Another random work tidbit.

[silveradept]

This passed through my head while at work, while thinking about superhero shows as compared to, say, RPGs, tile-based strategy games, and others - ever notice how the heroes of Super Sentai/Kamen Rider/Power Rangers shows don't have to go through a tutorial? They know how to use their powers, their changer devices, and their mecha without having a learning curve or any sort of uncertain period (or if they do, it's probably limited to one episode). Some of these shows get away with it by starting in medias res, so we have no idea whether they had to do all that learning beforehand, but even those who come across their power item have an abnormally fast mastery scale, either knowing it all immediately or being able to pick it up quickly.

Thus, the question - what gives? How do these people know/learn that fast, and thus only suffer setbacks when The Plot demands it?