T-Rex: Sadly, sometimes your characters will gain access to a machine that tells them about crimes BEFORE they happen, and now they're all "oh wow, can we truly jail this person even if they haven't crimed yet, oh wow oh wowwww"
Narrator: LITERARY TECHNIQUE COMICS
Narrator: today's technique:
Narrator: PRE-CRIME
T-Rex: And it is so a literary technique because I've read SEVERAL literatures where this happens. Anyway, it lets your characters hem and haw about justice and whether this is good or bad and we all get to have a fun time until one of THEM gets arrested for a precrime! And then, your stakes? Well now they're PERSONAL, baby.
Utahraptor: Plus it exists in real life too!
T-Rex: What? No it doesn't!
Utahraptor: Okay, fine, it doesn't. Now bring some lockpicking tools into England or Japan and wander around brandishing them, and see how long you last even WITHOUT any intention of picking locks not your own!
T-Rex: You're on!!
Narrator: LATER, IN JAPAN, T-REX IS ARRESTED:
T-Rex: Oh, of course! This proves Utahraptor right!
T-Rex: So THAT'S why he wanted me to go here
