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* BreatherEpisode: Issue #6 is a cozy domestic epilogue after Jessica solves the case, focusing on her and Luke setting up their daughter’s birthday party. However, it still concerns the heavy matter of Jessica’s PTSD.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.



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* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.

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* AtrociousAlias: 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.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Loan Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.



* AtrociousAlias: 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.
* BackFromTheDead: As of ''Blind Spot'', [[spoiler:it turns out Jessica is not bulletproof. She was killed by a bullet to the head from Evil!Jared, but then resurrected by Good!Jared.]]



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* BackFromTheDead: As of ''Blind Spot'', [[spoiler:it turns out she's not bulletproof. Jessica was killed by a bullet to the head from Evil!Jared, but then resurrected by Good!Jared.]]EvenEvilHasStandards: Loan Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
** Dia Sloane’s relationship became rocky because her boyfriend resented her having powers, [[spoiler:so she wished he could have powers too. He ended up becoming more cruel with them, not less.]]
** Jared was abusive, but regretted his bullying, and wished he could rid himself of his evil. [[spoiler:His new powers split him into good and evil halves, with the Evil Jared going on a misogynistic killing spree and the Good Jared following to undo his murders.]]


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* JekyllAndHyde: Dia’s boyfriend Jared [[spoiler:split himself into good and evil halves with superpowers. When Evil!Jared is apprehended, Good!Jared is told they have to merge back together. He begs not to, wanting to live without his evil side, but Jessica explains that Good!Jared could just grow into another abusive dick if he doesn’t have the memories and experience in him leading him to regret seeking evil. As such, the two fuse back together once again into a single Jared.]]


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* LighterAndSofter: While the tone is still somber, the new Thompson run is noticeably less graphic than Bendis’s ''Alias'', with no sexual depictions, drug use, and with the swearing censored. However, there is still alcohol use and blood.
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* ArtShift: Memories of Jessica and Carol's first meeting are drawn in the Silver Age comics style, but Jessica didn't exist as a character until the late '90s.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.



* ContinuityNod: The woman who offers money to Jessica to betray the superheroes is Alison Green, the same woman that Carol Danvers accused of having a bomb in her briefcase during ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''. While she didn't have a bomb, it does appear as if she either ''was'' a part of something shady or Captain Marvel's actions [[DrivenToVillainy drove her to villainy.]]
* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].

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* ContinuityNod: The woman who offers money to Jessica to betray the superheroes is Alison Green, Greene, the same woman that Carol Danvers accused of having a bomb in her briefcase during ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''. While she didn't have a bomb, it does appear as if she either ''was'' a part of something shady or Captain Marvel's actions [[DrivenToVillainy drove her to villainy.]]
* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].
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* TheMole: Alison Green, the leader of the group that wants to start another superhero civil war, was waiting for a superhero to hit rock bottom in order to offer them a chance to become a mole for them. Too bad Jessica was ''already'' a mole for Carol Danvers.

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* TheMole: Alison Green, Greene, the leader of the group that wants to start another superhero civil war, was waiting for a superhero to hit rock bottom in order to offer them a chance to become a mole for them. Too bad Jessica was ''already'' a mole for Carol Danvers.


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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: In ComicBook/CivilWarII, Ulysses made a prophecy that [[spoiler:a woman named Alison Greene would commit acts of terror. After being treated like a terrorist by SHIELD, she certainly would.]].


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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Alison Greene was detained and accused of being a terrorist back in ComicBook/CivilWarII. [[spoiler:She was innocent at the time, but out of spite she has since taken up the murdering innocents and bombing schools business.]]


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* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.


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* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When [[spoiler:the Purple Man]] walks in the door with the cupcake store doorbell still on it, Jessica laments internally that he's threatened her husband, her baby, and her life – and now he's ruining ''bakeries'' for her too.



* AtrociousAlias: 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.
* CassandraTruth: Jessica took the case of a woman whose husband (a regular joe) claimed to come from AnotherDimension. This being Jessica Jones, she took it with ArbitrarySkepticism. This guy killed his wife in a gruesome manner before the case could be completed. He was detained, and Jessica was called to hear his testimony. Yes, he claims to come from another dimension... which was destroyed, as part of a huge conspiracy between heroes of this dimension, who plotted to bargain the death of countless dimensions so that this one could live. In the face of such cosmic horror, his petty murder is nothing. Nobody can ever believe [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 such a story]], right?
* ChewToy: The Armadillo. Even heroes just assume he's a villain fighting the cops when he's just an ordinary giant armadillo-man going about his business surrounded by the police and trying not to get shot, and beat him up.
* ChildHater: Discussed. Jessica denies having hated babies before she had one. Carol claims she doesn't ''hate'' them so much as she just doesn't like being around them, speculating whether it has anything to do with that time she thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to just be her alien boyfriend regenerating himself inside her womb.
* ConspiracyTheory: A man smoking with his friends suddenly declares that he thinks humanity isn't going to get taken over by [[Comicbook/XMen mutants]], but by [[Comicbook/{{Spiderman}} spider-people]].



* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].



* EarthAllAlong: Jessica is kidnapped by someone, and held at a warehouse in some unknown location. The kidnapper actually just wanted to talk, making sure that she wouldn't run away. Once they are done, the kidnapper gives a proof of good will by simply releasing Jessica and letting her go, with no problem whatsoever. The warehouse? It was ''at the next street'' to Jessica's home.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Loan Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.



* {{Infodump}}: When someone takes a chair at Alias and starts to explain what the case is all about, get ready for this.
* InsultBackfire: Inverted in the last issue of Bendis's run. A client calls her a "magnificent, fabulous bitch" over the phone. Jessica starts to apologize, then realizes it was intended as a compliment.
* MeaningfulName: Daisy Schilling is loaded.



* NoYou: The Purple Man does a version of this. [[spoiler:When trying to convince Jessica to use him as her personal genie, she argues that he would likely turn on her the moment he became annoyed with her, because he is volatile. He retorts that so is she, as if that has anything to do with anything.]]



* 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.]]



* ShamelessSelfPromoter: One issue has a background TV announcing that "Creator/BrianMichaelBendis saves the world."
* ShoutOut
** This line:
--->'''Agent Carter:''' Yeah, to quote the great General Solo: [[Film/TheForceAwakens That is not how any of this works]]
** Jessica's mother thinks Danielle's newly acquired walking skills look more like falling forward.
--->'''Jessica:''' [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory With style]]
** When Jessica shows up at the police station to see a homicide detective about a recent case, they're bringing in a woman who is cosplaying as Comicbook/{{Gwenpool}}.
** That same homicide detective tells her it's not like on Series/LawAndOrder.
** Jessica refers to Carol as "Miss [[Film/{{Cinderella}} Bippity Boppity Boo]]".
** Raindrop's security guys sit around claiming they are, respectively, [[Creator/EmmaStone Emma Stoned]], [[Creator/SharonStone Sharon Stoned]] and [[Creator/OliverStone Oliver Stoned]]. After sharing his spider-people conspiracy theory, the others concede that the last one ''is'' [[BrickJoke Oliver Stoned]].
** Maria Hill claims not to have slept since Series/ColdCase went off the air.
** Maria Hill calls Jessica [[Music/RobZombie "more human than human"]].
** Jessica tells Miles she doesn't want him getting in detention and joining ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jessica and [[spoiler:Vernon Hill]] separately arrived at the conclusion that, 1) Maria Hill and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. people are professional liars, and 2) there is no special secret club for people with children.
* TimeTravel: Dreams of an encounter with an [[SheIsAllGrownUp adult version]] of her daughter Dani in issue 3 of her 2016 series. She's from around 30 years in the future, and has the combined powers of Jessica, Luke, and Captain America.



* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Jessica says to her daughter that being the product of an interracial relationship ''and'' two superheroes is enough to make her life hard. The new Power Man also had a problem with the original, her husband ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, for dating a white woman.



* BackFromTheDead: Jessica is shot in the head and killed...and then immediately resurrected. It takes her a while to figure out who did it.

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* BackFromTheDead: As of ''Blind Spot'', [[spoiler:it turns out she's not bulletproof. Jessica is shot in was killed by a bullet to the head and killed...and from Evil!Jared, but then immediately resurrected. It takes her a while to figure out who did it.resurrected by Good!Jared.]]


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* LeotardOfPower: In the framing story of "Blind Spot", Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) leotard. [[spoiler:After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.]]
* NoticeThis: A comic book example. In the 2018 run, details about people and places are highlighted 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 Jessica.


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* 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.
* TheReveal: ''Purple Daughter'' Chapter 4 (second half of issue #2) reveals that [[spoiler:the Purple Man has been alive and has been used by his newly-revealed son Benjamin to create a special serum with their blood to create stronger mind-controlled people.]]
* SuperDickery: In ''Purple Daughter #1'', the issue opens with Jessica seemingly drowning a woman while musing this is how she becomes a supervillain. In context, it turns out the woman is Kara Killgrave, who Jessica is [[KryptoniteFactor dousing to make sure Kara can't use her mind control powers]]. That said, it was still quite a dick move since Kara had no hostility towards Jessica and was perfectly willing to help her.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Benjamin Kilgrave, Purple Man's son, is this, as he doesn't have his skin color and seemingly not his powers. He tells Jessica that Kilgrave was always disappointed in him because of this. He gets his revenge by putting Kilgrave in an induced coma and stealing his blood to create a stronger hypnosis serum by mixing it with his own.]]
* 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.]]
** The last panel in Issue #2 of ''Purple Daughter'' shows that [[spoiler:the Purple Man is no longer purple]].
* 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 biological daughter and that the purple effect was a cry for help from Zebediah Kilgrave while he was kept in a coma by his son, Benjamin.]] At any rate, Luke has said he considers her his whether or not the biology checks out.

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* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Benjamin Killgrave, the son of the Purple Man.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Zebediah Killgrave. It turns out that Carol was tricked into thinking she threw his body into the sun by [[spoiler:Benjamin Killgrave, his son]], who then kept his body until it resurrected and then kept him in a drug-induced coma, using his blood to take control of people.
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->''I like how you still try to plan the day even though we do what we do and deal with all that we deal with and our day never goes as planned.''
-->'''Jessica Jones''' to '''Luke Cage''', ''Jessica Jones'' #12

''Jessica Jones'' is a 2016-2018 comic book published by Creator/MarvelComics. It was written by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis, with art by Michael Gaydos and covers by David Mack and served as a SequelSeries to ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}''. It lasted a total of 18 issues.

Alias Investigations is back in business, but former-superhero-turned-private-detective Jessica Jones has a mess of problems to deal with. For starters, her life has fallen apart after she took her daughter away from her husband for some unknown reason. She's searching for secrets that are more dangerous than ever, plus she has some secrets from her own haunted past that she doesn't want to get out. And she's taken on a case that may, in fact, kill her.

Just another day in the life of Jessica Jones.

This book was followed by two Marvel Digital Original mini-series: ''Jessica Jones: Blind Spot'' and ''Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter'', written by Creator/KellyThompson, with art by Mattia De Iulis.

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!!Tropes in ''Jessica Jones'':

* TheAtoner: Since the entire thing was Carol Danvers' plan, after the plan is over, Carol goes to great lengths to try and fix Jessica's life. She still can't get her and Luke to reconcile, however. For that, Jessica herself becomes TheAtoner and asks Luke to forgive her. It takes time, but he does.
* AssassinationAttempt: There's one on Maria Hill, so she hires Jessica to find out who put out a hit on her. It turns out [[spoiler:she did it herself.]]
* ContinuityNod: The woman who offers money to Jessica to betray the superheroes is Alison Green, the same woman that Carol Danvers accused of having a bomb in her briefcase during ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''. While she didn't have a bomb, it does appear as if she either ''was'' a part of something shady or Captain Marvel's actions [[DrivenToVillainy drove her to villainy.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:The Purple Man, on Jessica's advice, decides to finally die, after coming back to life so many times. He walks out in the middle of the street and collapses.]]
* FakingTheDead: After Maria Hill hires Jessica to track down whoever is trying to kill her, someone bombs Jessica's office, killing her. [[spoiler:Only not really, since it was only a Maria Hill LMD.]]
* FathersQuest: Luke tries to track down where his daughter Dani is and finally figures out that Jessica left her with her foster mother.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Purple Man, speaking through Danielle Cage, tells Jessica and Luke if they ever wondered if her baby would turn out purple. Later on, in ''Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter'', Danielle ''does'' turn purple.
* HappilyAdopted: Averted with Jessica and her foster mother -- it's ''very'' clear that they really never liked one another, although Jessica still goes to her to hide her own daughter, Dani. Jessica's foster mother still tells her that if Dani's father, Luke Cage, ever shows up, she won't keep hiding Dani, because a) Luke is ''Dani's father'' and b) Luke is ''super strong and bulletproof''. When Luke shows up, Jessica's foster mother keeps her word and lets him go with Dani.
* HurlItIntoTheSun: Carol throws [[spoiler:the Purple Man's body]] into the sun.
* TheInfiltration: The first arc has Jessica's life completely falling apart...so that she can hit her lowest point and be offered a part in a villainous plan to start another superhero civil war. Once this happens, Jessica quickly signals for ComicBook/CarolDanvers and SHIELD to swoop in and arrest everyone. Then Jessica has to go and rebuild her life again.
* MissingChild: In order to protect her daughter Dani while she pretends to hit rock bottom, Jessica leaves her with the one person that nobody will suspect: Jessica's foster mother, whom she hates. But since she doesn't tell anybody things, Luke Cage (the father) is ''pissed''. The first thing he says to her is, "Hi, honey. Where's our daughter?"
* TheMole: Alison Green, the leader of the group that wants to start another superhero civil war, was waiting for a superhero to hit rock bottom in order to offer them a chance to become a mole for them. Too bad Jessica was ''already'' a mole for Carol Danvers.
* OhCrap: The moment after Carol tells Jessica that Zebediah Killgrave, the Purple Man, has escaped from the Raft.
* PapaWolf: Luke Cage. God help you if you take his kid away from him.
* ParentsAsPeople: Both Jessica and her foster mother fall into this trap: they both tried to do what was best for their children, but ended up making mistakes. Jessica does ''not'' like her foster mother, but still goes to her for help. In the end, Jessica herself tries to do better and even manages to get back together with Luke.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: The Purple Man can't die. Every time he does, he just gets back up again. That's the real reason he's come to talk to Jessica: he wants Jessica to tell him what to do next. She tells him to just ''die''. [[spoiler:So he does.]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In issue 13, Dani starts speaking in entire complete sentences...because she's been taken over by the Purple Man.
* VillainousCrush: The Purple Man still has one on Jessica. It turns out that because she's the only person who can resist his power, he trusts her to tell him what to do next.

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Jessica Jones is a Creator/MarvelComics superheroine, originally created by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis. She was the main character of ''Comicbook/{{Alias}}'' (November 2001, also written by Bendis) which was the first comic released under the [[DarkerAndEdgier R-Rated]] [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]] imprint, which notably had the word "FUCK!" on the first page.

Jessica Jones, also known as Jessica Cambell as a teenager, lived in Forest Hills, New York, where she attended Midtown High, where a [[Comicbook/SpiderMan certain wall-crawling hero]] also attended at the same time. On a family drive one day, her father lost control of the vehicle and collided with a military convoy carrying radioactive material. Her entire family (father, mother, and little brother) were killed and she ended up in a coma. When she awoke, she was adopted by the Jones family and she soon discovered she had superpowers.

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/CarolDanvers until she encountered the ComicBook/PurpleMan, 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 ComicBook/{{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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers 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.

She goes on to start Alias Investigations, a private detective agency where she soon finds out she cannot outrun her past as a superhero (as it's brought up by almost everyone she meets). In between solving cases and [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], she vacillates between romantic feelings for [[ComicBook/AntMan Scott Lang]] and for ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}. By the end of the book, she realizes she's pregnant with Luke's child and the both of them start a romantic relationship.

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/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name.

In October of 2016, Jessica once again got her own solo series. After Brian Bendis left Marvel to go to DC Comics; Kelly Thompson took over the title by his request.

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!! Jessica Jones appears in:

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* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' (2001 -- 2004)
* ''ComicBook/ThePulse'' (2004 -- 2006)
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' vol. 1 (2005 -- 2006)
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' vol. 2 (2010 -- 2012)
* ''Jessica Jones'' (various runs):
** vol. 1 (2016 -- 2018)
** ''Jessica Jones: Blind Spot'' (2018)
** ''Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter'' (2019)
* ''ComicBook/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' vol. 5 (2017)

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* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2015 -- present):
** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' (2015 -- 2019)
** ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' (2017)

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* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (2015)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'' (2015)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (2018)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' (2019)

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!! Jessica Jones provides examples of the following tropes:

%%* ActionGirl: When she wants to be.
* ActionMom: She's a superheroine/detective and fiercely protective of a daughter.
* AlliterativeName: '''J'''essica '''J'''ones.
* TheAlcoholic: Several dialogue bubbles had Jessica say, "Where is mu [[SymbolSwearing $%&/()(/&%]] drink!?"
* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When [[spoiler:the Purple Man]] walks in the door with the cupcake store doorbell still on it, Jessica laments internally that he's threatened her husband, her baby, and her life – and now he's ruining ''bakeries'' for her too.
* AtrociousAlias: 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.
* BerserkButton: Bringing up the Purple Man incident was a big one in ''Alias''.
* BreakTheCutie: One of the more extreme examples in the MarvelUniverse.
* BrokenBird: After the incident with the Purple Man, leading her to quit being a superhero.
* ByronicHero: She means well and tries to help people, but she's an internally traumatized and considerably temperamental wreck and alcoholic who struggles with her tragic superhero past and future as a detective and mother of a child out of wedlock.
* CassandraTruth: Jessica took the case of a woman whose husband (a regular joe) claimed to come from AnotherDimension. This being Jessica Jones, she took it with ArbitrarySkepticism. This guy killed his wife in a gruesome manner before the case could be completed. He was detained, and Jessica was called to hear his testimony. Yes, he claims to come from another dimension... which was destroyed, as part of a huge conspiracy between heroes of this dimension, who plotted to bargain the death of countless dimensions so that this one could live. In the face of such cosmic horror, his petty murder is nothing. Nobody can ever believe [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 such a story]], right?
* CharacterDevelopment: Thanks to the need to lighten her so she could appear in stuff outside of the MAX imprint (see bellow in LighterAndSofter), the Jessica of ''Alias'' is very different than the Jessica of ''New Avengers''. As a result, it ends up looking like her relationship with Luke and the ending of ''Alias'' helped her get out of her depressed state and grow as a person.
* ChewToy: The Armadillo. Even heroes just assume he's a villain fighting the cops when he's just an ordinary giant armadillo-man going about his business surrounded by the police and trying not to get shot, and beat him up.
* ChildHater: Discussed. Jessica denies having hated babies before she had one. Carol claims she doesn't ''hate'' them so much as she just doesn't like being around them, speculating whether it has anything to do with that time she thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to just be her alien boyfriend regenerating himself inside her womb.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Killgrave orders Jessica to go to the Avengers mansion and kill Daredevil... ignoring the fact that Daredevil was not an Avenger, had never been before that point, and there was zero reason to expect to find him there. But, as Killgrave has a CompellingVoice, she has to obey his orders anyway, somehow. So she attacked the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, simply because she also has a red suit.
* ConspiracyTheory: A man smoking with his friends suddenly declares that he thinks humanity isn't going to get taken over by [[Comicbook/XMen mutants]], but by [[Comicbook/{{Spiderman}} spider-people]].
* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].
* DrowningMySorrows: She drank quite a lot in ''Alias'' to mask the emotional pain.
* EarthAllAlong: Jessica is kidnapped by someone, and held at a warehouse in some unknown location. The kidnapper actually just wanted to talk, making sure that she wouldn't run away. Once they are done, the kidnapper gives a proof of good will by simply releasing Jessica and letting her go, with no problem whatsoever. The warehouse? It was ''at the next street'' to Jessica's home.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Loan Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.
%%* ExactWords
* {{Expy}}: She shares a lot of similarities with Bendis's version of ComicBook/SpiderWoman, both with the private detective background, the friendship with Carol Danvers and the snarky KnightInSourArmor demeanor. In fact, ''Alias'' was originally going to star Jessica Drew, but Bendis could not use her, so Jessica Jones was created instead. The two team up at one point during ''Alias''.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Her narration in ''Alias''. Spider-Man has a rival to the throne of Marvel's premier DeadpanSnarker.
* {{Flight}}: She says she can't fly very well, though it seems that she's just out of practice. In her early days as Jewel, she flew just fine.
* FlyingBrick: Flight? Check. Super Strength? Check.
* HappilyMarried: Her marriage to Luke Cage has a lot of love. In fact, their love for each other and their daughter has helped them defeat a lot of problems together.
* {{Infodump}}: When someone takes a chair at Alias and starts to explain what the case is all about, get ready for this.
* InsultBackfire: Inverted in the last issue of Bendis's run. A client calls her a "magnificent, fabulous bitch" over the phone. Jessica starts to apologize, then realizes it was intended as a compliment.
* LeotardOfPower: In the framing story of "Blind Spot", Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) leotard. [[spoiler:After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.]]
* LighterAndSofter: An EnforcedTrope via Marvel Comics' policies on their MAX publications, in which Jessica started. Marvel only permitted a limited few of their characters (such as Luke Cage, Punisher and Jessica herself) from making extended appearances in a MAX book outside of being TheCameo. Due to the mature language, sexual content, and other things, the vast majority of their exhaustive cast of characters were not allowed to participate. When Bendis felt he had done all he could with the character under these limited conditions, he ended ''Alias'' and integrated Jessica into the main MarvelUniverse. As a result, she had to become a much lighter and softer character.
* LoveTriangle: In ''Alias'', she was caught in between Ant-Man and Luke Cage. She also had a interest in [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]].
* MamaBear: Do '''not''' mess with her daughter. Norman Osborn and Kang the Conqueror both found this out the hard way.
* MeaningfulName: Miss Schilling is loaded.
* MindRape: The extent of the Purple Man's mental torture was so severe, she couldn't tell whether or not she was doing things with her own will or ''his.''
* MuggingTheMonster: In the first book of ''Alias'', a CorruptCorporateExecutive sends a goon after her, who taunts her about being a necrophiliac rapist. Unfortunately for him, Jessica is ''much'' stronger and ''much'' tougher than he is and it doesn't go well.
* 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 Jessica.
* NoYou: The Purple Man does a version of this. [[spoiler:When trying to convince Jessica to use him as her personal genie, she argues that he would likely turn on her the moment he became annoyed with her, because he is volatile. He retorts that so is she, as if that has anything to do with anything.]]
* 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.
* PregnantBadass: During ''The Pulse''. She beats the daylights out of ComicBook/NormanOsborn for a while after she thinks he caused a miscarriage.
* 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.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Subverted. Several people ask her if Kilgrave ever raped or sexually abused her while under his control, and she insists that he never did. ''However'', she also insists that she feels no less humiliated, traumatized and violated than if he did.
* 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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers since UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. Jessica's AntiHero stint as Knightress before she started Alias investigations was also retconned into ''The Pulse''.
* TheReveal: ''Purple Daughter'' Chapter 4 (second half of issue #2) reveals that [[spoiler:the Purple Man has been alive and has been used by his newly-revealed son Benjamin to create a special serum with their blood to create stronger mind-controlled people.]]
* SchoolNewspaperNewshound: Her ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe counterpart, who also attends school with Peter Parker.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: One issue has a background TV announcing that "Creator/BrianMichaelBendis saves the world"
* ShoutOut
** This line:
--->'''Agent Carter:''' Yeah, to quote the great General Solo: [[Film/TheForceAwakens That is not how any of this works]]
** Jessica's mother thinks Danielle's newly acquired walking skills look more like falling forward.
--->'''Jessica:''' [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory With style]]
** When Jessica shows up at the police station to see a homicide detective about a recent case, they're bringing in a woman who is cosplaying as Comicbook/{{Gwenpool}}.
** That same homicide detective tells her it's not like on Series/LawAndOrder.
** Jessica refers to Carol as "Miss [[Film/{{Cinderella}} Bippity Boppity Boo]]".
** Raindrop's security guys sit around claiming they are, respectively, [[Creator/EmmaStone Emma Stoned]], [[Creator/SharonStone Sharon Stoned]] and [[Creator/OliverStone Oliver Stoned]]. After sharing his spider-people conspiracy theory, the others concede that the last one ''is'' [[BrickJoke Oliver Stoned]].
** Maria Hill claims not to have slept since Series/ColdCase went off the air.
** Maria Hill calls Jessica [[Music/RobZombie "more human than human"]].
** Jessica tells Miles she doesn't want him getting in detention and joining ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.
* SirSwearsALot: One of Marvel's biggest examples, and certainly the biggest female one. She curses ''very'' frequently in ''Alias''. She was cursing even as a teenager, and even ''after'' she moved beyond MAX's mature imprint and onto the G-Teen rated comics, she kept it up, sometimes being covered up by SymbolSwearing.
* TheSnarkKnight: Not just a DeadpanSnarker, but she had some serious self-esteem issues before finally working on them at the end of ''Alias''.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jessica and [[spoiler:Vernon Hill]] separately arrived at the conclusion that, 1) Maria Hill and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. people are professional liars, and 2) there is no special secret club for people with children.
* SuperDickery: In ''Purple Daughter #1'', the issue opens with Jessica seemingly drowning a woman while musing this is how she becomes a supervillain. In context, it turns out the woman is Kara Killgrave, who Jessica is [[KryptoniteFactor dousing to make sure Kara can't use her mind control powers]]. That said, it was still quite a dick move since Kara had no hostility towards Jessica and was perfectly willing to help her.
* SuperStrength: An undefined amount, thought it's at least enough for her to lift and toss cars.
* 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. As of ''Blind Spot'', [[spoiler:it turns out she's not bulletproof. Jessica was killed by a bullet to the head from Evil!Jared, but then resurrected by Good!Jared.]]
* TimeTravel: Dreams of an encounter with an [[SheIsAllGrownUp adult version]] of her daughter Dani in issue 3 of her 2016 series. She's from around 30 years in the future, and has the combined powers of Jessica, Luke, and Captain America.
* TheUnhug: When people give her hugs, Jessica tends to accept them passively with her arms hanging at her sides.
* UnreliableNarrator: In the first arc of the 2016 series, Sophie Brownlee tells Jessica her husband has decided he's from another world where his wife's name is Gwen and his daughter's name is Norma. When Jessica actually meets Mr. Brownlee, he informs her that his daughter's name is Lily.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Benjamin Kilgrave, Purple Man's son, is this, as he doesn't have his skin color and seemingly not his powers. He tells Jessica that Kilgrave was always disappointed in him because of this. He gets his revenge by putting Kilgrave in an induced coma and stealing his blood to create a stronger hypnosis serum by mixing it with his own.]]
* 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.]]
** The last panel in Issue #2 of ''Purple Daughter'' shows that [[spoiler:the Purple Man is no longer purple]].
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Jessica says to her daughter that being the product of an interracial relationship ''and'' two superheroes is enough to make her life hard. The new Power Man also had a problem with the original, her husband ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, for dating a white woman.
* 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 biological daughter and that the purple effect was a cry for help from Zebediah Kilgrave while he was kept in a coma by his son, Benjamin.]] At any rate, Luke has said he considers her his whether or not the biology checks out.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: As part of her Jewel costume, she dyed her hair a purplish pink.

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Jessica Jones is a Creator/MarvelComics superheroine, originally created by Creator/BrianMichaelBendis. She was the main character of ''Comicbook/{{Alias}}'' (November 2001, also written by Bendis) which was the first comic released under the [[DarkerAndEdgier R-Rated]] [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]] imprint, which notably had the word "FUCK!" on the first page.

Jessica Jones, also known as Jessica Cambell as a teenager, lived in Forest Hills, New York, where she attended Midtown High, where a [[Comicbook/SpiderMan certain wall-crawling hero]] also attended at the same time. On a family drive one day, her father lost control of the vehicle and collided with a military convoy carrying radioactive material. Her entire family (father, mother, and little brother) were killed and she ended up in a coma. When she awoke, she was adopted by the Jones family and she soon discovered she had superpowers.

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/CarolDanvers until she encountered the ComicBook/PurpleMan, 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 ComicBook/{{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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers 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.

She goes on to start Alias Investigations, a private detective agency where she soon finds out she cannot outrun her past as a superhero (as it's brought up by almost everyone she meets). In between solving cases and [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]], she vacillates between romantic feelings for [[ComicBook/AntMan Scott Lang]] and for ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}. By the end of the book, she realizes she's pregnant with Luke's child and the both of them start a romantic relationship.

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/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name.

In October of 2016, Jessica once again got her own solo series. After Brian Bendis left Marvel to go to DC Comics; Kelly Thompson took over the title by his request.

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!! Jessica Jones appears in:

[[AC:Notable Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' (2001 -- 2004)
* ''ComicBook/ThePulse'' (2004 -- 2006)
* ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' vol. 1 (2005 -- 2006)
* ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' vol. 2 (2010 -- 2012)
* ''Jessica Jones'' (various runs):
** vol. 1 (2016 -- 2018)
** ''Jessica Jones: Blind Spot'' (2018)
** ''Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter'' (2019)
* ''ComicBook/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' vol. 5 (2017)

[[AC:Television]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse (2015 -- present):
** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' (2015 -- 2019)
** ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' (2017)

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/MarvelFutureFight'' (2015)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'' (2015)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelPuzzleQuest'' (2018)
* ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance3TheBlackOrder'' (2019)

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!! Jessica Jones provides examples of the following tropes:

%%* ActionGirl: When she wants to be.
* ActionMom: She's a superheroine/detective and fiercely protective of a daughter.
* AlliterativeName: '''J'''essica '''J'''ones.
* TheAlcoholic: Several dialogue bubbles had Jessica say, "Where is mu [[SymbolSwearing $%&/()(/&%]] drink!?"
* ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When [[spoiler:the Purple Man]] walks in the door with the cupcake store doorbell still on it, Jessica laments internally that he's threatened her husband, her baby, and her life – and now he's ruining ''bakeries'' for her too.
* AtrociousAlias: 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.
* BerserkButton: Bringing up the Purple Man incident was a big one in ''Alias''.
* BreakTheCutie: One of the more extreme examples in the MarvelUniverse.
* BrokenBird: After the incident with the Purple Man, leading her to quit being a superhero.
* ByronicHero: She means well and tries to help people, but she's an internally traumatized and considerably temperamental wreck and alcoholic who struggles with her tragic superhero past and future as a detective and mother of a child out of wedlock.
* CassandraTruth: Jessica took the case of a woman whose husband (a regular joe) claimed to come from AnotherDimension. This being Jessica Jones, she took it with ArbitrarySkepticism. This guy killed his wife in a gruesome manner before the case could be completed. He was detained, and Jessica was called to hear his testimony. Yes, he claims to come from another dimension... which was destroyed, as part of a huge conspiracy between heroes of this dimension, who plotted to bargain the death of countless dimensions so that this one could live. In the face of such cosmic horror, his petty murder is nothing. Nobody can ever believe [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 such a story]], right?
* CharacterDevelopment: Thanks to the need to lighten her so she could appear in stuff outside of the MAX imprint (see bellow in LighterAndSofter), the Jessica of ''Alias'' is very different than the Jessica of ''New Avengers''. As a result, it ends up looking like her relationship with Luke and the ending of ''Alias'' helped her get out of her depressed state and grow as a person.
* ChewToy: The Armadillo. Even heroes just assume he's a villain fighting the cops when he's just an ordinary giant armadillo-man going about his business surrounded by the police and trying not to get shot, and beat him up.
* ChildHater: Discussed. Jessica denies having hated babies before she had one. Carol claims she doesn't ''hate'' them so much as she just doesn't like being around them, speculating whether it has anything to do with that time she thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to just be her alien boyfriend regenerating himself inside her womb.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Killgrave orders Jessica to go to the Avengers mansion and kill Daredevil... ignoring the fact that Daredevil was not an Avenger, had never been before that point, and there was zero reason to expect to find him there. But, as Killgrave has a CompellingVoice, she has to obey his orders anyway, somehow. So she attacked the ComicBook/ScarletWitch, simply because she also has a red suit.
* ConspiracyTheory: A man smoking with his friends suddenly declares that he thinks humanity isn't going to get taken over by [[Comicbook/XMen mutants]], but by [[Comicbook/{{Spiderman}} spider-people]].
* DirtyMindReading: Emma Frost in ''Purple Daughter #3'' finds it quite amusing to telepathically overhear [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Jessica musing that]] Emma has a [[MostCommonSuperpower pretty impressive rack]].
* DrowningMySorrows: She drank quite a lot in ''Alias'' to mask the emotional pain.
* EarthAllAlong: Jessica is kidnapped by someone, and held at a warehouse in some unknown location. The kidnapper actually just wanted to talk, making sure that she wouldn't run away. Once they are done, the kidnapper gives a proof of good will by simply releasing Jessica and letting her go, with no problem whatsoever. The warehouse? It was ''at the next street'' to Jessica's home.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Loan Shark is an enormous vicious villain with no reservations about killing Jones and Cage in their own home... until he sees they were setting up their daughter's birthday party and so retreats ashamedly.
%%* ExactWords
* {{Expy}}: She shares a lot of similarities with Bendis's version of ComicBook/SpiderWoman, both with the private detective background, the friendship with Carol Danvers and the snarky KnightInSourArmor demeanor. In fact, ''Alias'' was originally going to star Jessica Drew, but Bendis could not use her, so Jessica Jones was created instead. The two team up at one point during ''Alias''.
* FirstPersonSmartass: Her narration in ''Alias''. Spider-Man has a rival to the throne of Marvel's premier DeadpanSnarker.
* {{Flight}}: She says she can't fly very well, though it seems that she's just out of practice. In her early days as Jewel, she flew just fine.
* FlyingBrick: Flight? Check. Super Strength? Check.
* HappilyMarried: Her marriage to Luke Cage has a lot of love. In fact, their love for each other and their daughter has helped them defeat a lot of problems together.
* {{Infodump}}: When someone takes a chair at Alias and starts to explain what the case is all about, get ready for this.
* InsultBackfire: Inverted in the last issue of Bendis's run. A client calls her a "magnificent, fabulous bitch" over the phone. Jessica starts to apologize, then realizes it was intended as a compliment.
* LeotardOfPower: In the framing story of "Blind Spot", Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) leotard. [[spoiler:After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.]]
* LighterAndSofter: An EnforcedTrope via Marvel Comics' policies on their MAX publications, in which Jessica started. Marvel only permitted a limited few of their characters (such as Luke Cage, Punisher and Jessica herself) from making extended appearances in a MAX book outside of being TheCameo. Due to the mature language, sexual content, and other things, the vast majority of their exhaustive cast of characters were not allowed to participate. When Bendis felt he had done all he could with the character under these limited conditions, he ended ''Alias'' and integrated Jessica into the main MarvelUniverse. As a result, she had to become a much lighter and softer character.
* LoveTriangle: In ''Alias'', she was caught in between Ant-Man and Luke Cage. She also had a interest in [[Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]].
* MamaBear: Do '''not''' mess with her daughter. Norman Osborn and Kang the Conqueror both found this out the hard way.
* MeaningfulName: Miss Schilling is loaded.
* MindRape: The extent of the Purple Man's mental torture was so severe, she couldn't tell whether or not she was doing things with her own will or ''his.''
* MuggingTheMonster: In the first book of ''Alias'', a CorruptCorporateExecutive sends a goon after her, who taunts her about being a necrophiliac rapist. Unfortunately for him, Jessica is ''much'' stronger and ''much'' tougher than he is and it doesn't go well.
* 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 Jessica.
* NoYou: The Purple Man does a version of this. [[spoiler:When trying to convince Jessica to use him as her personal genie, she argues that he would likely turn on her the moment he became annoyed with her, because he is volatile. He retorts that so is she, as if that has anything to do with anything.]]
* 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.
* PregnantBadass: During ''The Pulse''. She beats the daylights out of ComicBook/NormanOsborn for a while after she thinks he caused a miscarriage.
* 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.]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Subverted. Several people ask her if Kilgrave ever raped or sexually abused her while under his control, and she insists that he never did. ''However'', she also insists that she feels no less humiliated, traumatized and violated than if he did.
* 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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers since UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. Jessica's AntiHero stint as Knightress before she started Alias investigations was also retconned into ''The Pulse''.
* TheReveal: ''Purple Daughter'' Chapter 4 (second half of issue #2) reveals that [[spoiler:the Purple Man has been alive and has been used by his newly-revealed son Benjamin to create a special serum with their blood to create stronger mind-controlled people.]]
* SchoolNewspaperNewshound: Her ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe counterpart, who also attends school with Peter Parker.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: One issue has a background TV announcing that "Creator/BrianMichaelBendis saves the world"
* ShoutOut
** This line:
--->'''Agent Carter:''' Yeah, to quote the great General Solo: [[Film/TheForceAwakens That is not how any of this works]]
** Jessica's mother thinks Danielle's newly acquired walking skills look more like falling forward.
--->'''Jessica:''' [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory With style]]
** When Jessica shows up at the police station to see a homicide detective about a recent case, they're bringing in a woman who is cosplaying as Comicbook/{{Gwenpool}}.
** That same homicide detective tells her it's not like on Series/LawAndOrder.
** Jessica refers to Carol as "Miss [[Film/{{Cinderella}} Bippity Boppity Boo]]".
** Raindrop's security guys sit around claiming they are, respectively, [[Creator/EmmaStone Emma Stoned]], [[Creator/SharonStone Sharon Stoned]] and [[Creator/OliverStone Oliver Stoned]]. After sharing his spider-people conspiracy theory, the others concede that the last one ''is'' [[BrickJoke Oliver Stoned]].
** Maria Hill claims not to have slept since Series/ColdCase went off the air.
** Maria Hill calls Jessica [[Music/RobZombie "more human than human"]].
** Jessica tells Miles she doesn't want him getting in detention and joining ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.
* SirSwearsALot: One of Marvel's biggest examples, and certainly the biggest female one. She curses ''very'' frequently in ''Alias''. She was cursing even as a teenager, and even ''after'' she moved beyond MAX's mature imprint and onto the G-Teen rated comics, she kept it up, sometimes being covered up by SymbolSwearing.
* TheSnarkKnight: Not just a DeadpanSnarker, but she had some serious self-esteem issues before finally working on them at the end of ''Alias''.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jessica and [[spoiler:Vernon Hill]] separately arrived at the conclusion that, 1) Maria Hill and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. people are professional liars, and 2) there is no special secret club for people with children.
* SuperDickery: In ''Purple Daughter #1'', the issue opens with Jessica seemingly drowning a woman while musing this is how she becomes a supervillain. In context, it turns out the woman is Kara Killgrave, who Jessica is [[KryptoniteFactor dousing to make sure Kara can't use her mind control powers]]. That said, it was still quite a dick move since Kara had no hostility towards Jessica and was perfectly willing to help her.
* SuperStrength: An undefined amount, thought it's at least enough for her to lift and toss cars.
* 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. As of ''Blind Spot'', [[spoiler:it turns out she's not bulletproof. Jessica was killed by a bullet to the head from Evil!Jared, but then resurrected by Good!Jared.]]
* TimeTravel: Dreams of an encounter with an [[SheIsAllGrownUp adult version]] of her daughter Dani in issue 3 of her 2016 series. She's from around 30 years in the future, and has the combined powers of Jessica, Luke, and Captain America.
* TheUnhug: When people give her hugs, Jessica tends to accept them passively with her arms hanging at her sides.
* UnreliableNarrator: In the first arc of the 2016 series, Sophie Brownlee tells Jessica her husband has decided he's from another world where his wife's name is Gwen and his daughter's name is Norma. When Jessica actually meets Mr. Brownlee, he informs her that his daughter's name is Lily.
* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Benjamin Kilgrave, Purple Man's son, is this, as he doesn't have his skin color and seemingly not his powers. He tells Jessica that Kilgrave was always disappointed in him because of this. He gets his revenge by putting Kilgrave in an induced coma and stealing his blood to create a stronger hypnosis serum by mixing it with his own.]]
* 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.]]
** The last panel in Issue #2 of ''Purple Daughter'' shows that [[spoiler:the Purple Man is no longer purple]].
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Jessica says to her daughter that being the product of an interracial relationship ''and'' two superheroes is enough to make her life hard. The new Power Man also had a problem with the original, her husband ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, for dating a white woman.
* 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 biological daughter and that the purple effect was a cry for help from Zebediah Kilgrave while he was kept in a coma by his son, Benjamin.]] At any rate, Luke has said he considers her his whether or not the biology checks out.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: As part of her Jewel costume, she dyed her hair a purplish pink.

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* ChildHater: Discussed. Jessica denies having hated babies before she had one. Carol claims she doesn't ''hate'' them so much as she just doesn't like being around them, speculating whether it has anything to do with that time she thought she was pregnant, but it turned out to just be her alien boyfriend regenerating himself inside her womb.
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* NoYou: The Purple Man does a version of this. [[spoiler:When trying to convince Jessica to use him as her personal genie, she argues that he would likely turn on her the moment he became annoyed with her, because he is volatile. He retorts that so is she, as if that has anything to do with anything.]]
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When [[spoiler:the Purple Man]] walks in the door with the cupcake store doorbell still on it, Jessica laments internally that he's threatened her husband, her baby, and her life – and now he's ruining ''bakeries'' for her too.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Jessica and [[spoiler:Vernon Hill]] separately arrived at the conclusion that, 1) Maria Hill and the rest of the S.H.I.E.L.D. people are professional liars, and 2) there is no special secret club for people with children.
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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/CarolDanvers until she encountered the 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 ComicBook/{{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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers 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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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/CarolDanvers until she encountered the Purple Man, ComicBook/PurpleMan, 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 ComicBook/{{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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers 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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* ChewToy: The Armadillo. Even heroes just assume he's a villain fihting the cops when he's just an ordinary giant armadillo-man going about his business surrounded by the police and trying not to get shot, and beat him up.

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** Jessica tells Miles she doesn't want him getting in detention and joining ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''.

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** Raindrop's security guys sit around claiming they are, respectively, [[Creator/EmmaStone Emma Stoned]], [[Creator/SharonStone Sharon Stoned]] and [[Creator/OliverStone Oliver Stoned]]. After sharing his spider-people conspiracy theory, the others concede that the last one ''is'' [[Creator/OliverStone Oliver Stoned]].

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** Maria Hill claims not to have slept since Series/ColdCase went off the air.
** Maria Hill calls Jessica [[Music/RobZombie "more human than human"]].
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* ConspiracyTheory: A man smoking with his friends suddenly declares that he thinks humanity isn't going to get taken over by [[Comicbook/XMen mutants]], but by [[Comicbook/{{Spiderman}} spider-people]].


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** That same homicide detective tells her it's not like on Series/LawAndOrder.
** Jessica refers to Carol as "Miss [[Film/{{Cinderella}} Bippity Boppity Boo]]".


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* TheUnhug: When people give her hugs, Jessica tends to accept them passively with her arms hanging at her sides.
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** When Jessica shows up at the police station to see a homicide detective about a recent case, they're bringing in a woman who is cosplaying as Comicbook/{{Gwenpool}}.
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* ByronicHero: She means well and tries to help people, but she's an internally traumatized and considerably temperamental wreck and alcoholic who struggles with your tragic superhero past and future as a detective and mother of a child out of wedlock.

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* 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.

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* ArbitraryScepticism: ArbitrarySkepticism: 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.
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* AlliterativeName: '''J'''essica '''J'''ones. First and last names start with a J.

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* 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 on this by the new Power Man.

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* 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, The new Power Man also had a problem with the original, her husband ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, got called out on this by the new Power Man.for dating a white woman.
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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 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 ComicBook/{{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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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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers until she encountered the 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 ComicBook/{{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 ComicBook/CarolDanvers 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.



* {{Expy}}: She shares a lot of similarities with Bendis's version of ComicBook/SpiderWoman, both with the private detective background, the friendship with Ms. Marvel and the snarky KnightInSourArmor demeanor. In fact, ''Alias'' was originally going to star Jessica Drew, but Bendis could not use her, so Jessica Jones was created instead. The two team up at one point during ''Alias''.

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* {{Expy}}: She shares a lot of similarities with Bendis's version of ComicBook/SpiderWoman, both with the private detective background, the friendship with Ms. Marvel Carol Danvers and the snarky KnightInSourArmor demeanor. In fact, ''Alias'' was originally going to star Jessica Drew, but Bendis could not use her, so Jessica Jones was created instead. The two team up at one point during ''Alias''.



* LeotardOfPower: In the framing story of "Blind Spot", Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel leotard. [[spoiler:After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.]]

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* LeotardOfPower: In the framing story of "Blind Spot", Jessica has been chained to a chair and forced to wear a knockoff Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) leotard. [[spoiler:After she escapes from Evil!Jared, she actually keeps the leotard on just so he can be seen being beaten down by her in it.]]

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