This seems a bit premature. The main book has barely even gone anywhere yet. I do realize it will be 5-6 months/issues for the voting to affect any change in lineups, but at the same time, I'm eyerolling a bit. Unless they're just replacing a single cast member or two, not a whole "everyone but Scott and Jean changes" thing. At any rate, I hope Gambit is saved from being background filler in the book he's actually a cast member of. He deserves more.
I remember thinking that the plan was to change the team after every vote. When searching all I found was a quote from Duggan that says: ( "The interesting way we're gonna do this from now on is, we'll have a yearly Hellfire Gala with a newly elected team," Duggan stated, hesitating slightly "...perhaps.”.) So I can’t find any confirmation on pretty much anything.
If one member is voted in it makes sense if at least one leaves. Duggan can pick anyone he wants since with the exception of Polaris he picked the team and probably has a 12 issue run planned for said character.
It would be fun if the voted in character is the one that leaves. Sort of fair and easy to keep track off. Though I doubt anyone wants Polaris to leave as the title is now.
This voting system would be so much more fun if Marvel didn’t pick the choices the way they did last time.
Imagine how wild that could be. And smart for marketing, because you just know a group of people will gather enough people to vote in a meme candidate like Beak. The media makes tons of articles about it ala Boaty McBoatface, and all eyes are on the book to see how it works out. Imagine Beak wins and ends up driving up the sales for a couple of issues.
Its kind of annoying that people are picking well known xmen that are already appearing else where or heavily featured in other books. Give me characters that need some development:
Wind Dancer
Hellion
Surge
Magma
Skin
Avalanche
Blink
I'm rooting for Wind Dancer and/or Monet
Is it true we are getting a 2nd team? One led by Scott, and the other Jean? I’d like to see more members make the cut from younger generations (New Mutants, Gen X, Morrison era, etc).. also more diversity.
I don’t know who is eligible but I’d like to see a main team with:
1. Dani Moonstar and her Pegasus
2. Chamber
3. Monet
4. Surge
5. Shard
6. Darwin
What if Madelyne joins Scott’s team and Vulcan joins Jean’s team? I want to see sparks fly and drama commence!
I hope this vote has more characters on an equal playing field -- Polaris (and a few others) were way higher profile on the first poll. Someone like Tempo was never winning. I don't need the characters to be Tempo-level necessarily, but I want to see all characters be of the same general status as each other, whether that's a bunch of famous characters or a bunch of obscure characters.
I've not heard that anywhere.
Alpha Team: Scott (earth team)
Rouge
Polaris
Laura
Chamber or darwin
Omega Team: Jean (space team)
Synch
Sunfire
Vulcan or Adam X
Magma or Firestar
Nothing has been confirmed but there is some speculation that this may happen because in X-Men issue three Scott and Jean discussed splitting the team with some members staying on earth and some going into space.
This might be a temporary spit and the team get back together as soon as possible or it might lead to a spin-off book.