Jessica Jones's powers and how they will be dealt with moving forward.
I am quite interested in where the Disney+ iteration of the Defenders is going with regards to Jessica's powers being in flux. She tells Matt that it was "since Danielle". I don't know whether this means since she was pregnant or since she gave birth. In the comics, Jessica, much like Sue Storm had a difficult pregnancy and labour.
I know a lot of people don't like the trope of superpowered/supernatural characters being depowered for an entire story arc--especially when the character is female. Jessica having to sacrifice the reliability of her abilities in order to become a mother (even though she obviously didn't know that would happen) could be interpreted as misogynistic writing. But I am choosing to interpret it as a sort of superpowered exploration of how pregnancy and childbirth *does* cause certain changes to a woman's body. This is a reality for many women IRL and it is perfectly natural.
I'd be really excited if we get to see Jessica deal with what it truly means to her that she can no longer trust her body to be the superhuman machine it has been since she was a teenager. Jessica has always sort of begrudgingly accepted her abilities, despite the obvious advantages they give her as a private investigator and just as a person in general. Now especially, with a young child that she wants to protect and a husband who may have gotten embroiled in all sorts of complicated conflicts overseas, she may decide that, despite how she got them, she was better off with her abilities.
I assume that, somehow, Jessica's powers will stabilise. But whether that happens on its own or whether she will be willing to undergo some sort of further mutagenic enhancement in order to get to where she used to be... Remember, Luke got his own powers upgraded a little towards the end of his first season. That's why the Judas bullets don't work on him in his second season.
If Jessica does undergo some sort of secondary enhancement, here's hoping the MCU takes this as an opportunity to finally grant her true flight like she possesses in the comics. Comics Jessica hasn't been a decent flier since she stopped being Jewel. So it's not even like a special effects team would need to make Krysten Ritter's flight look as good as Iron Man's or Vision's or Doctor Strange's.
I think all of this would be better saved for another season of her own show, but that might be too much to wish for right now. So future seasons of Daredevil: Born Again are where I am putting my hopes for the time being.
Let me know what your thoughts are 🙂
EDIT: Corrected some grammar and spelling mistakes. I probably still missed a few though.