Bandit Comic Books

I'm writting a novel where some of the Characters such as the protagonist, antagonist, and "the girl" are named after some charaters I have seen in "canceled" tv shows, and they look something alike but there personalities and character are entirely different.

ex. Kilokhan the villan from Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad
compared to Kilokhon the villan from my novel. Their's is an evil computer virus, but mine is a sacreligious terrorist who plans to destroy Washington D.C.

so could the sew me from this or have I created a big enough gap between the two.

Like the difference between the Ghost Rider that died because of the comics code, compared to the Ghost Rider that was made by Marvel Comics.