts by humming the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme) reads, "Very stupid ideas taken very seriously. Dr. [=McNinja=]."
* CoolPet: Yoshi the velociraptor.
* CoolShades: Many residents of the Radical Lands sport these, including the flying creatures and even the sun!
* CoolVsAwesome: Oh my yes. When your protagonist is as cool as Doc, your antagonists have to be pretty good to keep pace.
** This is also King Radical's strategy for making the world more Radical.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p47/ Ron Wizard]] cranks it UpToEleven, he realizes that the biggest problem with King Radical's robot built from the city of Cumberland--not manufactured in Cumberland, actually ''made'' from the buildings in Cumberland--is that there's nothing cool for him to do with it, other than swatting away annoying military vehicles. He uses his magic to take the U.S. army tanks and fuses them into a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs giant T-Rex]] [[HumongousMecha robot]], piloted by the [[EyepatchOfPower eyepatched]], [[JetPack jet pack wearing]], badass [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking President of the United States of America]] in a giant-robot-on-giant-robot brawl.
* CorruptChurch: [[spoiler:The location of King Radical's base. The reverend that runs it is essentially being bribed, trying to justify it by saying "Isn't it... God's wish that the world be more radical?". Needless to say, the superiors in his denomination are not pleased.]]
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Donald [=McBonald=].
* CosmicHorrorStory: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p19 "We pray they ignore us, and we try our best not to attract their attention."]]
* CouldntFindAPen: In "Why a Gorilla?," [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/27p47/ a message is written in blood]].
* TheCoup: [[spoiler:The Vice President and King Radical]] launch one against US President Maria Funkhouser in ''A Bad Enough Dude'', poisoning her pheromones to cause everyone to attack her in a paranoid rage. However, we don't learn that they are responsible until ''Paleontologists, Politicians, and Prologue." [[spoiler:King Radical is ultimately successful in replacing Funkhouser and he then wipes out U.S. congress to consolidate his power when they try to impeach him]].
* CrazyPrepared: Mayor Chuck Goodrich, who set up a zombie defense system in his town.
** Subverted in that [[spoiler:he's from the future]] and [[spoiler:went back in time to stop the Zombie Apocalypse]]
** Dr. [=McNinja=] has his barber on speed-dial for no other reason except that life is ''craaaazy''. (He's not wrong.) The good doctor also has a bullet-proof clipboard.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''Webcomic/AxeCop'', a webcomic that matches this series in awesomeness.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Inverted with Doc, who could be better described as a Crouching Badass Hidden Moron.
* CueTheSun: At the end of Chapter 16, [[spoiler: the Ultimate Diplomat's speech ushers in a new golden age of peace between human and dinosaur.]] As his oration comes to a close, the sun rises. To quote the AltText, it's symbolic as hell.
* TheCuckooLanderWasRight: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p20/ When giving exposition on Goodrich's extravagant anti-zombie plans]], a panel shows a man mentioning a rumor that [[spoiler: Goodrich is from a future where zombies and robots took over]]. That managed to be much more accurate on both counts than expected.
** When [=McNinja=] decides to make King Radical his nemesis, he has no actual evidence that the King is anything more than he appears to be - a generally decent, if legally unfettered, person trying to make the world a "more radical" (and overall better) place to live, and many saner characters call him out on this. Turns out Radical was up to something sinister after all.
* CureForCancer: Dracula discovered it. And then he hid it on Mars as a private joke, thinking it will be hilarious when the rest of humanity figures it out for themselves.
* CurseCutShort: They're visually bleeped out now, but this happened early on whenever Dr. [=McNinja=] said "motherf--" ''[[RunningGag HE SAID A BAD WORD!]]''
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!!''The Adventures of Dr. McNinja'' provides examples of:

* Tropes/

* 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.)
** [[BadassMustache If you had a mustache like that, wouldn't you?]]

* ManlyFacialHair: Both Dan [=McNinja=] and Gordito sport impressive moustaches, considered remarkable in-universe. Dan's 'stache is always [[RuleOfFunny visible through his ninja mask (it has a hole especially for the mustache)]]. This is important, because the BadassMoustache is, in fact, [[spoiler:the outward expression of tremendous badassery and commands instant respect. This is why Dan was made the leader of the group and Rayner was [[StartOfDarkness sent away humiliated]].]] Despite years of study and experimentation, Dan still doesn't have a concrete idea as to ''exactly why or how this works''.
** Also, while Dan just sort of gets his via the power of being a [=McNinja=], [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p12/ Gordito grows his through SHEER FORCE OF WILL]]. Fuck yeah. And he's still ''early into his puberty'', lest we forget.

* BadassMoustache: Both Dan [=McNinja=] and Gordito. Dan's 'stache is always [[RuleOfFunny visible through his ninja mask (it has a hole especially for the mustache)]]. This is important, because the BadassMoustache is, in fact, [[spoiler:the outward expression of tremendous badassery and commands instant respect. This is why Dan was made the leader of the group and Rayner was [[StartOfDarkness sent away humiliated]].]] Despite years of study and experimentation, Dan still doesn't have a concrete idea as to ''exactly why or how this works''.

* 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.]]

* NoNameGiven: [[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]].''"]]

* NotSoDifferent: King Radical, not unlike Chuck, is just trying to [[spoiler: save his own universe (albeit in a manner that'll kill millions).]] Justified, since [[spoiler: he's the Radical Land counterpart of Chuck (when he was pronounced Sicknasty of Spades it supplanted his old name).]]

* NotSoDifferent: King Radical, not unlike Chuck, is just trying to [[spoiler: save his own universe (albeit in a manner that'll kill millions).]] Justified, since [[spoiler: he's the Radical Land counterpart of Chuck (when he was pronounced Sicknasty of Spades is supplanted his old name).]]

* AffablyEvil:
** {{Dracula}}.
** King Radical could count as well. Sure, the guy's a crime boss, but he's so cool most normal people don't even mind.

* AndIMustScream: The Mummy curse. Your body slowly and gradually turns to dust. Doc says all your molecules are still alive and sentient, so the cursed one would live eternally, but without body speak of, and his/her consciousness spread all over the world.

%% CrazyAwesome is YMMV and lives on the YMMV tab.

** [[spoiler: Arguably he could just be showing his TrueColors 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.]]

* InfantImmortality: 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.]]

* RealityEnsues:
** 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.

On August 3rd, 2015, Chris Hastings announced that the current storyline [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/news/dr-mcninja-the-end would be the last.]] Hastings fulfilled this prophecy on January 19, 2017, with the comic's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p146 final page.]]

** Invoked by King Radical who [[spoiler: has surrounded himself with an army of jerks because he intends to kill them and replace them with citizens of the Radical Lands.]]

* AwesomenessIsAForce: In "A Cumberland Ninja in King Radical's Court", Doc discovers that King Radical is attempting to channel the power of, well, "radicalness", to open the portal to Radical Land. The more "rad stuff" King Rad does, the stronger the portal becomes. [[spoiler:This is in part being used as a means of seemingly killing the lamest people in Cumberland, the creeps serving under King Radical and using them as gates for the people of the Radical Land]].

* AxCrazy

* BadassBeard: Double Subverted by Frans Rayner, whose ''neck''beard caused everyone to laugh at him, but is capable of blocking attacks from ninjas.

* BenevolentArchitecture: {{Lampshaded}} [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p23 here.]]
* BenevolentBoss: a plot point that foils the Mcninjas using stealth. In the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p40/ sky pirate arc]] the captain's insistence that recapturing the doctor is worthy of a bonus causes him to start verifying the identity of the crew in front of him when he asks their names so he can make a note on the roster. He gives the benefit of the doubt that he simply can't find 'Johnson' the name given by one of the [=McNinjas=], but finds Neville Johnson on the roster. [[YankTheDogsChain Then the real Neville Johnson]] pipes up that that's him and he's the only Johnson on the ship.
* BerserkButton: It's generally not the best idea to [[PowerOfFriendship threaten the friends of an]] {{expy}} of [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Dr. McNinja is estranged from his family, unable to trust them ever again, but his enemies are dead, his friends alive, and he is able to start a new life as a doctor, finally free from the obligation to kill.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: The epic battle at the end of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p1 "Army Of One]."] Due to there being many, many identical combatants, [[spoiler:all of them being Dr. [=McNinja=] clones,]] it isn't necessary to keep them all alive and in one piece for the story to continue.

* BodyHorror:

%%* {{Dracula}}: The entirety of "Punch Dracula".

* DynamicEntry: King Radical does this ''with a dirt bike.''

* EnemyMime: Donald [=McBonald=], even if he dresses like a clown. He even [[spoiler: mimes a working parachute after jumping from a window.]]

%%* EvilOverlord: [[spoiler:Sparklelord.]]

%%* ExplosionPropulsion

** 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, and cloned dinosaurs, thieving lobsters and a mafia led by a radical dirtbiker (...and a world-ending Mayan tennis machine. Seriously.)

* FascinatingEyebrow: One of Doc's many graduate degrees must be in this. Gordito is a quick study.

* FutureBadass: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p18 Dark Smoke Puncher.]] And [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p21 Gordito]]. And [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p81/ Yoshi]]]].
* GadgeteerGenius: Dark Smoke Puncher.

%%* RebusBubble: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p52 Gorilla + Bazooka > Ninja]]
%%* RecklessSidekick: Gordito at times.

%%* RiseFromYourGrave: The zombies, and [[spoiler:Both Ben Franklins]].

%%* SceneryCensor: "The pants aren't stretchy."

* ScrewYourself: Dan suspects it of the Doc and his clone. "It's what any of us would do!"

* 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 blood to ''pour'' out.

%%* SoftGlass

* SoMuchForStealth: While the Good Doctor and his Family are ninjas, sometimes even they can mess up when it comes to stealth.

* CallBack:

* CarFu: As well as [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p27 Bike Fu.]]
* CastFromCalories: [[spoiler:Frans Rayner]] comes back from the dead as a HollywoodCyborg with a single laser eye. But this laser eye is powered by his organic body--and it uses so much energy that a single shot leaves him too tired to stand.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Many later chapters have an increasing amount of call backs 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]].]]

* JustOneMan: A plot point in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 One Man Army]].

* KidHeroAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: Gordito in the BadFuture. Still has his mustache, though.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: 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: Dracula's ''moon laser''.

%%* 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?"]]

* ShoutOut: Truckloads of them.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p10/ On this page]], the "BUT ➡" and "AND SO ⬇" are a tribute to [[ComicBook/JimmyCorriganTheSmartestKidOnEarth the comic Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid of Earth.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p42 This page]], rife with Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple references (including Olmec the giant stone head and the infamous Silver Monkey).
** When the Doc was dead/not-dead, the subtext mentioned that the skeleton maitre'd [[VideoGame/GrimFandango wasn't Spanish, not wearing a black tux, and was not a travel agent, sorry.]]
** In [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p17 this page]], look closely at the second panel, in other words [[spoiler: The good Doctor's notes on Time Travel back in college]]. [[Series/DoctorWho Phone]] [[Film/BillAndTed booths...]].
** "[[Literature/TheDarkTower I do not kill with my gun. I kill with my heart.]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p13 He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father."]] It becomes a plot point when Dark Smoke Puncher uses it to figure out Gordito is exaggerating his bad-ass qualities.
** At the bottom of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p60 this page]], Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'s Mongo.
---> '''Alt Text:''' He also learned that [[HulkSpeak fire bad.]]
** The WeaponOfChoice for each of the four {{McNinja}}s (at least during the Punch Dracula arc): a katana, two sais, a staff, and nunchuks. [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Sound familiar?]]
*** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p9/ This strip]] contains a recruitment pamphlet for the Foot Clan. The AltText lampshades it as well.
** The dinosaur toy in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/1p1/ this strip]] and the T-Rex in the last panel of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p17 this strip]] strike similar poses to the star of ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'', and his one line pretty much sums up the comic in question.
--->'''T-Rex''': I GOT OPINIONS.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p11 "It seems logical]] to mistake me for Dr. [=McNinja=], as we are both doctors and he in fact does the exact same thing I do. [=McNinja=] and I even go to the same barber... [[Film/AmericanPsycho although I have a slightly better haircut."]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 "This sounds a lot like Lost"]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p3 Dark Smoke Puncher has 99 problems.]]
** Doc's plan to [[spoiler: clone himself in order to study everything he wants to in only eight years and then reunite the duplicates at the end]] is almost identical to a plan that Jamie Madrox (aka Multiple Man) pulled off in an issue of ''ComicBook/XFactor''.
*** And the alt-text even mentions the similarities to a certain character from Literature/HarryPotter.
** To Film/SomewhereInTime in the AltText to [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p11 this page]].
*** And that comic itself is one to ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''.
** The Nasaghasts take of the form of skeletons wearing space suits, similar to the Vashta Narada of Series/DoctorWho.
** His entrance into the series of tunnels under Cumberland using a dead Pterodactyl (or something) as a hang-glider pulled by a motorcycle has to be a shout-out to Yor, Hunter of the Future.
** The pilot of Doc's plane in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p20 this comic's]] last words are a reference to ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''.
** Judy is a shout out to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla) Koko]], a cat-loving female gorilla capable of sign language.
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p27/ "Did you know that you can get a loan from a bank? It turns out that's how they make money."]] [[WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw Not anymore they don't! Ha ha, the economy! - Ed.]]
** Doctor McNinja Finds a Raptor in his office! What does he do? Name it [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Yoshi]].
*** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p4 A classic maneuver.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p40/ There is no Jenny...]] [[AltText ONLY]] [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 ZUUL!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p30/ There is only one way]] for a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja to get around a sewer.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/23p65/ How Dr. McNinja was raised to want to become]][[ComicBook/{{BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns}} Batman!]]
** "[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p59/ It's like he's]] [[GameBreaker Oddjob]] [[invoked]] in [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 Goldeneye]]!"
** King Radical's non-radical [[{{Mook}} mooks]] look like a mix of Star Wars Imperial foot soldiers (with the outfit) and Warhammer 40K's Imperial Guard (with the lasrifles and ZergRush tactics).
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/28p04/ And then there's the time he has to be]] a [[VideoGame/BadDudes Bad Enough Dude to Save the President]].
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p86/ One of the Radical Landers resembles a beholder]], and the AltText outright says that when designing Radical Landers, he tends to draw inspiration from dinosaurs or ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''

%%* SoMuchForStealth: Bad Language-Buddy.

* StealthHiBye: Utilized to great effect by the good doctor [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p36 here.]]

* AchillesHeel: or, more specifically, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p4 Achilles' Right Butt Cheek]] Frans Rayner has one; and he has the ability to relocate it. [[note]]It was in his right butt cheek when he battled Dan for the leadership of the Ninja school they both attended. In "D.A.R.E. To Resist Ninja Drugs And Ninja Violence Part 2" Dr [=McNinja=] discovers that Frans has moved it to his left eyebrow.[[/note]] What makes Dr [=McNinja=] particularly threatening to him is his ability to identify its location. [[spoiler: In the "Army Of One" story, it was revealed that Rayner relocated his vulnerable spot to his leg before it was amputated, so he doesn't have one anymore.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: The epic battle at the end of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p1/ Army Of One]]. Due to there being many, many identical combatants, [[spoiler: all of them being Dr. [=McNinja=] clones,]] it isn't necessary to keep them all alive and in one piece for the story to continue.

On August 3rd, 2015, Chris Hastings announced that the current storyline [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/news/dr-mcninja-the-end would be the last.]] Hastings fulfilled this prophecy on January 19, 2017, with the comic's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p146 final page/]]

On August 3rd, 2015, Chris Hastings announced that the current storyline [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/news/dr-mcninja-the-end/ would be the last.]] Hastings fulfilled this prophecy on January 19, 2017, with the comic's [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p146/ final page]].

5%* CureForCancer: Dracula discovered it and hid it on Mars.

* BenevolentBoss: a plot point that foils the Mcninjas using stealth. In the [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p40/ sky pirate arc]] the captain's insistence that recapturing the doctor is worthy of a bonus causes him to start verifying the identity of the crew in front of him when he asks their names so he can make a note on the roster. He gives the benefit of the doubt that he simply can't find 'Johnson' the name given by one of the McNinjas, but finds Neville Johnson on the roster. [[YankTheDogsChain Then the real Neville Johnson]] pipes up that that's him and he's the only Johnson on the ship.

* CleanCut: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p39 Subverted]] and lampshaded.

* ClueFromEd: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p12/ Parodied here.]] Lampshaded in the AltText.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Donald [=McBonald=].

* {{Crossover}}: With Webcomic/AxeCop, a webcomic that matches this series in awesomeness.

* CureForCancer: Dracula discovered it and hid it on Mars.

* DarkActionGirl: Hortense.

* {{Dracula}}: The entirety of "Punch Dracula".

* CuteKitten combined with the above is what we can expect from the aptly named story arc, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Judy Gets a Kitten"]]
* EvilOverlord: [[spoiler:Sparklelord.]]

* ExplodingBarrels
* ExplosionPropulsion

* EyeTake

* TheFaceless: The entire [=McNinja=] family.

* GrumpyOldMan: Dan.

* TheGunslinger: Gordito.

* HeelRealization: "Sound familiar, Dr. [=McHelicopterexploder=]?"

* IronicEcho: Lampshaded [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 by Frans.]]

* ItsPersonal: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 Here.]]

* KillSat: Dracula's ''moon laser''.

* LoanShark: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p27 Lampshaded and mocked]].

* TheMafia: Led by KING RADICAL.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Sparklelord and King Radical]]
* MaskedLuchador: Dr. [=McLuchador=].

* {{Ninja}}: Doc and his family.

* NoSell: Catholic School nuns learned long ago to resist mustaches of authority.

* PickACard: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p8 The Great Flying Shooting Juan.]]
* {{Pirate}}
** APirate400YearsTooLate: SkyPirates.

* PreMortemOneLiner

* [[RebusBubble Rebus Panel]]: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p52 Gorilla + Bazooka > Ninja]]
* RecklessSidekick: Gordito at times.

* RiseFromYourGrave: The zombies, and [[spoiler:Both Ben Franklins]].

* RobotMe: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p45 Here]]

* RocketRide: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p48 This page]]

* SceneryCensor: "The pants aren't stretchy."

* 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?"]]

** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p40/ There is no Jenny...]] [[AltText ONLY]] [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} ZUUL!]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p30/ There is only one way]] for a [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja to get around a sewer.]]

* {{Sidekick}}: Gordito.

* SoftGlass

* WrongInsultOffence

* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: Zelda thwarts the doctor again!

* YoungGun: Gordito.
* ZergRush: Almost works [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p76 here.]]

[[folder:S-Z]]

[[folder:P-Z]]

!!Tropes:

* ZergRush: Almost works [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p76 here.]]