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Anonymous asked: i am excited for agents of SHIELD tv show but it bugs me how it's based on your comics yet not a single of the main characters are from comics. it's not like marvel doesn't have over a hundred SHIELD agents. and now you'll obviously do the painful insertion thing like you did with marcus johnson and phil coulson into the comics for all these new tv characters.

brevoortformspring:

I don’t see this as a problem—and I’m not sure why any such insertion would be painful. There’s nothing wrong with originating characters for a project, and if the characters are good, there’s nothing wrong with introducing a Marvel Universe equivalent of them either. But most of those SHIELD Agents that you’re talking about are relatively faceless apart from a small handful, so all you’re talking about is baggage. Would Phil Coulson as played by Clark Gregg be a better character if his name happened to be Jasper Sitwell?

Yes. Yes, in fact, he would.

The rest of the point holds – Grant Ward, Melinda May and Leo Fitz wouldn’t be any better or worse if  they were called Clay Quartermain, Helen Kim and Sidney Levine, fun though it’d be for a very small portion of the audience if they were.

But Phil Coulson would be a MUCH better character if his name was Jasper Sitwell. MUCH!