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Ep. 112. Jessica Jones: Comics Vs. MCU · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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Hi guys, it's Megan with vigilante vibes and today I have
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another character breakdown for you and one I am so excited to
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do. I think we can all agree that
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this character is a fan favorite, someone who we are
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also excited to see to come back to the Marvel live action
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universe. Of course, I'm talking about
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Jessica Jones. Who is Jessica Jones?
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We've all seen the excitement of Krysten Ritter reprising her
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role as Jessica in Daredevil Born Again Season 2, and I think
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it's safe to say that everyone loves that.
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Actually, late last night, we got our first look at Kristen on
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the set of Daredevil Born Again season 2.
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So spoiler alert because the pictures will pop up in one
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second and you'll get a good look at kind of a good look at
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Daredevil's new suits. I know some of you are more
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sensitive about spoilers, and I just want to be polite about
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that. So that is your warning.
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As you can see, she's fitting right in.
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And side note, take a look at Daredevil suit and peep the
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double DS on the chest because that's amazing.
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Anyways, let's talk about Jessica Jones in the live action
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series versus her comic counterpart.
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Now let's start with who Jessica Jones is in herself titled
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series and now she's in the MCU. Jessica Jones is a tough as
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nails private investigator from New York City.
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After losing her family in a tragic car accident, she was
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adopted by Dorothy Walker and became super close with her new
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sister Trish. The accident also left her with
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unexpected superpowers, which led her to try out the whole
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superhero thing for a while. But things took a very dark turn
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when she crossed paths with Kilgrave or the Purple Man.
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A seriously twisted guy with mind controlling powers, he took
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over her life and manipulated her for a long time until she
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finally broke free. Traumatized and dealing with
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serious PTSD, Jessica gave up on being a hero and opened her own
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private investigating agency instead trying to live under the
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radar while taking on small time cases and battling her inner
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demons, which she tend to do with alcohol.
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Eventually, Kilgrave came back into her life and along with a
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bunch of people he hurt through her.
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With the help of Trish, Jerry Hogarth, Claire Temple and Luke
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Cage, Jessica confronted him and after some intense showdowns,
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killed him, finally taking back control of her life.
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Later, while on a case, she stumbled into a bigger mess
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involving A shadowy group called The Hand.
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This LED her to team up with Luke, Iron Fist, and Daredevil,
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The Defenders. Together they managed to take
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the Hand down, though it looked like Daredevil didn't make it
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out. After that just cause Name got
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around and her detective agency just took off.
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Things got messy when she started digging into IGH, the
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organization that gave her powers.
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She discovered that her mother, Alyssa, whom she thought was
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dead, was alive and also had powers but was unstable.
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After trying to get her mom to get a second chance, things
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spiraled out of control as they tend to do.
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When Alyssa escaped, Jessica tried to run with her, but it
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all ended in heartbreak when Trish killed Alyssa.
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Jessica then cut ties with Trish.
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Later, Jessica met Eric Gelden, which led her to a new threat,
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Gregory Salinger, a creepy genius who targeted powered
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people. Jessica and a now enhanced Trish
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teamed up to stop him, but Salinger was always one step
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ahead, even when she exposed him.
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Her former ally Jerry Hogarth defended him publicly, turning
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the tide against Jessica. After Salinger murdered Trish's
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mom, Dorothy, Trish went off the deep end and started killing
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folks. She saw his threats.
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Eventually, Jessica had to stop her own best friend and bring
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her to justice to prevent even more bloodshed.
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So Jessica Jones is she has a very dark life.
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She's a great character. I love Krysten Ritter as Jessica
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Jones. I never would have thought of
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her in that role until I saw it. And now it's like I can't see
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anyone else in that role. I'm sorry, but I'm so excited
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for her to come back to the MCU. Personally, I think Matt
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Murdoch's law firm is going to hire her as a personal
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investigator. I think it'd be cool.
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But also the leaked photos that we saw last night kind of look
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like they're already teaming up in a superhero kind of way.
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So I'm not sure what they're doing.
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But I'm very, very excited for her to come back.
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And it's only a matter of time till we get Luke Cage and Danny
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Rand. I know a lot of people do not
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like Finn as Danny Rand, but I think everyone deserves a second
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chance. So moving on.
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Now that you have that refresher, let's talk about who
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Jessica Jones is in the comics. Jessica Jones first appearance
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in the Marvel Comics Universe was in the miniseries Alias,
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specifically issue 1. Fun fact, the beginning of the
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TV series of Marvel's Jessica Jones episode 1 is a direct
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homage to the first panel of that comic issue with Jessica
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throwing a man through an Alias sign.
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She was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist
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Michael Gaydos. As usual, Brian Michael Bendis
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is doing the most and giving us the best.
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SO Jessica Campbell was a quiet, shy kid growing up and mostly
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kept to herself at Midtown High. Everything changed during a
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family road trip when her dad accidentally drove into a
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military truck. A container of experimental
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chemicals smashed through the windshield and hit Jessica,
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putting her in a coma. Tragically, her parents and
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younger brother did not survive the crash.
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After waking up months later, Jessica ended up living at a
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home for troubled kids before being adopted by the Jones
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family, kind neighbors who took her in.
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Her new mom had lost her own parents young too, so she really
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connected with Jessica and brought her into their family.
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Going back to school was rough. Jessica went from being
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invisible to being that weird girl who'd just come out of a
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coma one day. Peter Parker, that Peter Parker
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who was also kind of a loner, tried to be nice to her, but
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Jessica took it the wrong way and ran off, quite literally.
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In her panic, she discovered that she could leap super far,
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and that was just the beginning of her powers.
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Soon she realized she had super strength, she could fly and was
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way tougher than any regular person.
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After accidentally taking down the villain Scorpion, she
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started thinking maybe she could do something good with her
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abilities. So she became a superhero named
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Jewel, taking on street level criminals and gang members.
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Even though she stayed mostly under the radar, Jessica did
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make some super powered friends along the way, one of the most
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important being Carol Danvers. This was back when Carol Danvers
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was actually Miss Marvel, not Captain Marvel.
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Carol would go on to become a one of just Jessica's closest
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allies. Jessica got super strength and
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can hit like a champ. She can technically fly, but
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she's never really gotten the hang of it so she mostly sticks
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to the ground. She's also pretty badass in a
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fight and definitely doesn't shy away from throwing punches,
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especially when she's pissed off.
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But honestly, her real superpower might be her brain.
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She's sharp, she's resourceful, she knows how to read people,
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which makes her an excellent private investigator.
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At her agency, Alias Investigations, she's all about
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digging up the truth and tracking down bad guys.
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Thanks to her work as a private investigator and a part time
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vigilante, Just Cause made plenty of enemies in New York.
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One of the worst of them? Jebediah Killgrave, better known
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as the Purple Man, that is who David Tennant was playing in the
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show. For those who don't know that
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back when she was still operating as her superhero alter
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ego Jewel, Jessica stepped into what looked like just another
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fight, only this time it involved Kilgrave, a twisted guy
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with the power to control people using pheromones.
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Once he got his hooks into her, he kept Jessica under his
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control for 8 brutal months, using her abusing her as a
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revenge for getting shown up by other heroes like Daredevil.
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At one point, in a rage over Daredevil's latest win, Kilgrave
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ordered Jessica to fly to Avengers Mansion and kill him.
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What he didn't realize was that the farther she got from him,
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the less control he had. By the time she got there, she
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was confused and ended up mistaking the Scarlet Witch for
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Daredevil because of her costume.
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Jessica punched her square in the face before realizing it was
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a huge mistake. Panicked and disoriented, she
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took off, but The Avengers chased her down and seriously
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injured her. Before Miss Marvel stepped in
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and explained what was really going on, Jessica ended up in a
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coma again and was placed in a special care facility by SHIELD.
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Eventually, Jean Grey used her psychic powers to wake Jessica
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up. Even after she recovered both
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physically and mentally, the trauma stuck with her.
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She started dating SHIELD agent Clay Quartermaine during her
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recovery, and Nick Fury even offered her a job as The
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Avengers SHIELD liaison. But after everything she'd been
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through with Kilgrave, Jessica was done with the whole
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superhero thing, which is fair. She just couldn't go back to it.
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She's still dealing with trauma. She still has PTSD.
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Eventually, Jessica got her Pi license and launched her own
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agency, Alias Investigations. In those early days, her cases
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and her messy love life pulled her deeper into the superhero
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world. She when the streets call, you
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answer. One of her first big gigs had
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her unknowingly following Captain America round, which
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weirdly turned into working partnership.
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That case also kicked off her relationship with lawyer Matt
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Murdock Daredevil, who helped her clear her name in a murder
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investigation thanks to a favor from Luke Cage.
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Around the same time, she reconnected with her old friend
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Miss Marvel, who set her up on a blind date with Scott Lang, who
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is Ant Man. They dated for a bit, which
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pulled her even further into The Avengers orbit as she sharpened
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her skills as both API and a crime fighter.
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Jessica ended up teaming up with Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron
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Fist as one of the Defenders. Together they took on street
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level crime and went up against all kinds of villains around New
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York City. Overtime, Jessica and Luke Cage
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grew close, though their relationship definitely had a
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rocky, awkward start. Eventually, things got serious
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and the two fell in love and got married.
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Even with Jessica's deep doubts about the superhero lifestyle
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and her fears that her personal life could be used against her,
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especially because of what the Purple Man put her through, they
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decided to start a family. Their daughter Danielle, who fun
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fact has Squirrel Girl as her babysitter, became a bright spot
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in their often chaotic, superpowered lives.
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Jessica kept busy with a bunch of different cases, like
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tracking down a guy who was totally convinced he was Rick
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Jones, Captain America's old sidekick, and getting hired by
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Jay Jonah Jameson himself to try and figure out who Spider Man
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really was. She also helped find a runaway
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teen from a small town and even worked as Matt Murdock's
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bodyguard for a bit alongside Luke Cage.
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Things got tense with Jameson when someone dressed as Spider
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Woman broke into Jessica's place.
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Turns out it was Mattie Franklin Jameson's adopted daughter
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Jessica teamed up with a little bit of reluctance with the real
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Spider Woman, Jessica Drew, and together they sorted things out.
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That messy case ended up opening the door for Jessica to land a
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gig at the Daily Bugle down the line.
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One of Jessica's toughest cases, mentally anyway, came when a
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woman reached out asking for help getting closure for the
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families of the Purple Man's victims.
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The second Jessica heard his name, she had a full blown PTSD
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episode and bolted to Avengers Mansion, where she confronted
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Carol Danvers for sending the woman her way.
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The conversation went South so fast, as most of Jessica's
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social interactions tend to do, and she ran off.
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Her boyfriend at the time, Scott Lang, tried to be supportive,
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but instead of leaning on him, Jessica ended up turning to Luke
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Cage. She opened up to him for the
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first time about what the Purple Man had done to her and the deep
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heart to heart started to shift their friendship into something
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way more. That talk gave Jessica the
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courage to contact her old Flame SHIELD agent, Clay Quartermaine
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and asked him to get her into the RAFT, a high security
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prison, so she could confront the Purple man and try to get
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him to confess to his crimes. She hoped it would bring some
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peace to the victims families. Instead, he refused, and just to
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make things worse, he escaped the prison the same day.
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The next morning, Jessica woke up to find Scott lying next to
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her, apparently dead and covered in ants.
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But before she could even react, the purple Man casually revealed
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that he was alive and ordered Jessica to follow him.
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While walking through the streets of New York under his
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control, Jean Grey appeared in Jessica's mind, reminding her
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that she'd secretly placed a mental fail safe years ago when
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she woke up Jessica from her coma, all Jessica had to do was
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activate it. And she did.
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She snapped out of it and gave Kilgrebe the beating of his life
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that he fully deserved. Once things settled down, Scott
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found Jessica and during their talk she dropped a bomb.
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She was pregnant and it it was not his.
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That was the end of their relationship and Jessica began a
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new chapter with the baby daddy, Luke Cage.
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With the pregnancy weighing heavily on her, Jessica applied
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for a consulting job with none other than J Jessica Jameson,
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famous for being anti superhero. Neither she nor Luke was
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thrilled about it, but she wanted something stable for the
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baby's sake. Jameson agreed to hire her on
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the condition that the Daily Bugle got the exclusive on the
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superhero baby story. Jessica's next big case had her
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chasing down a bunch of teen heroes who were trying to carry
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on The Avengers legacy after the team had disbanded.
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That led her to a wild situation involving a time travelling
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teenage version of King the Conqueror, a tiny Asgardian ish
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warlock, and a new version of Patriot, a young Hulkling Cassie
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Lang, Scott's daughter, who had discovered she could grow into
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giant size. Things got chaotic very fast,
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especially when the real King showed up.
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As time itself started to unravel, Jessica briefly stood
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it up again as Jewel. In the end, the adults agreed to
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send young Kang back to his timeline to patch things up.
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Just as that mess calmed down, Jessica and Luke came home to
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find a strange woman in their apartment who immediately
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exploded. The blast sent them both to the
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hospital, with Luke ending up in a coma while he was missing from
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the hospital. Jessica, now in full panic mode,
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searched the city trying to find him, but before she could, she
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fainted, only to be scooped up by HYDRA agents who tried to
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recruit her as a spy. Naturally, she told them to
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shove it. Luckily her ex Clay Quartermaine
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came through and rescued her. With a little help from her
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Daily Bugle Co worker Ben Urich, Jessica finally tracked Luke
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down to the Night Nurses clinic in Chinatown, awake and alive.
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Then, just three months before her due date, Jessica suddenly
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went into labor. The hospital turned her away,
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because of course, of course they would, but she ended up at
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Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorium, where he and a bunch
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of superheroes had her back. As reporters swarmed outside,
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Jessica called up Jamison and a Fury and told him he was
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officially cut off from getting the scoop on her baby,
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especially after the hit pieces he ran on the New Avengers and
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by that extension, Luke Cage. Instead, she gave the exclusive
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to the Daily Globe. Jessica gave birth to a healthy
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baby girl, and right after that, Luke proposed.
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The two tied the knot what not long after that and named their
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daughter Danielle Cage. After her daughter was born,
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Jessica found herself getting pulled back into the superhero
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world she tried to get walk away from.
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She mostly kept her distance during the whole Superhuman
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Registration Act drama, The Civil War mess laying low in
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Doctor Stranger's Sanctum Sanctorium, but eventually she
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gave in, registered and returned to Avengers Tower just in time
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to get caught up in the chaos of Secret Invasion.
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Things took a dark turn when a scroll posing as Edwin Jarvis to
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kidnap her baby. Thankfully, her daughter was
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rescued, but the whole ordeal pushed just cut a suit up again.
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She brought back her jewel costume for a while before
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rebranding herself as Power Woman and officially joining the
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New Avengers to fight alongside her husband, Luke Cage.
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After their time with The Avengers, Jessica and Luke
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decided to step away from the world, ending threats and get
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back to their roots protecting the streets of New York.
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Teaming up with fellow local heroes like Daredevil and Iron
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Fist, they formed a new version of the classic Defenders, a name
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once used by legends like Doctor Strange and the Hulk.
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But for Jessica, the fight has always been personal.
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Her real strength has never just been about her powers, it's her
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love for her family and her friends.
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Unfortunately, that's exactly what the Purple Man has always
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tried to use against her. Since becoming a mom and
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marrying Luke, Jessica has fought hard to keep her loved
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ones safe from him. But Kilgrave doesn't give up
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easily. In one of the most twisted moves
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yet, he managed to take control of their daughter Danielle.
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The audacity. With help from her closest
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allies, especially Carol Danvers, Jessica face Krillgrave
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head on. Instead of just beating him
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down, she confronted him emotionally and mentally,
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working through her trauma and fears.
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In doing so, she finally took back full control, rejected his
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manipulation, and forced him out of Danielle's life and hers for
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good. So that is a breakdown of who
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Jessica Jones is in the comics. The last place I read her, God,
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she's good in everything she shows up in.
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But I really liked seeing her and Gwen Stacy in Stephanie
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Phillips Spider Gwen, the Ghost Spider run that's going on
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currently. I really like seeing them team
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up. So I'd like to see that more.
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But as usual, I have comics for you to check out if you want to
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get to know who Jessica Jones is in the comics even more and get
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a better understanding of her. So starting with you got to
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start from the beginning with alias #1A more specific 1.
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You could try Alias volume 4, The Secret Origin of Jessica
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Jones The Pulse, which is a direct continuation of Alias
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Jessica Jones from 2016. Jessica Jones Blind Spot, which
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is a continuation of the 2016 series Jessica Jones purple
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daughter amazing spider man number six O 1 young Avengers
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volume 1 new Avengers from 2010 new Avengers the trust.
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Sorry I don't have much of A voice today, so I've been
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struggling through this all day this whole time.
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And finally, Jessica Jones, return of the Purple man.
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So that is everything I have to say on Jessica Jones.
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I really hope you enjoyed this breakdown as much as I did
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because I was up so late writing this so late and now I'm just
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trying to keep up with my energy drink here.
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So what can you do? So with that being said, Please
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remember to like and subscribe so you don't miss any more of
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these. And I don't really have much
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else to say, so have a marvelous day.