-mpng is the incantation for multi-PNG , for the image that is not one image but a stack of ghosts— frames of an animation that never played, layers of a god who could not decide which world to flatten.
You see the compression scars. You see where the algorithm chose economy over fidelity. You see the moment the file chose to forget. xtool -mpng reflate
You invoke: xtool -mpng reflate shattered_dream.png -mpng is the incantation for multi-PNG , for