Hot take…the tin man’s story in the books is a rather messed up answer to the ship of Theseus problem

Like…his head survives…seems to have no conscious memory of life outside ku-klips cabinet. But is indignant and insistent on the fact that he and his tin counterpart are not and have never been the same person

They’re both individuals, have something of an individual life if you can call it that for flesh nick.

Like the answer if you apply the principle of the ship of Theseus to nick is very much a yesnt