Though Daredevil and Jessica Jones are both TV shows under the Marvel Netflix umbrella, they're tonally very different series. On the one hand, Daredevil is a crime drama where a blind lawyer takes down the criminals the judicial system fails to punish. On the other, Jessica Jones follows a woman haunted by her past who steps up to stop her superpowered tormenter. Both heroes have special abilities, but they put their unique sets of skills to use in very different ways.

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This is showcased particularly clearly in the ways each series uses fight scenes. Daredevil's combat sequences are highly choreographed (and will remain so in Season 2 ), as Matt Murdock's enhanced senses, speed and strength are integral to accomplishing his end goal. For Jessica Jones, her super strength and flight are a means to an end, and not something she spent a lot of time honing."She's just a brawler, and she's also a good person. She's not trying to beat anyone to a pulp for the sake of it," Krysten Ritter said of her character during a recent group interview. "She wants to break things up and then she's done, whereas on other shows they keep going and it gets violent, and that's not really what Jessica's about."Jessica Jones' showrunner Melissa Rosenberg said it was a "very conscious decision" for Jessica to be a relatively bad fighter compared to someone as well-trained as Matt Murdock."She's strong, but she's not a ninja. She didn't spend her life training," Rosenberg explained. "That's just not who she is. She's a brawler. You have everyone else doing these fancy moves, and she just goes 'boom.' That's not the story we're telling. This is a psychological thriller. It's about being grounded and real. It wasn't in our tone. It very clearly wasn't our objective to go in that way."Because Jessica Jones was envisioned as a psychological thriller first and a superhero drama second, Ritter used the superhuman elements of her character to inform her personality."When I was playing her, I just focused on the psychology and her backstory and thought of her powers just as an extension of that," she explained. "She has so much internal strength, so when she throws a punch, that strength just felt like it was coming from her. I never really though, 'Oh, I'm a superhero.' I just thought, 'I'm f--king strong as s--t.'"

Jessica Jones: Season 1 is available in its entirety on Netflix, and Season 2 is currently in development.Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Follow her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz