The biggest changes Netflix made to Locke & Key

Probably the most intriguing part of the Locke & Key canon is its lineup of magical keys. Linked to the Lockes and their ancestral home, Keyhouse Manor, they’re the spark for the story’s magic, and there are, put simply, a whole heaping bunch of them, all with different abilities. As robust as the comic’s key collection was, however, the series wasn’t content to just mess with existing keys. Instead, the showrunners set out to craft a few of their own, with powers that played into elements only seen on-screen.

There is, for example, the Identity Key, which allows its user to alter their appearance. It’s actually a mash-up of two separate keys — the Skin Key and the Gender Key — from the source material. There’s also the Matchstick Key, which allows the user to start fires … so, okay, it’s a lighter, but a really fancy, magical lighter. Finally, the show offers up the Mirror Key, which opens a portal to “the Prison of the Self,” in which the demonic Dodge tries to trap Bode and his family.

Written by: Looper