I was looking at the back of the cards and I noticed they don't have the qualifying name box things on the back. Can they even split and merge?

Nope. No Qualifying Names, no Split and/or Merge.

To quote the rules in question:

Split
Merge
Both do specifically refer to qualifying character. I never realized that - I always thought that if the names matched the title (ie: a "Joker" and "Lex Luthor") they could split/merge. That doesn't seem to be the case though.

this will most likely be errata'ed

Same thing with the world's finest.

Curious if this was
A) an intentional design choice for balance considering the plethora of split-merge options either duo would be capable of
B) a total accident on WK's part
or
C) They plan on changing/simplifying the rules for split/merge and we'll be able to use it like JaguarPhD mentioned with the names in the title once this mythical new rulebook hits in 2017

So who wants to bet they are getting rid of split/merge all together? Otherwise you would think someone would have caught that it was missing from both cards.

I've used split/merge in the past to win a prettyimportant tournament round by healing then re merging but I wouldn't be butthurt if they got rid of the mechanic all together for simplicity.

Reminds me: neither Lead & Tin nor Will Magnus & Platinum were given split/merge information as well during the first pass of that.

Is this true?

This CANT be real, right?

Those figures preceded the Split/Merge mechanic by about 4 years.

When the Split/Merge-mechanic was introduced a lot of duos were errated to have the qualifying names table in the Player's Guide. The Metal Men duos did not get this errata.

This was because there were no single figures that those duos could Split into, so it was decided to not waste PG space with entries that served no functional purpose.

And yet we got one for Thor's Mighty Chariot...

One of the qualifying names is Thor/Thor Odinson. So you can always Split the 500 point Chariot into a big beastly Thor, if needed. Merging will be pretty tricky, though


Plus, Goats > Robots

Bingo. At least until we get Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder as separate characters. They might be chases in the Pet Avengers set...
My personal favorite is still Larry and Mike though.