Character cards are counted as cards in play along with ongoing, equipment, mechanical golem, and other non-one-shot hero cards. This question comes up with Miss Information's card "Explosion" in the Lab. That card says, "At the end of the villain turn, each player with 3 or more cards in play must destroy 1 of their cards." What it means in practice is that if you have 2 or more cards in play in addition to your character card, you must destroy one.
My hero only has two ongoing cards in play. Why does the game think there are three cards in play?
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