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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Jessica is shown masturbating while she's a teenager looking at her Johnny Storm poster, while being too shy to tell Peter Parker her feelings about him.

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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Jessica is shown masturbating while she's a teenager looking at her Johnny Storm poster, poster. This is while being she's too shy to tell Peter Parker her feelings about him.him, with her masturbating clearly being an outlet.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: J. Jonah Jameson. Jessica humiliates him when he hires her to find out ComicBook/SpiderMan's identity while badmouthing both superheroes ''and'' private investigators ([[spoiler:she spends a full month doing charity work and billing it to the ''Daily Bugle'']]). Even his own employees start complaining about what a dick he is about it. But then he and his wife hired her to find Mattie Franklin, their missing adopted daughter (the latest iteration of ComicBook/SpiderWoman), whom Jameson deeply cares about. Fast forward to the last pages of ''Alias'' and Luke is seen complaining that Jessica now seems to be the only super Jameson will write ''positive'' headlines about. When they meet with her, his wife explains that Jameson has many issues that mostly stop him publicly showing a caring side, mostly regarding his son. After adopting Mattie, he tried making up for his failures with his son by being a good father to her. This is why her troubles hurt him so deeply, since he feels like he's failed again.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: J. Jonah Jameson. Jessica humiliates him when he hires her to find out ComicBook/SpiderMan's identity while badmouthing both superheroes ''and'' private investigators ([[spoiler:she spends a full month doing charity work and billing it to the ''Daily Bugle'']]). Even his own employees start complaining about what a dick he is about it. But then he and his wife hired her to find Mattie Franklin, their missing adopted daughter (the latest iteration of ComicBook/SpiderWoman), whom Jameson deeply cares about. Fast forward to the last pages of ''Alias'' and Luke is seen complaining that Jessica now seems to be the only super Jameson will write ''positive'' headlines about. When they meet with her, his wife explains that Jameson has many issues that mostly stop him publicly showing a caring side, mostly regarding his son. After adopting Mattie, he tried making up for his failures with his son by being a good father to her. This is why her troubles hurt him so deeply, since he feels like he's failed again. Fast forward to the last pages of ''Alias'' and Luke is seen complaining that Jessica now seems to be the only super Jameson will write ''positive'' headlines about.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: J. Jonah Jameson. Jessica humiliates him when he hires her to find out ComicBook/SpiderMan's identity while badmouthing both superheroes ''and'' private investigators ([[spoiler:she spends a full month doing charity work and billing it to the ''Daily Bugle'']]). Even his own employees start complaining about what a dick he is about it. But then he and his wife hire her to find their missing adopted daughter, the latest iteration of ComicBook/SpiderWoman. Fast forward to the last pages of ''Alias'' and Luke is seen complaining that Jessica now seems to be the only super Jameson will write ''positive'' headlines about.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: J. Jonah Jameson. Jessica humiliates him when he hires her to find out ComicBook/SpiderMan's identity while badmouthing both superheroes ''and'' private investigators ([[spoiler:she spends a full month doing charity work and billing it to the ''Daily Bugle'']]). Even his own employees start complaining about what a dick he is about it. But then he and his wife hire hired her to find Mattie Franklin, their missing adopted daughter, the daughter (the latest iteration of ComicBook/SpiderWoman.ComicBook/SpiderWoman), whom Jameson deeply cares about. Fast forward to the last pages of ''Alias'' and Luke is seen complaining that Jessica now seems to be the only super Jameson will write ''positive'' headlines about. When they meet with her, his wife explains that Jameson has many issues that mostly stop him publicly showing a caring side, mostly regarding his son. After adopting Mattie, he tried making up for his failures with his son by being a good father to her. This is why her troubles hurt him so deeply, since he feels like he's failed again.



* KidSidekick: Subverted. A teenage boy hangs out around the stoop of Jessica's office, and begs her to make him part of her life. He even bargains for a position as her secretary using information from a case. Jessica, knowing all too well what happens to young people who get caught up in the affairs of super-heroes (as well as desiring to be left alone), wants no part in it.



* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Jessica is shown masturbating while she's a teenager looking at her Johnny Storm poster, while being too shy to tell Peter Parker her feelings about him.



* {{Sadist}}: The Purple Man tends to go the extra mile when it makes other people do things. When he finds the chatter at a diner he visits at, he forces everyone except for the chef and waiter to hold their breath, everyone suffocating to death. When he takes Jessica under his thrall, he does every sexually humiliating thing to her he can think of ''except'' rape (including making her stand there as he rapes someone else).

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* {{Sadist}}: The Purple Man tends to go the extra mile when it makes while making other people do things. When he finds the chatter at a diner he visits at, at annoying, he forces everyone except for the chef and waiter to hold their breath, everyone suffocating to death. When he takes Jessica under his thrall, he does every sexually humiliating thing to her he can think of ''except'' rape (including making her stand there as he rapes someone else).



* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Alias'' has a similar gritty tone to ''Jinx'', Bendis' earlier work, about a female street level bounty hunter. Jessica is a more heroic expy of Jinx.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Alias'' SnarkKnight: Jessica's life has a similar gritty tone to ''Jinx'', Bendis' earlier work, about a female street level bounty hunter. Jessica is a more heroic expy of Jinx.been ''extremely'' tragic, but she deals with her issues through snark that would make inanimate objects feel insulted.



* SurprisePregnancy: In the last issue, Jessica learns she's gotten pregnant from Luke, which definitely wasn't intended and took a while for her to realize at all.



* SnarkKnight: Jessica's life has been ''extremely'' tragic, but she deals with her issues through snark that would make inanimate objects feel insulted.



* WorldOfSnark: This ''is'' Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, after all.

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* %%* WorldOfSnark: This ''is'' Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, after all.
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