Daredevil Season 2 Will Give Us The Jessica Jones Story We’ve All Been Waiting For

Ironically, the return of major street-level heroes to the MCU has easily been one of the most exciting developments in Marvel Studios’ ongoing Multiverse Saga. With Daredevil: Born Again bringing Matt Murdock and more vigilantes back into the spotlight like Jessica Jones, I feel pretty confident a major story line will finally be paid off.

Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is officially returning to the MCU this month in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, breaking a 7-year absence since the end of Netflix’s Jessica Jones season 3 back in 2019. Based on some recent comments from Daredevil: Born Again’s showrunner, I’m really hoping that the MCU is finally ready to give us the Jessica Jones story we’ve all been waiting for.

7 Years Later, Jessica Jones Is Returning To The MCU In Daredevil: Born Again Season 2

Without a doubt, Jessica Jones’ return to the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 is a major milestone for Marvel’s former Netflix heroes.

Although it’s been seven years since Jessica Jones season 3 ended, the fate of Jones and her fellow Netflix heroes were left largely unresolved beyond Daredevil himself. Matt Murdock and Kingpin both received a handful of MCU appearances in movies and shows like Spider-Man: No Way Home, Hawkeye, She-Hulk, and Echo prior to the release of Daredevil: Born Again season 1 last year.

Now, it looks as though the time has come to get more of the band back together, starting with Jessica in Daredevil: Born Again season 2. Releasing at the end of this month, the new season will open with Wilson Fisk as “Mayor Kingpin” and his major takeover of New York City while actively targeting vigilantes with his aggressive new task force.

Keeping that in mind, Jessica Jones returning couldn’t be happening at a better time to help Daredevil in his new war with the city’s leadership. After all, Matt and Jessica share plenty of history from Marvel’s Netflix era, including their time together in The Defenders.

Additionally, recent comments from showrunner Dario Scardapane suggest we’ll be getting some exciting new details about Jessica and the 7-year interim between her last appearance and this brand-new return in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, potentially even adapting major elements from the original comics.

With Any Luck, The MCU’s Jessica Jones Will Be Married To Luke Cage

Firstly, Scardapane confirmed in an interview with SFX Magazine that the Jessica Jones we meet in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 will have indeed grown and matured in the seven years since we last saw her:

“One of the things we’ve leaned into is that time has passed between the end of the Netflix show and the beginning of ours. We’re acknowledging that. These characters have matured; they’ve gone through life. And Jessica Jones, bourbon-swilling smartass – what’s it like for her to mature seven years?”

Additionally, Scarpadane teased that new chapters of Jessica Jones’ life may have been adapted straight from the comics:

“What Melissa Rosenberg did with Season 1 of Jessica Jones is some of the finest superhero television work ever. When I first came and talked to Marvel I was like, ‘We’ve got to bring Jessica Jones back!’ I don’t feel that her story ended. If you read the comic books, you’ll know that there’s a next chapter of her life that I thought was super interesting.”

Keeping that in mind, I’m feeling pretty confident that that next chapter is Jessica Jones taking her relationship with Luke Cage to the next level in the MCU, not unlike when they got married and had a daughter in the comics.

If the MCU is indeed leaning into and acknowledging the seven-year gap, it’d make perfect sense for Jessica to already be married to Luke Cage when she reappears, or at least already engaged.

Not only would that show the growth and evolution Scardapane is citing, but it would also pay off a concept Jessica Jones fans were begging for even before the Netflix shows were all canceled before the dawn of Disney+.

Jessica Jones being married or engaged to Luke would raise questions about Cage himself and his own hanging threads, like running the club Harlem’s Paradise at the end of Luke Cage season 2. However, it would certainly be a step in the right direction to finally start resolving the Netflix era in very satisfying ways. Fingers crossed!

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 premieres March 24th on Disney+ from Marvel Studios.