My own take of superhero-world technology is that the really fancy stuff is so time and labor intensive to build and maintain that it's not impossible to make it for a mass market, but it'd require so much effort to keep it running that it's far more cost effective to stick with the old equipment.
That and some of the super-tech is so darn bizarre nobody can figure it out but the creator. And he can't explain it in ways that make it easier for others to build it. I.e., And besides, why should he? If Doctor Crimson is the only man who knows how to make and use the Dynatron, which can grant superpowers to anyone, that makes him someone to be treated with respect and awe (and kidnapped again and again so he can make metahumans for this government or that criminal organization). If anyone could build one, he's a nobody.
A lot of technology is too expensive at first, but they are able to work it down.
Besides, Doctor Crimson's big problem would be someone else making a Dynatron. Technology is like that.
In *Wearing The Cape*, the solution is that, for the Verne type, it may look like technology, but it works like any other power. The Dynatron, for all its gears and metal, is really the same thing as the magical amulet of the Merlin-type.
My own take of superhero-world technology is that the really fancy stuff is so time and labor intensive to build and maintain that it's not impossible to make it for a mass market, but it'd require so much effort to keep it running that it's far more cost effective to stick with the old equipment.
That and some of the super-tech is so darn bizarre nobody can figure it out but the creator. And he can't explain it in ways that make it easier for others to build it. I.e., And besides, why should he? If Doctor Crimson is the only man who knows how to make and use the Dynatron, which can grant superpowers to anyone, that makes him someone to be treated with respect and awe (and kidnapped again and again so he can make metahumans for this government or that criminal organization). If anyone could build one, he's a nobody.
A lot of technology is too expensive at first, but they are able to work it down.
Besides, Doctor Crimson's big problem would be someone else making a Dynatron. Technology is like that.
In *Wearing The Cape*, the solution is that, for the Verne type, it may look like technology, but it works like any other power. The Dynatron, for all its gears and metal, is really the same thing as the magical amulet of the Merlin-type.