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Back in the day, when all this was UseNET messageboard, then comic book commentor Gail Simone launched a website – still a relatively novel thing in 1999 – called Women In Refrigerators It listed examples of the superhero comic-book trope whereby female characters are affected by injury, raped, killed, or depowered (an event colloquially known[...]

The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined in 1999 by Gail Simone to recognize how women characters are treated in comic books It specifically refers to how they are often harmed, murdered, raped, abused in order to provide motivation for a male lead character to seek revenge The term was named after the comic book scene[...]

Could an equally emotional, shocking, watershed moment as Gwen Stacy's death ever be executed again in modern comic books?

Gail Simone created the concept in 1999 in her infamous website "Women In Refrigerators", named after the Ron Marz which saw Green Lantern Kyle Raynor's girlfriend Alex DeWitt killed and her corpse stuffed in a refrigerator, a twist intended to inspire revenge. But Marz hardly invented this trope And Simone called out not only its frequent use, killing, injuring or[...]

She dies a good death. And yes, in the letters page, editor Ellie Pyle is clearly braced for the worst; But I'm wondering if this is, for all that it will be criticised, a turning point? Women In Refrigerators specifically pointed out a preponderence of women being killed off to motivate their husband/boyfriend/romantic interest to action[...]

Okay, I gave it a day. Some people complained that yesterday's article about Alan Scott, the as yet-to be Green Lantern of Earth Two, proposing to his