Crazy Prepared / Comic Strips

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• Beetle Bailey: Combined with Insane Troll Logic in Beetle's college days. The freshmen rebel and throw some older students, Beetle included, into a fountain. Beetle doesn't mind, though, because he thinks he's outsmarted them: he's wearing swimming trunks under his normal clothing.
• Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin tries to invoke this in one strip by carrying around an umbrella, a dart gun, five comic books, some gum, a wrench, a book on bugs, a map of Montana, an eraser, and a rock. Of course, the only thing he's shown actually being prepared for by doing this is that it's a cool thing to show someone.
• Dilbert: When his boss uses a ray on him that makes a unicorn horn grow out of his head, the Garbageman offers to fix Dilbert with his cell normalizer and a sample of Dilbert's "pre-unicorn" DNA. When Dilbert asks why the Garbageman has a sample of his DNA, he replies "It's for exactly this kind of situation".
• Garfield: Whoever put the "Stay Off the Grass" sign Garfield decides to climb also put a "Stay Off the "Stay Off the Grass" sign" sign.
  Garfield: Oh, come on!
• Knights of the Dinner Table, a comic about Tabletop Games players / characters, features an extremely cunning player, Brian. Most of his preparations are on a signed, dated and notarized sheet inside a sealed envelope, so the GM can't accuse him of making it up on the fly.
  • When the party is kidnapped and stripped of possessions, he reveals that his character had had "spellbooks" tattooed on the other characters' backs.
  • Every morning he swallows a ring of teleportation and every evening he "recovers" it. "It's all there on the character sheet!"
  • In case he gets his hands on a Wish Spell, Brian also has a pages-long carefully written run-on sentence in his briefcase which is designed to grant his character true immortality. He has even had the document reviewed by an actual paralegal. BA and his fellow Gamemasters cannot find a flaw in the wish, but Brian's PC becoming immortal means that a previously restrained god has the right to destroy him. EVEN THEN this only triggers a clause that undoes the effects of the wish and gives Brian 25,000 gp.
  • Brian's mage at one point has a custom-made magic helmet that is enchanted to be invisible and designed to project a constant illusion on the inner visor of what the wearer would normally be seeing if not for the helmet being in place. Aside from acting like a magic VR heads-up display, this means that the character is immune to all gaze attacks because he is not technically making eye contact with the attacker. This comes up when the party is ambushed by a medusa and seems to work until B.A. thinks to ask how Brian's character can see the illusionary image if the helmet is invisible. Cue Flipping the Table.
  • Brian also plays characters that are relatives of each other, and Brian has concocted a carefully documented series of contingencies to insure that each succeeding character gets the carefully detailed journals of all his predecessors. The result? Brian's current character always knows everything all of his previous characters knew.
  • The party attempts to be Crazy Prepared when they discover a Bag of Holding and a dragon's treasure horde. They systematically go through and purchase enough supplies, food, and weapons to be prepared for any possible contingency. They also take to keeping a troupe of henchmen inside the bag to "keep inventory" and for ease of transportation. It isn't until the party is lost in a desert that they need the supplies within, but by that point they have neglected the bag for several months. When they open it to retrieve their survival gear, they find their small army of henchmen have been living on their food, armed themselves with their weapons, built a fortress from their building supplies, and are ready to declare war!
• German detective Nick Knatterton wears an artificial back-head in case someone wants to shoot him there, and has a fake beard which also contains a parachute, just in case of.
• In Peanuts, Lucy, in a fit of rage, destroys Schroeder's piano and Beethoven bust, thinking Schroeder would get upset (as he usually is when Lucy is nearby). Instead, Schroeder simply gets up, cleans the mess, goes to a nearby closet, pulls out a piano from a stack of them and puts it where the previous piano was, then goes to another nearby closet, lifts out a Beethoven bust from a shelf filled with them, puts it on his piano, and resumes playing music like nothing happened. Lucy becomes flabbergasted.

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