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There are quite a lot of posters who want to retire some older characters, but I think the large number of choices for Q2 (14) still ends up with the newbies and other already inactive Legionnaires "winning" the poll.
Harmonia 17 Chameleon Girl 11 Comet Queen 8 Glorith 8 Dragonwing 6 Mon-El 3 Ultra Boy 2 Sun Boy 2 Dawnstar 2 Gates 2 Cosmic Boy 1 Phantom Girl 1 Chameleon Boy 1 Brainiac 5 1 Timber Wolf 1 Wildfire 1 Invisible Kid II 1 Polar Boy 1 Chemical Kid 1 Star Boy 0 Shrinking Violet 0 Element Lad 0 Lightning Lass 0 Dream Girl 0 Shadow Lass 0 Tyroc 0 Tellus 0
So if we bump two, it'll be newbie Harmonia and "superfluous" Chameleon Girl - probably because she has the same powers as Chameleon Boy. Personally I don't agree, since I'd rather have two shapeshifters than a bunch of super-strong people.
Interesting to see who's most safe - Star Boy and Shrinking Violet have never been the most popular Legionnaires as far as I remember! I also thought Shadow Lass would get more votes to go home, since there have been some criticisms concerning her portrayal lately. Tyroc and Tellus, on the other hand, seem to be getting more popular. Ditto Lightning Lass (I wonder if her new relationship with Vi has anything to do with this?)
Harmonia 28 Dragonwing 27 Chameleon Girl 26 Glorith 24 Quislet 22 Night Girl 21 XS 21 Comet Queen 21 Matter-Eater Lad 19 Bouncing Boy 18 Chemical Kid 18 Lightning Lad 16 Colossal Boy 14 Tellus 14
Blok 12 Black Witch 11 Gates 11 Saturn Girl 10 Duplicate Damsel 9 Mon-El 9 Sensor Girl 8 Timber Wolf 8 Invisible Kid II 8 Cosmic Boy 7 Ultra Boy 7 Lightning Lass 7 Star Boy 6 Dawnstar 6 Polar Boy 6 Brainiac 5 5 Sun Boy 5 Shadow Lass 5 Phantom Girl 4 Chameleon Boy 4 Wildfire 4 Tyroc 3 Shrinking Violet 2 Element Lad 2 Dream Girl 1
Out of the 14 to be bumped off, only Tellus is neither a "new kid" nor a currently inactive Legionnaire - all the others have already retired from active duty. Maybe some of us still prefer Saturn Girl as the telepath?
Of the others who are still active as of now, Gates and Mon-El, then Timber Wolf and Invisible Kid II, then finally Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lass and Ultra Boy are next. I wonder if Ayla got more votes now because people picked between her and Garth - nobody voted her out in Question 1 when Garth wasn't among the choices.
On the other end of the scale, Dream Girl (!), Element Lad, Shrinking Violet, Tyroc, Wildfire, Chameleon Boy and Phantom Girl are at the top of the heap, and all of them did very well in Q1 too.