Several characters from the pre-Disney+ TV shows have now resurfaced in the greater MCU: Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Black Bolt (Anson Mount), specifically. The first two characters made their debut in the Defenders shows originally airing on Netflix (specifically Daredevil), while the latter hails from ABC's largely disliked Inhumans. Because of them, a lot of fans of the TV shows are eager to find out which of their favorite characters will reappear next, and whether the events of the TV shows they originally starred in will be canon.

For example, If the Defenders shows took place in a separate branch of the multiverse, the characters could reappear in the prime MCU and get a second chance: dead characters like Elektra (Élodie Yung) could come back, and characters like Jessica (Krysten Ritter) and Luke (Mike Colter) could forge relationships more like the ones in the comics. If this is indeed the plan, then the MCU could undo the mistakes they made with other characters, particularly Trish (Rachael Taylor) -- whose desire to be a hero was bafflingly turned into a corruption arc.

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Jessica Jones and Trish Walker

Patricia "Patsy" Walker first appeared in teen romance comics in the 1940s and continued to star in slice-of-life comics until 1967. In 1965, she and her rival Hedy appeared in Fantastic Four Annual #3, and it was later explained that the earlier comics existed in the Marvel Universe themselves, being stories written by Patsy's mother Dorothy and based on Patsy's real life. In the 1970's she became a superhero called Hellcat -- and during her career she has been part of many significant superhero teams, including the Defenders and the Avengers. In the 2015 series Patsy Walker A.K.A. Hellcat! she tried to set up a job agency for superpowered people. Any way you look at it, she has always been a hero, though she's been through her fair share of angst (particularly surrounding her romance with Daimon Hellstrom).

The first season of Jessica Jones established that Trish had been a child star of a show called It's Patsy, also pushed by her mother. After experiencing and recovering from drug addiction, Trish reclaimed her life and tried to do whatever she could to encourage Jessica's heroism, since she didn't think she could be a hero herself. After relapsing in season 2, Trish became a vigilante and killed Jessica's villainous mother. Later she and Jessica tenuously made up in season 3, but this wasn't enough to keep Trish from killing more criminals and getting sent to the Raft.

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There are some pretty obvious flaws with the way Trish was portrayed. Trish is explicitly a hero in the comics, but her live-action iteration was turned into a villain. She's, of course, not the only character this has happened to (Ikaris in Eternals is another notable example) but she's arguably the first. She's also one of the few characters who wants to be a hero but is punished for it. The addiction storyline was unique to the TV series. While the first season portrayed her as a recovering addict in a realistic and sympathetic way, her substance abuse later became an exploitative plot device and an easy reason to make her violent -- with the added damaging implication that addicts are evil.

Sending Trish to the Raft is also inherently flawed, in part because other characters, like the Punisher, have killed more people than her and been seen as a hero for it. There's also something to be said about the way that the second and third seasons of Jessica Jones seemed determined to portray every female character except Jessica in an at least sometimes-negative light.

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This has led to discussions about Trish's possible return to the MCU. Some people want to see her appear in Thunderbolts, which is an option. She could become a fun antihero/anti-villain character, though that wouldn't truly fit with her arc of realizing her violent actions were wrong. A more appropriate option would see her she'd get let out of the Raft as part of the team, then try to redeem herself and make amends. She could also get released from the Raft without the Thunderbolts if a lawyer (She-Hulk, perhaps, hearkening back to their comics friendship) decided to take down the Raft for being a human rights violation and get to properly recover from her addiction and start over.

If the Defenders shows exist in a different timeline than the prime MCU, though, the Trish that appears could be divorced from that problematic villain arc. There could be a couple of cute nods to it, but much like there are evil versions of Doctor Strange, the villainous version of Hellcat could be from a divergent timeline. She could be a hero more akin to her comic self. Either way that the MCU decides to handle it, it's clear that Trish was done dirty by the Netflix shows, and they need to make up for their mistakes -- both for the sake of portraying the character better and so they can make up for the problematic implications of Trish's story.