It was Web of Spider-Man.

Agreed. The rule is clear when it comes to offical events, but in casual home games, should I ever get my cheapass hands on my precious Parallax, you had better believe he'll be possessing figures without click numbers!

Where has it been ruled this way?

Ever since we had the game effects that cared about click numbers. For example:

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showpo...21&postcount=2

Double points if you have Parallax possess the ConEx Parallax figure

Nothing prevents characters without click numbers from being assigned entities at force construction. HeroClix makes it a point to state dial information is hidden information, and characters are not turned to click one until after the tournament has begun. So, a player has no reasonable way of knowing whether or not a figure has click numbers (presuming the hidden information of the dial). Once the game is being setup, all characters are turned to their first clicks, per the rulebook, then presumably game effects that alter what click a character starts on take effect. At this moment, the player would notice he is unsure of what click to put the entity on. So, it would be left on its first click, because the direction to change its click number cannot be followed. Then play would begin.

Wait, there's a ConEx Parallax?!

Except for that's not how it works, sure.

Damn skippy.

There was back in 2006.

Yep, in Collateral Damage. Many of the fans who had been looking forward to the figure were upset that he didn't have Quinessence or RS (as he wouldn't have been so easily overwhelmed by OW or pushing damage and he charged in guns-a-blazin' in the comics). With the new one, he was much more like what he was in the comics... and when Nul's Hammer came out, it gave the old one a bit more of a comic-accurate style.

Wow. Really? A_B did someone hack you account?

This is so many types of wrong it is scary. If a figure does not have click numbers it cannot be assigned an entity. Period. You know when building your force if your figure had click numbers.

Further, every click is numbered even click 12. So you will always see if it is or not.

No one hacked it. How do I know when building my force which characters have click numbers? Also, where is that a listed requirement for assigning an entity?

Characters should not be on click 12 during force construction. Any dial information available on click 12 should not be referenced until during the game when the character is turned to click 12.

The above only applies after a tournament begins. Building your force and assigning an entity (or any other game element) to a character is (hopefully) happening before the beginning of a tournament at which point you can use whatever information you have available to you. If you can't look at your own character's dials when you build your force, how can you build a force to begin with? Do you just look at point costs and characters and say "That looks like fun. I don't know what they do, but I'll play it anyway."

So apparently a_b is also stating that when you build a team out of sealed boosters, you cannot look at the dials ...

Is that after the tournament begins? I would say so. So, yes, those dials are hidden information. At least, that's what I practice when I judge.