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| 13 | [[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''Defenders & Their Allies''' ([[Characters/MCUMattMurdock Matt Murdock]] | [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] | [[Characters/MCULukeCage Luke Cage]] | [[Characters/MCUDannyRand Danny Rand]] | [[Characters/MCUFrankCastle Frank Castle]] | [[Characters/MCUKarenPage Karen Page]] | [[Characters/MCUElektraNatchios Elektra Natchios]]) -]]] |
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| 15 | !!''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
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| 21 | [-[[caption-width-right:300:'''Stick:''' You think the four of you can save New York? You can't even save yourselves.]]-] |
| 22 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
| 23 | |
| 24 | ->''"More death is coming, and the only thing keeping Manhattan from crumbling into a pile of dust is the four of you."'' |
| 25 | -->-- '''Stick''' |
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| 27 | A team of street-level heroes defending the mean streets of New York from more grounded threats. |
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| 30 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 31 | * TenMinuteRetirement: |
| 32 | ** Jessica [[RefusalOfTheCall Refuses The Call]] when she gets overwhelmed by [[TheReveal the massive amount of information being hurled at her]] in the restaurant. A few hours later she finds out the Hand are watching Raymond's family, so returns to the restaurant just in time for the fight. |
| 33 | ** Matt at the start of the show hasn't done anything Daredevil-related since telling Karen his secret, out of guilt over Elektra's death and also over losing Nelson & Murdock. While getting ready for a court appearance, he briefly pauses mid-rehearsal when he hears a fight breaking out, but relaxes when he hears the police arriving to defuse the situation and resumes his rehearsing. After the earthquake, the amount of cries for help overwhelms him and he can't resist running to stop some looters and a store owner trying to shoot them with a shotgun. |
| 34 | * AlliterativeName: '''M'''att '''M'''urdock and '''J'''essica '''J'''ones. |
| 35 | * AntiHeroTeam: They're a much darker, morally grey team compared to the Avengers. |
| 36 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite living through [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Incident]], to say nothing of their own superpowers and dealings with the Hand, Kilgrave, and Diamondback respectively, Matt, Jessica, and Luke have a hard time believing in Danny's superpowers. |
| 37 | -->'''Jessica:''' What are you on, lithium? |
| 38 | * BadassCrew: Composed of four of New York's deadliest fighters. |
| 39 | * BadassInANiceSuit: Matt and Danny have a few fights where they have to fight in civilian clothing, hence, suits and ties. |
| 40 | * BashSiblings: Criminals of New York must beware when these four start to kick ass together. |
| 41 | * BeingGoodSucks: A recurring theme for each member, ''especially'' Jessica; their victories are usually measured in the lives they ''didn't'' save and the damage it incurs on their reputations or relationships. They're usually in worse positions by the end of their stories than where they started. |
| 42 | * BloodKnight: One trait that they all share in common. They are all broken people who have violent tendencies. |
| 43 | * CanonImmigrant: The MCU version of the Defenders made it [[ComicBook/TheDefenders2017 into the mainstream comics]], featuring the same quartet. |
| 44 | * CivvieSpandex: Matt is the only member that wears a superhero outfit, the rest wear ordinary clothes. |
| 45 | * ColorMotif: All defenders have their own colors frequently used as ColorWash or in uniforms. Matt uses red, Luke yellow, and Danny green. Jessica starts her series with Kilgrave's purple but ditches it for blue (with an occasional flash of purple) by the time of The Defenders. |
| 46 | * ColourCodedForYourConvenience: |
| 47 | ** Matt is associated with the color red. His necktie, glasses, cane, and Daredevil armor are all red. While we don't see it here, we know that he sees the world in red flames, and his motif evokes a lot of imagery of rage and punishment. His scenes, such as the church, are shot in red colors. |
| 48 | ** Jessica is connected with tones of blue - but no longer purple (except for a flash in her intro), due to her triumph over Kilgrave. Scenes focusing on her tend to look cold and unwelcoming, but the scenes that don't focus on her tend to show blue, hopeful colors, like the sky. She mostly wears entirely black clothing, except for her blue jeans, and scenes featuring her tend to feature blue furnishings and blue-filtered light or water. |
| 49 | ** Luke has a lot of warm, welcoming yellow colors in his scenes - he wears a yellow shirt, his hoodie has yellow accents, and he's introduced wearing an orange jumpsuit. His scenes show a lot of natural sunlight or lights through yellow shades, and most furnishings in his scenes are yellow or light wood. |
| 50 | ** Danny primarily is shown with green, a very rich color, and he is the Defender with the most money. He wears green sweaters or jackets, his scenes such as Colleen’s dojo tend to have a lot of green hues, and his employees are also aware enough to complement his company's green office space with green shirts. |
| 51 | ** Fittingly, the Royal Dragon where the four of them regroup, rest, and eventually decide to work together has all of the above colors in its decor and lighting. Even the neon dragon sign is lit only with red, blue, yellow, and green bulbs. |
| 52 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Only Matt and Danny go by actual superhero codenames. |
| 53 | ** Jessica turned down the idea of the codename "Jewel". |
| 54 | ** Luke has been casually called "Power Man" as a [[MythologyGag tongue and cheek reference to the comics]] but typically he simply goes by "Luke Cage". [[spoiler:Of course, "Luke Cage" in and of itself is an alias taken to disguise his true identity as Carl Lucas, so technically he ''is'' using a codename after all]]. |
| 55 | ** "The Defenders" is never actually brought up InUniverse, despite not only being the name of the series but also its final episode (much like in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'', where in its own respective titular episode the codename ''was'' first brought up). |
| 56 | * CompositeCharacter: Bears the name of the Defenders, but the "street-level" themed team more closely resemble the ComicBook/HeroesForHire or the Marvel Knights. |
| 57 | * ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: They're presented - first in their own individual shows and in this show - as gritty and urban crimefighters as opposed to the planet-level Avengers and the space-level Guardians. |
| 58 | * TheCowl: In contrast to the Avengers [[TheCape who get to show off their heroics in public, saving lives and getting wide recognition]]. The Defenders hunt down criminals and typically sneak about in an effort to keep a low profile. Even with Luke and Danny who lean towards TheCape with the hope they inspire, they still primarily operate by barging in on the villain's turf and bringing them down. |
| 59 | * DeadpanSnarker: An entire team of them. Jessica, being the most cynical of the group, puts extra emphasis on deadpan. |
| 60 | * DysfunctionJunction: Each of the four team members has a DarkAndTroubledPast: |
| 61 | ** Matt was blinded in a car accident when he was nine years old. His boxer father was killed shortly thereafter for refusing to take a dive. |
| 62 | ** Jessica lost her family, had to live with Trish's abusive mom, and has PTSD because she spent almost a year being mind-controlled by a sociopath. |
| 63 | ** Luke is an ex-Marine who later became a sheriff's deputy, then got framed for murder by his own half-brother. While in prison, he got subjected to beatdowns, was forced to fight in an underground boxing ring, and got his powers in a special experimental operation meant to save his life. He then broke out and spent the next few years on the run. |
| 64 | ** Danny is a billionaire heir whose parents were murdered by his dad's business partner. He has PTSD from surviving the same plane crash where he watched them die. The monks who raised him didn't help, as they beat him with sticks and taught him to suppress his childhood trauma instead of facing it. |
| 65 | ** As Stick puts it: |
| 66 | --->'''Stick:''' You think the four of you can save New York? You can't even save yourselves. |
| 67 | * FightsLikeANormal: All of them, except perhaps Luke, predominantly rely on ordinary punches when fighting crime. Though Danny can enhance his with the Iron Fist when required. |
| 68 | * FireForgedFriends: By the end of ''The Defenders,'' they become this: Jessica and Luke are true friends, Matt admits that he's glad to have met them all, Matt and Jessica manage to earn respect for one another and see how they aren't so different, Danny and Luke get a budding {{bromance}}, and Danny is inspired by Matt to [[spoiler:carry on his mission to protect the people of Hell's Kitchen and New York after Matt's HeroicSacrifice.]] |
| 69 | * FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Danny is the Optimist, Jessica is the Cynic, Matt is the Realist, and Luke is the Apathetic. |
| 70 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: |
| 71 | ** Matt (Choleric) - Calm, focused, and the most mission-oriented. However, he prefers being a lone wolf and would rather not work as part of a team. |
| 72 | ** Jessica (Melancholic) - [[GoodIsNotNice rude]], [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], [[TheCynic cynical]], and definitely the most difficult team member to work with. She also got [[KnightInSourArmor drawn into the hero business unwillingly rather than by choice]]. |
| 73 | ** Luke (Phlegmatic) - kind and easy-going, but [[ReluctantHero initially preferred not getting involved in the hero business]]. |
| 74 | ** Danny (Sanguine) - the [[NiceGuy most compassionate and friendly]] of the Defenders, having a case of ChronicHeroSyndrome and actively looks out for the well-being of others. |
| 75 | * GeodesicCast: They form a team that contrasts with Film/{{the Avengers|2012}} and the Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}. |
| 76 | * GlassCannon: |
| 77 | ** Jessica is strong, but she lacks the superhuman durability of Luke, the protective armor of Matt, or the defensive chi applications of Danny's powers, meaning she's still vulnerable to blades and gunfire and a car impact can badly weaken her until she recovers. |
| 78 | ** Danny's not nearly as durable as Luke or Jessica, and doesn't have protective armor like Matt, but at full power, his punches can far exceed the former two's SuperStrength, as seen when [[spoiler:he punches the floor of the Rand boardroom hard enough to upheave everyone standing on it and blow out all the windows with the shockwave.]] |
| 79 | * HeartbrokenBadass: |
| 80 | ** The trauma of Kilgrave is still hovering over Jessica, and her alcoholism has gotten worse. Her apartment is still damaged from the fight with Will Simpson. |
| 81 | ** Matt is still mourning over Elektra's death, to the point that he's given up on being Daredevil completely. In the meantime, he's doing ''pro bono'' law work for disadvantaged people in Hell's Kitchen. He and Karen Page are back on speaking terms, but are not quite sure about resuming their romantic relationship. In the first episode, he is seen going to confessional and opening up to Father Lantom about how difficult Elektra's death has been on him: |
| 82 | --->'''Father Lantom:''' This other life you led. Is your heart still with it [Daredevil], or is your heart with the one who walked through it by your side?\ |
| 83 | '''Matt:''' Elektra?\ |
| 84 | '''Father Lantom:''' Yeah.\ |
| 85 | '''Matt:''' I do miss her. But how do I know that the things she brought out of me were wrong?\ |
| 86 | '''Father Lantom:''' From what you've told me about her, I think she'd be happy about how well you're doing. \ |
| 87 | '''Matt:''' Maybe. Or maybe she'd tell me I'm abandoning that life and with it, her memory.\ |
| 88 | '''Father Lantom:''' You're not abandoning Elektra, you don't have it in you. What you're doing, we call that 'moving on'. Purgatory is a place for the dead, Matthew, not the living. There's nothing wrong with letting people go. She'll find her peace. I pray you find yours as well. |
| 89 | * HeroesActVillainsHinder: A sharp contrast to their Avengers counterparts. These heroes don't wait around for the villain to make a move, and actively take steps in bringing an established successful villain down. They do so by picking off the villain's lowly minions, slowly working up the hierarchy, until being able to confront the BigBad themselves. |
| 90 | * HugeGuyTinyGirl: Not that Jessica is short (5'9), but the guys mostly tower over her (5'10 Matt, 6'0 Danny, 6'3 Luke). That being said, Jessica has SuperStrength powers that put her on-par with the others in terms of power. |
| 91 | * InNameOnly: They have nothing in common with the Defenders team in the comics which was far from "street level", originating with most members being powerhouses like The Hulk, Silver Surfer, and Dr Strange. If anything the MCU team more closely resemble the ComicBook/HeroesForHire, a for-profit superhero team founded by Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Basically, they are Heroes for Hire ''calling themselves'' "The Defenders". |
| 92 | * KnightInSourArmor: They've all been broken by the world around them, but they continue to fight for what they think is the right thing. |
| 93 | * LetsYouAndHimFight: Several of these. |
| 94 | ** Jessica and Luke are forced to fight when Luke gets [[BrainwashedAndCrazy put under the control]] of Kilgrave, the fight ends with Jessica knocking Luke out with a point blank shotgun blast to the head. |
| 95 | ** Luke and Danny fight each other the first time they meet, with Luke mistaking Danny interrogating a Hand member as a mugging. Danny ends up using the Iron Fist technique on Luke, which actually works. |
| 96 | ** When Danny tries to leave the complex, Matt tries to keep him there for safety. Danny doesn't cooperate and attacks, leading Matt and Danny to fight it out, with Matt mostly kicking Danny's ass. The other Defenders intervene, to which Danny eventually knocks everyone back with the Iron Fist. However Jessica ends the fight by knocking Danny out with a punch to the face. |
| 97 | * MythologyGag: Matt and Jessica's first meeting, with Matt showing up while Jessica is being interrogated is a scene lifted right out of the comics, complete with the line "Jessica Jones, stop talking." |
| 98 | * NewYorkIsOnlyManhattan: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. Every member of the Defenders is from the New York borough of Manhattan, which is where the events of ''The Defenders'' take place. Matt and Jessica were born and raised in Hell's Kitchen while Luke is a proud native of Harlem and Danny simply lives in Manhattan itself as opposed to a specific neighborhood. |
| 99 | * NormalFishInATinyPond: In a world of super beings, the Defenders are the "street level" heroes and far beneath the Avengers weight class, but they typically deal with villains and criminals with either less or no powers as well, hence are still able to be "super" in their own right. |
| 100 | * NotWearingTights: Unlike their comic counterparts, Daredevil is the only one who regularly wears a costume. |
| 101 | * OneManArmy: All of the Defenders are capable of serving as this, taking on whole squads of {{mook}}s on their own. The one time they couldn't fight the fight solo is when they are forced to form the team. |
| 102 | * OutsideContextProblem: As a group, to the Hand. While the organization had experience with fighting Daredevil in his own second season, and a long history of being opponents to the various Iron Fists, most of the opponents they had been fighting so far were the Chastes, who were regular humans with ninja training. The current Iron Fist being backed-up by a team of other superhumans is something entirely new for them, and clearly something they aren't prepared for. |
| 103 | * PragmaticAdaptation: The Defenders are usually a team of powerhouses and mystical heroes, while here they are composed of street level heroes. |
| 104 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: |
| 105 | ** As Stick brilliantly puts it in the trailer: |
| 106 | --->'''Stick:''' The [[RedBaron Devil of Hell's Kitchen]], the [[DeadpanSnarker smartass]] [[PrivateDetective detective]], the [[WrongfullyAccused righteous]] [[ClearMyName ex-con]], and [[TheBabyOfTheBunch the kid]] [[KiManipulation with a glowing fist]]. |
| 107 | ** Danny joins in too: |
| 108 | --->'''Danny:''' We make quite a team.\ |
| 109 | '''Jessica:''' No?\ |
| 110 | '''Danny:''' What are you talking about? [[ImmuneToBullets Bulletproof]] (Luke), [[HandicappedBadass blind]] [[FightsLikeANormal ninja]] (Matt), [[AndZoidberg whatever it is you are]] (Jessica).\ |
| 111 | '''Jessica:''' [[SarcasmMode Classy]]. |
| 112 | * RedOniBlueOni: Jessica and Danny are the hot-headed and reckless Red to Luke and Matt's rational and controlled Blue. |
| 113 | * SimilarSquad: The team holds a roster of similar roles to The Avengers. |
| 114 | ** Matt fills the role of Iron Man. Being the premiere hero and BreakoutCharacter, first introduced in their respective franchises. Both excel at their day jobs which allow them to be both heroes in their secret identities and their alter egos. Both are one of the possible leaders for their respective SuperTeam, while both were also given their superhero codenames by the media. |
| 115 | ** Danny takes after Thor. Both are from a mystical culture that are [[ProudWarriorRace trained to fight]], with their powers derived from mystical means, and has [[FishOutOfWater trouble adapting to modern society]]. Both also have the most personal connection with the BigBad that caused the team to form for the first time. |
| 116 | ** Luke is in the seat for Captain America. Both were experimented on to be {{Super Soldier}}s and have their physical attributes enhanced to superhuman levels. Both are idealistic heroes who want to see the goodness in people. Luke is even called "Harlem's Captain America" by Cottonmouth. |
| 117 | ** Jessica is in the seat of Black Widow. Both are (initially) the sole female members of their teams, but can kick ass just as fine as the other members. Additionally, both have a DarkAndTroubledPast and have dealt with being BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 118 | ** Stick is the stand-in for Nick Fury. The defacto mentors of the team who inform them of their purpose and guide them through their mission. Both have eye-sight problems, both are leaders of an organisation[[note]]SHIELD for Nick Fury, The Chaste for Stick[[/note]] that rivals the villains organisation[[note]]HYDRA for Avengers and The Hand for Defenders[[/note]], and both have resorted to morally questionable means. |
| 119 | ** The only member of the core Avengers who's absent is a Bruce Banner/Hulk figure. |
| 120 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: [[WideEyedIdealist Danny]] -> Luke -> Matt -> [[TheCynic Jessica]]. |
| 121 | * StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Jessica's and Luke's SuperStrength as well as the latter's NighInvulnerable skin are glossed over in some fights. Although one could make an argument that the Hand's members are somewhat superhuman themselves considering their resurrection and enhancements, the same people then also fight on par with BadassNormal's like Colleen or Matt. {{Justified|Trope}} in Luke's case: Stick says he could do a lot more damage if he didn't pull his punches, but Luke says he doesn't want to kill anybody. In fact, he very likely would've been able to subdue Elektra if Stick hadn't gassed him with that incense. |
| 122 | * SuperStrength: |
| 123 | ** Luke and Jessica's main strength. |
| 124 | ** Danny when he's using the Iron Fist. |
| 125 | * SuperheroSpeciation: Played with, as most of the Defenders powers amount to some form of hitting people. |
| 126 | ** Jessica and Luke have superhuman strength as their main powers. Matt and Danny have vastly different powers (super-senses, the Iron Fist) but use martial arts as their main mode of attack. |
| 127 | ** On the other hand, Jessica is not bulletproof like Luke (Audrey Eastman called her bluff), but can run more quickly and jump higher than he. Although Matt doesn't have Danny's mystic abilities, he makes up for it with his [[SuperSenses heightened senses]]. |
| 128 | ** In a way, the whole team forms a spectrum from BadassNormal to flat-out superpowered: |
| 129 | *** Matt Murdock is essentially just a BadassNormal. He has SuperSenses as well, but they don't augment Stick's training. He's also the only member to use weaponry (his billy clubs and escrima sticks). |
| 130 | *** Danny Rand uses Supernatural Martial Arts (see below). While the Iron Fist gives him some level of Super Strength[=/=]EnhancedPunch, he usually FightsLikeANormal. |
| 131 | *** Luke Cage is a MightyGlacier. He has Super Strength, is ImmuneToBullets, and has a HealingFactor and SuperToughness in case anything ''does'' get through his skin. He also [[EmpoweredBadassNormal was a Marine]] but doesn't use his skills much. |
| 132 | *** Jessica Jones is a FlyingBrick. She has Super Strength, Super Toughness (though not as much as Luke), a Healing Factor, and [[NotQuiteFlight "guided falling"]]. However, she [[UnskilledButStrong doesn't know any fighting techniques]]. |
| 133 | ---->'''Jessica:''' Jesus, am I the only one left who doesn't know karate?! |
| 134 | * SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: They deal with the smaller threats local to New York that get overlooked by the Avengers. |
| 135 | * SupportingProtagonist: Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. Despite the ''Defenders'' series being billed as a superhero team-up, and all four heroes getting equal screentime, it mostly revolves around Matt, Danny, and the mystical war between the descendants of K'un-Lun. Once the initial incidents draw them into the investigation, Luke and Jessica are mostly muscle, and their MythArc about [=IGH=] and Reva's experiments go unmentioned and unrelated to the Hand's plan. |
| 136 | * TheTeam: When faced with a threat that none of them can deal with on their own, they band together to fight in the "War for New York". |
| 137 | * TeamMemberInTheAdaptation: The core team of the Defenders in the comics consists of ComicBook/DoctorStrange, [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], ComicBook/SilverSurfer and [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]]. None of them is featured in this series, with the team consisting of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Only Cage was briefly a member of the team in the comics. However, after the series came out, a new ''Defenders''-team based on the MCU-version was introduced in the comics. |
| 138 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Much like the Avengers, they don't all get along with each other immediately. Jessica was weirded out by Matt when he abruptly shows up in her life, while Luke and Danny get into a fight with each other. Jessica also keeps her cold snarky attitude towards the rest of the team. |
| 139 | * ThouShaltNotKill: As noted in their individual sections, all four of them have codes about killing their enemies, though to varying degrees; Matt openly touts it as his number-one rule and even goes out of his way to prevent allies from landing kills. Luke also actively refuses to kill and has to restrain himself during fights to avoid landing fatal blows on his opponents. Jessica killed Reva on Kilgrave's orders, and only killed Kilgrave after all other non-fatal attempts to stop him failed. Danny almost killed Harold Meachum but was spared the blood of murder by Ward showing up to finish him off. [[spoiler:After all the atrocities that the Hand commit while coming after them, and with their global power and influence, the Defenders ultimately conclude that they have no choice but to ''kill'' the Five Fingers of the Hand just to make the nightmare stop.]] |
| 140 | * TheThreeFacesOfAdam: Danny is The Hunter (righteous, but naive), Matt is The Lord (represents the law) and Luke is The Prophet (the everyman from the streets). |
| 141 | * TrueCompanions: As much as Luke and Jessica don't want to admit it, they do end up becoming this to Danny and Matt. Colleen says that she and the Defenders are starting to fill the hole that the death of Danny's parents left him with, which means that they're as important to Danny as Colleen is. Later, Matt admits that while he wished the circumstances of meeting them were different, he is ultimately glad that he managed to find people like him. |
| 142 | * TokenMinority: Luke is the sole non-white Defender. Matt could also be included, as he is the only one with a physical disability thanks to his blindness. Jessica is also the sole female member. |
| 143 | * UnresolvedSexualTension: Luke and Jessica have some shade of this, as Jessica still shows some level of attraction to Luke, but he's currently hooked up with Claire. |
| 144 | * WeakButSkilled: Compared to Luke and Jessica, this is Matt and Danny. Danny has access to super-strength when he wields the Iron Fist, but that's inconsistent. Matt is this again compared to Danny, which he demonstrates by [[LetsYouAndHimFight handing Danny his ass]] before taking cover from the Fist. |
| 145 | * WhiteMaleLead: Matt is the most conventionally super-heroic of the four, while the Hand's scheme was started in ''Daredevil'' season 2 and ''Iron Fist'' season 1. [[spoiler: Matt even symbolically passes the torch to Danny at the end, despite his competence having been called into question through most of the series.]] Jessica and Luke have some cool moments, but have to be brought in to help via cases that are tangential to the plot. |
| 146 | * WorkingClassHero: All of them save for Danny come from these roots. Matt comes from a working-class background and mostly handles ''pro bono'' legal work for disadvantaged people in Hell's Kitchen who can't afford the higher-priced firms. Luke deals with street crime in Harlem. Jessica is a private investigator who has clients of all backgrounds, both rich and poor. |
| 147 | * WorkingTheSameCase: Each of the four are investigating the criminal activities of the Hand, and find themselves in Midland Circle at the same time. |
| 148 | ** Jessica is tracking down John Raymond, after receiving a threatening call from someone using a voice scrambler to not take the case. When John kills himself rather than let Elektra kill him, she gets brought in by Misty, who caught her stealing evidence from the crime scene. Matt gets dragged in through this case as Foggy sends him to be Jessica's attorney, and he follows her to Midland Circle. |
| 149 | ** Luke is working with Misty Knight to track down Cole, after Cole's brother becomes the most recent victim in a string of murders in Harlem of young men who are getting recruited into a mysterious well-paying job associated with the Hand and then get killed off very shortly thereafter. He and Danny end up encountering each other while coming upon a “clean-up” project sponsored by The Hand. After Luke and Danny get into a fight caused by Luke interrupting Danny's attempt to interrogate Cole, Claire and Colleen get them into the Chikara dojo and force them to realize they're on the same side. |
| 150 | ** Danny and Colleen are already investigating the Hand, and have had a setback when, while following up on a lead in Cambodia, Elektra attacks them, wounds Danny, and kills the man they were seeking to get information out of. |
| 151 | * YouAllMeetInACell: Matt and Jessica meet when Matt, out of the blue, shows up to provide impromptu legal counsel while Misty is interrogating her. |
| 152 | * YouAllMeetInAnInn: PlayedWith. They don't all actually meet up in the Royal Dragon, but immediately after all four do meet in Midland Circle, they run into the Royal Dragon to lay low. Danny convinces the owner to let them stay by paying his rent for the next six months, and ordering "four of everything." Stick finds them shortly thereafter, and thus begins an InfoDump that sets up our heroes teaming up to defeat the Hand. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | !!Members |
| 156 | [[index]] |
| 157 | * [[Characters/MCUMattMurdock Matt Murdock / Daredevil]] |
| 158 | * [[Characters/MCUJessicaJones Jessica Jones]] |
| 159 | * [[Characters/MCULukeCage Luke Cage]] |
| 160 | * [[Characters/MCUDannyRand Daniel Rand-K'ai / Iron Fist]] |
| 161 | [[/index]] |
| 162 | |
| 163 | !!Allies |
| 164 | |
| 165 | !! Introduced in ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' |
| 166 | |
| 167 | [[folder:Frank Castle / The Punisher]] |
| 168 | -->See [[Characters/MCUFrankCastle The Punisher]]. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder:Foggy Nelson]] |
| 172 | !!''Franklin Percy "Foggy" Nelson'' |
| 173 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/daredevilfoggy2.png]] |
| 174 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"We're gonna make a difference. I know it doesn't feel like it some times, but we are."'']] |
| 175 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 176 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 177 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Nelson's Meats (formerly); Columbia University (formerly); Landman and Zack (formerly); Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz (formerly); Nelson, Murdock and Page |
| 178 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EldenHenson |
| 179 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DanielStreeter (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Felipe Drummond (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 180 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/DaredevilBornAgain'' |
| 181 | |
| 182 | ->''"Come on, we're gonna be business partners. We're gonna share everything with each other. Our thoughts, our dreams, bills, crushing debt... There is no one I'd rather be doing this with, buddy. Seriously."'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | Matt's best friend and business partner at Nelson, Murdock and Page. |
| 185 | ---- |
| 186 | * AdaptationalCurves: While he's still a bit chubby in this adaptation, it's not to the level of his comics counterpart. |
| 187 | * AdaptationNameChange: He's still Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, but his middle initial "P." is now given a full-fledged middle name, in this case, "Percy". |
| 188 | * TheAlcoholic: He's such a hard drinker that Marci smuggles him a bottle of liquor while he's recuperating from getting shot during the Reyes assassination, and they both sip it straight from the bottle. |
| 189 | * AmbulanceChaser: Both Wesley and Mahoney label him (and Matt) as such. Foggy, for his part, is completely, hilariously shameless about this and even goes as far as bribing Mahoney for inside scoops. |
| 190 | * BadassBookworm: Graduated from Columbia Law ''cum laude'', defends Karen from two guys with his softball bat, even talks down two gangbangers trying to settle a score in an emergency room by appealing to their inner pragmatism. |
| 191 | * BashBrothers: Take Foggy on in a legal battle, and he will dance circles around you. Get Foggy and Matt to tag-team against you, and you won't even have time to catch your breath before they hand you your ass. |
| 192 | * BestFriend: He and Matt have been best friends ever since they met at law school. |
| 193 | * BetaCouple: He and Marci are this to the alpha couple of Matt and Karen. |
| 194 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite looking like a pushover, he's willing to stand up and deliver a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to bullies. |
| 195 | * BigBeautifulMan: Foggy is pretty ''handsome'', to say the least, and manages to attract not one but ''two'' very beautiful women, [[HelloAttorney Marci Stahl]] and [[SexySecretary Karen Page]]. |
| 196 | * BromanticFoil: ZigZaggedTrope. Foggy comes across as a [[GoldFever money-obsessed]] UnluckyEveryDude, and LovableCoward compared to the morally upright, ChickMagnet, and [[TheStoic stoic]] Matt, and is often used as comic relief. In later episodes ([[spoiler:especially after his and Matt's falling out]]), it's revealed that he's not quite any of those things. Under the right conditions, Foggy is far more selfless, attractive, and brave than the average person. However, he still fits this trope in comparison to Matt, so he acts as a competent foil. |
| 197 | * TheBusCameBack: He's set to make his return in ''Daredevil: Born Again'', 6 years after the cancellation of ''Daredevil''.. |
| 198 | * TheCameo: He makes a minor appearance on the second season of Jessica Jones where he tries to help Jeri fight off her partners who are trying to buy her out, only for his help to be rudely rejected. |
| 199 | * CharacterDevelopment: [[spoiler:Despite his kindness, he was a money-obsessed lawyer favoring money over real values and being pretty pessimistic when things become very complicated legally. Then in Season 3, despite Fisk manages to escape from any of their plans, Foggy stays the most determined to not give up and do things in a legally valid way.]] |
| 200 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: People underestimate Foggy at their peril. As goofy and silly as he is, when time calls, Foggy can still lay down a beating on some street thugs with a bat. Or talk them out of trying to fight each other in a crowded emergency room. And while it may seem at first glance that Matt is the brains of their operation, Foggy is an extremely capable attorney who repeatedly leaves rivals up to and including [[spoiler:the corrupt and connected Manhattan DA]] wondering what the hell just happened as he mops the floor with them, [[spoiler:which is probably why said corrupt DA quickly resorts to under-the-table methods of screwing with Nelson & Murdock to avoid having to match wits face to face.]] |
| 201 | * DeadpanSnarker: This seems to be his natural state of being, he drops it only when things get really serious. Mostly. |
| 202 | * EmbarrassingNickname: "Foggy Bear", his ex-girlfriend Marci's nickname for him, is this at first. Once they get back together, though, it becomes more of an AffectionateNickname. |
| 203 | * FatBestFriend: Foggy is a bit chubby compared to Matt, no surprise thanks to Matt having to be fit to go out as Daredevil. He also seems aware of it, as he insists that Matt is always luckier than him at scoring girls. |
| 204 | * FlippingTheBird: Does this to Matt when asking HowManyFingers Matt accurately says he's holding up one finger. |
| 205 | * GladToBeAliveSex: Has this with Marci after his near-death experience at the ''Bulletin''. |
| 206 | * GoldFever: Foggy can be subject to this on occasion, trying to balance getting billable clients to keep the lights on at Nelson & Murdock with being ethical and helping people. He eagerly accepts James Wesley's check because of the large sum he's offering, but immediately decides he wants out once he sees that Wesley wants them to defend an obviously guilty sociopath. |
| 207 | * GuileHero: Foggy's main gimmick in the series has him going up against people who have far more power and money than he does, standing in their way, and taking their legs out from under them with his thorough understanding of the legal system and a sheer inability to be intimidated. |
| 208 | * TheHeart: As Foggy is packing his boxes in "The Dark At The End Of The Tunnel", Matt points out that Foggy was always the one who would stand up for anybody and appeal to the inner goodness of each and every person. |
| 209 | * HeroOfAnotherStory: |
| 210 | ** Whatever he legally did prior to the start of ''The Defenders'', he manages to get Luke Cage out of prison at the start of the series. |
| 211 | ** Aside from a single appearance in ''Jessica Jones'' Season 2 to remind us that he still works at Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz, Foggy doesn't have any role in that show's narrative, other than to establish that this is still the same universe ''Daredevil'' takes place in. |
| 212 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: Foggy and Matt have been hanging out since law school and are as thick as thieves until the strain of representing Frank Castle and Matt's Daredevil work causes them to decide to move on from the firm and each other. Luckily, they still remain (awkward) friends by ''The Defenders'', and are basically back to this by the end of Season 3 after reconciling, even deciding to go into business together once more. |
| 213 | * HowManyFingers: Tries to test if Matt's blindness is legit by FlippingTheBird at him. |
| 214 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Early on he seems more interested in money than in helping people, but he's immediately uncomfortable with dealing with the mob and Frank and goes out of his way to help others who are being pushed around by shady people, even outside of work. He even spends an episode working on Elena's plumbing. In the first episode, he openly needles and insults Matt over the phone in a playful way in order to get him out of bed. |
| 215 | %%* TheLancer: He's Matt's confidant. |
| 216 | * LetsGetDangerous: He has his moments. The first one, and one of the most memorable, is the TheReasonYouSuckSpeech he gives to Marci. |
| 217 | * LikeBrotherAndSister: After receiving a lot of ShipTease with Karen for much of Season 1, they end up as this by the end of the season when Foggy gets back together with Marci while Karen and Matt begin to develop a romance, and they remain as this in all subsequent seasons. |
| 218 | * LovableCoward: ZigZaggedTrope. Foggy is not as eager as Matt or Karen to put himself in danger, but he can easily be persuaded to do the right thing to help people, and he risks his life to save others during the aftermath of Fisk's bombings. |
| 219 | * MistakenForGay: When he first meets Matt in his college dorm room, he compliments Matt on being a [[HeadturningBeauty very, very, good looking guy]], causing Matt to stammer, but he quickly corrects himself and tells Matt that they'll make [[RomanticWingman great wingmen]] for each other. |
| 220 | * MuggleBestFriend: Foggy's not a secret vigilante like Matt or a crusading investigator like Karen. He's just a lawyer trying to do the best he can. |
| 221 | * NervesOfSteel: He isn't fit, isn't that intimidating, and has no superpowers, but Foggy faces many very powerful foes on both sides of the law, often scared out of his mind but stands his ground until he gets to the truth. For example, Foggy faced down Dex and didn't even flinch when a baton thrown at his face was caught by Matt. |
| 222 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: Along with Jeri Hogarth and Claire Temple, Foggy is one of only three people who have direct ties to every Defender: he is Matt's best friend and former law partner, his new law firm works with Jessica and Danny, and Foggy himself is Luke's attorney. |
| 223 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Subverted. In their relationship, Matt is usually the one to talk about helping people and Foggy is usually the one to talk about money, but when push comes to shove, Foggy ''will'' help the little guy and will ''not'' overlook evil for a paycheck. |
| 224 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Although people will refer to him as Mr. Nelson, including folks like Wilson Fisk, everyone else, including his friends, call him by the nickname of Foggy. |
| 225 | * OnlySaneMan: Unlike Matt or Karen, Foggy doesn't like to actively seek out dangerous situations, though that's not to say he can't handle himself when he is put on the defensive. |
| 226 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Foggy graduated ''cum laude'' from a prestigious law school and was offered a partner track at a major law firm immediately after his internship. For most people, this would be lighting the world on fire, but Foggy's best friend and partner Matt Murdock is smarter than he, more handsome, and ''also'' a superhero, so Foggy always comes across as a bit of a loser by comparison. |
| 227 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: A fellow lawyer who's willing to help Matt despite his mysterious disappearances and unorthodox beliefs. |
| 228 | * RomanticFalseLead: Ends up being this to Karen. He and Karen receive a lot of ShipTease in the beginning and middle of Season 1, but he instead ends up with Marci, and Karen becomes a LoveInterest to Matt (whom she had a very obvious crush on from the beginning). |
| 229 | * ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Less than Matt, but it is there. When James Wesley hires them to defend John Healy, Foggy wants to accept simply due to the size of their check. Once he meets [[TheSociopath Healy]], he quickly realizes the man is an obviously guilty sociopath and he doesn't want anything to do with him, money be damned. |
| 230 | * SecretKeeper: Eventually, once he and Matt mend their friendship. He is one of Matt's first ones, as Father Lantom and Claire are the only two major characters who learn the secret before he does. |
| 231 | * SexGod: According to Marci, he's ''really'' great in bed. |
| 232 | * SharpDressedMan: In Season 3, when he mounts his District Attorney campaign, he begins sporting three-piece suits tailored by Martin Greenfield Clothiers. He particularly favors an old-fashioned seventies style in three-piece suits of rich chocolatey browns. |
| 233 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 234 | ** Despite his acting annoyed, Foggy sincerely gives Matt the best of luck in having a relationship with Karen, and can't help but smile when Matt and Karen are flirting in his presence. |
| 235 | -->'''Foggy Nelson:''' Careful, Matt.\ |
| 236 | '''Matt Murdock:''' What's that?\ |
| 237 | '''Foggy Nelson:''' Keep going like this, you just might end up happy. And for a Catholic boy, that's a very dangerous thing. |
| 238 | ** When Matt and Foggy meet up for drinks at Josie's after the quake, Foggy can't help but ask Matt how he and Karen are doing, relationship-wise. |
| 239 | -->'''Foggy Nelson:''' I talked to Karen. She said you two grabbed coffee. I don't mean to pry, but where are you guys at? Relationship status?\ |
| 240 | '''Matt Murdock:''' We're uh, "figuring ourselves" out. |
| 241 | * SignificantWardrobeShift: Once Nelson & Murdock is dissolved and he accepts Jeri Hogarth's offer, Foggy starts wearing smarter, more formal clothing, gets a haircut, and begins slicking back his hair. |
| 242 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Foggy is responsible for Matt getting involved with the Hand, having sent him to be Jessica's lawyer when she gets arrested by Misty Knight. This is subverted when you consider that Matt (as Daredevil) was on the Hand's radar as far back as Season 1, when he "killed" Nobu, not to mention the countless Hand ninjas he took down in his efforts to redeem Elektra. And Stick made it clear that by virtue of who Matt is, a clash and an ultimate showdown with the Hand was inevitable. |
| 243 | * TookALevelInBadass: He really comes into his own as a lawyer when he [[spoiler:defends Frank Castle, more or less by himself, since Matt was busy investigating the Hand. And though he loses the case (through no fault of his own), Jeri Hogarth is impressed enough that she offers to make him a partner at her firm. It's also revealed in ''The Defenders'' that all those times Claire told Luke she knew a great lawyer who could fix his problems with the law, she was talking about Foggy rather than Matt.]] And in Season 3, we see him use this as a platform to run for District Attorney after some words of encouragement from Marci. |
| 244 | * UnluckyEverydude: Foggy sees himself as this, but how true it might be is all relative. Compared to Matt, he doesn't seem to attract that many dates, but he has a gorgeous [[FriendsWithBenefits girlfriend]] in [[OfficeRomance Marci Stahl]], and Elena Cardenas briefly acts as a ShipperOnDeck for him and Karen. |
| 245 | * UndyingLoyalty: No matter how hurt he is by the secrets Matt keeps from him, or how strained their friendship becomes, Foggy never stops looking out for Matt and tries to help him however he can. This is most pronounced in Season 3, where, even after Matt [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim coldly tries to push him away for his own safety]] and even steals his wallet to break into a prison, Foggy acknowledges that Matt's been a crappy friend but still refuses to follow suit and give up on him. Karen puts it best near the end of the season: |
| 246 | -->'''Karen Page''': Despite the fact that you've been a complete asshole to him, he'd still follow you over a cliff. |
| 247 | * WasItAllALie: Is understandably hurt when he learns Matt is a vigilante and asks if he's been lying about his blindness since they met. |
| 248 | * WhatTheHellHero: Once he learns Matt's the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, Foggy ends up regularly delivering these to Matt for getting hurt or compromising the firm's integrity. |
| 249 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: |
| 250 | ** He tells Marci this when he needs help exposing her firm's dealings with Wilson Fisk. And it ''[[HeelFaceTurn works]].'' |
| 251 | ** Foggy himself is on the receiving end of this from both Karen and Marci regarding his skills as a lawyer. |
| 252 | [[/folder]] |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Karen Page]] |
| 255 | -->See [[Characters/MCUKarenPage Karen Page]]. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Claire Temple]] |
| 259 | !!''Claire Temple'' |
| 260 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lukecage2claire.png]] |
| 261 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm not special. I just keep running into special."'']] |
| 262 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 263 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American, Cuban |
| 264 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Metro-General Hospital (formerly), Chikara Dojo |
| 265 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RosarioDawson |
| 266 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/CeciliaValenzuela (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Creator/EstherSolans [''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}''], Noemí Bayarri [''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}''] (European Spanish dub), Mônica Rossi (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 267 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
| 268 | |
| 269 | ->''"Sometimes, if you want justice, you have to get it yourself."'' |
| 270 | |
| 271 | A nurse contracted to treat the numerous injuries Matt ends up receiving during his nights of crime-fighting. From there, she manages to be pulled into the lives of all of New York's street-level superheroes. She also has a romantic relationship with Luke Cage. |
| 272 | ---- |
| 273 | * ActionGirl: After receiving self-defense training by Colleen Wing, she is capable of going toe-to-toe against ''[[spoiler:Hand ninjas and come out unscathed]]''. |
| 274 | * ActionSurvivor: Claire is by no means able to fight on the level of Matt or the other Defenders, but she's still able to stay alive and occasionally defend herself when the need arises. [[spoiler:And as of the end of ''Luke Cage'' Season 1, she's apparently deciding to become a full ActionGirl.]] |
| 275 | * AdvertisedExtra: By all marketing appearances, she's one of the main protagonists of ''Daredevil'' along with Matt, Foggy, and Karen. While she's an extra by no means, she only shows up in five episodes and in one of them only for one scene. Urich, Vanessa, Wesley, and even Owlsley have much more screen time than she does. Then in ''Series/JessicaJones2015'' she only appears in the season finale, though she does rack up more screen time in that one episode than you'd expect. Then she only shows up in three episodes in Season 2 of ''Daredevil''. It's finally averted in ''Luke Cage'', where she shows up in eight episodes (episodes 5-11, and the Season 1 finale) and almost never leaves Luke's side. |
| 276 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: As a character played by Creator/RosarioDawson, this is a given. It's not until ''Luke Cage'' where it's confirmed that she's Hispanic on her mother's side. A remark by her mother about Luke resembling her father and being raised in Harlem suggests she may be African American as well, just like her actress. Season 2 confirms that she's Afro-Cuban. |
| 277 | * AmicableExes: Though her romantic relationship with Matt was brief, the two remain close friends and she continues to help him out. |
| 278 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: By the latter half of ''Iron Fist'', she's seen a lot of strange things. [[spoiler:She still has trouble believing Danny Rand got the Iron Fist from defeating a dragon called "Shao-Lao the Undying", thinking Davos is talking about something the size of a komodo-dragon, even though she already knows about K'un-L'un.]] |
| 279 | * BackAlleyDoctor: She becomes this as time goes on, using her medical skills to patch up anyone with whatever she can scrounge up. |
| 280 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 281 | ** She's none too happy when Matt asks her to help save Vladimir and takes quite a bit of pleasure in instructing Matt to cauterize his wound with a road flare. |
| 282 | ** In her first appearance, Claire used her medical knowledge to help Matt find Semyon's trigeminal nerve and inflict rather painful torture on him for the location of a kidnapped boy [[spoiler:and bashed the head of her kidnapper with the same steel bat he used to beat her up earlier after Matt came to her rescue]]. This woman is tougher than she looks. |
| 283 | ** In Season 2, she takes down a [[spoiler:''Hand ninja'' by pushing him out of a window. This, right after she lets out a roar of utter ''fury'' after the same person killed her friend/colleague.]] |
| 284 | ** When she makes her intro in ''Luke Cage'', she's introduced chasing down and beating up a mugger who tried to steal her purse. During the hostage situation at Harlem's Paradise, she knocks out one of Diamondback's goons and, with help from Misty Knight, fights Shades to a standstill. At the end of the season, she's seen checking out a poster for self-defence classes. |
| 285 | ** After said training, she manages to acquire a pair of [[WolverineClaws claws]] and fight Hand ninjas. Successfully. |
| 286 | * BreakoutCharacter: |
| 287 | ** After many complaints about her AdvertisedExtra status, the show producers confirmed her return in Season 2 of ''Daredevil'', ''before they announced any of the other cast members'', excluding the titular hero. |
| 288 | ** She's also become the Netflix shows' equivalent of Agent Coulson, going on to appear in ''Jessica Jones'' and being a major character in ''Luke Cage'' and ''Iron Fist''. |
| 289 | * TheBusCameBack: She returns in the season finale of ''Jessica Jones'', which sets her up to have a larger role in ''Luke Cage''. |
| 290 | * ButtMonkey: It's a RunningGag that in her first appearance each season on any show, we get an update on how things have gone downhill for her since last time: |
| 291 | ** ''Jessica Jones'': She's lost her lease due to constantly using her apartment as a makeshift emergency room for Matt. |
| 292 | ** ''Daredevil'' Season 2: She's been relegated to the graveyard shift for removing Luke from the hospital. |
| 293 | ** ''Luke Cage'': Metro-General has gotten her blacklisted at every hospital in New York City for refusing to go along with the coverup of the Hand's attack. |
| 294 | ** ''Iron Fist'' finally breaks the pattern, as she's come to terms with her apparent fate of being the medical assistant of New York's superheroes, and can even fight alongside them. |
| 295 | * BorrowedCatchphrase: ''Iron Fist'' shows her twice using Luke's infamous "Sweet Christmas!" |
| 296 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 297 | ** ''Franchise/StarWars'' has been referenced numerous times throughout the MCU. Creator/RosarioDawson plays the live-action iteration of Ahsoka Tano. |
| 298 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' was alluded to in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Series/IronFist2017'' (where Claire herself appears as a major character). Dawson guest-starred AsHerself in an [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS6E2324TruthOrSquare hour-long episode on Season 6.]] |
| 299 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 300 | ** She is a combination of two obscure characters from the comics: Dr. Claire Temple who was Luke's on-and-off girlfriend before he married Jessica, and Linda Carter aka Night Nurse, a nurse who made a name for herself patching up New York superheroes who didn't want to risk their secret identity going to a regular hospital. |
| 301 | ** In ''Iron Fist'' she quite unexpectedly adds to this a DecompositeCharacter vibe as she gains a pair of bladed gauntlets, which is reminiscent of the Defenders' Hellcat, even though Trish Walker is also in the franchise. Though that is subverted as Trish's transformation to Hellcat unfolds after this during ''Jessica Jones'' Season 2. |
| 302 | * DareToBeBadass: During ''Luke Cage'', she's fully embraced the fact that she's a WeirdnessMagnet and decides to use her talents to help the Gifted (in particular, Luke) and spurs him to be a badass protector of the city. She is often the one making the speeches about how the Gifted she meets like Luke and Danny should use their powers to fight criminals in NYC. |
| 303 | * DamselInDistress: Gets kidnapped by the Russians, who try to get information on the man in the mask out of her. She gets her revenge in Episode 6 when guiding Matt through cauterizing Vladimir's bullet wound. |
| 304 | * DeadpanSnarker: Especially when she hears about Matt's powers. |
| 305 | * DemotedToSatelliteLoveInterest: By ''The Defenders'' and Season 2 of ''Luke Cage'', the narrative treats her mainly as Luke's girlfriend and not much more. |
| 306 | * DoomMagnet: As Creator/BradJones noted while binge-watching ''Iron Fist'' and ''The Defenders'', if the credits show Claire is set to appear, expect that someone will get a grisly injury only her medical training can fix. At least, that's the case most of the time. (see also WeirdnessMagnet) |
| 307 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: She enjoys watching Matt and Luke shirtless. |
| 308 | * TheEveryman: She fits the bill even more than Coulson, just being a regular civilian trying to live her life until Matt was thrown in her building's dumpster. She just can't stop running into superheroes in trouble ever since. |
| 309 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: |
| 310 | ** She and Matt develop feelings for each other while she's stitching him up but knows that she can't have a relationship with him. |
| 311 | ** This is followed by her saving Luke Cage, which leads to a romance. |
| 312 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The training she receives from Colleen Wing, while incomplete, is enough to let her fight defensively against Hand agents, who are highly skilled assassins. It turns out, that the reason Colleen's techniques are so effective at countering those of the Hand is because [[spoiler:they are OF the Hand.]] |
| 313 | * GoodIsNotSoft: Her main reason for supporting Matt. She believes in his ideals and thinks these people who wreck Hell's Kitchen deserve punishment and need to be stopped. |
| 314 | * HereWeGoAgain: She gives this vibe after meeting Jessica Jones and Luke Cage in the first season of ''Jessica Jones''. When she meets Malcolm Ducasse later, both of them lament their mutual statuses as a WeirdnessMagnet. Then she can only FacePalm at finding out her martial arts teacher is friends with Danny. |
| 315 | %%* HospitalHottie: Being played by the gorgeous Rosario Dawson does this for Claire. |
| 316 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[spoiler:Madame Gao tries playing on her insecurity about this, suggesting Claire hangs around Gifted folk because she wants to be a hero with powers like Matt or Luke, and is upset that she hasn't become one. Doubles as a ReasonYouSuckSpeech because Gao describes this desire as a selfish attempt at feeling special, that if her moment of being special was going to happen it would have happened already, and that she is trying to use the experiences of the Gifted for her own gain.]] |
| 317 | * {{Irony}}: Claire takes up self-defense classes with Colleen Wing to protect herself and perhaps even repel further dangerous weirdness in her life, and winds up getting dragged into Danny's war with the Hand because he and Colleen need her medical expertise in saving Radovan's life. |
| 318 | * ItsPersonal: As much as she doesn't want to get involved, the Hand attacking Metro-General and Claire's colleague Louisa Delgado getting killed gives her personal reason to fight [[spoiler:the Hand]]. |
| 319 | -->'''Claire:''' They came at me in my home. Attacked my hospital, murdered my friend. |
| 320 | * LoveInterest: Starts as one for Matt, until they end it, and later becomes one for Luke, which sticks. |
| 321 | * LoveTriangle: With Jessica and Luke. Unbeknownst to Jessica. |
| 322 | * TheMedic: She ends up becoming the medical support to all of the local [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Gifted]] heroes of New York. Sews up Matt's wounds, which is handy considering how often he gets the living hell beat out of him. By ''Luke Cage'', [[spoiler:she has quit her job at the hospital due to the events of ''Daredevil'' Season 2]]. |
| 323 | * MoralityPet: More or less one for Luke. |
| 324 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Living in a world of superheroes hasn't been good for her. Fixing Matt's injuries in her apartment gets her evicted, then walking out on her job to save Luke Cage forces her into a hellish schedule to make it up. [[spoiler:Her indignation at the orders to keep quiet about The Hand attacking the hospital and killing three of her coworkers pushes her to quit her job.]] |
| 325 | * OnlySaneWoman: She is the one who points out to Matt that he needs body armor, as well as the fact that he doesn't really have any plans to significantly improve Hell's Kitchen, and the city will never be safe. And in ''Iron Fist'', while everyone around her is playing their roles straight out of a kung-fu revenge movie, she consistently tries to point out the more sensible, practical options available to them. |
| 326 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: To Matt Murdock in the MCU continuity, though only briefly. They would be considered a crack pairing in the comics. She then becomes the canon love interest for Luke Cage. |
| 327 | * PutOnABus: |
| 328 | ** She leaves town toward the end of Season 1 of ''Daredevil''. She leaves again towards the end of Season 2, to appear in ''Luke Cage''. (Although, "leaving town" is relative, since she's still in Manhattan, just a few miles and a simple ride uptown on the 2 train.) |
| 329 | ** She's still with Luke at the start of ''Luke Cage'', but their bridges burn very quickly after a fight over Luke's decision to beat Cockroach to a pulp. It culminates in Claire leaving town to visit relatives in Cuba. |
| 330 | * RaceLift: The comics version of Claire Temple is African-American, while the MCU version is half-Latina and half-African-American. |
| 331 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: A common theme for her, at least [[OnceAnEpisode once per season]]. |
| 332 | ** She helps Matt because she believes in his cause despite most of [[VigilanteMan what he does]] being completely illegal. |
| 333 | ** In ''Jessica Jones'' Season 1, she assists Jessica in [[spoiler:sneaking Luke out of the hospital when the police show up, looking for him because of what he did before Jessica managed to knock him out]]. |
| 334 | ** In the second season of ''Daredevil'', this causes her to quit [[spoiler:when the hospital administration not only intends to cover up the killing of three employees by the Hand by claiming it was a junkie but also [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch ignore the body of one of them had already undergone section]]]]. |
| 335 | * SecondEpisodeIntroduction: She makes her debut in the second episode of the first season of Daredevil. |
| 336 | * SecretKeeper: She knows Matt's doing something questionable but keeps quiet about it out of respect. |
| 337 | * SeenItAll: She starts out awestruck by Daredevil's abilities. By the time she meets all the Defenders... |
| 338 | -->'''Danny:''' I am the Iron Fist. |
| 339 | -->'''Claire:''' What the hell does that mean? |
| 340 | * TechnicalPacifist: Claire is staunchly against killing and violence in general. By the time she meets Danny, she's still against killing, but she is willing to fight if the need arises. However, she somewhat averts the trope when she prods Danny and Colleen into allowing her to come with them to enact a plan to capture Madame Gao by beating up her thugs and taking her hostage strictly out of revenge for her fallen friend, making her a pacifist in name only. |
| 341 | * ThouShaltNotKill: She does however continually advocate for not killing people, including members of the Hand. |
| 342 | * TookALevelInBadass: After three seasons of just patching heroes up, her first appearance on ''Luke Cage'' has her chasing down a would-be mugger and giving him a beating. She later helps a severely wounded Misty fight Shades to a standstill in the club. Afterwards, she takes up martial arts classes if this is going to be her life now. After some of Colleen Wing's training, [[spoiler:she's able to fight a Hand goon without taking a scratch.]] |
| 343 | * {{Transplant}}: She debuted in Daredevil, then joined the casts of Luke Cage and Iron Fist. She also guest-starred in the series finale of Jessica Jones. |
| 344 | * TrueLoveIsBoring: After spending the second half of ''Luke Cage'' Season 1 establishing a relationship with Luke, Claire abruptly dumps him and leaves the show at the beginning of Season 2. |
| 345 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Claire is female, half-black, and half-Cuban, which makes her a threefer. |
| 346 | * WhatTheHellHero: Often is the one to reprimand the heroes for morally reprehensible behavior from recklessness to excessively violent tendencies, having done so for Matt, Luke, Danny, and Colleen whether they heed her words or not. |
| 347 | * WeirdnessMagnet: She's naturally pretty nonplussed about working on Luke's Judas bullet wounds, after a stint as Matt's regular medical assistant. When she meets Danny, she's a little pissed about how this ''keeps'' happening to her. |
| 348 | * WetBlanketWife: |
| 349 | ** She is very displeased with Matt's vigilantism -- in particular because he admits to having no long-term plan. When it's clear that he won't stop what he's doing, she ends their relationship before it ever really has a chance to start. |
| 350 | ** Her encounters with Matt and Jessica eventually cause her to accept the lifestyle of being an assistant vigilante, leading her to constantly push Luke to help innocent people and use his powers to their full potential. That is until Luke's vigilantism causes him to become more and more like ''Daredevil'' Season 1 Matt, and a fight over Luke's near-fatal beating of Cockroach drives her away. |
| 351 | * WolverineClaws: She swipes a pair of bladed gauntlets from the Hand when forced into combat in China, and decides to keep them. |
| 352 | * WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Attempts to convince Matt to change his brutal vigilante ways by using their relationship as leverage. This might have worked if Matt weren't a BloodKnight.]] |
| 353 | [[/folder]] |
| 354 | |
| 355 | [[folder:Elektra Natchios]] |
| 356 | -->See [[Characters/MCUElektraNatchios Elektra Natchios]]. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | !! Introduced in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' |
| 360 | [[folder:Malcolm Ducasse]] |
| 361 | !!''Malcolm Joseph Ducasse'' |
| 362 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ducasse_malcolm.jpg]] |
| 363 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I don’t want powers. I mean, I do not want to be on the receiving end of them either, but I don’t know, I just like people too much."'']] |
| 364 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 365 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 366 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Kilgrave Victim Support (formerly), Cheng Consulting Management (formerly), Hogarth and Associates (formerly), Alias Investigations |
| 367 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EkaDarville |
| 368 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DarwinLeRoy (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Alexandre Drummond (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 369 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
| 370 | |
| 371 | ->''"So what, it's just every man for himself, then, huh? Everything I learned in church, all the praying that my mom did for the sick and the dying, all the... all the community projects my dad worked on, basically, everything that they taught me... it was all bullshit? They're idiots and I'm just the only asshole in the world who didn't know?"'' |
| 372 | |
| 373 | A social worker who lives down the hall from Jessica and is her assistant at Alias Investigations. |
| 374 | ---- |
| 375 | * AdaptationNameChange: In the comics, his name was Malcolm Powder. |
| 376 | * AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the comics, Malcolm is a socially inept, mildly creepy StalkerWithACrush who repeatedly expresses inappropriate thoughts, and writes Daredevil off as a pussy because of his handling of his identity being outed. The show has him as a ''much'' nicer guy with much better social skills, with his creepiness being from his drug use [[spoiler:and is only temporary, before he gets over it]]. |
| 377 | * AddledAddict: He's got a drug problem when we first meet him. It turns out that Kilgrave had ordered him to become a junkie. Season 2 then reveals that he actually had been a bit of a drug user even before Kilgrave came along. |
| 378 | * AscendedExtra: Malcolm gets to play a much more proactive role in the events of Season 2. |
| 379 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Attempts to help Jessica in the later parts of the season because she rescued him from Kilgrave. |
| 380 | * BeneathNotice: No one notices a junkie, not even when he's taking covert pictures of his superpowered neighbor for months. |
| 381 | * BreakTheCutie: Kilgrave forced him to become an addict. After Jessica saves his life and helps him get clean, he has a new lease on life and tries to do as much good as he can with the Kilgrave support group. All his attempts to help others go horribly awry, and after a misanthropic speech from Robyn he ultimately crosses the DespairEventHorizon, comes to resent Jessica for a time and nearly leaves town; albeit to a life Jessica believes would have been better for him. After a more uplifting talk with Claire he decides to stay on as Jessica's assistant, though he seemed willing to stick around beforehand. |
| 382 | * CelebrityParadox: ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' reveals ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series exist InUniverse. Creator/EkaDarville portrayed Red Ranger (Scott Truman) in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. |
| 383 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: His DoggedNiceGuy persona notwithstanding, Season 2 of Jessica Jones reveals that he played around with drugs and hurt people (albeit much more mildly) before meeting Kilgrave. In Season 3, Erik (human evil detector) notes that Malcolm gives him a headache (3 out of 10). |
| 384 | * DarkerAndEdgier: His counterpart in the ''Alias'' comic mostly served as comic relief; this version of the character has a bit more weight to him. |
| 385 | * DecompositeCharacter: His DoggedNiceGuy socially inept tendencies from the comics seem to have been transferred onto Ruben. |
| 386 | * DistressedDude: Being a NonActionGuy, he requires Jessica to save him a few times from Kilgrave. He also gets held hostage by John Raymond. |
| 387 | * DueToTheDead: Attempted, even when he's throwing what's left of Ruben's corpse into the harbor. |
| 388 | -->"Bel anteman pa di paradi."[[note]] A beautiful funeral doesn't guarantee heaven.[[/note]] |
| 389 | * GirlFriday: Slides into the role of Jessica's assistant in Season 2, taking her calls and helping her through a HeroicBSOD. |
| 390 | * GoingColdTurkey: One night is all that it takes to break him off his drug addiction. Given that the addiction was only because Kilgrave was giving him orders to do so in the first place and he's probably fighting the urge daily even when not under Kilgrave's control, but he's mostly clean by the end of the first season. |
| 391 | * TheHedonist: ''Jessica Jones'' Season 1 implies that Malcolm was a good kid with a bright future before Kilgrave ruined his life by turning him into a junkie, only for Season 2 to establish that he was a college dropout who was a notorious partier long before he met Kilgrave (explaining Kilgrave's excuse "He was an addict waiting to happen!"). And when he kicks the heroin addiction, it's suggested that he simply replaced it with sex. |
| 392 | * MistakenForGay: Happens a couple times in Season 2. The first time is a somewhat humorous occasion when Jessica sends him to talk to their landlord about Oscar. The landlord, unbeknownst to Malcolm, is gay, and Jessica was hoping that the man would take a shine to the attractive Malcolm. The second time takes a darker turn where, after tracking down Benowitz to a gay night club, a group of bigots harasses and attack Malcolm, and Trish is forced to save him. |
| 393 | * MrFanservice: He has many shirtless scenes in Season 2. |
| 394 | * NiceGuy: He was planning on getting into social work before Kilgrave ordered him to get addicted to drugs. After being freed from Kilgrave, he proves to be one of the most altruistic people in the series. He suffers a lot for it, but in the end his good heart won't let him walk away. |
| 395 | * RaceLift: He's white in the comics, but black here. |
| 396 | * ReallyGetsAround: In Season 2 of ''Jessica Jones'' he's recovered, but still struggling, and seems to have turned to casual sex as a coping mechanism. |
| 397 | * RecoveredAddict: Jessica's able to help him go cold turkey. For the small appearances he makes in ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'', he looks much healthier and happier than he ever did in Season 1 of ''Series/JessicaJones2015''. |
| 398 | * ScaryBlackMan: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Jessica in one of her more AntiHero moments, where, after Ruben tells her "[[Theatre/AvenueQ everyone is a little racist]]", she pushes a drugged-up Malcolm into a (young, attractive) white nurse at a hospital, causing a scene that allows her to steal some sufentanil from a medical supply cabinet. It obviously doesn't sit well on her conscience, but she saw it as necessary to stop Kilgrave. |
| 399 | * SwappedRoles: After getting clean from his drug addiction, Malcolm attempts to become [[LivingEmotionalCrutch the emotional support]] to Jessica. Even giving her advice on how to beat her alcohol addiction. |
| 400 | * TakingUpTheMantle: [[spoiler:Season 3 ends with Jessica leaving Malcolm the keys to Alias while she plans to run away to Mexico, essentially leaving the firm to him. While she changed her mind about running away, the fate of Alias remains unknown.]] |
| 401 | * TookALevelInBadass: By Season 2, Malcolm has gotten himself into shape, works out regularly, and has apparently learned how to fight. He throws down three on one with a group of homophobic thugs who had [[MistakenForGay mistaken him for gay]] and only gets overwhelmed when they hit his injured shoulder. |
| 402 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: He seems to have a preference for peanut butter. |
| 403 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: From what Jessica's able to dig up, he seemed like a pretty stand-up guy until Kilgrave recruited him as a spy and got him hooked on drugs. |
| 404 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Jessica Jones'' Season 2, his relationship with Jessica is pretty much destroyed, with him going so far as to accept Pryce Cheng's job offer.]] |
| 405 | [[/folder]] |
| 406 | |
| 407 | [[folder:Trish Walker]] |
| 408 | !!''[[ComicBook/{{Hellcat}} Patricia "Trish" Walker]] / The Masked Vigilante / Hellcat'' |
| 409 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/walker_patricia_2.jpg]] |
| 410 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"No one touches me unless I want them to."'']] |
| 411 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 412 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 413 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Hollywood Records (formerly), WNEX New York (formerly) |
| 414 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/RachaelTaylor, Catherine Blades (teen), Audrey Grace Marshall (young) |
| 415 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JessicaToledo (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Priscila Amorim (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 416 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' [[note]]Voice only[[/note]] | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
| 417 | |
| 418 | ->''"We should have a codeword. If you say it, you're still you. Something you would never say. Like 'pickle juice' or 'sardines.'"'' |
| 419 | |
| 420 | A former model and child star known as "Patsy" who is Jessica's adoptive sister and best friend. Formerly the host of the popular radio show ''Trish Talk'' on WNEX radio, currently selling women's fashion and uplifting quotes on a home-shopping-network show. |
| 421 | ---- |
| 422 | * AbsurdlySharpClaws: [[spoiler:Trish absolutely mangles Sallinger's face with just her fingernails.]] |
| 423 | * AbusiveParents: Upon seeing the bruises from her Krav Maga training, Jessica assumes they're from her mother. In a flashback to their teenage years, she tells Jessica that her mother hit her with a People's Choice Award. We later see her mom trying to make Trish vomit because she ate something unapproved. And Dorothy even pimped Trish out to [[DirtyOldMan Max Tatum]] for roles. |
| 424 | * ActionGirl: Despite several characters (including Kilgrave) having superpowers that vastly outclass her, Trish manages to be useful to Jessica and other characters through her [[RealLifeSuperpowers other traits]], such as [[GuileHero guile]], [[TheFace fame]], and [[CrimefightingWithCash money]]. She's also a practitioner of Krav Maga. |
| 425 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Trish has Rachael Taylor's natural blonde color. However, [[MythologyGag she wore a red wig]] in the ''It's Patsy'' days, much to her annoyance. She has to don one to perform at a kid's birthday party in Season 2 as a favor for a Metro-General staffer. She also has her actress' green eyes instead of her comic book counterpart's blue eyes. |
| 426 | * AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Her comic counterpart is a moral superhero, while Trish as her vigilante alter ego ends up becoming murderous in her methods.]] |
| 427 | * AdaptationNameChange: {{Played with}}. While she's referred to as "Trish" -- instead of "Patsy" as in comics -- the latter was her StageName as a kid. Her birth name, Patricia, remains the same. |
| 428 | * AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Her childhood here is far worse than in the comics as both her parents were incredibly abusive towards her. |
| 429 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: While Patsy Walker and Jessica Jones do have a bit of history, their backstories were never this heavily entwined to the point that they knew each other from childhood, and they were [[RelatedInTheAdaptation most certainly not adoptive sisters]]. |
| 430 | * AddictionDisplacement: She used to be addicted to alcohol and drugs, which she replaced with Simpson's inhaler, and then finally superheroics. |
| 431 | * AddledAddict: [[spoiler:She takes a whiff of Simpson's inhaler in Season 2. She enjoys the perks, but the side effects get worse and worse until she can no longer function and almost dies.]] |
| 432 | * AttentionWhore: While Trish has already acclaimed fame as a national TV and radio star, [[spoiler:she seeks attention as a hero. In Season 3, she actively shows herself on camera in her disguise multiple times, which severely puts a dent in Jessica's relationship with the police and takes away Detective Costa's resources to handle Sallinger.]] |
| 433 | * AxCrazy: [[spoiler:She starts to go on a murdering spree after killing Gregory Sallinger.]] |
| 434 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Trish's brief experience with Simpson's super-empowering pills nearly kills her. Following his death, she starts using his inhaler which has a similar but weaker effect. Her powers fully manifest and she begins beating suspects to death. The series ends with her going to the Raft.]] |
| 435 | * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: With Gregory Sallinger for Season 3 of Jessica Jones. While Gregory serves as the ArcVillain for the first half, the second half features Trish Walker killing criminals and becomes another threat that Jessica has to face, along with Sallinger. Trish eventually becomes the sole BigBad of Season 3 after she kills Sallinger.]] |
| 436 | * BigBadSlippage: [[spoiler:Trish starts out season three slowly mending her relationship with Jessica while moonlighting as a vigilante. After Sallinger kills her mother her sanity begins to degrade, going on to become a SerialKiller as she murders criminals. Her murder of Sallinger once he's already been apprehended cement her spot as the main antagonist.]] |
| 437 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: In contrast to the cynical Jessica, Trish has a much simpler idea of right and wrong and genuinely believes that she knows which is which, something that she is called out on repeatedly by Jessica and the various other [[GreyAndGrayMorality Grey and Gray]] characters. [[spoiler: This is [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity taken to its natural conclusion]] by the end of Season 2, shooting Jessica's mother without hesitation and becoming an UnscrupulousHero.]] |
| 438 | * BlatantLies: [[spoiler:When Malcolm finds out she's using Simpson's inhaler, Trish claims it is perfectly safe despite admitting she has no idea what it actually does, only that it makes her feel good and does not see it as an addiction. Malcolm doesn't buy a word of it.]] |
| 439 | * CainAndAbel: Eventually, she and [[spoiler:Jessica becomes this by the end of Season 3 with her being Cain as she tries to kill her adoptive sister and best friend.]] |
| 440 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: She becomes obsessed with being a hero, and eventually needs to escalate to the point of killing whoever she believes deserves it. |
| 441 | * CompositeCharacter: |
| 442 | ** This iteration of the character seems to blend the "former child star" aspect of [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse mainstream Patsy,]] the "media personality" aspect of [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Patsy,]] and being Jessica's blond-haired best friend in place of [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]].[[note]]The Netflix role had to be rewritten because plans were already in motion to feature Carol in her own MCU film.[[/note]] She is also a composite character of Jessica's unnamed adoptive sister. |
| 443 | ** [[spoiler: While she does become Hellcat in Season 3, This version of Trish actually draws more similarities from Yuri Watanabe/Wraith, being an ally to a superhero before turning against them upon losing faith in the system and becoming a murderous vigilante dispatching her own twisted sense of justice.]] |
| 444 | * CrazyPrepared: She's turned her apartment into a fortress, with a reinforced front door and windows, security cameras, and a panic room. |
| 445 | * CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler:Trish shoots and kills Jessica's mother because the police were after her mother and would have killed them both otherwise. Jessica has a hard time even looking at Trish afterward.]] |
| 446 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: She's never referred to as "Hellcat" in-universe, just as "the masked vigilante" and later "the masked killer". |
| 447 | * DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Trish becomes this after she killed Gregory Sallinger to avenge her mother.]] |
| 448 | * DecompositeCharacter: Claire gets Hellcat's clawed gauntlets in ''Iron Fist'', implying that it's going to be her rather than Trish who ultimately takes the role. However, Trish gradually slips into the Hellcat persona in Season 2 as she gets high off Simpson's inhaler, and at one point uses her fingernails to claw at the face of one of the homophobes that attacked Malcolm outside a gay bar. [[spoiler:By the end of the season, she has obtained superhuman reflexes as a result of the operation performed on her by Dr. Malus.]] |
| 449 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Trish was not very welcoming or nice towards Jessica when her mother first adopted her, but she started to defrost after Jessica defended her against her mother. |
| 450 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of Jessica Jones. She has the most screentime after the titular character, has the second most appearances (as she was only absent in one episode), and is overall the second most-significant character in the entire series. |
| 451 | * DisappearedDad: No mention is made of her father. Her mother's treatment of her implies that her childhood starlet career was their primary financial source. |
| 452 | ** Subverted in Season 3, when she finally tells the story of ''why'' her father was gone -- apparently he was even more abusive than her mother, but that her mother 'took all the beatings' for her and Trish, but was too proud to inform the authorities. Taking matters into her own hands, Trish covered herself in her mother's blood, ran to a neighbor, and told them her father had just beaten her. |
| 453 | * DistaffCounterpart: [[spoiler: By Season 3, Trish has become one to Davos, being a Defender's adopted sibling and closest friend before going against them once they develop powers and become murderous vigilantes.]] |
| 454 | * DudeMagnet: She has attracted the likes of Will Simpson, Malcolm Ducasse, and Griffin Sinclair. |
| 455 | * EasilyForgiven: She's very quick to forgive Simpson for ''trying to kill her'', even becoming lovers with him. [[LampshadeHanging Jessica does take concern over this]]. |
| 456 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Trish hates being called Patsy since she doesn't like being reminded of her abusive childhood. Especially when it gets used by sleazy guys when sexually harassing her. |
| 457 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: |
| 458 | ** When Simpson beats the tar out of an injured Jessica, Trish takes the same SuperSerum he did and thoroughly kicks his ass. [[spoiler:It's Jessica who beats him, though.]] |
| 459 | ** In Season 2, her jealousy of Jessica's superpowers comes to a head after [[spoiler:she runs out of Simpson's inhaler, and she has Karl Malus perform the same procedure he used to give Jessica and her mother powers. Jessica tries to interrupt it and it nearly kills Trish, but the end of the final episode reveals she has started developing superpowers]]. |
| 460 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 461 | ** [[spoiler: She becomes one for Jessica Jones after developing superpowers. Both are female vigilantes in New York City who fight crime to make their home a better place, but since Jessica's experience gives her a GreyAndGrayMorality view of things, allowing Jessica to develop restraints to keep her from losing her moral compass such as [[ThouShallNotKill not killing criminals unless it is completely necessary]], Trish's naivety causes her to have a BlackAndWhiteMorality view, and quickly believes that MurderIsTheBestSolution when dealing with criminals]]. |
| 462 | ** [[spoiler: She has also become one for Matt Murdock. Both have similar fighting styles, powers, and reflexes, and both take up vigilante crime-fighting while having a SecretIdentity. However Matt Murdock has a much stronger moral code and {{Morality Chain}}s that prevents him from becoming no better than the people he's fighting, while Trish would sacrifices hers for a more lethal approach, eventually driving her friends away and becoming the bad guy.]] |
| 463 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Has one in Season 3 after going too far and killing three criminals. She eventually attacks and threatens numerous people while she carries out her own twisted definition of justice.]] |
| 464 | * FallenHeroine: [[spoiler:She gradually JumpsOffTheSlipperySlope in Season 3, committing multiple murders and eventually trying to kill Jessica herself.]] |
| 465 | * FallenOnHardTimesJob: [[spoiler:She works as a host for a vapid fashion infomercial show in Season 3 and clearly despises it, but after her on-air meltdown on her radio show in Season 2, it was likely the only real shot she had at still having anything resembling a career.]] |
| 466 | * FanGirl: Just look at her face when Matt appears to help Jessica protect her from Murakami. Starstruck doesn't begin to do it justice. |
| 467 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Due to her vigilante killing spree she ultimately ends up imprisoned in the [[HellholePrison Raft]] for the rest of her life.]] |
| 468 | * FinalBoss: [[spoiler:In Season 3, after killing Sallinger she becomes the main antagonist in the final episode. Her masked vigilantism has become murderous and Jessica decides she has to either convince her to turn herself in or take her down herself.]] |
| 469 | * {{Foil}}: To Matt Murdock. Both are willing to disappoint/disregard their closest friends in their need to play the hero, and while exhibiting no sense of self-preservation. Both are also adrenaline junkies, although Matt has a slightly (if not considerably) stronger sense of justice than Trish. Likewise, while the very much normal Foggy is constantly trying to talk down his pal with heightened senses, it's the gifted Jessica who is constantly trying to talk down her 'normal' sister. |
| 470 | * FormerChildStar: Though she initially seems to be better adjusted to the world than some other examples of this trope. This is primarily due to Jessica's influence, as she was full-blown this trope in the flashback when she was under her mother's thumb. |
| 471 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: Season 3 explores this in-depth. In the very beginning, she was a child of a single mom struggling to make ends meet. Through her childhood, she built up to celebrity status. She continues this until [[spoiler: she finally gains superpowers. She falls down the slippery slope, beating suspects to death, and eventually going to super-villain prison.]] |
| 472 | * GoodFeelsGood: {{Deconstructed}}, and in a pretty cynical way. Trish genuinely wants to help people, but mostly not out of any real altruism, but because it makes her feel special and loved. Her forceful upbringing as a child celebrity by her mother Dorothy played a big part in this. |
| 473 | * GracefulLoser: After [[spoiler:Jessica stops her in the Season 3 finale and she is arrested, Trish finally understands that her crazed revenge spree was wrong. She willingly accepts her sentencing to The Raft and gives Jessica an accepting smile when she is hauled off]]. |
| 474 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: To the point that she wanted to have Jessica's powers in order to be a proper hero, something her adoptive sister avoids. [[spoiler: Subverted when her desire for powers begins to show that she's not nearly as altruistic or considerate as she insists she is.]] |
| 475 | * HardWorkHardlyWorks: Despite spending months with training and honing her new abilities, she is still no match for Jessica whatsoever. |
| 476 | * HatesBeingTouched: Due to being abused by her mother. At one point, Trish throws a fan who unwisely touches her shoulder to get an autograph. |
| 477 | * HeadphonesEqualIsolation: In the season one finale, she wears headphones and plays a song at max volume to prevent Kilgrave from commanding her, as his commands would require whoever he's trying to command be able to hear them. |
| 478 | * HeelRealization: [[spoiler:It takes a beating from Jessica, an arrest, and being sentenced to imprisonment on The Raft, but at the end of the third season, Trish understands that her murder of several criminals and fighting the law has made her one of the bad guys. When Costa reads her the list of charges she's facing, the final reading of the attempted murder charge against her own sister really hammers home the realization.]] |
| 479 | * HeroicRematch: When Trish first meets Simpson, it's during a moment where he beats her in a fight and almost kills her, only to be saved by Jessica. Later on, an empowered Simpson is trying to kill Jessica, but Trish takes his SuperSerum and fights him, but is unable to beat him. |
| 480 | * IJustWantToBeSpecial: When Jessica expresses her lack of desire to be a superhero, Trish can't believe she ''doesn't'' want that responsibility, and openly wishes she had powers too. To the point that she takes, and then gets hooked on, Simpson's inhaler, trying to get powers. [[spoiler:As pointed out by Jessica's mom, the only reason why Trish is so desperate to capture Karl Malus is that she wants him to give her powers. Furthermore, not only is Alisa correct in making this call, but Trish's desperation for powers causes her to take increasingly unsavory actions to get them. This involves manipulating Malcolm's desire to protect Jessica, and his affection for her, to get him to help her track Dr. Malus down. Then she knocks out, ties up, and stuffs Malcolm in the trunk of her car when he tries to bring Dr. Malus in. Then finally, she kidnaps Dr. Malus and threatens to shoot Malcolm if he tries to stop her. She, eventually, even admits she wants to be special, stating "Haven't you ever felt powerless?"]] |
| 481 | * TheIdealist: Such that, after a passionate speech, Simpson says that all she needs is "a flag and a horse." She's constantly pushing Jess to be the hero she sees her as. [[spoiler:Season 2 casts some doubt on this, as while she claims she wants to do the right thing and help people, the moment she confronts Karl Malus, someone she's been intent on ''stopping'' as part of IGH, she instead uses him [[IJustWantToBeSpecial as a way to get herself superpowers]] and after the process nearly ''kills'' her, she accuses Jess of ruining everything and calls her a coward for not using her powers for heroism.]] |
| 482 | * InnateNightVision: [[spoiler:One of the powers she develops in Season 3 is the ability to see in the dark, efficient enough that she no longer even bothers with switching the light on in her apartment to read. It's her one advantage over Jessica when they ultimately come to blows, as her agility otherwise can't match Jessica's strength.]] |
| 483 | * InTheHood: She wears a hoodie to disguise herself as Jessica to fool Kilgrave in the season one finale. |
| 484 | * ItsAllAboutMe: In Season 2, her developing insecurities [[spoiler:and constant usage of Simpson's inhaler]] result in her attempting to desperately acquire powers for herself while using those around her and disregarding their viewpoints. [[spoiler: After waking up and learning from Jessica that Dr. Malus (who she kidnapped so he could give her powers) was dead, her first response was regret that the experiment had failed.]] |
| 485 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:After getting powers, she starts committing morally questionable acts, starting with killing Jessica's mother Alisa which strains their relationship. The murders she commits were justified or at least understandable to an extent, but she becomes a full-on villain when she tries to kill people who aren't evil like Kith Lyonne and even Jessica herself out of her twisted definition of justice.]] |
| 486 | * MoralityPet: For Jessica. Early on we see their bond and Trish helps her become more heroic. Even Kilgrave is aware that Jessica doesn't seem to love anyone but Trish, which is why he intended to leave New York together with Trish and make her his plaything, to torture Jessica. |
| 487 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the very end of Season 3, [[spoiler:when she ''finally'' realizes that all her extreme vigilantism and murdering has made her the "bad guy"]]. |
| 488 | * MythologyGag: |
| 489 | ** When presenting Jessica with a prototype Jewel costume, she briefly dons the blue mask it comes with, reminiscent of her [[http://i.imgur.com/RNcmGcO.jpg Hellcat persona]] in the comics. Trish wore a red wig for her "Patsy Walker" role. In the comics, Patsy has red hair. |
| 490 | ** After [[spoiler:getting powers of her own in Season 3]], Trish tries on several super outfits of her own. One of them is a complete replica of the Hellcat costume, sash and all. Her reaction is an emphatic "hell no". |
| 491 | * {{Narcissist}}: In Season 3, [[spoiler:Trish fully develops into one.]] |
| 492 | ** [[spoiler:Trish fully believes that she has the high ground and makes the world better by killing criminals, viewing herself as a hero.]] |
| 493 | ** [[spoiler:Having gained the powers she always wanted, she seeks "justice" by fighting crime, but is upset that she does not get the gratification of recognition by the public. It's telling that whenever she seemingly does a good deed and is thanked for it, she responds with a "You're welcome."]] |
| 494 | ** [[spoiler:Despite Jessica managing to gather the evidence to lock Sallinger in prison forever, Trish chooses to get RevengeBeforeReason and brutally murders him in cold blood.]] |
| 495 | * NeverBeHurtAgain: She puts on a strong front, but Trish is clearly shaken by years of living with Dorothy, the attempt on her life by a superpowered Simpson, and the constant threat of Kilgrave. To the point that [[spoiler: she becomes obsessed with getting superpowers, even telling Dr. Malus that she feels "powerless."]] |
| 496 | * NeverMyFault: |
| 497 | ** Throughout Season 2, [[spoiler:Trish constantly manipulates people in her quest for powers, and never outright takes responsibility for them, and when confronted with her actions either downplays her role or gives a weak apology. Even her mother calls her on it.]] |
| 498 | ** Again in Season 3, [[spoiler:Trish tries to reconcile with Jessica, and in a letter that she intended to send to Jessica she eventually thinks that she perhaps was wrong to kill Jessica's mother... [[IgnoredEpiphany only to delete the part she just wrote]] and instead insisting that she saved the world from a mass murderer.]] |
| 499 | * NiceCharacterMeanActor: As "Patsy" sings about wanting to be everyone's friend, Trish sneers at attending her sister's convalescence for publicity reasons. |
| 500 | ** Lampshaded when she's forced to headline a Metro-General staff member's kid's birthday party as Patsy to get the employee to give her Metro-General files on Jessica's hospital stay, and curses in earshot of kids, prompting one of the adults to say, "Patsy's kinda mean..." |
| 501 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: After seeing Kilgrave command his parents to kill themselves, she attempts to shoot him but this ends up breaking the soundproof cell he's being held in and gives him the opportunity to escape. He even attempted to kill Trish herself by commanding her to shoot herself, but fortunately her revolver had run out of ammo. |
| 502 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: ''It's Patsy'' was more like a ''Series/HannahMontana'' ripoff, though the dating is a bit off. And Trish's mother is a frightening [[Creator/LindsayLohan Dina Lohan]] figure, who spends her days counting her cash and brainstorming new ways to pimp out her family. |
| 503 | * NotWearingTights: Once she becomes a vigilante. Although it's not fully MovieSuperheroesWearBlack given Trish's makeshift costume still has Hellcat's blue and yellow colors. |
| 504 | * OldShame: Her past as a child star, especially the "Patsy" persona, as she got raped by a movie director and started her descent to drug abuse and alcohol addiction in her later years. She's incredibly uncomfortable when she has to perform as Patsy again at a kid's birthday party to get Jessica's medical files. |
| 505 | * OneHitWonder: InUniverse. Her movie career never did pan out, with ''Snatch and Grab'' being her only box office success. |
| 506 | * OnlyFriend: Before Malcolm became Jessica's friend and assistant, Trish was Jessica's one and only friend, and Trish really was the only family she had. |
| 507 | * TheParagon: In Season 1. Trish has Karen Page's levels of idealism, and always keeps it no matter what happens to her. Her idealism and goodness are so infectious that it's what [[spoiler:[[LoveMakesYouEvil drives Simpson insane]]]] and what helps Jessica overcome her apathy and cynicism [[spoiler:and ultimately defeat Kilgrave.]] This trope becomes deconstructed ''and'' subverted to Hell and back in the following two seasons. |
| 508 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: All three characters that she ends up killing in Season 3 of ''Jessica Jones'' are written to be as [[HateSink loathsome]] as possible, to make it clear that her moral compass is more or less on par with The Punisher]]. |
| 509 | * PhraseCatcher: "It's Patsy" from her child star days. |
| 510 | * ProperlyParanoid: She knows what Kilgrave can do. So she's set up a safe house and learned Krav Maga. |
| 511 | * RageQuit: Her addiction to Simpson's inhaler in Season 2 leads her to get increasingly aggravated until she blows up in the middle of a radio interview, quits the show, and storms out of the studio. |
| 512 | * RealLifeSuperpowers: Trish is beautiful, wealthy, famous, charismatic, extremely clever, a great fighter. She's halfway to being her own superhero. [[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Oh wait...]] |
| 513 | * RecoveredAddict: Was addicted to pills for a spell. In the present, she very consciously does not drink alcohol, and only keeps liquor around for Jessica. [[spoiler:Until she gets addicted to Simpson's power-inducing inhaler and things go from bad to worse.]] |
| 514 | * RedOniBlueOni: She's the levelheaded Blue Oni to Jessica's hot-tempered Red Oni. It gets reverse in Season 3 after Trish gets her powers. |
| 515 | * RelatedInTheAdaptation: Despite having literally no connection to Jessica in the comics, she's her adoptive sister in the TV show. |
| 516 | * RelationshipUpgrade: Trish hooks up with Malcolm midway through Season 2 after calling things off with Griffin. [[DeconstructedTrope Then it gets deconstructed]] in that it starts because of their sexual urges. Trish instigates it when she takes another dose of Simpson's drug inhaler and sleeps with Malcolm on impulse. As time goes by, it's clear that they've been overcome by their negative traits and current issues (Malcolm having traded his drug addiction for sex; Trish's addiction to Simpson's drug inhaler, and insecurity about having no powers). Even Malcolm realizes this and how toxic their relationship is but initially can't bring himself to resist. [[spoiler:The final straw is when Trish manipulates Malcolm into finding Dr. Malus so she can use him to get superpowers, knocks Malcolm out and tosses him in the trunk of her car, and threatens him with a gun when he breaks out.]] |
| 517 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Trish grows progressively more erratic and unstable over the course of Season 2 as she abuses Will Simpson's inhaler, culminating in an on-air meltdown and RageQuit as she turns to Dr. Malus to receive superpowers, and ends the season by shooting Alisa in cold blood. At the start of Season 3, she appears to be more composed at first, but quickly shows herself to be no less disordered, and she spends the season going further and further off the deep end as she becomes a murderous vigilante.]] |
| 518 | * [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: [[spoiler: In Season 3, Trish goes too far in bringing criminals to justice, starting with accidentally killing two. However, she eventually comes to think that by killing bad people, she is making the world better, and permanently goes off the deep end when she beats Sallinger to death.]] |
| 519 | * SiblingTeam: Trish helps Jessica out whenever she is needed, like when they tried catching Kilgrave or locating IGH. [[spoiler:In Season 3, she teams up with Jessica to catch Gregory Sallinger. However, Trish's acts of vigilantism eventually force Jessica to arrest Trish.]] |
| 520 | * SiblingYinYang: Trish serves as a foil to Jessica. While Trish is blonde, feminine, idealistic, and very energetic, Jess is raven-haired, tomboy, pessimistic, calmer, and more reserved. Jessica didn't ask for powers and doesn't want to be a hero, while Trish actively wants powers to become a hero. [[spoiler:And while Jessica is ultimately a selfless JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Trish turns out to have a very narcissistic nature. Jessica also was able to handle the trauma she endured without losing her way, while Trish completely snaps and willingly goes the extra mile to kill the people she deems evil.]] |
| 521 | * SleekHighRiseApartment: She lives in a nice apartment in Tribeca. Following Jessica's experience with Kilgrave, Trish turns the place into a fortress, outfitting the place with bulletproof windows and a steel-reinforced front door with a security camera system, and converting Jessica's old bedroom into a private gym where she practices krav maga lessons. |
| 522 | * SuperReflexes: [[spoiler:Part of the powers she gains in Season 3.]] |
| 523 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: |
| 524 | ** Trish has trained extensively to become a formidable combatant but when she comes up against a Kilgrave-controlled Simpson, an individual with considerable military training and superior strength, she finds herself easily overpowered during their confrontation and is nearly strangled to death. |
| 525 | ** In Season 2, Simpson's inhaler eventually runs out on her and she goes through a period of withdrawal symptoms. |
| 526 | * SympathyForTheDevil: |
| 527 | ** She believes that Will Simpson was a good guy before being involved in the military program. Jessica, on the other hand, disagrees. |
| 528 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted when it comes to Alisa Jones, however, who Trish dismisses and practically demonizes despite the situation being obviously very complicated and painful for Jessica. She also shows no remorse for killing her and has the audacity to believe this is something she and Jessica can just hash out over coffee.]] |
| 529 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The GirlyGirl to Jessica's {{tomboy}}. She wears bright clothing and is far more primmer than Jessica. Granted, the same could be said of the Hulk. |
| 530 | * TookALevelInBadass: She was a victim in the past, but by the time we meet her she's become proficient in Krav Maga, a form of martial arts that the world's most elite special forces are trained in. |
| 531 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Season 2 sees Trish spiraling after continuous use of the combat enhancement inhaler culminating in her threatening and manipulating those around her all in an effort [[spoiler:to gain powers. And she only gets worse in Season 3.]] |
| 532 | * TwoFirstNames: Her surname "Walker" can also be used as a given name. The trope also applies to her actress. |
| 533 | * VigilanteMan: [[spoiler:Turns into one in Season 3. She is the one who kills Jessica's mother, Alisa, at the end of Season 2 and in Season 3 eventually goes so far as to murder the people she thinks are evil.]] |
| 534 | * TheVoice: She has a voice-only role in ''Luke Cage'', discussing Luke on her show after he reveals himself to the public. |
| 535 | * WeakButSkilled: |
| 536 | ** Trish does not have superpowers but has been training in Krav Maga. She's able to easily flip [[SuperStrength Jessica]] onto the ground. |
| 537 | ** Also becomes this in Season 3 [[spoiler:after gaining superpowers. She still lacks super strength and can't hope to win against Jessica in a straight fight, but her enhanced agility and SuperReflexes combined with her training allow her to fight efficiently, and her InnateNightVision means she can easily use the dark to her advantage while not being bothered by it. When facing Jessica in later episodes, her primary strategy is to shut off the lights to give herself an edge.]] |
| 538 | * WeightWoe: Projected. It is so far unknown whether Dorothy forcing Trish to throw up when she believed her daughter had eaten too much resulted in actual bulimia since the flashback shows Trish resisting. |
| 539 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Jessica disowns her after the Season 2 finale for shooting her mother. They reconcile in Season 3, but eventually, fall apart again.]] |
| 540 | * WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:She goes about assuming all the events in Season 3 are culminating in her Superhero Origin Story. She ends up hindering Jessica's efforts and even after murdering Sallinger, she still thinks she can continue leading a double life, and that Jessica will eventually back off. It's not until after she is arrested and the list of her crimes is read to her that reality sinks in and she realizes she has become "the bad guy."]] |
| 541 | * YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:Once Gregory Sallinger offs Dorothy, Trish first attacks him, and then downright murders him.]] |
| 542 | [[/folder]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | [[folder:Jeri Hogarth]] |
| 545 | !!''Jeryn "Jeri" Hogarth'' |
| 546 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hogarth_jeryn.jpg]] |
| 547 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The real world is not about happy endings. It's about taking the life you have, and fighting like hell to keep it."'']] |
| 548 | !!!'''Species:''' Human |
| 549 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 550 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Rand Enterprises (formerly); Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz (formerly); Hogarth and Associates |
| 551 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/CarrieAnneMoss |
| 552 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaureenHerman (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Melise Maia (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 553 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' |
| 554 | |
| 555 | ->''"My firm is going to need a very resourceful attorney, someone like you, who's not afraid to take on riskier, non-traditional cases."'' |
| 556 | |
| 557 | A former intern from the legal department of Rand Enterprises, now a managing partner at Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz LLP and recurring client of Alias Investigations. |
| 558 | ---- |
| 559 | * AdaptationalAttractiveness: Carrie-Anne Moss is more of a looker than Jeri's comic counterpart, a schlubby middle-aged man. |
| 560 | * AdaptationalJerkass: Though he could be a jerk, Jeryn Hogarth was a relatively NiceGuy who looked out for [[ComicBook/IronFist Danny,]] was loyal to him and his friends, and was a highly moral figure. Jeri, on the other hand, starts ''Jessica Jones'' considerably less moral than her comic counterpart, cheats on her wife, engages in criminal behavior and betrays Jessica to Kilgrave ''without'' Kilgrave using his powers on her, resulting in three people's deaths. Wendy's death shakes her considerably, though, and also kickstarts her CharacterDevelopment, so by the time of ''Iron Fist'', she's more like Jeryn. |
| 561 | * AdaptationalSexuality: Played with. Jeryn's a straight male in the comics, while Jeri is lesbian here. Ultimately, they're both characters attracted to women. |
| 562 | * AgeGapRomance: She's visibly much older than her mistress Pam. |
| 563 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: When faced with a room full of people detailing their horrifying encounters with Kilgrave, she's more impressed than anything. |
| 564 | * AmoralAttorney: Jeri is the kind of lawyer who manipulates juries into thinking “beyond a reasonable doubt” means you need thirty witnesses or a video of the defendant doing it. She is willing to hire a clearly unstable Jessica Jones as a PI (even wants to bring her in-house); why would anyone be surprised that she'd try and take advantage of Kilgrave's powers? Even Pam ends up disgusted with her. |
| 565 | * TheCameo: Her appearance in the Season 2 finale of ''Series/Daredevil2015'' to hire Foggy Nelson. |
| 566 | * CelebrityParadox: ''Franchise/StarWars'' is mentioned several times across the MCU. Jeri's actress Carrie-Anne Moss plays Indara in ''Series/TheAcolyte''. |
| 567 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Her appearance in the first season of ''Jessica Jones'' was that of a {{Jerkass}} AmoralAttorney and borderline ''villain'' with what she tried to do with Kilgrave. From ''Daredevil'' and ''Iron Fist'' onwards, she's portrayed as a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold somewhat gruff, but well-meaning]] woman firmly on the side of good. It's implied that the entire situation with Kilgrave made Jeri reconsider her life choices. |
| 568 | * TheChessmaster: In Season 2, after Jeri [[spoiler:was tricked by a conman and his girlfriend, Jeri tracks them down and buys an untraceable gun from Turk. Then she tells the girl that he tricked her, that her boyfriend supposedly cheated on her, manipulates her into killing him with the gun and then calls the cops so they can arrest her.]] |
| 569 | * ComplexityAddiction: Doubles with ItsAllAboutMe. When Jeri tries to win back her first love, Kith Lyonne, who's now married, the lengths Jeri goes to win her back and sink her marriage to Peter ultimately [[DrivenToSuicide drive him to suicide]] by revealing his embezzling scheme. And when Jeri siccs Trish on a former benefactor suing Kith, Kith realizes Jeri's actions were all self-serving from the start and wants nothing to do with her. Considering Kith and Peter had an open marriage and Peter had nothing but respect for Jeri, Jeri could have done ''none of the above'' and Kith would have been happy to stay in her life as a FriendWithBenefits and be by her side in her final days. |
| 570 | * DeathOfAThousandCuts: What Kilgrave orders Wendy to do to her. Wendy only makes it to 30 cuts before Pam takes her out in self-defense. |
| 571 | * DespairEventHorizon. Almost. It almost [[BreakTheHaughty broke Jeri.]] Building her wealth, firm and reputation from nothing but her wits, at the start of Season 2 Jeri gets a brutal wake-up call when she learns that she is suffering [[spoiler: from incurable ALS and has at most eight more years to live]]. She slowly is about to lose control of her body and her firm from her other name partners and resorts to drugs and prostitutes, until she hears from IGH and their miraculous treatments that saved, amongst others, Jessica's life when her family had an accident. When Jeri is sheltering a former IGH employee (with whom she eventually starts a sexual relationship), while Jessica is supposed to get some leverage on Jeri's partners, Jeri learns of [[HopeSpot a healer, who could heal even the worst injuries and diseases]], and Jeri bails him out of jail and makes him heal her. Feeling now better and having a new perspective on life, it all comes crashing down when Jessica tells Jeri that her so-called healer is a conman and Jeri was tricked. When Jeri gets home, her apartment robbed of everything valuable and the conman and his girlfriend now gone, Jeri breaks down on her knees and starts crying. She eventually recovers after [[spoiler:getting her revenge on the people that tricked her, and takes away a good amount of money from her partners as severage, leaving the firm with all her clients and 62% of her partners' business]]. |
| 572 | * DisabledInTheAdaptation: She gets diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which her comic counterpart never had. |
| 573 | * DisproportionateRetribution: While they did screw her over pretty badly, Jeri manipulating [[spoiler: Inez into killing Shane and then calling the cops on her]] was pretty extreme, especially since she could have just have them arrested. |
| 574 | * DyingAlone: It's her fear of this that causes her to reach out to Kith in Season 3. [[spoiler:When her selfish actions inevitably drive Kith away, Kith flat out tells her that this is what's going to happen.]] |
| 575 | * EntitledToHaveYou: This is more or less how she feels about Kith in Season 3. [[spoiler: She breaks up Kith's family using the excuse that her husband is a liar and a thief to justify it. When Kith makes it clear Jeri's actions weren't out of love and wants nothing to do with her, Jeri doesn't give up. She admits to cheating on her with Wendy when they were in school because she wasn't ready to come out or commit back then, but expects Kith to drop everything and run back to her now that she is ready, and because she is dying. She later uses Demetri, a business rival Kith has beef with to try and get back into her life. Only for Kith to uses this to her advantage and then leave her during the season finale, making it clear that she won't be there for her when she dies of her disease because of her selfish actions.]] |
| 576 | * EvilIsNotAToy: She attempts to [[spoiler:use Kilgrave's power first through his fetus and then through the man himself. The lesson is learned when Kilgrave almost has her murdered by her wife.]] |
| 577 | ** [[spoiler: On the giving end of this when Inez and Shane tricked her into believing she had been cured of ALS, and then ransacked her apartment. It ends with her tricking Inez into killing Shane, and then calling the cops on her.]] |
| 578 | * EmbarrassingNickname: Danny called her "J-Money" when she worked on Rand Enterprise's legal team. |
| 579 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Jeri does some pretty amoral stuff during ''Jessica Jones'' without much remorse (at least until she realizes what a mistake it was to deal with Kilgrave), but even she and her partners despise district attorney Samantha Reyes' anti-vigilante stance, having warmed up greatly to Jessica. She also wasn't one to trust Harold Meachum when she interned at Rand. |
| 580 | ** This gets dropped completely when, in Season 3, she [[spoiler: breaks up a marriage, causes a man’s death]] and, in a bid to get out of the bad PR from it [[spoiler: defends a provable serial killer and begins a smear campaign against powered vigilantes]]. |
| 581 | * ExecutiveExcess: Downplayed (at first); despite being the deathly-serious head of a law firm, she does seem to spend an inordinate amount of time screwing her secretary, eventually resulting in trouble when Jeri's wife finds out. In the second season, though, a sudden diagnosis of ALS and an attempted takeover of the firm results in her going off the deep end of hedonism and indulging heavily in drugs and prostitutes. |
| 582 | * GenderFlip: Her comic book version, ''Jeryn'' Hogarth, was male. |
| 583 | * HandicappedBadass: She's still a skilled manipulator and lawyer even with ALS. |
| 584 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Jeri is capable of being a powerful force for good, a selfish schemer trying to get what she wants through any means, or a solid icon of responsible pragmatism. Which of the three she'll be at any given time is anyone's guess. |
| 585 | * HiddenDepths: Jeri would obviously rather die than admit that she actually does care about Jessica as a good friend. She also comes close to tears when she learns Danny Rand is still alive and for more than a decade, without anyone knowing, made sure the Rand family graves were tended and had flowers. |
| 586 | * IntergenerationalFriendship: She's clearly much older than Jessica Jones and Danny Rand. |
| 587 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Jeri's primary concern will always be to make sure she comes out on top. Not even people she actually cares for are safe from being sold down the river. |
| 588 | ** After her scheme to win back her ex, Kith, ends up GoneHorriblyWrong in season 3, she becomes TheAtoner in a way that still maks it All About Her. Having gone vigilante to expose Kith's husband's embezzlement, she runs hard in the other direction, defending a serial killer from a vigilante in order to save her law firm's reputation. |
| 589 | * {{Jerkass}}: One of the most unpleasant people in her initial series. |
| 590 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When Harold Meachum comes out of hiding and greets her, she quickly and rightfully points out that by FakingTheDead, he's committing fraud. |
| 591 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 592 | ** Hires on Marci Stahl after the FBI arrests most of Landman & Zack for aiding and abetting Wilson Fisk. And later hires on Foggy Nelson. |
| 593 | ** She later helps Danny's case to prove his identity pro bono out of respect for his father, and gives him money to buy him new clothes, though on the condition that if they are successful, he put her law firm on permanent retainer with Rand Enterprises. She was also the one paying for his parents' graves' upkeep all these years. |
| 594 | * JustThinkOfThePotential: Her reaction to Kilgrave when Jessica begins to enlighten her about his powers. [[spoiler:It's also {{Foreshadowing}}: Jeri thinks she can control the danger posed by Kilgrave, and attempts to use him for her own ends.]] |
| 595 | * LastNameBasis: Jessica always calls her Hogarth, while everyone else sticks with Jeri. |
| 596 | * LoveIsAWeakness: At the end of Season 3 [[spoiler: after Kith leaves her good, Jeri promises her she will never let herself become like this again. Especially, once it became clear that Kith was never going to go back to her and was using her to get rid of Demetri, a hated business rival.]] |
| 597 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As a result of her trying to [[spoiler:use Kilgrave for her own ends, she's nearly murdered and Wendy ends up dead, killed by Pam in an effort to protect Jeri. Jeri's left bleeding from several wounds and staring at her wife's corpse, horrified at what she's caused.]] |
| 598 | * NotSoStoic: When we first meet Jeri in ''Jessica Jones'' Season 2, we see that she's been essentially masking at work that she still feels terrible over Wendy's death. |
| 599 | * OneDegreeOfSeparation: Whereas Claire just happens to run into each Defender, Jeri has direct professional ties to all of them. |
| 600 | ** To Luke: Her firm defends Luke. |
| 601 | ** To Jessica: She is a professional acquaintance and recurring client of Jessica's. |
| 602 | ** To Danny: She used to work for Danny's father and is now Danny's lawyer. |
| 603 | ** To Matt: She now employs Foggy, Matt's friend and formerly his law partner at Nelson & Murdock |
| 604 | * PetTheDog: |
| 605 | ** Jeri personally offers to make Foggy a partner at her firm after being impressed by his showing at Frank Castle's trial. |
| 606 | ** She has been taking care of the Rand family's graves and caring for their estate for 15 years, and she even agrees to help Danny pro-bono out of respect for his father. |
| 607 | * PyrrhicVictory: The divorce ends in her favor, but Wendy is killed, Pam is arrested for the murder and refuses to have anything more to do with Jeri. Jeri realizes the mistakes she's made and turns over a new leaf. (Sort of.) |
| 608 | * RagsToRiches: Grew up dirt poor in a trailer with three other siblings (and was bullied mercilessly for it as a child), and worked her way up into her life as a high-powered and wildly successful attorney. |
| 609 | * TokenEvilTeammate: As the resident AmoralAttorney. Even Pam calls her a ruthless shark. |
| 610 | ** [[spoiler: She convinces a junkie to kill her boyfriend, because they took advantage of her ALS to con her.]] |
| 611 | * {{Tsundere}}: She cares about Jessica, but she would rather die then ever admit it. She usually hides behind looking out for the interest of her company when trying to control Jess, even though its doubtful there would be any fallout in their direction. |
| 612 | * TookALevelInKindness: After the entire ordeal with Kilgrave, Jeri seems to have greatly cleaned up her act, hiring on Foggy with the explicit promise of making him a name partner at HC&B, and helping Danny recover his identity and his ownership of Rand Enterprises. Although the latter goes back to her having reason to be loyal to Danny's father, who gave her her first job, so it makes sense she would show a kinder face with Danny than with Jessica. |
| 613 | ** TookALevelInJerkass: Walks this back after getting her ALS diagnosis. She apparently decides that, if she's going to slowly die of a debilitating disease with no hope for a cure, then an ItsAllAboutMe attitude is fully justified. |
| 614 | * VerbalTic: Jeri tends to answer "It's complicated" if she's being untruthful or dodgy. |
| 615 | * YourDaysAreNumbered: She gets diagnosed with ALS in ''Jessica Jones'' Season 2 and spends most of the season hopelessly trying to find a cure for it. |
| 616 | * YouSeeImDying: [[spoiler:She is diagnosed with ALS in Season 2.]] |
| 617 | [[/folder]] |
| 618 | |
| 619 | [[folder:Erik Gelden]] |
| 620 | !!''Erik Gelden'' |
| 621 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/erik_gelden.png]] |
| 622 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Something always happens. Everything is terrible. Optimism is a lie. Expect the worst."'']] |
| 623 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 624 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 625 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BenjaminWalker |
| 626 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'' |
| 627 | |
| 628 | ->''"I just... I sense it. The darkness in people. The shit they've done, are doing, or will do. The worst ones, they have no guilt. What I see, I feel... is a void, a lack of humanity. And the closer they are, the sharper the needle in the back of my eye."'' |
| 629 | |
| 630 | A man with the ability to tell whether someone is evil. |
| 631 | ---- |
| 632 | * AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Gelden is known as the villainous Mind-Wave, but he's more or less one of the good guys here. |
| 633 | * AllergicToEvil: His superpower. He gets headaches when being around evil people. The more evil they are, the worst the headache, with the very worst people causing him to ''bleed from his eyes'' if they touch him. |
| 634 | * {{Blackmail}}: He uses his power to find people who have done something badly wrong, then pretends to know what it is to make them pay him off. |
| 635 | * BlackmailBackfire: One of his intended victims turns out to be an EvilGenius who quickly tracks him down and tries to kill him. |
| 636 | * BlessedWithSuck: How he views his abilities, given that they manifest as physical pain. |
| 637 | * BrokenPedestal: He loved and respected his father until he discovered he was molesting Erik's little sister. |
| 638 | * CanonForeigner: He has no direct counterpart in the comics, though he was loosely inspired by the villain Mind-Wave. |
| 639 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Never referred to as "Mind-Wave" here. Justified since he's not using an alter ego for heroics or otherwise. |
| 640 | * TheCynic: He believes that nothing you do truly matters. |
| 641 | * CynicismCatalyst: He discovered his father was molesting his little sister Brianna and forced him to admit it, result in his father's incarceration. Unfortunately, after his father was arrested, Gelden's mother committed suicide by overdosing on pills. This caused Gelden and Brianna to have a falling out over Gelden exposing the truth which she felt wasn't his to expose, followed by Brianna gradually becoming a drug-addicted, severely mentally ill prostitute. Since then, Gelden swore to never use his powers for good. |
| 642 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Prison. When Sallinger turned out to be smart enough to sneak away from a murder charge, Jessica hoped to pin a kidnapping charge on him against Erik. Problem was, Erik would have to confess to blackmail schemes for it to stick. But Erik experiences pain just being near bad people. Trapping him in prison with hundreds of them? Forget FateWorseThanDeath... that might be AndIMustScream. |
| 643 | * GoodFeelsGood: Played somewhat straight: being near someone like Jessica is enough to assuage his constant pain... giving a woman an orgasm gives him the opposite of a migraine. Also subverted: the death of someone like Sallinger clearly gives him a a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything euphoric experience]]. |
| 644 | * TheHedonist: He tries to drown out his headaches through sex, drinking and gambling. |
| 645 | * InexplicablyAwesome: We never find out how he got his powers, only that he's not always had them. |
| 646 | %%* LoveInterest: For Jessica Jones in the third season of her show. |
| 647 | * NotQuiteTheRightThing: He sees exposing his father's sexual abuse of his sister as this, as it caused his mother to kill herself and his sister to hate him to this day. |
| 648 | * PowerStereotypeFlip: He can objectively tell the good people from the bad, but is a cynic who thinks the difference is largely irrelevant. |
| 649 | * RecruitingTheCriminal: His final appearance implies a future working with Detective Costa, using his powers to root out bad guys. |
| 650 | * SupremeChef: He can cook an extremely good burger. |
| 651 | |
| 652 | [[/folder]] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | !! Introduced in ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' |
| 655 | [[folder:Misty Knight]] |
| 656 | !!''Mercedes Kelly "Misty" Knight'' |
| 657 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/knight_misty.jpg]] |
| 658 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Your ass might be bulletproof, but Harlem ain't."'']] |
| 659 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see Misty with her bionic arm]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mistyknight2.jpg''"I don't want a Purple Heart. I want my job back."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 660 | !!!'''Species:''' Human (cybernetically enhanced) |
| 661 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' American |
| 662 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' NYPD |
| 663 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SimoneMissick |
| 664 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/JessicaToledo (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Carol Crespo (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 665 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 666 | |
| 667 | ->''"I apply foot to ass. And match lead for lead. I put murderers in handcuffs. I don't just seek justice, I stalk it."'' |
| 668 | |
| 669 | A tough-as-nails detective at the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops New York City Police Department]]'s 29th Precinct and close ally of Luke's. |
| 670 | ---- |
| 671 | * AdaptationalBackstoryChange: In the comics, she lost her right arm to a bomb she couldn't disarm but in the films, she lost it to Bakuto who sliced it off with his katana. |
| 672 | * AdaptationOriginConnection: In the comics, she gets her robot arm by [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark Industries]]. In the MCU, she gets the arm by Rand Enterprises, the company of Danny Rand. |
| 673 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: A minor one. In the comics and the MCU, she works close with Luke Cage and Danny Rand (a.k.a. the ComicBook/HeroesForHire in the comics). But while she is a major love interest to Danny in the comics, she has no romantic ties to him in the MCU and is more connected to Luke here. |
| 674 | * AcademicAthlete: She went to Temple University on a basketball scholarship. |
| 675 | * AfroAsskicker: Marvel's pre-eminent example, especially since Luke Cage doesn't have one in the MCU. |
| 676 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:She comes very close to losing her arm after getting shot by Diamondback, thanks to Luke's amateurish first aid, but Claire is able to save it. Then it happens for real in Midland Circle, ironically while saving Claire from having her head cut off by Bakuto.]] |
| 677 | * ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:As a natural extension of the above, she gets a shiny robotic right arm courtesy of Danny Rand's company.]] |
| 678 | * ArtificialLimbsAreStronger: Her prosthetic right arm grants her a small degree of SuperStrength, allowing her to send bigger opponents back with her punches. |
| 679 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Is able to recreate entire crime scenes in her head by looking at the photographs. It takes a hit [[spoiler:after she loses her arm, but after some help from Colleen it comes back.]] |
| 680 | * BreakTheBadass: Being so thoroughly at Diamondback's mercy does a real number on her, [[spoiler:even driving her to assault Claire during an interrogation.]] |
| 681 | * ButtMonkey: She's the victim of a lot of mockery from other cops when she decides to go back into work. |
| 682 | * ByTheBookCop: At first she's obedient to the book, [[spoiler:until Scarfe dies.]] Afterwards she mostly [[CowboyCop disregards the rules]]. |
| 683 | * CharacterDevelopment: ''Luke Cage'' Season 2 has her overcoming the trauma of [[spoiler:losing her arm]], and becoming less of a CowboyCop. |
| 684 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: [[spoiler:She quits being a cop partway through ''Luke Cage'' Season 2, but all the other cops predict she'd be back within a week at least. She's back within 24 hours, following Ridenhour's death.]] |
| 685 | * CowboyCop: Turns into one after Scarfe is killed. It gets her into trouble with Inspector Ridley. |
| 686 | * CurbStompBattle: Her first encounter with Diamondback (without powers or suit) had him effortlessly defeat her in fist fight and nearly killing her, giving her PTSD. She takes on him again with a gun in her hand, only for him to shoot her down with his QuickDraw skills. If not for Luke's ttimely arrival he would have shot her dead right there. |
| 687 | * {{Cyborg}}: She lost her right arm after Bakuto sliced it off in ''The Defenders'' and gets a cybernetic one in Season 2 of ''Luke Cage''. |
| 688 | * CynicismCatalyst: Scarfe getting killed and turning out to have been corrupt, causes her to lose her faith in the system, leading to a number of impulsive and renegade decisions. |
| 689 | * DamnYouMuscleMemory: During a bar-brawl in ''Luke Cage'' series 2, [[spoiler:she tries to punch someone with the arm she no longer has.]] |
| 690 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'', having the most focus after the titular character. |
| 691 | * DeathByOriginStory: Misty was inspired to become a cop after a childhood incident where her cousin was beaten, gang-raped and murdered by a group of local street punks. |
| 692 | * {{Determinator}}: When it comes to justice and doing what's right. |
| 693 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: The prosthetic arm Danny gives her not only replaces the arm she lost to Bakuto, but also grants her SuperStrength. |
| 694 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When she finally meets Jessica Jones in ''The Defenders'', she comments that she expected Jessica to be a lot bigger, given her reputation within the NYPD. |
| 695 | * FailureHero: She's a great investigator, but not so good at other parts of being a cop, often letting her emotions get the better of her and losing convictions because of it. |
| 696 | * FairCop: Her introduction in ''Luke Cage'' has her scoping out Cottonmouth's club wearing a ''very'' tight dress. Then she has sex with Luke. |
| 697 | * FemaleGaze: In ''Iron Fist'' Season 2, Misty repeatedly eyes up and expresses interest in Ward Meachum, much to Colleen's disgust. |
| 698 | * {{Foil}}: To Jessica Jones. Both are skilled but cynical detectives, have trouble cooperating with others in their pursuit for justice, experienced moments of feeling powerless, and had a sexual relationship with Luke Cage before settling down as friends. However, Jessica is a self-employed PrivateDetective, while Misty works for the police. |
| 699 | * ForegoneConclusion: For everyone familiar with her in the comics, [[spoiler:it was only a matter of time before she lost her arm.]] |
| 700 | * FriendOnTheForce: Of sorts. Her relationship with Luke is fairly rocky across the first season of his show, but she is a friend more often than not. In Season 2, she's definitely there. |
| 701 | * HiddenBuxom: Zigzagged. She's introduced in a revealing low-cut dress that she makes clear she knows shows off her large chest, but this was to deliberately attract attention as part of undercover work at a club. During her day job and in all other instances, she dresses conservatively and usually pairs a collared top with a stylish jacket. Still, even in these shirts and especially during her sex scene it is made clear that she has by far the largest boobs of any female in the Netflix shows. |
| 702 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: She has complete and utter faith in Scarfe, and doesn't believe he's a DirtyCop until it's too late to save him. She also jumps to the worst conclusions as far as Luke is concerned, and only accepts him as a good guy after she learns who Willis Stryker is. |
| 703 | * HandicappedBadass: Even after losing her right arm, she's still more than capable of holding her own in fights. |
| 704 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Much to her consternation, Misty ends up like this during the Hand case, despite her efforts to serve as their FriendOnTheForce. Because of the high stakes involving the Hand, Luke tries to keep Misty at arms length to keep her from being a target. |
| 705 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Her ability to recreate scenes from photos. Other cops repeatedly call it eerie; Lieutenant Perez calls her a "curandero" (witch doctor) when they're in Scarfe's apartment. Misty herself thinks it's just a "trick" that anybody can do if they know how, likening it to a specific way of looking at a picture. The viewer is left to decide for themselves if the photo recreation is a dramatization of her own reasonable deductions, or if she's some kind of latent/in-denial post cognitive. |
| 706 | * MythologyGag: |
| 707 | ** She comes close to [[spoiler:losing an arm]] but it doesn't happen. [[spoiler:Ain't so lucky in ''The Defenders'', however, where she loses it for real at the hands of Bakuto.]] |
| 708 | ** Her last scene in ''Luke Cage'' Season 1 has her wearing an outfit that invokes her red comics outfit. |
| 709 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Her refusal to trust the system after Scarfe's death and Cottonmouth's release leads to her hiding Candace herself instead of placing her into police protection. This gets Candace killed and allows Mariah to walk free. [[WhatTheHellHero Inspector Ridley calls her out on it, hard]].]] |
| 710 | * PlugNPlayProsthetics: After losing an arm in the season finale of ''The Defenders'', Misty spends the first few episodes of the second season of ''Luke Cage'' coping with this loss. She finally accepts an offer from Danny Rand for a high-tech prosthetic replacement, and becomes proficient enough to use it naturally one episode later. |
| 711 | * PoliceBrutality: Downplayed. A night of getting shot at, threatened, and knocked unconscious by Diamondback, after dealing with the revelation of Scarfe being crooked, and no one wanting to cooperate with her, causes Misty to snap and get physical with Claire during questioning for being uncooperative about Luke's whereabouts. Inspector Ridley pulls her away, relieves her of duty and puts her in therapy. |
| 712 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: {{Inverted|Trope}} with Danny Rand as her role as Danny's main romantic partner is given to Coleen in the MCU. She and Danny have no romantic ties here. |
| 713 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Serves this role to the Defenders, being the only cop willing to help the heroes out, even though they have to keep her out of the loop to prevent her from being in danger. |
| 714 | * SecretSecretKeeper: Near the end of ''The Defenders'', it's heavily implied that she has figured out that Matt Murdock is Daredevil. |
| 715 | * SherlockScan: Misty has an intuitive ability to replay a crime scene in her head just by looking at evidence or photos. |
| 716 | * SuperStrength: Her prosthetic arm grants her a low level variant of it, as with it she's able to effortlessly crush metal plating and send bigger men back several feet with her punches. |
| 717 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Black and an amputee. |
| 718 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Scarfe and Bailey. They bicker constantly (helped no little by [[spoiler:Scarfe being on Cottonmouth's payroll most of that time]]), but at the end they care for each other. |
| 719 | * YouGoGirl: When she needs information about Chico from a petty felon who plays basketball, Misty challenges him to a game of Horse. After she sinks the first shot, she calls him over and reveals that she used to be one of the legendary players whose initials are carved nearby. We never see how the match ends, but Misty got the information she needed, implying that she won. While wearing a suit and heels, no less. |
| 720 | [[/folder]] |
| 721 | |
| 722 | !! Introduced in ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' |
| 723 | [[folder:Colleen Wing]] |
| 724 | !!''Colleen Wing / [[spoiler: Iron Fist]]'' |
| 725 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/colleen_wing.png]] |
| 726 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Nobody is born a hero. And it's a difficult thing to become."'']] |
| 727 | !!!'''Species:''' Enhanced human |
| 728 | !!!'''Citizenship:''' Japanese-American |
| 729 | !!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Hand (formerly), Chikara Dojo, Bayard Community Center |
| 730 | !!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JessicaHenwick |
| 731 | !!!'''Voiced By:''' Gigliola Mariangel (Latin-America Chilean Spanish dub), Erika Menezes (Brazilian Portuguese dub) |
| 732 | !!!'''Appearances:''' ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{The Defenders|2017}}'' | ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' |
| 733 | |
| 734 | ->''"I can't believe I'm admitting this, but all I want is something stable. Something I can hold on to."'' |
| 735 | |
| 736 | A martial arts expert running Chikara dojo from Chinatown, while also being Danny Rand's lover and partner in crimefighting. |
| 737 | ---- |
| 738 | * APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Not her personally, but [[spoiler:every student of hers she sent to the Hand compound turned into fanatical agents of the organization who wouldn't hesitate to kill her on behalf of Bakuto.]] |
| 739 | * ActionGirl: Comes with being a martial arts expert. |
| 740 | * AffirmativeActionLegacy: [[spoiler:She inherits the title of Iron Fist (and the powers attached) from Danny while he's off tying some loose ends with Ward in Asia, though he seemingly regains his powers as well as some point prior. It's also suggested Colleen's ancestor was the first female Iron Fist, and that's how she came to become one herself]]. |
| 741 | * AncestralWeapon: Her katana has been passed down her family for generations. |
| 742 | * AntiHero: She believes in the honor of the Bushido and serving the community by helping people, but she's also shown to have Matt Murdock levels of bloodthirst. She is all too willing to kill [[spoiler:Harold Meachum]] on Danny's behalf if it meant it would preserve the stability of his chi. |
| 743 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Creator/JessicaHenwick keeps her natural dark hair for the role, despite Colleen being a redhead in the comics. |
| 744 | * AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Zig-zagged. She is initially with the Hand, thinking that Bakuto was part of a good faction, but she eventually sees what they really are.]] |
| 745 | * BadassBookworm: Skilled martial arts fighter, deadly with a katana, and her greatest wish if she had a million dollars? Go to the British Library and read ''every'' book in there. |
| 746 | * BattleCouple: With Danny in the second half of the first season of ''Iron Fist'', in ''The Defenders'', and the most of the second season of ''Iron Fist''. |
| 747 | * BloodKnight: She started FightClubbing to make ends meet despite seeing it as dishonorable and a necessity, but then discovered she really, really enjoyed beating strangers to a bloody mess. |
| 748 | * BraidsOfAction: She uses this hairstyle in the final episode as the new Iron Fist. |
| 749 | * BrokenPedestal: She genuinely loved and respected Bakuto more than anyone, as he was both the man who essentially saved her and was her sensei. To learn that he was a lunatic who craved immortality and would sacrifice and betray anyone for that goal cut her deep. |
| 750 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 751 | ** ''Franchise/StarWars'' has been referenced several times throughout the MCU. Jessica Henwick played [[TheDanza Jessika Pava]] in the ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. |
| 752 | ** ''Series/LukeCage2016'' confirms that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' exists in the MCU. Henwick played one of the Sand Snakes in the series and Colleen briefly appears in the season where the show was referenced. |
| 753 | * CompositeCharacter: Colleen in the comics never was a wielder of the Iron Fist. |
| 754 | * CoolSword: Her weapon of choice is a katana that her grandfather Kenji passed down to her. In the final episode, she uses her new abilities as the Iron Fist to empower her katana and make it glow. |
| 755 | * DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:She turns her back on the Hand after learning just how evil they are.]] |
| 756 | * DespairEventHorizon: Crosses it after [[spoiler:Bakuto tries to kill her, to the point that she attempts [[SuicideByCop to provoke Danny into killing her]]. Fortunately, said Iron Fist happens to be her LoveInterest, and manages to pull her back.]] |
| 757 | * DrillSergeantNasty: A martial arts variant, when she's teaching others. Colleen intentionally distances herself emotionally from her students, and pushes them extremely hard so that they can fight to the best of their ability. She admits to Danny in Season 2 of ''Iron Fist'' that she shut down the dojo because she felt responsible for all of the [[spoiler:Hand students]] that she had trained and that training [[spoiler:Danny after Davos takes the Iron Fist and breaks his leg]] would mean uncomfortably distancing herself from him as well. |
| 758 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Claire takes a slip for lessons from her at the end of ''Luke Cage'' Season 1. |
| 759 | * EmpoweredBadassNormal: She takes the Iron Fist from Davos at the end of the second season. |
| 760 | * FakeGuestStar: While ''The Defenders'' keeps insisting that the titular group is a foursome, Colleen is the fifth member of the team in all but name. She's every bit as martially capable as the four leads, refuses to wait around in the safety of the precinct with the other heroes' loved ones, and it's she who comes up with the plan to blow up Midland Circle. The only reason she lacks top billing is because she's technically just a love interest and never headlined her own show, but [[spoiler:as a former member of The Hand, she has a much more personal stake in the matter than Luke and Jessica]]. |
| 761 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:After revealing herself to be part of the Hand, which Danny has been raised to fight, she helps Danny escape from them, but Danny rejects her. Then Bakuto tries to kill her for betraying the Hand. The slam is so hard that she tries to goad Danny into killing her. Fortunately, Danny is in a more forgiving mood at this point.]] |
| 762 | * HeroicBSOD: Suffers a bad one when she learns that [[spoiler:Bakuto is going to drain her blood, and the Hand really is as evil as Danny and Claire have been telling her. To the point that she attempts to goad Danny into killing her.]] |
| 763 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Colleen participates in cage fights for money, and this is right after telling Daryl ''not'' to do this. When a Website/YouTube surfaces of her fighting, she has to uneasily admit to her hypocrisy. |
| 764 | * IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: She refuses to finish off [[spoiler:Bakuto]] after their duel using this reasoning. [[spoiler:After his resurgence in ''The Defenders'', she doesn't hold this sentiment anymore and actually kills him this time]]. |
| 765 | * InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler:Though the relationship between Danny and Colleen formed independently of the Hand, it is still used by Bakuto's faction to bring Danny to their side. However, Colleen truly falls in love with Danny and turns against the Hand after seeing how evil they truly are.]] |
| 766 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: She uses a katana, often as much sheathed as a blunt object as it is unsheathed as a sword. [[spoiler: As Iron Fist, she gets to channel her chi ''into'' the katana]]. |
| 767 | * LegacyCharacter: She is the latest in a long line of Iron Fists. |
| 768 | * LightIsGood: [[spoiler:After she gets her powers, her first turns bright white when activated]]. |
| 769 | * LoveRedeems: A rather strange example of the trope. [[spoiler:She was originally used by the Hand to convince Danny to join them while being convinced it was a benevolent organization, though the relationship formed independently of the Hand. It's the relationship that she develops with Danny that helps her realize the true nature of the Hand and causes her to defect from them.]] |
| 770 | * MasterSwordsman: She's a master of the katana, having been trained by her grandfather in the ways of the Bushido. |
| 771 | * MartialArtistsAreAlwaysBarefoot: Not to the same extent as [[BarefootLoon Danny]], but she ''does'' go barefoot a lot. Justified as she owns a dojo and is a martial arts traditionalist. |
| 772 | * {{Omniglot}}: Besides English, she speaks Japanese and Mandarin. Well she ''did'' speak Mandarin, but not since she was a child. When Danny uses that language she is unable to converse with him. |
| 773 | * PowerGlows: [[spoiler:While Danny and Davos's fists glow yellow and red (respectively) when activated, Colleen's turns white]]. |
| 774 | * PromotedToLoveInterest: She's Danny Rand's love interest in the MCU, a role usually filled by Misty Knight in the comics. |
| 775 | * RedBaron: While stepping into the cage while FightClubbing, the announcer calls Colleen [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon the Daughter of the Dragon]]. |
| 776 | * ThouShaltNotKill: Zigzagged. One the one hand, Colleen's grandfather raised her on the Bushido code, which left her with a strong sense of never harming anyone for personal reasons, but she admits that she really wants to kill [[spoiler:Bakuto]] for revenge, and is thankful that [[spoiler:Davos]] does it instead out of fear that it would have eaten her up afterwards. On the other hand, she's fully willing to kill [[spoiler:Harold Meachum]] out of fear that Danny killing him would corrupt his chi. In ''The Defenders'', [[spoiler:she's the one who comes up with the plan to blow up Midland Circle to kill the leaders of the Hand. Later, while planting the C4, she ends up killing not only a random Hand henchman to save Claire and Misty, but finally kills Bakuto by decapitating him]]. So Colleen will kill, it just hasto be in self-defense. |
| 777 | * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Colleen is worried that Danny's chi will be corrupted if he kills [[spoiler:Harold Meachum]] in revenge, so she says that ''she'' will do it for him. In a more benign form, she's often seen standing up for Danny in conversations when they turn into a ReasonYouSuckSpeech at his expense and often is the one to spew threats at enemies in his defense. |
| 778 | -->'''Madame Gao:''' ''[to Danny]'' Why should I help you?\ |
| 779 | '''Colleen Wing:''' Because if you don't, I'll cut off your head and feed it to the rats.\ |
| 780 | '''Madame Gao:''' That sounds unpleasant. |
| 781 | * WaifFu: Colleen's first major one-on-one in the cage is versus a huge underground cage fighter... and she can't take him directly. She had to use his power against him and go after {{pressure point}}s to win. |
| 782 | * WarriorTherapist: Helps Misty recover from losing her arm in ''Luke Cage'' Season 2, mainly by aggravating her. |
| 783 | * WreckedWeapon: Her katana is broken and reduced in size during her climactic clash with [[spoiler:Bakuto]], though it's still fully capable of stabbing [[spoiler:Bakuto]] through the gut. Though it was repaired sometime in between ''Iron Fist'' and ''Defenders''. |
| 784 | * YoungerMentorOlderDisciple: She's trained Claire, Misty, and Danny, who are all visibly older than her. Their training under her is shown to be effective, as Claire went from being an ActionSurvivor to a full-on ActionGirl, Misty regained her confidence and was able to defend herself while only having one arm, and Danny became skilled enough to take on a newly-empowered Davos without the Iron Fist. |
| 785 | [[/folder]] |
| 786 | ---- |
| 787 | -->'''Luke Cage:''' You're downtown. I'm uptown.\ |
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