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| “ | They say everyone's born a hero. But if you let it, life will push you over the line until you're the villain. Problem is, you don't always know that you've crossed that line. Maybe it's enough that the world thinks I'm a hero. Maybe if I work long and hard, maybe I can fool myself. | „ |
| ~ Jessica Jones |
| “ | I'm rude to everybody. | „ |
| ~ Jessica Jones |
Jessica Jones is the main protagonist in Jessica Jones and a major protagonist in The Defenders.
She is the founder of Alias Investigations and a member of the Defenders.
She is portrayed by Krysten Ritter.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Admirable?[]
In General[]
- While she can be violent sometimes, such as when she tortures Kilgrave in a chamber or pummels Pryce Cheng in an office, she is never more brutal than the situation warrants. Furthermore, she has been shown to be the least likely to maim or severely injure people compared to some of her allies and tends to discourage people like Trish Walker from doing so in certain situations. And while one can argue she is lethal, she is anything but; she has an uncommonly strong regard for human life and this is exhibited repeatedly throughout the story.
- While she's often standoffish with Jeri Hogarth (who even says she would invite her over if she wanted to be degraded) and showed minimal concern for her lethal ailment, she was never the easiest person to get along with in the first place for anybody, so this is completely understandable.
- Despite the MCU's gargantuan admirable standard, she defeated Kilgrave and helped defeat Alexandra Reid, Elektra Natchios, and Gregory Sallinger, all with far less resources than the Avengers.
- When Erik Gelden, a man who constricts headaches in the presence of immoral people, is near Jessica Jones, his headaches actually heal, showing just how morally sound she is.
- Every time she does something spiteful or greedy, she's always extremely accountable and is always determined to fix whatever she did.
Background[]
- She was protective of Trish Walker for a long time, expressing outrage when she had to lie with an elderly director and physically preventing her from giving a creepy young man sex in a bathroom.
- She refused to indulge Kilgrave's ministrations once despite knowing he might murder her for it.
- She felt so bad for killing Luke's wife against her wishes that it completely snapped her out of Kilgrave's mind control, with this event completely setting the tone for the first season.
Jessica Jones Season 1[]
- She opens Alias Investigations and helps a lot of people as a private investigator.
- She does everything she can to help Hope Shlottman and rightfully finds her suicide devastating.
- Despite how revolting Kilgrave is, she indulges his blackmail of texting him frequently so several innocent lives can be spared his extremely selfish whims.
- She calls out Gregory and especially Audrey for shooting her shoulder and vindictively trying to murder her over the Chitauri Invasion, of which she had no part whatsoever, rightfully asserting that Audrey's excuse of losing her parents to Loki's minions is more childishly vindictive than sympathetic by a longshot, and bluffs to get them to disappear, which is very merciful of her.
- Her furiously trashing the apartment can be rationalized easily by a mix of her being drunk and agonizingly reeling from a non-fatal gunshot, and Audrey and Gregory absolutely deserved a shocking retaliation of that kind, plus she never truly got over losing her parents and she had a point about not being childishly vindictive to incompetent drivers; so it goes without saying she was completely justified.
- She confesses to Luke Cage that she killed his wife under mind control and accepts him dumping her even though they both know this is all Kilgrave's fault. She's also genuinely shown to care about them.
- Although she's ungrateful that Kilgrave bought out her old house, not only is this completely justified, but she calls him out on wanting slaves to tend it, to which he incorrectly implies she's behaving piously, something which doesn't phase her.
- She saves a woman and her children from a hostage crisis and even tries to get Kilgrave to help despite how disgusting he is. When he proves this by implying saving three people equals subverting three of his past homicides, Jessica correctly calls him out on sanctimoniously thinking it's up to them to decide whether or not Chuck objectively deserves to die.
- She promises to join Kilgrave just to stop him from killing innocent people at a work room.
- She tortures Kilgrave in a watery chamber so she can better understand him and his powers.
- She saves Kilgrave's father from being forced to cut his own heart out.
- She calls out Kilgrave on his twisted obsession with her multiple times, refusing to excuse any of his gory homicides either, and while she refuses to give him sympathy for being tormented as a little boy, this is entirely justified as he used his painful medical treatment from three long decades ago to excuse destroying the innocent.
- She snaps Kilgrave's neck, preventing him from continuing to murder and rape countless people. In the process, she also saves Trish from a fate worse than death.
The Defenders[]
- She bands together with the Defenders to defeat the evil Alexandra Reid.
Jessica Jones Season 2[]
- She refuses to kill someone at a pizza restaurant.
- She tries to save a man with super speed, and is very upset when he dies.
- Even though Dale Holiday's fate was deserved and she didn't even mean to kill him, she still feels horrible for it.
- She's always sympathetic with her mom despite how problematic she is, knowing it's not entirely her fault. And she is horrified when Trish shoots her. Even then, she takes the blame since the cops think it was self-defense and Trish would've been arrested otherwise.
Jessica Jones Season 3[]
- She does everything she can to deal with Gregory Sallinger and even manages to capture him at one point.
- She beats Hellcat even though she really doesn't want to fight her own sister, ensuring she gets locked up on the Raft for what she's done.
- She decides to keep fighting injustice in New York instead of leaving the country.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is too much of a jerk. While being valiant and compassionate for the most part, she is still prone to angry and petty and perverted behavior, the latter shown in her interactions with Luke Cage, Oscar Arocho, and Erik Gelden. While this can all be rationalized by the fact that she's had a genuinely miserable life she never brought on herself at all, this is still too severe.
- She is slightly dishonest since she shoplifted pizza once. Even though the pizza lady had wronged her, the random customer who had yet to arrive at the building certainly did not.
- She can be considered an antihero, because she has used morally questionable methods and broken some laws. At first, when she heard about Kilgrave she decided to flee, although later she decided to help stop him. Not only that, she has admitted multiple times that she does not feel like a heroine.
- Whilst feeling bad about it, she is still On & Off, for example;
- As a private investigator, not all of her clients can be presumed to be utilising her services for moral reasons, such as her returning a child to an abusive mother and away from her kinder father, even attacking him when he attempted to interfere.
- She intended to run away with her mother in Season 2, preventing her from finding justice. Whilst her mother has moral agency issues due to her instability and brain damage, she additionally repeatedly demonstrated herself to be a threat and a danger to the people around her, meaning Jessica was endangering others.
- She is a textbook addict since she infamously drinks whiskey like it's water.
Trivia[]
- Although she's killed Dale Holiday, he absolutely deserved it due to being a serial killer and this being self-defence. Even so, she didn't inform the authorities and covered it up (whilst exposing his deeds). This is very debatable prevention-wise owing to how it is very unlikely the prejudiced system would give her the benefit of the doubt owing to her superhuman status, and homicide involving a member of law enforcement, however debased. In fact, her show frequently demonstrates the police as unhelpful, jerkish, and prejudiced, making this an exceedingly minor - if at all valid - example. She even felt deep remorse for this, hallucinating Kilgrave mocking her.
- While Jessica is currently Inconsistently Admirable, it's possible her status might change in the future, as she is confirmed to return in Daredevil Born Again Season 2, albeit unlikely as it's extremely probable her scaling status really isn't going anywhere for several reasons.
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