What Marvel's Jessica Jones Cast Look Like In The Comics
5. Kilgrave
In The Comics:
Going by the name "Purple Man" (for obvious reasons), Zebediah Kilgrave was a joke villain in the earlier, more lighthearted yellow-suit Daredevil comics, before becoming his more terrifying and disturbing self in the Alias comics. Using his powers of mind control, he enslaves the super-powered Jessica Jones and uses her for his own ends. He becomes a somewhat recurring villain in the comics, enslaving many big players in the Marvel Universe, once even captured by Doctor Doom and strapped to a machine used to control people large-scale.
In The TV Series:
Though not entirely purple, his purple suits and the purple lighting of his appearances make Kilgrave a terrifying presence in the series, even long before he appears onscreen. Having controlled and raped Jessica, eventually forcing her to kill, Kilgrave was seemingly taken out by a bus crash, but is eventually revealed to be alive, in love with and obsessed with Jessica and doing everything in his power to get her back. In the most triumphant moment of season one, Jessica resists Kilgrave's control and snaps his neck, killing him. He's played by the talented and wholly terrifying David Tennant in season one and two.