**Spoilers ahead for Marvel’s Jessica Jones – You have been warned**
Marvel is cooking up big things for their extended universe. Jessica Jones is the second Netflix superhero origin that portrays a darker, edgier, more complex world. This is just a stepping stone into the coming Defenders series. Marvel does a stellar job of threading their stories together, while throwing in the odd Easter egg in the mix. Jessica Jones featured a great deal of characters from the original material, so many different origin stories happening at once and some might not be obvious. Here are a few tie-in’s and Easter eggs that you might have missed.
1) Night Nurse
In the Netflix series Daredevil, we saw Matt Murdock get patched up by a nurse named Claire Temple, who briefly volunteers to be his household band-aid. We get revisited by Claire played by Rosario Dawson, in the same hospital as Daredevil. Both are set in Hells Kitchen so it would make sense that Claire would be involved again. She takes care of Luke Cage after he received a shotgun blast to the chin. When she tries to operate, Claire discovers Luke Cage’s impenetrable skin and mentions that this wasn’t her first experience with powers. Was she alluding to her time with Matt Murdock? It’s unclear how close Netflix will stay to the original comics, but Claire Temple becomes the romantic interest of Luke Cage after she treats him for a wound.
2) Nuke
Frank Simpson made his first appearance in the Daredevil comics, a patriotic extremist who loses his mind, eventually assuming the alter-ego Nuke as his identity. Nuke uses multicolored pills that give him combat enhancing abilities. He’s a result of super soldier experimentation, combined with cybernetic augmentations to further his strength. The testing and pills eventually took their toll on his psyche and he became irrational and violent. He even tattooed the American flag on his face. In Jessica Jones, Will Simpson is a military veteran on a relentless pursuit of Kilgrave. He winds up on the receiving end of a bomb that kills his squad mates, leaving him hospitalized. This is where he submits to rejoin a military program that he was once a part of. In order to get a combat advantage, he begins dosing with red pills for an adrenal boost and blue pills for a comedown, sound familiar? The producers might have opted to change his first name because Punisher is set in the same universe. Punisher’s real name is Frank Castle, it’s possible they didn’t want to crossover two gun-toting badasses with the same name.
3) Jeryn Hogarth
It’s great to see Trinity enter the Marvel universe, even playing a source character. Carrie-Anne Moss plays attorney Jeri Hogarth who is locked in a nasty divorce with her estranged wife due to infidelity. The name Jeri Hogarth is is strikingly similar to the Iron Fists attorney in the comics by the name of Jeryn Hogarth. As we all know, Iron Fist will be debuting his own series on Netflix and its possible we will see Carrie-Anne Moss reprise her role and even handle Danny Rand AKA Iron Fists legal affairs.
4) Jewel
This is one of the most uncanny references to the comics, in the episode ‘AKA The Sandwich Saved Me,’ there’s a flashback scene where Trish suggests that Jessica suits up and calls herself ‘Jewel’ to which Jessica shoots down the idea, suggesting her name should be camel toe instead. Jessica Jones actually assumed the name Jewel in the comics, and wore the same costume to fight crime.
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