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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I'm guessing she probably helped out where she could, like a lot of regular New Yorkers, but tried not to let people catch onto her powers too much, used them surreptitiously. Fighting the Chitauri head on isn't necessarily the best use of every super in the city, and unlike the others, Jessica has no combat training and isn't bulletproof. Helping people, rather than fighting, might've actually been the best way for her to help.
'The sandwich saved me.' I doubt she could turn away from people who were actively in danger around her.
edited 27th Mar '17 8:21:46 PM by Unsung
And the fact that he has no sense of normalcy in his life is one of the major themes of both Winter Soldier and Age of Ultron. Being a superhero pretty much is his entire life at this point. He doesn't have a family or a daughter to worry about or a day job.
When exactly does JJ take place? I'm honestly not sure what the timeline is for the Netflix shows other than that they all happen a few years after The Avengers.
I think that where they take place relative to seasonal arcs of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is mentioned in the latter show's recap page. That's the best I can do for timelines for all the shows.
One Strip! One Strip!The last half of Daredevil Season 2 and Luke Cage align (Claire leaves Daredevil and shows up on Luke Cage). Luke Cage leads into Iron Fist (we see Claire picking up a flyer for Colleen Wing's dojo at the end of Luke Cage). As for Jessica Jones, all we know is that it comes before Iron Fist (Jeri Hogarth has a scar in Iron Fist that she got at the end of Jessica Jones).
I'm pretty sure that both Jeri and Claire reference the events of Jessica Jones during Season 2 of Daredevil (plus, Claire gets fired from the hospital in Season 2, so Jessica Jones would have to take place before then).
edited 27th Mar '17 9:42:47 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!It does.
Claire mentions she got in trouble for helping Jessica in Season 2 of Daredevil as well.
So all that stuff is mostly chronological at the most.
One Strip! One Strip!The Netflix shows are all pretty clear-cut about being in chronological order, except for the blurriness between Daredevil Season 2's end and Luke Cage's beginning.
Also, the very end of Daredevil Season 2- the scene at the graveyard and Karen's newspaper article -is set in winter, so it might be past Luke Cage entirely if it's meant to be Winter of 2016-into-2017.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Daredevil season 1 is set in summer 2014. Jessica Jones is set at the end of the winter/start of the spring in 2015 (and she was under Kilgraves control for months from 2013 to early 2014, since Reva died in 2014, so no, she wasn't enthralled when the Incident happened). Daredevil season 2 starts in summer 2015 but then makes a very annoying jump to winter (there is literally a scene in which Matt is standing in front of a calendar in the police station showing one month and then voila, after the camera angle changed it is sudden November). Luke Cage overlaps with Daredevil and is set in late autumn/early winter of 2015. And I guess Iron Fist is set in spring 2016....I asked this before, but does anybody know what kind of festival he runs into in the first episode? That would help to pin it down more precise.
edited 27th Mar '17 11:48:52 PM by Swanpride
Going back to my other point, "The Incident" is a really shitty name. I nominate that from now on, the events of the Avengers movie will be referred to in this thread as "The Big Fucking Brouhaha"
My various fanfics.The Incident works as the sort of thing you call something you don't want to talk about
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThere were a lot of things wrong with Suicide Squad's villains, but being too funny was certainly not one of them. If anything, I would've liked them to funnier. Might've helped with the whole lack of personality thing. But then, given the way that movie handled humor in general...
That said, I agree that Marvel has yet to find that happy medium between "wisecracking heroes and jokes at the villains' expense" and the "villains have gravitas anyway," which is something that's definitely possible, but is nevertheless something they don't do. It result in lot of villains being pinned-up targets for the heroes to nigh effortless knock down the moment they get their shit together - and depending on the movie, it in turn makes the movies' conflicts feel cheap and undeveloped.
It does work to the movies' advantage sometimes (it did wonders for Loki, and imo it helped rather than hurt the atmosphere in Dr. Strange to have Kaecilius clearly not be the big man), but there are increasing times where the movie has to be well received despite it.
It hasn't been a huge problem yet, because frankly they barely ever use characters with strong connections to their villains in the first place. The few times they do, that issue is almost completely absent: Cap vs Skull is well done, as is Thor vs Loki, and Thanos has been handled well so far. For Spider-Man they will almost certainly have to rethink things, though. Spidey has always been a character who works best with a certain level of connection with his villains, even the incidental ones. And far moreso than any of Iron Man, Cap or Thor's villains, Spider-Man has enemies who the audience - even the general filmgoing audience - will get very hype for in the future: if they treat Doc Ock or Goblin like Malekith or Kaecilius, it will just work against them.
edited 28th Mar '17 2:04:14 AM by KnownUnknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39udgGPyYMg
Trailer dropped. Careful, might contain more of the plot than you want to see.....
edited 28th Mar '17 6:22:10 AM by Swanpride

So Jessica Jones got her powers before The Incident (what a name lame, by the way), right? So she sees a giant portal rip open in the sky with aliens falling out of it, and okay, fine, she's not the billionaire super genius or the god or the living legend or the giant green rage monster. But she sees a dude with a bow and arrow outside her window fighting the aliens and she stays in the house.
Is Jessica Jones a giant coward?
My various fanfics.