We already posted the brief history of Iron Fist (here) and Luke Cage (here) now it’s time for Jessica Jones.
The character history is at its purest, since there
are more arcs and stories in the character’s comic book run.
Jessica was a student at Midtown High School and had a
crush on her fellow student Peter Parker (before he was Spider-Man) and a
fixation on Fantastic Four’s Johnny Storm, aka the Human Torch. One day while
on a car trip with her family to Disney World, Jessica’s father lost control of
the car and got involved in an accident with an army truck that was
transporting some unidentified experimental material, to which she got exposed
to. Jessica went into a coma while her father, mother and brother died. Months
later still in a coma, while the Fantastic Four clashed with Galactus right
outside her hospital window Jessica woke up. Now alone, she was placed in a
home for wayward children before being adopted by a family named Jones and thus
Jessica Jones is re-born.
One day while running home from school in an emotional
disturbed state, Jessica began manifesting superhuman powers, like flying,
which led her to crash in the bay, where she was rescued by Thor. Soon after
she realized that she also possessed super-strength. While testing her new
found powers, Jessica defeated her first villain, Spider-Man’s foe Scorpion.
Now a hero, Jessica adopted the Jewel persona and begun fighting crime.
Now an established hero, Jewel encounters Purple Man,
who by using his pheromones powers takes control over Jessica’s mind and makes
her his puppet. After months of psychological and physical abuse, the Purple
Man makes Jessica break into Avengers Mansion and attack his nemesis Daredevil.
Jessica attacked the first superhero she saw, the Scarlet Witch, which made her
break free from the Purple Man’s control. Thinking that she couldn’t explain
her actions, Jessica tries to flee but is pursued by the Avengers and takes a powerful
blow to head by Vision. Ms. Marvel helps Jessica from sustaining further
injuries but unfortunately Jessica is rendered comatose once again. S.H.I.E.L.D.
takes her in and asks X-Men’s the Phoenix, aka Jean Grey to help Jessica with
her telepathic powers. After waking up and undergo weeks of physical
rehabilitation, she is offered a position as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s liaison with the
Avengers. After a long list of traumatic events, Jessica thought her life as a
masked superhero was over, plus Purple Man’s abuse left Jessica unsure of herself,
especially when trying to be romantically involved with someone, so Jessica resigns.
Sometime after leaving her Jewel name behind, Jessica briefly
returns to the crime fighting live as Knightress before quitting all together
and opening her own private investigator firm, called Alias Investigations.
One of her many cases as a private investigator was
when Matt Murdock’s, aka Daredevil secret identity was exposed and Murdock
hires Jessica and Hero-for-Hire Luke Cage as bodyguards. Cage and Jones had a
brief fling.
One day some relatives of the Purple Man victims asked
Jones if she could talk with him so they could get some kind of closure. Still
afflicted by her time under the Purple Man’s control and with the help of Cage,
Jones decides to confront her abuser. One day during a riot in prison, the
Purple Man escapes and once again tries to take over Jessica’s mind. A psychic fail
safe left years before by the Phoenix is activated when the Purple Man tries to
take control and Jessica knocks him down with one blow. After the
confrontation, Jessica informs Cage that she is expecting his child and both
move in together. After a long relationship with Cage and after their daughter
is born, Jessica and Cage marry.
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