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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9595264" data-attributes="member: 18">It's unrealistic in a way that's more damaging, more likely to pull the audience out of the movie, though, that's kind of the issue. You have to keep the whole issue off-screen, because the average mildly intelligent person today knows that's complete nonsense, that there's no such thing as technology only one individual could replicate. We all know if you had the plans and full details of how it was manufactured, anyone with the money/equipment could do it. Whereas none of us know how magic works, or telepathy or whatever, because they're more fundamentally unreal than technology, so they don't tend to cause the same problem.I feel like that understanding of technology as completely replicable was a less common/prevalent, say, 50 or 60 years ago, before we were fully in the information age, when a lot of these characters and their equipment got conceptualized.Honestly I think Marvel and to a lesser extent DC's universes beyond the heroes just aren't well-conceptualized, and this is kind of problematic for the TV shows more than the movies.This is partly why Marvel has sort of leant in to "unobtainium"-type materials as the excuse, because that's an easy one - if the materials needed for a super-suit or w/e are basically extremely hard to obtain, it explains why such things might be very rare AND why governments might not be able to field them.</blockquote>