How to fight Kilgrave
Why don't they just have some who doesn't speak any English fight him. Done and done
shareBrilliant strategy. Does not speaking English make you bulletproof, too? I wasn't aware of that side effect... That strategy is right up there with "why didn't they wear earplugs?". Because earplugs don't block bullets OR protect other people, that's why.
Kilgrave almost never engages directly in combat. So, you send a non-English speaker, someone wearing earplugs/headphones, or better yet, a totally deaf person after him... And they get shot dead fifty feet away by the security guards he has, or people he's controlling.
Of course, why not just killl him with a sniper from a half-mile away, why get more complicated than that?
Oh yeah... let's not forget that Kilgrave normally had "contingency orders" in place, so that if you even tried to kill him, it was likely many OTHER people would die. Oops?
Not really "done and done", if you bother to think it through in the context the show gives you.
Nullifying Kilgrave's power over a single individual is relatively easy. Defeating Kilgrave while nullifying his power over EVERYONE is a whole other ball of wax. Kind of the entire point of the series.
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Nullifying Kilgrave's power over a single individual is relatively easy. Defeating Kilgrave while nullifying his power over EVERYONE is a whole other ball of wax. Kind of the entire point of the series.
And Jessica KNEW that to some extent. When Kilgrave broke into her apartment, he explicitly threatened her with "I have people who I have commanded to kill themselves if I die". Hell, the precinct Mexican standoff was the same thing. I imagine she didn't make a move on Kilgrave there because she felt that he may have commanded the cops to shoot her if she made a move on him.
Brilliant strategy. Does not speaking English make you bulletproof, too? I wasn't aware of that side effect... That strategy is right up there with "why didn't they wear earplugs?". Because earplugs don't block bullets OR protect other people, that's why.
Well, not speaking English may work...provided Kilgrave doesn't speak that language. As for the earplugs, yeah, earplugs and headphones may render YOU immune to commands, but you also have no warning about what everyone around you is being commanded to do. Not only that, but earplugs (the normal ones you can buy in most drug stores) and noise-cancelling headphones don't actually block sound completely and you can still understand what people are saying if they're talking loud enough. All Kilgrave would have to do is just speak with a louder tone of voice and that's out the window. Consider that Jessica didn't even think the earplug approach would be foolproof. She warns Trish not to look at Kilgrave even when she has the headphones on. While it's possible that Jessica was just telling Trish not to look at Kilgrave so that he doesn't realize it's not Jessica, I had the feeling that Jessica actually thought that Kilgrave would just resort to alternate means to control Trish. share
I imagine she didn't make a move on Kilgrave there because she felt that he may have commanded the cops to shoot her if she made a move on him.
Ermmm... She didn't make a move on him there because seventeen people would have died instantly. Nobody was pointing a gun at her, only at innocent people/cops or themselves. It had absolutely nothing to do with a threat against Jessica.
Consider that Jessica didn't even think the earplug approach would be foolproof.
Or... You can just consider the fact that the "earplug/earphone strategy" actually didn't work. Trish had her headphones knocked off, and was almost instantly under Kilgrave's control. He didn't have to resort to alternate means.
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As for Jessica never trying to kill Kilgrave until the last episode, well, she already carries an extreme level of guilt for the deaths in her life. I mean, no sane person wants to kill anyone, but think about it from Jessica's perspective: having spent most of her life carrying guilt for the deaths of her family, then the horrific trauma of being made a willing slave, then the guilt of committing murder, then the guilt of believing that murder is the reason she was free, then Kilgrave setting up the situation so she feels guilty for the deaths of Hope's parents and Ruben, it's not unreasonable that she wanted to solve the problem and be the hero without killing. Plus (and I'm treading lightly here) victims of prolonged psychological and emotional torment and manipulation have complicated feelings toward their abusers. It's not as simple for her as it is to us.
There's also the fact that Jessica wanted some sense of closure. Not just for herself, but for everyone that Kilgrave had victimized. Without proof of Kilgrave's existence, people would think that his victims were just drunks, drug addicts, or weak minded idiots who screwed up their own lives. You have to remember that Jessica is not the only person who suffered because of Kilgrave. She's just his most notable victim as the show is about her. We know from the support group scenes that there are people who lost jobs, friends, marriages, and families because of the things Kilgrave forced them to do. And as rape survivors will tell you, it's a horrible burden to live with that kind of shame and ostracism. If Jessica just killed Kilgrave, all those lives would remain in ruins. By showing the world that he is real, those people would at least have a chance to piece their lives back together.