Trivia / The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

• Author Phobia: Dr. Knickerbockers is based on a recurring nightmare of Kent Archer, then-inker of the comic.
• Creator Backlash: Issue One Half. It's on the site, even listed in the archives, and McNinja's lawyer from that issue makes a brief return in "The End Part One", but the reader is begged not to actually read it first.
• Hypothetical Casting: In this interview, Chris Hastings said that his casting choices for a Dr. McNinja movie would be Sam Rockwell or Will Arnett as the Doc, Sam Elliott or Hulk Hogan as Dan McNinja, and Anjelica Huston as Mitzi McNinja. The villains would include Willem Dafoe as Ronald McDonald (rather, Donald McBonald), Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frans Rayner, Phil Fondacaro as Knickerbockers, and Bela Lugosi as Dracula, "The Crow style."
• Shrug of God: Somewhat Played for Laughs quite a bit in the Alt Text. Such as: Hastings doesn't know how the Robster gets his suit over his claws.
• What Could Have Been: The name and premise of the comic come from Chris Hastings' username on the Something Awful forums. Before he settled on Dr. McNinja, he was going to use the name "Dr. McNuggets." One can only imagine how that comic would've turned out.
  • Hastings at one point approached Adult Swim to possibly adapt the comic into a TV series. Sadly, they passed up on the chance.
  • The game also died in infancy, due to the indie creators biting off WAY more then they could chew. (As in, they lost their house).
• Write What You Know: Given that Chris Hastings grew up in Cumberland, Maryland, it isn't surprising that all the major details about the city are correct (excluding all the cool stuff naturally).

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