People have already witnessed:
The Hulk fighting the Abomination in New York.
Aliens coming out of a wormhole in the middle of New York.
Other people with superpowers such as Captain America.
Beings from Norse mythology such as Thor and Loki, turning out to exist.
Shouldn't people be a little more open minded?
Fear of the unknown can cause ignorance. People will refuse to see what is in front of them because it is easier to be in denial.
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I think you missed the point. It's not that mind control itself is so impossible to believe (though given that the general public doesn't really have all the details the stuff you mentioned I think mind control is a bit of another step).
The issue is that it's so hard to prove specific cases. Jessica was trying to prove that Kilgrave made Hope kill her parents without being anywhere near them at the time. Hours after he was in contact with her in fact. So while people might accept that mind control is possible in some way, the idea that a girl would shoot her parents is a bit of a stretch to just say "oh yeah, mind control. makes sense."
It's even discussed on Trish Talk I believe where they wonder if criminals everywhere won't just start saying "Kilgrave made me do it". Jessica has to listen to all the people that showed up at Jeri's office to determine who was real and who was just claiming they were mind controlled.
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The issue is that it's so hard to prove specific cases. Jessica was trying to prove that Kilgrave made Hope kill her parents without being anywhere near them at the time. Hours after he was in contact with her in fact. So while people might accept that mind control is possible in some way, the idea that a girl would shoot her parents is a bit of a stretch to just say "oh yeah, mind control. makes sense."
Great point though given it's Mariah that could be her spin on it and not necessarily common perception. But clearly it's not just widely accepted at this point.
Really, Jessica was never able to prove anything about Kilgrave to any more than a handful of people. And many are still in denial anyway. I don't think she ever actually got anything on film that would hold up.
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Great point though given it's Mariah that could be her spin on it and not necessarily common perception. But clearly it's not just widely accepted at this point.
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shareThis. I think it's safe to assume that most of what we as viewers know about the MCU isn't known by the regular citizens of the MCU. Either because it's literally covered up or just only known by a few characters.
Yup.
At some point (unless the time or reality gems sort of moot the point) the MCU will need to transition to where heroes, aliens, inhumans etc. are somewhat common knowledge. But for now they're still pretty much rumors and folklore.
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The issue is that it's so hard to prove specific cases. Jessica was trying to prove that Kilgrave made Hope kill her parents without being anywhere near them at the time. Hours after he was in contact with her in fact. So while people might accept that mind control is possible in some way, the idea that a girl would shoot her parents is a bit of a stretch to just say "oh yeah, mind control. makes sense."
It's even discussed on Trish Talk I believe where they wonder if criminals everywhere won't just start saying "Kilgrave made me do it". Jessica has to listen to all the people that showed up at Jeri's office to determine who was real and who was just claiming they were mind controlled.
People believe in all that stuff because they've seen proof of it with their own eyes. The issue with mind control is that it's much harder to prove in court (where it mattered) without Killgrave and his parents.
It's also said that after the attack in New York, everyone and their mom was blaming stuff on mind control. They even bring up multiple cases such as a mom who tried to blame mind control for her daughter getting pregnant, and a man who blamed mind control for him robbing a gas station (they were both lying). Basically, there's enough credence to write off anyone blaming mind control as crying wolf.
You also have to consider that this was before the inhuman crisis as well, so the Avengers were the only known meta humans at the time so having a random mind control jedi mind trick guy was even more of a surprise. Honestly, I felt like they handled the idea of a dude with mind control let loose in the 'real' world fairly well. I mean how WOULD you convince a court that you murdered someone under mind control? It would be impossible to prove without admission from the guy himself.