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The hero at the heart of Marvel’s Jessica Jones has conflict at her core. More so than the rest of her Netflix peers, a particularly conflicted bunch to be sure, Jessica Jones really doesn’t want to be a hero. Sure, Daredevil and Luke Cage and Iron Fist all shirk their responsibilities every now and then, but all of their Season 1 journeys concluded with them more or less suited up and ready for the good fight. Not so, with Jones.
Her first season ended with her dedicated to her private eye gig, but she was definitely not ready to call herself a superhero. That’s where we find Jess in Netflix’s first trailer for the upcoming Season 2, a batch of episodes that look like they will pull the erstwhile crusader closer to her heroic destiny.
“My whole family was killed in a car accident, someone did horrific experiments on me, and now this super vigilante shit keeps coming at me,” says a typically tired-of-it-all Jessica in the trailer, subtly referencing the events of last year’s Marvel’s The Defenders mini-series that dropped Jones into the thick of a battle between a blind crimefighter and a whole mystical ninja dynasty. The Jones we see after The Defenders is more determined than ever to cut all that vigilante garbage out of her life, but it’s not so easy.
For one thing, people have pegged her as a superpowered do-gooder, not just a private eye. In the new spot, a kid asks, “Do you know Captain America?” On a meta level, that’s a big deal for the Netflix shows. They usually only refer to the movie heroes with sideways references, like calling Hulk the big green guy or Thor a god with a hammer. They rarely use their actual names, so hearing “Captain America” in a Jessica Jones trailer feels like a big deal.
But the trailer indicates that we’re going to be diving into the most superhero-y territory of all for Jessica Jones Season 2: her origin story. That was left largely mysterious in Season 1, as that season’s central storyline focused on what happened after Jones got her powers and became a prisoner of Kilgrave (David Tennant). We learned a bit about Jess’ backstory then, but we didn’t get the whole picture. This time around, though, we’re going into superhero origin territory as Jess searches for the truth about what happened to her–and she even learns that she wasn’t the only person given powers. Evil labs, twisted experiments, supervillains, more super vigilante shit, a potential resurrection (!)–Jessica Jones is diving deep into its comic book roots for Season 2.
Marvel’s Jessica Jones Season 2 arrives on Netflix on March 8.
