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12 TV Shows Accused of ‘Fridging’ Their Female Characters
- Gail Simone created the Women in Refrigerators website in the 1990s after a Green Lantern storyline where Major Force murdered Alexandra DeWitt and hid her body in a refrigerator.
- Simone compiled the list because many female comic characters faced violent or disempowering ends, reflecting a pattern named the 'Stuffed Into the Fridge' trope by TV Tropes.
- This trope persists especially on screen, with shows like The Boys, Breaking Bad, Buffy, The Last of Us, Supernatural, and The Wheel of Time sparking fan criticism for female deaths serving mainly to motivate male characters.
- Examples include Jane's fatal overdose in Breaking Bad, Tara's death by stray bullet in Buffy, Tess's infection and sacrifice in The Last of Us, and Siuan's execution in The Wheel of Time, triggering significant social media backlash and debate.
- Critics advise writers to rethink killing female characters solely for plot, emphasizing alternatives that preserve female agency and avoid reducing women to mere plot devices.
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- 40% of the sources are Center, 40% of the sources lean Right
40% Right
L 20%
C 40%
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