Who Is Jessica Jones?

Who Is Jessica Jones?

With Daredevil production coming to an end and AKA Jessica Jones starting production, who is Jessica Jones? And what will AKA Jessica Jones be like?

Editorial Opinion
By homodrome - Dec 05, 2014 07:12 PM EST
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You shoot that gun at me—I will pull that bullet out of my ruined four hundred dollar leather jacket…and I will shove it up your ass with my pinky finger. And which one of us do you think that hurt more? - Jessica Jones
 
Hey everyone. With the recent confirmation of Krysten Ritter's casting as the titular role in Marvel's AKA Jessica Jones, it occurred to me that a great many deal of you have never read Brian Michael Bendis's cult classic Alias. So here I am, educating y'all. Jessica Jones is way more than just that chick who got pregnant with Luke Cage's baby and went to high school with Peter Parker. ?WARNING: there will be spoilers for Alias and there for possible spoilers for AKA Jessica Jones. You have been warned.
 
 Alias follows Jessica Jones. When the story starts Jessica is a young woman and retired super hero turned private investigator (despite never having been seen as a hero in a comic prior). She smokes like a chimney, swears a LOT and is generally a complete mess. The cause of her powers (bullet proof, super strength and flight) or the traumatic event that caused her retirement and severe PTSD remain a mystery for most of the run of Alias.
 
Jessica makes a living as a private eye. Her work involves everything from pretending to be a gay dude in a chat room to find out if a client's closeted husband is meeting dudes on the downlow to finding missing mutants. Her first arc has her filming Steve Rogers, not realizing she is being used as part of a conspiracy against Captain America. 
 
Alias is one of the first MAX imprints and as such it's full of curse words, sex, violence and adult themes. While the show was originally in development for ABC, it's much better suited to Netflix where it will have freedom to be f**ked up.
 
Arguably the most essential arc in relation to the show is the Purple story line. Luke Cage asks why Jessica is so screwed up. He goes so far as to come out and ask if she was raped. She takes offense to the insinuation but in reality many would consider rape synonymous with the torture she endured.
 
Back when Jessica was operating as Jewel she came across a crime being committed. The criminal being Zebediah Killgrave aka The Purple Man. A minor villain from Daredevil, Purple Man's body releases a pheromone that allows him complete and utter control over those around him. He takes Jessica as a pet. His powers allow him to make her feel as though she is staying of her own free will. He makes her feel intense sexual desire for him, so that he can derive pleasure from denying her. He uses his powers to rape countless women (who are pheremoned into thinking they want him). Jessica is forced to watch, being made to wish it could be her. 
 
She is his slave for 8 months before he gets bored and decides to send her to kill Daredevil. She ends up at Avengers Mansion and starts beating the shit out of Scarlet Witch, acting on the red costume. She gets her shit messed up  but ends up being saved at the last minute by Carol Danvers who knows her. She spends several months in a coma under the care of SHIELD. When it's all said and done she gives up and becomes a private eye.
 
If the show respects the source material which it seems like they plan to, it has the opportunity to be the darkest thing Marvel has done (maybe second darkest next to Daredevil). There is a very good chance that in addition to Luke Cage we will get appearances from Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) who is Jessica's lawyer and Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) who Jessica has a failed romance with. Jessica is also very good friends with Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, who makes several appearances in Alias. And a fan favorite character that has long been missing from the MCU, Agent Clay Quartermain who Jessica had been involved with after recovering from the Avengers induced coma.


?AKA Jessica Jones stars Krysten Ritter and comes to Netflix in 2015.  

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DRJ01
DRJ01 - 12/5/2014, 8:00 PM
Like it. So different from anything Marvel or any comic book movie/tv show has done. Nervous about Melissa Rosenberg. She may have been very dedicated and has written a great show, but she wrote all FIVE of the Twilight movies and that makes me nervous. However I like Krysten Ritter in the role a lot. Best choice.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/5/2014, 8:03 PM
I get what you mean @DRJO1 I look at it as her writing 4 movies that were based on terrible source material. Twilight doesn't suck cause of Rosenberg's writing. It sucks because of Stephanie Myers' writing.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/5/2014, 8:05 PM
LOL if anything, her ability to write a crappy movie which accurately an awful book shows her ability to stay faithful to the source material.

As well if Marvel didn't have faith in her, they would have ditched her when they restarted development for Netflix.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/5/2014, 9:12 PM
@Superherofan96 I feel like if they DON'T do Purple Man, the show will be bad. He's so important to her story. It'd be awesome for them to leave it to like episode 10 and have the whole episode just be called Purple and it covers the whole story.
Spideysense44
Spideysense44 - 12/5/2014, 9:16 PM
This is my least anticipated Netflix show, but that doesn't mean I'm not excited for it. Love the character, and hoping this show helps boost her popularity
TheAmericanPatriot
TheAmericanPatriot - 12/5/2014, 10:50 PM
Great write up man! Good job.
EhMaybeSays
EhMaybeSays - 12/6/2014, 1:02 AM
Thanks man.
DrKinsolving
DrKinsolving - 12/6/2014, 4:05 AM
Nice job, good article!!

Can't wait for these shows, hoping Lang, Danvers, and more crossover with the Netlix shows
Pedrito
Pedrito - 12/6/2014, 9:03 AM
Nice little write-up!
I'm afraid they'll have to soften up the rape stuff, if they want the show to appeal to more than older men.
On the other hand, this character is probably not the best to appeal to younger females.

Also,
lol at the troll loling in lieu of trolling.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/6/2014, 10:06 AM
@SuperheroFan96 Cage is expected to show up for something like 6 episodes.
Interestein
Interestein - 12/6/2014, 11:05 AM
Thanks for putting this up, very interesting! I have a lot of faith in this show, and would love to see an appearance form Scott Lang, they seem to be street-level and that means it's possible.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/6/2014, 1:30 PM
@Interestein thanks! I feel like the only reason we might not see Paul Rudd cameo as Lang is that Ant-Man and Captain Marvel might not be established enough within the wider MCU by the time AKA JJ comes out. But I would love to see Carol setting Scott and Jessica up not only because it'd be an awesome scene to play out. But also because it would provide some great connective tissue to the Avengers as well.
MileHighRonin
MileHighRonin - 12/7/2014, 4:43 PM
The casting of Ritter has gotten me less excited for AKA. I loved Alias, and like Jessica Jones, so I am hoping Ritter changes my mind about her in the role.

Also, Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, Dragonball Evolution) for Danny Rand.
homodrome
homodrome - 12/8/2014, 7:45 PM
@dellamorte1872 Rudd did Parks and Rec (several episodes) and Friends. Rosenberg said Marvel was gonna let her use Carol when the show was gonna be on ABC. They got Rosario Dawson for Marvel, I'm sure whoever they get for Carol will do a cameo for Netflix.

I don't think they will tie her into Agents of SHIELD the show at all. But I can see them showing her as a SHIELD asset. But if they go the way of her being taken my Purple Man following the fall of SHIELD they could end up tying it into the wider MCU in a pretty great way. A huge part of her rage could be that SHIELD fell and no one even wondered where the [frick] she went.
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