With characters that use HSS, are you able to move and attack repeatedly? Like, when you use HSS are you able to move into contact, make an attack, break away, move back, make another attack, etc etc. If not, then why is HSS so great? It just seems like Bound and Running Shot put into one ability.

You are allowed one attack during the action that activates HSS (unless a Trait or Special Power says other wise...see Zoom for an example).

What makes HSS so good is the ability to move in, attack and then back out of retalitory range...optimally speaking.

Hyper Sonic Speed allows you to move your full movement, during that movement you can make 1 attack (ranged or close) in which you can continue your movement. It allows for automatic break away. There are plenty of advantages when using this power, just like any other.

it is so good because you don;t have to stop next to your opponant and then make an attack. You can move after the attack. HSS breaks two or three rules in this game. Running Shot and Charge only break one.

Always good to go back and re-read the power in question because usually you can find the answer in the wording of the power. Sometimes folks can get confused with the definitions of attacks/actions/free actions/power actions though.

Can a character with HSS and Super Strength use an object during the Close Combat attack or throw the object as part of a ranged attack?

close, yes
ranged, no

2011 rules, page 19
To throw an object, give the character a ranged combat action and make a ranged combat attack, even if its range value is 0.

BTW remeber if your item is continual if you make a close combat attack with your HSS you MUST drop it and then pick it back up after that attack.

1. Continual does NOT mean that an object is not destroyed when used in an attack. In fact, it is no longer a rules term. When it was a rules term, it meant the object continued to function while being held.

2. If you are making a close combat attack with the Dumpster or the Generator, which work as you described, those objects are used in the attack, then placed in a square adjacent to the target. You MAY pick them back up in the same action (you don't have to).

ok is Option #2 for HSS (as per the Legion of Superheros Powers and Abilities card) still viable in the rules? i havent seen it mentioned in later/more recent rulesets.

That's because there no longer is an option 2. It was removed a while ago.

ok good to know

I miss HSS option 2. I really needed it the other day and it wasn't there for me, so I lost!

never tried using option 2 really, just option 1 for hit and run attacks.
may have to try using 2 sometime, in a friendly game where its agreed upon of course

<remembers the days of option 2 with no rule of 3 and perplexing Flash's attack to 25 to have him KO Supes turn 1>