Sure they can. There's nothing in the rules that says they can't. (Man, if they couldn't ever be positioned diagonally, people would complain about double bases even more than they do now. )

Someone said that at a venue I play at also, I'm not sure where people are getting this from :/

hahaha.....You would be bomb-threat popular!

Yeah this happened to me too. I tried to show them that that was the whole point of the peanut shape that they could squeeze diagonally between characters but I guess they had never seen it before.

My post was meant as a joke, but I'll ask you how you would do the kb in this case. Say that I "targeted" C with the PW.

Obviously C would get placed in 1, but what about D? (Please provide rules to back up your stance. )

So to clarify:
Multi-based figures cannot be knocked back:
Peanut
Galactus Sized
2x2 Colossals


Now are Giants/colossals Knocked back? Figures like most Giants...and then what of Groot?


Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse my friend who's building a BL team wants to make sure

Normally, no, they would not be knocked back.

However, in this specific case with Nekron, the knock back is coming from Pulse wave... which ignores the combat abilities of the Giants and Colossals and, thus, they are no longer specifically protected against knock back by their combat abilities.

So a single based Giant or Colossal (like Groot) could indeed be knocked back by Nekron's PW (or anyone else's PW, if they roll doubles).

Excellent. Thank You O' Horseman of War!

Don't forget, as of the 1st of the month Nekron can PW while based

The closest that I could come up with is
Double based when moved must end with all its squares where it could legally move. This would make it where the tail end could be put in 1 of 5 squares.(Does not work because KB is no longer movement.)

I thought you could do better than that. Something with Fastball Special, perhaps?

How can he PW while based he doesn't have the sharp shooter trait? I'm just wondering if I missed something in the new rules for PW wording or something.

You did. It now explicitly says it can be used while based.

So when you say "a single based Giant or Colossal" I trust you indicate a character like the aforementioned Groot with a standard-sized base who's somehow gained the symbol will be knocked back because the knockback prevention is by virtue of combat abilities while a Sentinel— who has a Titan base (Are the 2x2s officially called that?)— would not be knocked back by virtue of the rules for its base size? Similarly, Atom Smasher (a single-based giant) would be knocked back while Devil Dinosaur & Moon Boy (a double-based giant) would not be?

That is correct.