If the hero shares their technology, magic, discoveries, or other advantages with the world, they'll cease to be uniquely special. As well, it could very easily be that the technology itself has some limitations, as "It can do anything you can imagine." is quite a bold statement for anyone to make. In the case of Star Trek, there were tons of things the replicators and transporters should have been able to do which would have ruined the plot of half the episodes, necessitating a lot of Holding Back the Phlebotinum to maintain drama. If the super science or magic can literally do anything, then there's no reason the heroes can't just figure out a creative way to get them out of any jam. To ensure that there's some level of drama in the story.Here's a video of late Marvel editor-in-chief Mark Gruenwald explaining the reasons for this in some depth. This is particularly common in comic books, where major modifications to the world are only done to fictional locations, and often only to current levels of technology.
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Unlike, say, Star Trek or The Lord of the Rings, one of the key draws of the series is that it could take place right outside the reader's window, which is lost if you make the fictional world too fantastic in comparison. This is particularly common in an Urban Fantasy, superhero, or other series whose setting is superficially similar to the real world. To keep the world similar to the real world.There are several typical motivations for this: It's the same reason you can't stop Hitler from starting World War II. Status Quo Is God, and the status quo of the real world even more so. All potential solutions to real-life problems will only be done in novel (fictional) situations-useless. And a supergenius (such as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four) can save the life of starving demi-god beings like Galactus, but will never take a weekend to duplicate and market Doctor Doom's burn-victim cure device or release his inventions that could solve a variety of real-world problems (and earn their creator millions of dollars). A person who can control water will never douse bush fires or burning buildings, or get a job at a power station. The observation that in some genres, characters can have fantastic technology far beyond our own, yet this technology only gets used to solve equally fantastic problems.Ī person who controls weather will never make it rain in drought-stricken areas, or stop the rain during terrible flooding, or stop a heatwave.
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