History Headscratchers / TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja

* Is it just me, or is this new arc even more unbelievably silly than the last one? When it started with spider-butt guy, it seemed fairly typical, but then there's a mummy, a dragon thing, and nuns that not only know about the Mustaches of Authority, but how to resist them. It feels like we've reached a whole new level of "what the hell?"
** This after an arc about hyperintelligent dinosaurs who rule the world in the future. I don't know, I think you just need to let the new arc grow a little, it's only been going on for about ten pages.

* Is it just me, or is this new arc even more unbelievably silly than the last ones? When it started with spider-butt guy, it seemed fairly typical, but then there's a mummy, a dragon thing, and nuns that not only know about the Mustaches of Authority, but how to resist them. It feels like we've reached a whole new level of "what the hell?"

* Where is Mayor Chuck? Only DinosaurFuture!Chuck died.

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If you are confused because of the lack of scientific accuracy and real life physics, remember, Hastings himself has said that the world runs on the same sort of physics that govern a Mortal Kombat stage. ''Do not bother trying to understand the logic of this world''. Anything regarding the powers of the McNinja family has already been answered by AWizardDidIt in the form of "ninja tricks".
* If Sparkle Lord was sent back in time and transformed into a motorcycle, resulting in a millennia-long [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=71&issue=15 time loop]], where did the original Sparkle Lord go off to?
** Perhaps Sparkle Lord had no original. He's a motorcycle in our world, because that is the Raddest Thing Possible, not because he is trapped. Sparkle Lord, his memories gone, might then have attacked the Radical Land by transporting ''from'' our world, and was eventually returned to it again after being defeated by King Radical, then taken in by the antique dealer, and then eventually tossed into the vortex to start all over again.
** My interpretation was that he fused with his older self.
* It bugs me that it bugs me that there's a race of tricky lobster people. Why can I accept people turning into giant lumberjacks, super mime powers, raptor-riding banditos, growing mustaches out of sheer force of will, Ben Franklin turning into the headless horseman, Dracula's ''Moon laser'', and a Hulk {{expy}}, but I suddenly draw the line at lobster people? What gives?
** You're ''weird''.
** It might be that it's because the other stuff is ''[[RuleOfCool cool]]''. The Lobster man? Not so much.
* Speaking of The Robster, how does he wear that business suit? His claws are bigger than the sleeves.
** In my mind, there's only one explanation. It's been tailored directly onto him.
** WordOfGod is that he doesn't know either.
*** Chris Hastings doesn't know, or The Robster doesn't know?
**** Yes.
* All in all, the lobster man is rather... fishy.
** ''Oh my god you just wrote that.''
** UBERGROAN!!! [[IncrediblyLamePun Really?]]
** Oh don't be so crabby about it.
** Yeah, some people like puns. You're being ''shellfish''.
** I ought to clawber you for that one.
** You don't have the mussel.
** Oh clam up already.
* In all seriousness...I did read a review of this comic that accepted everything up until the zombie defense system activated. I guess even with a comic as divorced from reality as this one is, there's still a point where you actually can violate the reader's Willing Suspense of Disbelief. So don't feel too bad about that whole Robster thing.
** Really? You're bothered by a mayor providing armor and a wall to his citizens in case of zombie attack and not by a ''disease that turns you into a giant lumberjack that's only curable by shaving the person?''
*** Not the same poster, but it may be part of the difference between willing to believe in unnatural circumstances, and unnatural human behavior.
**** I'm, sorry, are you implying that having a zombie plan is ''unnatural human behavior?'' This Troper has 7 extremely detailed zombie plans. Then again, maybe I'm just [[CrazyPrepared paranoi...err, Crazy Prepared]].
**** Pretty much half the Internet has a zombie plan. What JustBugsMe (different person to all above) about the mayor's zombie plan is that it's boring. Give everyone a protective suit? Really?
***** And electrified all entrances into their homes and surrounded the entire city with a giant wall of concrete. Aside from that, giving everyone a suit to protect them from zombies makes perfect sense - BoringButPractical, after all.
**** Actually, given recent events revealing that [[spoiler:Chuck Goodrich is actually a Chrononaut that traveled back in time and got stuck while trying to prevent the zombie apocalypse helps explain his crazy preparedness.]]
**** It's also worth noting that within the universe, zombies are fairly mundane compared to all the other crazy shit that happens on a daily basis. To people who are used to this stuff, a zombie defense system is about as normal as an umbrella. Rain fucking happens. DEFEND YOURSELF. Now take away rain and replace it with zombies.
** I had the problem when Doctor McNinja jumped off the moon. I think it's just random.
*** Bruce Lee taught him how to do it.
* Why didn't the plane explode as the doctor was walking away from it? Every rule in the book, except logic, which has no place here, says it should have.
** He needs it to ''get off the island''.
*** Therefore, it will explode right before he enters it again.
* It bugs me that Doc surfed a laughing robotic Dracula from the moon to Cumberland, Maryland. Not the surfing from the moon, the surfing right to his own city. He even points out that you can't see the moon so he circled the globe. On a laughing robotic Dracula. At least a mention of it would be nice....
* I'm an idiot; what distinguishes the safe-to-step-on tiles from the others [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=49&issue=14 here]]?
** None of them are safe. He's stepping on the cracks so he doesn't activate them.
** I got the impression that none of them are safe, but he's just distributing his bodyweight using his aweosme ninja abilities so that none of the tiles are pressed down far enough to activate.
** It's kinda hard to tell, but the "safe" ones have five teeth showing, while all the rest have six.
** Presumably he can tell which ones are safe due to ninja tricks. The rest of us poor mortals obviously can't tell the difference, as we do not have the mighty power of ninja tricks.
* Okay, so... Doc fights Dracula, but it's actually a ROBOT Dracula, right? So why doesn't the robot have any reflections in the hall of mirrors? Did I miss something?
** He was fighting the real Dracula; the real one switched out for a robot duplicate at some point during the chase.
*** Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking about it late at night and must have gotten the order of events mixed up.
* How did Gordito follow the Doctor, Sparklord, and King Radical? He doesn't have a motorcycle of his own.
** He ''does'' have a raptor.
** Raptor > Unimotorcycle.
* Rather than making him effectively invisible, wouldn't a hall of mirrors actually put Dracula at a huge disadvantage? I mean, think about it. If he has no reflection, then any Dracula that Dr. McNinja sees in the hall of mirrors is ''guaranteed'' to be the real one. Is Dracula just dumb like that or did Chris Hastings not think this one all the way through?
** You'll note that Drac was actually hanging from the ceiling (see the panel where he slowly lowers from above, behind the Doc). He was never ''in'' the hall of mirrors, or at least, he was taking an unexpected position, so having no reflection would make it that much harder for the Doc to find him, because Drac's out of his line of sight, he's got no reflection of Drac to help find him with, and there's the whole disorienting affair of being in a hall of mirrors working against the Doc. Meanwhile, Drac has a perfect vantage point, showing him where the Doc is.
* Wait. If ninjas can eat through their Masks, then why do they have to lift them to brush their teeth?
** Because brushing your teeth takes a lot more precision than eating, and you need to be able to see what you're doing to do a good enough job to avoid tooth decay and gum disease.
** Toothpaste stains are pretty hard to get out of ninja masks, I'd bet.
** They do lift up their masks to eat. It's just that they do in within a milisecond with their lips. They have to lift it up with their hands for tooth brushing because the food only has to pass into the mouth, it doesn't have to sit around on the teeth and move around and stuff. Same with ninja shaving.
** WordOfGod says that [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p32 "Any further questions regarding the McNinja's masks can be filed under 'ninja tricks.'"]]
* Just the fact that a Just Bugs Me page exists for ''this'' comic is a crowning moment of awesome for TV Tropes.
* Could someone please explain to me the timeline of Chuck Goodrich's life? I assume he became an astronaut and the Mayor of Cumberland after he time travelled back to the past, but where is he originally from? The far-flung future where there's been a ninja ZombieApocalypse?
** Yes.
** I'm working under the assumption that there are now actually two Chuck Goodriches in the past; he's looped back on himself in a non-temporal logic violating way. Unlike Sparklelord.
*** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p9 Confirmed.]]
* It just bugs me that a Burger King look-a-like on a motorcycle is radder than the ninja doctor who rode a robotic, laser-eyed, rocket powered Dracula dummy from the moon back to the earth.
** Think of it this way: King Radical might be [[TotallyRadical radder]], but Dr. [=McNinja=] is ''[[RuleOfCool cooler]]''.
* Why do the bad guys continually attempt kidnapping Doc instead of Sean? I mean, do they not realize that Dan and Mitzi would probably care more if Sean got kidnapped?
** Because Doc doesn't live with Dan and Mitzi. So either A. they'd have to fight through all three of them to get Sean, or B. they'd know about it a lot sooner.
* Okay, so the dinosaurs took over Earth insted of peacefully cohabiting with humans because fossil fuels contained dinosaur remains. What do they fuel their jetpacks with then?
** Same thing they used to fuel their spaceship.
** Human remains.
** Remember that these dinosaurs are smart due to mutations from cosmic radiation. They likely have the intelligence to create a highly effective clean energy source of some sort. Miniturized fusion reactors, or something.
* So a ninja can just take off their mask and disappear? Well the bad guys could look out for a real pale guy with a tan around his eyes. Its unusual and easily spotted.
** [[SarcasmMode Yeah, its not like they could use makeup or something.]]
** And are the "bad guys" going to have a worldwide network scouring the globe for anyone and everyone who has an odd tanning pattern on his face? And they're going to be able to do this in the, what, day or two of tanning that it would take to correct the pattern?
** a pair of [[CoolShades Aviator Sunglasses]] would solve that problem.
* Not necessarily something that bothers me, but something I've been wondering about. How big is the age gap between Dr. McNinja and Dark Smoke Puncher? It sounds like DSP is still in high school, and I've been under the impression that Dr. McNinja is in his thirties. So they're at least fifteen years apart; does that sound about right?
** Perfectly normal for parents to have kids with that kind of age difference, this troper's youngest sister is 16 years apart in age from him.
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*** [[spoiler:Bruce Lee taught him how to do it]].

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** Think of it this way: King Radical might be more rad, but Dr. [=McNinja=] is ''[[RuleOfCool cooler]]''.