Raven's Dojo is a webcomic by Raven Perez.
The main cast is:
- Rodney: Fight-Happy sociopath.
- Dornail: Perverted Dragon, Rodney's best friend/rival/partner in crime.
- Sarah Lee: Their well-endowed roomate. Only Sane Man, in a universe that just isn't sane.
- Rosetta Stone: Sarah's best friend and fledging super-hero.
- Raven: Rodney's master. He owns a dojo.
Can be found here, and the story arc list (the strip is organized by "issues" of about 33 pages each) is here. NSFW.
Ravens Dojo provides examples of:
- Abnormal Ammo: Penny Shuriken!
- Another Dimension: Ken Yen and Jane Lane wander these.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
- BFS: Ken Yen's sword, sharp enough to cut reality itself.
- Badass Boast: Thing 'bout us livin' legends... We live!
- Dornail gets one as well, when he states that he is the one person that Rodney could never beat in a fight. Let me repeat that: Dornail is the only known person in the entire world, nay, universe, nay, MULTIVERSE, that Rodney could never beat in a fight.
- Who am I, little "god"? I am the secret king. The ultimate unknown. The top most taboo. The greatest minds that ever lived created technology far more powerful than you to hide away my very existence. It manipulates the minds of every last sentient being in the universe, just to hide any trace of me. Why? Because. They. Fear. Me.
- Badass Bookworm: Personified in The Shelf.
- Bathos: The The Relentless Silencio Noches story arc is cut through with the villain's (a mexican gunslinger/necromancer out to kill Rodney for killing his lover) tragic backstory and some genuinely kickass Gun Fu and zombie fighting sequences, but the fact that Silencio is so utterly committed to using Pinball Projectile trick shots that when his shots do hit, they ether leave Amusing Injuries or lodge in Rodney's skin (to the point that he becomes covered head-to-toe in bullets), or using a sexy golem made out of an infinite number of guns (which he has sex with at one point to operate her ass-mounted minigun) to kill Rodney with, it flip-flops between Cool, but Stupid, just plain cool, and genuinely moving.
- Berserk Button: Rodney hates clowns. I mean, words fail to express how much he hates them. He once threw a clown car packed with hundreds of clowns into the sun.
- Blessed with Suck: Parodied with Invincible Mister Bastard, cursed with Immortality to wander the earth, forever branded a bastard.
- Blood Knight: Rodney, big time.
- "Dude, you shoulda upgraded from lust to bloodlust a long time ago. Whether you want it in public, with multiple people, or without consent, bloodlust is easier to satisfy."
- Bullet Time: Tends to happen around Silencio
- Combined with Buns of Steel!
- But I Read a Book About It: The entirety of The Shelf. Something like a golem with a bookshelf for a head, instantly able to access the knowledge of any book put into it.
- Calling Your Attacks
- Companion Cube: During The Relentless Silencio Noches, Sarah falls in love with the hedge trimmer she's using to kill zombies so hard that she has an Imagine Spot of marrying it and raising two of its children.
- Chewing the Scenery: Most of the cast do this. Rodney does it constantly.
- Children Are Innocent: Which is why they went and dressed up as babies...
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Rodney, in the worst way possible.
- Death In All Directions: Tokyo Bullet Rain!
- Eldritch Abomination: Discussed in Moon Fool part 2. The Moon used to be coated in a thick layer of green cheese, until someone wondered what such a huge amount of cheese might attract. So they introduced a horde of genetically engineered rats to eat the cheese. That didn't work out so well, so then they had to introduce a horde of genetically engineered cats to eat the rats. That also didn't work out so well, so then they introduced a single, huge dog to deal with all the cats, and it mutated into an Eldritch Abomination from eating them.
- Fun with Acronyms: Counsel Of Cosmic Knowledge Specialists.
- A Good Name for a Rock Band: Dammit, Metalhead! Those are my sweet band names!!
- Golem:
- Silencio's lover, Rosa, was a statue given life and False Memories by the shaman Fire Eyes (if you know Promethean: The Created, she's a Galatean) in order to manipulate Silencio to do his dirty work.
- Silencio is able to create the Iron Maiden, the 8th "Magnificent Seven" gun, by performing a similar ritual on a huge amount (he repeatedly says "infinite") of various kinds of guns.
- Gonk: Sarah's ex-husband is a grotesque mutant with a parasitic twin, a malformed skull, both kinds of fun parts, and extremities consisting of a single finger and toe each. He's as rich and perverted as he is ugly.
- Gorn: Rather than gore porn, it's gory porn.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Sarah's Nudist Palm Style.
- Groin Attack: BABY MAKER BREAKER!!!
- Also, FACE PUNCH JUNK PUNT!!!
- Hurricane of Puns: The comic turns this into an art form.
- Impossible Hourglass Figure: Most of the women are extra curvy.
- Improbable Weapon User: Dornail uses a blowup doll to fight off the Omegadog during the Moon Fool part 2 arc.
- Incubi and Succubi: One of Silencio Noches "Magnificent Seven" is a succubus named Demonica, whose, um, femininity is a Hell Gate that drags anyone who does the business with her down to Hell by thatever they were using. Rodney sends her back to Hell by feeding it her own six-foot long tongue. Predictably, Dornail is upset he "missed out" when he learns she's been banished.
- Large Ham: Everybody. Especially Rodney, but... everybody.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Dornail Versus Eye God.
- LOL, 69: Demonica has a tattoo of three sixty-nines, arranged so that the top reads "666"and the bottom reads "999."
- Lovable Sex Maniac:
- Dornail. So much so that NASA uses his Zero-G Spot novels to stave off Space Madness.
- Surprisingly enough, Sarah qualifies as well: she pretty much throws herself at any attractive male character that appears. Including a hedge trimmer whose motor she was using to, um, have some fun.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot:
- The first opponent the group faces is a robot werewolf redneck.
- The fourth one is a mexican gunslinger necromancer who knows Gun Fu.
- Only Sane Man: Sarah, though that doesn't always mean she's right.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Dornail doesn't look much like a dragon to someone from an alternate dimension who has dealt with dragons before.
- Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs: According to Rodney and Dornail, Jesusaurus absolved them of their sins and they were all taken into heaven by the Rapture. Except for the sinful T-Rexes, doomed to burn eternally in engines built by primates.
- Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: Lots. Any fight will likely have several. See also Pun and Large Ham.
- Pun: Many, many, many, many puns. It's punny and pun-tastic. All kinds of puns. So many puns.
- Rule of Cool: The comic is practically fueled by awesome...
- Rule of Funny: ...when it's not being fueled by humor.
- Serial Escalation: This webcomic STARTS here, and keeps going further and further.
- Space Madness:
- Has something to do with sexual tension within a confined space. The only cure is reading Dornail's novel "Astro Naughtiness." This leads to big trouble when the Dojo comes under the purview of the COCKS' Weirdness Censor, and nobody in Moonbase Zero can find a copy to read.
- Raven and Sarah succumb to space madness as well, and begin hallucinating some crazy stuff, like The Grim Reaper, Sarah's Doppelgänger in a coffin, and a giant, disembodied skull with breasts for eyes. Eventually, Raven has sex with a running toaster thinking it's Sarah (complete with sizzling noise), and Sarah declares herself the Moon Goddess after having sex with a cactus with googly eyes glued into it.
- Shaming the Mob: Refuge in Audacity at its finest.
- Shout-Out:
- The Orgy of Death splash page is part of an arc that includes a fight with female AI-driven sex dolls made to satisfy any number of fetishes. While many of the dolls are generic (police babe, biker babe, construction worker babe, and so on), the Orgy of Death page includes a number of recognizable characters from other works, and a few real people. Examples include:
- Eve, complete with apple, fig leaf and snake.
- The Statue of Liberty.
- Kali, the Hindu goddess.
- Rosie the Riveter.
- Amelia Earhart.
- Lucille Ball.
- Carmen Miranda.
- Turanga Leela.
- Cleopatra.
- Wilma.
- Betty.
- Trinity.
- Batgirl.
- Marge.
- The Orgy of Death splash page is part of an arc that includes a fight with female AI-driven sex dolls made to satisfy any number of fetishes. While many of the dolls are generic (police babe, biker babe, construction worker babe, and so on), the Orgy of Death page includes a number of recognizable characters from other works, and a few real people. Examples include:
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Rodney silences Silencio.
- Stealth Pun: Tied in with Visual Pun, the backgrounds of certain strips are filled with these.
- Last panel: Planet of the Apricots
- The Strategist: Dornail.
- Together in Death: Silencio and Rosa. Notably, Silencio also becomes a statue when he dies, implying that he was another golem made by Fire-Eyes' magic.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Sarah and Raven to Rodney and Dornail, with regards to Silencio's backstory...
- Would Hurt a Child: Rodney would, and he does. Whenever possible.Rodney: I've always had a soft spot for baby heads an' they always got a soft spot for me!