While screaming at Jessica, Kilgrave was oblivious to a speeding bus that was behind him. Jessica killed Reva with a single punch, but the terrible act broke her free from Kilgrave’s control. Eventually, he commanded Jessica to deal with Luke Cage’s wife, Reva, because she was the only person who had footage of the experiments that were conducted on him when he was a child. Only once did she briefly have free will – and wanted to use it to kill herself - but Kilgrave resumed control before she could act on it. She was helpless and under his control for quite some time, doing anything and everything he said.

He got everything he wanted, and when he saw Jessica, he knew he wanted her. Kilgrave grew up viewing people as things to control – they were merely tools to him. As a kid, he lashed out at his parents – he made his mom take an iron to her own face – and they ran, afraid of the monster they created. He was like a virus that infected everyone around him and people had to obey whatever he commanded, no matter how ridiculous or self-damaging it was. It worked, but also gave him the power of mind control. When Kilgrave (David Tennant) was a child, he suffered from a degenerative neurological disease and his parents tried to help him with an experimental study to repair his damaged DNA. (Little did Claire know that she’d soon be enjoying coffee with the man she saved in his own show.) Anyway, Cage and Jones are cool now – they’re just friends – and we wouldn’t be surprised if he shows up in the second season. Thankfully, the Netflix/Marvel world’s resident nurse Claire Temple saved his life. Luke can withstand a lot of punishment, but the attack put him in critical condition. Jessica survived the brawl by blasting Cage with a shotgun to the head at point-blank range. Luke later forgave Jessica, but it turned out he was being mind-controlled by Kilgrave and Harlem’s durable hero was forced to attack her. Obviously, keeping that secret from Luke severely hurt him – he doesn’t have a virtually unbreakable heart, after all – and they went their separate ways. Luke eventually believed his wife was murdered by a drunk bus driver, and going after the driver finally forced Jessica to tell Luke the truth. Luke (Mike Colter) and Jessica had great chemistry and enjoyed some very strong coffee quite a few times, but Jessica was keeping a twisted secret from the hero: She killed Luke’s wife, Reva, while under Kilgrave’s control.

Now Trish is investigating the shadowy organization’s connection to both Will and Jessica.īefore he had his own show, the durable dude made his debut in Jessica Jones’ series. Trish saved Jessica from Will after she took one of the pills and it was revealed that he’s connected to IGH. But Will’s views on how they should handle Kilgrave created a massive divide and the situation turned violent when he started taking pills that are meant to boost a soldier’s adrenaline in combat. Despite the violent encounter, Trish started seeing Will after they spent some time connecting and Will gave her a gun to make her feel safer. Kilgrave sent a police officer named Will Simpson to kill her, but luckily for Trish, Jessica stopped him. In an attempt to help Jessica with Kilgrave – the show’s villain who has mind-control abilities – Trish insulted the twisted foe, which landed her in his sights. Because of this, she began studying Krav Maga, which is fitting since she’s a superhero in the comics – Hellcat – and may start fighting crime in season 2. She’s wealthy and intelligent, but the abuse from her mother and needing Jessica to save her made her vulnerable. Years later, Trish became the host of the radio show Trish Talk. The promise didn’t last long, though, as Jessica eventually stepped in to protect Trish from her cruel mom. The famous young actress promised to not tell anyone as long as Jessica agreed to stay out of Trish’s situation with her abusive mother. When Jessica discovered she has super-strength by shattering and then casually lifting a heavy sink, Trish (Rachael Taylor) witnessed the unbelievable display. The manipulative and abusive mother adopted Jessica to give her daughter some positive publicity. It wasn’t out of the good of Dorothy’s heart, though. Jessica was taken in by Dorothy Walker, the mother of child TV star Trish Walker. The crash severely injured her, but she was able to recover, and it’s later revealed that her recovery was handled by a mysterious paramilitary group called IGH, which gifted her with abilities like super-strength, super-leaping, and super-healing (more on that in a bit). The crash happened because Jessica was arguing with her brother and that distracted her father, so she understandably feels some guilt over the terrible accident. When Jessica (Krysten Ritter) was younger, she survived a car crash that killed her entire family – her father, mother, and brother.

The following contains spoilers for Jessica Jones and The Defenders.

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