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He doesn't have powers now, does he? He hasn't gone out on missions, except to rescue the Lost Legionnaires when they returned to Earth (well, he flew the ship), then he was transported to Titan with the others.
Apart from these two instances, I think he's been glued to his chair.
Gear is in the same never-never land - he's only been on one mission, I think - to the War World - but he too was taken with the rest of the group to Titan. And I would argue that his "power" is really a device, since it's all machine parts - unless one argues that they could never fail.
Actually, this whole "no device" rule is sort of silly - any of the super-powered legionnaires could be put out of action and endangered by breaking a leg (or something like that), except for M'onel.
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The confusion surrounding Chuck's status seems to rise from his inclusion on the mission monitor board, back around issue # 12 or so. It's unclear if DnA meant for him to be there, or if the artist (Coipel?) just drew him there.
The main argument against Chuck being a Legionnaire is tradition: Legionnaires have always had powers, no exceptions.
The main argument for him being a Legionnaire is his prominence in this series, albeit as a supporting character. He's just there a lot of the time, rather like Scotty.
I wouldn't be surprised if DnA haven't given it a lot of thought. They seem more interested in the "larger" stories (as has been discussed), and not the minutiae of who's an official Legionnaire. They use characters as they need them in the plot, and given how sparse their plots are, they just don't bother with the details of peripheral characters.
Which is why we need TWO titles a month!
Or different writers.
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