EXTENSION OF MYSELF: Living Hair has the printed combat values, and can use the standard powers, displayed on the dial of the character that generated it. Protected: Pulse Wave.

Simple question: when living hair uses the combat values of it's origin character, are those values considered replacements?

Surprised we don't have an answer on this yet. I submitted it to WIN last week so hopefully we'll see something.

I think they are because the hair's stats change are are continually replaced when Medusa's dial changes. Also, since ??? are not stats and they tell you to use X instead, I say so.

I'll definitely have to check back.

I dunno, as much as WK/NECA is hung-up on exact verbiage this may NOT be an instance of Replacement: the Hair uses Red's stats, they are not replacing the Hair's stats.....

Keep in mind that something like "Energy Explosion with a range of 5" is still a replacement value, even though it doesn't use the word "replace".

When Living Hair gets KO'd, do we call him "Split Hair"? booooooo.

This. I think back when triplicate girl was a thing, the GF version had a similar setup and I think hers could be modified.

Triplicate girl said you replace the Bystander's stats with hers.

Regardless, what does modification have anything to do with it? Any combat value can be modified, whether it is printed or replaced.

They shouldn't be considered Replacement Values, simply because the Hair itself doesn't have any actual values on it's own. That can get very problematic.

And this is where I'm stuck. One could make the argument that a question mark is a value, just not a numerical value, if we're splitting hairs...

One could try to make that argument, I guess. But they'd be wrong. Values require a number to be used during calculations.

Pulse Wave uses a characters printed Defense. If you PW the Hair, what value do you check against the attack roll? You can't compare "?" to an attack total.

Well they are protected from pulse wave lol

If the values are replacements, then Vicki Vale could create some problematic interactions:

No, they're not. The trait is. PW still uses their printed Defense. Their printed Defense is "?".

Wow, I never thought of that. Why did they even add that to Pulse Wave? Shutting down powers should be enough.