These days, Archie Comics is one of the few surviving publishers of what was once a thriving genre all its own, and in her heyday, Patsy Walker was a lot like a female version of Archie Andrews - or what Archie comics would have been like if Betty or Veronica were the real star. Twenty years before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s The Fantastic Four #1 would kick off Marvel’s superhero universe, it was a time when teen rom-com comics were as big a sell as superheroes, and Patsy Walker was one of the biggest. To explain that, we have to go back to the 1940s. Patsy Walker is the alter ego of the superhero Hellcat, and Hellcat’s story is pretty fascinating in and of itself. Trish Walker is based on a Marvel character who goes by the name Patsy Walker (Trish and Patsy both being short for Patricia). Trish turning out to have superpowers is intriguing - but not surprising. She balances easily on one foot, momentarily stunned, and then, just as easily, flips the phone back into the air and catches it. As a city dweller myself, I experienced a palpable rise in my own blood pressure.īut then, as if on instinct, Trish’s foot snakes out, and she catches the phone on her toes. Unexpectedly jostled, she drops her cell phone on the threshold of the elevator, and in slow motion, we watch it drop toward the gap between the elevator car and the floor, straight for the might-as-well-be-bottomless depths of the elevator shaft. But as she’s walking away from Jess’ apartment after a failed apology, something strange happens. In the final episode of Jessica Jones season two, “AKA Playland,” Jessica’s foster sister and best friend, Trish Walker, culminates a season of questionable decision-making - including allowing a crack doctor to nearly kill her in an attempt to give her superpowers - with something that’ll put a rift between her and Jess for a long time. What does it mean? And what comes next? A third season of the show has yet to be announced, but we can make some guesses based on the character’s superpowered Marvel Comics counterpart. Jessica Jones season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.ĬomicBook.At the very very end of Jessica Jones’ second season, the show makes a big tease - one of its characters appears to have developed their very own superpowers, after previously being just a normal run-of-the-mill human being. Jessica is eventually able to overcome the Kilgrave of her own creation, freeing herself before the situation escalates and owning who she really is. This imagined Kilgrave is something of a demented shoulder angel/demon situation, whispering horrible things in Jessica's ear. The act of killing the guard causes Jessica's trauma over the others she's killed - specifically Luke Cage's wife Reva and Kilgrave - to manifest itself as a hallucination of Kilgrave. Jessica ends up killing the guard instead. When Jessica has her mother, Alisa, locked into a local prison instead of being sent to "The Raft," Alisa ends up suffering abuse at the hands of a guard who enjoys torturing inmates. While fans of Jessica Jones knew that they'd be seeing Kilgrave again in Season 2 thanks to on-set photos, it's how Kilgrave returns that is the twist. The mysterious killer instead snaps Simpsons neck, killing the character off early in the season. However, when the killer does show up it turns out Trish isn't the target. Instead, Simpson returned with an ability-enhancing inhaler to protect Trish from the mysterious killer murdering anyone who might expose IGH. Many fans thought that, if Simpson appeared in Season 2, he would return as the super villain Nuke, but that surprisingly did not end up the case. They end up making him crazy and before the season ends, Simpson and Trish break up and Simpson is taken away IGH. It ends up all going very badly when, after his attempt to kill Kilgrave fails, Simpson uses experimental pills to enhance himself. He doesn't actually kill Trish and Jessica saves him from Kilgrave's control leading to Simpson entering a relationship with Trish. Here's a surprise that is actually several surprises in one.ĭuring the first season of Jessica Jones, Will Simpson (Wil Traval) is a police sergeant and former Special Ops soldier sent by Kilgrave (David Tennant) to kill Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor).
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