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 ==Encyclopedia entry==
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-The Kops are a brilliant concept.  To take a gaggle of inept
+The Kops are a brilliant concept.  To take a gaggle of inept policemen and display them over and over again in a series of riotously funny physical punishments plays equally well to the peanut gallery and the expensive box seats.  People hate cops. Even people who have never had anything to do with cops hate them.  Of course, we count on them to keep order and to protect us when we need protecting, and we love them on television shows in which they have nerves of steel and hearts of gold, but in the abstract, as a nation, collectively we hate them.  They are too much like high school principals.  We're very happy to see their pants fall down, and they look good to us with pie on their faces.  The Keystone Kops turn up--and they get punished for it, as they crash into each other, fall down, and suffer indignity after indignity.  Here is pure movie satisfaction.
-The Kops are very skillfully presented.  The comic originality
+The Kops are very skillfully presented.  The comic originality and timing in one of their chase scenes requires imagination to think up, talent to execute, understanding of the medium, and, of course, raw courage to perform.  The Kops are madmen presented as incompetents, and they're madmen rushing around in modern machines.  What's more, the machines they were operating in their routines were newly invented and not yet experienced by the average moviegoer.  (In the early days of automobiles, it was reported that there were only two cars registered in all of Kansas City, and they ran into each other.  There is both poetry and philosophy in this fact, but most of all, there is humor.  Sennett got the humor.)
 |[ Silent Stars, by Jeanine Basinger ]
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-A '''Keystone Kop''', {{monsym|Keystone Kop}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. It is the most basic monster in the [[Keystone Kop (monster class)|Keystone Kop]] [[monster class]], and possesses a single weapon attack.
+A '''Keystone Kop''', {{monsym|Keystone Kop}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. The Keystone Kop is the most basic monster of the [[Keystone Kop (monster class)|Keystone Kop]] [[monster class]].
 ==Generation==
-Keystone Kops are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always generated hostile. A Keystone Kop can [[grow up]] into a Kop Sergeant.
+Keystone Kops are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always generated hostile. A Keystone Kop can [[grow up]] into a [[Kop Sergeant]].
-Keystone Kops usually only appear if you have overtly stolen items from a [[shop]]: if you step outside but remain near the shop, one swarm is created around you; if you [[teleport]] a long distance away or leave the level, one swarm is created around the shopkeeper and another around the down stairs. If that [[shopkeeper]] is pacified, any live Kops vanish from the level along with their inventory, including any items they pick up. Each swarm of Kops includes DL + d5 ordinary Keystone Kops.
+The [[Tourist quest]] goal level generates five Keystone Kops in a "police station" room on the western half of the level at level creation.
-The [[Tourist quest]] goal level generates five Keystone Kops in a "police station" on the western half of the level at level creation.
+A Keystone Kop has a {{frac|3}} chance of being [[generated with]] a weapon that will be either a [[club]] or [[rubber hose]] with an equal probability of each, and a {{frac|4}} chance of generating with 3 to 4 [[cream pie]]s.{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|389|nethack=3.6.7}} Keystone Kops never generate with an [[offensive item]], [[defensive item]], [[miscellaneous item]], or [[gold]], and never leave [[death drop]]s.
-A Keystone Kop has a {{frac|3}} chance of [[Monster starting inventory|generating with]] either a [[club]] or [[rubber hose]] with an equal probability of each, and a {{frac|4}} chance of generating with 3 to 4 [[cream pie]]s.{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|389|nethack=3.6.7}} Keystone Kops never generate with an [[offensive item]], [[defensive item]], [[miscellaneous item]], or [[gold]], and never leave [[death drop]]s.
+==Strategy==
-Keystone Kops are valid forms for [[polymorph]], which is generally the only other means to encounter any of them outside of [[bones]]. They are also valid targets for [[genocide]], but cannot be rendered [[extinct]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|924|nethack=3.6.7|comment=<code>propagate</code> function never marks <code>G_NOGEN</code> monsters as extinct}}
+Keystone Kops are valid forms for [[polymorph]], which is generally the only other means to encounter any of them outside of [[bones]].
 ==History==
-The Keystone Kop first appears in [[NetHack 1.3d]] - from this version to [[NetHack 2.3e]], they appear using the {{white|K}} glyph in place of the kobold if the KOPS [[compile-time option]] is defined. In [[NetHack 3.0.0]], kobolds were moved to the {{white|k}} glyph, leaving the Keystone Kops and their newly-introduced stronger variants to occupy the {{white|K}} glyph if KOPS is defined.
+The Keystone Kop first appears in [[NetHack 1.3d]]&mdash;from this version to [[NetHack 2.3e]], they appear using the {{white|K}} glyph in place of the kobold if the <tt>KOPS</tt> [[compile-time option]] is defined. In [[NetHack 3.0.0]], kobolds were moved to the {{white|k}} glyph, leaving the Keystone Kops and their newly-introduced stronger variants to occupy the {{white|K}} glyph if <tt>KOPS</tt> is defined.
 ==Origin==
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 ==Variants==
-In variants that incorporate the [[Convict]] role, the locate level of the [[Convict quest]] generates four Keystone Kops at level creation.
+In variants that incorporate the [[Convict Role]] patch, the locate level of the [[Convict quest]] generates four Keystone Kops at level creation.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 ==History==
-The Keystone Kop first appears in [[NetHack 1.3d]] - from this version to [[NetHack 2.3e]], they would appear using the {{white|K}} glyph in place of the kobold if the KOPS [[compile-time option]] was defined. In [[NetHack 3.0.0]], kobolds were moved to the {{white|k}} glyph, leaving the Kesytone Kops and their stronger variants to occupy the {{white|K}} glyph if KOPS is defined.
+The Keystone Kop first appears in [[NetHack 1.3d]] - from this version to [[NetHack 2.3e]], they appear using the {{white|K}} glyph in place of the kobold if the KOPS [[compile-time option]] is defined. In [[NetHack 3.0.0]], kobolds were moved to the {{white|k}} glyph, leaving the Keystone Kops and their newly-introduced stronger variants to occupy the {{white|K}} glyph if KOPS is defined.
 ==Origin==

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 Keystone Kops are valid forms for [[polymorph]], which is generally the only other means to encounter any of them outside of [[bones]]. They are also valid targets for [[genocide]], but cannot be rendered [[extinct]].{{refsrc|src/makemon.c|924|nethack=3.6.7|comment=<code>propagate</code> function never marks <code>G_NOGEN</code> monsters as extinct}}
 ==Origin==
 {{wikipedia|Keystone Cops}}
 The [[wikipedia:Keystone Cops|Keystone Cops]] are an incompetent bunch of policemen featured in a series of films from 1912 to 1917.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==

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 ==Generation==
-Keystone Kops are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always generated hostile.
+Keystone Kops are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always generated hostile. A Keystone Kop can [[grow up]] into a Kop Sergeant.
 Keystone Kops usually only appear if you have overtly stolen items from a [[shop]]: if you step outside but remain near the shop, one swarm is created around you; if you [[teleport]] a long distance away or leave the level, one swarm is created around the shopkeeper and another around the down stairs. If that [[shopkeeper]] is pacified, any live Kops vanish from the level along with their inventory, including any items they pick up. Each swarm of Kops includes DL + d5 ordinary Keystone Kops.

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-A '''Keystone Kop''', {{monsym|Keystone Kop}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''.
+A '''Keystone Kop''', {{monsym|Keystone Kop}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''. It is the most basic monster in the [[Keystone Kop (monster class)|Keystone Kop]] [[monster class]], and possesses a single weapon attack.
 ==Encyclopedia entry==
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 ==References==
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+<references/>
 {{nethack-367}}
 [[Category:Monsters]]

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−	#~~REDIRECT~~ [[Keystone ~~Kop~~ (~~monster class~~)]]	+	{{monster
		+	\|name=Keystone Kop
		+	\|difficulty=3
		+	\|level=1
		+	\|experience=13
		+	\|speed=6
		+	\|AC=10
		+	\|MR=10
		+	\|align=9
		+	\|frequency=0
		+	\|genocidable=Yes
		+	\|attacks=Weapon 1d4
		+	\|weight=1450
		+	\|nutr=200
		+	\|size=Medium
		+	\|resistances=None
		+	\|resistances conveyed=None
		+	\|attributes={{attributes\|A Keystone Kop\|nogen=1\|lgroup=1\|humanoid=1\|human=1\|wander=1\|hostile=1\|male=1\|collect=1\|infravisible=1}}
		+	\|reference=[[monst.c#line1598]]
		+	}}
		+
		+	A '''Keystone Kop''', {{monsym\|Keystone Kop}}, is a type of [[monster]] that appears in ''[[NetHack]]''.
		+
		+	==Encyclopedia entry==
		+	{{encyclopedia\|
		+	The Kops are a brilliant concept. To take a gaggle of inept
		+	policemen and display them over and over again in a series of
		+	riotously funny physical punishments plays equally well to the
		+	peanut gallery and the expensive box seats. People hate cops.
		+	Even people who have never had anything to do with cops hate
		+	them. Of course, we count on them to keep order and to protect
		+	us when we need protecting, and we love them on television shows
		+	in which they have nerves of steel and hearts of gold, but in
		+	the abstract, as a nation, collectively we hate them. They are
		+	too much like high school principals. We're very happy to see
		+	their pants fall down, and they look good to us with pie on
		+	their faces. The Keystone Kops turn up--and they get punished
		+	for it, as they crash into each other, fall down, and suffer
		+	indignity after indignity. Here is pure movie satisfaction.
		+
		+	The Kops are very skillfully presented. The comic originality
		+	and timing in one of their chase scenes requires imagination
		+	to think up, talent to execute, understanding of the medium,
		+	and, of course, raw courage to perform. The Kops are madmen
		+	presented as incompetents, and they're madmen rushing around
		+	in modern machines. What's more, the machines they were operating
		+	in their routines were newly invented and not yet experienced
		+	by the average moviegoer. (In the early days of automobiles,
		+	it was reported that there were only two cars registered in all
		+	of Kansas City, and they ran into each other. There is both
		+	poetry and philosophy in this fact, but most of all, there is
		+	humor. Sennett got the humor.)
		+	\|[ Silent Stars, by Jeanine Basinger ]
		+	}}
		+
		+	==References==
		+	<references />
		+	{{stub}}
		+	{{nethack-367}}
		+	[[Category:Monsters]]