| NOTE: This page is only for Foolkiller's characterization in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, considering the original comic counterpart was not voted Pure Evil. Therefore, only the Netflix TV series version's info and crimes should be listed here. |
| “ | You were given every advantage; allowed to make mistake after mistake... and just like Donny, you never worked hard or made any effort to improve. It was handed to you! No longer... | „ |
| ~ Sallinger torturing Gelden. |
Gregory P. Sallinger, also known as Foolkiller, is one of the two main antagonists (along with Trish Walker) of Season 3 of the Netflix TV series Marvel's Jessica Jones.
He was a highly skilled serial killer with high levels of intelligence, violent tendencies and an obsession with killing anyone whom he believes are frauds and undeserving of their success, including Jessica Jones.
He was portrayed by Jeremy Bobb.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- It is heavily implied that he killed his brother Donny for being the favored child by their father.
- Murdered his friend and fellow student Nathan Silva after a wrestling match, simply because he was jealous for being a more talented wrestler.
- He killed those who he felt were mediocrities to satiate his own ego, deeming them as frauds that needed to be exposed. He would also kidnap them and tie them up before forcing them to confess all their sins for him, photographing during these confessions before cutting their throats. He even disposed of their bodies inside an oil tanker. For this, Erik Gelden even says he's "barely human".
- He once tried to do the same to chef Caspar Marx simply because his steak wasn't standard. He failed only because Marx thought he was making a sexual advance and kissed Sallinger, which horrified him and stormed out, leaving Marx alive.
- After Erik Gelden tried to extort him, he followed him to Alias Investigation and accidentally stabbed Jessica Jones when she opened the door. This caused Jones to collapse due to blood loss, only surviving at the cost of having her spleen removed.
- After a confrontation with Jones, he tortured and killed a man to relax himself. After committing the murder, he mocked how the man was begging for his life.
- When confronted by Gelden in public, Sallinger threatened his sister's life.
- He trapped Jessica Jones inside of his oil tanker with a poisonous gas, taunting Trish that she had 30 seconds left until she suffocated to death, knowing Trish would prioritize saving her sister over stopping him and using the opportunity to escape.
- After Jessica Jones and Trish Walker exposed where he was disposing his victims' bodies, he kidnapped and tortured Gelden as payback.
- After being arrested and released by the police due to lack of evidence, Sallinger publicly slandered Jones for not doing more to save the victims.
- After Jones revealed she had incriminating evidence of his crimes, Sallinger kidnapped, tortured, and killed Trish’s mother Dorothy, stabbing her five times before slitting her throat, just to get revenge on Jones and drive her down a dark path. This would instead drive Trish to become more aggressive and lethal, ultimately driving her into villainy.
- After Trish tried to kill him for killing her mother, Sallinger manipulates Jones into destroying the evidence she had on him under threat of exposing Trish’s vigilante activities.
- He attempts to torture and kill Jones in the same way as his previous victims, only for it to lead to his defeat and exposure when it was all caught on camera. This also shows Sallinger has no honor as he was ungrateful to the fact that Jones was protecting him from Trish.
- He pathetically tries to dissuade Trish from attacking him by stating he was in chains and defenseless, despite killing all of his victims in the same way while binding them to a chair, leaving them unable to defend themselves.
- He puts Trish in a stranglehold in an attempt to kill her to save himself.
- In his final moments, he remains unrepentant for his crimes and even taunts Trish that killing him would show Jessica who she truly was.
- Despite his death, his actions drove Trish into villainy, leading Jessica to expose Trish’s identity to the public, defeat her, and get her imprisoned in the Raft, where Jessica would likely never see her again. The guilt of losing her best friend devastated Jessica so much that she nearly retired from the hero work, until Kilgrave’s influence convinced her not to.
- While his death is brutal, as Trish violently beats him until his skull cracks, it isn’t played for sympathy and he indeed deserved it for everything he did. Though Jessica and several others are horrified at his death, it’s more out of concern for Trish going off the edge by killing him, rather than feeling any actual sympathy for Sallinger.
- Although Sallinger valued hard work above all else, it is outweighed by his obsession to prove his own superiority and killing anyone whom he saw as cheaters and liars who don't deserve success, which comes across as a mere excuse for him to indulge his sadism, especially considering he nearly killed someone just for messing up his restaurant food.
- He was always jealous of those who proved to be more talented and intelligent than him, including his own brother who he claimed was unintelligent.
- While his father stabbed him once, it's never played for sympathy.
- While he has a few comedic moments, they are only funny to the audience.
- Despite the colossal Heinous Standard of the MCU, he certainly meets them due to being a regular serial killer with little resources to commit his reprehensible crimes.
External Links[]
- Foolkiller on the Villains Wiki.
