History Series / JessicaJones2015

* KickTheSonOfABitch: When Jessica realizes that Dale Holiday is abusing [[spoiler:her mother]] in prison, she breaks into Dale's home to discover he has been collecting the [[CreepySouvenir jumpsuit numbers]] of prisoners who have "[[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch committed suicide]]" under his watch... [[spoiler:then turns and [[AloneWithThePsycho takes a face-full of Mace]] from [[SerialKiller Dale]]. Dale then starts beating her with a nightstick, [[EvilGloating gleefully taunting her]] that he can kill her in "self-defense"... and she gets a lucky shot in, [[AccidentalMurder killing him instantly]]. Oops]].

* SuperWeight: Most of the characters are on the low side.
** Jessica herself is an Abnormal Weight. She has enhanced strength, faster healing (without an actual healing factor) and super-jumping abilities. Her durability is greatly enhanced: she's resistant but not immune to gunshots, and she shows no reaction at all to being tasered. She's also as light as a slender woman, so she's easily tossed around.
** Luke Cage is a Super Weight. In addition to his [[NighInvulnerability impervious skin]], he also has super strength.
** Kilgrave is a Super Weight, and potentially slipping into Hyper Weight by the end of the series. While he's physically a normal human, his powers would enable him to be a full blown PersonOfMassDestruction were he so inclined.
** Will Simpson is an Iron Weight, being a former Special Ops soldier and trained police officer, slipping up to Abnormal Weight with the use of his performance enhancing drugs to put him on par with Jessica when she's got a couple broken ribs slowing her down.
** Trish Walker is a Muggle Weight in the process of working her way up to Iron Weight throughout the series.

* StylisticSuck: Trish's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hn85XmyMf8 "I Want Your Cray Cray" music video]] from her short-lived music career, a throwback to heavilyy autotuned, cookie-cutter 2000s era pop music. It's so terrible that [[DamnedByFaintPraise the one nice thing]] Jessica can say about it is, "Well it got the ''It's Patsy'' theme song out of my head, so there's that."

* MurderByProxy: In "[[Recap/JessicaJones2015S2E12AKAPrayForMyPatsy AKA Pray for My Patsy]]" Jeri Hogarth, wanting to take revenge on Inez and her boyfriend-cum-accomplice Shane, buy a gun on the BlackMarket from [[ButMonkey Turk]] and then give it to Inez along with revelations about how Shane has other girls on the side. After Inez's confrontation with Shane turns murderous, Jeri calls the police on Inez, presumably leading her to be arrested for murder.

** Jessica's high-school crush on [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] has been cut out due to Jessica being in her mid-thirties in this series, while Peter is still in high school at the time of his debut in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. More to the point, Spider-Man wasn't part of the MCU when the show was first written, as the deal between Sony and Marvel wouldn't happen until later.

[[header:[[center:[-'''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse -- The Defenders Saga'''\\
''[[Series/Daredevil2015 Daredevil]]'' | '''''Jessica Jones''''' | ''[[Series/LukeCage2016 Luke Cage]]'' | ''[[Series/IronFist2017 Iron Fist]]'' | ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 The Defenders]]'' | ''[[Series/ThePunisher2017 The Punisher]]''-]]]]]

''[[Series/Daredevil2015 Daredevil]]'' | '''''Jessica Jones''''' | ''[[Series/LukeCage2016 Luke Cage]]'' | ''[[Series/IronFist2017 Iron Fist]] | ''[[Series/TheDefenders2017 The Defenders]] | ''[[Series/ThePunisher2017 The Punisher]]''-]]]]]

* RetroactiveIdiotBall: Rewatching the series will really make you wince at [[spoiler:all the perfect opportunities Jessica passes up due to not knowing Kilgrave can't control her anymore.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: An aggressive flirter trying to hit on Trish at a bar says that her TV show taught him to "box the bald-headed bishop."

** In the near-past of season 1 covered in flashback, Trish and Jessica are approached at a bar by a man trying to hit on Trish. When he recognizes her he talks about how her TV show helped him to "[[ADateWithRosiePalms box the bald-headed bishop]]". Jessica forces him to apologize to Trish for the way he spoke to her.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: At one point, Kilgrave's powers are explained as him [[spoiler:emitting a virus to which Jessica is immune. Nothing that relies on either diffusion or cell division/reproduction to spread through the body could affect someone as quickly as Kilgrave's mind control affects its victims, nor could its effects be timed to the second to see when his powers would stop affecting people. Towards the end of the series, [[VoodooShark his powers are upgraded so that his voice can command through electronic broadcasts like television and telephones, with no address of how a virus can travel such distances and through walls so quickly]]. Even if he has a way of getting it through the air vents or otherwise into the air they breathe, there is no explanation for how they know it's connected to ''his'' voice.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Jessica tranquilizes Cheng into unconsciousness, then while he's still unconscious, gives him a second dose of tranquilizer and leaves him unattended. While Jessica's actions are not presented as sound medical science, they ''are'' extremely dangerous and could easily cause a fatal overdose.

** The first season's plot is based around Jessica's repeated attempts to prove Kilgrave can control people, thus proving Hope innocent of killing her parents - and as more of his victims come forward, it becomes more apparent than ever that he can't be allowed to go free. [[spoiler:Kilgrave squirms out of every attempt to expose his powers, and [[AllForNothing Hope kills herself]] during a stand-off to force Jessica to focus on just killing him. However, Kilgrave's final rampage demonstrates his powers to the authorities, permitting his other victims to rebuild their lives - including [[HeroInsurance exonerating Jessica for his death]]. Also, Jessica now has a HundredPercentAdorationRating and jobs/help requests flood her voice mail, with Malcolm staying on to help her.]] That said, ''Series/TheDefenders2017'' opens with Jessica still drinking and still having not fixed up her apartment from the fight with Simpson, although Malcolm and Trish are still pushing her to take cases to get her bills paid.

* FetishesAreWeird: In the first episode, Jessica spies on one of her neighbors across the street sniff his partner's shoes. While it is actually creepy that he did this without letting his partner know, [[CringeComedy Jessica'a reaction implies that it's just gross he has a shoe fetish.]]

A third season was ordered on April 12, 2018 and released on June 14th, 2019. On February 18, 2019, it was announced the show was canceled along with ''Series/ThePunisher2017'', effectively ending the Marvel original series run on Netflix and making the third season its last. The show also has the distinction of being the only Marvel-Netflix series to be cancelled ''before'' the release of its final season. Joining the cast for the third and final season include Jeremy Bobb as [[ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}} Gregory Sallinger]], Creator/BenjaminWalker as Erik Gelden, and Aneesh Sheth as Gillian. In February 2022, the series, alongside the rest of the ''Defenders'' franchise, exited Netflix's platform, moving to Creator/DisneyPlus the next month.