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->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' Could this boy's youthful innocence and exuberance be what I need to keep my dark and troubled soul in check?\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]'s Inner Voice:''' (You're not a dark and troubled soul. You're a doctor who wants to be Franchise/{{Batman}}.)

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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.

The webcomic is offline as of September 2023 pending a hosting change, but is still available in [[https://linktr.ee/drhastings print]] and is well preserved in the [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230101015618/http://drmcninja.com/ Wayback Machine]] in the interim.

The story unofficially [[note]]The author recommends starting with "Meet the Doctor" rather than this one due to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.[[/note]] begins with the eponymous {{omnidisciplinary|Scientist}} [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate doctor]], who is also a {{ninja}}, discovering that the [[WritingAroundTrademarks [=McBonald's=] restaurant chain]][[note]]Originally UsefulNotes/McDonalds, but Hastings later edited the pages to pre-emptively prevent getting sued.[[/note]] has created a burger bearing his name (marketed based on the burgers giving people "silent but deadly" farts). Naturally, he solves this copyright infringement by battling Donald [=McBonald=] himself.

The next arc, "Meet The Doctor And His Friendly Staff" introduces Dr. [=McNinja=]'s 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.

"So What IS A [=McNinja=]?'' introduces the Doctor's family, who are very disappointed with him for not becoming a professional ninja. The [=McNinja=]s' origins are revealed, and of course there are {{pirate}}s.

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 [=NewsCorp=]. At least the Doctor gets a [[KidSidekick sidekick]] out of the deal: a [[TheGunslinger gunslinging]], mustachioed 12-year-old named Gordito.

"D.A.R.E. To Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence" begins with [=McNinja=] facing a hard choice: Will he help his father defeat 80's action movie star Frans Rayner and his army of drug-enhanced ninja {{mooks}}? Or will he help the clone of Benjamin Franklin create a medicine to cure death?

...And everything after that point simply must be seen to be believed.

What's interesting about the comic is Hastings' sheer commitment to [[WorldOfWeirdness the utter weirdness]]. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p16 Every]] bizarre twist gets a completely straight reaction from the cast, and can have repercussions that stretch over multiple chapters. The overall effect is like a geodesic dome of absurdity, where every time the authors throw in a killer weatherman or cyborg bears or zombie Ben Franklin re-enacting the "Thriller" music video with situationally-appropriate lyrics, the plot becomes that much more believable. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p17/ In the words]] [[WordOfGod of Chris Hastings]], "[[RuleOfCool Dr. McNinja lives in a world that operates like a Mortal Kombat stage]]" (but Cumberland, Maryland ''is'' a real place), so if you're a stickler for scientific and historical plausibility and blow a gasket whenever you see [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Hollywood Physics]], ''please stay far away from this webcomic''.

And just to prove the series hasn't hit the peak of absurdly awesome yet, in Summer of 2010, Doctor [=McNinja=] took part in a {{crossover}} with ''Webcomic/AxeCop''. In addition, on November 7, 2011, the doctor [[http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=6722 faced down with]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Saxton Hale]]. He lost, but the very ''idea'' of such a fight was awesome.

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.]] A backup of the comic can be found [[https://archive.org/details/Drmcninja here]]

''If you are looking for the trope named for the webcomic, see {{McNinja}}.''

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!!''The Adventures of Dr. [=McNinja=]'' provides examples of:

[[index]]
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesAToC
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesDToG
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesHToK
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesLToO
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesPToS
* TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja/TropesTToZ
[[/index]]

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