Yea, I immediately noticed that in "Scooby Gamers" fanfic. In the same pattern is moving a legend to a more modern setting without actually taking into account the improvement of inventions. I'm sorry, but Zorro was barely believable with muzzle loading weapon, it just isn't believable when most of his enemies have revolvers and other repeating weapons.
Even relatively modern comic book characters can really run into problems especially when they move the origin story forward in time and essentially retell all the stories in a ?modern? setting. I"ve seen this fail especially badly in Superman fanfics, where Clark currently acting as Superman and putting out a fire in California has "Clark's" cell phone in his cape and when it's "ultrasonic" ring tone goes off he ducks into a cloud at 15,000 feet and takes the call as Clark. How long do they think Superman's secret identity will last when Clark's cell phone is constantly pinging cell phone towers all across the United States at what can only be hypersonic speeds.
hmelton
Even relatively modern comic book characters can really run into problems especially when they move the origin story forward in time and essentially retell all the stories in a ?modern? setting. I"ve seen this fail especially badly in Superman fanfics, where Clark currently acting as Superman and putting out a fire in California has "Clark's" cell phone in his cape and when it's "ultrasonic" ring tone goes off he ducks into a cloud at 15,000 feet and takes the call as Clark. How long do they think Superman's secret identity will last when Clark's cell phone is constantly pinging cell phone towers all across the United States at what can only be hypersonic speeds.
hmelton