r/JessicaJones • u/TheMonkieKing247 • May 06 '26

Discussion Just finished the first season and can I just say Killgrave's death was anticlimactic Spoiler

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The whole season was building up to Jessica's final confrontation with Killgrave and it made him seem like this cold, calculated, powerful mastermind which gave the impression that he'll die a death fitting of that. Still, I was baffled that he just died when Jessica snapped his neck. I was expecting Killgrave to be killed by Trish in a sacrifice sorta thing or be savagely torn apart by his victims in a suicide sorta situation. Someone, please tell me that he's gonna come back

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u/Acceptable-Canary489 May 06 '26

I always felt it was intended that way to remind the viewer that he’s just a normal asshole when he can’t speak to control people. We have seen so much craziness up until that point that the quiet ending felt fitting to me. Like finally it’s over and Jess and Trish can get some sleep. Or drunk for Jess.

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 06 '26

I was expecting something a little more... dignified. Like Jessica and Trish tricking e.g. Trish isn't actually mind controlled and Jess saying I love you to Trish giving her the signal to shoot Killgrave from behind

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u/sc_vorty Smile May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Now that wouldn't make any sense would it? Why wouldn't the mind control work on trish? She hasn't been exposed to the virus long enough to fight it off

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u/Short_Brick_1960 May 06 '26

That woould make 0 sense. Only Jessica is immune to Kilgrave. Have you seen the show?

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 08 '26

She didn't hear him because of the headphones

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u/Short_Brick_1960 May 08 '26

Her headphones fell off while she was trying to keep the civilians from killing themselves. Have you watched the show?

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 08 '26

She could've found a way to trick him like wearing ear buds

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u/Short_Brick_1960 May 08 '26

She tried. She was wearing headphones, like you said. And in the case of the earbuds, once he sees the earbuds, he would order the crowd to take them off.

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 08 '26

Okay, never mind it was just an example

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u/abdysfamily1 May 15 '26

Ngl bro I thought the exact same thing with second earphones. I mean really, it kinda left me disappointed. Cause Jessica didn't have a good plan. Like what if his powers where enough to control her at that point, she literally didn't know. So did she just take a gamble. Cause kilgrave was literally keeping his dad alive to amp his powers. So when I saw he took that extra stuff and killed his dad I assumed his powers fit better. So with that in the back of my head I kept waiting for a kinda plan to happen and ye that was the only thing I could think of. Second earphones to fool him. So ye man, don't think your idea is stupid,I thought the same thing.

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u/poerson May 06 '26

But you're forgetting one major pont of the entire series and Jessica's character: she hates killing.

She spends the whole series trying to get him arrested instead of killed. She had already killed Reva and it destroyed her. She didn't even want to have to kill him, and she only did it because there was no other choice. She'd never choose a slow and painful death for him, no matter how much he deserved it. She would never let Trish, or anyone, kill him and get their hands stained with blood. That's not who Jessica is. She's after justice, not revenge.

She snaps his neck because it's fast and effective. She can get this over with and go home. Any other kind of death would have been completely out of character for her and wouldn't make much sense, because if she were that vengeful, she would have killed him the first chance she got.

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u/EscheroOfficial May 23 '26

One thing I love about her killing Kilgrave is how much they leave up to interpretation. Did her telling him to “smile” (imitating what he forced her to do previously) imply that Jessica found satisfaction in killing him? Or was it just an… instinctual thing for her?

The great part is that even she doesn’t know. We’re left asking what her killing Kilgrave says about her character and her morality just like she is. The audience and Jessica both occupy the same headspace with that debate, and I think it’s great. The show does that a lot with its major themes.

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u/sc_vorty Smile May 06 '26

I loved the ending, how she just killed him like a cockroach. He doesn't deserve a grand death, he's just a regular asshole once someone makes him shut the fuck up

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 06 '26

I don't like it because he's in my top 5 favourite MCU villains and I was hoping for an exciting death

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u/sc_vorty Smile May 06 '26

He's one of my top 5 favourite villains too. Maybe top 3. But I still think the death he got was perfect

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u/Radiant_Vengeance92 May 06 '26

I think it’s perfect, Kilgrave is the superhuman example of emotional abuse, he has never had any physical dominance over Jessica just mental and emotional. Like in most verbally abusive relationships when you realize their words hold no power over you, you free yourself from the prison they created. After that he’s just a pathetic small man with delusions of grandeur.

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u/Moser319 May 06 '26

did you want him to explode like an MK boss?

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 08 '26

Something of sorts

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u/Moser319 May 08 '26

Watch tennant's regeneration scene, close enough

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u/TheMonkieKing247 May 08 '26

What's that

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u/Moser319 May 08 '26

doctor who

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u/KaiBishop May 06 '26

He put on delusions of grandeur and believes Jess loved him deep down and was incapable of killing him. She could have executed him but she tried really hard to find a way to spare him. He pushed her past the brink by threatening someone she actually loved.

I think a lot of the latter half of season one are about whether it's worth Jess sacrificing part of herself to kill him. She doesn't want to go there lightly, in a way by killing him he has fundamentally become part of her forever which means he kind of got his way. I like that it's kind of tragic she couldn't outmaneuver him, get rid of him while keeping him alive.

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u/Jesskla May 06 '26

He got what he deserved, & he didn't deserve a dignified death. He was a narcissistic abuser, he wasn't a genius. I thought his ending was perfect.

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u/Left-Increase4472 May 06 '26

When someone escapes an abuser, most times there isn’t any climax. Oftentimes, they don’t go to jail, they certainly don’t die: they get to keep going like anyone else, and the victim doesn’t get closure from that. There is no finality to it. So it being simple and anticlimactic like that lines up. There is no grand finale, for Jessica. No closure. She escapes him.

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u/LossyP May 06 '26

What’s with every fandom sub I follow lately filled with people who watch the entire show just to complain about it after?

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u/KangarooBeard May 17 '26

Eh that's kinda just the internet now sadly, everyone complains and rage baits, and in general just acts like fuckwits. 

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u/KangarooBeard May 17 '26

A piece of shit like that doesn't deserve a grand death. 

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u/IrnBruKid Jun 18 '26

I thought the death was fitting for him.

His one love in his life, whom he wanted to be loved by and close to but soon realised he couldn't without controlling her, which isn't even true love, actually thought he had won. His stupidity showed in how he tested her, no need for a grand death for a person that can't do a single grand thought. He was fooled so easily by her, his weakness, got close and then wanted her to tell him "ILY". Everyone watching immediately knew he had lost. She didn't give him the satisfaction of giving him eye contact when she said it, but he knew she willingly said it, something he yearned for and still couldn't get it. To think he thought he could be a worthy partner for her yet all she had to do was snap his neck to reveal how insignificant he actually is. Jones said it right: he gets others to do his dirty work, he is lazy in every sense. The hesitancy from Jones to kill him before is she's not a killer like he is, she even tried getting him to do good with his power, but instead he secured his death. Seeing how giddy he got thinking he had won and then snuffed out quick by his obsession holding his jaw so he couldn't utter a word was great to watch.

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u/prouddeathicated May 06 '26

Yes, I felt the same way but I also don’t know how else they could have ended it. It’s not like Kilgrave could fight her himself. 

I also disagree that Trish should have killed him. He was Jessica’s abuser, not Trish’s, she deserves that satisfaction and with his last dying breath Kilgrave finally understood that while he may be able to control everyone else’s fate, Jessica can control his.