Clarification Needed: Homogeneous Object HP Calculation in Supers vs Basic Set

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zoncxs and sir pudding have it right. I would note, though, that in classic four-color comics, human beings are much harder to damage than inanimate objects (or trees, which are treated as if they were inanimate); effectively everything inanimate is much more breakable. So I'm not sure that what you're pointing at really is "counterintuitive."