Kilgrave

"Jessica, I'm the only one who matches you... and we're inevitable."

- Kilgrave Kevin Thompson is a man who was experimented on by his parents since his childhood in order to treat a neural degenerative disease, but the treatment made him gain mind control powers. Assuming the name Kilgrave, he began to use his powers for personal until coming across Jessica Jones.

He became obsessed and fascinated with Jones, hunting her since she managed to overcome his thrall. His quest for a loving future with Jones soon fell apart and he focused his efforts on upgrading his powers and killing his former lover, until he was eventually found and killed by Jones.

Torturous Childhood
Born to parents Albert and Louise, Kevin Thompson quickly developed a serious brain malfunction which required treatment. Thompson spent much of his young life going through extremely painful treatments along side never ending tests. Eventually he developed the ability to control people's wills and make them do as he commanded with ease.

Controlling Parents
Thompson forced his parents to obey his every command until, at the age of ten, he forced his mother to burn her face with an iron, permanently scarring her. Due to fear, his parents abandoned Thompson and left him to fend for himself for the next twenty years, eventually renaming himself Kilgrave to hide his identity.

Meeting Jessica Jones
While walking through New York City with two beautiful women under his control, Kilgrave witnessed Jessica Jones display incredible strength while saving Malcolm Powder from muggers. Fascinated by Jones' powers, Kilgrave ordered the two women to leave and focused his attention on Jones, asking her about her powers. He commented on what a beautiful woman Jones was, although he was not fond of her clothing and ordered her to smile before taking her under his control.

Over the next few months Kilgrave kept Jones as his prisoner, although he viewed their time together as a real relationship, he constantly used his powers to force her to spend time with him and have sex with him. Kilgrave would treat her to dinner and use his vast wealth to stay in five star hotels, however it would constantly be his powers keeping her there, not Jones' own free will.

Wishing to test if Jones wanted to stay, he gave her no orders for twelve hours, the amount of time for someone to fall out of his control. However he found Jones had decided to not leave him, allowing him to believe that she truly did love him. He found Jones standing on a balcony and ordered her to step down, when he questioned why she initially had not listened to him he decided to punish her by ordering her to cut off her own ear. When she began to obey Kilgrave changed his mind and hugged her.

Losing Jessica Jones
When Kilgrave learned that Reva Connors had come into possession of a hard-drive featuring footage of the experiments performed on him as a child, he became obsessed with keeping it a secret. He forced Connors to reveal its location and ordered Jessica Jones to use her enhanced strength to dig it up. Eventually after digging through feet of concrete, Jones discovered the hard drive and handed it to Kilgrave.

Stepping outside, Kilgrave ordered Jones to execute Connors, which she obey by punching her so hard in the chest that her heart stopped. Kilgrave ordered Jones to leave Connors' body behind, but was horrified when he witnessed Jones disobeying him, Kilgrave roared at Jones to come back to him, but she refused, instead walking further away. At the same time a bus driver, drinking on the job, accidentally crashed and rolled his bus, causing Kilgrave to be hit and almost killed in the chaos.

Recovery
Having almost been killed in the accident, Kilgrave sought the help of a doctor and forced another man to donate both his kidneys to him. The doctor was forced to perform the surgery on Kilgrave and saved his life, while the man had a stroke from the shock of losing his kidneys. Kilgrave then ensured that his death was faked and went on the run while Jessica Jones believed he had perished in the accident.

Return to New York
"Children should be seen and not heard. Or better still not seen and not heard. Get into that closet!"

- Kilgrave taking over a family household

Having recovered from his injuries, Kilgrave returned to New York City and took control of a young woman named Hope Shlottman, keeping her hostage for weeks while raping her numerous times. In order to send a message to Jessica Jones, Kilgrave took Shlottman to the same restaurants as he taken Jones years before. When Jones was hired by Shlottman's parents to find her, Kilgrave ordered Shlottman to wait on a bed for Jones and when she was close, murder her own parents, which she obeyed. Seeking a place to stay in New York, Kilgrave arrived at the apartment of a wealthy family and ordered them to allow him to come inside and stay with them. The couple were delighted and Kilgrave ordered their children to hide in the wardrobe so he did not have to look at or listen to them. He stayed at the home, taking advantage of their television and their food while he continued to move ahead with his plans, using Malcolm Powder to take photographs of Jessica Jones in exchange for drugs; Kilgrave then used the photographs to decorate a room in tribute to Jones. When Trish Walker insulted Kilgrave on her radio show while discussing Hope Shlottman's legal case, Kilgrave personally called the station to threaten her. In response he took control of a police officer named Will Simpson and ordered Simpson to kill Walker. When Simpson returned, claiming that Walker was dead, Kilgrave ordered him to jump off the balcony to his death; however, to his shock, Jessica Jones appeared and saved Simpson. Having caught eyes with Jones, Kilgrave used the distraction of Simpson to escape while ordering the homeowners to attack Jones.

Poker Game
"I don't know what just happened there, but you're going to sit down and give us a shot at winning our money back." "I've got a better idea, let's see how long it take you to put your head through that post."

- Harvey and Kilgrave

Enjoying his time in New York, Kilgrave attended a poker game with a group of gangsters. When Harvey attempted to light a cigar Kilgrave threatened to force him to put it out on his eyeball. Having gotten a terrible hand, Kilgrave decided to go all in with his cash and ordered the other men to do the same putting the money available to a million dollars. Kilgrave then ordered the men to fold and took the money for himself, revealing his terrible hand.

Kilgrave then had a group of women pack the money up for him as he prepared to leave with his winnings, handing one of the women a large sum of money for giving him luck. However Harvey tried to stop him and demanded that he give them all a chance to win back their money. Instead Kilgrave told him he had a better idea and ordered him to hit his head against a thick wooden post until he managed to knock his head entirely through it while Kilgrave departed with his bags filled with cash.

Jones Fights Back
"Well I don't know about you but I'm exhausted. So rare for me to feel powerless, well I would have been if I hadn't been unconscious but in retrospect it's exhilarating."

- Kilgrave to Jessica Jones

Continuing his arrangement with Malcolm Powder, Kilgrave arranged to meet Powder somewhere in Central Park every morning to have the photographs of Jessica Jones delivered to him; once Powder arrived, Kilgrave would inform another civilian of his location so Powder could meet him there. During one of these occurrences, Kilgrave found himself insulted by a newspaper vendor, so he ordered him to throw boiling coffee in his own face. One day he decided to meet Powder outside a small cafe where Powder delivered the pictures.

As Kilgrave was speaking to Powder however, a balloon bursting caught his attention and he spotted Will Simpson walking towards him holding a paper bag. Before Kilgrave could react, he was suddenly called out by Jessica Jones, who called him a shithead to distract him. In the confusion Simpson shot Kilgrave in the next with a dart, unable to react in time Kilgrave fell to the ground unconscious while Simpson, Jones and Trish Walker put him in a van and drove away.

Fortunately for Kilgrave, his security team were able to use a tracker hidden in his jacket to find and save him before he could be locked away and interrogated. He woke up hours later in his apartment, upon getting up Kilgrave looked at himself in the mirror and discovered a large bruise on his face, caused by a punch from Jones. Kilgrave reached into his mouth and painfully pulled the tooth out before laughing at himself for Jones' complete failure.

Kilgrave phoned Jones and told her how it felt to be powerless because of her, noting that he found it mildly exhilarating. He asked her why she had decided to keep him alive instead of killing him but Jones refused to speak a word. Kilgrave defended his actions involving Malcolm Powder, before promising to leave Powder alone if Jones began sending him pictures of herself. Jones hung up without a word but minutes later, Kilgrave received a photograph of her which made him smile a satisfied grin.

A Grand Gesture
In an attempt to win back Jessica Jones' love, Kilgrave located the house she grew up in as a child before her parents died. Taking the money he had won from a poker game, Kilgrave arrived at the home and spoke to the current owner, expressing his desire to buy it. As his powers were currently gone due to a drug Jones had given him, Kilgrave was forced to negotiate with the owner and offered him the money which amounted to twice the house's value. The owner agreed to sell and move out by the next day.

Once the family were ready to move out, Kilgrave had regained his powers, when the owner tried to explain how happy he was with the deal Kilgrave ordered them to leave immediately. He began to walk through the house's now empty rooms and corridors and discovered one wall which had been covered over by wallpaper. Noticing that the door frame beside it had markings on, Kilgrave pulled the wallpaper aside and discovered the markings were from Jones and her brother being measured for their height as they were growing up years earlier.

Personality
Kilgrave lacked any form of moral compass, if someone annoyed him he would frequently go out of his way to order someone to do something vicious to themselves. An example of this was when a newspaper seller told him to stop loitering, Kilgrave told the man to take his hot coffee and pour it over his face.

Before he met Jessica Jones, Kilgrave was used to getting everything he wanted. However, when Jones escaped his thrall Kilgrave became obsessed with Jones; stalking her and trying everything in his power to get at her with the ultimate goal of trying to make her his. To further this goal Kilgrave attempted to destroy anyone that Jessica was around. Hope Shlottman and her family were mere toys for Kilgrave and his attempts to woo Jessica. He turned Jessica's neighbour Malcolm Powder into a drug addict so he use him to get pictures of her.

However when forced to see the experiments that created him, Kilgrave showed genuine sadness and discomfort covering his ears and assuming the fetal position in order to hide from the video being shown.

Kilgrave's parents were partly to blame for why he lacked any form of moral compass. Trying to cure him of a degenerative brain disease his parents would perform highly unethical experiments on him without realizing the lasting damage they were causing to him.

Kilgrave hated children believing they should be "Seen and not heard or better still not seen and not heard" With out batting an eye lid putting the children of a family into a closet and telling them to be quiet also telling a man he controlled to become his chauffeur to leave his child on the side of the street

Powers
"What if there is someone else out there, but his ability was to make people do whatever he wanted."

- Jessica Jones


 * Mind Control: Kilgrave has the ability to control another person's mind through literal verbal commands. He controlled Jessica Jones and Hope Shlottman for months, and he was able to enter into another man's house by simply saying "you'd like to invite me in" in order to acquire a place to stay. Kilgrave acquired over a million dollars by having the participants of a poker game all fold after betting everything. However, Kilgrave himself must be present for his commands to have an immediate effect; speaking over a phone does not enthrall his victim. Kilgrave's power also has a time limit of ten to twelve hours before his victim begins to regain his/her will. Until the time limit is up, the victims will continue to follow Kilgrave's command unless he gives them a different order to follow.

Family

 * Albert Thompson † - Father, Thrall and Victim
 * Louise Thompson † - Mother, Thrall and Victim
 * Unborn child †

Allies

 * Matt - Bodyguard
 * Hank - Bodyguard

Enemies

 * Jessica Jones - Former Thrall and Obsession
 * Luke Cage - Former Thrall
 * Malcolm Powder - Former Thrall
 * Hope Shlottman † - Former Thrall
 * Trish Walker - Former Thrall
 * Will Simpson - Former Thrall
 * Jeri Hogarth - Former Thrall
 * Wendy Ross-Hogarth † - Former Thrall
 * Ruben † - Victim
 * Robyn - Former Thrall
 * Reva Connors † - Former Thrall
 * Jack Denton - Former Thrall
 * Chanise - Former Thrall
 * Harvey - Former Thrall
 * Elizabeth De Luca † - Former Thrall
 * Alva Rivera - Former Thrall
 * Laurent Bouchard - Former Thrall
 * Justin Boden - Former Thrall
 * Frank Levin † - Former Thrall
 * Kilgrave Support Group
 * Emma - Former Thrall
 * Donald - Former Thrall
 * Clair - Former Thrall
 * Jackson - Former Thrall
 * New York City Police Department
 * Brett Mahoney - Former Thrall
 * Oscar Clemons † - Former Thrall
 * Morth - Former Thrall
 * Warren - Former Thrall

Trivia

 * In the comics, Kilgrave's real name is Zebediah Killgrave (with two Ls), and he was a spy from Yugoslavia who was exposed to chemicals that changed his skin purple and allowed him to control people's minds, assuming the codename Purple Man.
 * Kilgrave tends to dress using purple suits and clothing.