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* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Jefferson Airplane]].
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p54 here]]
** Also, Dr. Birding.
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p54 here]]
** Also, Dr. Birding.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: This is how Doc realizes something is up with Martin. Martin's father says Martin put up a billboard near his home as a deliberate mockery and Martin can't defend his decision, but Doc notes the billboard is in a prime location for one and wonders why Martin can't point that out.
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* JudgeABookByItsCenter: [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p72/ A minion delivers a book to King Radical]]; he skips to the exact middle, and immediately knows what the whole thing is about...somehow.]] Later [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p36/ Chuck tries to read]] ''InfiniteJest''. He either gets halfway through before getting bored, or simply skips the first half and gets bored immediately. It's hard to tell.
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* JudgeABookByItsCenter: [[spoiler: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p72/ A minion delivers a book to King Radical]]; he skips to the exact middle, and immediately knows what the whole thing is about...somehow. Later, (not spoilers) ]] Later [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p36/ Chuck tries to read]] ''InfiniteJest''. He either gets halfway through before getting bored, or simply skips the first half and gets bored immediately. It's hard to tell.
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* HighConcept: The entire webcomic is summarized well in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67/ this]] AltText.
-->'''AltText:''' [[SeriousBusiness Very stupid ideas taken very seriously.]] Dr. [=McNinja=].
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* HypotheticalCasting: [[http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/04/interview-chris-hastings-on-the-adventures-of-dr-mcninja/ In this interview]], creator Chris Hastings said that his casting choices for a ''Dr. [=McNinja=]'' movie would be Creator/SamRockwell or Will Arnett as the Doc, Sam Elliot or Wrestling/HulkHogan as Dan [=McNinja=], and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Mitzi [=McNinja=]. The villains would include Williem Dafoe as Donald [=McBonald=], Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Frans Rayner, Phil Fondacaro as Knickerbockers, and Creator/BelaLugosi as {{Dracula}}, "''Film/TheCrow'' style."
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[spoiler:Sparklelord, when he was [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 an Evil Overlord.]]]]
* 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.)
** Several times, we see Doc in an impossible to escape situation at the end of a page. Then the next one simply has a panel saying “HE IS A NINJA”, and continues with no further explanation how he actually managed to survive/escape.
* HardHead: Usually played straight. Averted in one instance when Doc gets a concussion and has a hallucinatory (if helpful) conversation with a roast turkey.
* HasTwoThumbsAnd: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p37 The Abs Man]]
* HauntedHeadquarters: NASA headquarters is inhabited by '''''THE NASAGHASTS''''', which attack anyone who dares to harm astronauts within the building.
* HauntedTechnology: The tennis machine of the Tennis Temple is fueled by the ghosts of all the former champions. [[spoiler:Recovering the knowledge he used to build that machine is a key component of King Radical's scheme, using it to modify the Cumberland zombie defense system.]]
* HeadDesk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p16 At least once]]
* HeadlessHorseman: Dracula, from his moon base, hatches a plot to turn the clone of Benjamin Franklin into a headless horseman in order to find out more about the afterlife. The headless horseman was chosen because it retains its physical form. Turns out they can also travel through space.
* HealItWithBooze: When Dan offers a couple of [[FantasticDrug ninja-drug-using]] punks a drink. He chooses something with a higher alcohol content, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3/ promising that it'll "sterilize all those cuts on [their] face."]] Then pointed out as a [[DontTryThisAtHome bad idea]].
-->'''Alt Text:''' Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it.
%%* HeelRealization: "Sound familiar, Dr. [=McHelicopterexploder=]?"
* HellishHorse: Between Ben Franklin's ghostly equine stalker and Sparklelord the evil unicorn, horses are typically villains in the [=McNinjaverse=].
-->'''AltText:''' I think horses are never not scary in this comic, because they are never not scary in my life.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:King Radical]], FromACertainPointOfView.
* HeroicDolphin: The story Death Volley has the implication of dolphins getting revenge on Agent Bearclaw. His story: "One time I swam out to sea, and pretended to be injured so that dolphins would swim up to rescue me. I did this so that I could kill them with my bare hands."
* HeroInsurance: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p18 "Base!"]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p17 In three easy steps.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Bearclaw, an [=NSA=] agent who makes a hobby out of slaughtering animals with his bare hands.
* HighConcept: The entire webcomic is summarized well in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67/ this]] AltText.
-->'''AltText:''' [[SeriousBusiness Very stupid ideas taken very seriously.]] Dr. [=McNinja=].
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Rayner's mooks. Averted with Old [=McNinja=], who is very competent at staying hidden.
* HiredGuns: In "Death Volley", the doctor is constantly harassed by a gun-toting masked assassin. It turns out the assassin is [[spoiler: his ex, Hortense]], and the client is [[spoiler: [[strike: the doctor's parents]] King Radical]].
* HoldingOutForAHero: Implied in one strip, when the police runs away from the dinosaurs:
-->'''Mayor Goodrich''': The police won't deal with this? \\
'''Driver''': Yeah, we're all pretty used to waiting for Dr. McNinja to handle the weird stuff.
* HollywoodHacking: Played with. Dan's response to seeing King Radical's giant robot formed from all the buildings in Cumberland and powered by planks of wood harvested from a haunted forest? Tell Sean to "Hack it." Later on, Dan himself tries to do it, by throwing a keyboard and mouse at the mech.
* HypercompetentSidekick:
** Judy, the gorilla receptionist.
** And Gordito:
--->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' Do you think I run around with a ''twelve year old boy'' just because I like his inferior grasp of girls and higher level math? Do you think I left him with my psychotic parents because I wanted him to '''die'''? '''No''', you undead pale ponce! '''Gordito''' is the effing '''badass kid'''. So go ahead and finish up your masterful scheme to make me let you kill me, because Gordito's going to slap around whatever ghost lackey you have like he was a pinata on the Mexican day of the dead."
** The {{Mummy}} that accompanies Archibald King of the Hoboes, which grants him immortality and protects him from assassination attempts.
* HypotheticalCasting: [[http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/04/interview-chris-hastings-on-the-adventures-of-dr-mcninja/ In this interview]], creator Chris Hastings said that his casting choices for a ''Dr. [=McNinja=]'' movie would be Creator/SamRockwell or Will Arnett as the Doc, Sam Elliot or Wrestling/HulkHogan as Dan [=McNinja=], and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Mitzi [=McNinja=]. The villains would include Williem Dafoe as Donald [=McBonald=], Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Frans Rayner, Phil Fondacaro as Knickerbockers, and Creator/BelaLugosi as {{Dracula}}, "''Film/TheCrow'' style."
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[[folder:I]]
* IAmOneOfThoseToo: Subverted -- Sean calls Gordito out on his inner geekiness, only to backpedal rapidly as he realizes he has just revealed his own.
* IdenticalPanelGag: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67/ The comic]] where Gordito and Judy take care of Victor, the evil half plumber half spy. The four panels have the characters in exactly the same pose with only the narration and dialog changing.
* ImpossiblyAwesomeMagicTrick: There's a flashback to Gordito's father, the Great Flying Shooting Juan (a sharpshooting trapeze artist magician) performing a card trick. The volunteer chooses a card, places it back in the deck, and throws the entire deck into the air. Juan shoots the card in midair... but the volunteer can't find the card afterwards. Then he gets a call on his cell phone...
-->'''Volunteer:''' That was the police. The man who robbed my house... they finally caught him because he was shot in the upper thigh... There was a queen of diamonds in his pocket.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p8 Where do you think Gordito got it from?]]
** Doc too. He hit a pirate on a ship from a plane in motion, despite not having any way to see his target. Especially impressive, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p45 given what his payload was.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: The razor-sharp frozen shamrocks used by the Irish proto-ninjas.
** In the big finale, [[spoiler:Doc weaponized Dracula to turn King Radical into a vampire. Then he throws Pope Francis at him. Radical's last words are about how cool his death will be.]]
* IKnowMortalKombat: Doc claims to have trained his skills with Franchise/{{Batman}}. In reality, though, he's just learned from reading his comic books and watching his movies.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p38/ Averted when Dark Smoke Puncher is possessed by a ghost wizard]].
--->'''Mitzi''': Shoot him!\\
'''Gordito''': But he's your son!\\
'''Mitzi''': Shoot him fatally!
** Gordito doesn't shoot him, but continue to avert it by proceeding to knock him out and having no sort of discussion with Dark Smoke Puncher.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Doc never tells anyone his real name because of "the wizard." [[spoiler:Due to his grandfather sacrificing his name in order to seal a powerful ghost wizard, he can never utter his own name without freeing him.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: A RunningGag in the Space Savers arc involves (who knows what KINDS of) crazy space radiation causing weird things to happen. It is speculated to be how some dinosaurs became sentient and how the Nasaghasts became the vengeful ghosts they are.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p39 Lampshaded.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: 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.]]
* InASingleBound: Taken to the ultimate extreme -- with enough skill one can apparently jump from the Earth to the Moon, or vice versa.
* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Jefferson Airplane]].
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p54 here]]
** Also, Dr. Birding.
* INeedAFreakingDrink, with DrowningMySorrows: Jose Cuervo: 1; Dr. [=McNinja=]: 0.
* IncendiaryExponent:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire.]]
** In the Monster Mart story, Marty tries to threaten some thugs, it doesn't work, he piles up some barrels of flammable liquid behind him, smashes them and tries again, framed by the firey explosion. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p41/ It works.]]
* IneffectualLoner: Doc manages to turn [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] from a OneManArmy to one of these by invoking 80's buddy martial-arts movie rules.
* InexplicablyAwesome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p97/ Normally, diplomacy is awesome but not quite this effective.]]
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Purgatory is a restaurant. With really, ''really '' slow service.
* InnerMonologue: Often. Doc has been known to argue with his inner voice.
** (And lose.)
** You hush.
** (No.)
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** The Axe Cop crossover proves that, yes, there are some things too crazy to make sense even in this comic.
--->'''Axe Cop:''' If bad guys steal this book [that forces you to be on their team]... I'll chop your head off. After I kill all the bad guys you can heal yourself with your ''doctor power''.\\
'''[=McNinja=]:''' Just... Just protect the book, okay?
** Then there's the pirates.
--->'''Captain O'Shay''': For each one of my men ye touch, I will kill five members of yer family.\\
(''Dr. [=McNinja=] glances at the '''three''' other members of his family, tied up and on the edge of the plank'')\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ...that math does not work out ''at all.''
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p35 BAD MATH PROVES A POINT!]]
--->'''Alt Text:''' The point that you're a total dumbass, Captain O'Shay.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: No matter how many alternate-universe counterparts Chuck Goodrich helps, another one will appear.]]
* InstantChucks: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p37 Chainsaw nunchucks]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Subverted with Judy. Her sign language is translated for the reader, and Ben Franklin II understands it, but Doc doesn't know sign language.
* InventionalWisdom: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p70/ "You just cut the elevator?! What are you doing?!"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Why is there even a button for that?"]]
%%* IronicEcho: Lampshaded [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 by Frans.]]
* ItsBeenDone: "This sounds a lot like ''Series/{{Lost}}''."
%%* ItsPersonal: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 Here.]]
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[[folder:J]]
* JawBreaker: Doc does it to a zombie. Since it was undead, it doesn't really kill the thing, but it does prevent it from biting him.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Many later chapters have an increasing amount of [[CallBack Call-Backs]] (even weird {{Call Forward}}s) to previous weird events, proving that 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]].]]
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: When attacked by the final [[spoiler:Nasaghast]], Doc is pulled into his own mind and forced to confront the creature there.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The Doctor himself, in Let's Get Rad, due to [[spoiler:Sparklelord's influence]].
* JumpingTheShark: {{Lampshaded}} in the alt text on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p24/ this page]].
* JumpScare: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p27 When I say "Happy" you say "Birthday!"]] [[NightmareFuel HAPPY!]]
* JustForTheHeliOfIt: WordOfGod says that: "Helicopters only exist in this comic to get [[StuffBlowingUp exploded]]. They serve no other purpose." Also, one of the inhabitants of Radical Land is a [[WhenTreesAttack helicopter head ent]]... and yes, that ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p7/ on the tin.]]
* JustOneMan: A plot point in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 Army of One]].
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* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler: Carl, the weather man.]]
* KarmicDeath:
** Parodied with the anonymous pilot of Bearclaw's airplane, who admits that he deserved to be randomly murdered because he himself intentionally killed some innocent bystanders to show off his piloting skills.
** Agent Bearclaw once [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p34/ swam out to sea]] pretending to be injured so that he could strangle the {{Heroic Dolphin}}s that came up to rescue him. He eventually finds himself stranded at sea for real, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p32 surrounded by dolphins]], and they [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p70/ shoot him to death]] shortly after they rescue him.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: Gordito in the BadFuture. Looks handsome, more badass and his mustache doesn't look hilariously oversized compared to his face..]]
* KillAndReplace: The way Dracula's ghost wizards operate, killing a human host and stealing their body.
** Presumably what happens to [[spoiler: all "lame" people who get replaced with residents of Radical Lands.]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: King Radical's inarguably [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p119/ radical death.]]]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The comic isn't afraid in racking up the killcount and making sure those deceased stay dead. The roster of people permenantly killed are: 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: An interesting version in Dracula has ''moon laser''. Which is basically just a giant laseron his moon base that's targetted at Earth.
* KillTheHostBody: The [=McNinjas=] are hired to assassinate a Ghost Wizard, which includes killing the guy it's possessing so they can fight the exposed spirit with holy weapons. [[spoiler: It re-possesses Sean, Dan and Mitzi are fully prepared to kill their own son, but Gordito stops them and shoves a blessed bullet down his throat before it fully takes hold of him instead.]]
* KingOfTheHomeless: Archibald, King of the Hobos.
* KlingonPromotion: Frans Rayner plans on becoming President this way.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: King Radical just wants to make the world radical... even if it means ''killing billions''.]]
* KryptoniteFactor: The Doctor's special anti-ninja drug, which he created to stop Frans Rayner and his personal army of "drug ninjas". After getting a lot of flack for hoarding the drug, he defended his actions by stating that he had "created his own Kryptonite" and therefore wasn't going to let it out of his control.
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* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[spoiler:Sparklelord, when he was [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/15p65 an Evil Overlord.]]]]
* 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.)
** Several times, we see Doc in an impossible to escape situation at the end of a page. Then the next one simply has a panel saying “HE IS A NINJA”, and continues with no further explanation how he actually managed to survive/escape.
* HardHead: Usually played straight. Averted in one instance when Doc gets a concussion and has a hallucinatory (if helpful) conversation with a roast turkey.
* HasTwoThumbsAnd: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p37 The Abs Man]]
* HauntedHeadquarters: NASA headquarters is inhabited by '''''THE NASAGHASTS''''', which attack anyone who dares to harm astronauts within the building.
* HauntedTechnology: The tennis machine of the Tennis Temple is fueled by the ghosts of all the former champions. [[spoiler:Recovering the knowledge he used to build that machine is a key component of King Radical's scheme, using it to modify the Cumberland zombie defense system.]]
* HeadDesk: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p16 At least once]]
* HeadlessHorseman: Dracula, from his moon base, hatches a plot to turn the clone of Benjamin Franklin into a headless horseman in order to find out more about the afterlife. The headless horseman was chosen because it retains its physical form. Turns out they can also travel through space.
* HealItWithBooze: When Dan offers a couple of [[FantasticDrug ninja-drug-using]] punks a drink. He chooses something with a higher alcohol content, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p3/ promising that it'll "sterilize all those cuts on [their] face."]] Then pointed out as a [[DontTryThisAtHome bad idea]].
-->'''Alt Text:''' Please do not pour beer on your wounds and tell your legal guardian that I was the one who suggested it.
%%* HeelRealization: "Sound familiar, Dr. [=McHelicopterexploder=]?"
* HellishHorse: Between Ben Franklin's ghostly equine stalker and Sparklelord the evil unicorn, horses are typically villains in the [=McNinjaverse=].
-->'''AltText:''' I think horses are never not scary in this comic, because they are never not scary in my life.
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:King Radical]], FromACertainPointOfView.
* HeroicDolphin: The story Death Volley has the implication of dolphins getting revenge on Agent Bearclaw. His story: "One time I swam out to sea, and pretended to be injured so that dolphins would swim up to rescue me. I did this so that I could kill them with my bare hands."
* HeroInsurance: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p18 "Base!"]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p17 In three easy steps.]]
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Bearclaw, an [=NSA=] agent who makes a hobby out of slaughtering animals with his bare hands.
* HighConcept: The entire webcomic is summarized well in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67/ this]] AltText.
-->'''AltText:''' [[SeriousBusiness Very stupid ideas taken very seriously.]] Dr. [=McNinja=].
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Rayner's mooks. Averted with Old [=McNinja=], who is very competent at staying hidden.
* HiredGuns: In "Death Volley", the doctor is constantly harassed by a gun-toting masked assassin. It turns out the assassin is [[spoiler: his ex, Hortense]], and the client is [[spoiler: [[strike: the doctor's parents]] King Radical]].
* HoldingOutForAHero: Implied in one strip, when the police runs away from the dinosaurs:
-->'''Mayor Goodrich''': The police won't deal with this? \\
'''Driver''': Yeah, we're all pretty used to waiting for Dr. McNinja to handle the weird stuff.
* HollywoodHacking: Played with. Dan's response to seeing King Radical's giant robot formed from all the buildings in Cumberland and powered by planks of wood harvested from a haunted forest? Tell Sean to "Hack it." Later on, Dan himself tries to do it, by throwing a keyboard and mouse at the mech.
* HypercompetentSidekick:
** Judy, the gorilla receptionist.
** And Gordito:
--->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]:''' Do you think I run around with a ''twelve year old boy'' just because I like his inferior grasp of girls and higher level math? Do you think I left him with my psychotic parents because I wanted him to '''die'''? '''No''', you undead pale ponce! '''Gordito''' is the effing '''badass kid'''. So go ahead and finish up your masterful scheme to make me let you kill me, because Gordito's going to slap around whatever ghost lackey you have like he was a pinata on the Mexican day of the dead."
** The {{Mummy}} that accompanies Archibald King of the Hoboes, which grants him immortality and protects him from assassination attempts.
* HypotheticalCasting: [[http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/06/04/interview-chris-hastings-on-the-adventures-of-dr-mcninja/ In this interview]], creator Chris Hastings said that his casting choices for a ''Dr. [=McNinja=]'' movie would be Creator/SamRockwell or Will Arnett as the Doc, Sam Elliot or Wrestling/HulkHogan as Dan [=McNinja=], and Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Mitzi [=McNinja=]. The villains would include Williem Dafoe as Donald [=McBonald=], Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme as Frans Rayner, Phil Fondacaro as Knickerbockers, and Creator/BelaLugosi as {{Dracula}}, "''Film/TheCrow'' style."
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* IAmOneOfThoseToo: Subverted -- Sean calls Gordito out on his inner geekiness, only to backpedal rapidly as he realizes he has just revealed his own.
* IdenticalPanelGag: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p67/ The comic]] where Gordito and Judy take care of Victor, the evil half plumber half spy. The four panels have the characters in exactly the same pose with only the narration and dialog changing.
* ImpossiblyAwesomeMagicTrick: There's a flashback to Gordito's father, the Great Flying Shooting Juan (a sharpshooting trapeze artist magician) performing a card trick. The volunteer chooses a card, places it back in the deck, and throws the entire deck into the air. Juan shoots the card in midair... but the volunteer can't find the card afterwards. Then he gets a call on his cell phone...
-->'''Volunteer:''' That was the police. The man who robbed my house... they finally caught him because he was shot in the upper thigh... There was a queen of diamonds in his pocket.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p8 Where do you think Gordito got it from?]]
** Doc too. He hit a pirate on a ship from a plane in motion, despite not having any way to see his target. Especially impressive, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p45 given what his payload was.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: The razor-sharp frozen shamrocks used by the Irish proto-ninjas.
** In the big finale, [[spoiler:Doc weaponized Dracula to turn King Radical into a vampire. Then he throws Pope Francis at him. Radical's last words are about how cool his death will be.]]
* IKnowMortalKombat: Doc claims to have trained his skills with Franchise/{{Batman}}. In reality, though, he's just learned from reading his comic books and watching his movies.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p38/ Averted when Dark Smoke Puncher is possessed by a ghost wizard]].
--->'''Mitzi''': Shoot him!\\
'''Gordito''': But he's your son!\\
'''Mitzi''': Shoot him fatally!
** Gordito doesn't shoot him, but continue to avert it by proceeding to knock him out and having no sort of discussion with Dark Smoke Puncher.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Doc never tells anyone his real name because of "the wizard." [[spoiler:Due to his grandfather sacrificing his name in order to seal a powerful ghost wizard, he can never utter his own name without freeing him.]]
* ILoveNuclearPower: A RunningGag in the Space Savers arc involves (who knows what KINDS of) crazy space radiation causing weird things to happen. It is speculated to be how some dinosaurs became sentient and how the Nasaghasts became the vengeful ghosts they are.
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/3p39 Lampshaded.]]
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: 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.]]
* InASingleBound: Taken to the ultimate extreme -- with enough skill one can apparently jump from the Earth to the Moon, or vice versa.
* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p12 Jefferson Airplane]].
** Also [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p54 here]]
** Also, Dr. Birding.
* INeedAFreakingDrink, with DrowningMySorrows: Jose Cuervo: 1; Dr. [=McNinja=]: 0.
* IncendiaryExponent:
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/4p15/ Ninjas can't catch you if you're on fire.]]
** In the Monster Mart story, Marty tries to threaten some thugs, it doesn't work, he piles up some barrels of flammable liquid behind him, smashes them and tries again, framed by the firey explosion. [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p41/ It works.]]
* IneffectualLoner: Doc manages to turn [[spoiler: Frans Rayner]] from a OneManArmy to one of these by invoking 80's buddy martial-arts movie rules.
* InexplicablyAwesome: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p97/ Normally, diplomacy is awesome but not quite this effective.]]
* InnBetweenTheWorlds: Purgatory is a restaurant. With really, ''really '' slow service.
* InnerMonologue: Often. Doc has been known to argue with his inner voice.
** (And lose.)
** You hush.
** (No.)
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** The Axe Cop crossover proves that, yes, there are some things too crazy to make sense even in this comic.
--->'''Axe Cop:''' If bad guys steal this book [that forces you to be on their team]... I'll chop your head off. After I kill all the bad guys you can heal yourself with your ''doctor power''.\\
'''[=McNinja=]:''' Just... Just protect the book, okay?
** Then there's the pirates.
--->'''Captain O'Shay''': For each one of my men ye touch, I will kill five members of yer family.\\
(''Dr. [=McNinja=] glances at the '''three''' other members of his family, tied up and on the edge of the plank'')\\
'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ...that math does not work out ''at all.''
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/2p35 BAD MATH PROVES A POINT!]]
--->'''Alt Text:''' The point that you're a total dumbass, Captain O'Shay.
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler: No matter how many alternate-universe counterparts Chuck Goodrich helps, another one will appear.]]
* InstantChucks: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p37 Chainsaw nunchucks]]
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Subverted with Judy. Her sign language is translated for the reader, and Ben Franklin II understands it, but Doc doesn't know sign language.
* InventionalWisdom: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/21p70/ "You just cut the elevator?! What are you doing?!"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Why is there even a button for that?"]]
%%* IronicEcho: Lampshaded [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 by Frans.]]
* ItsBeenDone: "This sounds a lot like ''Series/{{Lost}}''."
%%* ItsPersonal: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p12 Here.]]
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[[folder:J]]
* JawBreaker: Doc does it to a zombie. Since it was undead, it doesn't really kill the thing, but it does prevent it from biting him.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Many later chapters have an increasing amount of [[CallBack Call-Backs]] (even weird {{Call Forward}}s) to previous weird events, proving that 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]].]]
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: When attacked by the final [[spoiler:Nasaghast]], Doc is pulled into his own mind and forced to confront the creature there.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: The Doctor himself, in Let's Get Rad, due to [[spoiler:Sparklelord's influence]].
* JumpingTheShark: {{Lampshaded}} in the alt text on [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p24/ this page]].
* JumpScare: [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p27 When I say "Happy" you say "Birthday!"]] [[NightmareFuel HAPPY!]]
* JustForTheHeliOfIt: WordOfGod says that: "Helicopters only exist in this comic to get [[StuffBlowingUp exploded]]. They serve no other purpose." Also, one of the inhabitants of Radical Land is a [[WhenTreesAttack helicopter head ent]]... and yes, that ''is'' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it says]] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/26p7/ on the tin.]]
* JustOneMan: A plot point in [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 Army of One]].
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[[folder:K]]
* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler: Carl, the weather man.]]
* KarmicDeath:
** Parodied with the anonymous pilot of Bearclaw's airplane, who admits that he deserved to be randomly murdered because he himself intentionally killed some innocent bystanders to show off his piloting skills.
** Agent Bearclaw once [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/9p34/ swam out to sea]] pretending to be injured so that he could strangle the {{Heroic Dolphin}}s that came up to rescue him. He eventually finds himself stranded at sea for real, [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p32 surrounded by dolphins]], and they [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p70/ shoot him to death]] shortly after they rescue him.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: [[spoiler: Gordito in the BadFuture. Looks handsome, more badass and his mustache doesn't look hilariously oversized compared to his face..]]
* KillAndReplace: The way Dracula's ghost wizards operate, killing a human host and stealing their body.
** Presumably what happens to [[spoiler: all "lame" people who get replaced with residents of Radical Lands.]]
* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: King Radical's inarguably [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/33p119/ radical death.]]]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The comic isn't afraid in racking up the killcount and making sure those deceased stay dead. The roster of people permenantly killed are: 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: An interesting version in Dracula has ''moon laser''. Which is basically just a giant laseron his moon base that's targetted at Earth.
* KillTheHostBody: The [=McNinjas=] are hired to assassinate a Ghost Wizard, which includes killing the guy it's possessing so they can fight the exposed spirit with holy weapons. [[spoiler: It re-possesses Sean, Dan and Mitzi are fully prepared to kill their own son, but Gordito stops them and shoves a blessed bullet down his throat before it fully takes hold of him instead.]]
* KingOfTheHomeless: Archibald, King of the Hobos.
* KlingonPromotion: Frans Rayner plans on becoming President this way.
* KnightTemplar: [[spoiler: King Radical just wants to make the world radical... even if it means ''killing billions''.]]
* KryptoniteFactor: The Doctor's special anti-ninja drug, which he created to stop Frans Rayner and his personal army of "drug ninjas". After getting a lot of flack for hoarding the drug, he defended his actions by stating that he had "created his own Kryptonite" and therefore wasn't going to let it out of his control.
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