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12 TV Shows Accused of ‘Fridging’ Their Female Characters

In the 1990s, comic fan Gail Simone created and shared a list called Women in Refrigerators, highlighting female characters killed to motivate male leads.
This list was named after a Green Lantern storyline where Major Force murdered Kyle Rayner's girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, by stuffing her body into a refrigerator.
The recurring narrative device, frequently involving female characters experiencing harm or trauma, is widespread in various media. According to TV Tropes, this trope occurs when someone close to a character suffers injury, death, or other severe misfortune to drive that character’s story or development forward.
Various shows like The Boys, Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Last of Us, Supernatural, and The Wheel of Time have drawn fan ire for fridging female characters such as Queen Maeve, Jane, Tara, Tess, Jessica, and Siuan.
Critics and fans advise writers to reconsider killing female characters merely for plot advancement, noting there are ways to handle such deaths without relying on the fridging trope.

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12 TV Shows Accused of ‘Fridging’ Their Female Characters

Named after a ‘Green Lantern’ storyline, fridging is when a female character suffers a terrible fate for the sake of plot, and TV is full of examples.

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