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Today we’re returning to a list that we released a few days ago in celebration of
the latest season of one of Netflix’s Marvel hit television shows – the top 10 Easter
Eggs you missed in Jessica Jones season 2.
Part 2!
We addressed a lot of Easter Eggs that went down in the first half of the season, and
while we touch on a few from earlier episodes, we’ll be looking at a lot of ones that happen
in later episodes too.
So heads up – there are spoilers ahead!
10 Noir Inspiration When Jessica and Trish first meet up in the
second season, they’re chilling on a rooftop that’s got one hell of a view.
Literally – there’s a movie projector playing some classic Hollywood cinema.
The movie buffs out there may have recognized what film was playing – The Killers, a 1946
story about organized crime.
What’s neat about this easter egg is that the film initially had a working title called
The Matadors, which has a connection to Jessica Jones and Marvel itself.
Jessica Jones is first introduced in season one on top of The Matador hotel.
The super astute fans out there may have noticed one other slight connection – the plot of
The Killers is very similar to the story of the father of Jessica’s Defenders buddy,
Matt Murdoch.
9 David Mack Oscar is one of the new characters we were
introduced to this season who first meets Jessica upon moving into her building.
She wows his son by lifting up their fridge with ease.
One of the more interesting things about Oscar is that he’s quite the artist.
And it’s his art in particular that has fans of the Jessica Jones comics buzzing – it
looks eerily similar to the work of David Mack, a long time cover artist for Jessica’s
comic Alias, and the illustrator of the main title sequence of the show, which scored him
an Emmy nomination.
While it’s yet to be confirmed as to whether the art work was actually done by David Mack
or is just homage to the artist, it seems likely that it was done by him considering
his connection to the show itself.
8 Hedy Wolfe Those with a keen eye may have noticed another
Patsy Walker reference in the form of a magazine during season two.
On the cover of a celeb mag know as Celeb Seeker – which is a parody of US Weekly
– we can see Trish gracing the cover alongside Malcolm with the headline ‘Patsy dumps Griff
for Mystery Man!’
While most people probably only paid attention to the headline and cover photo, if you look
to the left of it and read some of the other featured stories, you’ll notice that the
top one reads “Hedy Wolfe clashes with Gal Pal”.
Hedy Wolfe is a character that originates from the Patsy Walker comics, who was constantly
a frenemy for the character.
While she did survive the move with Patsy to superhero comics, she never received powers
herself – instead, she became a civilian character who got the rights to the fictional
Patsy Walker comics and started republishing them.
7 More for Movie Buffs If The Killers wasn’t enough for you classic
Hollywood cinema fans out there, how about some Orson Welles?
Later on in the season when Jessica returns to the rooftop, another black and white film
is playing – this time, one of the most notable film noir classics, A Touch of Evil,
directed by Orson Welles.
Being a modern day film noir itself, classics like these heavily inspire much of the stylistic
elements we enjoy about shows like Jessica Jones.
It’s worth noting that the shot that appears in this scene is the famous long take that
opens a Touch of Evil – an element that is consistently a part of the film noir and
neo-noir genre, but also a common element of the Marvel Netflix shows – they love
their long takes.
6 Familiar Names During the scene where Jessica visits Dr Leslie
Hansen’s apartment to further investigate her, she looks at a tenant list located in
the building to figure out which suite is hers.
If you look closely, there’s two names in particular that have a connection to the Marvel
universe.
Or rather, two names of actors who play significant characters in the Marvel universe.
S Jackson and F Jones.
These stand for Samuel L Jackson, aka Nick Fury, and Finn Jones, aka Iron Fist Danny
Rand.
5 Jessica Campbell Jones Much of this season is an exploration of Jessica’s
past, especially with the resurfacing of her mother.
One of the smaller facts we learn about Jessica is that her middle name is Campbell.
Seems a little odd, right?
Except that Campbell is actually a shout out to Jessica in the comics – the name she
was born with was Jessica Campbell prior to being adopted by the Joneses.
4 Here comes Hellcat This one feels like more of a plot point and
less of an Easter Egg, since it’s been anticipated for quite some time – the transformation
of Trish Walker into Hellcat.
So for context, Trish Walker was initially known as Patsy Walker in the comics; a character
who started off as a teen-romance genre character and eventually became a superhero.
When she first donned the Hellcat mantle, she didn’t have any powers aside from naturally
enhanced agility and speed.
Long story short, she’s offered membership on the Avengers, but Moondragon persuades
her to accompany her to Saturn’s moon Titan to train and gain psychic abilities and advanced
martial arts skills.
Which then gets taken away from her.
But fear not, because she commits suicide after her husband Hellstorm’s demonic inheritance
took possession of him and drove her insane.
This landed Patsy in hell, where she gained a ton of powers, and after returning, she
retained those powers – she can psychic senses and can generate force fields.
This season begins Trish’s transition in a much more efficient way – she undergoes
a procedure to give her powers, overseen by Dr Malus.
Dr Karl Malus, who we discussed in our last list, is a character known for experimenting
and mutating others, so his involvement in Trish’s transformation is no surprise.
3 The Raft In our part one of this list, we mentioned
a pretty large Easter Egg pertaining to Infinity War and Captain America’s shield.
Lucky for us, that isn’t the only reference to the patriotic superhero and the MCU films
featuring the Avengers.
During a conversation between Jessica and her mother, played by Janet McTeer, the subject
of the high security prison for super powered individuals is brought up.
The prison, known as The Raft, appeared back in Captain America Civil War – it’s located
in a remote area in the middle of the ocean, and after the airport battle in the film,
a few notable superheroes find themselves doing time there until Cap himself breaks
them out.
In the comics, the Raft is a super villain prison located close to Ryker’s Island,
and in order to visit, civilians required a SHEILD super powered escort.
The conversation between Jessica and her mom pertains to how the only place the government
would ever send her to would be the Raft – definitely a not so pleasant fate.
2 Lizard People In the first episode of the season, Jessica
is interviewing new potential new clients, including Robert Coleman aka the Whizzer,
who we talked about in our last list.
But there is another person in that line up who most wrote off as being a silly joke that’s
actually an Easter Egg.
There’s a woman who says that a race of lizard people are walking amongst regular
humans, and that one is actually Jay Z.
While it made for a good laugh, turns out that statement – minus the Jay Z part - actually
has roots in the Marvel universe.
Lizard people hiding in plain sight amongst humans is a reference to the Skrull Empire
– green skinned aliens who can shape shift, who will be joining the MCU in the Captain
Marvel upcoming film.
Others have noted that she mentions the Illuminati – while this could be a commonplace reference
to the Illuminati conspiracy theories of our world, it’s worth noting that the Illuminati
are a group of superheroes in the Marvel universe who operate in secret together to keep the
world safe, and were very present during the Infinity, Secret Invasion and Secret Wars
events.
1 Stan Lee Ah yes, the most iconic Marvel Easter Egg,
the legend himself – Stan Lee.
Stan notoriously makes an appearance in all of the Marvel film and television adaptations.
And rightfully so – he’s responsible for the majority of the most notable Marvel characters
that have been cinematically adapted, and acts as an executive producer on most of the
Marvel proprieties.
While he isn’t in the flesh in Jessica Jones, we do get his cameo in print.
He appears on a large advertisement on the back of a bus in an ad for Forbush and Associates,
with a quote that reads “Forbush and Associates got me $5.2 million”.
Which is pretty funny considering that in Iron Fist, Stan Lee’s cameo was as Captain
Irving Forbush of the NYPD.
Talk about convenient marketing there.
In addition to that, it’s worth noting that the Forbush name itself is a reference to
a parody superhero named Forbush Man – a character than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created
in 1967 who was an employee of the fictional company “Marble Comics”.
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