Jessica Jones Season 2 will bring back David Tennant as Kilgrave

David Tennant played the villain we loved to hate in season 1. But it seems that we still have more Kilgrave to come.

In the first season of Marvel-Netflix’s Jessica Jones, David Tennant was the villain everyone hated to love. Kilgrave, who tormented our heroine through mind control, haunted Jessica throughout the season. Jessica triumphed over him (by super graphically breaking his neck) in the finale, but it appears the world of Jessica Jones isn’t done with Kilgrave.

The news, reported Monday by Entertainment Weekly, shared an exclusive photo of Tennant and Krysten Ritter on set. It likely just means that Season 2 will feature Kilgrave in flashbacks or dream sequences/hallucinations.

But still, we get more David Tennant, y’all, and that’s a win in most everyone’s book.

Tennant’s turn as the Purple Man was equal parts creepy and captivating. His trademark snarl was enough to give anyone chills. There’s no question that Tennant’s portrayal of the brutish baddie will go down as one of the best turns by a villain in all of pop culture.

Tennant and Kilgrave

But while it would be easy to play the sadistic Kilgrave with one note, Tennant rounded out the complex character. His portrayal included scenes where Kilgrave discussed the experiments his scientist parents performed on him as a young child which ultimately gave him his powers.

Considering that in the comics, Kilgrave, a spy, assumed his mind-control powers after an accidental chemical exposure (which turned his skin purple), the childhood experiment backstory combined with his parents’ abandonment serve to make the MCU’s Kilgrave, if not a sympathetic figure, at least a more complex one. (At least in comparison to the comic version of Kilgrave.)

And, speaking of the Purple Man, though in Jessica Jones Tennant wears purple suits and clothing as a nod to his comics nickname, his skin is not actually purple. I suspect it would have cheapened his incredibly raw performance in the role.

But there does exist the possibility that rather than appear through flashbacks, Tennant’s Kilgrave could return through the healing power the character possesses in the comics (and possibly even be purple—after all, his skin and veins did briefly turn purple in the scene on the dock in the Season 1 finale).

How is Kilgrave alive?

However, healing powers aside, recovering from a broken neck seems like something of a stretch. And bringing dead characters back to life is an easy way for writers to lose the trust of their viewers.

More likely, it will be Jessica’s PTSD that continues to torture her with images of Kilgrave. That may be the best of all possible worlds, because not only will it give our fearless heroine something to work through (like she needs anything else on her plate), but it will give us the gift of more David Tennant without sacrificing the narrative of the show.

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Jessica Jones Season 2 will return to Netflix in 2018, but in the meantime, you can catch ya girl kicking ass and taking names in Marvel’s The Defenders, which will premiere on Netflix August 18.