History TearJerker / JessicaJones2015

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** To explain; she beats the shit out of some muggers who were targeting Malcolm. Before she even has time to help him up, Kilgrave walks over, having seen everything. [[VillainRespect Impressed]], he quickly dismisses the women he had with him, and takes ''Jessica'' as his new companion. Considering this, and everything that happened after, it's easy to understand why Jessica flatly ''refuses'' to see herself as a hero.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Music/TheKillers Smile like you mean it...]]]]''

* The ambulance driver - after a stroke, losing both kidneys and being unable to speak, he only wants to die and pleads with Jessica to kill him. She won't.

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[[folder:Episode 2 - "AKA You're Welcome"]]
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[[folder:Episode 3 - "AKA I Have No Spleen"]]
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[[folder:Episode 4 - "AKA Customer Service is Standing By"]]
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[[folder:Episode 5 - "AKA I Wish"]]
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[[folder:Episode 6 - "AKA Sorry Face"]]
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[[folder:Episode 7 - "AKA The Double Half-Wappinger"]]
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[[folder:Episode 8 - "AKA Camera Friendly"]]
* Dorothy's brutal murder. For all her personal faults, she did ''not'' deserve to die kidnapped and tortured to death by Sallinger, especially since she spent her final years trying to make amends with her daughter and was the only one keeping Trish afloat when she went off the rails in Season 2.
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[[folder:Episode 9 - "AKA I Did Something Today"]]
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[[folder:Episode 10 - "AKA Hero Pants"]]
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[[folder:Episode 11 - "AKA Hellcat"]]
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[[folder:Episode 12 - "AKA A Lotta Worms"]]
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[[folder:Episode 13 - "AKA Everything"]]
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[[folder: Episode 1 - "AKA The Perfect Burger"]]

[[folder: Episode 2 - "AKA You're Welcome"]]

[[folder: Episode 3 - "AKA I Have No Spleen"]]

[[folder: Episode 4 - "AKA Customer Service is Standing By"]]

[[folder: Episode 5 - "AKA I Wish"]]

[[folder: Episode 6 - "AKA Sorry Face"]]

[[folder: Episode 7 - "AKA The Double Half-Wappinger"]]

[[folder: Episode 8 - "AKA Camera Friendly"]]
* Dorothy's brutal murder. For all her personal faults, she did ''not'' deserve to die kidnapped and tortured to death by Sallinger, especially since she spent her final years trying to make amends with her daughter and was the only one keeping Trish afloat when she went off the rails in Season 2.

[[folder: Episode 9 - "AKA I Did Something Today"]]

[[folder: Episode 10 - "AKA Hero Pants"]]

[[folder: Episode 11 - "AKA Hellcat"]]

[[folder: Episode 12 - "AKA A Lotta Worms"]]

[[folder: Episode 13 - "AKA Everything"]]

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* Hope [[spoiler:killing her parents]] under the influence of Kilgrave and her reaction to what she did once she comes back to her senses.

* Jessica's rant against the woman who hired her as her husband was supposedly having an affair, but [[spoiler: actually wants to kill Jess and people like her because she [[MisBlamed blames Jess for losing her mother in the Avengers' Battle of New York]]. It borders on Jess being actual NightmareFuel as it properly emerges how destructive her abilities can be while she trashes the cheap bedsit they're in, but after everything she's been through up to that point and knowing she blames herself for a lot of the things that happened under Kilgrave's control, the scene and her frustrations make it much more of a tearjerker for her rather than the woman who lost her mother]].

* Luke Cage finding out that Jessica Jones [[spoiler:killed his wife,]] when she was under Kilgrave's control.
** Also, Jessica's absolutely heartbroken reaction to [[spoiler:Luke insulting her after finding this out.]]
--->'''Luke:''' I was wrong. [[spoiler:You ''are'' a piece of shit.]]
* Hope [[spoiler: being beaten up in jail by her cellmates - especially when it emerges that she's actually ''paying'' them to do it so that she'll miscarry Kilgrave's baby; they probably feel pity and actually don't want to hurt her, but are trying to help her.]]

* He may have been a little creepy, but [[spoiler:Ruben did not deserve to die like that.]] Also Jessica's reaction, having a panic attack and crying that she can't do this.
* And she might not have been a nice person at all, but [[spoiler:you have to feel for Robyn, so devastated over her brother, whom we know she will definitely never see again.]]
* Jessica is so frantic to catch Kilgrave that she's willing to intentionally [[spoiler:get herself locked up in Supermax]] on the slimmest chance it will lead to his capture. Especially sad because it's hinted that she just wants her struggle to be over one way or another.
-->'''Jessica''': Just lock me up. Just let me ''rest.''

* The fact that the car accident in which Jessica lost her family [[spoiler:happened because her dad took his eyes off the road to try and stop Jessica from arguing with her brother. The guilt Jessica feels from, in her mind, ''causing'' the accident must be overwhelming. This isn't helped by the fact that Jessica's last interaction with her brother was an argument.]]

* Kilgrave's reunion with [[spoiler: his parents]]. Despite his horrific life, he just wanted to reconnect with them, and is extremely vulnerable in a childlike way. [[spoiler: Then his mother understandably stabs him]].
** [[spoiler: "I'm sorry I hurt you, Mum."]]
** ... and Kilgrave's response to his mother? [[spoiler: "Mum, for every year that you left me alone... stab yourself."]]
** While Kilgrave's FreudianExcuse doesn't even ''remotely'' excuse his actions, at the moment when [[spoiler: his father reminds him that he ordered his mother to brand herself with an iron,]] he screams "[[spoiler:I was ten! I had a tantrum like a normal child. I didn't know what I was doing! You didn't explain to me, you just left!]]" Kilgrave himself is on the verge of tears. For that moment, at least, you truly can feel sorry for the child, if not the monster he became.
* The fact that [[spoiler: Kilgrave's parents ''weren't'' experimenting on him like it seemed but they were actually trying to cure him, when you think about who he became afterward]].

* [[spoiler: Hope's HeroicSuicide.Throughout the season, Hope was shamed by outside sources for murdering of her own parents, something she was ''forced'' to do by the man who raped her and made her a pet. Just when she had just finally been released from prison and given a new chance at life, she cut her own throat to allow Jessica a chance at killing Kilgrave.]]
** [[spoiler: Also the fact that her suicide rendered the lives lost prior to that almost all meaningless. Jessica would have killed Kilgrave long prior to this, but needed him alive to exonerate the now-dead Hope.]]
** [[spoiler: Her 12 year old brother is the only Schlotmann left now.]]%%[[labelnote:*]]And with this family's track record, he probably was a victim of [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar the finger snap]][[/labelnote]]
* Pam's [[spoiler:AccidentalMurder of Wendy from saving Hogarth.]]
** Just the fact that [[spoiler:Wendy's last moments in life were trying to unwillingly cut her ex-wife to near death under the command of Kilgrave before having her head sliced through a table's edge ''unintentionally.'']]

* [[spoiler: TheReveal that everything Luke has been saying all episode and his forgiveness of Jessica was all false. And then Kilgrave happily instructs Luke to kill her.]]
* [[spoiler: Luke]] telling Jessica to kill him to save herself, as he can't free himself from Kilgrave's mind control.
* Robyn's a nuisance, but she goes full JerkassWoobie in the moments with Malcolm where she drops the screechiness and shows [[spoiler:how completely shattered she is with Ruben gone, showing self-awareness about how people don't like her and she feels Ruben would be disappointed in her for her actions]]. And then Malcolm takes her to the river so she can [[spoiler:say her goodbyes.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Robyn:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext I hope they have free express shipping in heaven.]]]]

* Season two showcases that Jessica is the way she is mainly because the people around her are all using her for their own purposes without taking her feelings into consideration. This becomes more and more glaring as the season goes on. To run down the list: Dorothy wanted to adopt her for a publicity stunt. Kilgrave wanted to use her powers and to a degree was too caught up in his own fascination of her. But now, Malcolm [[spoiler: uses Jessica to "have something to do" while he recovers from his addiction, takes every chance to go behind her back, and even when betrayed by Trish his first instinct is to lecture Jessica about "how much he's done for her," revealing that he did so just to feel better about himself, and then immediately proves himself to be corrupt by going to work for Chang.]] To make it infinitely worse, Trish [[spoiler: uses Jessica and her own involvement in her cases to feel important and the moment this starts working against her, she works against Jessica. She hijacks the investigation just to get powers herself and even goes so far as to commit murder just to prove that "for once, she can save Jessica," meaning she is "special." Yes, she is essentially willingly traumatizing Jessica to feel better about herself.]] The worst case, however, is Alisa, because [[spoiler: she explicitly states she wants Jessica nearby because Jessica can calm her down, essentially declaring that she wants to use Jessica first as a sedative, and then lectures her about how "their light should not be dimmed," that she "needs to feel invigorated" by rushing into danger.]] A running theme in the season is addiction, and Alisa showcases this perfectly by basically [[spoiler: telling Jessica that she is her feel-good drug.]] Wow. No wonder she drinks.

* After Trish discovers that Griffin [[spoiler:organized a surprise Engagement Party for her, Trish only replies "Thank you" and isn't even touched by the whole gesture he did for her (he even invited Dorothy and Jessica). Then Trish breaks up with him after realizing that she never loved him, and only wanted to have a career like his. It's especially heartbreaking after finding out that he genuinely cared about Trish, and that even Jessica was happy for her engagement briefly]].

* [[spoiler: Dr. Malus' Gifted assassin revealing herself to be Jessica's mother.]]

* Jeri breaking down in tears after realizing that [[spoiler:Shane is really a fraud, and not only that, he and Inez ransacked her entire place. [[note]]Carrie Anne-Moss really sells that scene.]][[/note]]

* Alisa completely breaks down in tears after hearing over the news that [[spoiler: Karl is dead. She then knocks Marilyn unconscious, despite her being nothing but generous to her, and breaks out of the prison.]]

* Just as Jessica gets through to Alisa, Detectives Sunday and Costa [[spoiler:storm Trish's hospital room to take her in. Unfortunately, this leads to Alisa gaining the upper hand on Detective Sunday and jumping out the window to Sunday's death.]]
* After Trish [[spoiler:wakes up from her coma, she laments that she lost her chance to gain powers, and calls Jessica a coward for not using the powers she's been given. Jessica counters that she's sick of being Trish's target for her insecurities.]]
** The part where Trish laments [[spoiler:not getting powers was ''after'' learning that Karl was dead. She just heard that a man died, and not only doesn't she accept any responsibility at all, [[LackOfEmpathy her first reaction was regret that she didn't get what she wanted.]]]]
* The way Trish [[spoiler: berates and degrades Jessica just because she doesn't feel "special" enough without powers of her own and her admission "I don't wanna be saved."]] It shows quite glaringly how both their relationship and Trish's mental state has deteriorated.

* Trish [[spoiler: killing Jessica's mom and Jessica taking the blame for her death.]]
** [[spoiler: Which in turn causes Jessica to disown Trish as her sister and severing her ties with her, stating that Alisa was her only family.]]
--->'''Jessica:''' I look at you now and [[spoiler: I only see the person who killed my mother.]]
** [[spoiler: Jessica is clearly traumatized for losing her mom yet again, while the cops assure her that she did the right thing by killing her.]]
* For viewers of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', Jessica's ending of her sophomore outing is very much similar to Matt’s. And Matt was the Defender next to Luke who she seemed to closest to. Like Matt, Jessica has cut almost all of her original friendships. She and Trish are now estranged due to Trish [[spoiler: having killed her mother]], much like Matt was left mourning Elektra. While Malcolm, much like Foggy, has become fed up with Jessica to the point of leaving her to work for Pryce Cheng. The one note of solace is that, much like Matt was able to keep his relationship with Karen in spite of all that happened, Jessica has managed to hold on to her new relationship with Oscar.

* For viewers of ''Series/Daredevil2015'', Jessica's ending of her sophomore outing is very much similar to Matt’s. And Matt was the Defender next to Luke who she seemed to closet to. Like Matt, Jessica has cut almost all of her original friendships. She and Trish are now estranged due to Trish [[spoiler: having killed her mother]], much like Matt was left mourning Elektra. While Malcolm, much like Foggy, has become fed up with Jessica to the point of leaving her to work for Pryce Cheng. The one note of solace is that, much like Matt was able to keep his relationship with Karen in spite of all that happened, Jessica has managed to hold on to her new relationship with Oscar.

** [[spoiler: Her 12 year old brother is now the only Schlotmann left now.]]

** The second suggestion is "childhood home", which after Kilgrave, feels like an emotional kick in the gut. Made even worse by how it really did fill the role of safe space for Jessica once, the address and the surrounding streets being part of her way to ground herself after an anxiety attack in the first episode of season one. [[/folder]]

* Jessica tells the doctor that there is no where she feels safe. He offers suggestions of places that feel safe to most people. Jessica and Trish reject them all, and the audience knows exactly why. [[/folder]]

* Robyn's a nuisance, but she goes full JerkassWoobie in the moments with Malcolm where she drops the screechiness and shows [[spoiler:how completely shattered she is with Ruben gone]]. And then Malcolm takes her to the river so she can [[spoiler:say her goodbyes.]]

** ... and Kilgrave's response to his mother's actions? [[spoiler: "Mum, for every year that you left me alone... stab yourself."]]

** ... and Kilgrave's response to his mother? "Mum, for every year that you left me alone... stab yourself."
** [[spoiler: "I'm sorry I hurt you, Mum."]]