@catrinity wir werfen zum Schluss noch einen Kühlschrank durchs Bild #fridging

The BBC today published Ralph Jones' in-depth and very enlightening article on the #writing trope "#fridging." The "phrase was inspired by a 1994 #GreenLantern story, in which the Green Lantern discovers that his girlfriend has been killed and stuffed into a fridge and, as [#film writer Izzie] Austin puts it, 'Dead wife make man sad; man process sad by doing #violence'." #DrPhibes anyone? https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230315-how-shrinking-perpetuates-hollywoods-most-sexist-clich

Kotaku: The Last Of Us' Famous Intro Is Handled So Much Better In The TV Show https://kotaku.com/the-last-of-us-hbo-tv-show-ps5-game-remake-episode-1849995987 #gaming #tech #kotaku #controversiesandcriticismsofthevoiceofthephilippines #theandromedastrain #leahwilliamson #pedropascal #annatorv #fridging #jericho #baker #sarah #tess #joel

This is Not Love, and the Murder of Gamora

“This is not love,” Gamora says, as Thanos turns on her. In the theater watching the scene on Vormir for the first time, in which the murderous villain Thanos with the goal of murdering 50% of all life in the universe is told that he must destroy that which he loves to receive an all powerful Infinity Stone, I thought

http://lunastationquarterly.com/this-is-not-love-and-the-murder-of-gamora/

#fridging #gamora #guardiansofthegalaxy #marvel

The Hollowing Out of Padmé Amidala

Often in fridging, the deaths are brutal. Usually they are tragic, a loss of what might have been. The death of Padmé Amidala, the very pregnant mother of the protagonists of the Star Wars trilogy so many grew up with, strangled by her husband, and then sort of just fading away after delivering her twins, is more elongated than the typical shocki

http://lunastationquarterly.com/the-hollowing-out-of-padme-amidala/

#fridging #padmeamidala #StarWars

Alexandra DeWitt, Fridging, and “Disposable” Female Characters

Have you ever heard the term fridging? It is a trope that, put most generally, refers to the brutal death and/or harm of a usually female character solely to motivate the male protagonist. That is not to say that using death in a story is always wron

http://lunastationquarterly.com/alexandra-dewitt-fridging-and-disposable-female-characters/

#comics #femalecharacterswhogetkilledoff #fridging #womenincomics #womenintv