brevoortformspring:

Well no, he wouldn’t. But that’s not a parallel example. If anything, it’s the opposite. Sam Jackson is playing Nick Fury—that’s the character he’s inhabiting, that’s the portrayal he’s crafting. The character that Clark Gregg is inhabiting, however, is not Jasper Sitwell. He’s a different guy. There are some points of similarity, sure, but Clark didn’t start out with Jasper and then the name got changed—he started out really as a nameless, faceless SHIELD Agent whom he imbued with enough of his own personality and likeability for him to become a legitimate character that people wanted to see again. That’s all regardless of the name. And none of that came from Jasper Sitwell, it all came from Clark Gregg.