The Adventures of Dr. McNinja/Awesome
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is another "continually tops itself" series. Knocking out a giant lumberjack in one punch? Using a soda machine as a makeshift smoke bomb? By the time you get a few volumes in, you have to see it to believe it.
- This troper submits that The Doctor's return from death's door was his greatest moment, and wonders how and when the authors will top that particular scene.
- How about this? (This is three pages just linked like this for your convenience.)
- This comic and the next six that follow it. I'm not even going to bother to try and explain it. Words will merely cheapen the experience.
- "Yeah. Bite me. Bite my arm. I just ripped your jaw muscles from your skull. Bite me. I severed your spinal cord too. Bite me. Uh huh. Yeah."
- Suck it Frodo!
- Even the Fox News Weatherman has his own moment.
- Also, punching Dracula in the face.
- Five minutes later comes one of the best one liners to ever be said. "I talked to Bruce."
- Then surfing on a robot clone back into the Earth's atmosphere.
- In case you didn't get that, let me restate it. He surfed a Dracula-bot from the moon. A constantly laughing Dracula-bot with laser eyes. Guided only by his kid brother Dark Smoke Puncher. And then flipping off everyone in the vicinity. There isn't any way this can get topped. I refuse to believe it.
- "I just surfed a Robo Dracula from the Moon so yalls can just take it!"
- I'd just like to say that this was a shout-out to Dark Star, John Carpenter's first feature movie.
- It's telling that the Robot Death Bear getting owned and lightning-struck by the scared, twelve-year-old sidekick wasn't on here yet.
- Dan McNinja escaping capture by lighting himself on fire.
- Also here's Dan delivering one of the most epic lines ever.
- Remember that thing about lighting himself on fire? Yeah. Laughing. If that isn't his Crowning Moment...
- The end of the McNinja Family versus the pirates:
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(After Mitzi McNinja has just blown up a pirate ship) |
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- A mobster with a swordfish through his chest (do I even have to say it?) threatens the good Doctor with a gun if he doesn't treat his...."condition." The Doc's response? Casually disarm him without even being SEEN.
- How CraaaAAAAaaZZzzy!
- Anything that Martin Monster does after this part, which doubles as something of a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
- Not to mention the mind powers bit before that. Because that was totally super cool awesome.
- Agent Bearclaw's status as an Ascended Extra is solidified with his re-entrance to the series: Taking down Judy and Yoshi single-handedly (literally in Yoshi's case), even if his role seems to be quite short.
- The dolphins get one when they save Bearclaw and carry him to an island, and then shoot him.
- Not to mention the titular doctor casually punching out a birdosaur as he walks along. Not one minute after flying a jet through a hurricane, a barrage of anti-air missiles, and birdosaur attacks.
- "Hello? Ninja?"
- This page is what happens when someone tells the doctor "All Perish Here". There are no words, and there do not need to be any.
- How have we gotten this far without mentioning KNIIIIIIFE EEEEEYYYYE ATTAAAAACK!"?
- Dunno. On the other hand...
- His eulogy for the Benjamin Franklin clone. What's best is that the comic built up naturally to this point: "Benjamin Franklin II was killed by the very thing he was trying to stop . . . death. He was a, um, clone. And he was not as famous as his first version . . . But he was still a great man. Our city was lucky to host him in his final days so . . . so suck on that Philadelphia." The rest is interrupted by ninjas, of course.
- "What"
- It says something about this comic when Doctor McNinja smacking a guy in the head with a motorcycle is treated as so commonplace it only gets one panel. And no one bothers mentioning the child-bandito riding a velociraptor fighing Mafiosos on the back of a speeding train.
- Devil May Cry 3 did it first while the guy riding the motorcycle was driving up a kilometer-tall tower. Vertically. But the Doc doing it is just as awesome.
- King Radical delivers his own version via backflipping off his bike and sending it flying at the face of Blizzardbeard the Frost Wizard. Of course, it ended up not being Blizzardbeard, but Dark Smoke Puncher, the fresh young technomage.
- Boom.
- It says something about this comic when Doctor McNinja smacking a guy in the head with a motorcycle is treated as so commonplace it only gets one panel. And no one bothers mentioning the child-bandito riding a velociraptor fighing Mafiosos on the back of a speeding train.
- Dan McNinja can eat poisoned foods at will. He sucks the poison out and stores it in his eyes. So he can shoot it later!!
- Peg faces for everyone!
- Here's a Top 10 made by the author.
- Dark Smoke Puncher exploding an air pirate's head with logic.
- Mongo the uber-ninja throws a grappling hook onto a passing jumbo jet, and uses that to swing into the cab of an 18-wheeler and throw out the driver. Just....holy crap.
- YO HO, MOTHER-HE SAID A BAD WORD!
- "Aren't you lucky you live in the only town in the world prepared for a zombie invasion."
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Gordito: That's awesome! Seriously? There's, like, a zombie defense system? |
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Gordito: Oh noooo! We left Yoshi behind! Are dinosaurs immune to zombies? |
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- "My only regret is that this is so unfair, it won't humiliate you."
- Unfortunately, this Troper fears that the above example is about to be subverted, what with dozens of Mc Ninjas, Conservation of Ninjutsu, and Rayner's established reputation of kicking the crap out of several ninjas at once...
- Jesus Christ, does he ever.
- Bah. Franz may be Dangerously Genre Savvy, but Doc? Genre Savvier.
- THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TEAM UP A GUY WITH HIS CLONE. THEY THINK ALIKE. STUPID.
- DOC AND THE DANE: TWIN FISTS OF FURY
- That's right. Dr McNinja is so awesome that he can force his arch-enemy to team up with him and then get top billing.
- How has no one mentioned Judy (the gorilla) chasing off an Uber-ninja by wielding a rocket launcher? The greatest mathematical equation ever.
- A meta-CMOA. Every few years the Boy Scouts of America have a campout called the National Jamboree. Each council will form a makeshift troop, and everybody gets custom council patches to trade with each other and represent themselves. What does the Potomac Council, home of Cumberland, Maryland use for theirs? Why nothing less than The Good Doctor and his merry staff. These will probably run at a premium come jamboree, and be worth an arm and a leg afterwards.
- GODDAMMIT I WANT ONE.
- From Gordito: "Don't."
- Doc wasn't understating when he called Gordito the Effing Badass Kid:
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Gordito: You left me on the ship. I took out every single member of the crew individually until I was the only one left. |
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- The Alt Text of this strip says it all:
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I had a really hard time writing this page until I just decided to draw some dinosaurs with jet packs and guns. |
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- Mitzi can taste your lies..
- Doc taps his own personal Theme Music Power-Up by humming the Ghostbusters theme. Then, "I AIN'T AFRAID OF NO GHOSTS!"
- And since that wasn't enough awesome, the grand finale reminds us why you don't screw with a highly-trained ninja.
- Probably commonplace, given all the Crazy Awesome scattered through the comic, but... the Doctor, armed to the teeth, takes on an army. He's a ninja. So are they. It is awesome.
- "Kite." Yes, that is a bandito on a motorbike with a Dracula-cloak-wearing ninja pulling a doctor ninja and an astro/chrononaut who are riding on a kite made out of a recently-slaughtered pterodactyl.
- "Would you believe you've got the wrong guy?" "No." "Pity. It's true."
- In the Bad Future, Gordito mentions that Dan and Mitzi McNinja went out "spectacularly". He wasn't kidding.
- The Doc brings in some old 'friends' to help deal with the dinosaur problem.
- Only in this webcomic does Paul Bunyan punching out a T-Rex make so much sense.
- The Nasaghast is back with a vengeance.
- And it's killing the second horrorsaurus with a vengeance.
- Note that, for the above to happen, Chuck has to let the horrorsaurus kill him.
- One word: Yoshi!
- The McNinja reunion tour continues. First part of his plan was bringing back the Paul Bunyan disease patients to fight the dinosaurs. The second part? Calling upon Dracula to break the shield holding the Ultimate Diplomat with his MoonLaser. At first it looks like it isn't working, but then...
- As if that wasn't cool enough, both McNinjas pull off an Unflinching Stand.
- "Hey Sean! It's me! Your brother! I'm alive!...Whatcha doin?"
- While we're at it that spoilered bit is another great Unflinching Walk.
- The Ultimate Diplomat pulls one off with his very first sentence.
- "I don't believe in mimes!
- Dr. McLuchador's methods of medicine.
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