That's what I thought it was, but I wanted to confirm because the LOF for the attack had crossed hindering and AoE is confusing enough that I wanted to verify. Thanks, all!

Didn't the preview article imply pw did not target? This would nit be the first time an article flubbed a rule.

Doesn't matter what the article implies. Pulse Wave targets.

I'm not sure how that could be implied... "Once he’s in a good position, he can unleash the potent combo of Running Shot and Pulse Wave. He’ll lose his Subterfuge token, but he should hopefully have dealt some good damage to the opponent’s force."

"RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES: Lex Luthor begins the game with a Subterfuge token on his card. When Lex Luthor has a Subterfuge token on his card, opposing characters can only target him if they began the turn adjacent to him. When Lex Luthor targets an opposing character with an attack, remove all Subterfuge tokens from his card."

At the beginning of the turn, would an opponent be able to use Sidestep (or some other free action movement/placement) to move next to Lex and count as beginning the turn adjacent to Lex for the remainder of the turn?

I'm betting the answer would be no.

I would agree with Harpua. Even though they became adjacent during the beginning of the turn, they did not begin the turn adjacent.

I'm guessing that someone with Pulse Wave would ignore the Subterfuge token even if they were not adjacent to Lex. Is that correct?

So, if lex pulse waves, does he lose the token?

Pulsewave would ignore his trait.

If he uses Pulsewave he will lose his token.

Pulse Wave used to have a line that said it did NOT target. But I think that went by the wayside when the Area of Effect wording was added, if not earlier.

Right. Pulsewave does target. It draws lines of fire and anything with a line of fire drawn to it is a target. But when it comes to Pulsewave, it ignores the traits and powers of characters it draws a line of fire to. So, you activate Pulsewave, it draws a line of fire to Lex, Lex says you can't target me, Pulsewave says too late, I'm ignoring all your crap.

It was earlier, with the 2011 rules update.

2012 I think. It was right after I put together my team of ffjl003 Batmans

Dude... that's just evil. So with the old PW rules, he couldn't even be PW'd and all you could do was punch him? Whew!