I feel like TT should be taken off bat books entirely his dialogue is a bit cringe and that fridging joke he made Babs make was just nasty.
No truly that ‘fridged’ thing pissed me off soooooo bad in the recent issue.
Like, when out of the multiple people currently writing Babs in ongoings, you’re the one getting like the most flack for your portrayal of her specifically because of how you approach stuff regarding her disability… making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the name of the trope used to describe the situation she became disabled in the first place is just in very poor taste. It was cringey, it was an awkward sentence, and was unnecessary.
For context/explanation, during the most recent Nightwing issue Babs gets briefly captured by kidnappers who put her in a refrigerated van, which she then tells Dick and Wally about, and at one point phrases things like this:
“Nightwing. They’re after you. They’ve fridged me to get to you.” (Nightwing (2016) #90)
Now, even beyond my above complaints about this, there’s a whole other level that makes this stupid: ‘Women in Refrigerators’ is a trope named after an event that occurred in-universe (the murder of Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt). Like yes Babs is literally in a refrigerated van… but ‘fridged’ is not a real word when detached from the ‘Women in Refrigerators’ trope. It’s not in the dictionary, it’s a term that only exists in a specific context- and the way she’s using it here fits the use for the ‘Women in Refrigerators’ trope. Plus a panel earlier she already explained she was in a refrigerated van, it’s not like this is the way she’s introducing the concept of a fridge being involved. Saying ‘fridged’ in-universe like this just makes Babs seem like a jerk for casually referencing a tragedy from Kyle Rayner’s life that she, Dick, and Wally all know about.
Honestly, these meta jokes/references in the comic have just gotten more and more distracting as it’s gone on. One or two things like this isn’t inherently bad, but this many just… feels like it’s there to get a reaction on social media, and distracts from the story. This ‘fridged’ one feels most drastic because it’s in text rather than just a visual gag like the others have been, but this is what I’m talking about:
Mug referencing the ‘some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb’ scene from the 1966 Batman film (Nightwing (2016 #80)
T-shirt of the ‘Batman slapping Robin’ meme based on a panel from World’s Finest Vol. 1 #153 (Nightwing (2016) #81, #83)
Shirt parodying the Comics Code Authority logo, that literally has ‘DC Comics’ written on it (Superman: Son of Kal-El #9, yes technically not in the Nightwing run but it was the crossover and still made by Taylor and Redondo)
T-shirt with DC’s logo from 1976-2005 (Nightwing (2016) #90)
All of these from one author’s books within one publishing year is just excessive 🤷♂️ Each of the visual ones on their own wouldn’t bother me but this many together does. That plus the fridging joke… just don’t like it. It’s distracting.
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