On other occasions, expect some fun with Pavlovian conditioning. It makes a good Restraining Bolt for the plot, you can even spin some plot lines out of how to get it off (especially if it's designed to go off automatically if tampered with), and sometimes it'll have the added feature of being able to be pumped up to deadly levels so that it can also be, effectively, an Explosive Leash. ![]() Sometimes it is electricity for some Electric Torture, sometimes it's a generic Agony Beam generated by some alien technobabble or dark magic. It's a metal ring, it hurts, end of statement. How it actually works is nearly always undefined. Such things exist in real life for dogs, but it is more likely that the trope is in use as a way to replicate the iron slave collar with a Speculative Fiction twist. The concept of a Shock Collar is simple: A character is forced to wear a Slave Collar or torc and when they do something undesirable, as designated by whomever put the collar on them, they are administered a shock. ![]() ![]() Gleeman Vox to Ratchet, Ratchet: Deadlocked
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