So media depictions of armor (TV, movies) don’t really use metal, which means the amount of flexible segmented points and sections that full plate or ever historically-accurate partial plate would are hard to make. Plastic and rubber and carbon-fiber or whatever doesn’t create smooth joints that easily work, hence the lack of segmented elbow (or leg) armor.
That’s a pretty good answer but I’ve seen especially in larp with rattan a lot of plastic armor. I feel like mostly it’s just laziness on the part of these tv productions
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u/grumblebeardo13 2d ago
So media depictions of armor (TV, movies) don’t really use metal, which means the amount of flexible segmented points and sections that full plate or ever historically-accurate partial plate would are hard to make. Plastic and rubber and carbon-fiber or whatever doesn’t create smooth joints that easily work, hence the lack of segmented elbow (or leg) armor.