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NAMES & IDENTITIES
One of the basic traits of an Army Card is its name, listed beneath the publisher information at the top of the card. By default, a card's name is a card's identity. When creating your army, you cannot include two Unique or Event Army Cards that share an identity and a publisher, even if those two cards are otherwise different.

However, in C3G, many cards also have a secret identity, listed directly under their name. In these cases, when checking a card's identity, its secret identity is used instead of its name.

EXAMPLE: Your army currently contains a Unique Hero with the name Spider-Man and the secret identity Peter Parker. This Hero's identity is Peter Parker. This means you CAN include other cards with the name Spider-Man, as long as they have a different identity, such as Miles Morales. However, you CANNOT include other cards with the identity of Peter Parker, whether it's their name or their secret identity.

Crossover Symbol: Additionally, if the Crossover Symbol () is present near a card's identity, then you may draft it with other Unique Heroes that share an identity with it.

Common and Uncommon Identities: In rare cases, a Common or Uncommon card may share an identity with another card. While Common and Uncommon cards do have identities, they do not restrict what can be included in your army, and can be included without checking their identities against other cards.

When using the figures included in the The Conflict Begins Game Set, the following is true:
- Captain America (1/10) has the secret identity of Steve Rogers
- Incredible Hulk (2/10) has the secret identity of Bruce Banner
- Iron Man (3/10) has the secret identity of Tony Stark
- Spider-Man (4/10) has the secret identity of Peter Parker
- Silver Surfer (5/10) has the secret identity of Norrin Radd
- Abomination (6/10) has the secret identity of Emil Blonsky
- Thanos (7/10) has no secret identity
- Venom (8/10) has the secret identity of Eddie Brock
- Red Skull (9/10) has the secret identity of Johann Schmidt
- Doctor Doom (10/10) has the secret identity of Victor von Doom

Old Rules:

Spoiler Alert!

SECRET IDENTITIES (SUB TITLES)
When you look at a C3G card for the first time, you might notice a few differences between it and an official Marvel Heroscape card. One of those is the “subtitle” or the “title below the title.” These are, more or less, secret identities and they have a very specific game use.

In the official rules for Heroscape, you’re not allowed to have two Unique Heroes with the same name in your army at the same time. This rule prevents, for instance, a player from fielding both the 80-point Rise of the Valkyrie Raelin and the 120-point Swarm of the Marro Raelin simultaneously. This system works great as long as no two characters have the same name.

Enter the comic book universe! No sooner do you get to the Green Lantern Corps than you start to understand why this rule is problematic when it comes to Superheroes. What if you want Flash (Barry Allen) to fight alongside Flash (Wally West)? Well as long as both of them only have the names Flash or all your Green Lantern Corps members only have the name Green Lantern, you’re in trouble.

That’s why we introduced the character subtitles. These distinguish Batman as Bruce Wayne or as Dick Grayson, so that you can play both at once. Subtitles are considered an extension of the character name, so you’re never drafting just “Superman” into your army, you’re drafting “Superman (Kal-El)", or perhaps "Superman (Kal-L)".

So the C3G rule on subtitles is: If two Unique or Event Army Cards have the same name, and different subtitles, they are considered different units and can be in the same army at the same time. However, if the subtitle of one army card is the same as the subtitle of another Army Card or the same as the name of an Army Card without a subtitle, follow the official rule. The two cards cannot be in the same army at the same time. EXAMPLE: An army is not allowed to have one Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and one Peter Parker, but is allowed to have both a Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and a Spider-Man (Miles Morales).

If two Unique or Event Army Cards have the same name, and one has a subtitle but the other does not, the two cards may be drafted into the same army. EXAMPLE: Star Sapphire (Carol Ferris) may be drafted into the same army as one or more Uncommon Star Sapphires, because the Uncommon Star Sapphires do not have a subtitle.

If two Unique or Event Army Cards have the same name, and no subtitles, follow the official rule. The two cards cannot be in the same army at the same time. EXAMPLE: Each army is allowed to have only one Annihilus, because he is a Unique Hero and he does not have a subtitle.

If two Unique or Event Army Cards have the same name, and different subtitles, they are considered different units and can be in the same army at the same time. EXAMPLE: Each army is allowed to have one Black Widow (Yelena Belova) and one Black Widow (Natalia Romanova) because their subtitles are different from one another.

Hopefully this will not only pepper a bit more theme into your games but also keep your army options as open and exciting as they should be in the world of SuperHeroscape!