Do you guys know what superpositions are?
Superposition is a fundamental principle stating that a physical system can exist in a combination of multiple states or outcomes at the same time.
In storytelling, the intersection of a retcon and a superposition centers on the idea of multiple realities existing at the same time before a narrative definitively chooses one path.
In One Piece, when the Nika Fruit was determined, the story decided on a single path.
The confusion is that the idea of a Rubber Fruit already coexists alongside the qualities of Nika. If you consider the superposition, it's not a retcon, it's just the superposition collapsing.
A retcon (retroactive continuity) requires a narrative to break its own rules or explicitly erase its past. If Oda had said, "Luffy never actually had rubber powers, it was a hallucination, he was actually controlling plastic," that would be a retcon, but it's not what happened.
Superposition is a fundamental principle stating that a physical system can exist in a combination of multiple states or outcomes at the same time.
In storytelling, the intersection of a retcon and a superposition centers on the idea of multiple realities existing at the same time before a narrative definitively chooses one path.
In One Piece, when the Nika Fruit was determined, the story decided on a single path.
The confusion is that the idea of a Rubber Fruit already coexists alongside the qualities of Nika. If you consider the superposition, it's not a retcon, it's just the superposition collapsing.
A retcon (retroactive continuity) requires a narrative to break its own rules or explicitly erase its past. If Oda had said, "Luffy never actually had rubber powers, it was a hallucination, he was actually controlling plastic," that would be a retcon, but it's not what happened.
