So Gail Simone and Phil Noto's multiversal Jessica Jones five-issue comic book mini-series is to be called The Variants.Īfter taking on what seems to be a routine case, she will come face-to-face with several versions of herself, which will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her choices. After seemingly resolving that, alternate versions of her start showing up and cause a different kind of problem.Variants! Where the Loki TV series, Spider-Man No Way Home, What If and Doctor Strange have led in the movies, the comic books are desperately trying to align their own multiversal methods up with the movies. Outside-Context Problem: First, Jessica has to contend with the possibility that the Purple Man left dormant commands that would force her to kill her family after a set amount of time.Mugging the Monster: The gangsters trying to extort money from the Stomping Grounds coffee shop suggest that they might hurt one of the customers to send a message.

She warns Jessica that he's likely to have done the same thing to her. In court, she claims this was due to Kilgrave's mind control leaving a hidden instruction that she was programmed to follow.

Manchurian Agent: Exactly ten years after Kilgrave abducted Maria Snyder she killed her family.

No explanation is given for why that reality had two different Jessica Joneses.

Identical Stranger: Jewel and Knightress are from the same Earth.

Later, variants of her start showing up and antagonizing her. Though it appears as a Living Memory of the Purple Man in her mindscape, Charles helps her realize it's simply a manifestation of her own trauma from his control, because it only knows things she does.

Her Own Worst Enemy: Two-fold Jessica asks for Charles Xavier's help to deprogram her of Killgrave's ticking time bomb in her mind.

Evil Counterpart: Jewel is a sociopathic Life Drinker who slaughtered most of her world's heroes and is now traversing the Multiverse, trying to steal the lives of other Jessicas.

Curb-Stomp Battle: Jessica flattens all three of the gangsters who are menacing Stomping Grounds without getting up from her seat.

They pretend to be a naive ingenue but really orchestrated the whole thing to Kill and Replace Jessica for her life.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The Big Bad of the alternate Jessica’s showing up is revealed to be one that still employs her Jewel persona.

The Variants (2022) provides examples of: The first issue was released June 29, 2022. But when Daredevil calls on her regarding the trial of a woman who was allegedly mind-controlled by a supervillain, the past comes back to haunt her.

Jessica, now married to Luke Cage and mother to baby Danielle, is largely retired from the superhero business. The series is written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Phil Noto. The Variants is a limited series from Marvel Comics, starring superheroine Jessica Jones.

The Variants by Gail Simone