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===PseudoHeisenberg's Literary Uncertainty Principle ===

The Uncertainty Principle refers to the concept that one cannot know the location and velocity of an off-focus character at the same time. "Off-focus" means that the narration or "camera" of a canon moves away from that character at a certain point. What this does is that it allows for respawns of background characters in a canon. "Nameless" characters and seeming "redshirts" are recruited this way. As a result, the application of this principle with regards to recruitment, makes asking what is real or not in MetaEarth's multiverse a subject of debate. For some, the principle creates a moot point with the fictional nature of characters.

A corollary to this principle is that other characters in a canon, even up to a main character at times, can be subject to recruitment. "Death" in a canon is almost equal to a character's removal from it. Hence, recruiting a character and staging his death as canon dictates, is fair game. If a character dies permanently off-screen, then the recruitment of that character at the point where the canon goes off-focus, or the death is staged according to canon, will not be destabilizing either.

''WARNING: This theory has its own unforeseen shortcomings.''