Oh you know they will. This is the series that had 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast Five.

Daredevil was introduced as a swashbuckling happy-go-lucky hero not unlike an Errol Flynn. It wasn't until he was written by Frank Millar that he took a dark and brooding turn, with the whole thing with The Hand and Elektra, etc.
It wasn't until more recently that the character lightened up a bit again under Mark Waid,…

Again, creators drawing inspiration from the past and pulling it to the present isn't new. I don't understand why you find this a picking point when it happens around us in fiction all the time.
Star Wars was influenced by samurai films from the 1950s - but it was a sci-fi movie! That's far more anachronistic.

Everything ebbs and flows. :zen:

I hate to be technical but Mary Jane wasn't always in the picture over that span - wasn't she assumed dead for a while? I know Peter dated Black Cat for a while in the late 80's.
Regardless, I can't deny it was a good haul and I'd say it's a defining event, but I personally just don't believe it's integral to the…

I haven't read Civil War 2 so I can't comment on that.

I don't think so, but the more I think about it more I wouldn't discount it either. That'd be a bit of a long con though.

"Because you had no attachment to the previous version."

Wasn't your point about someone taking influences and reusing them creatively?
If you want character specific examples, Old Man Logan is The Man With No Name for starters

Change =/= ignoring continuity.

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That's like saying every day Peter lives is a reality where the mugger that killed Uncle Ben "won".
Peter made a choice to save his aunt's life, at a cost. You win some, you "lose" some.

There's only so much you can do with a status quo until you start running out of things to say. 20 years was a good run, then they opted for a change.

It's happened. Or there's been casualties from those powers awakening.

You mean like how Tarantino played with blaxploitation in Jackie Brown or the grindhouse genre with Death Proof?

Well I accepted Fraction's Hawkeye as a character just fine. Smartass, check. Uses a bow an arrow, check. Hangs out with the Avengers, check. But he wasn't randomly killed off or boning faux-Wandas, so you're right, clearly they're not the same character.

If I liked an element of something, I see nothing against trying to recreate that with my own spin on it.

He started as a serial killer but he was a lot more creepier. Maximum Carnage was basically Natural Born Killers with super villains and tried a bit too hard to make him edgey, which ironically dimished the creepy factor and how much of a threat he was.
Plus, you know how overexposure can pretty much ruin something?…

Long winded convoluted mess. Pretty much ruined Carnage as a character.

Hey, if it works, it works. Speaking as a creative, sometimes it's hard not to wear some influences on your sleeve.