So it would have been much clearer if the power said:


Hulk: Hulk ignores all damage dealt to him unless it is dealt by an attack and the attack roll is doubles, but not a critical miss or is Unavoidable damage.

Ignore all damage is so 'concrete' in wording it doesn't make 'logical' sense that there is an exception - which is why this will always be a question.

IDK, I think "Unavoidable Damage is damage dealt that can't be [...] ignored" is equally concrete.
You're right that explicitly saying that he can't ignore unavoidable would be clearer (and probably for the best), but it would also be redundant, which bothers a whole other set of people.

There's a gazillion reminders that are *IN* the rules that would be found to be extremely useful to have around. It has two problems:
1) people think that "reminder" is special to JUST that case, and don't know to use it all the time.
2) it takes up a lot of space and effort.
The Magic designers had numerous discussions about this very thing, every time there was any significant change, or when a new element was introduced 9which was just about every major set). How much reminding do you do, and at what point do you just hope enough people know the d@mn rules well enough that it doesnt cause a revolt when something either is/is not "reminded" or explained, as either has just as much chance to irritate signicant portions of the collcetors/players/fanbase.

The difference I see is with Hulk's SP its on the card, in the game, in the moment, and says the definitive "ignores all damage dealt to him unless..."

I agree the unavoidable damage is clear - but its in the rulebook rather than in front of player's faces and I think this kind of wording ignores the more casual side of HeroClix which dominates the game.

Players with a mind for the rules or are constantly combing over this forum will have no problem with recalling the rulebook when they read a power that says "ignores all damage unless..." but WK has made an effort to reach out to new players of who those kinds of "rulings" can certainly frustrate.

So, I agree with what you are saying, overall. I just think its better for 2-3 deputies to say, "That was redundant" over 20-30 players saying, "But it says 'ignores ALL damage UNLESS...'.

Each one of those 20-30 people are going to ask that one time, though. You want to condemn the deputies to post that answer 20-30 times each.

You, sir, are evil.

Of course, Magic has a solution to this problem, also used by every other collectible game I have ever played: Printing the reminder text so it stands out from the rules text. An italicized parenthetical "(Unavoidable damage cannot be ignored.) would go a long way to warning people to watch out for this issue.