Something Sneaky Is Going on With Jessica Jones’ Disney+ Title

Jessica Jones joined its ex-Netflix Defenders cohorts on Disney+ again in March, however months on the streamer has made a peculiar tweak to the collection… one which’s truly much more peculiar than individuals first thought.

Over the weekend, MCU Direct reported that Disney+ had modified the title of Jessica Jones on the platform to A.Ok.A. Jessica Jones—the unique working title of the collection when it was deliberate as an ABC present, and seemingly a nod to the present’s episode title conventions, all of which start with “A.K.A.” What adopted was fervent hypothesis from information websites that the identify change is setting the groundwork for a revival and/or reboot of the character as a part of Disney+’s choices of MCU TV collection, a lot within the vein of Jessica’s fellow Defender Daredevil, at present set to see a revival with the return of Charlie Cox because the titular hero on the streamer.

However, the change doesn’t appear fairly so important as initially reported. Disney+ has certainly modified the title sequence of Jessica Jones to replace a placard with this “new” identify… but it surely’s solely performed so for the very first episode of season one, “A.K.A. Ladies Night.” io9 has confirmed that on each European and U.S. variations of the platform the opposite 38 episodes of Jessica Jones nonetheless retain their original title cards, and that there’s certainly a change from the unique Netflix launch for the premiere episode.

Although Jessica Jones is not on Netflix, digital purchases of the primary episode on platforms like YouTube verify that the unique episode when accessed elsewhere has not been up to date to incorporate the “A.K.A.” branding now current on the Disney+ launch. Furtherextra, the collection’ preview card within the Marvel part of Disney+ nonetheless retains the unique Jessica Jones branding. The collection additionally solely surfaces in search on Disney+ underneath “Jessica Jones,” with “A.K.A.” not returning the collection in outcomes till the hero’s identify is added.

This isn’t the primary time Marvel materials has gone underneath some unusual post-release tweaks on Disney+. Recently a peculiar edit to violent scenes in an episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier lead to Disney claiming that the selection to switch scenes that includes blood splatter and impalement within the collection have been because of the unintended add of another lower of the episode. As for Jessica Jones, it’s exhausting to say why such a tiny change has been made—whether it was performed deliberately forward of, as some suspect, a possible revival of the character for the MCU, or one other alleged error on Disney’s behalf.

io9 has reached out to Disney for touch upon the title change, and can replace this publish if and after we hear again.

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