History Comicbook / JessicaJones

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In one issue, the purple man comments that Ms Marvel must have flown "halfway across the country" from San Fransisco to New York.

** ''Series/JessicaJones'' (2015 -- 2019)

She soon put on a costume and created a heroic identity: Jewel. She had a pretty low-key career and was somewhat known to the New York superheroes, especially ComicBook/MsMarvel until she encountered the [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Purple Man]], who seized control of her mind for eight months and subjected her to psychological abuse. He sent her to ComicBook/TheAvengers' Mansion in order to kill Daredevil and she attacks the only person wearing red at the mansion: the ComicBook/ScarletWitch. Jessica endures a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by ComicBook/IronMan and ComicBook/TheVision until Ms. Marvel saves her. Jessica slips back into a coma and is brought out only by psychic therapy by [[ComicBook/XMen Jean Grey]]. Soon after therapy, and after a short stint as a hero named Knightress, Jessica decides to hang up the cape for good.

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* TheAlcoholic: Where is her [[SymbolSwearing $%&/()(/&%]] drink!?
* ArbitraryScepticism: Inverted when Jennifer gives Danielle a birthday present and informs the two-year-old that it's a magic object that will make her strong. Jessica has to confirm that it's just the kind of thing you tell small children.

** Then subverted when Thor sees it and identifies it as an object that summons "trickster gods". At least it doesn't make you strong.

* ExactWords:

* FailOSuckyName: Loan Shark. Apparently he meant it to be "Lone Shark", similar to 'lone wolf', but nobody realizes the spelling and thus frequently mistake him for a finance theft villain instead of a shark-themed one.

* MeaningfulName: Miss Schilling is loaded

* NoticeThis: A comicbook example. In the 2018 run, details about people and places are highlit in the form of polaroids with descriptive text. Being an investigator made her see things that way and she says she can't turn it off.
** This is a carryover of the SherlockScan used in ''ComicBook/HawkeyeKateBishop'', a series Creator/BrianMichaelBendis liked so much that when he left Marvel, he personally asked Kelly Thompson to take over [[CreatorsPet Jessica]].
* ParentalFavoritism: It's highly implied from the statements of one of Killgrave sons is that out of all children he has sired, Zebediah views Kara Killgrave(who was a member of Alpha Flight and a hero) as the favorite despite the fact she is (morally) nothing like him.

* ProperlyParanoid: When [[spoiler:Maria Hill]] turns up in the 2016 series, Jessica speculates that she has faked her injuries to trick her into some ploy that will end with her dying in a Latverian prison. [[spoiler:As it happens, Hill is (relatively) honest this time, but Jessica's suspicions were reasonable, considering.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: She was {{retcon}}ned into Marvel continuity as a Midtown High student who had a crush on Peter Parker (she was even there when he was bitten by the spider). From there, she was supposedly a minor superhero known by Carol Danvers since UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. Jessica's AntiHero stint as Knightress before she started Alias investigations was also retconned into ''The Pulse''.

-->'''Agent Carter:''' Yeah, to quote the great General Solo: [[Film/TheForceAwakens That is not how any of this works]]

--->'''Jessica:''' [[Franchise/ToyStory With style]]

** ''Series/JessicaJones'' (2015 -- present)

* FlyingBrick: Flight? Check. Super Strength? Check. Tough enough to [[spoiler:withstand an explosion and survive a bullet to the brain]]? Check.

* SuperToughness: Jessica is much tougher than an ordinary person, and though she survived being beaten by Iron Man and the Vision, she sustained serious injuries. She also admits that she is unsure of whether or not she is bulletproof.

* WhamShot: The final page of Issue #6 of the 2018 series [[spoiler:shows Dani returning home with purple skin, causing her to visually resemble the Purple Man.]]

* WhosYourDaddy: In ''Purple Daughter'', this becomes a question. [[spoiler:Danielle has always looked like a mixed-race black and white baby, but one day her skin turns purple, and her parents start to wonder if they have been hallucinating the whole time. At the end of ''Purple Daughter'', it's revealed that Danielle is still Jessica and Luke's little girl and that the purple effect a sick joke from Benjamin Kilgrave after he learned of a side effect of using too much of the Purple Man's blood.]]

* WhosYourDaddy: In ''Purple Daughter'', this becomes a question. [[spoiler:Danielle has always looked like a mixed-race black and white baby, but one day her skin turns purple, and her parents start to wonder if they have been hallucinating the whole time.]]

* Parental Favoritism: It's highly implied from the statements of one of Killgrave sons is that out of all children he has sired, Zebediah views Kara Killgrave(who was a member of Alpha Flight and a hero) as the favorite despite the fact she is (morally) nothing like him.

* Parental Favoritism: It's highly implied from the statements of one of Killgrave sons is that out of all children he has sired, Zebediah views Kara as the favorite despite the fact she is (morally) nothing like him.

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* FailOSuckyName: Loan Shark. Apparently he meant it to be "Lone Shark", similar to 'lone wolf', but nobody realizes the spelling and thus frequently mistake him to a finance theft villain instead of a shark-themed one.

* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Jessica says to her daughter that being the product of an interracial relationship ''and'' two superheroes is enough to make her life hard. Her husband, ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, got called out by this by the new Power Man.

After ''Alias'', she was a character in ''ComicBook/ThePulse'' (a series focusing on the Daily Bugle), in which she and Luke are a couple and she gives birth to their daughter, Danielle. She later marries him in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' and is a sometimes member of the team, when she's not being a mother. She also played a significant role in the first few arcs of ComicBook/YoungAvengers.

A television show based on this character, originally intended for Creator/{{ABC}}, was said to languish in {{development hell}} for years ... until Creator/{{Netflix}} ''finally'' dusted it off for their line of shows set within the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, with Jessica being portrayed by Creator/KrystenRitter. The entire first season of ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' was released on November 20th, 2015, to wide critical acclaim, and the show was renewed for a second season as of January 2016. Jessica teamed up with [[Series/{{Daredevil 2015}} Matt Murdock]], [[Series/LukeCage2016 Luke Cage]], and [[Series/IronFist2017 Danny Rand]] in a mini-series called ''Series/TheDefenders2017'', based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name.

** vol. 2 (2018 --)

** ''Series/JessicaJones'' (2015)

In October of 2016, Jessica once again got her own solo series.

* FlyingBrick: Flight? Check. Super Strength? Check.