I was reading a thread on Pulse Wave and noticed that all the characters hit by the pulsewave are considered "targets" of the attack and are dealt bonus damage on a crit hit. I was wondering if this would extend to energy explosion as well, and if doubles would trigger the Guardians of the Globe TA on splash damage?

From the Indy E&C:

Guardians of the Globe
• Attacks that deal no or zero damage (Mind Control, Incapacitate, Telekinesis, etc.) to a target character will still give the character an action token if doubles are rolled.
• If a character with Guardians of the Globe makes a successful attack with Incapacitate and rolls doubles, any target characters with no tokens on it will be given two tokens, one from the Incapacitate attack and one from the team ability. The two tokens will cause the character to push.
• If a character with Guardians of the Globe makes a successful attack with Quake and rolls doubles, the target characters are not knocked back but are given an action token instead.
• If a character with Guardians of the Globe makes a successful attack with Energy Explosion and rolls doubles, only the target character(s) would be given a token. Any adjacent characters that take splash damage would be knocked back normally as they are not the target(s) of the attack.
• Guardians of the Globe may not be used with Pulse Wave, as Pulse Wave does not target characters.
• Guardians of the Globe will affect colossal characters.

Basically, the difference comes down to the use of 'target' (verb versus noun). It can get a little confusing sometimes, but hey, that's what we're here for

Thanks for the info. Pretty cool that you could do a double token incap with the power.