Talk:Purple Man

Powers?
Shouldn't there be a section detailing Purple Man's mind control powers? I ask because I came here to see how they worked myself. Not all forms of domination are alike. Does he use telepathy, a hypnotic voice, pheromones, eye contact, or some combination thereof? Do victims retain their personalities, or are they filled with the desire to please PM, or do they turn into mindless drones? Someone please detail.

Bisexual?
Just to cover my bases here...I added the possibly controversial category Fictional bisexuals to the Purple Man article. I base this on the second page in New Thunderbolts #17 that shows a flashhack of a shirtless purpleman pouring a glass of wine and captions from the point of view of Swordsman that say "especially after what was done to me. What he made me do... After a lifetime of debauchery how can I justify feeling debased?".

The indication from that to me is that Purple Man had used his powers to force Andreas Strucker to have sex with him. --ksofen666


 * checking the issue - you could be right or he could have got him to suck off a dog, it's impossible to tell - our guesswork is OR. On that basis I have removed the tags, put it back if you can find a better source. --Fredrick day 09:26, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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4th Wall
I have a bad track record correcting blatant errors on Wikipedia, and am not good enough at editing main pages to attempt it, but once again I feel the need to point out that the cited sources directly contradict the factoid that they are footnoted to support. If I didn't think any changes would cause an edit war, I'd just fix it.... Zeb never really "breaks the fourth wall" in Alias. Yes, he describes events around him in comic-book terms-somewhat similarly to how the audience is seeing events. Somewhat. Yes, he describes himself as being in "close up" once, when he is, etc.-he is also off in most of his descriptions, describing Jess' eyes as wet, establishing shots and other events that don't match up with what the audience sees. If he does have "comics awareness" then not only would it be a power never seen before or since, odd considering the degree of continuity work that the writer, Benis, showed during this period...but he is also apparently very bad at it or lying about what he senses.

Now, what Kilgrave claims, at face value, is to be in on a secret.

All of his supposed fourth-wall breaking comments are spoken to one super-hero, a super-hero he had previously interrogated for over half a year. A super-hero that the Purple Man enjoys playing with and tormenting. He claims to know her secret and how she mugs for an audience that she believes is watching her. Interestingly, if the hero he is speaking to, Jessica Jones, aka Jewel, aka Knightress, the main character of the comic-book series in question believes that she is a fictional comic-book character, then her hard to understand actions over the past several years of publication under the same author suddenly make sense. Jessica's statement that the residents of the town were she is investigating a missing girl will cease to exist when she leaves makes sence in this context. Her narrating her private thoughts as if she is talking to another person make sence, a habit noticeable since issue number one.

I've checked with comic-book fans, and I know it is widely accepted that the debate is whether this is a "power or delusion" of Zeb, but the text doesn't support this. The actual text, a very "meta" comic book that uses shifts in artistic style to affect the reader, suports that this is either a power or delusion of the heroic protagonist, Jessica. She is the one who thinks she is in a comic book. Kilgrave, her former torturer, knower of her secrets, is referring to what he has learned about her, not sharing his own worldview. 71.235.31.212 (talk) 00:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Is he based on Charles Manson specifically?
I believe this character is based on Manson but can find no indicators. 2603:6080:4302:7E8D:F0C5:1017:D61F:509B (talk) 14:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Kilgrave
I know that this was my first edit and there were quite a few. I just saw the last name misspelled even after the correct spelling was pointed out. Jonathantindell (talk) 03:03, 1 April 2022 (UTC)