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Originally Posted by CupcakeDolly

I think her death was added in for shock value. The audience was probably expecting everything to end with Kilgrave losing his powers/somehow being safely imprisoned while the world was aware that, yes, there is in fact a goddamned mind controller out there who made Hope kill her parents. The deaths of established characters like Hope and Reuben all built up to make Kilgrave's end completely satisfying (although personally I felt like he deserved to suffer a bit more).

You might be right there, Even after all that, I still expected his dad's antidote to work somehow. I thought maybe his dad was going along with the demands to throw off suspicion, while secretly working on more antidote and sabotaging the power-boosting serum progress. I thought he would stab his son in the back eventually. And then the blender part happened and I lost all hope for that theory. T_T