Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jessica Jones

Jessica Jones has had a pretty crap life. Her family growing up wasn’t happy really, though they put up appearances for her sake. She wouldn’t find out for years, because as far as she knew they all died in a car accident. Jessica only survived herself because of an experimental, non-consensual procedure that also gave her superpowers, forever othering her in the eyes of the public, labelling her a freak and a menace. After waking up to her entire family being gone, she was adopted by the Walkers, where she got to see the abusive and mentally unstabling life of a child star first hand. After quite the rough childhood, Jessica and her sister Trish managed to become well adjusted enough adults. Trish always pushed her to use her powers to do good, to become a superhero. Jessica tried it. Once. There she met Kilgrave, a sociopath with mind controlling abilities, who kept her under his thumb in an abusive relationship for 6 months. When she finally escaped, Jessica had had enough. She abandoned her dreams of superherodom and instead fell back on the one thing she was ever good at: digging up peoples’ dirt and pissing people off. She opened Alias Investigations, a private investigation firm, out of her crappy three room apartment. Now she spends all her time stalking cheating husbands, tracking down runaway teens, and occassionally getting mixed up with mortifying serial killers who have it out for her and always, always, always paying the price for it.

Striking Strength

At the age of 13, just after receiving her powers, breaks a marble sink in half with one hand. (source)
Punches a man through a glass window. (source)
Sends a man flying back with a punch. (source)
Sends a man flying back with a punch. (source)
Sends a man flying back, knocking over a chair, while hospitalized and recovering from surgery. (source)
Kills a woman with a fully powered punch to the chest. (source)
Accidentally kills a man with one blind swing of a nightstick. (source)
Punches a strength tester hard enough to score over 999 (when the previous high scores were in the 500’s) and to break the punching bag. (source)
Digs through concrete with a fire axe. (source)
Knocks around Luke Cage with her strikes. Luke Cage is notably durable. (source) (https://redd.it/8itobc)
Blasts a door off its hinges and into the opposite wall. (source)
Sends a man flying up and back and over a balcony with an uppercut. (source)
Sends a palette of cinderblocks sliding forward with a kick. (source)
Punches through the hood of a car. (source)
Punches a hole in a prison cell’s wall. (source)
Pops open a fire hydrant with a kick. (source)
Sends a locked police car door flying out of its frame with a kick. (source)
Dents the side of a large, industrial, steel tank with a punch. (source)
Breaks up sections of compact earth with her punches. (source)

Lifting and Throwing Strength

At the age of 13, just after receiving her powers, lifts a 150 pound chunk of marble over her head with one hand. (source)
Throws a man one handed dozens of feet and through a wooden crate. (source)
Throws Trish to a building clear across the street. (source)
Throws a dead body some hundred yards out to sea. (source)
Throws a gun through a wall. (source)
Rips a radiator out of the wall and throws it clean through a set of doors. (source)
Throws a foam bouncy ball hard enough to crack a wall. (source)
Stops and lifts the back half of a car. (source)
Holds up falling elevator with Danny Rand and Luke Cage in it by the cable. (source)
Able to easily shift large chunks of concrete and steel beams. (source)
Lifts a full trailer off of a woman. (source)
Tears the top off a table and throws it. (source)
Flips over a gazebo with a table and chairs in it. (source)

Pushing, Pulling, and Snapping Strength

Easily breaks locks. (source)
Breaks the lock on a reinforced steel door. (source)
Tears a payphone off of its cord. (source)
Tears apart a microphone. (source)
Casually snaps a thick chain. (source)
Tears open an ATM. (source)
Tips over a row of file cabinets. (source)
Sends a person flying back with a shove. (source)
Capable of ripping the head off of a corpse. While Jessica was lying about the circumstances surrounding this feat, she isn’t shown to have been able to cut the head off any other way, and Kilgrave also acknowledges the idea that she simply pulled it off. (source) (https://streamable.com/7spil)
Snaps handcuffs and bends a metal chair. (source)
Bends another metal chair. (source)
Bends a metal grate and snaps it out of its frame. (source)
Pries a pipe loose from the ceiling while hanging from it. (source)
Sends her desk sliding with her foot. (source)
Able to briefly hold back one of Luke Cage’s punches. (source)
Tears a car door out of its frame to use as a shield. (source)
Pushes a man’s head against a windshield hard enough to start cracking it. (source)
Pushes over a full dumpster and sends it sliding with one hand. (source)
Able to stop and lift the back part of a bus with help from Alisa. (source) (https://redd.it/8ftptx)
Stops a speeding car. (source)
Pulls a car off of a tow truck’s cable. (source)
Pins a man to the wall with a car. (source)

Jumping

“Flies” away while carrying an unconscious man. (source)
Jumps up several stories to a fire escape. (source)
Jumps to the roof of a multi-story hospital. (source)
Jumps dozens of feet up to grab a broken elevator cable. (source)
Leaps from the fire escape of one building through the window of another across the street. (source)
Jumps to the top of a multi-story building while recovering from surgery. (source)
Jumps across the street from her apartment under surveillance. (source)
Somehow gets to the top of this skyscraper. (source)

Speed

Can run a mile in under 4 minutes. (source)
Gets a woman off of the train tracks and jumps out of the way before the train can hit them. (source)
Kicks a man before he can draw his gun and fire. (source)
Reacts to and counters the Whizzer attacking from behind who moves with enhanced speed. (source) (https://gfycat.com/FlakyIllfatedBirdofparadise)

Durability

Saves a man jumping from the top of a building by catching him and landing on garbage. (source)
Barely phased by a stun baton that grounds security guards. (source)
It takes four simultaneously to keep her down. (source)
Completely no sells a taser. (source)
Gets hit by a food truck hard enough to dent the front and walks it off with only some bruising and broken ribs. (source) (https://gfycat.com/GrimyCriminalAdder https://streamable.com/errob)
While injured, gets thrown through a wall and gets back up. (source)
On the edge of an explosion that sends her flying back and gets back up. (source)
Takes a backhand from Luke Cage that sends her flying back. (source)
Thrown into a stone column hard enough to knock rubble loose. (source)
Casually falls to the ground from the top of a building. (source)
Isn’t phased in the slightest by a five story fall. (source)
Drops from a ferris wheel and lands fine. (source)
Gets thrown through a wooden wall and gets back up. (source)
Survives being stabbed in the spleen to a point that would’ve killed a normal person. (source) (https://gfycat.com/activetemptingchameleon)
No sells getting stabbed through the hand, then immediately lifts and slams Trish. (source)

Skill

Counters a man attacking with a bat. (source)
Fights with multiple soldiers of the Hand at once, generally keeping pace with the other Defenders. (source)

Other

Jessica is the only person to develop an immunity to Kilgrave’s mind control. How or why is never explained, it could be whatever treatments IGH gave her, overexposure, or sheer willpower. However, Jessica claims it only happened after killing Reva, so it’s likely of the latter two. For reference, Kilgrave’s power works via emission of a virus. Even after he upgraded his power to be capable of controlling an entire hospital full of people, she was still able to defy him. (source) (https://streamable.com/lg9fe https://streamable.com/lxbkb https://streamable.com/fmhvm)
Claims that she heals faster than most. (source)
Has a superhuman alcohol tolerance. (source)

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