Thread by @poondonkus

In 2011 and early 2012, a series of fan-polls were conducted about what characters people wanted to see added to Marvel vs Capcom 3.

Looking back, it's funny to see that poll from before Ultimate was announced, and how characters like Strider, Phoenix Wright, Ghost Rider, and Dr. Strange were already highly-requested additions.

obviously, those characters drop from the subsequent polls.

As for the analysis, keep in mind the sample size. the Japanese one dwarfs the American polls combined, but without vote tallies it's hard to break it down (or trust that it wasn't botted). And of course all the original links are dead, so we just have these reports.

In my reading, the top 7 for each side would be:

CAPCOM
Mega Man (X or EXE)
Gene
Date Masamune
Bass EXE
Jin Saotome
Jon Talbain
M. Bison

MARVEL
Venom
Gambit
Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Carnage
Psylocke
Cyclops
Green Goblin

and you know what? For 2011, that sounds exactly right.

Of course, that was 10 years ago now. There have been numerous polls on various sites since then, I just found these and thought I'd analyze them. I wonder how much opinions have changed, considering only Mega Man, Venom, and Captain Marvel made it into Infinite?

oh hey, somebody did the legwork for me - I'm sure they're talking about the same polls I'm looking at, plus one from Shoryuken (but not the Pixiv one). So this is American-fanbase-only: vgrants.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/top…

I love how the writer insists that Classic Eddie Brock Black Venom is GONE FOREVER and substitutes Anti-Venom instead. You know that's not what people wanted, and history has shown you to be a fool.

still, his results basically agree with mine. Really only missing Date Masamune.

also putting this here, a decent-sized reddit poll: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…