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Geek History Lesson

89: The Purple Man from Jessica Jones

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The villain of Marvel's upcoming Netflix series Jessica Jones can control your mind, and he's called The Purple Man! Before David Tennant plays the role, learn the secret history of Zebediah Killgrave!  So sit back and enjoy as Ashley and Jason begin their lesson. You might learn something. Enter your Mind University! Be careful! This podcast contains SPOILERS. So if you don't want to know what happens, then you should come back later.  Support the show on Patreon and listen to the Patreon exclusive Geek History Lesson EXTRA podcast! https://www.patreon.com/Jawiin Listen on Itunes or Stitcher.  You can help support the show by buying a Geek History Lesson T-Shirt! Go to http://bit.ly/JawiinShirts! The best geek & gamer gear comes from Loot Crate, save 10% with code JAWIIN: http://lootcrate.com/Jawiin Make sure to visit our Facebook fanpage: facebook.com/geekhistorylesson  and Our official site geekhistorylesson.com for the latest news on episodes and more geek facts.  You can find Ashley on Twitter @AshleyVRobinson and Jason on Twitter @Jawiin.  Thanks for showing up to class today. Class dissmissed!

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0:00.0

Hey Ashley. Why is your skin purple?

0:04.0

Uh, because I'm celebrating Netflix's new series Jessica Jones.

0:07.6

Yeah, but what does that have to do with painting yourself purple?

0:10.0

Because her villain is the purple man, and it's a good thing that this geek history lesson on the purple man is now in session. Hello and welcome to Geek History lesson. I'm Jason Purple Inman.

0:35.0

I am Ashley Victoria Robinson and prepare to enter your mind

0:37.8

university because you have stumbled onto the

0:39.5

podcast where we take one character, construct or color from

0:42.2

popular culture and teach you everything

0:44.1

you need to know about it in about an hour.

0:46.6

Well, Ashley, this week, the episode is going to be quite purple.

0:51.6

Barney? No, this has nothing to do with Barney, but same color.

0:55.0

Well done.

0:56.0

Thank you.

0:57.0

This episode is going to be mainly purple because this episode is about The Purple Man or

1:02.0

as some people in the Marvel universe

1:03.6

Marvel Comics universe calls him Zebadiah Kilgrave as his close friends and

1:08.0

family call him. Yeah, Zebadiah Kilgrave. This of course is to tie into the

1:12.3

upcoming Jessica Jones Netflix series, Marvels Jessica Jones, and David Tenet, the 10th Doctor himself is playing the character.

1:20.0

So before the Netflix series comes along and spoils you all about the purple man and tells you all about the purple man and how the purple man is wrong, let us tell you his comic book background.

1:31.0

Yes. Yes. So let's hop into the first section of our

1:33.7

podcast, The Tencent Origin. Okay, the Tencent Origin is the part of the

1:38.1

podcast where you give you the basic constructs, names, abilities, all the cool

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