Sorry if this is a silly question, but it just dawned on me.

Perplex can be used to increase Range by 1. So, can a figure with 0 range, like the Abomination, be given a 1 Range?

The application of this could be scary...

Yes. Yes you can....

So if a dude with 0 range gets perplexed up like 8 times or something, do the perplexers fashion a bow and arrow from nothing and hand it to him? How does this make sense. The guy has no range ability.

Think of it as him ripping up a chunk of rubble and throwing it, or clapping his hands together to create a shockwave.

You know...comic book stuff!

PERPLEX. By behaving in a misleading or unpredictable fashion, this character makes opponents less effective in combat. (Optional)

I'll accept your word, but it still seems that adding range to a guy who doesn't have range is not very subtle and I can't imagine how you can add range to a guy by being misleading or unpredictable. Maybe omnipotent.

But isn't "one range" technically still the square right next to the character? The way range is counted, "one" would still be right next to him. We aren't supposed to count squares "Zero, one, two, three....." .

Or are we?

Yeah. 1 is adjacent.

Just means you would need multiple perplexes.

The one case where it can be effective is if you have a figure like thing at the base of a building. Perplex his range up to 1 and he can attack someone that is evelated on that building.

Or if you wanted to range attack a Soaring figure occupying an adjacent square.

0 range
perplexed to 1
halved due to soaring
rounded up (like everything in clix) to 1

Take that soarer! Thought you were safe for the rest of the game just because I didn't have range, huh? *ahem* sorry.

Kid Zemo

Remember - B/C/F is considered a close combat (adjacent) attack, so you can't perplex range, and then roll a 6 (as nice as that would be...)

I actually had this done to me the other day. I was hiding on hindering, blocking terrain with Doc Samson and Green Goblin. My opponent did not have Leap/Climb and could not attack either one of those guys because they could not get adjacency. Beast perplexed up his range to one and smacked Goblin a good one. That was game for me.

I thought I was safe, but when my opponent (who was a young 'un) did that I burst out and said "Good show!" That was an excellent maneuver on his part.

I like to think that the con artists short skirts confuse people into thinking that their arms are suddenly 50 feet long.

docx---when you say you were on hindering blocking terrain, are you referring to the AC units? Because those are not in and of themselves hindering terrin.

And my favorite Perplex example involves Harley Quinn and a boxing-glove-gun.

Please ignore the "flavour" text of the powers. It's often perplexing itself, and sometimes downright wrong (up to 4 squares of Barrier, for example).