The Guards Must Be Crazy: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Asterix]] the Gladiator'', Asterix and Obelix find a guard who works at the prison where they are holding Cacophonix prisoner. Asterix tells Obelix that they have to ask him some "clever questions" to find out his exact location. Obelix, to Asterix's astonishment, simply asks "Hey you! Where is Cacophonix imprisoned?". The (overly tired) guard replies in detail adding "but it's a secret" while Asterix sits there befuddled.

* The guards at the ''[[Batman]]''-verse [[Bedlam House|Arkham Asylum]]. Whether it's letting the Joker substitute all their real guns for popguns, allowing him access to janitorial chemicals that let him mix together some Joker Venom, or constructing a ''hot air balloon that allows him to fly over the walls'', the increasingly ridiculous, contrived and unbelievable ways that the Joker and the other Bat-villains escape from Arkham would be construed as painfully bad in any other franchise. For the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, on the other hand, it's par for the course.

* In an early ''[[Johan and Peewit]]'' story, a bunch of guards abandon all common sense for a barrel of mead, leaving the guard room empty (and allowing Johan to sabotage the drawbridge).

* In the very first story of ''[[Diabolik]]'' it's mentioned that he had broken out of the supposedly unescapable prison of Asen. More recently a flashback showed how he did it: he killed two guards who gave him a small opening, stole the uniform of one of them and ruined his face to slow identification, then took off his [[Latex Perfection|perfect mask]] and walked out dressed as a guard. Granted, that was before the police knew of his masks or his true face, but the guards still failed to notice a man in uniform who was ''not'' one of them...