When building your team do equipped characters have to also share a keyword in order to qualify for a themed team?
For instance if I put Braniac on Wolverine will he break an X-Men theme team if all other characters have X-Men keyword?

Equipped items are not characters.

So equipped characters dont break a theme team?

In general, a game element that is equipped to another character is still whatever the game element normally is (Relic, Resource Attachment, Special Object, etc.). The exception is with characters that become equipped items. A character that becomes equipped to another character is no longer considered a character on your force or for any game effects that refer to “characters”. Other than any effects they provide as an equipped item, they would no longer be able to use any of their other powers or abilities. They would, however, be affected by effects that refer to equipped items. Using Eclipso again as an example, if you choose to pay his 25 point cost during construction to equip him to a standard character on your force, he would not count as a character for any other parts of force construction, or later for any game effect that affects “friendly characters”, etc. This means his keywords would not apply to Themed Teams, he could not be assigned ATA’s, he would not count towards your initiative roll, etc.

Read more: http://heroclix.com/design-insight/d...#ixzz4CQp84NBH

-J

Equipped characters are considered to be items so they niether make or break theme.

long standing ruling by WK (to destroy the "entity" theme team problem with WoL) is that equipped characters are not "characters on your force" and thus are not counted for theme team purposes.

At all.

Whether or not they share keywords with the rest of your force.

emphasis added

Thanx I couldnt remember but knew the Entities caused some kinda change.