#meanwhile the Riffel Rule only applies to the ones who passed the front door... so a robber who invaded by the window would be unaffected

[one-half-guy]

Reached Locke & Key: Clockworks #4 and I have to say the Riffel Rule is the perfect example of an unnecessary explanation that still is quite cool and well implemented.

Like, the whole "grown ups can't remember magic" is left open in the Netflix Series, we and the characters never learn why it happens and we're cool with that. Why it happens doesn't really matters as we and the characters still understand it happens, when it happens and how it happens, thus they can deal with it.

In the series, that's basically a law that we promptly accept as the whole thing is magic.

Then in the comics, we do have an explanation that's really simple and yet brings a really cool addition to the whole backstory as highlights the point: every Locke who created a key was their own person and had their own goals. Some were selfless, some wanted little and simple, some were cautious about what they wished, some were more petty, some were selfish, but they all had a goal and the keys were created solely to fulfill said goal, just like that...

The series proves we didn't need an explanation to this, but the comics used it to create an interesting plot point about the history of the Key House, the Locke lineage and the magic keys...

Idk... I just couldn't stop thinking about it...