How did Jessica Jones get her powers?

After coming into contact with experimental chemicals and spending some time in a coma, Jessica emerged with superhuman abilities. She possesses superhuman strength, as well as flight, and can block mind control. She shows the capacity to lift a two-ton police car with little effort.
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Why does Jessica Jones have powers?

Shortly after being adopted, Jones discovered she possessed superhuman abilities due to the fatal car crash that took the lives of her parents and eventually decided to pursue a career as a superhero.
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Has Jessica Jones got super powers?

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Jessica boasts super human strength and durability. She has the power of flight, though she's never mastered the ability and rarely uses it. She's a highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant—and has the temper to match. Jones's greatest super power, however, may be her intelligence and street smarts.
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How is Jessica Jones immune?

Jessica is exposed to Kilgrave's virus for eight months, one of the longest cases known, meaning her body may well have begun to naturally develop antibodies. This may well have been boosted by Jessica's superhuman metabolism.
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How did Trish get her powers in Jessica Jones?

Trish surprisingly obtained abilities from the treatments that nearly killed her (even though Dr. Malus said that the superpowers were a very rare side effect of the procedure), but they were not the same as Jessica's super strength and "controlled falling".
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Why did Trish turn evil?

Whether being exploited and abused by her mother and the entertainment industry since childhood or used as a pawn against Jessica Jones by Kilgrave and Foolkiller, Trish's attempts to stop being a victim and start being her own hero would ultimately turn in her into a villain.
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How does Trish become Hellcat?

After receiving powers from an experimental surgery, Walker became a vigilante known as Hellcat, helping Jones to track down villains, but eventually lost her way, becoming a killer herself.
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Who can resist purple man?

Angered, Killgrave used his power to compel the two criminals to fight each other; the police arrived and confiscated the heroin. The Kingpin had Killgrave brought to him, and the Kingpin too proved to have the strength of will necessary to resist the Purple Man's power.
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Can Kilgrave control Thanos?

Assuming it actually is a virus, Kilgrave probably could not affect Thanos. Earth microbiota, even one that is genetically modified, would probably be specialized to affect Earth life, so it would be incapable of affecting Thanos.
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How did Kilgrave get his powers?

Kevin Thompson was a man who was experimented on by his parents since his childhood in order to treat a neurodegenerative disease, but the treatment ended up giving him the new ability to control people's minds at his will.
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Who's stronger Luke Cage or Jessica Jones?

Luke, in the comics, is FAR stronger than his wife. According to Marvel Comics official handbook, Luke can press 50 tons. Jessica, at least 2 tons and no more than 25.
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How did Luke Cage get powers?

Created during the height of the blaxploitation genre, Luke Cage had been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and gained the powers of superhuman strength and unbreakable skin after being subjected voluntarily to an experimental procedure.
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Who is the original Iron Fist?

1 Danny Rand

Danny is also very well known for being the partner and close friend of Luke Cage. The two even had a few comic series together called Power Man and Iron Fist. Danny is the original Iron Fist, and his origins have been a gateway to introducing other characters who have held the mantle of Iron Fist.
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Is Jessica Jones a super soldier?

With the origin Jones was given in her Netflix show, she received medical care courtesy of a clandestine group named IGH. Slowly, she discovered more and more and found out it was a genetics lab that concocted drugs that could give people special abilities — hence Jessica's super-human strength and reflexes.
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How did Matt Murdock get his powers?

Jack is later killed by gangsters after refusing to throw a fight, leaving Matt an orphan. In order to protect himself, Matt began training to hone his physical abilities and superhuman senses under the tutelage of a mysterious blind stranger named Stick, eventually becoming a highly skilled and expert martial artist.
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Can Daredevil resist Kilgrave?

These abilities can overwhelm most, but sufficiently strong-willed people, such as Doctor Doom and Kingpin, have been able to resist its influence, and Daredevil has been able to resist Kilgrave as the powers rely on full sensory manipulation, Daredevil's blindness hindering the amount of input he receives and making ...
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Can Kilgrave beat Avengers?

Kilgrave is being said to have had the potential to beat the Avengers before Thanos even showed up.
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Can Kilgrave control over the phone?

Kilgrave acquired over a million dollars by having the participants of a poker game all fold after betting everything. However, Kilgrave himself must have been present for his commands to have an immediate effect; speaking over a phone did not enthrall his victim.
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Is Kingpin immune to Kilgrave?

5 Certain characters can resist him.

However, in the comics, most of the characters who can resist his control do so out of sheer force of will (like Doctor Doom and Kingpin).
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Who is Jessica Jones arch nemesis?

Kevin Thompson, or better known as Kilgrave, is the main antagonist of the Netflix series Marvel's Jessica Jones, serving as the main antagonist of Season 1 and the posthumous overarching antagonist in both Seasons 2 and 3. He was also a mentioned character in both Luke Cage and The Defenders.
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Who can control minds in Marvel?

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Was Jessica Jones an avenger?

Alias ran for 28 issues before ending in 2004, while The Pulse ran for 14 issues from April 2004 to May 2006, and Jessica Jones debuted in October 2016. She became a member of the New Avengers, alongside her husband, Luke Cage, during Marvel's 2010 Heroic Age campaign.
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What superhero does Trish Walker become?

This has been a long time coming, since in the comics Trish has a superhero alter ego, Hellcat, so we knew it was going to happen eventually. Now it's finally manifested and Trish has exactly what she's always wanted — but is it really what she wants?
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Does Trish Walker become Hellcat in Jessica Jones?

Jessica Jones' best friend Trish Walker ultimately became the vigilante Hellcat - and she was set up for a potential future in the MCU's Thunderbolts.
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