# Doctor McNinja App for Cape and Cowl #
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Zippy
AGE: 25
JOURNAL: sparklemagpie
IM: glassfishgirl or calamityzippy on AIM
E-MAIL: sparklemagpie@gmail.com
RETURNING: I currently play Carmen Sandiego (bitchisaghost)
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Dr. McNinja
FANDOM: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
CHRONOLOGY: From post the Army of One storyline.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME:
ALTER EGO: Dr. McNinja. It really is just what is says on the tin.
BACKGROUND:
Doc was born in Maryland, to Mitzi and Dan McNinja, their eldest son and heir apparent to all the secrets of the McNinja clan, which included demolitions expertise, extraordinary combat skills and a recipe for beets that should truly never have seen the light of day. An only child until he was a teenager (when his younger brother Sean was born) Doc was pressured to succeed and walk in his parent's footsteps from the time he was just a little boy. Ninja training began at birth and was rigorous and intense. Reading comic books late into the night and idolizing Batman came later, of his own volition.
But rebellion rolled in slowly; Doc seemed to get all his teenage fits out in college when suddenly neither parent loomed over his shoulder and their legal ability to boss him around came to a close. Despite a whole childhood of being encouraged toward a well-paying career in contract killing Doc applied to the sciences, and began studying medicine...
Midway through his junior year his mentor, the clone of Benjamin Franklin, encouraged him to attempt an experimental cloning system to manage his workload. By duplicating himself thirty times over and then applying to multiple schools at once Doc got 29 degrees, may of them PhD's, in the space of eight years, eventually re-amalgamating all of the clones and their memories and intelligence back into his single brain.
Doc went on to start a general practice in Cumberland, Maryland. He hired a charming and professional Gorilla named Judy for his receptionist and settled in to work. Over the years he took on little things and some big things that went wrong in the city and became something of a folk hero.
At one point Doc Battled Ronald McDonald for the honour of his family name when the bastard clown tried to market a McNinja burger. Not long afterward he went on a miniature rampage to get an experimental permanent hair removal cream in order to cure a child with Paul Bunyan's Disease, a disorder caused by prepubescent lumberjacking that causes the sufferer to vomit maple syrup and then grown into an enormous Paul Bunyan. The Doc was tasked not just with the cure but also with preventing the boy from being hunted down by men who wished to kill him, stuff him and put him out front of a used car lot as a prop.
Fall of 2005 Doc attended an painfully awkward Thanksgiving Katannaka dinner with his family, stuck under the thumb of his parents dissaproval of him being a doctor and not just a regular ninja. After a fight over the dinner table he stormed out and went to and get drunk, and then proceeded to strike an ill-informed deal with some very ballsy pirates, hallucinate about a turkey, and then have to go and rescue his family from said ballsy pirates. He failed to demonstrate any doctoring skills to their full potential but, well, the family killed all the pirates and go away with a chest of pirate loot so all in all it was a happy holiday.
Upon returning home Doc found a raptor in his office, proceeding to do the only sensible thing and punch it unconscious (Item four off the list!) The raptor, however was part of something larger, and after some convenient Deus Ex Machina the Doc uncovered conspiracy involving paleontologists-turned-banditos, organic jetpacks, MySpace, and Fox News. Somehow he acquired sidekick from the raptor bandito squad that he befriended durring the adventure, although he hadn't exactly asked for one.
Still the kid was there, and so was his Raptor, so Doc gave Gordito the spare bedroom in the officecave and named the raptor Yoshi.Doc's took up training his new sidekick enthusiastically despite his initial reluctance.
Doc was approached not long after by two parties - his college mentor and his father - each asking for his help. His father came to warn him of the resurgence of action movie star Frans Rayner who had made his fortune murdering hundreds of American Ninja durring the kung fu movie boom of the eighties after Dan defeated him in a challenge for who should be leader of the Maryland Branch of the American Ninja Association. Except now he had an army of drug-enhanced fake-ninja mooks to help him.
Doc chose instead to assist the clone of Benjamin Franklin in creating a medicine to cure death, viewing it as more important to the world at large in the long run. Doc and Gordito went with Franklin and Dan went into hiding.
Enroute to get pizza for dinner however the three were ambushed by Rayner's ninja mooks. The Doc's awesome car crashed, Gordito got kidnapped, Ben was killed and the Doc was riddled with automatic gunfire from a helicoptor.
He slipped into the limbo between life and death, split into his two spiritual identites of Doctor and Ninja. His two selves subsequently told the specter of death (a skeletal matire de determined to seat him at a table in the slow as hell restaurant that is purgatory) to suck on it and dragged himself back from the brink of bleeding to death. Somehow, he made it back to his office, broke up Judy and Yoshi's fight over hotdogs, and got himself stitched up, before mounting up on the raptor and going to get his father out of hiding. Franz Rayner was now on the 'to murder' list.
With Dan's assistance Doc devised an antidote to Rayner's ninja drug, converting it into an airbone format hoping to knock out the mook army and get to Rayner without much trouble. Instead Dan'd heist of a crop dusting plane went completely wrong and Doc was forced to fight his way through Rayner's hideout, killing dozens of his underlings and eventually facing off with Mongo the Superninja before finally getting to Rayner. With the belated deus ex machina of the antidote being air dropped late, while Doc himself was shoved underwater, he defeated Rayner, pitching him off a cliff by swinging him from his dumbass ponytail. Both returned home to bury Ben.
Shortly after these events the city of Cumberland was invaded by zombies of all the mook ninjas Doc had killed to get to Rayner. The Doc Gordito and Judy took the Doc's new car for a drive and pulled off some amazing driving stunts, fighting their way through the city to activate the Zombie Defense System that Mayor Chuck Goodrich had set up in every home in the city.
The Doc sent Gordito to train with his parents and brother so that he could focus on finding out what made the ninja mooks turn into zombies and rise from the grave. (Other than the obvious desire for revenge.)
He discovered that Ben had completed his anti-death serum and should have, by now, returned from the dead, causing all the people in one area of the cemetery to be re-animated too. Doc rushed to the graveyard with a stolen backhoe to dig him out of his grave.
Then the resurrected Ben turned out to have transformed into an undead creature who fed on hair.
After being pestered Ben admitted that he had gotten his anti-death serum in a roundabout manner from Dracula. Great...
So the two went to shake down Red Cross headquarters (run by vampires) for information, being told that Ben apparently was now part Headless Horseman, with hair consumption serving as the trigger preventing him from transforming fully. The pair took a plane to Transylvania to confront Dracula. Mid-flight Ben freaked out, hungering for hair on the plane, and transformed into a full Headless Horseman when none could be given to him in time. He changed forms and ran away after causing the plane to crash.
Doc, on the other hand, got teleported to Dracula's superbase on the goddamn moon.
First he tried talking, a bit of sneaking, but then finally Doc just punched the great vampie and tried to escape however Dracula threatened to use his servant, the Ghost Wizard, who Doc's famly members had been contracted to kill, to use a terrible secret power on Gordito who was with the McNinja clan for the job.
Doc proceeded to mouth off, Dracula, called his bluff, and the Ghost Wizard possessed his younger brother Dark Smoke Puncher instead of Gordito. (Dick move, Mr. Dracula.) Gordito it turned out would have been the better choice for possession as he promptly used the blessed bullets he'd been given to use on the Ghost Wizard and forced DSP to swallow them, whereupon he vomited up the spectre and the family snuffed him without issue.
Doc, meawhile, had tried to expose Dracula to the unfiltered sun, but found instead that he was trying to kill a Dracula decoy robot. A quick phone call to his tech genuis baby brother resulted in figuring out hot to turn on the robot's rocket feet and he SURFED ROBO-DRACULA BACK TO EARTH FROM THE FRICKING MOON!!!! (This was awesome, seriously. High five to Sean for knowing how to operate a Robo Dracula!)
Finally back on earth, with everything a little more settled, Doc went back to Ben's grave to bring him some pizza, settling his last earthly business so that he could lay his soul properly to rest and end the headless horseman nightmare once and for all.
A few quiet weeks past... and then Martin - an old friend of Doc's from college - came to the office looking for help. He could transforme into a huge purple monster, but had been stuck in a mid-transformation form for days, too stressed and miserable about his debt to the Cumberland Mafia (led by the eponymous King Radical) to be able to shift himself either way. Doc helped Martin to handle the problem, assisting him along with Gordito in driving out Radical's rival the Robster (a man from a race of tricky lobster people who was also a mob boss) and clearing his debt. Doc was no fan of King Radical however who BLEW UP HIS OFFICE after Doc denied treatment to one of his mobsters who came into the office run through with a swordfish and was redirected to an emergency room. The incident fostered a grudge that continues to present day...
Doc was approached by the governemnt while the office was being rebuilt and got shangaihed into going to a secret temple on an isolated jungle island to treat an injured tennis champion who had sprained his ankle days before he would be required to defeat a godlike tennis champion robot for the fate of the world. Along the way Doc's place wa sabotaged by his ex-girlfriend dressed as an Aztec robot bodyguard (Hortense, an assassin in her own right, who had been hired in order to stop him). He was forced to land burning depressurized plane through a hurricane, and then ninja his way through a heavily booby trapped temple to reach his patient. There was no time anymore to treat him on arrival however, and Doc was instead forced to play tennis against the souls of all the previous tennis super champions.
In a bizarre twist for being a protaganist Doc lost horribly and barely escaped the tennis temple with his life, though he did managed to get himself, Hortense and the Tennis Champion off the island before a rainbow exploded out of the roof of the temple.
Upon returning home, finally, the Doc shortly came into possession of a motorcycle that looked like it had been decorated by Lisa Frank. He rode it for a time but it turned out to be an evil unicorn tyrant from another dimension transmorphed into a motorbike. The unicorn - Sparklelord - had a magical sway over his possessor and he influenced Doc to become dangerously reckless and destructive. Eventually King Radical entered the picture. He had encountered Sparklelord in his original home dimension - the Radical Land - where Sparklelord had destroyed everything and forced Radical to flee through space and time to Cumberland. On Radical's advice, and with Gordito insisting that it was the right thing to do, Doc threw unicorn motorcycle into a time loop deep in the caves under Cumberland.
By that time, Katanaka had come round again and while Doc and Gordito were at the McNinja house for the holiday the family recieved a prank call about Doc having been kidnapped from some pirates. They shrugged it off at Doc was with them in the house at the time, but when Dan later asked his eldest son for advice about a garden he wanted to start given that Doc had a degree in Agriculture... Doc realized that that information was missing from his brain. He was missing the memories of one of the clones I should have amalgamated back into him at the end of college, and the pirates had found and captured his remaining autonomous clone.
When the family set out to rescue Doc's clone from the pirates they discovered that the whole thing was a trap for Doc built by an apparently not quite dead enough Franz Rayner, who had been upgrade and improved with an artificial leg and a laser eye.
Franz has also taken DNA from Doc's clone - Old McNinja - and made a lot MORE clones on the cheap and easy, half-stupid and easy to kill, but massive in number.
Doc and ALL of the clones early got killed due to the Inverse Ninja Law, which stated that a single ninja was an unstoppable force but that a mass of them became a bunch of faceless nameless mooks that performed martial arts about as well as a stoned moose. Franz easily ripped some of them in half, threw them around for kicks.
Doc could not defeat him in that moment. He could only circumvent Rayner's trope power by tearing off his sleeves, tying a tie around his head and playing it up 80's style, stepping in to fight on Rayner's side and defeat the cheap clones as a classic teamup.
Once all the clones were down, Doc and Rayner turned on each other to settle their score one to one, but Rayner was rescued by Mongo and his mad scientist Dr. Knickerbockers before Doc could finish him off. Old, who had wisely hidden himself like the practiced hermit he was durring the fray didn't emerge to say goodbye...
So, Doc went home, back to his family's house, to meet up again with Gordito and his parents and brother and eat a very very late Katanaka dinner.
((In short, I am pulling Doc from the end of the Army of One storyline.
Lots more details here and here if you really need them.))
PERSONALITY:
Doctor McNinja is... well... a ninja who grew up to become a doctor. Although raised to follow in his proud family's footsteps and become a professional ninja, the good doctor followed a calling to medical school instead and now has his own clinic in the city of Cumberland, Maryland.
The Doc is often conflicted about his dual nature, the contrast of his desire to kill and to heal has been an issue in the past, but in most instances his chosen path as a doctor outweighs his ninja background and he chooses a non-lethal if not non-violent path. When he is forced to kill he feels sincere guilt over it afterward, no matter how justified his actions.
Doc's family raised him in an intensely proud family tradition and they continually make it clear that they think poorly of his doctoring profession and think he should be a full time ninja like mom and dad (Mitzi and Dan McNinja). Doc is consistently bothered by their lack of support and the point of contention never goes unmentioned when his family is around. (Actually, Doc once put his mom, dad and little brother in mortal danger so they would get beat up and he could finally impress them with his doctoring skills; although, this was a decision made while he was MASSIVELY drunk and being coerced by the ninja's mortal pirate enemies).
Despite his tendency toward humor and sarcasm in many situations (a self-defense mechanism coupled with just being jaded to the crazy shit that keeps happening to him) Dr. McNinja takes on the challenges that come to him very seriously. When a situation is bad he gets his game face on, devises a plan, and takes charge to solve things because he's usually either the only one who will bother or the only one who's capable of making things right.
Doc has a firm dedication to helping people. It's the driving force behind his career choice, behind the assistance he offers to people when they happen upon him in dire straits, and it carries over into a desire to advancing medical science as a whole for the benefit of everyone. He was once invited by a former mentor to help create a medicine to cure death and he chose to take on that quest over an equally important request for help from his father because he felt the death cure was of more long term and world-impacting importance, his chance to do something beneficial that will last.
The Doc has said himself that he's more of a solo worker, and as such he initially had little interest in taking on his sidekick Gordito, whom he met while encountering raptor banditos; however, Doc took him under his wing anyway - almost as a matter of course - and they quickly developed a strong mentor/student bond. He kind of enjoys teaching Gordito the finer points of adventuring and combat. (Like how to deliver a proper verbal snipe before killing someone.)
On a day to day basis however Doc is pretty normal. He's just a guy with a useful combination of skills who lives in a very weird world where the mayor of Cumberland put spacesuits in everyone's houses in case of zombies and and Dracula has a secret base on the moon (he's visited). There are ninjas, pirates, monsters and lobster-guys in his world as a matter of course and although civilians see to regard him as something of a folk hero, he is simply not that much of an anomaly and as such he doesn't have much of an ego about all the stuff he's done. As he once explained to Chuck Goodrich - "I wouldn't say we necessarily 'fight crime' so much as we ... take care of problems that need to be solved with violence." Jumping into a warehouse through a skylight is just another day at the office.
Other things to know about Dr. McNinja:
- Trained with Batman???? (He sleeps in batman pjs!)
- Hallucinates like, every time he gets seriously injured.
- Drives a Honda Accord with a sweet leather interior.
- Can survive even with only a kitten's worth of blood left in his body presumably through sheer ninja force of will. (And a strong desire to tell death to stuff it and rescue his sidekick.)
- Made a deal with police in the city of Cumberland that allows him to get away with all kinds of illegal stuff in the name of general good so long as he can make it back to his office and call 'base' before being captured.
- His office is practically a bat cave. He lives on the premises in a sealed off underground area accessed from behind trick bookshelves and apparently has a stockpile of advanced laboratory equipment.
- His receptionist, Judy, a gorilla, was hired by the Doc for her consistent professionalism.
- His list of things to do before he dies consists of: 1) Jumping off a tall building, and improvising a way into a safe landing. 2) Going to Mars and finding the cure for cancer. 3) Finding true love (Aaaaaaaawww) and 4) Punching out a dinosaur. (Done and done!)
POWER:
- Laying on of Hands
The centerpoint of Doc's character is his dual nature - constantly taking the skills he was given to murder for fun and profit and using them to be a doctor and heal people. In following with this dichotomy Doc has one power that can swing in polar directions.
With a bare handed touch he can expend his own energy and lifeforce to heal others of basically anything, fixing serious injuries and wiping out illnesses. He cannot alter your genetic lottery - if you were born allergic to something or with a serious deformity that can't be undone. What he essentially does is super-powers up another body's healing powers. He drains his own energy to do this. Healing something life threatening will probably cause him to collapse afterward, and he'll need a few days to build back up and recover.
However, in the opposite sense, if he touches someone in anger he can work the energy exchange in reverse, drain another person's life-force to restore and bolster his own and damage their body from the inside out. This reverse pull pumps him up with energy and power. Afterward he may be able to temporarily wield a dumbed-down mini version of someone else's powers, but only if he REALLY messes them up and takes away a lot of their lifeforce.
If he were to push this transfer far enough in either direction he could theoretically kill someone...or sacrifice his life to restore someone else's.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[Doc is filming just his head and shoulders; the comm is clearly on a shelf so he can work on something below the field of view. In the background one can see his medical office, a few charts and such stuck on the door.]
Okay, so, here's my question. [He begins, tone light and conversational, eyes flicking between his work and the camera.] What are 'ninja' to you in your home universe? Because I am running into a lot of ninjas here that are not the kind of ninja's I'm used to.
Do you guys have societies too? Or clans or memberships or any of that? Like I'm part of the American Ninja Association back home but everybody looks at me weird when I show them my card.
[He looks back down at what he's working on for a minute more. After a second a confused looking elderly man with a fresh row of stitches in his forehead sits up into the frame. Doc smiles proudly at him]
There, all done Mr. Albright. You can go ahead home. Keep an eye on that for too much swelling and put some cold on it when you get home if it's really throbbing. You just take it easy and wear your hardhat next time you renovate, okay?
[The man is handed a pamphlet and gently ushered off the table and out of the frame, a puzzled but indifferent expression his face as he heads out the door. Doc turns back to the camera.]
So yeah, anyway, ninja societies. If anybody wants to tell me about theirs I want to hear. Parameters on what you have to do to be considered a ninja in other universes would also be super useful. Thanks. I gotta get to my next patient but I'll reply when I can.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Doc was not a stranger to the concept of alternate realities; no self respecting comic book nerd could be, honestly. But being displaced himself, flesh and blood and not where he should be, was still a little unnerving.
New York and it's hugeness and unfamiliarity weren't really helping either. Doc scrubbed a hand across his eyes, peering up at the sun struggling to peek through the clouds as he made his way down the street, grocery bags strung on each arm, at least two stray cats loping along after him hopefully because he'd had to go and buy one of those cooked chickens... He should never have gone shopping when he was already hungry...
Rounding the last corner between the store and his office/apartment Doc caught sight of a colourful lump on the pavement in front of the clinic doors. Two steps later he realized that it was a body...
Oh boy.
He took the rest of block at a run, dropping the grocery bags a few feet from the girl and making a fast assesment of the sidewalk before settling on his knees next to her. To his surprise she groaned when he touched her and rolled groggily over to face him. He bit his lip to hold in the curse he wanted to fire off when he saw her properly.
She was young, not more than a college freshman judging from her face and the tattered preppy clothes she wore. Her coat was unbuttoned and torn in places. The rest of her clothing looked like someone had re-dressed her without her help. Though youth screamed from every angle of her face her dark curly hair was peppered with greying strands and her brown skin was clammy and pale, dark eyes rolling dizzily upward as he adjusted her head, palpating the back of her neck for spinal injuries. The blood remaining from the vampire bite smeared under the heel of his hand and she whimpered.
"Hey sweetie, it's okay. I'm here to help you. Can you talk?"
"...bit me..." she murmured after a moment, licking dry lips with a barely damp tongue.
"I can see that." he replied, conveying all the interest he could with his voice while his hands and eyes searched her over for clues and auxillary damage. What was it with him and cases involving the undead?! Was he never going to catch a break from the halloween monster crowd, even here?
"What's your name sweetheart?"
"Mallory."
"Alright, Mallory. I'm Dr. McNinja. You're gonna be okay, I promise."
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
I know that we have had a player here with a Doc before, but I would prefer to bring him in on the assumption that he is amnesiac regarding his previous visit to the city, as he's very canon updated from that version and I'd like to start him fresh.