From the PG, page 32, Team Dials:
"Add the following sentence between the fourth and fifth sentences of Force Construction : ―Team members must be distinct characters with distinct entries on the Asset Dial."
So there is now an explicit restriction.

Ah, thank you!

Thanks for explaining this clearly. I have always wondered about team bases but never asked about it. This has been very helpful so thank you.

Bumpity bump.

I've tried the PG and the search function, and I can't find the answer. When you remove a character for a Solo Adventure can they act immediately or must they wait for the next turn? If there's a thread or link that already explains this, hook me up.

Thank you!

They can act immediately.

As defined by the dictionary "distinct: unquestionably exceptional or notable". So distinct should just indicate they mean each team member had to have their asset ability on their card, something 'notable' that lets you know they correspond to their team base. I think you still can run the Justice League of 7 Aqaumen.

Only if you're deliberately misinterpreting the Player's Guide entry to be functionally meaningless... I mean, if you're looking at that definition you have to ignore the two others that make a lot more sense in context.

Can you push to put a member back on the base, and do they take damage? If there's already a thread about this, sorry and please direct me to it.

Not sure what you mean here. The action for both Solo Adventure and A Team Reunited are given to the Team, not the individual character. So you could send a member Solo on this turn and Reunite next turn, which would be two tokens on the Team: that will push the Team. If they can't ignore pushing damage then yes, it would damage them. Obviously you can't send someone Solo and then Reunite the same turn.

Ahh! I read it wrong and thought it was an action for the character you're putting back on, thanks for clearing it up!

How do you know I'm misinterpreting it? The dictionary I used listed more entries for "noteworthy distinct" and put those entries before the "different distinct" entries. I didn't ignore anything, I used the more common definition, as I determined from my life experience. I would also argue both definitions grammatically work equally as well as one another in context, so I don't see that point either.

Functionally meaningless? Not at all, it clarifies to me pieces like Gravity Feed Red Hood who is a SwitchClix figure with no team member asset icon must not actually be a member of the Red Hood and the Outlaws team base as many people had originally thought. That seems quite functionally meaningful to me.

We await your explanation about how 037a Deathstroke is distinct from 037a Deathstroke.

Until then, we'll continue to assume we can't fill the Titans: Villains for Hire team base with five 037a Deathstrokes because they aren't distinct from one another.

If you want to argue the semantics of this in conversation, go ahead. But I'm well aware that this question was asked prior to the the update, and that the answer was "multiples of the same character is not the intent", and then we got that PG entry. So I'm pretty confident I know what the rule actually is, and I have too high an opinion of your understanding to believe you think that entry is not intended to prevent multiples of the same character.

Well, considering after this players guide entry came out, I asked and the answer was still that the Justice Legue of Aquaman was a valid team, I had to assume the intent was as I said. I never thought Deathstroke was distinct from Deathstroke, but rather Deathstroke is distinct from non-Deathstroke characters, thus giving him the ability to be on a team base. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of rules threads, they get updated a lot, maybe I missed one where they overturned it, but I swear I posted immediately after reading the newest player's guide and MisterId confirmed a team base filled with multiples of the same member was still legal at that time. Let me see if I can go find it...

Well, one of us has clearly misunderstood. Now we need someone to tell us which.