{"id":21512,"date":"2019-11-01T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propstore.com\/?p=21512"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:32:07","slug":"jj1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propstore.com\/blog\/jj1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ALIAS INVESTIGATIONS – The History of Marvel’s Jessica Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel\u2019s Jessica Jones<\/em> was a watershed moment in Super Hero entertainment. We\u2019d seen comic book characters tackle real-world issues before, but from its first season debut in 2015, the gritty, edgy Marvel show dug its nails deep into every piece of \u201creality\u201d that could be approximated around its super-powered star. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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It gave us a hero dealing as much with her own psychological trauma \u2014 at the hands of a manipulating, abusive, gaslighting man (Kilgrave) \u2014\u00a0as crime on the streets of New York. It had as much to say about #MeToo than it did the MCU.<\/p>\n

As showrunner Melissa Rosenberg told Vanity Fair<\/em> in 2018, when Season 2 launched, \u201cWe were taking on an issue\u2026 You spend your whole career wanting to contribute something to the conversation, to bring something positive. To realize we had done that was a very extraordinary, overwhelming experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The series certainly represented an evolution from the original comic book, although the character, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos for Marvel\u2019s MAX imprint in November 2001, always felt much more grounded and street-smart than many of her costumed, world-saving counterparts, having quit the Super Hero life in a state of disillusionment and set herself up as a private detective.<\/p>\n

However, the differences between the comic book and television series respective Jessica characters are legion. In the pages of Marvel comics, her best friend is none other than Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, but \u00a0because Carol Danvers was destined for her own adventures on the big screen, the series \u00a0included former child-star Trish \u201cPatsy\u201d Walker, who by the third season takes on her comic book persona of Hellcat. In the comics, Jessica can fly, whereas in the show she can only jump really far. And in the comic book, her original Super Hero identity was \u201cJewel\u201d, who wore a white-and-shiny-blue spandex costume. In the show, by contrast, Jessica was never a full-on, costumed Super Hero and is rarely seen wearing anything but her scruffy ripped jeans, hoodie and leather jacket (with an notable exception for her \u201chiding in plain sight\u201d sandwich get-up).<\/p>\n

According to first-season costume designer Stephanie Maslansky, Jessica has \u201can attitude of \u2018leave me alone, let me get my work done, don\u2019t cross me,\u2019 and the last thing she cares about is how she looks.\u201d However, as Maslansky told Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, she did study the Marvel comics: \u201cThe history of the original characters, and how they dress, how they were originally drawn, how they evolved through the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Which is why throughout its three-season run, Marvel\u2019s Jessica Jones<\/em> contains plenty of nods to its comic book roots. In the third season\u2019s second episode, \u2018AKA You\u2019re Welcome,\u2019 we see Trish trying on a Super Hero costume which, with its yellow unitard and dark blue velvet mask is obviously a homage to the Hellcat costume that Patsy Walker wore in the pages of Marvel comics. But perhaps the most memorable and entertaining wink came in Season 1\u2019s fifth episode, \u2018AKA The Sandwich Saved Me\u2019, when in a flashback Trish tried to convince Jessica to take the identity Jewel and wear the white spandex jumpsuit exactly matching the one from the comic books. Jessica is disgusted. \u201cThe only place anyone is wearing that is trick or treating or as part of some kinky role-playing scenario,\u201d she deadpans.<\/p>\n

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But such light-hearted, self-knowing moments never distracted from the show\u2019s serious heart. As Maslansky said, Jessica is \u201csuch an unusual Super Hero, because she\u2019s consumed by these emotions that we don\u2019t usually see, like yearning and regret.\u201d The costumes, and the overall, down-to-earth design of this groundbreaking show, certainly reflect that.<\/p>\n

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