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{{quote|''"Well, I can tell you that [[Living Forever Is Awesome|a long life need not be a boring one]]. Everyone's always changing. And I don't just mean physically, though there's been a lot of that going around lately."''|Mori, [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5353046/ here]}}
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Some of their major patients so far range from a sentient tree to a girl that is mysteriously invisible to a man suffering from a horrible sentient cancer. Various minor cases crop up that are even more bizarre, such as a man who cannot pronounce any word with the letter "E" in it or a woman trapped in slow motion from birth. Others are odd by our world's standards but considered commonplace by theirs, such as performing voluntary transformation services (like enlarging a pixie to human size so she can live among humans, or rejuvenating the elderly).
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The comic is sometimes compared to ''[[The Wotch]],'' due to its inexperienced artwork and recurring transformation theme, but its story, tone, and premise are decidedly different.
As of early 2022, the comic itself has not been updated since 2019. The most recent update - submitted fan art - was posted in 2020.
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Rina. For ''two thousand years.'' Mercifully, she fell asleep eventually, but not after [[Go Mad From the Isolation|going a little crazy]].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Tanica tried to kill Sarin, made her waste her one-of-a-kind magic seed, and is now blocking the window.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Some, though there's still room for improvement. The first chapter was poorly-drawn pencil sketches in black and white. The second chapter begins in color and with cleaned up art. The artist himself is constantly apologizing to the readers for not being a better artist. Contrast [https://web.archive.org/web/20100306222430/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=482302 this early page] and the [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=708765 most recent page]{{Dead link}} as of this writing. Still has room for improvement, but proof that [[Art Evolution]] in the form of doing a webcomic ''works.''
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Subverted/Inverted from the norm with Mori, a short, fairly plain woman who changes into a tall, buff guy, and averted with Aki's father, who's just as overweight as a woman. The aversion is Lampshaded when Aki's dad admits "Not everyone gets to be a babe when they jump the gender fence."
* [[Backstory]]: Chapter 12 is all about Mori. It's right there in the title.
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Sarin and Mori. [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=520625 Especially Sarin]{{Dead link}}, though Mori fits the trope better.
* [[Badass Boast]]: A few.
{{quote|'''Sarin:''' I am a total magical badass.
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** To give an idea of just HOW strong her spirit vision is, when her powers first went out of control, she saw the ultimate embodiment of decay, chaos, and entropy, who sits on a throne AT THE ABSOLUTE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, waiting for the end of existence. The guy is so terrifying that after seeing him once, Kili's hair went pure white.
** Also, her tattoos can completely nullify the powers of a regular shaman. She's ''still'' the best shaman with them.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=729796 This comic.]{{Dead link}}
* [[Body Horror]]: The Crax, a sentient cancer that devours its victims' minds and bodies. {{spoiler|Later revealed to be the physical manifestation of a man who chose the path of [[Immortality Immorality]].}}
* [[Body Snatcher]]: Again, the Crax. A couple of sub-tropes, too.
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Sarin seems to have adopted "I am a total magical badass."
* [[Catgirl]]: One of Marty's employees. A few others have shown up sporadically in the backgrounds here and there; there's also been at least one catdude.
** Goro gets turned into the hairy version during the Crax arc. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205525/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/?p=530241 She's pissed.]
* [[Closer to Earth]]: [[Unfortunate Implications|It's hard not to notice]] that the two most down-to-Earth members of the team are the one who was originally female and one who's been hinted multiple times to [[Transsexualism|have always been internally female]].
** This may have more to do with their roles than their genders, though; Mori's the leader and also a scientist, two things that require a level head, and Kili's shaman/therapist dual job also requires her to be considerate and calm.
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* [[Ley Line]]: Rina was buried in one by Derek, so the magical spell keeping her trapped there would run forever. She was later discovered by a ley line surveyor in Frontera. Unfortunately, being stuck soaking in mana for centuries sent her into mana shock and she nearly exploded after being recovered.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: Happens several times. Sarin the wizard's hair is green as a leftover from when she was turned into a tree for years, and Kili's hair has been white ever since she was haunted by a spirit as a child. Kili gets hit with more hair effects later; after becoming a werewolf, her hair adopts a [[Wild Hair|wild style]] and grows so rapidly it is now at perpetual [[Rapunzel Hair]] length.
* [[Love Is in the Air]]: Another effect of the Spell Gun. [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=500309 Possibly.]{{Dead link}}
* [[The Magic Comes Back]]: This was to be the main plot of ''The Odd Squad'', the unfinished prequel to ''The Dragon Doctors'' that set up the First Breaking.
* [[Magick]]: Made fun of in one strip, which had a background poster saying "Magic is not spelled with a 'k!'"
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* [[Prison Violence]]: According to Tanica, members of [[Murder, Inc.]] are frequent targets for murder in jail.
* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: Generally the comic follows the ''[[Orlando]]'' rule; call 'em "she" if their body is female and "he" if their body is male. So if we're seeing Kili in the past, Kili's a "he," but present Kili is a "she." The author said in several posts that he's amused when readers refer to characters otherwise since it shows off their perception of the characters.
** It's later [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205336/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5356182/ explained in-universe] that when most of the medical team works on bodies rather than minds, it's better to always use physical genders than to make a mistake.
* [[Psychic Surgery]]: Discussed in the Crax arc, but not used; it would rip out the Crax from Greg's body instantly but since the technique requires bare hands, it would be unwise to use it on a life form that devours everything.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]:
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* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Kili and Goro. [[Gender Bender|(When they were guys, anyway.)]]
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Multiple characters, although Priscilla may take the cake -- normally, she's a [[Hollywood Nerd]] with tightly bunned up hair and geek glasses, wearing conservative, baggy clothing. ... Then her nudity curse kicks in, letting her hair down and destroying the glasses. And, er, everything else.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=758017 After a poll,]{{Dead link}} Mori notes that there's a request for a "Mori Shirtless Scene" and wonders aloud whether they mean girl-Mori or guy-Mori.
* [[Shout-Out]]
** "[[Sluggy Freelance|Emergency pants.]]"
** A comic references "that legend about that sorceress who learned all her magic when she was turned to stone...who went mad and became an insane violator<ref>an abuser of sorcery, especially one who uses [[Taken for Granite|debilitating]] transformation magic without consent</ref>." This is almost certainly a reference to The Sorceress of the transformation-fetish site Naga's Den, especially since the author is tightly linked to that site's creator's tamer works and this is the ''only'' time the word "sorceress" is used (the word "sorcerer" usually being gender-neutral).
** Multiple ones to the manga [[Blame]]. Mori's name comes from a minor character in it, an underground realm called "The Cyber-Dungeon" is a direct reference to it and in [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=775255 this]{{Dead link}} comic, the gun's extra flanges that pop out in overload mode are a reference to Killy's GBE gun.
** Rina watches a documentary about the survivors of the nuclear war in the Second Breaking. It's a clear shout out to ''[[Fist of the North Star]],'' with men punching each other at high speed.
* [[Showing Off the New Body]]: Lee Smith checks out the sexy new body Sarin gave <s> him</s>her, complete with the comic's first butt-shot.
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** Sarin also frequently stoneskins herself when under attack.
** Tanica follows this trope in spirit, as she (and Sarin) were both turned into immobile, yet conscious and aware, trees. Sarin found it to be peaceful as she was relatively safe and no longer had to live her rather violent and stressful life, Tanica... takes a lot longer to find any form of peace.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: [[In-Universe]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110518101104/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=536182 here]
* [[Tempting Fate]]: "Things are finally starting to look up."
* [[That Man Is Dead]]:
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* [[We Help the Helpless]]: The Hearts Society is an international organization dedicated to helping victims of magic (in particular, debilitating transformation magic) and stopping "Violators" who cause these sorts of problems. For example, if an evil sorcerer turned you into a statue, or worse, ''a shoe,'' they'd be the ones who would hopefully find you and restore you.
* [[We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future]]: Averted; people are generally ''quite'' healthy, due to how fast magical medicine works as well as rejuvenations making most age-related diseases a thing of the past, but magic has caused just as many weird diseases and problems to crop up in their place.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The author also had another webcomic idea, but [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511205803/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/5164417/ discovered] [[El Goonish Shive|it had already been done]].
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Derek and Chang especially, but it's suggested that this phenomenon occurring en masse led to [[The End of the World as We Know It]] in the twenty-first century or so. Specifically, magic using sociopath mages who abuse their powers are called "Violators" and are looked upon ''very'' poorly by society, but modern society is now much better equipped for dealing with them.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Aki, a couple Pixies, and Sarin with the aid of a spell. There's no flapping because, as Sarin explains, Pixie wings (and spell wings, appearently) work using magic, rather than aerodynamics.
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