Since I had my poll hit it's 200th vote mark a few days ago. Thanks by the way, you made this poll 100xs more active than my 09-10 poll. Hopefully next June's will be even more active. ANYWAYS, I just decided to write up a summery of my findings, I hope it's a fun read for you guys.
Shortiecanbraw's Poll Findings
[COLLAPSE="here"]Mario: Bowser Jr. and Toad are extremely close in votes to Mario and the rest of the veterans. We then have Paper Mario coming in with about half as many votes as Mario himself. After that characters like Fawful, Daisy, and Waluigi come in with a fourth of the votes the veterans have. Doc comes in with about a third. Overall, Toad and Bowser Jr. are in the lead, and my personal choices for the Mario Franchise.
Donkey Kong: Is an interesting poll, the series has three options for Diddy and Dixie. You can choose for them alone or paired. So far Dixie alone is the most wanted choice out of those three. But K. Rool beats her, and comes in with more votes than Diddy. Funky comes in with even less votes than Dixie. Overall, K. Rool is the only likely choice from this poll. (Note: Tiki's were not on the poll.)
The Legend Of Zelda: Really is a jumbled mess. There is a lot of votes going towards a lot of characters. One thing is for sure though, A new Ganon has more voted than old Ganon. Midna and Wolf Link along with Tetra/Toon Zelda have about half the votes that Zelda has. They come in with the most votes, short behind are Skull Kid, Vaati, and Young Link. Unfortunetly Gharahim is very behind. Overall, this is a total toss up. Tingle doesn't even have that many votes.
Metroid: Has a pretty clear path. Ridley. Next, with half the votes of Ridley, and a third of the Votes as Samus/ZSS is Dark Samus. Anthony Higgs, and Sylux. Bring in the rear with less than twenty votes. Overall, I would say it's Ridley we want.
Yoshi: Is pretty simple IMO. He doesn't deserve another representative at the moment. Kamek and Baby Bros are the only two mentionalbes. Shiro, Baby Bowser, and Baby Weilding Yoshi are in the tens of votes. Overall, I wouldn't suggest another character. But if I had to, I would give it to Kamek.
Kirby: Harbors Gooey, who I am in love with. But he has. . . six votes. . . I would assume his lack of relivance and star studded sequals is to blame. Epic Yarn proves nothing is really epic about it. It's greatest contenders war Yarn Kirby and Prince Fulff himself. Unfortunetly they are about another nine tenths to get themselves up to par with Kirby himself. The demand is pretty low for Kirby characters. Poor Gooey. Overall, I suggest no characters from Kirby. But if one must come out of this. . I suppose Prince Fluff will do.
StarFox: Has nothing out of the ordinary to report. Simply that popularity wise, Wolf isn't defending his spot very well. Krystal is twenty votes behind him. She is only thirty votes behind Falco. Overall, it's plain to see that Slippy, Peppy, Panther and Leon were beat out by Krystal. Who gets my full support.
F-Zero: Has true lack of fans who took this poll. Samurai Goroh only managed to land less than half the votes of Falcon. Black Shadow has about third of the votes, and the fourth character is only besting the rest with a score of 16! That is Blood Falcon. I would say Black shadow and Samurai Goroh are two decent contenders. Sorry, Jody Summers
Mother: Also suffers on the whole newcomers idea. Claus and Masked Man have terrible polls when compared to Ness and Lucas. Even Porky has a lack of votes. It seems all the Mother fans couldn't convince one another to all vote for the same person. A lot of character have votes, heck all of them are voted on. Too bad their are a lot of characters to choose from. Overall, this is a dim pool.Masked Man/Claus is going to pull a Sheik on this one.
Fire Emblem: Is to an extent in the sam boat as Mother. They have Roy and Lyn. Roy has two thirds the amount of votes that Marth has. While Lyn has a little over one third. Micaiah, Black Knight, and Caeda all have decent polls, but nothing special. SO, Overall, I would say Roy and Lyn are two candidates.
Kid Icarus: Is out of date. Because of the major overhall of characters, this isn't the best poll for it. With that in mind, Pit has a decent amount of votes asking for an Uprising make over. Which, IMO is likely. Medusa really is lacking a lot of votes. I expected more for her. Palutena is even beating her! With all of this in mind, I consider Medusa the most likely choice.
Wario: Has a lot of nothing. Every character is lacking enough outstanding votes. By default, I give this one to Captain syrup. Who has about a seventh of the votes as Wario.
Pokemon: Has a lot of votes for almost every contestant. Firstly, Mewtwo has an enourmous amount of votes. He's beating Pichu, Zoroark, Lucario and Jigglypuff even! Zoroark is a stand out, he has sixty votes about. Along with Pichu and Plusle and Minun. Unfortunatley, Victini, Meowth and the rest are doing rather poorly. Kanto PT has the most votes by far for the PT.(Boo!) Leaving second place to Johto. Overall, I suppose Johto PT, Zoroark, Mewtwo, and Plusle/Minun are a decent pool to pick from.
NEW FRANCHISES: For this, I'll just quickly name off any of the outstanding characters. There are tons to sort through. Isaac [Golden Sun], Balloon Fighter, Little Mac [Punch Out!!!], Mii's [Wii Series], Ray MK [Custom Robo], Saki [Sin and Punishment], Starfy [LoS], Tom Nook [Animal Crossing].
THIRD PARTIES: Here is the list from most to least votes: Sonic The HedgeHog, Snake, Megaman, Bomberman, Castlevania, Super Mario RPG, Street Figher and Final Fantasy take the lead. Other like Kingdom Hearts, Soul Caliber, and Proffesor Layton did not live up to expectations.
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